AMERICA’S HISTORY OF RACISM
It starts as the first drop of rain or snowflake; in short order, the ground is covered with snow or saturated with water. America has always had a serious hatred for its black citizens. The animus never went anywhere; it was always under the surface as the storm clouds hovered just overhead until they became too heavy, and down came the downpour.
All it requires in the United States is that Black Americans demand equal treatment under the law, and immediately the hatred comes rushing to the surface in a torrential gush of putrid anger.
People continue to expect and even argue that America is getting better racially, and I beg to differ; things are not improving. The hatred that characterized America since its inception is just as rancid and toxic today.
The cancer of racism is being taught and handed down from generation to generation of white people. Unfortunately for Blacks who want to be accepted.….…..just to get along, their quest for a just and equitable society remains a mirage in a desert of deadly racial hatred.
You can legislate consequences, but you cannot change people’s hearts. You can make it so that crimes committed against people with race as a motive are met with swift and decisive justice but in the hearts of people remain hatred and animosity.
It was the law that Blacks were 3⁄5 of a human being. It was the law that Blacks had no right that a white person was obligated to respect. It was the law that interracial marriage was a felony.
Since the government and the courts were heavily invested in writing, passing, and validating unjust laws against its own citizens, why are we surprised that the average person would be steeped in racial hatred?
PANDERING TO RACIST WHITE IGNORANCE
Donald Trump understood that if he stoked the seemingly dying embers of racism that lay smoldering under the ashes, he would get a massive realigning of the American political order along racial lines.
Experts argue Trump has approximately 48% of the electorate on his side. Pew Research reported that in 2016 48% reported voting for Hillary Clinton and 45% for Donald Trump; by comparison, the official national vote tally was 48% for Clinton and 46% for Trump. This is not scientific; however, if we were to build out that vote and extend it to the entire US population of 330 million and assume that if everyone could vote, the numbers would remain the same, Trump would have 151, 800,000 on his side.
Donald Trump strategized that he did not need to appeal to non-white voters; he did not need them. It would make no sense to run a white power campaign and appeal to non-white voters simultaneously.
The more outrageous his rhetoric, the more hardened his white support became. His strategy won him the presidency in 2016, and even though he lost the popular vote by two percentage points, he was elected president in the anti-democratic electoral college.
ASSAULT ON BLACK HISTORY
The assault in Florida by Ron DeSantis on African/American history should be a wake-up call for the forty-something million blacks in the United States.
Ron Desantis, who has presidential ambitions, is not unaware of Trump’s disrespect to blacks during his campaign and throughout his disastrous four years in the white house.
Desantis has made it clear that he will be taking the same path but more so to the right of Donald Trump. Consequently, Desantis has set himself up as the modern iteration of George Wallace.
Still, it will continue with a few complaints and protests here and there but no concerted sustained black power actions that make it clear those actions will not be tolerated. Brian Kemp signed anti-voting laws in Georgia under a picture of an old slave plantation flanked by six other white men, and blacks did nothing.
Desantis’ barefaced attack on Black History, or what he characterized as the “woke mob” is the equivalent of what was happening during the Civil Rights fights of the 1960s.
In the 1960s, the black community had identifiable leaders they could disparage and eventually assassinate; today, there is no standout leader in the black community, even among the elected US Senators.
The FBI’s J Edgar Hoover’s Cointelpro program ensured that Black leaders were terminated. So Malcolm X, Medgar Evers, Dr. King, and many more were terminated.
Today potential black leaders are gun-shy to step forward in leadership partly because of the threat that their own government poses to their physical existence and partly from fire coming from their own ranks.
Black Americans are the most vicious against their own kind; not only do they question the educational qualifications of potential leaders, they bad mouth their very right to speak on the issues.
THE SO-CALLED WOKE MOB
Without an identifiable head of black America, it becomes difficult to decapitate black leadership through targeted assassinations.No leadership head, who do you target to kill?
So the next best thing is to attack the entire race, which Ron Desantis is doing in Florida to out-Trump Donald Trump as the next presidential contest begins to take shape.
The vilest, most reprehensible candidate who can show neanderthal whites that they will be better at keeping blacks in their place will be the next Republican standout for 2024.
The problem with attacking education and whether black history is taught in Florida’s schools, universities, and colleges will most assuredly backfire on Desantis and others trying to suppress black history.
Obviously, Ron Desantis is not a student of history, or he would have known that the more you try to suppress knowledge, the more curious people become to learn. He would have known that despite the many and varied attempts to remove the bible from the earth, it is the book with the largest number in print by far.
I am not concerned about a small-time ignoramus positioning himself as a little god; what concerns me are the issues that some within the black community have taken onto themselves as they take the liberty to speak for the entire black community.
The idea that the black community is a community that fully embraces homosexuality, Lesbianism, and transsexuality is a damn lie.
A bunch of unmarried college-educated women who hate men, who are engaged in lesbian and leftist feminist ideology speak for themselves and those they represent; they do not speak for the majority of black families in the United States.
Therefore, conscientious black Americans must unshackle themselves from this most vocal part of the black community that ties blackness to hard-left feminism, hatred of men, homosexuality, Lesbianism, and transsexualism. I am confident I speak for the majority when I say that most black people and families do [not] align with the foregone.
We see it daily whenever the question of race comes up; this vocal element in the media, which is black and homosexual, black issues are tied to homosexuality, Lesbianism, and transsexualism.
It is not who we are. This must be condemned like we condemn the likes of Donald Trump, Brian Kemp, and Ron Desantis.
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Mike Beckles is a former Police Detective, businessman, freelance writer, black achiever honoree, and creator of the blog mikebeckles.com.