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America is a country with deep social scars that cover-over genuine unhealed wounds that most Middle Class Americans are not aware of. In the press on any given day you will not hear the word "slavery" used unless it refers to some anecdote of history; it is not accepted among the pundits of the press that the effects of slavery still live with us. Yet the violence of slavery visits us every day through the nightly news, or worse, through violent crime we encounter personally. In fact the neglect of history in understanding current events -- and more to the point, the distortion of history -- is so decisive, that it is probable that the media does so deliberately.
The roots of the Federal Government lay in mass movements driven by hatred, but this is not addressed because the modern press has decided that ancient events are not relevant to current issues. A paper-thin illusion of national unity is encouraged, because anyone with real knowledge of the ins and outs of power KNOWS that the biggest obstacles to national unity are the institutions of the republic. One of the most significant dividing lines in America is racism; but racism did not just occure spontaneously, out of the blue. The origins of racism constitute the Big Lie of the Federal Government, because it has relied on racism from Day One for its power to rule.
Americans are so immersed in the mythology of voting and party politics -- both of which are controlled through strings that go behind the scenes -- that they generally fail to notice that America is a divided country on the verge of conflagration. It is easy to identify with the Government as on "our" side when you derive of the privileged white race that set it up, and which used it to suppress the native Indians, the black slaves, or the conquored Mexicans of the southwest. Especially if the media never informs you about the injustices done against the non- white races in what essentially constitutes an elaborate caste system.
There is no better way to create a caste-based social system than through enslaving a group of people; especially if they are not of the same ethnic group as the slavemasters. The notion that America is a classless society has no evidence to support it whatsoever. Interestingly enough, those people who always insist that America is "colorblind" or "classless" are white Middle Class people, busy trying to dismiss the origins of the caste system as some kind of peculiarity of another era, when men practicing cruelty upon each other was "more accepted." It is genuine nonsense.
We are faced with some stunning contradictions as we enter the final years of the republic, because lots of people are making a profit off of the misery the republic causes. One of the biggest contradictions is the notion that what is needed to stop the crime wave is more police. The focus on preventing crime never addresses the institution that defines crime and its fatal flaws, because the reality is that the cause of crime today is the caste system of yesterday, that left in its wake millions of disenfranchised people who live as second class Americans.
The basic assumption underlying the proposal to hire more police is that people commit crimes because they are inherently BAD. It presumes that people do not refrain from committing crime because they are good people, but because they are afraid of being caught and punished! This is very important because it speaks to the way Americans are perceived by the institutions of power. It also speaks to the very deep racist roots of the Federal Government, which knows that the white community supports law enforcement, while the black, Hispanic and minority communities are suspicious of law enforcement for HISTORIC reasons.
The racial divide came to the fore in 1992, when the system was exposed as racially pre- disposed to favor white policemen over disadvantaged minorities. This took place when a white jury dismissed charges of brutality in the beating of Rodney King. The riots that took place did not occure because people wanted new appliances without paying for them... The riots took place because of the serious cleavage between the White Experience in America, and the Minority Experience.
Another clash that exposed the raw nerves that divide America took place with regards to the trial of O.J. Simpson. White America stubbornly refused to countenance the fact that the police have abused the black community since slave times, when black people attempting to seek freedom were bona fide "criminals." White America could not understand how black Americans could actually contemplate the possibility that the POLICE LIED! That law enforcement could be involved in SETTING INNOCENT PEOPLE UP as having committed crimes that they did not commit. It represents a serious division of experience that cannot be overcome by mere discussions, or by another television show.
White people in North America destroyed their cultural links with the Motherland, Britain, and then divorced their system of government from all moral content. The republic was devised as a means for keeping and controlling property, which was defined as being a moral agenda of itself. This tended to rationalize the destruction Americans used to dispossess those who had what they coveted. Initially the Americans did not think about themselves as "Americans," but as Englishmen. Ironically, so did the English in England, who had no intention of imposing a tyranny of any kind upon their brothers in the colonies. Unlike the Spanish, who developed a colonial policy of enslavement and exploitation of colonial resources, the English developed a colonial policy of settlements, whereby English communities came to be settled around the world governed by English law. When the colonies became independent there was no nationalist movement driving it, but a very business-like pragmatism that was founded around a successful slave-based economic system.
The English principles of law enabled low-born white people to be born free, but they did not prevent poor whites from indenturing themselves into slavery. Nevertheless, the basic freedom of the white population worked to create the illusion of "racial solidarity," even though the rich whites were openly using and manipulating the poor whites to keep the black slaves, and hostile neighboring natives, at bey. The expansion of the European colonies is one long tale of rich, privileged white families allowing poor whites to settle frontier zones as a safety buffer between their estates and the native Americans. Once the natives were subdued, this was seen as a political opportunity for advancement by the once-landless whites, who now felt free to join the elite in the ownership of other human beings, or slaves.
America is defined by such social ordeals as the War of Independence, and the expansion of the European-style society of the white population. While some people like to invent a fantasy that this all came about because white people are superior to other ethnic groups, this is patently false. If other ethnic groups want to enjoy what white society has, it is because white society took those things without concern to the effects on the non-white population. This was then used to motivate white people who really don't benefit from the power-structure, to defend it.
The American people are not and have never been a single ethnic group. The various ethnic groups have had independent experiences in assimilation that have to do with the basis for their presence on the north American continent. The native American Indians were here when the Europeans came and were "Removed." They are reluctant Americans, having never been offered any choices outside of subjugation or death. Likewise, the black community did not come to America by any operation of law. They were imported as property under the most inhumane and barbaric circumstances, that have left a permanent scar on the modern black community; but they are also all-American, having had their African roots all but obliterated by a threatened white slave-owning class.
While the slaves were held down by the Federal Government, and the Indians were held outside, the Mexican population of the southwest was literally conquored. The mythic realm of Astlan is roughly translated into an Aztec Kingdom of California, the Mexican people having deep roots in native Indian culture. The word "Aztec" is roughly the equivalent to "Indian," and is almost a generic term for native. Astlan, in turn, embodies the yearning of the native, indigenous people for a nation that expresses who and what they are, independent of the colonial power of America. This need for independence derives from a powerful understanding among Mexican-Americans that they have not had a positive experience as colonial subjects in the New World. A world that in actuality was not new at all, but very old.
The first genuine shockwaves to the sensibilities of average white Americans came about when an amateur video enthusiast accidentally filmed the beating of a motorist, after the motorist gave the police a long chase. All Americans realize that the police don't play games, and they generally take the police seriously regardless of issues of corruption, incompetence or brutality. White Middle Class Americans, in particular, have had a history of successfully using "the system" to effect changes; but black Americans, by and large, do not enjoy that same history. Black Americans, to the contrary, recognize that they are deeply feared by the white community, which has used its control over the police apparatus to protect their property, which once included black people as OBJECTS.
This is extremely important because it underscores the basic differences felt by whites and blacks in America. White America has come to rely on the law enforcement apparatus of the republic to protect it from crime, and in the average person's imagination the source of most crime is the black community. This is largely due to media coverage and the exaggeration of racial tensions, but it also stems from the reality that the brutal repression visited upon the enslaved ancestors of the modern black community, is being re-visited on the descendants of those who accomodated the institution of slavery, through a form of psychological baggage. The slaves were reduced to dependence, so that they were illiterate, and then they were abandoned when industrialization demanded a higher grade of worksmanship and skill than could be obtained from forced labor. This marginalized the black population economically, who not only suffered from the effects of being suppressed, but also had to suffer the insult of racism, that inferred that the lack of success attained by black people was due not to any determined effort to suppress them, but from some biological failure on their part. This is even more insultingly obvious in programs like Affirmative Action, which basically created quotas for minorities because it was believed that the members of these communities could not attain success on their own, without a special advantage.
Crime is perceived of as taking place by non-whites against whites, which is the real nature of the so-called "War on Crime" made famous in the media. The heat of this in non-white communities has been deflected by the evolution of a Middle Class black community, and a Middle Class hispanic community, made up of members of both communities that have been given special jobs, such as in the government bureaucracy, giving them the lifestyle of average white Americans. This is the image of the Huxtables of Bill Cosby fame; the young urban black professionals. They are the ones the Establishment sends out to confront the masses of black kids who grew up without fathers, whose role-models almost always died under mysterious circumstances, to convince them that the American republican Government is not racist.
One of the most significant ironies of modern life in the United States was expressed in July, 1996, by a writer from Time Magazine. He was commenting on why Americans would not vote for the Libertarian Party, saying that no one would support the abolition of the FBI. This is probably true of the average voting Middle Class white person (male or female). But it is not true of the average Latino or Latina, and it is certainly not true of the black community. Additionally, the great majority of Middle Class Americans who are defined by the blue-blood "old money" social register class of Americans as "white trash," also have no love lost on the FBI. Poor people by definition don't have any property to protect, and they are generally on the losing end of contact with police on any level.
Racism is a very serious problem in America, but if one listens to the nightly news, it might appear that the biggest dilemma the average Middle Class person might have is how to get rid of that "soapy" feeling after showers! The industrial economy is designed around a basic ethic that undermines community solidarity among the people who live in America, to power a consumer society that has no scruples about the end results. We are constantly being barraged with the message not to worry about the police brutality taking place to someone else of another race, or injustices being caused by out-of-control public and private bureaucracies, in order to concentrate solely upon one's own enrichment. The personal pursuit of wealth is seen as the avenue to "justice," even though this road to riches is blocked at every turn by a legal system that is meticulously deliberate.
The individual is forced to work to pay all his bills, which are all for services provided by lucrative monopolies created under state law, for amounts that are politically rigged and exploitative. How much is an appropriate price for electricity, or telephone service, or gas? We may never know, because these industries have powerful allies in the Government, and even talk about privatization denies the reality that the entire infrastructure was paid for with the money provided by millions of Americans in their bills and taxes, for which they have received nothing tangible other than a guarantee of another bill for the next billing cycle.
One thing we do know is that at the end of every pay-period, the individual with work has no more money to spend; and what is left at the end of the year, the IRS or the state Franchise Tax Board takes. The very regularity of scarcity, and the very closeness of the figures between what is owed in taxes and what is made by the worker, underscores the presence of a deliberate attempt to keep the working man from being able to accumulate the fortune that all the forces of modern America promise as the hope of his salvation from a life of toil. The purpose of the labor force is to replace the outlawed slave labor; and the purpose of the Federal Government was to keep the slaves from running away; likewise, it still operates so as to postpone the accumulation of sufficient wealth by the powerless classes, which might liberate them from the labor force.
It would be possible to create a "colorblind" society, but only if it is admitted that America is not NOW colorblind. It will probably never be possible to create a classless society, because there will always be significant differences of intelligence among individuals, outside of racial issues, that will determine how resources are allocated, and the very existence of resources predestines the natural evolution of degrees based on amounts of property. Some people argue for the abolition of all property; but a more workable solution is the evolution of legal theories that, while allowing property to continue to exist, will not allow property to have a priority over human life, or the misery of deprivation. Human life has to MEAN SOMETHING.
One thing American experience has learned with some certainty is that the more fairly property is distributed within a society, the more social peace there is. Alternatively, the more unfairly property is allocated, the higher the likelihood of social unrest. Current unrest in America does not derive from any lack of rights, but from a system that fails to enforce them.
In a capitalist society it is the way money is circulated that determines how property is allocated, and the banking system is central to the circulation of money. The banking system that exists has been proven to be racist in its policies on extending credit, which underscores the genuine tension between the whites who are able to access the credit that keeps their worlds in tact, and the blacks who are unable to access credit, even though they have the same job status and credit as the white people. Even more significantly, there is a political aspect to the banking system that rewards those who swear allegiance to the republic, and which penalizes those who refuse to collaborate with an illicit Government. This speaks right to the core of pragmatism, impelling good and principled individuals to feel the uselessness of pursuing justice for themselves or others, if it might involve suffering in some way.
A new banking system is absolutely essential if the strangle-hold of the Establishment is to be broken. A new monetary system. The control of the United States Government is secured by much more than the U.S. Army and the FBI: It is secured by our own reliance on its monetary system for every daily necessity. Only once Americans honestly review the record will they be able to address the current threatening conditions with any hope of saving the country.
In order to get a clear view of the role of money and wages in modern America, and their relationship to power, all we need to look at is the history of the Minimum Wage. The idea that the American economy is a free enterprise system is belied by the fact that it takes an Act of Congress to raise the wages of the average American, of any race. There is also "woman's work," which is basically uncompensated, women being expected to do housework in exchange for the love of their families. Of course, few men are moved by such issues as love of family, especially to the point of making a personal sacrifice, and that is the true weakness of the industrial society: It works against the human bonds of friendship and family, that make life worth living.
In the final summation there is a single race of man, made up of many ethnicities, but all are human, and all are entitled to the basic dignity of the recognition of their humanity. Likewise, the fact that we use a word like "man" deliberately infers that women are also "men," in the higher sense of being essential members of mankind. If there is to be hope, it will come from a new and different direction than that pointed to by the mass media, or the politicians of the republic. It will derive of tradition, and the roots of our values as human beings. We can overcome what divides us, but it will be through the diligent application of love: Love of our country, love of our countrymen, and love of doing right.
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