"What to do with the blacks," has been a persistent American question and "problem" since the end of slavery and the Civil War in 1865.
That "problem" and question bedeviled that curious cabal of white men of the North and South, planters and merchants, who, in 1816, founded the American Colonization Society (ACS) , which lead to the founding of Liberia in 1847.
ACS' remedy was voluntary colonization of those troublesome "free blacks," away from American shores: to Africa, or to South or Central America, it being convinced that whites would never accept them, other than on terms of dependence and degradation; hence, colonization was in the blacks' best interests.
These, by-now "American," blacks, e.g., those born in America with no knowledge of Africa or of Africans, who were then-somehow "free," as early as 1817, responded full-throat from a convention of 3,000 men, called at Bethel A.M.E. Church in Philadelphia unanimously. They told the ACS "no thanks." They reasoned that their and their forebears' "blood, sweat, and tears" as well as their own, had so watered and had so enriched this land, to paraphrase Bishop Richard Allen, that the United States of America was now their homeland, and they were not leaving!
Clearly, a few well-known and lesser known blacks did emigrate to Liberia. But, these numbered just a few thousand, some of whom later returned. So colonization failed here.
Following the Civil War, the same question again arose, especially since the blacks now lacked readily marketable economic value to those planters, as before; and who were, moreover, clamoring for "rights" and "abandoned land" and seed to gain their own economic self-sufficiency.
When this all--too--brief period of Reconstruction--"Reclamation" may be a better term, ended in 1877 with a deceitful and underhanded, political rapprochement between the whites of the North and South, the former white political belligerents, blacks who have saved the nation from dissolution, were made the bedrock, the fulcrum, of the grotesquely unconstitutional deal that effectively re-enslaved blacks, in all but name.
The Republican North abandoned them. The Democratic South reclaimed them. As opposed to slavery, peonage and persecution was practiced, after black troops were disarmed and mustered out, and after Union troops were withdrawn.
Meanwhile their most daring and die-hard brothers were shipped out West, far away from the South, to fight, kill, and quell Native Americans and Mexicans' quarrels over land claims. These are now known as "Buffalo Soldiers," the heroic 9th and 10th Cavalry, who really "won the West!"
Back in the South, though, in the wake of unmitigated murder, brutality, theft, betrayal, beatings and fraud, the blacks, who were lynched by the thousands and shot down like dogs, by white terrorists in disguise and in law-man uniforms, began an "Exodus" movement to Kansas, in 1879, which they wrongly, forlornly thought offered a respite from racism and mayhem, based on its "Border-War" history.
The black Exodus has continued in intermittent waves before and after both World Wars to cities North and West. Still, the question yet persists: "What to do with the blacks?"
The present answer seems to be to deprive the black underclass of jobs, capital, and justice; to supply them with drugs and guns; to discredit their belief in spiritual deliverance by lewd and lurid entertainment options; to control their education by controlling funding, discipline, curriculum; to give law enforcement and the courts leeway to dispose of them as they please; to foment jealousy, discord, and distrust between them and black achievers, who have moved up, up, and away from these nettlesome traps; to program film and television to
say that: wrong is right; up is down; backward is forward; the truth is a lie; and spending on trash is saving.
Then, let the chips fall where they may....
Problem solved. Question answered.
Tuesday, September 30, 2014
what to do with the blacks?
WHAT TO DO WITH THE BLACKS?
"What to do with the blacks," has been a persistent American question and "problem" since the end of slavery and the Civil War in 1865.
That "problem" and question bedeviled that curious cabal of white men of the North and South, planters and merchants, who, in 1816, founded the American Colonization Society (ACS) , which lead to the founding of Liberia in 1847.
ACS' remedy was voluntary colonization of those troublesome "free blacks," away from American shores: to Africa, or to South or Central America, it being convinced that whites would never accept them, other than on terms of dependence and degradation; hence, colonization was in the blacks' best interests.
These, by-now "American," blacks, e.g., those born in America with no knowledge of Africa or of Africans, who were then-somehow "free," as early as 1817, responded full-throat from a convention of 3,000 men, called at Bethel A.M.E. Church in Philadelphia unanimously. They told the ACS "no thanks." They reasoned that their and their forebears' "blood, sweat, and tears" as well as their own, had so watered and had so enriched this land, to paraphrase Bishop Richard Allen, that the United States of America was now their homeland, and they were not leaving!
Clearly, a few well-known and lesser known blacks did emigrate to Liberia. But, these numbered just a few thousand, some of whom later returned. So colonization failed here.
Following the Civil War, the same question again arose, especially since the blacks now lacked readily marketable economic value to those planters, as before; and who were, moreover, clamoring for "rights" and "abandoned land" and seed to gain their own economic self-sufficiency.
When this all--too--brief period of Reconstruction--"Reclamation" may be a better term, ended in 1877 with a deceitful and underhanded, political rapprochement between the whites of the North and South, the former white political belligerents, blacks who have saved the nation from dissolution, were made the bedrock, the fulcrum, of the grotesquely unconstitutional deal that effectively re-enslaved blacks, in all but name.
The Republican North abandoned them. The Democratic South reclaimed them. As opposed to slavery, peonage and persecution was practiced, after black troops were disarmed and mustered out, and after Union troops were withdrawn.
Meanwhile their most daring and die-hard brothers were shipped out West, far away from the South, to fight, kill, and quell Native Americans and Mexicans' quarrels over land claims. These are now known as "Buffalo Soldiers," the heroic 9th and 10th Cavalry, who really "won the West!"
Back in the South, though, in the wake of unmitigated murder, brutality, theft, betrayal, beatings and fraud, the blacks, who were lynched by the thousands and shot down like dogs, by white terrorists in disguise and in law-man uniforms, began an "Exodus" movement to Kansas, in 1879, which they wrongly, forlornly thought offered a respite from racism and mayhem, based on its "Border-War" history.
The black Exodus has continued in intermittent waves before and after both World Wars to cities North and West. Still, the question yet persists: "What to do with the blacks?"
The present answer seems to be to deprive the black underclass of jobs, capital, and justice; to supply them with drugs and guns; to discredit their belief in spiritual deliverance by lewd and lurid entertainment options; to control their education by controlling funding, discipline, curriculum; to give law enforcement and the courts leeway to dispose of them as they please; to foment jealousy, discord, and distrust between them and black achievers, who have moved up, up, and away from these nettlesome traps; to program film and television to
say that: wrong is right; up is down; backward is forward; the truth is a lie; and spending on trash is saving.
Then, let the chips fall where they may....
Problem solved. Question answered.
"What to do with the blacks," has been a persistent American question and "problem" since the end of slavery and the Civil War in 1865.
That "problem" and question bedeviled that curious cabal of white men of the North and South, planters and merchants, who, in 1816, founded the American Colonization Society (ACS) , which lead to the founding of Liberia in 1847.
ACS' remedy was voluntary colonization of those troublesome "free blacks," away from American shores: to Africa, or to South or Central America, it being convinced that whites would never accept them, other than on terms of dependence and degradation; hence, colonization was in the blacks' best interests.
These, by-now "American," blacks, e.g., those born in America with no knowledge of Africa or of Africans, who were then-somehow "free," as early as 1817, responded full-throat from a convention of 3,000 men, called at Bethel A.M.E. Church in Philadelphia unanimously. They told the ACS "no thanks." They reasoned that their and their forebears' "blood, sweat, and tears" as well as their own, had so watered and had so enriched this land, to paraphrase Bishop Richard Allen, that the United States of America was now their homeland, and they were not leaving!
Clearly, a few well-known and lesser known blacks did emigrate to Liberia. But, these numbered just a few thousand, some of whom later returned. So colonization failed here.
Following the Civil War, the same question again arose, especially since the blacks now lacked readily marketable economic value to those planters, as before; and who were, moreover, clamoring for "rights" and "abandoned land" and seed to gain their own economic self-sufficiency.
When this all--too--brief period of Reconstruction--"Reclamation" may be a better term, ended in 1877 with a deceitful and underhanded, political rapprochement between the whites of the North and South, the former white political belligerents, blacks who have saved the nation from dissolution, were made the bedrock, the fulcrum, of the grotesquely unconstitutional deal that effectively re-enslaved blacks, in all but name.
The Republican North abandoned them. The Democratic South reclaimed them. As opposed to slavery, peonage and persecution was practiced, after black troops were disarmed and mustered out, and after Union troops were withdrawn.
Meanwhile their most daring and die-hard brothers were shipped out West, far away from the South, to fight, kill, and quell Native Americans and Mexicans' quarrels over land claims. These are now known as "Buffalo Soldiers," the heroic 9th and 10th Cavalry, who really "won the West!"
Back in the South, though, in the wake of unmitigated murder, brutality, theft, betrayal, beatings and fraud, the blacks, who were lynched by the thousands and shot down like dogs, by white terrorists in disguise and in law-man uniforms, began an "Exodus" movement to Kansas, in 1879, which they wrongly, forlornly thought offered a respite from racism and mayhem, based on its "Border-War" history.
The black Exodus has continued in intermittent waves before and after both World Wars to cities North and West. Still, the question yet persists: "What to do with the blacks?"
The present answer seems to be to deprive the black underclass of jobs, capital, and justice; to supply them with drugs and guns; to discredit their belief in spiritual deliverance by lewd and lurid entertainment options; to control their education by controlling funding, discipline, curriculum; to give law enforcement and the courts leeway to dispose of them as they please; to foment jealousy, discord, and distrust between them and black achievers, who have moved up, up, and away from these nettlesome traps; to program film and television to
say that: wrong is right; up is down; backward is forward; the truth is a lie; and spending on trash is saving.
Then, let the chips fall where they may....
Problem solved. Question answered.