"Delusion" or. "The Cycle"??
As I re-read: W.E.B. DuBois Critiques Booker T. Washington; http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/40
it appears we are entering a third "cycle" of an "old process". He wrote in 1903, looking back to 1619. We read in 2014, after a devastating national election in which our white citizens declared to the world (either by their vote, or their abstention) their support for those same practices that have prevailed in this country since its founding in 1776.
Founded as a nation by white males who were rich and Protestant, the United States was set as a "preserve" where similar whites were privileged under a Constitution. Black Slaves, present in what was to become the new nation, for more than 150 years, were designated to be 3/5 of a human being. All others were, in various ways excluded from the full protection of their Constitution: white males who were not Protestant, Jews, Women; the Native Peoples were mentioned as "Indian Tribes", over which Congress would have power to "Regulate Commerce".
Our struggles under the Constitution, for the past two hundred and twenty-five years, have been struggles by groups that were originally "not included" under the protections of the Constitution.
DeTocqueville, visited and toured the United States in 1830; originally interested in our Prison System; that we use today for "Weekend Entertainment" on our T.V., and "profits" on Wall Street. His published work Democracy in America, noted peculiarities about our nation that included how it "worked" to govern itself. He noted that Blacks were designated to be "worked to death" in servitude, "condemned in the womb"; and "Indians" were designated for extermination. History has shown persistent attempts to pursue that course. Along the way, there was a Civil War between those whites who did not own slaves, and resented unfair economic competition, and those whites who risked all, to preserve their "way of life". That struggle still persists, as the "losers" of the Civil War spread their "Way of Life' across the nation, by turning States RED, under the banner of the Republican Party.
Included in their "Way of Life" is a peculiar type of Christianity that sacntions religious violence and hatreds, re-segregation and suppression of Blacks, and the special type of poverty that persists below the Mason-Dixon Line. The current movement is a recurrence of a "cycle" that began in 1867; was defeated in 1965, and has been running anew, in Backlash, since then.
Read the DuBois Critique and you will see that Black Americans are in their third cycle in their struggles. They may now recognize it, because they see a "Black" President, roundly rejected by white voters, before their God and the whole World. Wealth, accumulated by Blacks, and lost to white "confiscation through government" is what is "cycled"
The first cycle occurred before the Civil War, then again, after the defeat of Jim Crow, and now, under a Republican take-over of "Government" that pretends loudly to hold "Government" in comtempt! This cycle hold a special, 2014, violence against Blacks that resides inside our "Justice" system.
Voter suppression, then, and now, "Education" their control and oversight, then and now, and Black Conservative "tools" who assist the whites in their confiscation of non-white wealth, then and now, are all revealed in the 1903 Critique.
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