To understand it, we must understand that this construct, or the product of ideology based on race and class, if you would, is not merely about white restrooms and lynching, but an ideology the encompasses a system that uses these tactics and others whether economic, social, or political that determines the place of individuals on the map of human geography.* What has to be noted about this construct is that success and achievement are possible, but not to be used as tools of empowerment, but rather as propaganda to maintain the construct. If fact, Obama's achievements have been used to say that blacks have overcome racism by having attended Harvard. WEB Dubois was the first black to graduate from Harvard with a Ph.D. in 1896, but we didn't get a black going into the fall primary as a major presidential candidate until 2008.
The construct uses ignorance, fear and complacency channeled through the free market system and media to maintain its dominance and this construct is passed down from generation to generation. Since discrimination can be defined in multiple ways, it is then conceivable that one can not have participated in lynching or any of the Jim Crow era, and still subscribe to this construct because it is not about violence of or overt segregation, but a belief of another's place in society.
Here is a shining example. Pat Buchanan recent statements on why blacks should love America.
"This time, the Silent Majority needs to have its convictions, grievances and demands heard. And among them are these:
This is the old "you Negroes should be grateful" speech. I wonder if this will the mainstream media put this in heavy rotation. Again, Jim Crow, lynching and other forms of racial terrorism were tools used at a particular time to maintain the construct for that era. In this hour, the covert action has a far more sinister and far reaching effect. The architects of this construct have managed to make the system more efficient so that it runs on automation. We are co-participants in the keeping of the construct, we reinforce it , and maintain it which is the reason for this blog. Pharaoh doesn't have us, we have pharaoh, and we won't let go.First, America has been the best country on earth for black folks. It was here that 600,000 black people, brought from Africa in slave ships, grew into a community of 40 million, were introduced to Christian salvation, and reached the greatest levels of freedom and prosperity blacks have ever known.
Wright ought to go down on his knees and thank God he is an American.
Second, no people anywhere has done more to lift up blacks than white Americans. Untold trillions have been spent since the ’60s on welfare, food stamps, rent supplements, Section 8 housing, Pell grants, student loans, legal services, Medicaid, Earned Income Tax Credits and poverty programs designed to bring the African-American community into the mainstream."
Back to Barack. The reason that Babs sees a difference between Barack and JFK is that JFK being a white male has the mental capacity to differentiate between the needs of the country and the wants of the Church. Barack can't. According to the construct, black men do not have the mental capacity for such work because the black man must me guided and controlled by some higher earthly authority. When it is not massa' then it falls to the role of the priest, pastor of the black church, and that scares the keepers of the construct because all churches can not be controlled and Rev. Wright has been become Nat Turner incarnate. The construct's worse nightmare.
*-2007 Digital Equity Summit, NECC Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, Sylvia Rousseau
Professor of Clinical Education; Rossier School of Education
Ed.D., Pepperdine University, California
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