Amerika

Many of our newer readers have finally escaped the guilt-lock on their minds that the civil rights society enforced for decades, and are tempted to flip that around in a linear fashion from “Blacks good, Whites bad” to “Blacks bad, Whites good.”

I suggest instead that we appreciate the African-American experience. In my view, Blacks in this country got a raw deal from the get-go. True, many slaves would otherwise have been executed, but others were simply kidnapped from the fields and towns of rural Africa to be sold for money.

True, the people doing this were Africans, at least at first, but they did it because there were Arabs, Jews, Chinese, and Whites waiting with ready cash at the ports. A market for people had been created.

Ironically, progressives were responsible: they eliminated the feudal system, causing a labor crisis which was fixed with indentured servants, but that became unreliable due to the criminal nature of the Irish who made up most of that group, so the markets turned to slavery.

Slavery in my view — I still celebrate Juneteenth — was never intelligent. First and foremost, it is an abusive system since unwilling labor has to be forced to work, at least at first. Second, slavery is low-quality labor, often grudging and incompetent. Third, it was diversity, which is never good!

Defenders of the South point out that slavery was relatively gentle and paternalistic. This was probably true on the whole, but when you got an ornery slave like many of today’s defiant BLM activists, you had to whip the poor thing and that makes both master and slave degraded.

After slavery, Blacks were essentially dumped into a society that was alien to them, but without any of the subsidies and protections — the value of the slave made murder unlikely — that slavery offered. A mistake was followed by another mistake.

No matter what any of us do, Blacks will always know of their origins as slaves and distrust the society that did this to them. They would never be able to trust Whites, Hispanics, and Asians anyway, since any foreign group must be viewed as exclusively self-interested, but they are not going to trust any group that historically enslaved them, beat them, and rioted against them.

True, most of the race riots were instigated by diversity crime, but diversity has a trap. You either blame yourselves or blame the hosts. If you blame yourselves, you damage your self-esteem; if you blame the hosts, you bond yourselves to them. It is a trap with no path to escape.

Even today, in a society that tries hard to make nice, Blacks are viewed as gangsters who do crimes and drugs more than the sober, elegant people like John Coltrane or Zora Neale Huston. Our first “Black” president was half-Black and an incompetent criminal of Irish heritage.

Only a society designed by Blacks, for Blacks, can treat Blacks well. No matter how many civil rights and subsidies White people create, Blacks will still feel like aliens in this society. It is time to finally end the pain.

Our best option consists of reparations-with-remigration, or the idea that we compensate diversity with money while we send them back to their ethnic homelands. This allows us to part as friends.

In particular, this will help White people with the guilt they feel over slavery, Jim Crow, and white rappers (this last sin cannot be cleansed by anything). We need to heal the wound of history. Subsidies and affirmative action cannot do it, but ending diversity sure can.

Tags: african-americans, blacks, diversity, whites