A Brief Synopsis on
American Hierarchy
Part One
Anybody who knows anything about American chronology know that the indigenous people of this country were not White, but the ones who claim that, “This country is ours,” definitely are. When one of them asks you, “Are you patriotic?” They really mean, “Do you object on how we are running things. . . Are you a hater?”
The people who are native to this country—Native Americans—in both North and South America, are the people we call the “Brown man.” These natives were in Alaska and all of the lands of North America Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic and in the Caribbean, Mexico, Brasil, and the lands of South America as well.
Historically, the White man calls the natives “Red Man,” but he also calls the people of Nippon, Japanese—and the Hindi—Indians; but it usually not only is it a misnomer, but often used to conceal some secret concerning the groups they chose to rename.
Genealogically speaking, the Black and Brown people are kindred because in the Blackman’s body there are two genetic markers; meaning in the Blackman’s body there exist two genes or germs (relating to or of the nature of a germ cell or embryo):The black gene and the brown gene. In Florida, there are the Seminole and the Timucua natives; both are darker-skinned Native Americans; which is not an aberration. . .
During the original subjugation, White colonists attempted to enslave the Brown man first—but were highly unsuccessful with the prospect of enslaving the Natives on their own native soil; so they settled with the enslavement of Blacks—since they did not come in this land. It was also the Native American who assisted Black folks when they ran away from the slave master. In South America, there are shrines set up amongst those who practice Macumba, for those divine forces that worked between the Black and Brown worlds who helped make our survival possible. But culturally speaking (as a group of people), the Black and the Brown are two distinct groups now; with many, many various similarities (which we will get into at another time). . .
When I travel to Niagara Falls, I was appalled and see Natives who run the casinos in the area, and living on the reservations be so light or “pale-skinned.” I know this was not what was meant when they called the Brown man “Red.” These were the European’s bastardized sons and daughters. . . Which was a recreational sport for the colonizers. I guess the reason why these bastardized people came out of the woodworks is because there’s repatriate money to be made, and one drop of Native blood entitles you to some of that cash, so. . . I guess this is the same reason why they are so many of these types in professional organizations like “AIM”—American Indian Movement—to control the politics like colonizers do. . .
I started this my story here because, although there are theories that natives came from somewhere else—they occupied this land we call America when Leif Eriksson, Christopher Columbus, or Americus Vespucci were said to have discovered this place. My question is: How do you discover a place where there is already natives or people living here? That is—unless you didn’t consider these people as human or the same type of being as you; with the same sensibilities; But let's look into this point further, as we go along. . .
It is equally appalling to see a people (sub-divided into tribes) help the colonist survive America’s harsh winters—only to be later subjugated and deprived of American citizenship. Systematically—genetically and culturally—exterminated. . . Wiped from the American history books. But then, our chronology in this country isn’t much better. As a matter of fact—in some ways—it’s quite worst. After two civil rights struggles between 1863-1963, Black are still without equal rights to the Whites in this country—but believing ourselves citizens.
This country proposes to be a multi-cultural society, but it is really a multi-cultural society with a dominant cultural theme: And that theme is Western European cultural dominance. It is engrained in the very fabric of European colonialism. It was incorporated into the thinking of the founding fathers who wrote the Constitution, with its’ special section on describing its consideration in the treatment of Blacks. It happened as a result of European Expansionism; who’s very philosophy during that time—was to all other non-white cultures as inferior to the caucasian colonial prototype. This was their cultural perspective! Like I said, When one of them asks you, “Are you patriotic?” They really mean, “Do you object on how we are running things. . . Are you a hater? Do you know how we play our game?"
As a matter of fact, these are historical accounts of the English, French, Spanish, and Portuguese carving up and colonizing several parts of the world—like America, India, the Philippines, China, and Nippon [Japan]; with the blessings of the Catholic church: In exchange for transporting shiploads of gold from these countries—and I learned about these things from their own writings: Any one who’s read, James Clavell’s, “Shogun,” should be well familiar with these sort of politics:
America was originally a hodgepodge of European countries vying for colonial dominance over the New World, which they eventually stole from the Native Americans through ethic and cultural genocide; North America later emerges from the European battles in the new world as a British colony: As lands given to Royal Masons of Britain, in exchange for debts and other favors owed to the Royal Masons by the king. However, inevitably, It was the working class Masons who also came this American colonial venture, who complained about paying taxes to the mother country without getting proper representation in English government; proper protection from the soldiers against the natives which surrounded their colonies and continued insured rights (“representation”) as European citizens—platforms which eventually gave them the opportunity to seize the colony away from the Royal Masons and old King George.
The founding fathers of the thirteen original colonies of America, were these men. Thomas Jefferson studied Magna Carta, and various European governmental documents, in order to forge the United States Constitution; which is very much a Westernized document; based upon European culture and concepts.
Expansionism is just a fancy way of saying that we lost most of all our natural resources in our mother land or father land (fertile soil, minerals, building materials such as iron, trees and other raw materials) and the money to buy it; so we just going to go to other countries and figure out a way to take what we want by any means necessary.
What we call a colony is a group of people who settle in a new place but keep ties to their homeland. The people who founded the United States as a country, first came to America to live as a part of the British colony. They kept their ties because, this was a business venture and Europe was where they developed their ways; it is how they established their culture; they were terrified of losing their connection. And this was a way to maintain their position. . .
Man is a social creature. His or her ways are derived from what they do collectively as a people; there is a commonality between each person. Culture simply is what a people do; It is derived from their sojourn together over time, events and different people. Culture is all the knowledge and values shared by that society of men and women: Their attitudes and behavior that are characteristic of a particular social group or organization. That doesn’t mean everyone thinks exactly the same, but they are sympathetic. Wolves are not dogs and dogs are not foxes but they all are members of the canine family. They are not feline; for example.
Culture is the ideas, customs, arts, social institutions, world achievement and political ideas of a people. The people who are in charge of this colony bring these ideas with them and superimpose them upon the indigenous or native people; whether it is America, Africa, or Asia—just as you watch in Bond movies or Out of Africa or Humphrey Bogart in African Queen: Our culture becomes the backdrop to their culture and intrigues. . .
To colonize a place by definition means to send a group of settlers to a a place and establish political control over it: like the Greeks colonized Sicily and southern Italy; which in essence means, to establish yourself and superimpose your country’s will upon another domain by gaining political control over the indigenous people of an area—usually through trade—under the guise of cultural exchange: But as you saw in Kenya and South Africa; their industrialization leaves those areas in massive disrepair when the West is totally driven out: To colonize literally means, to settle in, and take control of lands outside your own borders. Usually a large, powerful country colonizes a territory or area that’s much less powerful (by inserting its power through the political process).
They say that the Manhattan natives sold Manhattan, New York for twenty-eight dollars worth of trinkets. The Native Americans helped the European settlers survive the harsh winters in America. Through political disagreements over land and boundaries; wars ensued, eventually culminating in ethic and cultural genocide for the Native Americans. Now the governing body and the settlers own America and call themselves Americans and the remaining Native Americans live on reservations and are allowed to have nothing to do with American politics. There should be no question as to the European’s intent when they colonize America; whether north or south, Caribbean, or any of its islands.
Now imagine if you were a Native American—or partially a Native American (like some of us are); Imagine how this must feel. But more importantly: Whether spoken or unspoken; Imagine how others who call themselves Americans think about you (the people who lost the war)! Not very highly, I gather. . . Now, imagine trying to apply for citizenship to this newly formed country. . .
Well, you wouldn’t have to imagine too far—because America had its period of total segregation against Blacks in this country, after The Emancipation Proclamation: It was called Segregation. Segregation spans from 1849 to 1950 and includes the infamous Plessy vs. Ferguson “separate but equal” attitude towards our people. . .
From White historical accounts, they say that there was a group of Black and Whites who came to America as indentured servants from England who settled in Virginia. As policy, Britain settled both America and Australia by using both jailed religious dissidents and indentured servants in order to populate their colonies; sort of like the politics of the work force in the prisons today.
Imagine how the governing body in these colonies thought of these indigenous people within both colonies. . . Political and religious prisoners in Britain, got a chance to start anew in America (and face the anger of the Natives as a result of the colonization process)—while the indentured servants used years of servitude to the colony to pay for their trip to America to the landing parties or companies: The Plymouth Company and The Raleigh Company were such companies. And after serving their terms, the settlers of would receive forty acres, a mule, and a gun to protect it. But socially, in either place, they never ranked high in either place.
During those times, from local accounts in Virginia, they say that there was an upheaval in a Virginia settlement, wherein in two to three Whites and one Black indentured servants were found guilty of starting the ruckus. The issued sentence for the White servants was less severe; but the sentence for Black man was slavery for life. Following that statute, and a series of similar events, in the early 1705, the Virginia General Assembly ( a colonial legislative bodies) wrote Black Christian enslavement into the policy for the colony; however non-Christian slavery started much earlier than that [1555].
Now there is another colonial account, that our own people sold us into slavery. However, if this was indeed the case; what is not said or maybe not known, is the politics of European slavery and so-called African slavery were very different and unbeknownst by our ancestors at the time. On the continent, as far as tradition Alkebulan (African) rules were concerned, if your tribe transgressed against my tribe and we could not come to an ethical understanding—then the matter would be settled as A Judgment Trial by Battle. That meant; If my tribe won against yours in such a battle, you and your warriors would be enslaved for life for such transgressions; your children however, were not. I, as your owner, would have to provide lodging for you on my land, and your family could visit you; but you would have to remain on my land and my servant for life, as well as live under my jurisdiction.
Now I hate to bust anyone’s bubble, but people aren’t just people: There are enough cultural and customary differences between the different people of the world (even between neighboring tribes) to state un-reservedly that you cannot say all people of distinctly different ethnic groups or different tribes of the same stock of people are basically the same—for the reasons I gave to explain what culture is. That’s the same reason why travel advisers always warn travelers to study up on the people you are going to visit when you are traveling: Because what one people customarily find offensive, another people will not, and vice versa: And, if you could get people to be honest, both Black and White people will tell you, there are a lot of cultural differences between Black and White people in America; even though we copy their cultural script.
I say this, because America’s 450 plus years of imposing slavery on our people, have left us somewhat culture-less [other than so-called “African-Retention”]. We find it very difficult to retrace our people’s customs and roots, so what we have is mainly derived from the American experience; so much so, it took the Black Renaissance laborers decades to define our character as Black people in real-time American terms. That’s why Blues and Jazz are considered America’s only true musical art forms—because it is America’s cultural conditions upon the culture-less Blacks in this country, that created the art form as a means of expression.
But even with all this being said—even though we speak this British language and follow these Western ways—most of us find their logic and reasoning behind this way of life puzzling; because it didn’t originate from our people. We just settle into familiarity because of social media; mainly through movies and television and cable/satellite shows.
When I watch Game of Thrones, House of Cards and shows of that sort, I am amazed at the level of cruelty, torture and diabolicalness created by their creators: It stems from their cultural way of thinking. I even find some of their judgment calls at the work place puzzling and insensitive. That’s why I am certain our ancestors had no idea of what type of slavery they were selling us into—if they sold us into slavery at all.
All that set aside, when our people were finally released from chattel slavery in 1863-65, we still had to deal with the attitudes of us not only being slaves but viewed as vanquished people. Even if we weren’t members of the losing side in A Judgment Trial by Battle, it was a customary judgment call imposed on us by the Founding Fathers of the Constitution, handed-down by the governing body of the Colonial legislation and social attitude of the settlers: Our people were just viewed as a means to and not real people to these folks—sort of a subhuman; Constitutionally, 3/5ths of a man, to be considered as livestock.
Establishing a colony is like playing Three Card Molly or Let’s Pull A Fast One on Joey: There is never any good intent for the mark, the acquaintance or the passer by. They are there to be taken advantage of and are considered by the hustler as naive or stupid. The muscle and the money man backs the hustler because they believe in the hustler’s ability to fool the mark. Just as the leader of the colony is sent by the king because he believes in his ability to negotiate the settlement smoothly. It is the settlers who will feel the anger of the natives should he fail, and that’s why there’s a need for the military might from the mother country.
The intent of colonization is never good for the colonized: It wasn’t good for the Australians; It was not good for the owner of the Gaza area [Sadat or Kemit/Khamit] or the settlers in the Gaza strip [the displaced Palestinians or Lebanese]. The Lebanese were disenfranchised refugees, who were short changed by the Allied powers on behalf of the Jews of Germany to create the state of Israel; and it wasn’t good for us Central Asians who live in Alkebulan, nor the Native Americans:
In this paradigm the motherland take what they want, the settlers (servants) take the brunt, the military fights, but the motherland reaps most of the benefits. Well, the Founding Fathers in America pulled a a fast one on England (so that went sour). . . And our people were bought from the slave merchants to be used as a tool and also a slave to make one of the most powerful nations on the earth; paying peanuts for the process of building it.
One of the most important vanguards in our fight for freedom, besides Harriet Tubman was Frederick Douglass. Freeing himself from slavery first, Douglass never quit brokering for freedom for all Black Americans, until Douglass (with the help of the abolitionist movement) was able to persuade Abraham Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation in exchange for getting Black freemen and slaves to enter the war on the side of the North during the Civil War.
But along with the efforts Frederick Douglass and Harriett Tubman, came an ill-fated belief by our people, that we could change the social attitudes of descendants of these settlers to not only include us into their society—but to treat us as equals within that society:
Concepts that runs contrary to America’s practices for over 462 years! This society has been an overtly segregated society from 1849-1950 [Segregation Era] despite a Civil Rights Movement by Blacks around Reconstruction right after the Civil War (1863) and another pitch for Civil Rights, right after the Segregation Era in 1964.
The 1896 Supreme Court sanctioned legal separation of the races by its ruling in H.A. Plessy v. J.H. Ferguson case, which held that Separate but Equal facilities in this country did not violate the U.S. Constitution’s Fourteenth Amendment. Separate but Equal is a United States doctrine which states that racial segregation is constitutional, as long the facilities provided for Blacks and Whites are roughly equal.
End of Part One
Peace
C. Be'er la Hai-roi Myers
