Systemic Racism and Systemic Sexism Endures

 

 

Not all White people are racist, and its blatantly "racist" to categorize all White people as racist.

 

However, people of color, and women, did NOT conceive, engineer, and execute acts of "inhumanity" to themselves, because people of color, and women, were not and have never held the power, control, or "privilege" to do so. But now, "everyone" is supposed to believe that because laws were passed to prohibit racism and sexism - suddenly - systemic racism and systemic sexism no longer exists. Really?

 

Don't be naive; racial and sexual discrimination and oppression did NOT just stop because a bunch of "conservative" and/or "liberal" White men passed a law (again, ultimately, they make all the rules), and passed another law (because they consistently violated the previous law), and then they passed another bunch of laws (because they kept ignoring the laws they passed, or they changed their minds and repealed a law, or they found a loophole to an existing law, etc.), or whatever . . . because just like Prohibition, which banned the production, importation, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages in the United States of America from 1920 to 1933, laws don't mean a damn thing, especially if you don't get caught (or if you're a member of the "good ole White boy network," which consistently excludes people of color and women. Remember this the next time you break the law by violating the speed limit. Systemic racism and systemic (#ME TOO movement) sexism is alive and well! WAKE UP!

 

 

Again, people of color, and women, did NOT conceive, engineer, and execute acts of "inhumanity" to themselves, because people of color, and women, were not and have never held the power, control, or "privilege" to do so. So, as created and sustained by "elite," politically powerful and affluent White men, if "systemic racism and sexism" did not or does not exist, to whom exactly were the following laws to establish or prohibit racial and sexual discrimination directed?

1. In 1494, the Treaty of Tordesillas (under the Doctrine of Discovery) declared that only non-Christian lands could be colonized. The Doctrine of Discovery divided the newly-discovered lands outside Europe between the Portuguese Empire and the Spanish Empire(Crown of Castile), along a meridian 370 leagues west of the Cape Verde islands, off the west coast of Africa. The Treaty of Tordesillas was intended to solve the dispute that had been created following the return of Christopher Columbus and his crew, who had sailed for the Crown of Castile. On his way back to Spain he first reached Lisbon, in Portugal. Doctrine of Discovery was promulgated by European monarchies in order to legitimize the colonization of lands outside of Europe. Between the mid-fifteenth century and the mid-twentieth century, this idea allowed European entities to seize lands inhabited by indigenous peoples under the guise of discovery.

 

What exactly did Native Americans do to justify the blatant wide-scale slaughter, the perpetual genocide of their entire race?

2. In 1776, only White men (not male or female slaves, not White women, not male or female Asians, not male or female Latinos) were established as "equal" in the U.S. Declaration of Independence. "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all MEN are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."

3. In blatant defiance of the Golden Rule, Christians (Matthew 7:12 and Luke 6:31) and Jews (Leviticus 19:18 and Leviticus 19:34) profited from slavery and systemic racism and sexism.

Methodists

A. By 1786, as documented in the 1984 Book of Discipline of the United Methodist Church, there were 1,569 Methodists in this country. Only two were White. By 1900, nineteen conferences had been organized among the Black people. These conferences had 1,705 ministers in full connection and 3,398 organized congregations with an aggregate church membership of 239,274. Until 1920, these Black conferences were supervised by White bishops.

B. In 1816, to escape the blatant racism and hypocrisy of "White-privilege-based-religion," two-hundred-and-four-(204) years ago, thousands of Black people left the Methodist Church to create the African Methodist Episcopal Church (A.M.E.). The A.M.E. Church has consistently refused all overtures to return to the White-controlled United Methodist.

C. In 1870, to escape the blatant racism and hypocrisy of "White-privilege-based-religion," the exodus of Black people from the Methodist Church continued when more Black people left “en masse” to create the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church (C.M.E.). The C.M.E. Church has consistently refused all overtures to return to the White-controlled United Methodist.

D. Segregation was defined and enforced by the 1910 Discipline of the Colored Methodist Church, the 1939 Book of Discipline of the United Methodist Church and thereafter until 1968, that Conferences of the Central Jurisdiction comprised the entire Negro Mission Conferences and all Missions in the United States of America. As documented in the 1984 Book of Discipline of the United Methodist Church, until 1920, these Black conferences were all supervised by White bishops.” It remains the practice of the United Methodist Church to appoint pastors to the local church primarily based on race (White), then gender (male), but not on merit, performance, or demonstrated pastoral subject matter expertise.

Jews

"As almost all the early Jewish settlers in America belonged to the wealthy classes," writes historian Peter Wiernik, "it was natural for them to accept the institution of slavery as they found it, and to derive as much benefit from it as other affluent men." The earliest Jewish settlements were established in Newport, Rhode Island, and New York, where there were numerous Jewish slave holders long before and right through the American revolution. Source: Wiernik, p.206: David Brener, The Jews of Lancaster, Pennsylvania: A Story with Two Beginnings (Lancaster: Congregation Shaarai Shomayim, 1979), p.2.

Jews adapted to the business climate of colonial North America and operated with the same skill they had demonstrated in the island regions to the south - and accepted Black slavery without question. In the North before 1800 and in the South all through the colonial period, slaves were stocked as commodities by Jewish merchants. Source: p. 585, The Jewish Historian Leon Huhner, "The Jews of Virginia from the Earliest Times to the Close of the Eighteenth Century," PAJHS, vol. 20 (1911), p. 86, comments on the business acumen of colonial Jews.

Countless thousands of Africans were brought to the U.S. in colonial times as slaves by Jewish merchant-shippers, and in the South Jews began to enter the planter class in subtancial numbers. Source: Lenni Brenner, "Jews in America Today (Secaucus, New Jersey: Lyle Stuart, 1986), pp. 221-22. Priscilla Fishman, ed., Jews of the United States (New Yoork: Quadrangle, 1973), p.8: From the early colonial times, "Jewish entrepreneurs were engaged in the slave trade on North American mainland, participating in the infamous triangular trade . . ."

4. 1807, Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves - (2 Stat. 426, enacted March 2, 1807) is a United States federal law that provided that no new slaves were permitted to be imported into the United States. It took effect on January 1, 1808, the earliest date permitted by the United States Constitution. The importation of slaves was NOT outlawed until thirty-two-(32) years AFTER the signing of the Declaration of Independence in 1808.

 

What exactly did Black people do to justify the blatant wide-scale enslavement, the perpetual oppression of their entire race?

5. In 1848, in the wake of the Mexican-American War, the Treaty of Guadulupe-Hidalgo established U.S. citizenship to Mexicans living in territories conquered by the U.S., but it did not allow Mexians (Latinos) the right to vote.

6. Until 1865 with the end of the Civil War, slavery continued to flourish for fifty-seven-(57) years until abolished by the U.S. Congress.

 

7. Civil Rights Act of 1866 - (14 Stat. 27–30, enacted April 9, 1866, but not ratified until 1870) was the first United States federal law to define citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law. It was mainly intended, in the wake of the American Civil War, to protect the civil rights of persons of African descent born in or brought to the United States.

 

Senate Indian Affairs Hearing on 1866 Reconstruction Treaties Between the U.S. and Oklahoma Tribes

Consistent with the tactic of "Divide and Conquer," in order to keep all minorities in check, for additional control over the enslavement of Black people, "elite," politically powerful and affluent White men used the Five Civilized Tribes (Creek Nation, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Seminole, and Cherokee) to enslave Black people, and they continued to do so AFTER the Civil War.

The Black American Tribe "They" Tried to Hide

 

 

8. 1870, the 15th Amendment - (Black men get the right to vote) was ratified to prohibit states from denying a male citizen the right to vote based on “race, color or previous condition of servitude." "Black suffrage" in the United States in the aftermath of the American Civil War explicitly referred to the voting rights of black men only. Black women still had many hurdles to face before obtaining this right. The passage of the 19th Amendment, which was ratified by the United States Congress on August 18 and then certified as law on August 26, 1920 technically granted women the right to vote. However, the 19th Amendment did not initially extend to women of African American, Asian American, Hispanic American and American indian heritage because of widespread enduring inequality and racism from within the ranks of the women's suffrage movement. It wasn't until the Voting Rights Act was passed nearly a half century later, on August 6, 1965 that black women were officially allowed to exercise their right to vote.

 

9. Civil Rights Act of 1871 - Force Act of 1871, Ku Klux Klan Act, Third Enforcement Act, or Third Ku Klux Klan Act, is an Act of the United States Congress which empowered the President to suspend the writ of habeas corpus to combat the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) and other white supremacy organizations. The act was passed by the 42nd United States Congress and signed into law by United States President Ulysses S. Grant on April 20, 1871. Nevertheless, the KKK has continued to flourish to this present day!

 

10. Civil Rights Act of 1875 - The Civil Rights Act of 1875 sometimes called the Enforcement Act or the Force Act, was a United States federal law enacted during the Reconstruction erain response to civil rights violations against African Americans. The bill was passed by the 43rd United States Congress and signed into law by United States President Ulysses S. Grant on March 1, 1875. The act was designed to "protect all citizens in their civil and legal rights", providing for equal treatment in public accommodations and public transportation and prohibiting exclusion from jury service. It was originally drafted by Senator Charles Sumner in 1870, but was not passed until shortly after Sumner's death in 1875. The law was not effectively enforced, partly because President Grant had favored different measures to help him suppress election-related violence against blacks and Republicans in the South.

 

11. Page Act of 1875 - The Page Act of 1875 (Sect. 141, 18 Stat. 477, 3 March 1875) was the first restrictive federal immigration law in the United States, which effectively prohibited the entry of Chinese women, marking the end of open borders. The 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act would go on to ban immigration by Chinese men as well.

 

12. Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 - The Chinese Exclusion Act was a United States federal law signed by President Chester A. Arthur on May 6, 1882, prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. Building on the 1875 Page Act, which banned Chinese women from immigrating to the United States, the Chinese Exclusion Act was the first, and remains the only law to have been implemented, to prevent all members of a specific ethnic or national group from immigrating to the United States.

 

 

13. 1920, (White women get the right to vote) Nineteenth Amendment (Amendment XIX) to the United States Constitution prohibits the states and the federal government from denying the right to vote to citizens of the United States on the basis of sex. Initially introduced to Congress in 1878, several attempts to pass a women's suffrage amendment failed until passing the House of Representatives on May 21, 1919, followed by the Senate on June 4, 1919. It was then submitted to the states for ratification. On August 18, 1920, Tennessee was the last of the necessary 36 ratifying states to secure adoption. The Nineteenth Amendment's adoption was certified on August 26, 1920: the culmination of a decades-long movement for women's suffrage at both state and national levels.

 

What exactly did women do to justify the blatant wide-scale oppression of their gender for centuries?

 

14. 1924, Indian Citizenship Act of 1924, also known as the Snyder Act, (43 Stat. 253, enacted June 2, 1924) was an Act of the United States Congress that granted US citizenship to the indigenous peoples of the United States, called "Indians" in the Act. While the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution defines as citizens any persons born in the United States and subject to its jurisdiction, the amendment had been interpreted by the courts to not apply to Native peoples.

 

Native Americans are citizens of their respective Native nations as well as the United States, and those nations are characterized under the Law of the United States as "domestic dependent nations", a special relationship that creates a particular tension between rights retained via tribal sovereignty and rights that individual Natives obtained as U.S. citizens. This status creates tension today, but was far more extreme before Native people were uniformly granted U.S. citizenship in 1924.

 

All Indegionous tribes exist within the United States just as other racial and ethnic groups - kinda. However, unlike other minority groups who are immigrants to the United States, Native Americans are indigenous to American land and have therefore earned sovereignty. It is difficult to describe Native American government in a definite manner due to the fact that there are many different Native tribes with different forms of governing. In January 2016 there were 566 federally recognized Native American tribes. During the colonial period, Native American sovereignty was upheld by the negotiation of treaties between British proprietors and Native American tribes. Treaties are rules between the tribe and government. The treaties were made with the agreement that the tribes had equal sovereignty as the sovereignty of the colonial governments. The treaties ended in 1871 with the Indian Appropriations Act (of 1851, 1871, 1885, and 1889), which unilaterally and forcibly changed recognition of the tribes to "domestic dependent nations" rather than independent nations.

 

The Republic of Lakotah - The Lakotah’s 158 Year Long Struggle for Justice

In December of 2007, the Republic of Lakotah was formed by the formal withdrawal from its Treaties of 1851 and 1868. This was the latest step in the longest running legal battle in the history of the World. This was not a “cessation” from the United States, but a completely lawful “unilateral withdrawal” from the Treaties as permitted under the 1969 Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, of which, the United States is a signatory.

Legal Basis:

1700′s: Lakotah governed themselves as they had for thousands of years
1803: Louisiana Purchase Treaty between US and France in which the US promises to respect the liberties, property and religious rights of the inhabitants of the territory, which includes the Lakotah.
1805-1868: Numerous treaties between the US and Sioux Nation, all of which have been violated by the US.
1974: International Treaty Conference attended by over 5000 Lakotah, including many elders. Lakotah elders give two mandates to attendees, international recognition of indigenous rights, and sovereignty. Declaration of Continuing Independence also issued by the conference.
September 2007: UN passes the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
December 2007: Lakotah Freedom Delegation withdraws from all treaties with the US.

Numerous treaties between the US and Sioux Nation, all of which have been violated by the US. Keep in mind, "elite," well-educated, slave-owning, God-fearing "Founding Father" White men had no problem executing contracts or agreements between themselves, or Native Americans, and with England, France, Spain, etc. Or, are "we" supposed to believe these "elite," well-educated, slave-owning, God-fearing "Founding Father" White men, who used the same colonization tactics as their British peers, were not as smart as Chinese men who established, with Britain, a 99-year (timetable) lease for Hong Kong in 1898?

"It's their land. Give it back!" The Republic of Lakotah Where was (where is) the 99-year (timetable) lease to return to the Republic of Lakotah to Native Americans? Where?

15. Asians, who were previously barred from immigration by the Immigration Act of 1917, did not obtain the right to vote in the United States until passage of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (Walter-McCarran Immigration Act).

 

The McCarran-Walter Act allowed for people of Asian descent to immigrate and to become citizens, which had been banned by laws like the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 and Asian Exclusion Act of 1924. Chinese immigration, in particular, had been allowed for a decade prior to McCarran-Walter by the Magnuson Act of 1943, which was passed because of America's World War II alliance with China. Japanese Americans and Korean Americans were first allowed to naturalize by the McCarran-Walter Act. Overall changes in the perceptions of Asians were made possible by Cold War politics; the Displaced Persons Act of 1948 allowed anticommunist Chinese American students who feared returning to the Chinese Civil War to stay in the United States; and these provisions would be expanded by the Refugee Relief Act of 1953.

"Those who tell the world that racism in American life is merely a fading hangover from the past, and that it is largely limited to one section of our country, cannot explain away the infamous Wlater-McCarran Immigration Act passed by Congress since the war. No decree of Nazi Germany was more foully racist than this American law which is, in the words of Senator Lehman, "based on the same discredited racial theories from which Adolf Hitler developed the infamous Nuremberg Laws." Look how our immigration quotas are allotted: from Ireland's 3 million people, 17,000 may come to our country each year; but from India, with her 400 millions, the quota is - 100! Under the Walter-McCarran law, with all of its provisions to reduce "non-Nordic" immigration, the number of Negroes who can come from the Caribbean or anywhere else has been drastically cut down." Source: "Here I Stand" © 1958 by Paul Robeson (Legendary Black American athlete, bass baritone concert artist, stage and film actor, and political activist), page 83, second paragraph.

 

16. Civil Rights Act of 1957 - was the first federal civil rights legislation passed by the United States Congress since the Civil Rights Act of 1875. Despite having a limited impact on African-American voter participation, the Civil Rights Act of 1957 did establish the United States Commission on Civil Rightsand the United States Department of Justice Civil Rights Division. Congress would later pass far more effective civil rights laws in the form of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

 

 

17. Civil Rights Act of 1960 - (Pub.L. 86–449, 74 Stat. 89, enacted May 6, 1960) is a United States federal law that established federal inspection of local voter registration polls and introduced penalties for anyone who obstructed someone's attempt to register to vote. It was designed to deal with discriminatory laws and practices in the segregated South, by which blacks and Mexican Texans had been effectively disenfranchised since the late 19th and start of the 20th century.

 

18. Civil Rights Act of 1964 - (Pub.L. 88–352, 78 Stat. 241, enacted July 2, 1964) is a landmark civil rights and labor law in the United States that outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. It prohibits unequal application of voter registration requirements, and racial segregation in schools, employment, and public accommodations.

 

The legislation had been proposed by President John F. Kennedy in June 1963, but it was opposed by filibuster in the Senate. After Kennedy was assassinatedon November 22, 1963, President Lyndon B. Johnson pushed the bill forward. The United States House of Representatives passed the bill on February 10, 1964, and after a 54-day filibuster, passed the United States Senate on June 19, 1964. The final vote was 290–130 in the House of Representatives and 73–27 in the Senate. After the House agreed to a subsequent Senate amendment, the Civil Rights Act was signed into law by President Johnson at the White House on July 2, 1964.

 

19. Voting Rights Act of 1965 – (Black women the right to vote.) is a landmark piece of federal legislation in the United States that prohibits racial discrimination in voting. It was signed into law by U.S President Lyndon B. Johnson during the height of the civil rights movement on August 6, 1965, and Congress later amended the Act five times to expand its protections. Designed to enforce the voting rights guaranteed by the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution, the Act secured the right to vote for racial minorities throughout the country, especially in the South.

 

20. Civil Rights Act of 1968 – Titles II through VII comprise the Indian Civil Rights Act, which applies to the Native American tribes of the United States and makes many but not all of the guarantees of the Bill of Rights applicable within the tribes (that Act appears today in Title 25, sections 1301 to 1303 of the United States Code).

 

Titles VIII through IX are commonly known as the Fair Housing Act (FHA), which was meant as a follow up to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (this is different legislation than the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968, which expanded housing funding programs). While the Civil Rights Act of 1866 prohibited discrimination in housing, there were no federal enforcement provisions. The 1968 act expanded on previous acts and prohibited discrimination concerning the sale, rental, and financing of housing based on race, religion, national origin, and since 1974, sex. Since 1988, the act protects people with disabilities and families with children. Pregnant women are also protected from illegal discrimination because they have been given familial status with their unborn child being the other family member. Victims of discrimination may use both the 1968 act and the 1866 act's section 1983 to seek redress. The 1968 act provides for federal solutions while the 1866 act provides for private solutions (i.e., civil suits). The act also made it a federal crime to "by force or by threat of force, injure, intimidate, or interfere with anyone... by reason of their race, color, religion, or national origin, handicap or familial status."

 

Title X, commonly known as the Anti-Riot Act, makes it a felony to "travel in interstate commerce...with the intent to incite, promote, encourage, participate in and carry on a riot." That provision has been criticized for "equating organized political protest with organized violence."

 

Parts
3.1 Title I: Hate crimes
3.2 Title II–VII: Indian Civil Rights Act

3.3 Title VIII–IX: Fair Housing Act

3.4 Title X: Anti-Riot Act

 

4 Titles

4.1 Title I—interference with federally protected activities

4.2 Title II—rights of Indians

4.3 Title III—model code governing courts of Indian offenses

4.4 Title IV—jurisdiction over criminal and civil actions

4.5 Title V—offenses within Indian country

4.6 Title VI—employment of legal counsel

4.7 Title VII—materials relating to constitutional rights of Indians

4.8 Title VIII—fair housing

4.9 Title IX—prevention of intimidation in fair housing cases

4.10 Title X—civil obedience

 

From 1972, Muhammad Ali is interviewed in Ireland by Irish broadcaster Cathal O'Sannon. Given the state of race relations in 2020, and perpetual socio-economic status of Black people, ask yourself, what's actually changed?

 

 

21. 1974, The Equal Credit Opportunity Act - which granted women the right to obtain credit cards separate from their husbands. Women have come a long way in the past century in terms of legal rights, although reality has often fallen short of legal promises. Women earned a constitutional right to vote nationwide in 1920, for example, but many continued to be denied that right for decades due to racist state laws, violence and the lack of availability of bilingual election materials, among other things. A 1963 federal law prohibited gender-based discrimination in wages, but the pay gap has yet to close.

 

22. 1978, the Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978 - made it illegal to fire a woman for being pregnant, which was previously common practice. While both of these accomplishments made it easier for women to thrive in the workplace, it arguably shouldn't have taken so long to get these basic workplace protections in place. Women are crucial earners to their families, with 41% of mothers as the sole or primary breadwinners for their families, as of 2017, including 68.3% of Black mothers, 41% of Latina mothers and 36.8% of white mothers. Job protection in the case of pregnancy and recourse for workplace sexual harassment are absolutely necessary for women to continue to work and provide for themselves and their families.

 

23. Civil Rights Act of 1991 - is a United States labor law, passed in response to United States Supreme Court decisions that limited the rights of employees who had sued their employers for discrimination. The Act represented the first effort since the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to modify some of the basic procedural and substantive rights provided by federal law in employment discrimination cases. It provided the right to trial by jury on discrimination claims and introduced the possibility of emotional distress damages and limited the amount that a jury could award. It added provisions to Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 protections expanding the rights of women to sue and collect compensatory and punitive damages for sexual discrimination or harassment.

 

Again, as created and sustained by White men, if "systemic racism and sexism" did not or does not exist, to whom exactly were the above laws to establish or prohibit racial and sexual discrimination directed?

An overview of lingering acts of systemic racism:

WHO	WHEN	WHAT (FACTS)	OUTCOME / STATUS
BLACK PEOPLE	Slavery, racism, and oppression - 1620 to Present: 250 years of slavery, 90 years of Jim Crow (lynching, racism, discrimination, incarceration, etc.), 60 years of separate but equal, 35 years of state-sanctioned red-lining. - Total so far: 395 Years and counting. Source:“The Atlantic Magazine," June 2014   NOTE: HITLER GOT THE IDEA FOR JEWISH PRISON CAMPS AND THE HOLOCAUST FROM THE GENOCIDE OF BLACK PEOPLE THROUGH THE EUGENICS MOVEMENT AND IMPRISONMENT OF NATIVE AMERICANS ON RESERVATIONS.	ENSLAVED BLACKS AND ROBBED THEM OF THEIR CULTURE AND CONFINED THEM TO PLANTATIONS AND THEN TO GHETTOES TO THIS VERY DAY   More Black men are incarcerated than are in college; which represents no change since before, during or upon ending state-sanctioned slavery.     Most Black Middle Class Kids Are Downwardly Mobile - 7 out of 10 Black Americans born into the middle quintile fall into one of the two quintiles below as adults; even Black Americans who make it to the middle class are likely to see their kids fall down the ladder. Source: Brookings Institution     The rate has consistently been twice as high OR HIGHER than the white unemployment rate for 50 years! Source: Marc V. Levine University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Center for Economic Development, January 2012	Many U.S. school systems remain highly segregated by race and economic status: Black students make up 16 percent of the public school population, but the average Black student attends a school that’s 50 percent Black. As reported by Jonathan Rothwell, the average Black student also attends a school at the 37th percentile for test score results whereas the average white student attends a school in the 60th percentile. Nebraska is ranked 49th of 50 states for the lowest Black male graduation rate. Source: Brookings Institution Guy Aoki said African Americans "have long felt the full brunt of the 'whitewashing' of their history and roles in Hollywood films. Asians have experienced it as well, as have Native Americans, seeing their historic leaders and warriors portrayed by whites. Source: Wikipedia
WHO	WHEN	WHAT (FACTS)	OUTCOME / STATUS
NATIVE AMERICANS	1492 to Present – It’s difficult to determine exactly how many Natives lived in North America before Columbus, estimates range from a low of 2.1 million (Ubelaker 1976) to 7 million people (Russell Thornton) to a high of 18 million (Dobyns 1983). Source: Wikipedia	IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE DOCTRINE OF DISCOVERY, AND AS LEGISLATED BY THE INDIAN REMOVAL ACT, TREATY VIOLATIONS, AND RELATED ATROCITIES, THE U.S. SLAUGHTED AND ENACTED GENOCIDE (MASSACRES FROM 1500 TO 1911) UPON NATIVE AMERICANS AND CONFINED THEM TO RESERVATIONS TO THIS VERY DAY. Each of the 326 Indian reservations in the U.S. are associated with a particular Nation. The U.S. has only recognized 567 tribes (there are more) and not all tribes have a reservation. Consider the status of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation within the Legendary Republic of Lakotah below. s.	On 8 September 2000, the head of the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) formally apologized for the agency's participation in the "ethnic cleansing" of Western tribes. Now, 523 later, Native population in the U.S. as of 2010 is only 2.9 million. Source: Wikipedia Native Americans have also been subjected to the blatantly distorted narrative of White-man as savior, "White Savior" and White-man's version of history, "White Washing" in stories and roles in Hollywood films, with their historic leaders and warriors portrayed by whites. Source: Wikipedia Click photo to enlarge Click photo to enlarge The "real" Geronimo was not White, he did not have blue-eyes, he was not 6'5" tall.   In the 1962 film, "Geronimo," was portrayed by a White, blue-eyed, 6'5" tall, actor, Chuck Connors
WHO	WHEN	WHAT (FACTS)	OUTCOME / STATUS
LATINOS	1776 to Present - After the Mexican-American War (1846–1848), the U.S. annexed much of the current Southwestern region from Mexico, and Mexicans who remained were subject to discrimination. During the Great Depression (1929 and 1939) over 1,000,000 Mexicans were deported, including U.S. citizens. Between 1954 and 1962 “Operation Wetback” deported over a million more.	ROBBED LATINOS (I.E., NATIVE AMERICANS) OF THEIR CULTURE AND THEN CONFINED THEM TO BARRIOS TO THIS VERY DAY   At least 597 Mexicans were lynched between 1848 and 1928 (conservative estimate dues to lack of records for many reported lynchings). Mexicans were lynched at a rate of 27.4 per 100,000 of population between 1880 and 1930, second only to the lynchings of Black people during that period of 37.1 per 100,000 population. Between 1848 to 1879, Mexicans were lynched at an unprecedented rate of 473 per 100,000 of population. Source: Wikipedia.com	Voters of Fremont, Nebraska (pop. 25,000) passed an ordinance (06/23/2010) to prevent illegal immigrants from renting property or getting a job in the community. The measure requires businesses to verify citizenship of all workers, and renters to obtain a license from the local police department. Source: theweek.com 7/8/14
WHO	WHEN	WHAT (FACTS)	OUTCOME / STATUS
ASIANS	February 19, 1942 to April 1946 – 4 Years	ROBBED ASIANS OF THEIR CULTURE AND CONFINED THEM TO CONCENTRATION CAMPS AND THEN CAST THEM AS "ACCEPTABLE" MINORITIES. Click the graph above to enlarge. Between 110,000 and 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry were forcibly relocated and incarcerated during World War II. Sixty-two percent of the internees were United States citizens. President Roosevelt ordered the Incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II, shortly after Imperial Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor. ACTIVELY "WHITEWASHED" ASIAN CULTURE	In 1988, President Ronald Reagan signed the Civil Liberties Act, which apologized for the internment on behalf of the U.S. government paid $20,000 to each individual camp survivor. The legislation admitted that government actions were based on "race prejudice, war hysteria, and a failure of political leadership." The U.S. government eventually disbursed more than $1.6 billion in reparations to 82,219 Japanese Americans who had been interned and their heirs. George Hosato Takei (born April 20, 1937) is an American actor, director, author, and activist. Takei is most widely known for his role as Hikaru Sulu, helmsman of the USS Enterprise in the television series Star Trek. He also portrayed the character in six Star Trek feature films and in an episode of Star Trek: Voyager. In 1942, the Takei family was forced to live in the converted horse stables of Santa Anita Park before being sent to the Rohwer War Relocation Center for internment in Rohwer, Arkansas. The family was later transferred to the Tule Lake War Relocation Center in California. He and his family returned to Los Angeles at the end of World War II. Source: Wikipedia
WHO	WHEN	WHAT (FACTS)	OUTCOME / STATUS
MUSLIMS	Monday, December 7, 2015 Republican POTUS candidate Donald Trump called for barring all Muslims WHO ARE NOT U.S. citizens from entering the U.S. until “our country's representatives can figure out what is going on," a campaign press release said. Source: CNN.com	HISTORY REPEATS - Trump previously called for surveillance against mosques and establishing a database for all Muslims living in the U.S. Plus, in the wake of a deadly mass shooting in San Bernardino, California by ISIS sympathizers, presidential candidates Ted Cruz and Jeb Bush said they’d prohibit Muslim refugees, but allow Christians; and Marco Rubio would close all places where Muslims meet. Source: Democratic National Committee 12/08/15	Based on past practices, the (inevitable) planned and forced relocation and incarceration of Muslims.
List of anti-discrimination Legislation (Source: Wikipedia)
Age Discrimination Act of 1975 Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 Alaska's Anti-Discrimination Act of 1945 Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 Bostock v. Clayton County — a landmark United States Supreme Court case in 2020 in which the Court held that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 protects employees against discrimination because of their sexual orientation or gender identity California Fair Employment and Housing Act Civil Rights Act of 1866 Civil Rights Act of 1871 Civil Rights Act of 1957 Civil Rights Act of 1964 Civil Rights Act of 1968 Civil Rights Act of 1991 Employment Non-Discrimination Act Equal Pay Act of 1963 Executive Order 11478 Executive Order 13166 – “Improving Access to Services for Persons with Limited English Proficiency” Fair Employment Act of 1941 Family & Medical Leave Act of 1993 - enables qualified employees to take prolonged unpaid leave for family and health-related reasons without fear of losing their jobs. For private employers with 15 or more employers Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution Twenty-fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act Homeless Bill of Rights Lloyd–La Follette Act (1912) Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009 Massachusetts Gender Identity Anti-Discrimination Initiative New Jersey Anti-Bullying Bill of Rights Act No-FEAR Act Voting Rights Act of 1965 Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978 Rehabilitation Act of 1973 Civil Rights Restoration Act of 1987 Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990

Again, people of color did NOT conceive, engineer, and execute the above acts of "inhumanity" to themselves, because people of color were not and have never held the power, control, or "privilege" to do so.

Clearly, only White people, primarily White men of power and wealth, held and continue to hold exclusive "privilege" to unilaterally determine the fate of people of color. For example . . .

 

The Tuskegee Syphilis Study

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_Syphilis_Study

The "Tuskegee Syphilis Study," was an ethically unjustified study conducted continuously between 1932 and 1972 by the United States Public Health Service (PHS) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The purpose of this study was to observe the natural history of untreated syphilis. Although the African-American men who participated in the study were told that they were receiving free health care from the federal government of the United States, they were not.

The Public Health Service started the study in 1932 in collaboration with Tuskegee University (then the Tuskegee Institute), a historically black college in Alabama. In the study, investigators enrolled a total of 600 impoverished African-American sharecroppers from Macon County, Alabama. Of these men, 399 had latent syphilis, with a control group of 201 men who were not infected. As an incentive for participation in the study, the men were promised free medical care, but were deceived by the PHS, who never informed subjects of their diagnosis and disguised placebos, ineffective methods, and diagnostic procedures as treatment.

The men were initially told that the "study" was only going to last six months, but it was extended to 40 years. After funding for treatment was lost, the study was continued without informing the men that they would never be treated. None of the infected men were treated with penicillin despite the fact that by 1947, the antibiotic was widely available and had become the standard treatment for syphilis. The study continued, under numerous Public Health Service supervisors, until 1972, when a leak to the press resulted in its termination on November 16 of that year. The study caused the deaths of 128 of its participants, either directly from syphilis or from related complications.

The 40-year Tuskegee Study was a major violation of ethical standards, and has been cited as "arguably the most infamous biomedical research study in U.S. history." Its revelation led to the 1979 Belmont Report and to the establishment of the Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP) and federal laws and regulations requiring institutional review boards for the protection of human subjects in studies involving them. The OHRP manages this responsibility within the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Its revelation has also been an important cause of distrust in medical science and the US government amongst African Americans.

On May 16, 1997, President Bill Clinton formally apologized on behalf of the United States to victims of the study, calling it shameful and racist. "What was done cannot be undone, but we can end the silence," he said. "We can stop turning our heads away. We can look at you in the eye, and finally say, on behalf of the American people, what the United States government did was shameful and I am sorry."

Oh, but there's more . . .

During an 1835 trip to the United States, French visitor Harriet Martineau found that Black people lacked the power even to protect the graves of their dead. "In Baltimore the bodies of coloured people exclusively are taken for dissection," she remarked, "because the Whites do not like it, and the coloured people cannot resist."'l Four years later, abolitionist Theodore Dwight Weld echoed Martineau's sentiment. "Public opinion," he wrote, "would tolerate surgical experiments, operations, processes, performed upon them [slaves], which it would execrate if performed upon their master or other whites."1' Slaves found themselves as subjects of medical experiments because physicians needed bodies and because the state considered them property and denied them the legal right to refuse to participate.

And more . . .

Two antebellum experiments, one carried out in Georgia and the other in Alabama, illustrate the abuse that some slaves encountered at the hands of physicians. In the first, Georgia physician Thomas Hamilton conducted a series of brutal experiments on a slave to test remedies for heatstroke. The subject of these investigations, Fed, had been loaned to Hamilton as repayment for a debt owed by his owner. Hamilton forced Fed to sit naked on a stool placed on a platform in a pit that had been heated to a high temperature. Only the man's head was above ground. Over a period of 2 to 3 weeks, Hamilton placed Fed in the pit five or six times and gave him various medications to determine which enabled him best to withstand the heat. Each ordeal ended when Fed fainted and had to be revived. But note that Fed was not the only victim in this experiment; its whole purpose was to make it possible for masters to force slaves to work still longer hours on the hottest of days.

And more . . .

In the second experiment, Dr J. Marion Sims, the so-called father of modem gynecology, used three Alabama slave women to develop an operation to repair vesicovaginal fistulas. Between 1845 and 1849, the three slave women on whom Sims operated each underwent up to 30 painful operations. The physician himself described the agony associated with some of the experiments'3: "The first patient I operated on was Lucy. . . That was before the days of anaesthetics, and the poor girl, on her knees, bore the operation with great heroism and bravery." This operation was not successful, and Sims later attempted to repair the defect by placing a sponge in the bladder. This experiment, too, ended in failure. He noted:

The whole urethra and the neck of the bladder were in a high state of inflammation, which came from the foreign substance. It had to come away, and there was nothing to do but to pull it away by main force. Lucy's agony was extreme. She was much prostrated, and I thought that she was going to die; but by irrigating the parts of the bladder she recovered with great rapidity.

Sims finally did perfect his technique and ultimately repaired the fistulas. Only after his experimentation with the slave women proved successful did the physician attempt the procedure, with anesthesia, on White women volunteers.

Source (Click to download): Under the Shadow of Tuskegee: African Americans and Health Care

And more . . .

Henrietta Lacks (born Loretta Pleasant; August 1, 1920 – October 4, 1951) was an American Black woman whose cancer cells are the source of the HeLa cell line, the first immortalized human cell line and one of the most important cell lines in medical research. An immortalized cell line reproduces indefinitely under specific conditions, and the HeLa cell line continues to be a source of invaluable medical data to the present day. Lacks was the unwitting source of these cells from a tumor biopsied during treatment for cervical cancer at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, U.S., in 1951. These cells were then cultured by George Otto Gey who created the cell line known as HeLa, which is still used for medical research. As was then the practice, no consent was required to culture the cells obtained from Lacks' treatment. Consistent with modern standards, neither she nor her family were compensated for their extraction or use. Even though some information about the origins of HeLa's immortalized cell lines was known to researchers after 1970, the Lacks family was not made aware of the line's existence until 1975.

Therefore . . .

Given the well-documented facts (above), WHY SHOULD BLACK PEOPLE "TRUST" WHITE PEOPLE OR BRAINWASHED "UNCLE TOM" BLACK PEOPLE when it's the perpetual practice of White health care professionals and White-owned, controlled, and operated health and medical research institutions to:

(1) intentionally and repeatedly conduct unethical, unjustified, and abusive medical experiments on Black people;

(2) if hospitalized, Black patients are more likely to be denied health services and therapeutic procedures for 37 of 77 conditions (48 percent); and

(3) it's the practice of White people of power and wealth to unilaterally exploit and profit from the health of Black people and other people of color?

So, when YOU take an objective, factual look at the big picture of the "Black experience" in the United States of America, you find that White people of power and wealth intentionally engineered slavery, genocide, Jim Crow, segregation, redlining, high unemployment, poor education, racism, oppression, high incarceration, and limited or prevented Black people from access to health care. And, Black people are expected to "trust" the oppressor and get the COVID-19 vaccine, really?

QUESTIONS and ANSWERS

 

 

QUESTION 1: Given that race-based genocide, oppression, and discrimination against all people of color began prior to the inception of the United States of America on July 4, 1776 and continued uninterrupted thereafter, on what specific year and date did White people relinquish their ill-gotten wealth, power, and control to enable people of color with "fair and just" access to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness? When?   DO QUOTAS EXIST IN THE PRIVATE SECTOR? Affirmative action "quotas" are NOT applied in the private sector unless it has been validated that employers "doing business with the Federal government," failed to comply with laws and regulations requiring nondiscrimination (race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran). In the event of such non-n-compliance, the OFCCP (Office of Federal Contract Compliance) may require the offending employer to adhere to Conciliation Agreements which establish "measurable and realistic" requirements to meet compliance. The ultimate sanction for violations is debarment – the loss of a company’s federal contracts. Other forms of relief to victims of discrimination may also be available, including back pay for lost wages.

Even worse, the greatest beneficiary of Affirmative Action has been and continues to be White women, because AA hasn't done a damn thing to level the socio-economic playing field for people of color, or for the disabled, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veterans, etc. CLICK ABOVE IMAGE TO ENLARGE - FOR MORE INFORMATION, CLICK HERE. Tulsa, Oklahoma Rosewood, Florida "They are lucky that what Black people are looking for is equality and not revenge." Kimberly Jones

"No nation can enslave a race of people for hundreds of years, set them free begraggled and penniless, pit them, without assistance in a hostile environment, against privileged victimizers, and then reasonably expect the gap between the heirs of the two groups to narrow. Lines, begun parallel and left alone, can never touch." "The Debt: What America Owes to Blacks" by Randall Robinson   DO QUOTAS EXIST IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR? Unfortunately, due to the perpetual failure of K-12 schools to graduate enough minority students and females, and in order to obtain federal money to seed their operating budgets, K-12 schools, colleges, and universities have used race-based "quotas." In 2003, a Supreme Court decision regarding affirmative action in higher education (Grutter v. Bollinger, 539 US 244 – Supreme Court 2003) permitted educational institutions to consider race as a factor when admitting students. OBSERVATION: Don't blame the private sector for the inability and incompetence of K-12 schools to educate and place minorities and women into the pipeline for higher education. Special (Prime Time) Broadcast: The Ward Connerly Interview - "Ending Affirmative Action in Nebraska" on CTI22

 

 

QUESTION 2: Did White people provide Black people, and other people of color, with equal access to education, employment, housing, health care, and the will full access to the political process a hundred years later with passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964?

ANSWER: No, because the "cycle of discrimination" continues to mandate prevailing race-based educational, cultural and business practices, including Jim Crow Laws, Mass Incarceration, the Glass Ceiling, and other barriers which continue to prohibit Black people, and other people of color, and women, from "fair and just" access to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Nothing changes: The Racial Wealth Gap, 1860 - 2020

As researched by Derenoncourt, Chi Hyun Kim, Kuhn, and Schularick in their March 8, 2021 report, “The Racial Wealth Gap, 1860 - 2020,” the wealth gap between Blacks and Whites has never been abated, has only increased significantly; and if present trends in the data continue, the racial wealth gap is headed to a steady state with average White wealth at least five times greater than average Black wealth - even through 2260! Click the image below to read the full report.

Nothing changes: Enslavement & Death, Lynching & Death, Incarceration & Death

As validated by past and current data, and in the absence of major changes to both public and private education, K-12 and higher education, Black and Latino students will never equal the educational performance of White students; plus, Black and Latino students will continue to reflect a disproportionate number of students who will be retained, fail to promote, quit, or be permanently suspended from all aspects of education. Why? Both public and private education are intentionally designed for people of color to fail.

 

QUESTION 3: If the posted legal speed limit is sixty-five-(65) miles per hour, do you really think ALL PEOPLE comply with the law? Clearly, people break speed limit laws constantly, if not, local and state police would not write millions of speeding tickets per year. Where's the deterrent NOT to discriminate?

FACT 1: My great-grandfather, Rev. Abraham Lincoln Reynolds, Sr., was born in 1873, eight-(8) years after the Civil War, and he HATED White people because his brother, Harry, was sold into slavery and he NEVER saw him again! I remember my great-grandfather's tall lean figure, because I was twelve-(12) years old when my great-grandfather died in 1965, and I clearly remember his physical presence and his legacy as told to me by my father, Rev. Dr. Everett S. Reynolds, my uncles, and my grand-uncle, Rev. Dr. Abraham Lincoln Reynolds, Jr.

 

Rape is also illegal:

 

Do you really think men stopped raping women (and other men) simply because a bunch of White men passed a law prohitibing such; and

 

If your sister, or your wife, or your daughter, or your mother, etc. was raped last year, or today, or right now, or tomorrow would she forgive, or forget, or ignore the perpetual existence of her victimization?

 

Do you really believe your victimized sister, or your victimized wife, or your victimized daughter, or your victimized mother can easily work among people (men) who have all the power and who make all the rules, and who are most likely to victimize her again, to oppress her again and again?

 

 

Again, don't be naive; racial and sexual discrimination and oppression did NOT just stop because a bunch of "elite," politically powerful and affluent White men passed a law (again, ultimately, they make all the rules), and passed another law (because they consistently violated the previous law), and then they passed another bunch of laws (because they kept ignoring the laws they passed, or they changed their minds and repealed a law, or they found a loophole to an existing law, etc.), or whatever . . . because just like Prohibition, which banned the production, importation, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages in the United States of America from 1920 to 1933, laws don't mean a damn thing, especially if you don't get caught (or if you're a member of the "good ole White boy network," which consistently excludes people of color and women. Remember this the next time you break the law by violating the speed limit. Systemic racism and systemic (#ME TOO movement) sexism is alive and well! WAKE UP!

FACT 2: Laws, legislation, ordinances, etc., are established to create rules of order, to eliminate chaos, to prevent unacceptable conduct or behavior, and to ultimately and authoritatively define societal standards.

 

FACT 3: In 1776, the only individuals who held the "privilege" to sign the U.S. Declaration of Independence were White men [not male or female Native Americans, not male or female slaves, not White women (although a White woman printed the document), not male or female Asians, not male or female Latinos], but only White men were established as "equal" in the U.S. Declaration of Independence. Nevertheless, they wrote: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all MEN are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." Unfortunately, as detailed by polifact.com, the blatant hypocrisy of the Declaration of Independence is evident with thirty-four-(34) of the forty-seven-(47) men depicted in the famous "Declaration of Independence" painting were slaveholders, most of whom did this, and this.

 

Black people were NOT allowed to vote, or own property (because they were, in fact, "property"), etc.   Women were NOT allowed to vote, or own property (for the most part), except as provided by their husband, family hierarchy, etc.   These elite, well-educated, slave-owning, God-fearing "Founding Father" White men made "the rules" and defined all exceptions to "the rules," and it was not "self-evident" that all people are created equal, or they would have said so. As validated by the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution, these men knew the value of words, and how to carefully craft sentences, paragraphs, and documents. Evidence of their intent to sustain their "privilege" is validated by the absence of any timetable to establish that "all people are created equal."         The circle of systemic racism endures and is pervasive. Click above image to watch video.

To escape the tyranny of the Kingdom of Great Britian, the "Founding Fathers," who wrote the Declaration of Independence and formed thirteen-(13) independent sovereign states to escape the tyranny of the Kingdom of Great Britian, were also "elite," politically powerful and affluent White men, and with blatant hypocrisy they also used the Doctrine of Discovery as the template to continue White ethnocentrism and ultimate ownership, control and enforcement, and privilege in pursuit of their “Manifest Destiny."     Centries later, the legacy of White ethnocentrism born from Eurpoean aristocracy contines to oppress people of color. Nothing changes.     As validated by the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution, these "Founding Fathers" knew the value of words, and how to carefully craft sentences, paragraphs, and documents. Evidence of their intent to sustain their "privilege" is validated by the absence of any timetable to establish that "all people are created equal."     Keep in mind, these elite, well-educated, slave-owning, God-fearing "Founding Fathers" had absolutely no problem executing contracts or agreements between themselves (i.e., Hudson Bay Company), France, Spain, or deceitfully with Native Americans.     If slavery had no impact, why don't, why haven't White people switched places with Black people?     Keep in mind, these elite, well-educated, slave-owning, God-fearing "Founding Father" White men had no problem executing contracts or agreements between themselves, or Native Americans, and with France, Spain, etc. Or, are "we" supposed to believe these elite, well-educated, slave-owning, God-fearing "Founding Father" White men, who used the same colonization tactics as their British peers, were not as smart as Chinese men who established, with Britain, a 99-year (timetable) lease for Hong Kong in 1898?

 

FACT 4: Not all White people are racist, and its blatantly "racist" to categorize all White people as racist, BUT White people, primarily "elite," politically powerful and wealthy White men and their agents, lackeys, and goons, have always made all the rules (laws) and all exceptions to the rules, and they continue to do so!  It's their country.  White people, primarily politically powerful and wealthy White men, own and/or control everything – from education to business to government; and White people, primarily politically powerful and wealthy White men, unilaterally "pick and choose" if and when they'll adhere to whatever rules, laws, and contracts they establish.

 

That's right, White men, who represent a constantly shrinking population of 30% or less, have always dictated every law, every rule, every policy. This "systemic privilege" is not evidence of a democratic republic, but validates the perpetual existence of crony capitalism. CLICK ABOVE IMAGE TO DOWNLOAD REPORT CLICK ABOVE IMAGE TO DOWNLOAD REPORT CLICK ABOVE IMAGE TO DOWNLOAD REPORT Source: https://www.gavelgap.org 49 YEARS LATER, NOTHING CHANGES. (BELOW) If Prosecutors Represent America, Why Are 95% of Them White? | The Amber Ruffin Show OBSERVATION: At the highest court in the United States, the lifetime appointment of U.S. Supreme Court Justices created and guarantees the perpetual existence of systemic sexism and systemic racism. CLICK ABOVE IMAGE TO DOWNLOAD QUESTIONNAIRE   FACT 5: Except for a few tokens, when compared to White people, the overall social and economic status (i.e., equal access to education, employment, housing, health care, and the political process) for the overwhelming majority of Black people, and other people of color, did not change before slavery, during slavery, after slavery, or during the 1870s, 1880s, 1890s, 1900s, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, and in the absence of major change, there's absolutely no basis to expect any improvement in the 2020s or beyond. Given the aforementioned, the power and wealth acquired by White men via systemic racism and systemic sexism has not been eliminated or mitigated by those self-serving White males who wield ultimate control; and power and wealth cannot be eliminated or mitigated by legislative and/or societal change by self-serving White males who also wield control.   ASSESSMENT: Given the creation of laws to supposedly eliminate "systemic racism and sexism (#1 to #21 above)," coupled with overtly inconsistent and discretionary enforcement that has literally destroyed and continues to destroy the ability of "people" to achieve their potential for a robust life, liberty and pursuit of happiness," the desire to establish a truly egalitarian republic is, at best, clearly disingenuous.

 

 

 

"They are lucky that what Black people are looking for is equality and not revenge." Kimberly Jones

QUESTION 4: If “we” were all equal, why did White men belatedly and repeatedly pass laws to address inequities, discrimination, racism, sexism, etc.? Clearly, "we the people" were NEVER equal, and "we the people" remain unequal.

 

QUESTION 5: Again, throughout the entire history of the United States of America, people of color and women did NOT create laws to oppress themselves. Likwise, it's a fact that Black people, Native Americans, Latinos, Asians, and women NEVER held the political power and/or economic wealth to exercise ultimate control over the United States Congress or individual state governments; so again, if "systemic racism and systemic sexism" did not or does not exist, to whom exactly were laws to prohibit racial and sexual discrimination directed?

 

 

QUESTION 6: If "systemic racism and systemic sexism" supposedly no longer exists, why then is there a need for the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), which is a federal agency responsible for enforcing federal laws that make it illegal to discriminate against a job applicant or an employee because of the person's race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, transgender status, and sexual orientation), national origin, age (40 or older), disability or genetic information?

 

QUESTION 7: If "systemic racism and systemic sexism" did not or does not exist in the United States, why have no women ever been elected President of the United States of America. Conversely, the USA's great oppressor, Great Britain has elected three-(3) women as Prime Minister. Why is the United States of America unable or unwilling to actually practice the so-called egalitarian principles of a democratic republic?

 

Margaret Thatcher Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, LG, OM, DStJ, PC, FRS, HonFRSC (née Roberts; 13 October 1925 – 8 April 2013) was a British stateswoman who served as prime minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990. She was the longest-serving British prime minister of the 20th century and the first woman to hold that office.	Theresa May Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Theresa Mary, Lady May (née Brasier; born 1 October 1956) is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party from 2016 to 2019. May served as Home Secretary from 2010 to 2016 and has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Maidenhead in Berkshire since 1997. Ideologically, she identifies herself as a one-nation conservative.	Liz Truss Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Mary Elizabeth Truss (born 26 July 1975) is a British politician who has served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party since 6 September 2022, and as Member of Parliament (MP) for South West Norfolk since 2010. Truss held various Cabinet offices under prime ministers David Cameron, Theresa May and Boris Johnson, most recently as Foreign Secretary from 2021 to 2022. She is the last of fifteen British prime ministers who served during the reign of Queen Elizabeth II, who died on 8 September 2022, two days after appointing Truss to the office.
		Claudia Sheinbaum President-Elect of Mexico Claudia Sheinbaum (born 24 June 1962) is a Mexican politician, scientist, and academic. She was a candidate for President of Mexico in the 2024 Mexican general election and is currently the President-elect of Mexico. She is a member of the left-wing political party Morena. Sheinbaum served as Head of Government of Mexico City, a position equivalent to that of a state governor, from 2018 to 2023. From 2000 to 2006, Sheinbaum served as Secretary of the Environment under future president Andrés Manuel López Obrador during his tenure as Head of Government. A scientist by profession, Sheinbaum received her Ph.D. in energy engineering from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). As an academic, she has authored over 100 articles and two books on energy, the environment, and sustainable development. Sheinbaum contributed to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and in 2018 she was listed as one of BBC's 100 Women. On 12 June 2023, Sheinbaum resigned from her position as head of government of Mexico City to seek Morena presidential nomination in the 2024 election. On 6 September, Sheinbaum secured the party's nomination over her nearest rival, former foreign secretary Marcelo Ebrard. On 2 June 2024, Sheinbaum won the general election in a landslide. After she assumes office, she will be the first female president of Mexico and the first president of Mexico from a Jewish background.
COUNTRY WOMEN LEADERS POSITION TERM Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina Wajed Prime Minister 2009-present Barbados Sandra Mason President 2021-present Bosnia and Herzegovina Borjana Krišto Chairwoman, Council of Ministers 2023-present Denmark Mette Frederiksen Prime Minister 2019-present Estonia Kaja Kallas Prime Minister 2021-present Ethiopia Sahle-Work Zewde President 2018-present France Élisabeth Borne Prime Minister 2022-present Georgia Salome Zourabichvili President 2018-present Greece Katerina Sakellaropoulou President 2020-present Honduras Xiomara Castro President 2022-present Hungary Katalin Novák President 2022-present Iceland Katrin Jakobsdottir Prime Minister 2017-present India Droupadi Murmu President 2022-present Italy Giorgia Meloni Prime Minister 2022-present Latvia Evika Siliņa Prime Minister 2023-present Lithuania Ingrida Šimonytė Prime Minister 2020-present Moldova Maia Sandu President 2020-present Namibia Saara Kuugongelwa-Amadhila Prime Minister 2015-present New Zealand Cindy Kiro Governor-General 2021-present Peru Dina Boluarte President 2022-present Samoa Fiamē Naomi Mata'afa Prime Minister 2021-present Serbia Ana Brnabić Prime Minister 2017-present Slovakia Zuzana Čaputová President 2019-present Slovenia Nataša Pirc Musar President 2022-present Taiwan Tsai Ing-wen President 2016-present Tanzania Samia Suluhu Hassan Prime Minister 2021-present Togo Victoire Tomegah Dogbé Prime Minister 2020-present Trinidad and Tobago Christine Kangaloo President 2023-present Uganda Robinah Nabbanja Prime Minister 2021-present     https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/countries-with-female-leaders
FACT: Women are far more likely to be found in senior leadership positions in corporate "boardrooms" in Europe and Asia than in the United States
Executive opportunities for women outside of the U.S. has improved, but the "Glass Ceiling" for women in the U.S., and especially for women of color, has NOT changed. CLICK ABOVE IMAGE TO ENLARGE As reported by Grant Thornton, why is there a greater percentage of women in corporate and governmental boardrooms in Russia (42%), China (31%), Canada (28%), Australia (23%), Brazil (29%), Mexico (31%), and throughout other countries in Europe and Asia than in the United States (20%)? Why is that?

 

 

 

 

QUESTION 8: If "systemic racism and systemic sexism" did not or does not exist in the United States, how could the New York Times find the data, confirm the accuracy of the data, and then on September 9, 2020 publish the data, "Faces of Power: 80% Are White, Even as U.S. Becomes More Diverse," that validates the existence of systemic racism and systemic sexism?

 

 

 

WHITE GUILT - The overwhelming majority of White people alive "today" had absolutely nothing to do with the atrocities committed against Black people, Native Americans, and other people of color, and they should not, they must not feel guilty. Going on a “White guilt” trip for the atrocities committed by their ancestors is ridiculous, unjust, or worse, a skewed sense of narcissism. Instead, moving forward, White people, as should all people, should direct their energies to create a truly egalitarian republic.

 

WHITE DENIAL AND/OR INDIFFERENCE

 

It’s a total waste of time to respond to the callousness or stupidity of White people who act in denial of or indifference to the FACT of voluminous atrocities committed by their ancestors;

 

It’s a total waste of time to respond to the callousness or stupidity of White people, especially White men, who now consider themselves a "victim" for ultimately being in control of and responsible for the overwhelming majority of acts of racism and sexism - while never fixing the problem;

 

It’s a total waste of time to respond to the callousness or stupidity of White people, especially White men, who believe systemic racism and systemic sexism no longer exists, simply because Barack Obama became POTUS and Oprah Winfrey's a billionaire, while constantly ignoring the fact that with every generation there has always been a "token negro" who's been "allowed" by the great White oppressor to do a little more, to have a little more success, etc., such as Madame C.J. Walker (1867-1919), Stepin Fetchit (1902-1985), Sidney Poitier (1927+), Richard Pryor (1940-2005), Eddie Murphy (1961+), etc. Again, these "famous" people of color only functioned as tokens, because they NEVER acquired or held the power or wealth of comparable White males and some White females. Conversely, in "Hollywood" ultimate control has been and continues to be primarily dictated by White Jewish men. As published in the LA Times article, How deeply Jewish is Hollywood? C'mon - "When the studio chiefs took out a full-page ad in the Los Angeles Times a few weeks ago to demand that the Screen Actors Guild settle its contract, the open letter was signed by: News Corp. President Peter Chernin (Jewish), Paramount Pictures Chairman Brad Grey (Jewish), Walt Disney Co. Chief Executive Robert Iger (Jewish), Sony Pictures Chairman Michael Lynton (surprise, Dutch Jew), Warner Bros. Chairman Barry Meyer (Jewish), CBS Corp. Chief Executive Leslie Moonves (so Jewish his great uncle was the first prime minister of Israel), MGM Chairman Harry Sloan (Jewish) and NBC Universal Chief Executive Jeff Zucker (mega-Jewish). If either of the (Jewish) Weinstein brothers had signed, this group would have not only the power to shut down all film production but to form a minyan with enough Fiji water on hand to fill a mikvah." Source: Los Angeles Times, December 19, 2008, by JOEL STEIN

 

P.S. "It’s not anti-Semitic to make a statement of fact; it’s anti-Semitic to imply that there’s something wrong with it." Rachel Shukert

 

It’s a total waste of time to respond to the stupidity of White people, especially White men, who act in denial of or indifference to acts of racism and sexism which boldly continue to this very day.

 

It’s folly to revere, to hold in high esteem people who, instead of establishing freedom for all "people," intentionally modeled their so-called "new" republic on business-as-usual race-based and sex-based governmental systems that openly championed the genocide of Native Americans, people who intentionally and openly championed the servitude and oppression of their own daughters, sisters, mothers, aunts, and grandmothers, and people who openly championed the enslavement and oppression of Black people.  Should Hilter be held in high esteem for improving the German economy through war and the Holocaust?

 

Like it or not, the racial demographics of the United States of America is changing, with the birth rate and populations of minorities increasing as is the blending of all racial and ethnic groups. Conversely, the White fertility rate continues to decrease as White people become richer, more affluent. FACT: The higher the degree of education and GDP per capita of a human population, subpopulation or social stratum, the fewer children are born in any industrialized country. Statistically, a replacement rate of 2.100 is necessary to "replinish" a racial/ethnic group. As reported by the Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD), the United States of America has rarely (i.e., only twice) met this standard over the past thirty-three-(33) years (below): YEAR Total Fertility Rate (TFR) 1990 2.08 1991 2.06 1992 2.05 1993 2.02 1994 2.00 1995 1.98 1996 1.98 1997 1.97 1998 2.00 1999 2.01 2000 2.06 2001 2.03 2002 2.01 2003 2.04 2004 2.05 2005 2.06 2006 2.11 2007 2.12 2008 2.07 2009 2.00 2010 1.93 2011 1.89 2012 1.88 2013 1.86 2014 1.86 2015 1.84 2016 1.82 2017 1.77 2018 1.73 2019 1.71 2020 1.64 2021 1.66 2022   Average 1.95
	In 2018, the TFR for the entire U.S. was only 1.765.5 - and the TFR for White people was only 1.640, which is the next to the lowest racial group TFR in the U.S. of Asians at 1.525. Like it or not, as White people become more "affluent" they have less children. The intentional genocide of Native Americans prohibits their consideration as a "fruitful" source. Equally important, as well-documented in the impeccably researched, “MAAFA 21: Black Genocide in 21st Century America 2nd Edition (2011), the intentional bias against Black people, and Black men in particular, is not ancient history, as the TFR for Black people has consistently declined since the end of slavery, coupled with more Black children being aborted (38.4%) than any other ethic group, and the perpetual decline of the traditional Black family unit from 1620 to Present: 250 years of slavery, 90 years of Jim Crow (lynching, racism, discrimination, incarceration, etc.), 60 years of separate but equal, 35 years of state-sanctioned red-lining. Therefore, to be "competitive" with the demographic changes in TFR worldwide, the United State of America must "replinish" its population from "fruitful" and logistically available external sources. Over the past 33 years, Canada's TFR average is 1.60, much less the the US average of 1.95 and therefore, not a "fruitful" source. China's TFR average is 1.65 but with historical birth controls to limit overpopulation. However, Mexico's TFR average is 2.55 and clearly, very fruitful! Clearly, in order to "replinish" its population and workforce the United State of America is going to become "darker!"
Question: What is the perpetual response from the overwhelming majority of White people to "immigration" and "integration?"
Answer: "Separation" and "Isolation!"
"Integration" is a lie!!! Wake-up. The overwhelming majority of White people have never lived near "people of color," and they do NOT want to live near or with "people of color," which does NOT necessarily make them racist, but clearly establishes their "preference" to live amongst each other. The majority of White people fear integration as much as Black people fear racism.™
Nothing changes the status quo of "White flight" from "people of color."
Nothing changes the status quo of "White flight" from "people of color."
Nothing changes the status quo of "White flight" from "people of color."
Nothing changes the status quo of "White flight" from "people of color."
As America becomes more and more racially diverse, Rich Benjamin noticed a phenomenon: Some communities were actually getting less multicultural. So he got out a map, found the whitest towns in the USA -- and moved in.   CLICK ABOVE IMAGE FOR MORE INFORMATION
Nothing changes the status quo of "White flight" from "people of color."
TO READ THE FULL REPORT, CLICK HERE.
Back in November 1993 (below), Time Magazine projected the U.S. would finally evolve to a true "melting pot."

 

 

 

Given this change in demographics, do you really think minorities will continue to allow memorials, monuments, and celebrations of past atrocities against them to endure? For example, the Black Hills was originally included in the Great Sioux Reservation, and the Lakota Sioux consider their land sacred ground. The Lakotah Sioux voiced strong opposition to defiling their sacred land with images of four White men who championed their genocide and perpetual oppression. The mountain into which Mount Rushmore was carved is known to the Lakota Sioux as Six Grandfathers. Nevertheless, the United States broke up the territory after gold was discovered in the Black Hills and subsequently built Mount Rushmore. QUESTION: If the Republic of Lakotah reacquired control of their sacred land, do you really think they would sustain Mount Rushmore or blow it up into a zillion pieces?
MOUNT RUSHMORE	CHIEF CRAZY HORSE - MODEL	CHIEF CRAZY HORSE - Work in progress

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Separate, but equal. Sound familiar?
Numerous treaties between the US and Sioux Nation, all of which have been violated by the US. The Treaty of Fort Laramie of 1868 establishes a Sioux nation stretching from the Black Hills of Dakota Territory all the way west to Montana and south into Nebraska. Whites are forbidden to settle on these lands. The treaty is ratified by the U.S. Senate on February 16, 1869, then signed by President Andrew Johnson on February 24, just one week before leaving office. During his successful run for the presidency in that same year, General Ulysses S. Grant admits the duplicitous nature of America's relationship with Native Americans, stating, "Our dealings with the Indians properly lay us open to charges of cruelty and swindling." Grant promises to abide by the new treaty and avoid further war on the plains. Source: "Killing Crazy Horse: The Merciless Indian Wars in America," Copyright © 2020 by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard, page 170	CLICK ABOVE IMAGE FOR MORE INFORMATION "It's their land. Give it back!" The Republic of Lakotah

 

In 1886, prior to becoming the 26th President of the United States of America in 1901, Theodore Roosevelt said: “I don’t go so far as to think that the only good Indians are the dead Indians, but I believe nine out of every 10 are, and I shouldn’t like to inquire too closely into the case of the tenth.” Theodore Roosevelt A momument to this racist, Mount Rushmore, is carved into the sacred land of the Lakotah.

 

Teddy Roosevelt's racism is appropriately "championed" on Mount Rushmore with his presidential peers, which include slave owner George Washington, slave owner Thomas Jefferson, and racist Abraham Lincoln who said:

 

"I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the White and Black races, [applause] - that I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with White people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the White and Black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the White race." [From the Collected Works (CW) of Abraham Lincoln, edited by Roy P. Basler, 11 Vols. Rutgers, 1955, 3:145-6]

Abraham Lincoln
Speaking in support of the Illinois Black Laws
Charleston, Illinois
Saturday, September 18, 1858

Source: "Forced Into Glory:
Abraham Lincoln's White Dream"
Page 208
by Lerone Bennett, Jr.
© 1999 Lerone Bennett, Jr.
Published by Johnson Publishing Company

 

The Chief Crazy Horse Memorial is only eighteen-(18) miles from an enduring tribute, Mount Rushmore, to the successful genocide of Native Americans and an enduring tribute to White leaders who also championed the enslavement and oppression of Black people. Isn't it about time "we" ended systemic racism and systemic sexism, and respect all human rights? Surely, it’s much better to rise way above the atrocities of the past to establish a better future. So, how do we get rid of systemic racism and systemic sexism? Here's how:

Let's focus on the humane rights of all "people," and remove all race-based and sex-based laws and legislation:

1. Revise the Declaration of Independence to say, “. . . PEOPLE” are created equal.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all PEOPLE are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

2. Given that the United States Constitution states, "We the People of the United States . . .," therefore, delete/remove/repeal all of the "race-based and gender-based” amendments; and delete/remove/repeal all Executive Orders pertaining to affirmative action (E.O. 11246, E.O. 10925), etc.

 

3. Given that the overwhelming majority of people had/have absolutely no input or control over the assignment of their race or sex, and that "PEOPLE" who are forced to change their sex/gender or who unilaterally change their sex/gender have the legal right to do so; it shall be deemed, by a jury that mirrors the current racial and sexual/gender demographics of the United States of America, a federal capital crime to discriminate against "PEOPLE" for something for which they have no control such as their race, sex, age, ethnicity, creed, national origin, veteran status, pregnancy, disability, etc., and most importantly, upon conviction sentencing will mirror all capital felonies such as murder, mass murder, aggravated cases of rape, child rape, child sexual abuse, terrorism, treason, espionage, sedition, offences against the State, such as attempting to overthrow government, piracy, aircraft hijacking, drug trafficking, drug dealing, etc. Bottom line: To deny someone of their "potential" because of their race, sex, age, ethnicity, creed, national origin, veteran status, pregnancy, disability, etc., is a heinous crime, equivalent to murder and rape.

 

4. Recognize the Republic of Lakotah as a sovereign nation, and return to them all of their land, property, etc.

 

What kind of place is this,
where you almost mean what you say?
Where laws almost work?
How can you live like that?

Djimon Hounsou as
Sengbe Pieh / Joseph Cinqué
from the 1997 film, "Amistad"

"Slavery" is not the issue, because "slavery" has existed in many countries throughout history. So what; it doesn't matter that White-owned and White-controlled schools intentionally refused to teach "real history." The "issue" began in 1776 when a bunch of well-educated, slave-owning White guys wrote, "We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal." Get it. So, the "past" is only relevant due to the hypocisy of "elite," politically powerful and affluent White men. In 1776, these educated, slave-owning White-man created a government that said, consistent with the religious beliefs, that humans are all equal in God's eye. However, contrary to what they wrote, they intentionally and successfully engineered a "new" nation that continues to exist on racism, oppression, and discrimination - and these "elite," politically powerful and affluent White men have sustained their privilege for the past 247 years, and in the absence of another civil war or invasion from Russia, China, or aliens from the planet Mars, etc., they'll continue to do so.

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Systemic Racism and Systemic Sexism is perpetual . . .

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The overwhelming majority of Black people
have ALWAYS been in the bottom 50%

Again, before, during, and after slavery the overwhelming majority of Black people have ALWAYS been in the bottom 50%

Unfortunately, even after reading all of the above FACTS about the well-documented history and well-documented perpetual existence of systemic racism, perhaps you're still in denial or indifferent to its existence. Then, please explain this . . .

White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Nation's Divide

 

As posted on Twitter and various news outlets on September 5, 2020 here's yet another example of the Black experience not only in Nebraska . . . but throughout the United States of America.

 

 

I welcome your feedback.

For Part 2, click here.

Trip Reynolds
trip.reynolds@yahoo.com

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