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A Message To Ole White America: Black People Can Teach You A Lot If You’d Just Listen.

February 6, 2015 by  
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(ThyBlackMan.com) It’s funny how ideas about articles come about. Sometimes they just seem to walk up to you and knock on your door, and they’re so simple and obvious that it’s almost as if they’ve been suggested by the universe. The idea for this article was one such occurrence. If the subject matter had been a mugger it could have robbed me blind.
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I recently ran into a guy at the supermarket who came up and introduced himself as I was loading my goodies into the car. He said that a friend of his pointed me out and told him that I was Eric Wattree, and he wanted to tell me that while he didn’t always agree with me, he loved reading my articles because he appreciated the “outside of the box” insight that I bring to many issues. Then he went on to say the following:
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“But here lately, every article you write seems to always be Black, Black, Black. One of the reasons that I enjoy reading you is your opinions tend to be balanced and evenhanded, but here lately, your focus seems to be narrowing, and I believe that could have a negative impact on your readership. I’m a Republican, so naturally, I don’t agree with many of the things you say, but you have changed my thinking on a few things, so I really think that you’re worth reading. Like I said, I don’t always agree with your overall philosophy, but I do like the way you think, and I believe that you would gain many more readers if you’d continued to focus on America as a whole, as opposed to just limiting your writing to Black issues alone.”

The gentleman really opened my eyes to an important issue that from this point on I’m going to take into consideration – I need to make it a point to more carefully incorporate what he considered “Black issues” into the impact that they have on America as a whole, and I want to thank Bob for providing me with that insight.
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But I pointed out to Bob that while I agreed that we should be discussing America as a whole, that’s not reality, because when we discuss America as a whole, the discussion always turns out to be “White, White, White.” So in essence, what he’s actually saying is, I need to stick to discussing more White issues. But I think I’ve found a way to remedy that, and at the same time, be much more informative to all.2015american-flag
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While Bob seemed to be very sincere, and the kind of guy who simply wants to promote a better America, what he fails to see is that the “White supremacist” attitude is so ingrained into the American psyche that both White, and many Black people, embrace it without even recognizing it. For example, when he suggests that I should get away from writing articles that seem to be exclusively focused on the Black experience, he never stops to consider that EVERYTHING he sees in the media is White oriented and he doesn’t see a thing wrong with it. He’s become so comfortable with it that it seems to him, the natural order of things. In fact, he’s become so comfortable with that way of viewing the world that he thinks that I should fall in line.
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But the fact is, a discussion of the Black experience IS a discussion on America as a whole, because it permeates everything that America is as a nation, and it goes to the very core of what America is suppose to stand for. What people who think like Bob need to recognize is when the founding fathers agreed to compromise on the issue of slavery while establishing this nation, they also compromised every word and sentence that they so eloquently laid out in their founding documents, and America as a whole has been paying a huge price for it every since. That one decision, made over three hundred years ago, is even having a negative impact on our current economic condition even now.
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Few people can legitimately deny that Barack Obama literally saved America – and that include those people who love to call him an “un-American, socialist, Kenyan” – from having to endure a second Great Depression. But since many of them – including a few Black critics who are suppose to be educated – have so little knowledge of history that they have little or no idea of what this one Black man saved them and their families from having to endure. Nor do they have any idea of how much better the both our economy and our lives could be in America today if it weren’t from the racist obstructionism of the GOP. The GOP has PURPOSELY sabotaged economic relief for the American people for not only political purposes, but to prevent this first Black President of the United States preventing the historic credit that he deserves. Thus, ALL of America is suffering as a direct result of the nation’s failure to correct the founding father’s hypocrisy regarding race over three hundred years ago.
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Also reflective of this problem is how the race issue is used to keep America divided. Generally, the only time we see a story in the media that’s Black oriented is if a Black person does something extraordinary, or if a White cop kills a Black kid – and even then (in the case of the cop) the story is about why the White cop was justified in his actions. That’s one of the reasons that Black people have traditionally been seen as unimportant in America, because we’re invisible, and the American people know virtually nothing about us. And the frustrating part about that is, it’s not always based on blatant racism. In most cases it’s based on America’s unconscious racist attitudes. In many cases the White people who suffer from this malady routinely have family barbeques with their Black next door neighbors.
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Thus, Black people need a voice. We need to be given visibility in America – and not as just criminals, victims, dysfunctional entertainers, or swaggering athletes. The AVERAGE Black person needs to be seen and heard from in this country – the postal worker, the salesperson, the computer analyst. America needs to see these people, and understand their views, concerns, and love for their families. America needs to understand that Black people – and every other cultural ethnicity in this country – are just like them, and they ALL bring something culturally unique and of value to the table. Barack Obama has benefitted this nation greatly, and contrary to popular belief, he’s not an aberration. There are literally thousands of Barack Obamas out there, so because of a handful of insecure and self-serving bigots, the nation is wasting its most valuable natural resource – the brilliance and unique skills within its population.
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Dr. Mark Dean, Principle Architect Of The Personal Computer .

The fact is, you probably wouldn’t be currently reading this article on your beloved Personal computer if it wasn’t for a Black man. “Dr. Mark Dean is a Ph.D. from Stanford University. He is in the National Hall of Inventors. He has more than 30 patents pending. He is a viceDrMarkDean-2015 president with IBM. Oh, yeah. And he is also the architect of the modern-day personal computer. Dr. Dean holds three of the original nine patents on the computer that all PCs are based upon.” (http://weallbe.blogspot.com/2007/10/black-man-invented-pc-as-we-know-it.html).  Thus, diversity makes ALL of our lives better.
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So a discussion on the Black experience doesn’t just benefit Black people and minorities, it’s also important to America as a whole. Minorities make up a huge part of the 99 percenters, and since we are literally in a class war in this country, minorities and the White lower and middle class are natural allies. So it’s important that we know one another, so the enemies of the American middle class can’t divide us and neutralize our political clout – and currently, that’s their most effective weapon.
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In addition, the White middle class needs to recognize that Black people can bring much to the table that can benefit them greatly. As a direct result of our having to routinely endure and overcome every kind of adversity over the centuries, Black people have a specialized insight into sugarcoated malevolence and demagoguery that White people don’t always share. Having to deal with, overcome, and outwit blatant and more subtle racists of every kind every day of our lives has caused a sixth sense to evolve in Black people, and it has also caused us to develop an intellectual muscularity in this area that’s nearly infallible, and it’s a form of knowledge that the White middle class could benefit from greatly.
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Conservatives like to claim that Black people vote Democratic in order to get government handouts, but that’s not the case at all. We vote Democratic because we’re not idiots. Here are the facts:
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The vast majority of Black people in this country are middle class or above. African Americans are the second largest consumer group in America with a combined buying power of over $892 billion currently and likely over $1.1 trillion by 2012. In 2002 African American owned businesses accounted for 1.2 million of the US’s 23 million businesses, and 47% of Africans Americans own their own homes. – U.S. Census Bureau. And in spite of the fact that Black people are forced to run a marathon against White people while wearing lead boots, spotting White folks 50 yards, and a study has shown that a White male with a felony has an equal chance of being hired for a job as a Black male with a clean record, as a percentage, there are only 1% more Black people on welfare than Whites, and in actual numbers, many more Whites people are on welfare than Blacks (Whites – 38.8%; Blacks – 39.8%).
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So again, it’s not handouts that keep Black people flocking to the Democratic Party, it’s that sixth sense that allows us to see through political demagoguery. It struck me as completely ironic when Herman Cain said (echoing a GOP talking point) that he wasn’t getting Black support because two-thirds of Black people were brainwashed. Yet who turned out to be right when Cain turned out to be just another philandering pervert, the “enlightened” GOP, or the “brainwashed” Black community?
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The same was true of Dr. Ben Carson. Even as Carson was being lauded by “politically sophisticated” White conservatives, once he started talking politics Black people immediately saw right through him – and that’s in spite of the fact that he had formerly been one of the heroes of the Black community. Now that it’s been revealed that Carson is guilty of plagiarism and being associated with a shady company that was selling “miracle cures” and snake oil, it seems that the Black community was right on the money yet again.
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And finally, if the nation had followed the lead of Black people in shunning Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush in droves, we wouldn’t be suffering through our current economic crisis. Ronald Reagan tripled the national debt, abolished the Fairness Doctrine, and destroyed America’s industrial base, and George W. Bush destroyed the nation’s economy as a whole. Thus, in terms of rock-solid political statistics, Black people are batting a thousand.

So again, there is overwhelming evidence that suggests that a discussion on the Black experience in America, is also a discussion about maintaining a thriving America as a whole. The reason for that is, the GOP routinely creates and then uses a hostility toward the Black and minority communities as a tool to gain support for an agenda that’s actually aimed at lowering the standard of living of the American middle class as a whole. If you doubt that, take a moment to review history. Modern history will clearly demonstrate that as the Black community goes, so goes the White American middle class – maybe not as fast, the trajectory is identical.

DIVIDE AND CONQUER

The American middle class is being decimated. The reason that we’re being decimated is because the corporatists and their political cronies have a vested interest in lowing the standard of living of the American middle class in order to become more competitive in the new global economy against countries who pay their workers less per week than the average middle-class American worker spends on lunch per day.
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So we’d better wake up and recognize that we’re knee-deep in a class war. The business community is making record profits, so there’s absolutely no economic reason for unemployment to be so high – and regardless to what Obama does, he can’t force a private corporation to hire workers if they find it in their best interest not to. And let there be no doubt it, it is in their best interest not to. They’re using high unemployment in order to beat the American middle class into a desperate state of submission. That way the American people will be more agreeable to lowering their standard of living. It doesn’t take a brain surgeon to see what’s going on.
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So, while they have us divided, miserable, and debating the evils of socialism, they’re using capitalism to cut our throats. It’s not the “isms” that are evil, it’s the people who are running the “isms” who are the source of our problems.
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So if we’re smart – and have anything less than several million dollars tucked away –  we’d better ALL start listening to one another. If we fail to do so, the Tea Party, the Mexican Mafia, and the Black Guerilla Army are ALL going to find themselves shoulder-to shoulder picking virtual cotton on the very same Corporate-GOP plantation.  So the poor and middle class better wake up – and fast!!!

GOP STRATEGY: DIVIDE AND CONQUER

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Staff Writer; Eric L. Wattree
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17 Responses to “A Message To Ole White America: Black People Can Teach You A Lot If You’d Just Listen.”
  1. Reality_Check, you said,
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    “Regarding black criminality: if you expand the definition of criminal to include crimes by OMISSION, then yes, that would greatly increase the number of black “criminals.” It may even increase it to the point where you could claim that MOST blacks (over 50%)are criminals. But, keep in mind that that would also expand the number of criminals in EVERY racial category. So by definition the number of criminals would at least double for EVERYONE across the board. Comparing racism to criminal behavior is like comparing apples to kumquats, because unlike being criminals, blacks (as a collective) cannot practice racism.”
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    I’d like to know what evidence you have to support that assertion. Are you suggesting that the crime rate is the same in every community in America? If you are, I’d like to see supporting evidence of that. If not, and crime is, in fact, higher in the Black community, it would still result in Black people being unfairly singled out. So I vehemently disagree with this “Omission Theory,” because it would only serve to support, and justify, the further profiling of Black people. It would also justify the “Stop and Frisk” policy.
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    You also stated that Black people can’t be, collectively, racist. I assume you’re basing that on the invalid theory that one must be in a position to assert power to be racist. But that’s easily debunked. The work “racist” is a noun. In other words, it’s a frame of mind. In addition, the very contention that one group of people can’t be just as racist as another is a racist statement in itself. If Black people can be racist as individuals, and we can – if a brother is holding a gun on a White man, for that moment he becomes the most powerful person in the world to the victim – all such people have to do is form a collective (or a gang) to be collectively racist. So black people CAN be racist. But again, that’s not even necessary since, again, being a racist is a frame of mind. We simply don’t have the power to effectively assert our racism.
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    And then you indicated that MOST White people are racist. Since you don’t know most White people, I’d like to see the data that your basing that statement on. Please provide me with a link. As I pointed out in my last comment, you can’t charge a person with malevolence simply because they’re engaged in self-preservation. If I witness a bank robbery on don’t put my life on the line to save Wells Fargo’s money, does that make me an accessory? Really!!!? Because that’s what you’re suggesting.

  2. reality_check says:

    Mr. Wattree,

    My sincerest apologies for calling you “Dr.” I think I was thinking of Dr. Watkins when I typed that. My bad.

    Now on to your statement: Usually I find your contributions interesting, but I must say I’m a little disappointed with your using the straw man tactic to insert false claims in an effort to steer the conversation to an argument that you find it more convenient to attack. You keep responding to my commentary as if I’m saying ALL white people are racist, when I have said nothing of the sort. As a matter of fact, the entire last paragraph of my previous comment stated just that. Even though I don’t think ALL white people are racist, I do believe that MOST (meaning majority, average, greater than 50%) of them are either casual racists or complicit in racism. Be ye not deceived by white people and their rhetoric: the average white person is only a non-racist to the point where their white privilege is either threatened or eliminated(e.g., affirmative action).

    Again, one can either be guilty by action or inaction. Take the case of a child molester. If you knew that your neighbor was molesting children and you failed to alert the authorities, don’t you think that a reasonable person would say that you are complicit in the crimes as you allowed the crimes to continue even though you had the power to potentially stop them? I think you’d agree with that. This is how racism works within the white community. While many whites may not be actively discriminating against and oppressing others, their awareness and tacit acceptance of the practice makes them just as culpable as the perpetrators. You can choose to continue disagreeing with me but the facts of life just do not support your disagreement.

    Regarding black criminality: if you expand the definition of criminal to include crimes by OMISSION, then yes, that would greatly increase the number of black “criminals.” It may even increase it to the point where you could claim that MOST blacks (over 50%)are criminals. But, keep in mind that that would also expand the number of criminals in EVERY racial category. So by definition the number of criminals would at least double for EVERYONE across the board. Comparing racism to criminal behavior is like comparing apples to kumquats, because unlike being criminals, blacks (as a collective) cannot practice racism.

    Again, stop straw-manning me. I never said ALL whites are racist. I do, however, stand by my assertion that MOST whites are guilty of racism through either action or inaction. If that wasn’t the case, then explain to me how racism is able to not only stay alive, but to thrive?

    It’s great that you want to judge people on their individual characters (and you should). However, you can’t deny facts. If the average white person wasn’t guilty of practicing racism, then a black man with a master’s degree would have a higher probability of being hired for a job than a white man with a criminal record and not the reverse. Think about that for a moment or two.

  3. Reality_Check

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    First, I want to point out right of the bat that I’m not a doctor. I haven’t earn that title so it would be a disservice to those who have put in the effort to allow that to pass.
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    But I have to respectfully disagree with you point of view. People are individuals, and ALL people should be assessed on their own merit. That’s one of the primary arguments used to invalidate White racism so it would be inconsistent, hypocritical, and disingenuous not to adhere to it now. One of the angriest complaints that comes out of the Black community is over many people’s tendency to broad-brush and profile Black people, so we shouldn’t do it against others in this discussion.
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    You also used the argument that White inaction against racism. Specifically, you said, “Most white people are guilty of racism by omission, meaning that they are aware of racism, when and how it is applied, and the victims of racism, but they do NOTHING to either speak or act against it.”
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    If we use that standard, we also tend to validate White bigot’s allegation that ALL (or MOST) Black people are criminals by virtue of the fact that they KNOW about crime yet do nothing to act against it. So through extension that implies that While cops are correct in profiling ALL Black people.
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    So there’s a fundamental problem with trying to indict ALL White people, the sword cuts both ways. Any argument that you make alleging that they are ALL a certain way, contradicts our insistence that all of us are not the same. There’s only two kinds of people in the world – good people, and bad people, period. While some are fond of using the argument that the White man has PROVEN his tendency toward brutality, that argument SEEMS to work, until it’s closely examined. As we speak, Black people are in Nigeria killing one another with the kind of brutality, and in numbers that we can’t even imagine over here:
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    YAOUNDE, Cameroon (AP) — “The Nigeria-based extremist group Boko Haram on Monday threatened neighboring countries Niger and Chad, warning the fighters were prepared to carry out suicide bombings in the countries sending troops to help fight the militants.
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    “The Islamic extremist group has fought a five-year insurgency against Nigeria’s government, leaving 10,000 people dead last year alone. The violence has forced some 157,000 people to seek refuge in Niger, while 40,000 others have gone to Cameroon and 17,000 are in Chad, the U.N. said. Almost 1 million Nigerians are internally displaced, according to the country’s own statistics.”
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    Like I said, people are people, and some are good, and others are bad.

  4. reality_check says:

    Dr. Wattree, I understand you mean well, but I respectfully disagree. History and current events simply do not support your assertions. The reason why is because the majority of white people are either racist themselves OR they know people who harm others through racism and they remain SILENT of such atrocities. This is the commission vs. omission principle. Most white people are guilty of racism by omission, meaning that they are aware of racism, when and how it is applied, and the victims of racism, but they do NOTHING to either speak or act against it. This is because white people are keenly aware that they benefit from white supremacy and racism, so they are not willing to sacrifice their privilege to act against racism. They know too well which side their bread is buttered on. This is why they do not oppose racism en masse. You cannot benefit from and simultaneously oppose racism. That is illogical.

    I don’t want to hear about what whites have done in the past because the truth is, despite this, the majority of them say and do nothing to act against the every day racism that they know to exist. What you are referencing is a very small faction of white people that protested and demonstrated side by side with blacks during the Civil Rights. Those whites certainly did not represent the average white person during that day. Don’t even get me started on the Vietnam War. Whites were protesting because they did not want to see THEIR sons killed in the war. Their protests had nothing to do with black people. That was a terrible example to underscore your point. The average white person’s silence where racism is concerned makes them just as complicit as the rabid racists who use their influence to oppress others. If this were not the case, then you wouldn’t see such discrimination in employment, housing, education, medical treatment, and the legal system where blacks are concerned. In order for racism to survive and THRIVE it takes more than just a few rabid racist to make it work. It absolutely requires the complicit approval of the MAJORITY of the white race to make it a success.

    Now, don’t let this suggest that I’m speaking in absolute terms by saying that ALL whites are racist. This isn’t what I’m saying. I am, however, saying that the majority of whites (meaning the average) practice racism either through action or inaction. If this weren’t the case then you wouldn’t see such disparities in the areas of life mentioned above and you’d see a lot more vocal opponents to the “system.”

  5. Asok,

    I think I MIGHT be able to teach you to punctuate properly, and based on your mentality, probably a lot more. Your response seems to imply that Black people are ignorant, yet, I’ll bet I have at least 20 IQ points on you.
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    “Racists tend to be the mediocrity of White society, so they try to use the fact that they were born White to define themselves and to compensate for their lack of personal value. Their entire sense of self-esteem is based more upon group association than individual value and accomplishment, and their entire claim to personal significance is, “Well, at least I’m better than them.”
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    “That’s what’s driving radical conservatives so crazy about President Obama -he’s walking, breathing, evidence that they cannot claim superiority by virtue of the color T-shirt they were born in, and that simple fact alone is causing them to suffer a severe attack of cognitive dissonance before the eyes of the entire world. That’s also why they’re so determined not to allow President Obama to be successful, even if it means destroying the country – and international corporatists are using the social division inherent in those sentiments to lower the standard of living of the American middle class.
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    “Thus, this entire nation, and the future of our children, is being threatened by the desperate attempt of a handful of insecure bigots to maintain their delusions of superiority, and as far as they’re concerned, if the country has to be sacrificed for that cause, so be it.”
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    WHY CONSERVATIVES HATE BARACK OBAMA SO INTENSELY.

    http://wattree.blogspot.com/2015/01/why-conservatives-hate-barack-obama-so.html

  6. Vincenzo,
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    You’re not only clueless, but you’re ignorant. You’re right up there with this guy. You’re different sides of the same coin:
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    THE AGENDA: AS EXPLAINED TO A VERY ANGRY BLACK MAN
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    Michael,
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    This “shit” I’m posting says absolutely NOTHING about this being a post-racial world. Racism is definitely running rampant in this country – in every direction. But at this point, racism isn’t the war; it’s merely a tool of war. The Corporate-GOP Alliance intend to enslave any and everybody who don’t have several million dollars tucked away, Black and White. So again, racism is merely one of many tools being used to enslave the people – others are sexism, homophobia, xenophobia, ethno-phobia, politics and religion. These tools are being used to keep the poor and middle class divided so we won’t come together to fight back against our most insidious foe, global corporate feudalists, and we’d be idiots not to fight back. They want to turn this country into the United States of Wall Street.
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    These people WANT you to hate the White man. That helps them, and they want poor and middle class White people to hate you. That also helps them. Rush Limbaugh, Fox News, and the GOP have made stirring every form of hatred and bigotry a way of life, because people like yourself are their most valuable assets. If you didn’t exist, they’d have to create you, and many of us are so stupid that we’re falling into their gigantic bowl of fried ice cream face first. But we’ve got to have sense enough to see through this scam. It’s absolutely essential to our survival.
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    As much as the United States and the Soviet Union hated and distrusted one another other, they came together as allies just long enough to defeat Hitler. That’s because they had common sense. The Russians lost 26.6 million people during WWII, and they probably wouldn’t have survived as a nation had the two nations failed to set aside their antipathy for one another to form an alliance during the war. And the very same thing is true for the poor and middle class of this country.
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    A study done by Princeton University declared the United States is no longer a democracy. The study said that we are now an oligarchy controlled by the rich, and the economic numbers along with the behavior of the judges and politicians, who are SUPPOSE to be protecting our interests, more than bear that out. The United States Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision was a direct assault on the very core of our democracy, and if we don’t come together to correct it, it could very possibly turn out to be a lethal assault to what we USED to call our democracy.
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    The top 5% of the population now control 82% of the wealth in this country, while the bottom 80% of the population now only “control” 7% of the “wealth.” These numbers, along with the Citizens United decision, allows the top 5% of the population to control our political process, and essentially, even our ability to survive. We are now virtual slaves. As I pointed out in a previous article, the only difference between our current condition and literal slavery is that we have to provide our own housing. We now have to rely on the beneficence of the top 5% to even feed ourselves. In 1965, CEOs were paid only 20.1 times more than the average worker. Today they make 231 times the average worker (http://www.minnpost.com/community-voices/2012/09/redistribution-wealth-has-gone-upward-not-down-early-80s).
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    So I hate to tell you this, good brother, but mere racism is the very least of our problems, unless they plan to force us to share slave quarters with the Klan, and that could very well happen, because any deluded Klan members who are not rich will definitely be right there with us – and the Tea Party as well. That’s the only upside to this entire situation – watching the expression on the faces of bigots when they begin to recognize that they’re not part of the “chosen few,” after all.
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    Another part of the “shit” I advocate is for Black people to start educating themselves. Yes, we’re definitely treated badly, but that’s because we’ve allowed ourselves to become victims, and victims are ALWAYS treated badly. So if we are going to improve our condition, we have to stop being victims, and the only way to do that is through education and knowledge. The concept that knowledge is power is not an urban legend. As I continue to repeat, we can’t out-scream the White establishment, because they control the media, and we can’t out-fight them, because they control the military, but we can teach ourselves to out-think them, through making knowledge the new “soul.” While they’re busy dumming down the rest of society, we should be just as busy educating ourselves. That will allow us to level the playing field.
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    So that is my solution – beginning to think instead of emoting, educating ourselves and others to the true dimensions of our current economic plight, and then coming together as a class to fight back, because at this point, the power of numbers is our only weapon and only defense, but if we don’t act soon, that won’t even help.
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    Now, what is your solution, good brother, just sitting around stewing in hatred and anger until the man returns you to slavery, or starve you to death?

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    Divide And Conquer

    And finally, believe me, brother, I’m not one of those altruistic do-gooders, running around preachin’ “all we need is love. ” Frankly, I don’t care who you hate. I’m simply being perfectly, and selfishly, practical here. I just don’t want your blind hatred to sabotage MY chances of survival. When you listen to Scott Walker below, notice that he’s not saying A THING about race? He’s talking about EVERYBODY – that includes me, and that’s my concern. And many White folks feel the same way that I do, because they know it also includes them. But our problem is, we’ve got to get through to the rest of you hardcore haters, because you threaten to bring us all down. You tend to be more in love with your hatred than you are your freedom, and your way of life.
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    The United States is currently in the exact same state of flux as Germany was in the 1930s just before the rise of the Nazi Party. So you’d better wake up, brother, and start thinking past some of that anger and emotion. Because, unless you’re a very strong swimmer, your very ass (and the asses of your children) is on the line.
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    http://wattree.blogspot.com/2015/02/the-agenda-as-explained-to-very-angry.html

  7. Robert says:

    Conservatives like to claim that Black people vote Democratic in order to get government handouts, but that’s not the case at all. We vote Democratic because we’re not idiots.

    That statement demonstrated that you are an idiot.

  8. Vincenzo says:

    Typical blame it on whitey article. If anyone needs to learn about anyone it’s the black community that should start acting like white folks. Specifically, stop producing babies to single mothers, stop killing your own in the ghettos throughout the U.S., specifically Chicago…….How many blacks have been killed by blacks in Chicago and LA so far this year? Until I hear the black community leaders demanding accountability from their own people, all you’re going to get from me is a boring ho hum…………….

  9. Bill says:

    “understand your sentiment about the 99% working together, but alas, it will NEVER happen. The reason for this is simple: Whites cannot mentally bring themselves to work WITH blacks. As a group, whites feel that when working with blacks that they should assume their God-given rightful position of managing, supervising and otherwise directing the blacks; even when working WITH blacks is in their best interests. Unfortunately, they just cannot psychologically bring themselves to that sort of harmony with blacks.”

    Bullshit! We put a black liberal in charge of the country and all he does is blame whitey whenever something goes terribly wrong.

    All skilled workings out to leave this country and let you idiots finish running it into the ground. Once you all starve to death we can move back in and move over.

    I must be pretty stupid to spend so many years in school and working my ass off for no money when you brilliant black liberals have it all figured out!

  10. Bill says:

    Can black people teach me how to do a drive by near an inner city elementary school and then spend the rest of my day sitting on the couch watching sports while punching my girlfriend in the face?

    All this time I’ve been studying hard in school and paying taxes only to find out that I’m the enemy of Black America. And of course we need Obama to save the country by destroying the enemy (me) for the crime of not working for free.

    Wow I’ve been doing it all wrong all these years! Thanks black liberals! Wait one moment while I go send in my job resignation! woowoot! I can’t wait to go snort crack for the first time ever!

  11. Asok Asus says:

    “Black People Can Teach You A Lot If You’d Just Listen.”

    Like what? Cook collard greens and corn bread? I already know how to do that. Oh, and rhythm can’t be taught: either you got it or you don’t.

  12. Thank you, Mark.

    I’ll go and check it out before I log off.

  13. Reality_Check,

    I don’t that, that’s true. Whites worked with Blacks with no problems during the Civil Rights Era, and during the 60s in on the demonstrations against the war in Vietnam. Blacks and Whites are also successfully working together in the Occupy movement, the demonstration that are taking place around the country in the “I Can’t Breathe” movement, and the demonstrations against Walmart.

    Another reason that I tend to disagree with the comment is, I’m not comfortable profiling an entire race of people. We must learn to judge each individual on his or her own merit, otherwise, we’re validating the very bigoted philosophy that’s been used against Black people for over 400 years.

    Now, don’t get me wrong, I’m for calling a bigot a bigot, but all White people are not bigots any more than all Black people are criminals. People are people, and there are only two kinds of people – good people, and bad people. When we try to characterize them in any other way, it’s completely arbitrary and inefficient thinking. It’s like saying that all left-handed people are evil.

  14. Robert,

    I didn’t cite sources because I thought EVERYBODY knew about it. It’s been all over everywhere. He’s even admitted it and apologized. he also had a plagiarism in college. He’ll could have been expelled, but they let him off the hook. So he’s a serial offender.
    .
    Ben Carson Plagiarism
    http://www.christianpost.com/news/christian-neurosurgeon-ben-carson-apologizes-for-plagiarism-132390/
    .
    Ben Carson’s 10-year association with shady “miracle cure” company.
    http://www.nationalreview.com/article/396193/ben-carsons-troubling-connection-jim-geraghty

  15. Mark Anthony says:

    excellent article and very informative. Please read my article on this site entitled I don’t know any black people. I’ll color is brown, not black.

  16. Robert says:

    Interesting article but we want your sources and more details regarding this sentence of yours:

    “Carson is guilty of plagiarism and being associated with a shady company that was selling “miracle cures” and snake oil, it seems that the Black community was right on the money yet again”

  17. reality_check says:

    I understand your sentiment about the 99% working together, but alas, it will NEVER happen. The reason for this is simple: Whites cannot mentally bring themselves to work WITH blacks. As a group, whites feel that when working with blacks that they should assume their God-given rightful position of managing, supervising and otherwise directing the blacks; even when working WITH blacks is in their best interests. Unfortunately, they just cannot psychologically bring themselves to that sort of harmony with blacks.

    So, while I hear you- I’m sure you know enough about history to know that this will not be happening any time in the forseeable future.

    PS- Does Dr. Dean actually OWN those patents or does IBM own his intellectual works? There is a big difference between the two. If I had to guess, I’d say IBM owns the patents. If they didn’t Dr. Dean would be a billionaire in these streets.

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