Still Eating Well
Why aren't the folks that hate slavery complaining about Red China?
America is torn over racism. Coming in a close second place as the most divisive social issue is gender identity. Battles between labor unions, monopolies, unfair competition and taxation, have all fallen by the wayside. Our citizens are at war with each other over conditions we have no control over. We can't choose our family or our genitalia, but we can use our anger about it to create revenue streams.
Isn't it interesting that issues that are driven by folks that make up such a small portion of the population should cause so much drama? We all know that cancer is the biggest threat to human life, so where are the folks that advocate for cancer victims and their families? If we spent half as much of our time and trouble futzing with the issues of the LGBTQ+ segment or the black race, we might find some answers to why so many lives are lost way too soon, no matter what pronouns they chose.
It is estimated that in America, 13% of the population is black and it is growing rapidly. It seems counterintuitive that black immigration from other parts of the world has jumped in recent years. Even more counter intuitive is the fact that a large component of that immigration is moving into states where there has not been, traditionally, many black residents. Meaning, new American blacks are settling down where whites live.
If "White Supremacy" was the law of the land, why would newcomer blacks want to live in white neighborhoods where so much hatred is prevalent?
They wouldn't because it's not.
Racism, now referred to in the pejorative as "White Supremacy", is institutionalized historically by placing African immigrants into a lifetime of indentured servitude, then finding other ways to, once slavery was banned, keep black people out of the cultural mainstream, to keep them ignorant and economically indentured. All of which are morally bankrupt practices. America has struggled to untangle these semi-codified social standards that have languished for 200 years.
We may never fully eradicate racial animosities, but we collectively try. Just look at the thousands of governmental agencies established to help 'victims' of discrimination.
There are thousands of NGOs across the country dedicated to educating young people, to raising funds to support inner city programs, to advance healthcare for poor black victims of disease, to assist students to advance their studies, to find careers, and to bring the races together.
The elephant in the room is that there are literally millions of black millionaires in America. American blacks live better than black occupants of most other countries.
But black anger is at all-time highs. You cannot watch a newscast without seeing some black activist claiming the current political conflict, crime story or tragedy, is caused by "White Supremacy!" Which alludes to the presence of a Modern Day Form of Black Slavery. Black activists almost always raise the specter of how America is still operating a plantation of oppressed slaves.
If we look at this from a distance, why aren't there more black activists clamoring about the worlds largest slave plantation? The country that exports more products than any other on Earth. That achieves it's dominate manufacturing and exporting status on the backs of billions of Chinese slave laborers.
Why aren't the folks that hate slavery complaining about Red China? Is it OK to use and abuse workers because they are all the same color? Because they're not black?
The massive workforce that can make every product ever imagined cheaper than any other labor force on the planet, are nothing less than prisoners in their own country.
They are not free to leave. They are not free to choose their jobs. They work unrelenting hours, for basic starvation wages. In China, most people work in factories that are not air conditioned. Most do not own a home or a motorized mode of transportation. They spend their entire childhood being groomed to accept their fate, to actually embrace their designated roles, and to dedicate their souls to the state.
That is why they can out-compete the world for producing cheap prices, not just for goods, but more recently, for services too. They are victims of a Communist Slave System that is structured to exploit the worker class, manage the management class, and serve the ruling class.
The Chinese Communist Party decides who fits into which class, and the majority has no say. In fact, they don't vote, they just work to survive, just as the African immigrants did in pre-1865 America. The Party pretends to operate a Democratic System of selecting the representatives who will protect the various segments of population from "outside" or "criminal" influences.
And nobody in Black America is complaining! Not even the most ardent black spokespersons who you would expect would be the first group to point out that slavery still exists in the world and by supporting Chinese products and services, we are complicit in promoting more of it! Instead high profile black icons like LeBron James reel in billions in fees from Chinese clothing, shoe, and equipment manufacturers.
Thousands of those black millionaires are reaping much of their cash flow from China-based factories exploiting certain groups across the age and genetic spectrum. They are complicit in the same moral vacuum American black activists relentlessly bitch about.
The National Basketball Association, according to a coalition of Federal Government Authorities, needs to distance itself from most of it's estimated $10B investment in Chinese supply chains. The 2021 Xinjiang Supply Chain Business Advisory strongly warned against empowering the Peoples Republic Of China by turning the other cheek to human abuse.
Instead, since then, "the government and affiliated commercial entities continued to engage in a concerted campaign to dispel these accusations through vehement denial” through a bevy of methods, including:
Misleading public messaging;
State-ordered, politically motivated academic research;
Falsified cotton production and harvest mechanization data;
Localized propaganda campaigns targeting consumers the establishment of false supply chain policy initiatives as alternatives to preexisting international monitoring and compliance programs;
New sanctions on foreign government officials critical of PRC abuses; and pressure on international companies.
-- Xinjiang Advisory Reports updated in September, 2023
The whole "America is a Racist Nation" movement is nothing other than a ploy to move wealth around and direct more of it towards those that play the War On Racism role. Those activists have been around for decades and none of their solutions ever come true. Like our nations international war efforts in the past century, they were never meant to be victorious, just to keep the economic opportunities alive and expanding.
The same can be said about the recent insurgency of The Queer Wars. Homosexual and other gender confused people have been around for hundreds of years. Granted, many have suffered terrible discrimination and sometimes brutal crimes. As only 4% of the general population, like any other small minority, they have always been vulnerable. That doesn't make it acceptable, just a reality.
Figuring out how to make room for those minority groups is precisely what makes America so unique.
Are we always successful? No, but at least we keep trying. There are hundreds of laws on the books to discourage violence and discrimination, but that is problematic because being discriminatory is part of discretion. Just because there is a law against certain acts of discrimination, doesn't mean it will be obeyed. Most of the women murdered by their spouses had already placed a restraining order on their abusive husband.
Does anyone really think the recent insurgence of increasing media awareness, of assaults on our schools, our entertainment and our churches, is actually making things better? By forcing otherwise normal gender stable citizens to become fans of public indecency, the LGBTQ+ activists are driving a wedge between us. They're doubling down and risking it all because they believe that the chance to normalize their lifestyle is now.
Why would they believe the time is right, after hundreds of earlier attempts over hundreds of years, to change the thinking of billions of people who probably, in most cases, have given little or no thought to the issue of gender identity?
Could it be that a segment of the population, the one that believes they are smarter than you, have chosen to use these contentious issues as a battering ram to break up the glue that holds America together? Is it possible that undermining the foundational beliefs of the rebels that broke away from the Queen and her Aristocratic regime to form a "more perfect union" in 1776 are behind the push for reordering our "normalcy" regarding American sovereignty and sexual and racial identity?
If you wanted to bring down the "Twin Towers" of Americanism, to cause the entire enterprise to collapse, what better way than to set huge segments of the population against each other. To create an atmosphere of civil war, fighting over skin color, physical attributes, religion, marriage and family, threats to the environment and every other aspect of social stability?
It beats the traditional ways of effecting enormous cultural change like overrunning cities and murdering the opposition en mass. It leaves the infrastructure in place and preserves the plantations so the elite can continue to eat well.