Race! Race! Race! The Great American Tragedy

All is not well in the land of Lincoln, Jefferson and Washington and all was never well since the inception of these United States of America. Serious grievous harm was inflicted on the Native Americans and the imported African slaves who toiled the land that industrialized America to the marvel that it is today. Theoretically, America is the best country on paper as the men that sat at Constitution Hall drafted a masterpiece for what they considered America. For a start, the sacred document stated that “All men are created equal and do have an inalienable right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Whilst this was enacted to law, the Negro in the US was not considered human and was therefore deemed property of farm owners who not only exploited them for their physical strength but were also exploited fiscally because the owners of slaves benefited financially at the expense of the African slaves.

Society cannot forge ahead without atoning for the sins of the past and creating a new paradigm whereby historical prejudices and racially based biases are eliminated. America has conveniently swept away race issues under the rug hoping that the ugly chapter of its infamous history will fade away quietly. Unfortunately, the ghost of Nat Turner, Denmark Vessey, and Django still haunts modern America in its attempts to move on without adequately addressing the issue of slavery.  Furthermore, the prejudices of yester years orchestrated by men such as Huey P. Long and the likes of Governor Wallace of Alabama shifted from the halls of power to a more powerful medium called the media. Right wing American media has over the years done a good job at dehumanizing the Negro and the reinforcement of the messages spewed on their mediums have solidified in the minds of most law enforcement officials particularly “White Policemen”. The Negro male is fast becoming an endangered sub-specie of the human race thanks to the systematic abuse of his fundamental rights of existence by the establishment. The Negro male has a high incarceration rate relative to the general population; he also encounters POLICE BRUTALITY more often than any other group within the general population and the highest fatalities in the hands of law enforcers. If all these statistical abstracts are coincidences, then I will safely say that there is a problem with the American social set up. Often times, we are uneasy to address or talk about the issues of race as we avoid offending the very people who perpetuate the very system that is oppressing the Negro (political/judicial) establishments.

When I hear emotionally charged right wingers especially the political elite pompously talking about the Negro being a burden to the state as it relates to welfare, I realize the ignorance displayed by the law makers that are charged with drafting laws to build an equitable America based on merit. The Negro was NEVER a BURDEN to the State as they are the underwriters of modern America and the halls of justice has drafted a bounced cheque for the sweat and tears of the Negro by failing to adequately protect and offer restitution to them. Once again shame on the collective psyche of modern America for not taking the bull by the horn and deal with the issue of race conscientiously with sincerity. The American system needs a complete overhaul as it continued where slavery and segregation left off without adequately handling the very issues that plagued the Negro since her forceful importation to the United States. The Negro needs equal protection under the law like any other United State citizen.