I love it. Obama being race baited by the Clintons – White Right Rush Limbau mounting his scum crusade to urge voters (read, Reagan democrats, and moderate and conservative working white middle class Wal Mart shoppers) to vote for Hillary. Obama making a 3/4s honest speech about "race in America" and his ex-pastor doing a stump dance to rap on national TV, talking about GOD and the election. And any number of currently "established" African Americans talking about not doing nonsense outside the convention if Obama is not chosen as the nominee. And Obama wants to move on!
How can you "move on" when a great part of the body civic is being dragged behind the family mini-van of America with chains around its neck?
And don’t come to me with this shitty notion that "white people" cannot talk about either racism or the effect of African slavery in America!
We know that white people were not chained on ships, tossed to the sharks, mercilessly beaten and murdered, forced into breeding stalls, torn asunder from their parents, native lands and culture, enslaved for hundreds of years and then treated less than human until this date. But to think that the effect of this and the nature of the Master’s Slavocracy did not warp them, effect the health of their circumstance, disfigure their chance at "the American dream," does no justice to either history or them as human beings.
And especially for "white people" of the United State’s South?
I got news for you brothers and sisters: if you were born into the
Southern United States and poor, you don’t know who or what you are!
There was so much "intermingling" in the woodshed and behind the
outhouse, that chances are you’re some of everything that is American
and I can tell your right now that gives you a right to speak up about
any shit in this country!
Now lets get to the facts of the matter:
There are two defining events in "America’s" history of race relations on the "American" continents.
1- Christopher Columbus brought a Catholic, European concept of civilization to this land.
In 1452, Pope Nicholas V issued the papal bullDum Diversas, granting Afonso V of Portugal the right to reduce any "Saracens, pagans and any other unbelievers" to hereditary slavery which legitimated slave trade under catholic beliefs of that time. This approval of slavery was reaffirmed and extended in his Romanus Pontifex bull of 1455. These papal bulls came to serve as a justification for the subsequent era of slave trade and European colonialism.
Thus, these proponents of GOD cast an aristocratic, religious
class concept, inbred with racial supremacy upon these lands and people
of "less civilized" regions were deemed as savages and heathens. These
people were to be conquered, baptized into the Christianity of the
Inquisition and either enslaved or killed. The Europeans then branded
the continents themselves, as Martin Waldseemüller and Matthias
Ringmann, German cartographers, named the place "the Americas," after a
Spanish fool by the name of Amerigo, and these lands would forever be
the providence of the conquerors, oh, and their GOD. As a result the
indigenous people were denied their own nation and society, and "life,
liberty and the pursuit of happiness."
These Europeans
brought genocide, both practice and coincidental, to the "Americas" and
the end result was the decimation of a whole people; both by death and
on the North American continent a gradual process of
institutionalization on pitiless places called "reservations."
The form of "integration" of the remaining indigenous people was a
failure. The indigenous peoples of the "Americas" to this day live in
isolated exclusion in North America or continue to face genocidal
extinction as the heirs to the European conquerors continue to "settle"
the natural habitat of all three Americas.
2- These European planter conquerors sought cheap labor to build their
aristocratic, racially superior class and caste society. When the
indigenous people refused or escaped into the hinterlands of their
land, the Europeans turned to Africa where a form of slavery as the
product of war continued. Using African and North African slavers, the
Europeans purchased kidnapped slaves and began to ship millions of
slaves en masse to the Americas. 1-2 million of these peoples were
murdered during the "middle passage" between the two continents.
The Africans kidnapped into slavery would not be "free" until 1865, as
a result of the end of the Civil War in the United States. Yet by 1870
they would again be in bondage in another form of slavery akin to that
of Apartheid South Africa. In the Southern states of the defeated
Slavocratic Confederacy the laws and policies of Jim Crow and
segregation were dramatically worse than in other parts of the
re-United States. The rise of organized armed racists of the Old South
sought to resurrect the dictatorship over the lynched bodies and
terrorized populace of African Americans and brain washed white
commoners. Throughout the fabricated nation the mass indoctrination of
white people led to varying forms of racial segregation, discrimination
and bias that continues to this day.
The multi-trillion dollar economic machine that grew out of the
decimation of the indigenous people and the sweat, labor and death of
the enslave African people would become the engine of success for
countless millions of white descendants of the European
conquer-masters. This prefabricated nation rose to world domination as
it took its practice of conquer and control internationally. By 2000 it
was the world’s only Super Power, both economically and militarily.
Not one time in its history has the United States, a government owned
and controlled by the heirs of the European conquerors, apologized or
made reparations to either the remaining indigenous people, or to the
descendents of the slaves. The descendents of both people’s live with
both a historic stigma and social impediment: having been placed in
reservations or kept in segregation for hundreds of years, denied
social and economic access to the privileges and rights of the dominate
white population, they have been unable to compete fairly in the
nation’s "market place."
Thus, they remained impoverished, denied social mobility and
psychologically oppressed. They have been universally treated as
socially and racially inferior, stigmatized as incompetent and socially
ill. Castigated as prone to criminality, promiscuity, and alcoholic and
drug laden. Thus, these people are ill repaired of the damage done unto
them through no fault of their own.
So I ask you: how do you "move on" when a significant part of the body
civic is kept from "moving on;" when the pain and suffering of hundreds
of years is not amended?
How do you "move on" from a genocidal past, when the illness of the genocide still strikes the body?
You cannot. To suggest it is at best folly. It is the product of a
"hope" born of an unacceptable compromise with reality; the hype of
politicians; the sickness of denial and in all reality, a scam.
There will never be such progress within the United States until the
issues of slavery and the genocide of the indigenous people and the
handicap and damage of Jim Crow is dealt with openly and honestly in
the Congress and in the public of the nation. Until blame is placed and
accepted; until reparation – amends of sufficient means are paid to
those harmed. And those harmed are vast in number.
But then so is the cost of imperialism and paid every day by the
American taxpayer. Paid to keep hearth aflame, cars on the road, food
in the larder, TVs running, surround sound playing and the kids off to
the colleges of delusionary higher education.
So it is not as if the means were not there. It is the willingness to
face the truth, something that Obama runs from, and something the
ruling class who owns him will not allow.
But until it does, there will be no "moving on" and no peace.