The Death of Black America

Black America and Peak Oil: Back to the Plantation

Peak oil is going to make mechanized farming cost prohibitive. The corporate farming model cannot be sustained. Mechanized farming was developed in the American south in the 1940s as a countermeasure to the growing civil rights movement. With the development mechanization and automation, blacks usefulness as manual farm labor and sharecroppers was no longer needed. They were quickly evicted from the land, causing many to migrate to cities in the north in hopes of finding work in a number of America's manufacturing hubs such as: Chicago, Detroit, New York, and Philadelphia.

Jump ahead to 2008, many of the descendents of these migrants from the south are now trapped in America's growing permanent underclass. With the revitalization of America's cities, these areas are now becoming unaffordable for many people. By design, they have been methodically pushed out of the inner cites into the suburbs of and exburbs. In the Atlantic Monthly, Christopher B. Leinberger wrote:

"On the other hand, many inner suburbs that are on the wrong side of town, and poorly served by public transport, are already suffering what looks like inexorable decline. Low-income people, displaced from gentrifying inner cities, have moved in, and longtime residents, seeking more space and nicer neighborhoods, have moved out.

But much of the future decline is likely to occur on the fringes, in towns far away from the central city, not served by rail transit, and lacking any real core. In other words, some of the worst problems are likely to be seen in some of the country’s more recently developed areas—and not only those inhabited by subprime-mortgage borrowers. Many of these areas will become magnets for poverty, crime, and social dysfunction."

Many of America's cities are refurbishing their inner cities as high tech, walkable communities, catering to retiring yuppies, and up and coming Generation Xers and Millennials. The problem with all this is that Peak Oil is going to cripple America's ability to feed itself with the corporate mechanized farming model that we've all grown to depend on.

America is now in the beginning of a Great Depression. Peak Oil and America's economic collapse are going to lower the living standards of most Americans and create a permanent underclass. In this transition, large, yet local farms will be necessary to feed America's population. How does America run large corporate style farms without diesel fuel and petrochemicals? You do it with manual labor provided by your marginalized black, white, and hispanic population. I will use blacks as an example because of our historically connection to the corporate modeled plantation farming systems.

Most of Americas poor and middle class have little or no net worth. Foreclosurse, joblessness, and inflation will increase, making it difficult if not impossible for most Americans to survive the OIL SHOCKS to come.

My prediction is this, the poor White, Hispanic, and Black population will end up in a feudal plantation system in which they trade labor for food, shelter, and security. Eventually over time, this trade off will evolve into a system of bonded serfdom where the landlord (farmer) deducts from their labor the cost of food, shelter, and security, which will keep them and future generations bound to the land as a permanent work force.

These farm owners will still have access to wi-fi infrastructure, and various modes of transporation, but their work force will be stuck in perpetual servitude comparable to slavery in the American south and the serfdom of Europe. In the midst of chaos, and with the lack of prepartion on their part, this transistion back to the plantation will probably take two generations. The common dsyfunctional  pathelogies held among all three (white, hispanic, and black) racial groups fill facilitate this process:

1. No assets or wealth

2. No value placed on financial education or literacy

3. A generational continuum of dsyfunctional pathologies such as single parent households, high out-of-wedlock birthrates, and domestic violence

The need from stability, food, sheter, and security will cause many of the future suburban slum dwellers to gravitate to these defacto plantations out of a need for survival.

If you want to avoid this scenerio I would make the following suggestions:

1. Ownership of at least a 1 acre parcel of land with a water souce suitable for subsistance farming in a rural area.

2. Store at least 1 year of food.

3. Construct a shelter with an alternative energy source such as solar power.

4. Raise crops and livestock that can be bartered for necessities.

5. Be highly adaptable, and develop a curiosity for learning.

6. Learn hunting and self defense skills.

If you cannot accomplish these tasks on your own, form a coop with friends and share the financial burden. It is paramount that you do this for yourself and for future generations.

UPDATE: When Being White Is No Longer Enough

1.        PROBLEM.

The Increase in racism is due to the obsolescence of the white working and middle class.  This racism is taking the form of anti-immigration protest and resurgence of  negative white/black relations in America.

2.        DISCUSSION.
What the working and middle class fail to realize is that the end of the social contract between poor and middle class white Americans and the American Aristocracy has taken place.  During America’s industrial revolution, working/middle class whites found a commonality with America’s aristocracy based on skin color.  Black, Native Americans, and Chinese were legally denied the benefits of the social contract based on their skin color.  They fail to realize that their complicit racism allowed the American aristocracy to use people of color to undermine their standard of living.  By supporting the status quo of a color-based underclass, they denied themselves leverage in the labor movement.  On the national level, complicit racism
did guarantee certain union jobs and a higher standard of living based on being “white.”  What many White Americans fail to realize is that most of their ancestors ended up in America simply because they’re labor and class were no longer needed or wanted in Europe. Planet of Slums author, Mike Davis wrote:


“The European urban-industrial revolutions were incapable of absorbing the entire supply of displaced rural labor, especially after continental agriculture was exposed to the devastating competition of the North American prairies and Argentine pampas from the 1870s. But mass emigration to the settler societies of the Americas and Australasia, as well as Siberia, provided a dynamic safety valve that prevented the rise of mega-Dublins and super-Napleses, as well as the spread of the kind of underclass anarchism that had taken root in the most immiserated parts of Southern Europe.” (1)


America and Australia were dumping grounds for Europe’s “white trash.”  If they had not been removed, poor whites would have simply squatted in slums all over Europe.
In the 21st century, the world is now making a transition to the age of virtual infrastructure.  Infrastructure amounts to the services, structures, and personnel that make commerce possible such as roads, highways, hospitals, police, manufacturing, and services that benefit the general population. What is now happening is that this infrastructure is transiting to a virtual form and physical labor will no longer be necessary for their construction and maintenance.  America has been on a de-industrial trend since the 1960s.  What many American’s fail to realize is that jobs in banking, back office, manufacturing, farming, engineering, science, and technology can be outsourced to third world countries to cheap labor or automated all together.  In this
shift to virtual infrastructure, the blame game of race is resurfacing.  They do not realize that technological innovation and profit trump race.  The End of Work author, Jeremy Rifkin wrote:


For others, the triumph of technology appears more a bitter cures, a requiem for those who will be made redundant by the new global economy and the breathtaking advances in automation that are eliminating so many human beings from the economic process.  For them the future is filled with dread, not hope, with growing rage, not anticipation. They sense that the world is passing them by, and feel increasingly powerless to intervene on their own behalf, to demand their rightful inclusion in the new high-tech global order. They are the outcast of the global village.  Shunned by the powers that be, and forced to languish at the
periphery of earthly existence, they are the hordes whose collective temper is as unpredictable as the changing political winds-a mass of humanity whose fortunes and destiny increasingly tend toward social upheaval and rebellion against a system that has made them invisible.”(2)


The idea of America as a white man’s country is over, but the death throws of the white lower and middle class will continue to reflect a people steeped in the obsolete white supremacy of the past.  They have to admit that being white is no longer enough.  Until that time, they will continue to lament the economic stability of the past 60 odd years and white privilege as they sink to a status lower than their necessary, but lowly serf ancestors.  Currently the scapegoats for economic innovation and automation are immigrants and people of color. They refuse to acknowledge that America’s aristocracy really feels no affinity for their poor white brethren.  Racism was simply a means to an end in the form of control of labor and wage concessions.  Many Americans today feel life behind and abandoned by their elected leaders.  This is true,
but they have a much harder lesson to learn, and this is what it means to be a nigger, to be inhuman, unneeded, unwanted, and valueless.

3.        PREDICTIONS.
During this learning curve, racism will increase and manifest itself in physical violence. In today's Washington Post article, Hate Groups' Newest Target, Don Black, webmaster of stormfront.org states:

White people, for a long time, have thought of our government as being for us, and Obama is the best possible evidence that we've lost that. This is scaring a lot of people who maybe never considered themselves racists, and it's bringing them over to our side.

Yet, poor and middle class white continued to let themselves be duped into voting for such people under the belief that their white commonality would prevent them from being screwed and garner special privileges. This belief in white commonality continues to cause them to vote against their own self interest, and eventually for their own demise. Class is the the bigger problem in America, but racial superiority is the perfect wedge issue. Because of white America's inability to vote for people and issues related to class instead of race affiliation, they are now at they're wits end, and the build up of Hate Groups is a reflection of this trend. They can't seem to accept that simply being white in America is no longer enough.

In the future, the poor and formally middle class white population will merge with we poor blacks, and hispanics into a mulatto type population. The majority of the world’s population will live in slums full of valueless humanity, the 21st century proletariat.  Family ties, social proprietary, and altruism will disappear into animalistic forms of breeding and violent competition for resources necessary for daily survival. 


ENDNOTES

1. Davis, Mike. Planet of Slums. Verso. London. New York. 2006. p.183.
   
2. Rifkin, Jeremy. The End of Work: The Decline of the Global Labor Force and the Dawn of the
   Post-Market Era. Tarcher/Putnam Books. New York.1995.p.216.
   

First World Sexual Politics and Sex Tourism: Don't Blame it on Rio or Kenya

A Toledo Blade article, Black professional men drawn to Rio's sex trade discusses a new book, Don’t Blame it on Rio by Jewell Woods. After reading the article and book here are several main points:

Only about 2000 black men travel to Rio regularly for this activity. But the book and article do articulate that professional black men do not feel accepted or validated by the black community. Here are two reasons:

The professional black male does not fit the archetype (example) of the thug/stud Negro image of masculinity ingrained in the psyche of black women. Thus, they are not seen as attractive or potential mates.

Many of the men interviewed don’t feel like competing with professional black women professionally. If these men do marry it tends to be to women who are less educated than themselves.

The article and the book also discuss the lack of black males in college. This again falls back to the ingrained idea of what is black masculinity in the limited parameters of the thug/stud Negro image. This image of the thug/stud is being further perpetuated by educated black males through Mandingo Party orgies with white clientele in America.

In America, educated black men have to curtail their masculinity into a passive persona to be less threatening in professional environments. Curtailing masculinity starts in school and is cultivated for the rest of their lives. Sociologist, E. Franklin Frazier wrote, "That the Negro races is the lady or races.” Professional black males cannot display a masculine image that is equal to white males if they want to succeed in professional environments. Therefore, many of these men are viewed as passive or punks by other black males and black females.  

These coping mechanisms have created a class distinction between black males and black females based on education and earning power. The black community does not have equal numbers of educated males to compliment the number of black females. Here are the results of this trend:

1 Black women outnumber black men in both education and high income employment.

2. These black women have a low probability of finding potential mates or reproducing.

3. The black men that are educated and employed do are not viewed as masculine by Black American women.

Young black males do not value education because they do not want to be viewed as passive or punks by the black community. This also explains the low numbers of black males in college. Those that do value education are typically excluded from the black community which feeds into the assimilation and interracial dating trends, which are playing out in two ways:

1. Educated black males in high paying positions are gravitating to females in their social circle regardless of race.

2. Uneducated black males are forming relationships with similarly uneducated white women, typically called “Poor White Trash.” Education and income disparity is creating a class division between black men and black women. Uneducated black men are finding that they have more in common with uneducated white women from similar socioeconomic backgrounds, yet are  largely incompatible with educated black women, who also tend to come from a poor socioeconomic backgrounds.

Also, note that these interracial unions will continue to carry with them many of the dysfunctional pathologies that have traditionally plagued both poor white and poor black communities. Simply stated, the  dysfunctional population of poor white Americans and black Americans are merging into one sizably dysfunctional population.

In the future, the black American population as we currently think of it will no longer exist. It will be much smaller, poorer, uneducated, and lighter-skinned population, with little if any historical connection to their African-American history. These trends point to dieing black middle class population.

Now going further into the race/sex tourism thread, a recent article entitled, Older white women join Kenya's sex tourists, discusses how and why older white women are paying for sexual encounters with African men. What is most interesting is that many of these women don’t want their African prostitutes to use condoms. These women in similar fashion to the black men in Rio are engaging in risky behavior for gender validation. These women, in essence are paying to validate their femininity, to capture the feeling of being desired and pursued on her dime.

The trend of the educated class is one in which both male and females seem to be looking for ways to validate traditional gender roles. Both are using their money to travel to third world countries for experiences that neither sex is willing to provide to one another.

Voice from the Grave: Robert F. Williams

Listen to this interview of Robert F. Williams, author of Negroes with Guns.  He discussed America's current decline and the growing anti-assimilation movement by minority groups. Robert F. Williams blamed racism and the growing income disparity between rich and poor as major causes of this problem which will eventually cause America to collapse from within.