A Critical Look At Race In America Today (video Inside)

There is a cri­sis brew­ing in America that has pre­cious lit­tle to do with COVID-19. In fact, though he is extreme­ly dan­ger­ous this cri­sis pre­dates Donald Trump’s mega­lo­ma­nia and nar­cis­sism,.
The entrenched racism on which America was built & has thrived, now seems des­tined to destroy her.
Not many coun­tries have fought a war against itself in order to con­sti­tute, the United States has. For that rea­son at least one would imag­ine that one civ­il war would serve as a warn­ing to Americans.
Yet some of the very same char­ac­ter­is­tics which caused the American civ­il war seem to be at play today, lit­er­al­ly threat­en­ing the out­break of another.

Among the many strate­gies employed in the United States against black peo­ple and black men, in par­tic­u­lar, is the prac­tice of crim­i­nal­iz­ing them ear­ly, then using their crim­i­nal records as a life-devalu­ing mech­a­nism, that legit­imizes their state-sanc­tioned killing.
State-sanc­tioned killings do not always mean killed by police. It can mean killings done by vig­i­lantes that go un-pros­e­cut­ed by the sys­tem. Even where pros­e­cut­ed, as a result of largescale upris­ings, they gen­er­al­ly result in no crim­i­nal penal­ty for the guilty par­ty because of endem­ic racism entrenched in the sys­tem and into the sub­con­scious of police, pros­e­cu­tors, judges and juries.

At this point, there is real­ly no need to name names. The names of those mur­dered are far too many, far too indeli­bly etched into our psy­ches to ignore. They burn and scar the tis­sues of our souls. They ignite a fit of anger inside us many did not know was pos­si­ble, the heat of that anger makes it dif­fi­cult not to com­bust.
The strat­e­gy is not only about crim­i­nal­iz­ing, incar­cer­a­tion & ulti­mate­ly anni­hi­la­tion. It is sup­port­ed by demo­niza­tion, through pro­pa­gan­da. It includes fraud­u­lent data to make their argu­ments that black peo­ple com­mit more crimes than whites. The ulti­mate strat­e­gy after recon­struc­tion was to nul­li­fy the exis­tence of the new­ly freed black enslaved pop­u­la­tion.
By crim­i­nal­iz­ing ear­ly, the father is removed from the home and there­by unable to pro­vide for his family.

It shames him in the eyes of his black woman and reduces him to a worth­less n****r unwor­thy of respect.
It has worked like a charm, it is a cul­tur­al norm to hear black chil­dren praise their moth­ers as paragons of virtues and degrade their fathers as worth­less punks.
This strat­e­gy was not only used in the United States but across the board to sub­ju­gate the black race and effec­tive­ly demon­strate that it is an infe­ri­or race. [It is a strat­e­gy that kills the par­ents, then mocks the chil­dren for being orphans]
Even among the sup­pos­ed­ly more edu­cat­ed “woke class” in the black com­mu­ni­ty, rather than work to fix or least talk-through and under­stand those insti­tu­tion­al­ized mine­fields with a view to fix­ing them, their strat­e­gy is to exploit those fis­sures to pur­sue a gay agenda.

Essentially the fields have been mined but in some cas­es, we have con­tin­ued to ignore the real­i­ties of what rid­ing over those mines entails.
In oth­er cas­es, [as a peo­ple], rather than blame those who plant­ed the mines, we get mad at the dis­mem­bered vic­tims.
Instead of appro­pri­ate­ly chan­nel­ing our anger where it ought to be we inter­nal­ize it, caus­ing our­selves more stress and of course the resul­tant con­se­quences of that stress. Self-hate. Violence toward each other.Hatred of each oth­er. Etc.

The United States’ pop­u­la­tion stands at around 328.2 mil­lion peo­ple in (2019). The 2020 cen­sus may have some­thing to say about that num­ber.
There were 42 mil­lion black non-Hispanic peo­ple in America accord­ing to the 2010 United States Census, when includ­ing Multiracial African Americans, mak­ing up 14% of the total U.S. pop­u­la­tion.
That num­ber com­prised 12.1% of the pop­u­la­tion in 2010. In 2013, black males account­ed for 37% of the total male prison pop­u­la­tion, white males 32%, and Hispanic males 22%.

One can look at these sta­t­ics and form a lazy opin­ion as to what they mean. On the face of it, it’s easy to extrap­o­late from it that of the three groups black men based on their numer­ic per­cent­age in the pop­u­la­tion have a propen­si­ty to com­mit more crimes than the oth­er two eth­nic groups.
That nar­ra­tive serves the inter­ests of those who plant­ed the landmines.

For the rest of us not par­tic­u­lar­ly inter­est­ed in intel­lec­tu­al dis­hon­esty or racial pejo­ra­tives, these stats are far more nuanced and some­what reveal­ing.
When. peo­ple are denied a fair shake at every turn, denied good schools, crim­i­nal­ized from grade school lev­el, denied basic neces­si­ties like clean drink­ing water, even clean air to breathe. When the fathers are sys­tem­at­i­cal­ly removed from the home through mass-incar­cer­a­tion strate­gies & when their com­mu­ni­ties are tar­get­ed for harsh polic­ing that seeks to incar­cer­ate, intim­i­date, and even for bru­tal treat­ment, it becomes dif­fi­cult to ignore that what is hap­pen­ing is inher­ent­ly wrong.
It reveals the inher­ent moral bank­rupt­cy in a sys­tem that has at its very roots a desire to exter­mi­nate the black race.
Nothing that I could write on this page could even begin to scratch the sur­face of the intrin­sic moral bank­rupt­cy that cre­ates and fuels this system.

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Mike Beckles is a for­mer Jamaican police Detective cor­po­ral, busi­ness­man, researcher, and blog­ger. 
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