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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.
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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