A Brief Synopsis on 

 American Hierarchy 

 Part Two 

I’m not saying this to give the impression that all White persons in America felt Blacks were beneath them in God’s eyes; I am saying to Whites that the acts of your mother country [England/Europe], the ideas and ideals of colonization, apartheid, etc.—are done by those who are in charge of governing the land that look like you—those of your folks who set such policies and you that your opposing sentiments were either not plentiful enough or strong enough to overturn such behavior: Because those who thought their leaders were right and those who did nothing to reject or protest were more powerful than those who did not feel the same as those who hate Blacks.  So even though you don't hate me—and I respect that—but you're not doing a damn thing to help change my condition.
     And in the end, that’s all that really matters. Because in the aftermath, it is the people that look exactly like you, who have the right to subject my people to the most horrendous treatment and impose their will on us as the will of your people and none of you produce the numbers, or take any action, or  muster up power to stop them or devise counter measures to prove to us that not all of your people are that way and we cannot continue to suffer in silence. The obvious die was casted, and will of the wicked became what America wounded up doing to the Native Americans and the Black people who were brought here as slaves: We tried to be understanding about it—give leniency to every exception and neutral parter; but when we try and overturn those things we all know is just not right—you give us the "passive advice" and tell us to "go slow" and this way we won't offend anybody. . .  Freak that!  I am not taking violence: I am talking resoluteness and tenacity to get the job done—and this is the type of relentlessness I am taking about advocating.  

   To think that there were enough people among White Americans amongst the settlers who actually cared enough about Black people enough to turn the tide of negative sentiment, or that the pleas of Blacks in America could persuade all American people to resist hundreds of years of social conditioning in the European way of White Supremacy or change the social view that Blacks are not that smart, have little power, and therefore are inferior was (and is)—in hindsight (judging from social conditions in America) a ludicrous proposal to ever believe in.

   As I said previously, Culture is what I people do; Ultimately, it is the evolution of a people’s outlook on the world; especially when large numbers follow the trend. 

There has been many cultures that have been enslaved throughout the millennia; and several which has been subjected to the most horrendous amounts of cruelty.  There have been those folks who have been stripped and robbed of almost everything. However, Blacks stand alone, in having been stripped of everything including their language and culture by America; which left us devoid of belonging to any country.  Most today who claim allegiance to the motherland, are only doing lip service to the homeland; because they lost their heart for such things a long time ago. 

   This maybe the reason why we attempt to appeal to certain faculties in others that simply aren’t there in others; because we don't have enough nationality to perceive how different we are as separate stocks of people.  You can no more expect to appeal to a colonist’s sense of sensitivity towards the ones whom he or she politically subjugates—than you could appeal to a people who deal in the slave trade to stop selling people; Or pirates to stop robbing, or vikings to stop rape, looting and plundering.  Those types are not evolved to that point and they are not interested in being so at this point: Those forces are not functioning in those persons: What we have previously discussed is their evolved outlook, and that will only change when they feel the need or when they hit rock bottom; not when the people who are suffering cry out and complain to them. . .

   As the Natives have said, “White man speaks with a forked tongue.”  The American colonies and their settlement parties has made 97 treaties with the Natives and they and their descendants have broken every one—through deception, politically correct posturing, lies of omission, straight out lies and changes that happen when the political seats change and the next man or woman does not honor a previous agreement.  

Over the years, we have appealed to their sense of fairness and have been duped each time.

   Separate but equal was thought about by the movers and shakers in American politics, fourteen years before the majority of Black people were even released from chattel slavery.  The message was made quite clear:  This meant there were large numbers of Whites, in position of power, who were not trying to let Black people out of slavery;  and much less as their equals—so they took steps to circumvent it.  It is as simple as that! We are still fighting for all of our civil rights in 2017. . . Do I have to spell it out for you?  There are Jewish ghettos and Black ghettos, so why is it that the Black ghettos which are economically impoverished, exploited and depressed? 

   It is this cloud of subjugation in America which stifles the mind, depresses the people and arrests the development of our ghetto inhabitants.  It causes large numbers of us to behave like little children who have away come from a broken home: Blaming ourselves for the outcome of our parent's divorce;  Accusing ourselves (and our ethnic and immature behavior) as the main reason for White people's discrimination towards Blacks—aka, Blaming the victim for being victimized! We are the oldest people on the planet, and in reality, it is they who betrayed our parents and enslaved us, the elder brother—like Jacob did Esau. . .

     Over the years, you had the Segregation Era, you had the Jim Crow laws, the Black Code laws, the Citizen’s Council, etc; Obviously, this type of evolution on the part of White folks is not user friendly for Black folks: It is definitely Separate but not equal or fair. . .

   During the Segregation era, when the government rigidly separated the Black and White race which lasted for one hundred and fifty years (1849-1950), surprisingly, Black people made leaps and bounds in commerce, industry, and in the cultural evolution of us as a people.  This time which morphed into the Reconstruction era (1865-1877), Blacks formed breakthroughs in structure of American education system, which not only benefitted our people, but formed the basis of things which are still being used in the education system of Americans today.  Blacks fought for civil rights to change our social conditions.  Our artists, writers, poets and musicians formed Harlem Renaissance which started forging our Black identity in America.  In the South, Blacks politically controlled the areas they lived in (many times with the church being their political bastion); in other words they not only stayed in their lane—they spruced up the way the lane looked.  We formed our own businesses in every profession in our community and created our own professional teams like the Negro League.  We became somewhat self-sufficient during this time.

   Entertainment wise, we were the best in Jazz, as our performers were the preferred entertainment in places like the Cotton Club in Harlem (a place where the performers were Black but the Black were never able to attend).  And even though President Lincoln kept to his side of the bargain during Segregation by declaring Emancipation for the slaves, he never supplied the newly freed slaves "seed money" to get established, or maintained troops in the South to protect Blacks from being bullied by those Whites who were sore for losing their human property after the Civil War. 

   But despite all the progress we made during those times (despite the adversity), it seems like we did all of this because we were forced to; Because there was no alternate—White society gave us no choice; they wouldn’t let us into their society; so we did what we had to do.  
I say this because, when Segregation ended and so-called Integration began, our people abandoned many—if not all of our previous cultural institutions to mingle within the White establishments we were now allowed to frequent.  It seemed as though we were intimidated by the Ku Klux Klan during slavery, Reconstruction and Segregation.  Blacks were afraid the destruction and havoc White people would unleash when things weren’t going their way.  Even today, older Black folks who lived through those times still won't taught about such times, for fear of reprisal.  Let us not forget, although there are judges and authorities of various ethnic groups today; it was probably more horrendous then, when the accused, the terrorists (Klu Klux Klan), and the judges were all of the same ethnicity.   All things considered, it may have looked like, during those times, Integration may have seemed like a viable offer; since we were intimidated by American society for so long. . .

   But in excepting that vague integration in White society offer, we let our businesses and social developments fall by the wayside while we reached for the Bird in the Bush:  Most Blacks don’t buy BMWs because of its fine engineering; they buy them because it symbolizes economic success in mainstream society.  The same goes for most interracial marriages and cultural imitation—we wanted what they “got,” and we often imitated it, in hopes we would be associated with it, which would make us feel good to be associated with a "winner" (like buying championship jerseys).

   Integration is a smoke and mirror act.  America legislators nor media never really defined what they meant by the word, they just removed some of the unfair practices used during Segregation that the society once called "constitutional" and "fair"—along with allowing Blacks to buy their items of commerce—and this allowed Blacks to let their imagination run wild with the possibilities of being accepted. . .  
Redlining, a former practice of refusing a loan or insurance to someone because they live in an area deemed to be of poor financial risk, was never fair to Blacks because they were forced to live in ethnically concentrated areas because of their opportunities; then judged by Whites in better economic statuses.  But after Segregation had been lifted; Blacks could live anywhere they could afford. 

   Often this was counter-acted by only advertising homes for sale or rent in local neighborhood papers and not the regular city paper columns; yet many of our people would jump through hoops to rub elbows with Whites because they felt the grass was green on the other side and once they achieved it, they would believe they’d made it (achieved racial equality simply because they had the home and their neighbors were being polite or politically correct but in charge).  Things were not as some opportunistic Blacks believed them to be; as those, particularly up North, who felt Blacks were “not entitled” to the same as White people were, only found creative ways to deny Blacks of those things, just the same.  But nonetheless, it did not help matters much that our own people who gained better means did little to help the less fortunate of their own race because of their opinions of their own kind. . .

   The cultural vacuum created by American slavery really crippled Black people until the Black Renaissance because, until we started to look outside this country to define what Black is or what Black culture are, we only had White people and colonial America as the model of culture—and it’s hard to be taught by the same people you’re trying not to be taken advantage of. . . Especially when they have a low opinion of you to begin with, based upon you being used for a tool and also slave. . .

  And even though Blacks don’t like to admit it, if you have not made a conscious effort to recapture your culture or scientifically/anthropologically studied other cultures to create your own essence conglomerate. . . If you are Black, and you live in America—most—if not all your ways are Western; Forged out of the colonial American/European model with many of the prejudices and social diseases that their people carry about the other 10/1lths of the world; endowed with your own particular stock of self-hatred attached.

   Integration, Colonization, Segregation and a multi-cultural society, which is really a multi-cultural society with a dominant cultural theme; Are terms which send confusing signals—especially Integration, Colonization: For as the Last Poets once said in the poem, Before the White man came: “For if we knew what they [the colonists] had in mind, they all would have died in the bay.”  And it’s particularly not too hopeful to believe America will ever give our people racial equality and equal civil rights, when you have discrimination against Blacks, in particular, written right into the United States Constitution that Slaves [Blacks] are 3/5ths of a man, to be considered as property along with livestock; Or in Plessy v. Fergusson—As Justice Henry Brown’s opinion puts it, “If one race be inferior to the other socially, the constitution of the United States cannot put them upon the same plane.”  While the object of the Fourteenth Amendment was to create “absolute equality of the two races before the law,”such equality extended only so far as political and civil rights.  Furthermore, the Court held that the Thirteenth Amendment applied to the imposition of slavery itself.  I wonder what ethnic group or race did Justice Henry Brown came from?  Or whether or not he truly couldn’t see a dominant culture or race dominating in opinion, attitude, and bias, despite the cloak robe he wore. . .

Trade is the Only Proper Use of This Culture

   Before Integration, blacks work for themselves and produced the own products because legalized Segregation made it so; after Segregation, there has been increasing numbers of Blacks who seek White employment simply because of the higher pay, the disbelief in their own kind to run businesses as professionally as the White counterparts or that a ten thousand year culture like Nigeria cannot match a less than 300 year government for stability.  Everyone knows that there’s many societies in America, but their customs and cultures are subdued to the American Standard—and that’s the truth.  And most other people come to America, teach their children to run their own business and purchase primarily from their own kind: Most will only work for another group of people, when it can be more lucrative.  Trade is the only proper use of this culture.  As my brother Unikue says: "I want the loot; not the lifestyle."  
   Economic development, nationality and a sense of us as a people must come first:  It is only our people who send their children to school to work for another group of people and not ourselves: The new Breed are not conscious of taking care of their own people’s interest first.  This has got to change—the name of the game is to make money and take care of your family and your own people first.   We have to both by Back and employ Black.  We cannot simply rely on the goodwill of others for love of humanity.  Otherwise we will always be subject to some other people’s will, rules and dominance; never moving ahead as a people.

Peace

C. Be'er la Hai-roi Myers