Posted on 01/24/2015 6:04:06 AM PST by alexmark1917
The United States is gradually, but unrelentingly, destroying part of itself. The facts to support this are well-documented, told in many ways from past to present.
The most egregious example of Americide is our country's treatment of African-Americans. Almost everyone agrees about the evils of slavery, once dismissed simply as a Peculiar Institution. But a debate goes on about reparations, with passionate arguments on both sides, ranging from a demand for a Reparations Superfund for jobs and education, to a claim that blacks actually benefited from slavery because of the years of 'reparations' received through poverty programs.
Reparations opponents insist that there is no clear modern connection to the era of slavery. But there is a connection, and it's exhibited in the many profitable corporations -- manufacturers, banks, insurance, railroad -- that had their roots in slavery. Reparations haven't been paid, or, if they have been extended in the form of poverty programs, they haven't worked. Standards of living for blacks have worsened relative to whites in the past half-century. Many of the modern-day practices of our free-market capitalist system are at least partly responsible for this.
1. United States Corporations Are Partly Responsible for the Sale of Human Beings
Horace Greeley, Editor of the New York Tribune and an abolitionist, described a slave auction: "The negroes [Blacks] were examined with as little consideration as if they had been brutes indeed; the buyers pulling their mouths open to see their teeth, pinching their limbs to find how muscular they were, walking them up and down to detect any signs of lameness, making them stoop and bend in different ways that they might be certain there was no concealed rupture or wound.."
The kidnapped human beings on the auction block, 500 of them, stood nervously waiting as the buyers lit cigars and studied their log books, scanning the list of 'chattel' available to them, preparing to start the bidding. The facial expression of each person commodified into a slave stepping on the auction block was the same -- anguish about an unknown future, despair at the thought of never again seeing their loved ones.
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Corporations linked to the present day had a lot to do with these slave sales:
----Wall Street: Banks made loans to slave owners, processed transactions through the New York Cotton Exchange, and held slave auctions outside their doors. JP Morgan, Bank of America, and Wachovia (Wells Fargo) admitted the roles of their predecessor banks.
----Manufacturing: The textile industry was so vital to northeastern states that the mayor of New York City turned against the Union, encouraging citizens to support "our aggrieved brethren of the Slave States."
----Insurance: Companies like Aetna and New York Life issued policies protecting slaves as property.
----Railroad: Predecessors of the Norfolk Southern leased slaves for year-long terms of hard labor.
2. United States Corporations Are Partly Responsible for the First Vagrancy Laws
These are the Pig Laws of a century or more ago, which penalized trivial - sometimes nonexistent - offenses, in a similar manner as the Broken Windows policies employed today. A 'vagrancy' offense got 22-year-old Green Cottenham arrested in 1908.
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3. United States Corporations Are Partly Responsible for WW2 Slave Labor
Slave labor in the Nazi years generated massive profits for many of our most prominent corporations.
----Ford Motors: Henry Ford, who had published "The International Jew: The World’s Foremost Problem," was a friend of Nazi Germany. His company used prison labor to produce a third of the military trucks for the German army. Ford's German affiliate was called an "arsenal of Nazism."
----General Motors worked with the German company that built Auschwitz.
----IBM was responsible for the punch card machines that allowed the Nazis to tabulate train shipments to the death camps.
----Numerous other companies were involved. General Electric partnered with a German company that used slave labor, and invested in the builder of gas chambers. Kodak used prison labor for the manufacture of German arms. Nestle admitted acquiring a company that used forced labor during the war.
4. United States Corporations Are Partly Responsible for Today's Deadening Racial Oppression
They may not be the mine shafts of Tennessee Coal, but modern private prisons such as Corrections Corporation of America and G4S generate massive profits, selling inmate labor to corporations like Chevron, Bank of America, AT&T, and IBM. Nearly a million prisoners work in factories and call centers for as little as 17 cents an hour.
http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/paul-buchheit-the-united-states-is-committing-suicide
US Economy Will Implode, Helpless in Face of 'Financial Pearl Harbor
Peter Schiff warns the United States will win the global currency war, but we will pay a heavy price for the “victory.”
Schiff, the CEO of Euro Pacific Capital and a long-time critic of the Federal Reserve, says the U.S. economy will “implode” due to the measures enacted by our government to win the war, including artificially low interest rates and multiple rounds of quantitative easing (printing money).
The reason, Schiff explains, is the current monetary policy is unsustainable. “We're broke. We owe trillions. Look at our budget deficit, look at the debt-to-GDP (ratio), the unfunded liabilities,” Schiff added. “If we were in the eurozone, they would kick us out.”
Agreeing with Schiff’s pessimistic outlook is Marc Faber, the noted Swiss economist and investor. Faber says the United States is facing a systemic crisis, and “eventually everything will collapse.” Like Schiff, Faber also holds the Federal Reserve responsible for the country’s problems, but acknowledges that Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke isn’t alone in destroying the dollar.
http://www.moneynews.com/MKTNews/americas-economic-pearl-harbor/2013/02/14/id/490495/
I agree completely with the subject line, but disagree completely on the reason.
America is destroying itself, because it is sending all manufacturing to a completely other country.
America we need to support ourselves.
Bring back American jobs.
This “writer” evidently thinks he’s living in the the 1940’s, not 2015.
The fact that blacks may play some part in their decline over the past 50 years seems to be ignored by the author. All fault exists with the rest of society.
Guess “The Great Society” plans weren’t so great after all.
This is a senior thesis from a thoroughly indoctrinated student attending one of the Ivy League schools.
As for our family, if there are reparations our white family is owed three shares. My ancestors fought for the Union. My great uncle and great-great grandfather were killed. My great grandfather lost a leg.
or the 1840s
We should give every black adult, who can trace their lineage to slavery, $10k. After that, end all affirmative action and special treatment.
You are so right.
Subject line is dead on. But yeah, he goes on to blame -corporations???
I don’t care how much influence corporations have on polititians, it’s the POLITITIANS who play along and make law which desecrate this nation. If we didn’t have corrupt polititians, corporations wouldn’t have their so-called power over much except - their BUSINESSES.
Hides behind the name “WorkerAnt#11”.
Actually he thinks he’s in the 1800s.
Reparations? Corporate responsibility?
Sorry, the “Great Society” took care of all that
fifty years ago and we’re still paying for it.
Collapse? Are reparations going to stop that or
help it to Occur?
Unfunded liabilities are FIVE TIMES GREATER than the national debt.
We recently crossed over the $18 TRILLION mark in our debt. Since then the debt has risen by nearly $100 billion. Nobody seems to care.
America is not destroying itself.
The EXEMPT make Laws for others but made
themselves EXEMPT for their undocumented
Tyrant from Indonesia, the First Moslem.
“America we need to support ourselves.”
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Many in America would rather us print and borrow money than earn it through productive pursuits. You can buy a lot more votes by giving money away than asking people to work for it. This game will continue until it can’t. Just my humble opinion.
Let's start with reparations to the taxpaying public for all the cities they burned down, all the welfare, all the food stamps, all the abortion costs, all the cost to house them in jails and prisons, and every other freebie we have been forced to dish out as we worship the god of White Guilt.
Why doesn’t the author take Arabs to task? They are STILL buying and selling slaves. But that’s OK?
Amen!
From a story on ever rising rents this morning, comes a good reason why kids are moving back in with parents - The lack of well paying jobs in this Obola RINO H1B outsourced fast food, Walmart “service” economy:
“Nationally, on average, rental prices have risen 52 percent since 2000, while incomes for renters have only increased 25 percent.”
Its so fundamental, and neither party effectively addresses improving the US labor, tax and regulatory climate.
That " Nobody seems to care" is because Hollywood, Organized Sports, the educational system, the ETB cards, and Federal giveaway programs have did what they were designed to do. Specifically , divert the public's attention from the problem and keep them [the public] occupied, amused, and ignorant until the system collapses as the stresses they have placed on it will cause. When the system collapses, the people will cry and demand order, then they will take over. This plan, Create chaos, cause the people to demand order and accept tyranny to get order has worked throughout history where it has been tried. The French Revolution and the National Socialists takeover of Germany are two examples. It always works because there are so many variations of it. And people are always willing to give up some of their freedoms for the illusion of being made to "feel secure" by the Government.
All living American slaves should receive a million dollars. Descendants should receive nothing more, they have already been paid trillions.
The democratic party run by the KKK came up with them as a way to get blacks to vote for them and simultaneously keep them down and in need of massa.
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