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18 February 2006, 19:33

"The black politicians have owned and destroyed it for a generation." and "..extortion by blacks.." ?! Wow - what inspired commentary!

The truth is, one major reason for the U.S. being in the dire shape it’s in, is due to all three branches of the U.S. government being essentially run by wealthy WHITES - and predominantly wealthy white MALES at that. You want to talk about destroying American cities like Detroit? All right - how about the following theory for you?

1) Rich white folks don’t truly want equality in our country, because that would upset the status quo, under which the small number of rich whites (mainly Republicans, of course) are able to control the majority of financial assets, most of the factors of production, the political system, and the media. There is NO reason for wealthy whites to reform the current system - after all, they derive most of the benefits from it, so why kill the golden goose? A lot of those wealthy whites feel as if they can simply ignore those on the other side of the street, so long as "they" don’t start any riots or strikes...

2) Rich white folks don’t want young people of color (in Detroit or elsewhere) to get the same quality of education as their own children get, because that would make them dangerous to the status quo (and maybe even endanger their children’s jobs). Oh, of course they’ll help some token numbers of kids, but there’ll never be nationwide equivalency. That would create more problems for them than it would solve. So, how to maintain the current unjust system? Hmm... thinking... I know! Help ensure that:
1) poor, minority children get insufficient health care when they’re born/growing up; 2) the poorer kids are raised in the most violent-prone neighborhoods; 3) these poorer kids are never taught by the ablest teachers, nor do they ever have access to the best teaching materials; 4) military recruiters spend the majority of their time in the schools of these kids; 5) these kids have limited employment opportunities outside the aforementioned military; 6) wars "break out" frequently enough that the young ’volunteer’ military men and women get sent to various battlefields in various countries, and thus end up wounded, traumatized, or dead.... That ought to do it - now another generation of rich white folks can rest easy knowing that their social privileges will remain secure, their children won’t have true competition for the best private-sector jobs, and their bank accounts will remain abundant, yes?

3) Rich white folks, while they often profit from the conflicts (see Dick Cheney & Halliburton for an extreme example of war profiteering), will very rarely have to worry about their own children being in harm’s way (remember Michael Moore’s "Bowling for Columbine"?). The attendant costs of war - in terms of poor & middle class families’ childrens’ lives, tax dollars, and increased military spending - are almost entirely paid by us middle class and poor Americans. The rich hire accountants and attorneys to help see to it that they don’t have to pay the same tax rates - but then again. you already knew that, right? Oh, and in case we forget... The rich own the bonds which pay for wars, and of course reap the interest. So they don’t really want those bonds to get paid off - heck, so long as stupid Americans keep paying their (unconstitutional!) income taxes, it’s FREE cash flow for the bondholders... It gets better and better!

4) Rich white folks, through their control of the "mainstream" media in the United States, keep the U.S. people focused on war - thus diverting our attention from how we might solve our multitude of domestic problems, including the problems in our cities. This diversion helps ensure that cities with a large proportion of minorities will probably never be able to ’catch up’ to their white neighbors. Rich, mostly-white politicians (seen any destitute politicians lately?) divert money that would, in a truly just and democratic society, be spent for schools, hospitals, libraries, cultural facilities, etc. - and instead use our hard-earned tax dollars to fund the bloated organization of evil AKO "the U.S. military", and/or send those dollars abroad (e.g., to Israel, so that it can continue its Apartheid-like policies against the Palestinians). But of course we can’t afford to fund U.S. city renovation/ create jobs in our own cities - nope, there’s just no money in the budget for that... And what good would that do, anyway? After all, the beneficiaries of such socially-beneficial policies would only be TAX-PAYING AMERICAN CIVILIANS ...

In summation, virtually every single major fiscal & political problem in this nation has been the fault of WHITES. Every war this country has ever started, has ever been involved in, and has ever suffered from, was started by whites in charge (heck, we’ve never even had a white female run for President!); Watergate was the fault of white criminals; Enron was run by whites; etc., etc. Of course, some crimes are carried out by non-whites, but the scales of the crimes are different. So anyone who blames the failure of a city like Detroit on "extortion" by blacks is not looking deep enough. We must see the REAL causes of our problems!

 a white male in Redford, MI (next to Detroit)
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