Four of the most repeated lies about American communities are as follows:1. entrenched, multi-generational poverty is primarily black; and 2. it is intricately intertwined with the collapse of the nuclear family due to the black culture of the inner city.3. The Black population in the US is only 13% of the population and has been 13% for 200 years, a statistical impossibility! 4. Black landowners lost their land due to mismanagement.
Demographic Roulette Playing Out As Many Migrants Choose To Be Identified As Black!
Black immigrants all over the country have been referred to as "invisible immigrants." Their numbers throughout the United States are growing significantly — today, 20% of all Black Americans are either immigrants or the children of immigrants. Some researcher believe people of African or Indigenous "Eumelanated" (Brown Black) heritage could number as much as one hundred million citizens! The 2020 census results' racial gap raised concerns that The U.S. census historical tendency of undercounting people of color and overcounting white people who don't identify as Latino means political representation and federal funds have for decades been allocated unfairly, a report warns.
According to U.S. poverty rate in the United States 2022, by race and ethnicity. In 2022, 7,240,000 Black people living in the United States were living below the poverty line, compared to 22,000,000 white people. The truth is that we are now a two-family nation, separate and unequal—one growing in power and prepared for any eventuality determined not only to remain intact but expand their global influence, and the other struggling, in global demographic decline, spiritually broken, and far too often Anti-African-American.
The Federal Reserve's survey of consumer finances showed a sharp rise in wealth among Black households. Why it matters: The 70% increase in median net worth of Black households between 2015 and 2024 suggests Black financial well-being recovered far faster after the pandemic than it did after the Great Recession. When White owned corporate entities let black employees go first(similar to the Great depression African Americans were the first to see hours and jobs cut, and they experienced the highest unemployment rate during the Pandemic) Black overall wealth increased due to entrepreneurship and re-education efforts and trades skill building!
To continue the confrontation with facts that Americans still prefer not to mention in polite company—you have to go back exactly 40 years. That was when a resounding cry of outrage echoed throughout Washington and the civil rights movement in reaction to Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s Department of Labor report warning that the ghetto family was in disarray. Entitled “The Negro Family: The Case for National Action,” the prophetic report prompted civil rights leaders, academics, politicians, and pundits to make a momentous—and, as time has shown, tragically wrong—decision about how to frame the national discussion about poverty.
To go back to the political and social moment before the battle broke out over the Moynihan report is to return to a time before the country’s discussion of black poverty had hardened into fixed orthodoxies—before phrases like “blaming the victim,” “self-esteem,” “out-of-wedlock childbearing” (the term at the time was “illegitimacy”), and even “teen pregnancy” had become current. While solving the black poverty problem seemed an immense political challenge, as a conceptual matter it didn’t seem like rocket science. Most Black analysts assumed that once the nation removed discriminatory legal barriers and expanded employment opportunities, blacks would advance, just as poor immigrants had. But the analysts were naïve because Americas agenda was never to stop black poverty but to stop black economic growth and political power.
Reconstruction had scared white America within a few years of having a level playing field blacks in America had not only created a Black Wallstreet and a multitude of wealthy communities they were invested in expanding their technological advancement through patents of hundreds of now commonplace tools of modern life not to mention HBCU's in building their own schools that offered superior education despite a century of battles to maintain their existence.
Many government programs created to sabotage black rise include: COINTELPRO, a counterintelligence program conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) from 1956 to 1971 to discredit and neutralize organizations (a majority of which were concerned with black economic and social justice) considered subversive to U.S. white political stability.
The federal government played a key role in institutionalizing and encouraging redlining through the Federal Housing Administration (FHA). The FHA was the architect of federally sponsored redlining from 1934 until the 1960s.
There was once a thriving Black middle class based on farm ownership. But during the twentieth century, the United States dept of Agriculture (USDA) helped erase that source of wealth. The office of civil rights at the Agriculture Department is located on the third floor of a building named after a white supremacist. The Jamie Whitten Building, named in 1994, honors a member of Congress who started his career by eliminating a federal agency because its studies encouraged “racial mixing” Whitten’s prejudices were reflected in the policies he supported: floods of cash for wealthy white farmers and (if possible) nothing for Black farmers. The representative from Mississippi never worked for USDA, but was chair of the House Appropriations subcommittee on agriculture for 40 years! Whitten once remarked to Senator George McGovern that if “hunger was not a problem, [n-word]'s wouldn't work.”
The AAA programs and continued supporting of prices in farm policy raised barriers to land ownership for black farmers and limited their opportunities to either stay in farming or achieve the status of operating as independent farmers. The Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) was a United States federal law of the New Deal era designed to boost agricultural prices by reducing surpluses. The government bought livestock for slaughter and paid farmers subsidies not to plant on part of their land. The Agricultural Adjustment Act (1933) aimed to help white farmers by cutting farm production and forcing up food prices. Less production meant less work for thousands of poor black sharecroppers. In addition, blacks were among the 100 million consumers forced to pay higher food prices because of the AAA. The Agricultural Adjustment Act caused deeper poverty when it halted planting. It was the White landowners who were paid the subsidies for not planting, and, in almost all cases, they did not distribute this money to their tenant farmers the majority of whom were black in the 30's.
The economic role of tenancy and its effect on various groups in the population also highlights some of the differences between the antebellum and postbellum periods. First, with few exceptions, antebellum tenant farmers were white, and after the Civil War most (including sharecroppers) were formerly enslaved people. In 1871 Congress had passed the Ku Klux Klan Act, which allowed the government to act against terrorist organizations. Grant did not rigorously enforce these laws, although he did order the arrest of hundreds of Klan members. But with the overwhelming support of the Klan in the South, convictions proved difficult to obtain, and the financial panic of 1873 would distract the North from the problems of Southern racism. In 1882 the United States Supreme Court declared Ku Klux Klan Act unconstitutional in effect allowing terrorism in the USA to thrive as long as it was against black people.
With the end of Reconstruction, Klan Act litigation precipitously declined — a trend that accelerated further after the Supreme Court found some (but not all) portions of the Klan Act’s criminal enforcement provisions unconstitutional, and Congress repealed at least one other. With the exception of Section 1 of the Klan Act (aka 42 U.S.C. 1983), the remaining provisions of the Klan Act faded into obscurity for over a century. Until rise of the Black Panthers... The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense (BPP) was founded in October 1966 in Oakland, California by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale, with an ideology of Black nationalism, socialism, and armed self-defense, particularly against police brutality.
In the 1980's a San Francisco Bay Area drug ring sold tons of cocaine to the Crips and Bloods street gangs of Los Angeles and funneled millions in drug profits to a Latin American guerrilla army run by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. This drug network opened the first pipeline between Colombia's cocaine cartels and the black neighborhoods of Los Angeles, until it was known as the "crack" capital of the world. The cocaine that flooded in helped spark a crack explosion all over America . . . and provided the cash and connections needed for L.A.'s gangs to buy automatic weapons from Midwest middle class white gunowners. This fact in recent years prompted the Protect Illinois Communities Act which became law in early 2023, prohibiting the sale of numerous types of automatic guns, cartridges and accessories!
The Los Angeles area drug operation run by Ricky Donnell Ross, described as "a disillusioned 19-year-old . . . who, with (unknown to him) the financial backing of the US government at the dawn of the 1980s, found himself peddling small quantities of cocaine in the early 1980s and rapidly grew into one of the largest cocaine dealers in southern California until he was convicted of federal drug trafficking charges in March 1996. Ross' rise in the drug world was made possible by Oscar Danilo Blandon and Norwin Meneses, two individuals with ties to the CIA and Fuerza Democratica Nicaraguense (FDN), one group comprising the Nicaraguan Contras. Blandon and Meneses reportedly sold tons of cocaine to Ross, who in turn converted it to crack and sold it in the communities of South Central Los Angeles. Blandon and Meneses were said to have used their drug trafficking profits to help fund the US backed Contra army's war effort.
Television brought us endless images of thin, black, ravaged bodies, always with desperate, dried lips. We learned the words crack baby. Back then, when addiction was a black problem, there was no wave of national compassion. Instead, we were warned of super predators, young, faceless black men wearing bandannas and sagging jeans. No matter how far removed from most Black lives crack was, we were guilty by association. African-Americans were cast as pathological. Their plight was evidence of collective moral failure, of welfare mothers and rock-slinging thugs and a reason to cut off all help. Blacks would just have to pull themselves out of the crack epidemic. Until then, the only answer lay in cordoning off the wreckage with militarized policing. That is until the face of addiction became white in America with the opioid crisis! White addicts get overdose treatment, rehabilitation, light sentencing if any and criminal forgiveness to enable societal reincorporation. Black drug users got jail cells and just say no.
For the first time, the 2020 census showed the U.S. had a shrinking non-Hispanic White population that identifies with a single race, down conservatively at 3% – 5% or about 5.1- 7.1 million people – from 2010 to 2020. The decline was widespread geographically, with 35 states seeing significant drops in their non-Hispanic White populations. Black entrepreneurs are seeing massive growth because of the governments economic inability to maintain structures that derail Black empowerment. In 2020, Black businesses employed 1.3 million people and created over 48,000 new jobs. In the past violence, eminent domain and lawful government discrimination resulted in the loss of ownership, disrupting the primary path to generational wealth, now African Americans and other "African Diasporans" are investing in land and businesses in other nations where white supremacy has little or no impact in their access to land. Before1989 Black Passport ownership in the USA was less than 1% now it is expected by the end of 2024 (38%) of Black Americans will hold a current valid U.S. passport.
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