Friday, January 28, 2011

Giving Them . . .

". . . but you're sexually abusing your children . . ."

"What about our indigenous rights being . . ."

"Not only are you sexually abusing your children in all your aborigine communities, the money that the Australian goverment gives each of your communities for food, clothing, and health-care is being used for alcohol -- drunkeness and sexually abusing your children will destroy your people. That's why the government had to send soldiers and police into your communi . . ."

"The soldiers and police are taking away our human rights . . ."

The aborigines of Australia constitute 2 percent of Australia's population and has higher rates of unemployment, substance abuse, violence on each other, and shorter life expectancy than other Australians. Sound familiar?

In the United States we still hear -- in the 21st century -- these "bleeding hearts" whining, "Poor colored peoples of the world" trapped in poverty while other people have millions and billions of dollars." What about the difference in cultures of these "poor colored peoples of the world" and the culture of these rich people?

What is not being said by these "gurus" constantly weeping that especially "blacks" (carbon copies) have a higher jobless rate than other groups in the United States is that carbon-copies don't have a culture that emphasizes creating businesses as do other ethnic groups.

Thanks to years of segregation imposed by English-speaking segregationists -- their superior culture having given them control of all the sources of wealth -- carbon copies demonstrated -- even with their inferior carbon-copy culture -- that they could create many jobs for themselves. In addition to singing gospels and blues and tap-dancing for whites, their businesses included restaurants, nightclubs, grocery stores, movie houses, a few hotels, banks, and hospitals -- to name a few. In fact, early in the 20th century, in a carbon-copy neighborhood in Tulsa, Oklahoma, there were so many rich carbon copies, including millionairs, that it was referred to as "black wall street."

In other countries, the Spanish, Portuguese, and French-speaking segregationists also controlled all the sources of wealth. But carbon copies in those countries not only pretended that there was no discrimination against them but tried -- and try, even today -- to identify as Spanish, French, and Portuguese for paternalistic favors from their mestizo masters. To oppose the evil of segregation meant that carbon copies had to "crash" -- like crashing a private party -- no-blacks-allowed businesses and institutions. This, however, meant abandoning carbon-copy businesses to flounder and disappear in order that carbon copies could show a permanent presence in white businesses and institutions. This integration guarantees a fertile "Catch 22" dilemma for any future carbon-copy businesses and carbon copies providing jobs for themselves.

Why, then, in all these centuries of years, has no agency among these "poor colored peoples of the world" dared to tell these incompetent people that it is their worthless "culture," their culture-ritis that keeps them from advancig as a people?

Giving them welfare, giving them homes, giving them food, giving them ... giving them ... giving them ...

Why not force them to update their "cultures" and supply their own needs before they self-destruct out of existence?

Monday, January 24, 2011

'Tis Language, Dum Dum

The four of them stood loudly taunting. They were several yards off the sidewalk, in a small dirt lot between a neighborhood corner store and a laundrymat. They looked to be nine or ten years old, two Vietnamese and two Afrikan Americans, standing some ten feet apart.

Suddenly the Vietnamese switched from English to Vietnamese. The raised arms and pointing fingers of the Afrikan Americans froze in mid-air, their mouths open, but no more words spilled from them. They were stunned and, obviously, knew no language -- Swahili, for example -- that the Vietnamese wouldn't understand.

The Vietnamese walked off, giggling and giving each other high-fives. "The cultural crisis is the key crisis of black life," came to mind. It was the statement agreed upon by some 8,000 delegates at a national black convention in Gary, Indiana in 1972, some 38 years before those two Afrikan Americans and two Vietnamese youths were to square off in 2010.

The black convention had been called in Gary by Richard Hatcher, its Afrikan American mayor, because of the crime and violence devestating Afrikan American communities.

Several years prior to that convention, however, Afrikan American "militants" had forced predominantly white colleges to establish courses in Swahili, an Afrikan language. But two or three years after offering the classes , they had to be discontinued because not enough Afrikan American students could be found to attend the classes. If these "militants" had been interested in more than grandstanding why hadn't they forced so-called "black" churches, "black" schools, and other "black" institutions and organizations to offer these classes in the "black" communities?

A culture can't be built around a name -- Afrikan American -- alone or a hairdo alone or writing poetry and prose in a language from another culture. A language is the main feature of any culture; the other features of the culture are transmitted through its language.

A language is a weapon. In World War II when Hitler's boys and Tojo's boys and Mussolini's boys heard Native Americans transmitting secret military messages on the battlefield, they had never heard the Native Americans' languages before, and they didn't know whether to "shit or go blind."

For generations we've heard so-called "black" leaders pontificating about economic, political, and educational needs of Afrikan Americans -- and about Afrikan heritage and black culture -- but they've never mentioned the need for a culture language. It takes brains and sincerity to study and learn a language, and these "leaders" know it. They know it would be the kiss of death for their popularity if they told these carbon-copies that they had to learn an Afrikan language to prove that they truely identified with their Afrikan heritage and black culture.

Resusitate the dead colonizers and slaveholders and ask them how importatnt a language is; ask American veterans who fought in Vietnam and those fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan -- or anywhere -- how important a language is; ask the politicians if they don't wish they could speak Spanish.