Barrack Obama. The Puritan ethos and the Negro in US society and how this haunts the US today.
The Puritan ethos haunts the US to this day. The society was shaped by the Puritan ethic.
It disregarded everyything else. By mid-19th Century it became apparent that a spanner had been thrown on the works and needed to be dealt with.
The US had a Puritan north. Industrializing. An Agricultural society with a lot of negroes that by them had been breeding a lot and creating a huge numbers.
That needed to be dealt with. What if the negroes were freed?
If we had a SI thread then, people would be discussing:
North will benefit. Negroes become salary earners and will be part of the economy. Something resembling the USSR entering the world economy post-communism collapse.
South would lose competitiveness since its labour costs would increase. Perhaps North would import cotton from Brazil instead of from the South.
The South decided to continue as was, and let the northerners find the markets for their goods elsewhere. North didn't like that: Lose that captive market just at your doorstep? They went to war and defeated the south.
But the Negroes were still there!!! US did a Brazil. Let's whiten the country. Open the doors for all European shirtless:
Italians, Irish, Scandinavians, plus Central and East Europeans.
It increased the number of whites. But the blacks were still growing!!!.
80 years later it was impossible to hide the fact that the negro issue needed to be dealt with. For the first time in the US history they had what can be called a revolution.
A wave o youth decided they no longer wanted to be Puritanical. They want to become like the negro. Have lots of sex, drink, use drugs and listen to negro music.
And they also wanted the negro kid to go to the white kids' school. Here the gasoline problem connects with the Puritan and the negro problem.
(This script never makes to the screens, I can tell you!)
Puritans decide to segregate by distance. They moved to the suburbs, left inner city. In the suburbs the affluent kept the school de-segregated, but the negro kid lived too far co drive there.
And they didn't put a public transport system like Curitiba's for the negro to move up and down. Building such system, would prompt clever negroes to attend white kids school.
Never mind that the distance were long for the suburbanites. Gasoline was cheap to keep segregation by distance feasible.
Government provided low cost gasoline. Government did not invest in public transport and kept the negro in the dark with token affirmative action. The negroes were taken for a hide for half a century.
Today, the system is no longer working
Enter Barack Obama...
I've been watching closely. Very closely and for a very long time...
ETHOS:
Sociology. the fundamental character or spirit of a culture; the underlying sentiment that informs the beliefs, customs, or practices of a group or society; dominant assumptions of a people or period |
