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To: D. Long who wrote (117047)	12/16/2000 11:15:23 PM
From: haqihana	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Derek, He is used to a different kind of demonstration. Like the one where the followers of Quanell X march in public streets in Jack Boots, with loaded assault weapons. Jumper seems to be one of those kinds of citizens. ~;=;o --haqi

To: D. Long who wrote (117047)	12/16/2000 11:54:23 PM
From: Johannes Pilch	Respond to of 769670

He can’t, because you are correct. Far too many blacks are trapped in negativism, the chains of slavery. They whine about jobs, discrimination and ”institutional racism,” but fail to persistently embrace the system and its institutions so that over time they change. They are generally a wonderfully myopic people, with leaders too dense to call them to a purposeful construction of positive culture. The poor folk are always running from something, and are perpetually afraid when opportunity is all around them. They simply cannot see through their pain. And whites have so much power over them. Merely call a black a n_gg_r (we must even be afraid to print the word!), or tell him he is subhuman or inferior to whites, and his whole world fills with stultifying pain. How can anyone live like this? Black leaders could have long ago led the vast majority of blacks to psychological security. It’s profoundly tragic, because quite a lot of wasted potential exists amongst blacks. About a year ago I read a biography on Booker T. Washington. The man was an unbelievable visionary. I have since read quite a good deal of his writings. In a nutshell this is what Washington saw long before anyone else. 1. Blacks, having been but slaves, are uneducated. 2. Blacks generally have no skills. 3. Blacks are despised. 4. Blacks are as smart or smarter than whites, but whites don’t think this true-- a fact to be used to blacks’ advantage. In view of the above items, he started a very rigourous educational institution of intense Christian discipline that concentrated on mastering and commercialising the few skills blacks had, two of which were simple labour and knowledge of agriculture. He hired George Washington Carver, and others like him, to teach at his institution. He wanted Carver to duplicate himself many times over. Those blacks who were not gifted academically were trained to work more efficiently in trades, so that they became quickly productive and self-sufficient. Even the least gifted black in Washington’s plan was taught to be more a more efficient worker in trades such as brick-making and simple agriculture labour. Blacks would become known as the best workers and the best thinkers when it came to anything to do with the trades and with agricultural science. So that blacks would have enough time to corner the agricultural job market, Washington petitioned the government to drastically limit immigration. He assisted black farmers with knowledge developed in the labs of his institution so as to boost their production. From the bottom of the agriculture system (the simple labourer), to the very top (the scientist), blacks would be the significant leaders. And since society was then heavily agrarian, it would roundly come to view blacks as valuable assets. The race would be gradually freed from self-doubts and the wounds of slavery. Washington came darned near to accomplishing his vision, and with money gotten from whites. All this, from a mere slave. (this is the sort of potential that is wasted amongst blacks today). Several things worked against him. White racists (KKK, etc.) constantly harassed and lynched blacks. Radical blacks like W.E.B. Dubois responded by demanding, via protest and agitation, rapid social change and equal rights. Dubois began the NAACP, demanding B.T. Washington adopt its radical stance. Washington refused, persistently trying instead to lead blacks toward quietly and consistently implementing his plan. He tried to accommodate white leaders (many or most of whom were racists, as was the majority of whites at the time) by ensuring them that his plan had little to do with integrating blacks with whites, but everything to do with building a black work and cultural ethic (I suspect Washington knew the integration would have come naturally). Whites supported Washington, many of them donating thousands of dollars to his cause. But racists continued to harm blacks and this fueled Dubois, who constantly pushed his protest and agitation methods. Dubois’s philosophy was to rely on government laws for rights, while Washington’s philosophy required a reliance on the market. Washington knew market forces would naturally integrate blacks into American culture and society. And he despised Dubois’s reliance on government and law. He despised how the NAACP blacks overly promoted such relatively useless things as poetry and music (we are talking about lifting slaves out of bondage here), derisively labeling such things “geegaw,” and telling blacks that they could ill afford to be distracted by them at the time. Washington and Dubois became bitter enemies. Of course its easy to get into the streets and yell, and should the powers that be get tired enough to hand out a few crumbs, yelling in the streets would seem the right thing to do. That is precisely what happened, and Dubois won the hearts of blacks generally. He won the struggle against Washington, establishing a black legacy of consistent dependence upon government instead of human ingenuity for succor. This is why Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson yet run wild in the streets when they think blacks ill-used. Had Washington succeeded, Archer Daniels Midland Co, and other such agricultural conglomerates likely would have been controlled by blacks. Indeed, slavery would by now have become but a dim memory. But as it is today, slavery is quite alive amongst blacks because black power lies in the hands of whites - as has always been the case. Blacks live in fear and protest in the streets over one little man because they sense their very comfort directly linked to what that man should decide to do. Pretty dang sad.