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Does the United States Manufacture Domestic Alienation and Racism Intentionally?

Evilroddy

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I just finished listening to a podcast of an interview with American Professor Nikhil Pal Singh. In the interview he cited a civil rights activist named Jack O’Dell. O'Dell once said that, (I paraphrase here), '... the great through-lines of American history run from the slave plantation to the urban ghetto, and from the frontier to the Pentagon.'. What I think Mr. O'Dell was talking about was the continuation of a frontier war raison d'etre into a kind of formative collective experience for the US state and colonial population. This formative experience, has persisted until today. It has also mutated into an internal security state which is now focused on a kind of anti-insurrection project, aimed at suppressing potential "slave" revolts, against a population that is now nominally defined as "free" but which is nonetheless seen as potentially threatening to the economic and political interests of the most powerful owners/managers of capital and to their allied political elites.

To do this the US elites may have used race as a tool. They may have exaggerated existing racial divides and, where necessary, may have manufactured race and racial divides (Latino's and Muslims for example) where no racial difference has been present before. This is done to divide and rule the population. This is done in order to maintain "otherness" as a means to foster internal mistrust and division in the wider society to therefore prevent the majority of citizens from coming together in order to challenge the predominant power positions of the owners/managers of highly concentrated capital and their allied political elites.

This potentially 'ersatz racism' has been delivered to successive generations of Americans via the state-run and private educational systems, via the print and later electronic media, through public political speech and by peer-to-peer word of mouth (either in person or by electronic means.

You can find the podcast here:

https://theintercept.com/2018/02/17/bonus-intercepted-podcast-the-laundering-of-american-empire/

So my question to you all is, "How much of the corpus of contemporary American racism is real racism and how much is artificial racism, which has been intentionally manfactured and then induced into the population for domestic political reasons?".

Cheers.
Evilroddy.
 
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To me, you have over-thought this. I live in SE GA. I will tell you that I work with some people who think that every time a person of color is hired that it is a "affirmative action hire". I also work with some persons of color who do not trust the validity of a simple "good morning" from a white person. We have a long way to go. But you keep saying good morning. You keep up the dialog. You don't let stereotypes get in the way. Our children will be better at this than we are. And their children will be even better. Of course that depends on having persons in charge who don't try to keep things the way they are. I'm hoping out children will vote them out. I am confident mine will.
 
To me, you have over-thought this. I live in SE GA. I will tell you that I work with some people who think that every time a person of color is hired that it is a "affirmative action hire". I also work with some persons of color who do not trust the validity of a simple "good morning" from a white person. We have a long way to go. But you keep saying good morning. You keep up the dialog. You don't let stereotypes get in the way. Our children will be better at this than we are. And their children will be even better. Of course that depends on having persons in charge who don't try to keep things the way they are. I'm hoping out children will vote them out. I am confident mine will.

and it will take centuries (if we, as a people, live that long) for the divisions of the era of Lincoln to work their way forward ....... if at all .........
 
I just finished listening to a podcast of an interview with American Professor Nikhil Pal Singh. In the interview he cited a civil rights activist named Jack O’Dell. O'Dell once said that, (I paraphrase here), '... the great through-lines of American history run from the slave plantation to the urban ghetto, and from the frontier to the Pentagon.'. What I think Mr. O'Dell was talking about was the continuation of a frontier war raison d'etre into a kind of formative collective experience for the US state and colonial population. This formative experience, has persisted until today. It has also mutated into an internal security state which is now focused on a kind of anti-insurrection project, aimed at suppressing potential "slave" revolts, against a population that is now nominally defined as "free" but which is nonetheless seen as potentially threatening to the economic and political interests of the most powerful owners/managers of capital and to their allied political elites.

To do this the US elites may have used race as a tool. They may have exaggerated existing racial divides and, where necessary, may have manufactured race and racial divides (Latino's and Muslims for example) where no racial difference has been present before. This is done to divide and rule the population. This is done in order to maintain "otherness" as a means to foster internal mistrust and division in the wider society to therefore prevent the majority of citizens from coming together in order to challenge the predominant power positions of the owners/managers of highly concentrated capital and their allied political elites.

This potentially 'ersatz racism' has been delivered to successive generations of Americans via the state-run and private educational systems, via the print and later electronic media, through public political speech and by peer-to-peer word of mouth (either in person or by electronic means.

You can find the podcast here:

https://theintercept.com/2018/02/17/bonus-intercepted-podcast-the-laundering-of-american-empire/

So my question to you all is, "How much of the corpus of contemporary American racism is real racism and how much is artificial racism, which has been intentionally manfactured and then induced into the population for domestic political reasons?".

Cheers.
Evilroddy.

This book does a pretty good job covering the history of "the race card" in politics. The author is a liberal, but he pulls no punches calling out where these tactics were used by people like Clinton (Bill) and Carter.

Race animosity is definitely exploited in politics, advertising, etc. Both sides use it, but in different ways.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog-whistle_politics
 
I just finished listening to a podcast of an interview with American Professor Nikhil Pal Singh. In the interview he cited a civil rights activist named Jack O’Dell. O'Dell once said that, (I paraphrase here), '... the great through-lines of American history run from the slave plantation to the urban ghetto, and from the frontier to the Pentagon.'. What I think Mr. O'Dell was talking about was the continuation of a frontier war raison d'etre into a kind of formative collective experience for the US state and colonial population. This formative experience, has persisted until today. It has also mutated into an internal security state which is now focused on a kind of anti-insurrection project, aimed at suppressing potential "slave" revolts, against a population that is now nominally defined as "free" but which is nonetheless seen as potentially threatening to the economic and political interests of the most powerful owners/managers of capital and to their allied political elites.

To do this the US elites may have used race as a tool. They may have exaggerated existing racial divides and, where necessary, may have manufactured race and racial divides (Latino's and Muslims for example) where no racial difference has been present before. This is done to divide and rule the population. This is done in order to maintain "otherness" as a means to foster internal mistrust and division in the wider society to therefore prevent the majority of citizens from coming together in order to challenge the predominant power positions of the owners/managers of highly concentrated capital and their allied political elites.

This potentially 'ersatz racism' has been delivered to successive generations of Americans via the state-run and private educational systems, via the print and later electronic media, through public political speech and by peer-to-peer word of mouth (either in person or by electronic means.

You can find the podcast here:

https://theintercept.com/2018/02/17/bonus-intercepted-podcast-the-laundering-of-american-empire/

So my question to you all is, "How much of the corpus of contemporary American racism is real racism and how much is artificial racism, which has been intentionally manfactured and then induced into the population for domestic political reasons?".

Cheers.
Evilroddy.

I believe it to be so. I also extend it to most of the political divides we have in society as well. The more we fight amongst each other keeps us from holding the government accountable for their actions.
 
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