The Great Exploitation Proliferation
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The Great Exploitation Proliferation Chapter 30
Its 2010 and I live in a city in West Virginia where the population for Black Americans is 4.4%. The West Virginia justice department’s records for 2008 indicated that the progress of the civil rights movement compared to national standards is dated back to 1958. This stat is staggering considering that the civil rights act was not even passed until 1964. However, the stats that’s consistent with the nation’s standard just so happens to be the rate in which minorities are incarcerated. Clearly something is wrong with this picture. This blog is not about racism but it’s about economics. There is a system in West Virginia that has not been nationally publicized. The industry jobs and the highest paying blue collar work are given to people by association without regard of aptitude or character. In the city of Huntington, WV especially you absolutely cannot get hired without knowing someone who works there or by family recommendation. The corporate and small business infrastructure is far worse. The wealth of the city is divided into certain families who own block after block of real estate and family owned businesses.
I know firsthand what’s wrong with the economy and civil liberties that make a city thrive into the 21st century. Considering that my junior high school was filled with racist jokes, slurs, and violence from both student and staff. There were certain neighborhoods that you just didn’t venture off to without being shot at or chased off by a mob of angry white people. Times have changed and to even talk about racism publically is a growing taboo. It makes most natives uncomfortable and they accuse you of “playing the race card.” A stigma put on Blacks because of the OJ Simpson trial and acquittal. The tactic is to take away our protest and to sell minorities low wage jobs to make the next generation rich. The old cycle of economic is ridiculously wrong. Should minorities be grateful to not be burned, hung and called nigger? Should we not point out when certain teachers sabotage the education of blacks and turn them out into a world of bottom feeders? Blacks have not protested since the seventies at least not in anything that extended beyond a one-night event. It’s an everyman for himself situation here.
The advantage that minorities have here is that we have been lagging about a decade behind everyone in economy nationally. The technology of the internet in the information age has changed our dilemma. The “trickle down” of national influence has put off the good and the bad. Recently, the bad has hit the nation with state after state in mild to serious recession and the federal deficit at all time high. Now golden opportunity has hit our local economy. Markets have opened up to us that are failing in other cities. The “old money” that has placed a lid on economic breakthroughs for minorities by refusing to invest and network with entrepreneurs and innovators of “new money” concepts, has been exposed. E commerce is international and our economy has been globalized. Consider that if old money doesn’t meet new money locally then we are going to appear to the national stage as cavemen unthawed out of the ice age. Where is the small town that offers nothing original and nothing new going to stand once the trickle down of recession hits home? Surely nothing that can’t be bought off of E-bay or Amazon.com. A word to the “old money” thinkers, investments should be made to the minority. Clearly the nation shows you that minorities are worth a lot more than minimum wage. Use all of the gifts that minorities are equipped with and see if the economy doesn’t flourish. Once the recession hits WV, the state is going to have to make budget cuts. That means no more state funding to handle the “black” problem. Let’s just try to raise the quality of life of minorities in this area by receiving an extended hand of peace. I can assure you that if there is no investment there will be nothing left to hold us into this economic cage of minimalism.
The Great Exploitation Proliferation Chapter 31
The Great Exploitation Proliferation Chapter 31
Here’s Johnny!!!
In the 1960’s Ralph Waldo “Petey” Greene calmed a rioting Washington D. C. “Chocolate City” after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. leader of the civil rights movement. Afterward his fame sky rocketed through the 80’s and had even got a spot as a stand up on the Johnny Carson show. As fast as that opportunity came for “Petey” it left with one of his famous quotes, “America ain’t ready for “Petey” Greene.” It was true America was not ready for “Petey” Greene” because he had an honest heart on matters of racial injustice and government corruption. However, I’m not talking about Johnny Carson this blog. I’m talking about Johnny Cochran. He was possibly Dr. King’s predecessor and one of the most underrated and powerful black men in America.
Johnny Cochran? I know that you may think that this is just a man that got O. J. Simpson acquitted of first degree murder. This celebrity attorney has successfully represented Snoop Dogg, Sean Combs, Michael Jackson, Todd Bridges, Tupac Shakur, and Jim Brown just to name a few. This would’ve been powerful enough alone due to his ability to manipulate justice with skill and render the truth of evidence obsolete. Johnny Cochran didn’t stop there. He did something that was essential to the very civil rights we have the privilege of enjoying. The essential thing used by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. for Blacks, and Gandhi for India is the peaceful power of protest and speaking the truth about injustice. One of the things Johnny Cochran would protest is injustice for blacks in corporate America. He was on the frontlines of struggle. And yet, mysteriously and quickly afterward he died of a “brain tumor.”
It was in the back of my mind that this was foul play, but the more I talked to other people they had thought the same thing and had the same reaction. It is not a mystery that our black leaders die early in this country and coincidentally all black leaders die mysterious deaths. Is someone sending a message saying serve us or die? Will it be in Black’s best interest to humble ourselves for the crumbs that fall from the rich man’s table? Maybe we should sing and dance so we can’t use our rage and ridicule to fight for the dignity of being a man? I know these questions are hard questions to ponder. Clearly we are servants in America, but will anybody have enough courage to ask our owners who ever they be, to tell us our purpose? Think people! The exploitation of minorities and the poor class is a growing detrimental trend that must be noticed and then dealt with accordingly. I’m encouraging minorities and Christians alike to look into the truth of these checkered histories and conspiracies of corruption. Remember the Tuskegee Experiment how they gave blacks Syphilis to see how it killed people? Remember J Edgar Hoover and his career in annihilating black leaders? Christians I know the bible says think on whatsoever is pure, beautiful, of a good report, etc. (Philippians 4). The bible also says that my people are destroyed because of a lack of knowledge (Hosea). What’s the balance between those truths? It’s a beautiful thing to know the truth about where you came from, where you are going, and what you are in. Truth is pure in any arena whether it’s in the midst of persecution, struggle or injustice. Freedom can’t be taken away from people with the right attitude of freedom. It’s a beautiful thing and a good report to know that you will know the truth and the truth will set you free!
