thomasjasengardner
1360 words Monday, Jul
22, 2013
Black men, be afraid. Be very afraid.
Today’s patterns of black profiling
are similar to the annulation of 17 million Jews in Europe. Today’s patterns of
bigotry and hatred mirror the purification of the Cambodia Khmer
Rouge against 2.5 million dead civilians. Todays pattern of cultural
persecution is similar to the Bangladeshi war crimes where 3 million
people were killed because of how they voted.
This has also been a painful week of
genocide for Americans black citizens. The ongoing saga of African-Americans in
the United States draws a direct comparison to the extermination of blacks in
Nazi Germany. The sterilization, isolation, incarceration, medical experimentations,
brutal torture, segregation and sexual abuse of blacks in Germany follow the
same pattern of black genocide in America. This nationalistic trend of black
abuse is defined as white ethnocentrism by the United Nations.
The Convention on the Prevention
and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide was adopted by the United Nations in
1948 as a response to the extermination of and Germany’s Final Solution for Gypsies,
Jews, and Africans. It took American politicians nearly 44 years to sign the genocide
declaration. Why? Because Americans maltreatment of its black citizens was a hypocritical
shocking testament of ethnic cleansing as viewed by European nations.
The Civil Rights Congress, National
Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and the National Negro
Congress separately petitioned the United Nations to act upon the many racist instances
of lynching, incarceration and segregation in the United States. After each
rejection, the presenters included more government statistics and examples of
an established pattern of legal discrimination, and systematic inequalities in the
health and quality of life for African-Americans. The petition argued that the
US government is both complicit with and responsible for black genocide.
More today then
yesterday:
Black men must realize that ethnic
cleansing has taken many forms in this country. From the high rate of black
infant mortality to the high number of black seniors dying from preventable
illnesses. From the high number of incarcerated blacks to the high number of
blacks on death row; from the high ratio of blacks who die from treatable tumors
to the high number of blacks that die from prostrate, bone, lung and breast
cancer; From the high number of blacks who die from misdiagnosed high blood
pressure to the high number of blacks who die from preventable strokes and
heart disease.
These acts are examples of what the
United Nations considered to be an attempt to purposely deny a race the right
to exist by killing members of the group; causing serious bodily or mental harm
to members of the group; deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of
life that is calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in
part. Even today, Americans have become culturally conditioned to marginalize
black people as second-class citizens.
It is apparent from these
unorganized documented patterns of extermination, that black men are endangered
of becoming destroyed. Currently, police racially profile one in four black men.
Every 28 hours, a black man is either beaten or shot by a police officer in
America. With stand your ground laws in 24 states; the number of blacks who are
physically abused or murdered by cowboy civilians is expected to multiply every
hour. In these same states, there has been a 360 percent increase in private
citizens harassing black males without legal authority. Innocent blacks
profiled, mistreated, and abused by civilians in jobs, housing, and healthcare mirrors
the indiscriminate assassinations by Hitler’s Nazi brown shirts.
This categorization was giving
trigger-happy racists a call to arms. Many gun stores in white communities
reported an increase in weapon sales. Many civic gun license departments also
saw an increase in concealed weapon permit applications. Because the court
deemed that you know longer need a badge to kill a black man, every zealot with
a gun could validate his or her provoked killing as an act of self-defense.
Just last week, a white woman
jumped on a music stage and physically pummeled an old black blues musician.
She later said that the musician’s dedication to Trayvon martin offended her. She
was defending herself against a verbal discussion of Trayvon Martin’s human
rights.. It’s a good thing she did not have a gun. The idea of universal suspicion without
individual evidence is what black men in America must constantly fight. Yet
this example is evidence that a white woman with a purse may no longer clutch her
purse from a black man passing her by on the sidewalk. Without any evidence,
her learned behavior says that a black man will undoubtedly steal her purse without
provocation. And with this mindset she
will use her gun to defend herself against an imaginary threat.
The same applies to that familiar racist
sound of a white families car door locking as a black man walking his dog
passes by. The same stereotyped suspension will encourage the car driver to perform
a racially motivated action because of what he stereotypes as predictable
behavior for a car jacking. Instead of the usual click of a car door locking,
the victim will hear the sound of a gun’s hammer clicking before the bullet is
fired at an unsuspecting pedestrian.
When Emmitt Till and Medgar Evers
bodies were mutilated and killed under the ruse of civilian justice, it is the
same reason a black man can be killed today. This masochistic cycle is
steamrolled by Tea-Party citizens, but is inflamed by new conservative politicians
who rebranded racism with the same rude and obnoxious behavior of the old
south. In the new South, an innocent Trayvon Martin was killed under the ruse
of vigilante justice.
Another judicial court proclaimed the
innocence of another killer of black men is allowed to go free. This ongoing
judicial consent to murder black men has given legal license for bigots to indiscriminately
kill any black man. The court sanctioned murders of black men by police and
civilians have triggered a wave of nationalist vigor among American’s white homogenous
population. A spiral of escalating racism might be set in motion that will lead
to various levels and forms of institutional discrimination against blacks.
The mass media and government
aristocrats hide the high-intensity of black-white conflicts in America. The 400-year
American fractionalization between whites and blacks has been a significant
predictor of current ethnic conflicts. Political scientists assembled a large
dataset that concludes American blacks are at risk of being exterminated
because of government policies and the complex coalitions of the powerful white
elite.
Black repression and intimidation
has escalated into a nationalist apparatus forming all modes of bigotry and
hate. The political mobilization of right wing organizations has championed the
degradation of blacks as a brand of American theology and patriotism. Business
lobbyists and high-level politicians oppose any federal support for blacks and
reject any level of power sharing with black politicians or black constituents.
Corporate powers have considered the election of a black president a reason to
marginalize the economic and political power of black citizens into a powerless
culture.
The Supreme Court has helped to
exploit the unpopularity of blacks in hopes of restoring the ethnocratic regime
of states rights to discriminate and segregate. Political elites have mobilized
their members and forged corporate alliances based on ethnic similarity. The
satisfactory arrangement with different ethnic groups to discriminate is
directed by the total exclusion of blacks into an inferior culture of any ethnic
group. While the right wing media tried to portray the murderer as a model
minority, they forget that black exclusion by other ethnic groups is considered
to be an important criterion for citizenship.
These new dynamics highlight a need
for a new direction of liberation activism. The social and political opposition
to policies designed to narrow and eliminate racial inequalities must be
stopped.
The state of race relations in this
country is horrendous. It will take more then a conversation about race to
discrimination in America.
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