Interracial Wisdom: The Plot to Steal America

I believe that many of the fundamental trends in white supremacist politics and rhetoric serve a common ideological purpose. That purpose is to create an intellectual and cultural environment to justify the expropriation of land, property, and other wealth from Foundational Black Americans while instituting a permanent regime of white privilege in employment and legal protections for whites who harm blacks.

While this statement is not new,  this expropriation is ongoing.

This is not to suggest that direct expropriation is the conscious strategy of all participants in these movements. Like every good political strategy, the white supremacist has an exoteric and esoteric meaning—there is an “inner party,” a limited group that understands what the end game is, even if at times they may not even express it to themselves, and a far larger, more diverse, and less sophisticated “outer party” that simply thinks that attacking “Black Americans” is fighting for “justice.”

Different white political actors are working in their own fields to obtain benefits and status at the expense of blacks. These individuals and groups are not engaged in an active conspiracy—there is no “Protocols of the Elders of White Supremacist.” But there is a conscious effort by those in the political system to delegitimize Black Americans and to retell the American story in a way that makes Black the villains to justify expropriating the vast wealth and prosperity largely produced by Foundational Black American slavery over several centuries on behalf of the new European-American people.

The social phenomenon of expropriation is, of course, not unique to American Blacks. The forced expropriations of the Chinese in Indonesia, Jews in Nazi Germany, Tutsis in Rwanda, and Indians in Uganda are just a few of the many recent historical examples where this has occurred. I do not suggest that violence on the scale that we witnessed in these countries is the likely outcome in the United States. (For one thing, even in a black-minority America, black numbers will be much larger, and there will be no one dominant group to oppress them.) On the other hand, for those who have eyes to see it, a great deal of interracial violence of which blacks are disproportionately and increasingly victimized has an overt or scarcely hidden undertone of racial revenge.

For now, appeals to expropriation are usually indirect. But over time, these appeals will become more direct and in need of less justification as the political power of black Americans continues to decline.

Reparations

Central to the idea of the American Dream lies an assumption that we all have an equal opportunity to generate the kind of wealth that brings meaning to the words “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,” boldly penned in the Declaration of Independence. The American Dream portends that with hard work, a person can own a home, start a business, and grow a nest egg for generations to draw upon. This belief, however, has been defied repeatedly by the United States government’s own decrees that denied wealth-building opportunities to Black Americans.

Today, the average white family has roughly 10 times the amount of wealth as the average Black family. White college graduates have over seven times more wealth than Black college graduates. Making the American Dream an equitable reality demands the same U.S. government that denied wealth to Blacks restore that deferred wealth through reparations to their descendants in the form of individual cash payments in the amount that will close the Black-white racial wealth divide.

Black Americans are the only group that has not received reparations for state-sanctioned racial discrimination, while slavery afforded white families the ability to accrue tremendous wealth. And, we must note that American slavery was particularly brutal.

We know the monetary value that was placed on enslaved Blacks and the productivity of their labor, inventions, as well as the amount of the racial wealth gap. We’ve seen other groups receive restitutions while the federal government pulled back reparations for Black Americans. Accordingly, if we want to close the racial wealth gap and live up to our moral creed to protect “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,” a federal reparations package for Foundational Black Americans is in order.

Prayer

Lord have mercy on Foundational Black Americans (FBA) and restore what the canker worm hath eaten and the palmer worm hath destroyed. Replace the system of injustice done to FBA and impute justice. Forgive our sin and heal our land and bring the impoverished back from lowest rungs of society, like you did for Israelis in Egypt. Look on us and look at the wage disparity for the same labor.

We are unable to rectify the issue without your power. We need your power to bring us to parity with whites as whole citizens. You said, we have not because we do not ask, I am asking to see your power in this dispensation, while we wait for the Savior to return. In Jesus name Amen.

Look! The wages you failed to pay the workers who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord Almighty (James 5:4).