Subtle poisons
Planned Parenthood was founded by a eugenist. The idea was to convince black Americans to stop reproducing.
The American Drug War has manifested its most effects along racial lines. It is so naked, in this case, that it is almost acceptable. What is perhaps most shocking about the New Jersey profiling scandal is not that law enforcement was caught--and later admitted to--profiling "suspects" according to race, but rather that officials did not destroy much of the evidence. In fact, very little appears to have gone to the shredder. The New Jersey evidence coveres
ninety-one thousand pages. One of the most frightening possible explanations for the plethora of evidence is that it simply didn't occur to anyone to shred the documents: what was happening was simply that acceptable. These are not necessarily men of honor doing these wrongs; had they honor, we would not have any issues of race-based law enforcement to begin with.
Lorillard tobbacco has been busted for an unusual ethical quandary: why did the sales focus of Newport (mentholated) cigarettes turn to black Americans
after it was discovered and the data contained that mentholated cigarettes were more damaging to the smoker?
When the American government chose to secretly infect men with syphilis, why did they choose black Americans specifically? What ever happened to the random sample? Or the societal cross-section?
I'll even go so far as to assert that the countermovement against government-enforced equality programs is a sign both encouraging and worrying: We're getting over our racial sensitivities. If society appears to be taking it out on certain minority groups, it is because they are the most easily targeted. It has nothing to do with ethnicity, and everything to do with economy. Why the crack epidemic? Because the corner of LA that was most fertile to the economic temptations of a new black market happened to be populated by blacks. So would go the special-rights hounds. In this sense, to direct a conspiracy against your people and specifically exempt black people solely on the grounds that they've had
enough would constitute an unfair racism. Exactly ... equality achieved via the method of viewing everything as equally worthless. Brilliant, eh?
One of the points I've driven my rusty nails with is the argument that the lack of genocidal rage among Christians arises from the fact that human beings no longer find it acceptable to kill people for stupid reasons--revenge and money excepted. Essentially, I have asserted in Christian-issue debates that the lack of Inquisitions in the modern day comes from the fact that enough people have the hang of
Thou shall not kill that mass murders, rapes, &c. are generally unacceptable. Again, there's always revenge and money. So it is with societal genocidal rage. While desperate tribes in Africa and elsewhere attempt to wipe each other from the map, we in the West look on, horrified--as if it's never happened before.
Manifest Destiny? (Anyone? Anyone?)
But murder has become unacceptable. Otherwise, the burning desire to scourge the earth of those we don't like seems to glow subtly within.
During the worst years of the Crack Wars, the national average broke down that 1 in 3 black male youths would die before his 18th. Of the remaining, 1 in 3 would
not serve time in prison before their 30th. And 1 in 3 black males aged 18 would not live to see their 30th. There is considerable evidence that the US government introduced crack to Los Angeles blacks; furthermore, the government has provided no alternative scenario to explain where the crack originated and how it got to LA. When we then stop and consider that 1986 saw the Federal Crack Standard which has victimized black Americans as a result of the aforementioned and widely-accused racial profiling scandals (it's even shaping up that way in Seattle). 2,389 out of 2,400 federal crack prosecutions in 1995 were of black people. 3 were white. This from the Department of Justice. Meanwhile, Health & Human Services reports that in 1995, an estimated 65% of the nation's crack users were
white. I suppose the standard itself is important:
* Five (5) grams of crack (approx. two copper US pennies, according to DRCNet) earns the convict a mandatory minimum 5-year prison term.
* Powdered cocaine, by federal standard, warrants a 5-year mandatory minimum for the quantity of over a half-pound (500g).
* Incidentally, I should mention that there is
no difference at the molecular level between cocaine powder and crack cocaine.
Did you know it required a federal court decision to force newspapers to stop printing the race of an arrested suspect on the crime page? Why is this? Because the newspapers had fallen into the habit of mentioning that a suspect was black, Hispanic, or Asian, but not when the suspect was white. (I shall make some effort to obtain the common case name of that decision.)
There's an expression in this country:
You don't know shit from shinola. How many people know where this comes from, and what
shit means?
Really ... I firmly agree that genocide can't happen again on this continent. Well, okay, maybe in Mexico. But that doesn't mean that the sentiment's not there. Too much is at stake: sure you'll get rid of the ______ (fill in the blank with your least-favorite ethnicity, gender, faith, or other), but everyone else in the world is going to be mighty pissed. Besides, it's bad for the economy.
The US has too much to lose by outright killing off a segment of its society; that kind of thing only works in Asian backwaters, and amid economic desperation in Africa. On the other hand, we're doing all we can to stop the Jews and Muslims from killing each other off (well ... okay, there's a
llot of Muslims, so that ain't happening, anyway), and it seems real important to get the Christians to stop killing the Christians in Ireland. Strangely, the necessity occurring where the black people are takes a seat to Western culture's affinity: you choose to have faith in God; at some point, you must, else it isn't faith. Why are we worrying about people killing each other over choices made instead of worrying about the starving children who didn't choose to be born into poverty during the afternoon breather amid an economically-inspired war? Who the hell is selling them bullets that isn't selling them food? (Okay, that's another issue entirely, but I'm leaving it in the post on purpose.) So, yeah ... the US has too much to lose: it's okay if Africans kill each other to extinction over who gets a next meal, but it does seem that something about, say, the US or, say, France setting out on a mission to destroy everything; and that's even considering the last time each tried.
But to bring it back to the US, where I started this rambling rant ... I believe it won't happen merely because intelligent people aren't so few and far between here as, say, the third world, where your lucky thirty years on the planet are spent starving and learning to duck while you kill.
All of the sentiments are there; all the weapons poised. The appearance of dignity, however, delicately holds back this post-Victorian social conscience. I'm waiting for it to turn post-American, and then we can stop all this silly manipulation in lieu of outright slaughter.
The genocide cannot be; that does not mean the people will not try to find a way. I, personally, don't get it. Sure, it took me until I was 25 or 26 to shake off the last of my arbitrary judgemental standards. To the other it shouldn't have taken that long. For what purpose did the culture around me waste so much of its own and my time teaching arbitrary divisions and hatred?
But I'm rambling now, so I'll just trust that y'all get the gist of it, or not.
thanx,
Tiassa
