Extemporaneous musings, occasionally poetic, about life in its richly varied dimensions, especially as relates to history, theology, law, literature, science, by one who is an attorney, ordained minister, historian, writer, and African American.
Thursday, June 18, 2015
THE PLAN OF ATTACK
Larry Delano Coleman
THE PLAN OF ATTACK
It is becoming clearer.
Attack the father to get him out of the house, due to unemployment.
Attack the mother to get her off of public assistance, due to violations.
Attack public education to get their kids out of schools, due to testing.
Then, attack the black church, the final barrier between them and the abyss of evil, depraved, despond, due to homosexuality and scandals.
Then, vilify "them" all publicly as ne'er do wells, criminals, hustlers, loafers, pimps, welfare queens, mentally impaired miscreants, needing affirmative action, and rejects in media and in public policy debates.
That will dispose of a significant plurality of the most vulnerable, low-lying fruit; turn these against each other through materialist desires, ghetto dwelling, ignorance, gang warfare, alcohol, poverty,and drugs.
Then, imprison them en masse, making them work for slave wages, while deducting their costly 'upkeep' and court fees from their meager earnings to prevent any kind of capital accumulation, as was done to their forebears, colored peons and rural colored sharecroppers.
The cumulative effect of these deprivations and degradations was supposed to have frustrated their conceptions of themselves, to deflate their personal and racial ambitions, to divert their momentum for economic reparations and legal justice; thereby to justify their continued repression, their vile, invisible, pragmatically political, monetary masters had vainly hoped!
But God......
The foregoing diatribe was deduced, indeed intuited, after reading the following "results" of the most comprehensive study of American and Western European capital ever undertaken. It reads:
"The history of the distribution of wealth has always been deeply political, and it cannot be reduced to purely economic mechanisms. In particular, the reduction in inequality that took place in most developed countries between 1910 and 1950 was above all a consequence of war and of policies adopted to cope with the shocks of war. Similarly, the resurgence of inequality after 1980 is due largely to political shifts of the past several decades especially in regard to taxation and finance. The history of inequality is shaped by the way economic, social, and political actors view what is just and what is not, as well as by the relative power of those actors and the collective choices that result. It is the joint product of all relevant actors combined."
P. 20, "The Major Results of the Study," CAPITAL IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY by Thomas Piketty (Belknap: 2014)
During the 1980s, Ronald Reagan and Republicans rose up, repressively, remember? Clinton followed and maintained the same.
So, here we are in 2014! NOW 2015:The racist attacks grow more desperate day by day as evil--IN THE FORM OF MASS-MURDERER/TERRORIST, DYLANN STORM ROOF--senses the great falling away!