What I mean by this is that, as they frame the world, bad people–bad WHITE people, in the main, to be clear–are keeping black people down. They are living off their backs, they are stealth g the fruits of their labor. And rather than ask if this is TRUE–it emphatically is not–they simply seek to turn the tables, to create an equally unjust system with THEM in charge instead. This is, if I might coin a term, intraparadigmatic thinking. They are not saying it is unjust and immoral to abuse others, but simply that they want to be the ones doing the abusing. This story is as old as human history. It is perhaps hundreds of thousands of years old.
No: in my view the “outlaws”, who exist outside the system of compliance and patronage, are people like Alan West and Clarence Thomas, and Sheriff Clark. They are all called “Uncle Toms”. They are called traitors to what? To the call for all persons of African ancestry to cling slavishly to the legs of white politicians and greedy blacks in the hopes of pickup no up crumbs from the table of life?
To my mind, the Uncle Toms are the ones who COOPERATE with this system of organized indignity.
And in my view, an outlaw is not someone who rejected the IDEA of law or a system, but rather who can visualize something different and better.
As a nihilist, it is quite possible to inhabit any system at all harmoniously, and to use the rules OTHER people live by to your benefit. For this reason you will find them everywhere.
And I don’t want to push this outlaw idea too far, but the notion of the noble outlaw runs deep in the American psyche, in my view, and perhaps other cultures as well.