The Beginning of the End of Racism in America

Black & White

Elaine Sharp

• Verlag: Page Publishing, Inc.
• Jahr: 2020
• ISBN:
  9781641382199
• Thema: Social Sciences
• Thema: Discrimination & Race Relations

The Beginning of the End of Racism in America: Black and White is a progressive and pragmatic book that is the antidote to the disease of ignorance and poison of racism. It reflects intimately the causes of these maladies, the results of these maladies, and what must be done in order to completely do away with these maladies.There is no doubt in our mind that, if applied appropriately, the knowledge coupled with the principles of The Beginning of the End of Racism in America will have the changing power to influence, impact, and change anyone with the slightest willingness to want to change, especially inner cities youth to stop the violence with a mind-set for change of its effect on all of us. The Beginning of the End of Racism in America: Black and White can be used as a learning/teaching instrument toward redirecting the behavior of our youth to understanding the complicated design of racism and its effects on their attitudes toward all members of our society, most importantly, African-Americans. Hopefully, this book will become an eye-opener for many and an enlightenment for race relations to build upon in our nation by facing and accepting the truth of the matter. It is truly time to live up to our name the United States of America to manifest into the United People of America.Finally, we believe that the truth will make you free. Therefore, if everything remains the same and nothing changes, this book will truly allow everyone who reads it the opportunity to imagine and feel what our nation would look like without racism, black, and white. Certainly, this will make us all free in our mind and spirit, and perhaps begin to connect us in a new way.

A Comprehensive Conclusion

Ignis fatuus will not be the case with this all-inclusive movement to end racism here in America. Unlike movements of the past, ours is one that is perpetual and progressive, ever gaining more momentum as we accelerate punctiliously toward our goal of unification and true amalgamation.

All of us—every single individual—must play the part of amalgamator in order for us to succeed where all of our predecessors have failed.

The twelve things that must be done in order for us to end racism in America are:

1. Every single person need to reach out to people of the opposite race and seek to understand them, their ways of life, and the content of their heart.

Children should be guided into these experiences also by their parents, seeing that the survival of any people relies on the education of its young. We must program our children and teach them altruism while they are still young, before society and media get a hold of them and start conditioning them toward stereotypes and predispositions of the opposite race.

2. America has to acknowledge its wrongs done to black people, who are now known as African-Americans, through the North American slave trade.

By acknowledging its wrongs and apologizing to African-Americans, who are now the descendants of those African slaves who were brought to these American shores in shackles, for slavery and its ugly legacy which still affect African-Americans even today. America will be sending a powerful message to African-Americans that true repentance does still exist in government, and that true repentance calls for true forgiveness by African-Americans. For until blacks and whites can get past the whole slavery situation, there can never be full peace and amiability between the races. History has proven this time and time again.

3. There has to be a constitutional convention that is reflective of twenty-first century America, and not eighteenth century America.

The demographics of this nation has shifted irreversibly. For the first time ever in the history of this nation, whites are about to be a minority in the nation that they founded for white people and by white people. Laws need to be legislated, which reflects all Americans regardless of their: sexual preferences, life choices, race, color, creed, religious affiliations etc., for racism cannot end until there are only Americans in America. As long as there are African-Americans, Native Americans, Mexican Americans, German Americans, English Americans, or even white Americans, there will always be conflict, for humans are a proud species with large egos. Each group, although American, will continue to hold on to the national heritage of their ancestors, and most, if not all, will be German, English, or Mexican first, and American second just like their ethnic identifications signify (i.e., Mexican-American, German-American, English-American, etc.) This within itself is and always will be a problem in this country if it isn’t done away with strictly American nationalism.

Johann Friedrich Blumenbach did more harm than good when he used the term race in 1775, to classify the diversity of man. And for a token to all of his readers, he displayed his superiority complex by coining the term Caucasian which alludes to the racial supremacy of whites. According to Johann Blumenbach, “the Caucasian race is the most advanced and superior race among mankind.” (Read Johann Friedrich Blumenbach’s On the Natural Variety of Mankind.) Racial pride is not only illusive, but it’s offensive and divisive. This cannot go on in America if we are to end racism. We must come to terms with the fact that there is only one race—the human race. Quick as we can embrace this truth, the quicker we can end racism here in America. It’s literally just that simple!

4. There has to be some form of reparations for African-Americans.

According to Webster’s New World College Dictionary 4th Edition, the word reparations means “a repairing or being repaired; restoration to good condition. A making of amends; making up for a wrong or injury.”

I know we discussed reparations earlier, however, it’s become the one subject that most Americans (mostly white Americans) do not want to talk about. I’ve already explained in previous chapters why reparations are needed. Now, I will dig deeper into how the reparations should be applied in improving the African-American condition here in America.

First of all, I know that a large portion of whites who are for reparations are against monetary reparations. However, some form of monetary reparations will have to be given to African-Americans in order for to achieve the results that we seek to achieve by granting African-Americans reparations in the first place. There has to be a money loop developed in African-American communities so that they can learn to be self-sufficient and self-reliant.

Until America becomes the nation of Americans, the ethnic/racial signification of African will always precede the American in African-American, thus African-Americans still have to look out for African-Americans, for history has shown us that no one else will.

Monetarily, every single African-American should receive $50,000. Those who aren’t eighteen years old yet shall receive their $50,000 on their eighteenth birthday. That way, you don’t have young African-American kids growing up saying “I didn’t get any reparations” because their parents or guardians squandered it. And for all future African-Americans who are not yet born during the paying out of the reparations, the responsibility of quality of life for those individuals will be solely upon their parents, for they would have had an ample opportunity to engage in capitalism, and thus secure the future of their offspring.

The second phase of the reparations for African-Americans shall consist of building them institutions—hospitals, schools, mental institutions, banks, etc. If you noticed, I have not mentioned land yet, though land is the most valuable aspect of reparations that African-Americans can receive (especially land with natural resources). The United States of America is one of the most, if not the most land greedy and land selfish nation on the Earth! So to ask for land and to really expect to receive it, especially here in the continental U.S, is a real long shot. But GOD’s word says, “You have not because you ask not.” Therefore, we are asking in his name. However, it is only right that African-Americans take a shot at this long shot since their ancestors’ blood and sweat filled and built this land which was once wilderness and overtaken by trees.

America has options that can be exercised to accommodate the African-Americans’ request. There are islands and territories that belong to the U.S that can be given to African-Americans if the U.S chose to do so. Nonetheless, the African-Americans’ main aim is land here in the continental U.S where they have slaved and lived ever since 1620.

The Nation of Islam’s minister Louis Farrakhan tried to get the U.S government to grant him land in the U.S Northwest so that he could develop a nation for African-Americans. President Muammar al-Qaddafi of Libya was in support of Farrakhan and offered to give Farrakhan two billion dollars to help establish the would-be new nation for African-Americans. The United States denied Farrakhan the land and denied him the two billion dollars from Qaddafi, saying that Qaddafi was involved in terrorism, thus his money couldn’t enter into the U.S for no purpose whatsoever.

Farrakhan had a great idea; he just was in the wrong time dealing with the wrong nation. He even wanted to take all of the African-Americans who were incarcerated with him. Releasing African-Americans who are incarcerated as a part of reparations is another necessary part of the reparations appropriations.

There is no doubt that the vast majority of African-Americans who are incarcerated in state and federal prisons in this country are incarcerated there in some form or fashion as a result of the legacy of slavery.

In between biased legislation by the hands of racist legislators, inequalities in the educational and work fields directed toward blacks, and the creation and containment of blacks in highly volatile, high risk communities now known as ghettos, it’s all but impossible to be a black man growing up in the ghetto and not ever experience jail or prison.

As mentioned earlier, slavery created these conditions and white power has sustained them—very methodically, I may add! No education, resources, real ownership, or voice to be heard and acknowledged by those in power that has the means to make a difference in black communities equals frustration, which equals aggression, and we all know what aggression leads to—violence! Violence leads to prison or death. Everything is interconnected; it was designed this way. It’s almost as if blacks are deemed less threatening to whites when they are held captive in controlled environments. Nonetheless, blacks are suffering and are perishing in what is supposed to be the most liberal and freely expressive nation on earth. Yet black lives in America are constantly regulated with dreadful regulations and behavioral modification like legislation. It’s by design, and it’s always been by design. But now it must stop!

America can save itself billions of dollars a year, and rid itself of its fearless less desirables if it gave African-Americans land outside of the continental U.S, and send all of its African-American prisoners there also as their reparation appropriation from the U.S government.

This last idea actually isn’t unheard of nor should it be hard to accomplish, seeing that this country was founded by such European exiles, and so was Australia.

Thus, in giving African-Americans reparations for the crime of slavery and racial oppression, the United States will not only be repairing a wrong that was done to a people over a span of 350 years on their soil under their jurisdiction by their founding fathers, but they will also make peace with the children of their original sin—the descendants of African slaves—and thus, open up the door for real negotiation and advancements in ending racism here in America.

5. The entire educational system and curriculums need to be reformed.

The educational system here in America and all of its curriculums are outdated and still have very high white supremacist over tones all throughout. Instead of brainwashing kids with the likes of Columbus discovering America, civilization starting in Greece, our forefathers founding America, pre-American Africans and native Americans were savages before being civilized by whites, etc., kids shoul...