My intention for this article is to have a calm, logical discussion about a subject that is currently evoking hysteria and irrationality in parts of our society. It has reached the point where some people would say that I am ‘racist’ for trying to have a calm, logical discussion about racism, especially one that challenges the mainstream perception of it.
No matter. Remember the saying, ‘sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me’? This saying has lost favor in the current environment, but I like to think that if it was true in the past in remains true today. And in fact, I believe it is more important than ever for people to hold fast to its principles.
I have decided to divide this article into a series of questions, and will do my very best to answer them based on what I truly feel in my heart and in my mind. My goal is to explain why I believe much of the current tension and attention around racism today is being orchestrated by the ruling class (made up mainly of white oligarchs) who are using it as one of their tools with which to divide society in order to maintain power.
What is Racism?
Let’s put aside current events for the moment and try to bring some clarity to a term that is being bandied about in all directions these days. Like all other ‘isms,’ racism is fundamentally a belief system. I feel that the following serves as a good definition:
The belief that different races possess distinct characteristics, abilities, or qualities, especially so as to distinguish them as inferior or superior to one another.
I think that most people on the planet buy into this belief system to a certain degree. It is the rare person who has evolved to the extent that they never associate distinct characteristics, abilities, or qualities to a certain race of people. Certainly all the people out there fighting an angry and violent crusade against ‘racism’ are demonstrating a clear personal belief in racism.
How Do We Stop Racism?
We don’t need to. There is no rush to try to violently eradicate a belief system from the minds of everyone on the planet. We just need to learn more about how to love each other, bit by bit, as we move forward together. Our society has made progress over the years in mitigating harmful actions that may spring from racism (discrimination, prejudice, profiling, etc.). But the actual belief system called racism as defined above will probably never be erased from human consciousness, at least not in the foreseeable future. The presence of racist thoughts in the minds of people in itself should not be so hard for us to manage. Creating a culture in which people are shamed and violently castigated for expressing any racist belief is actually part of the problem, not the solution. These beliefs only get hidden and suppressed, which is how they gain malevolent strength and turn into hatred and violence.
A promising solution, modeled by the brilliant and courageous efforts of a musician named Daryl Davis, is to foster open dialogue and mutual respect for opposing beliefs. Daryl is the man whose approach eventually led to zealous Ku Klux Klan Leader Roger Kelly stepping away entirely from the White Supremacist cult. The video below, which has over 11 million views on YouTube, is a must-watch for anyone sincerely interested in how they might participate in improving racial divides and other such tensions in the world.
If we look upon the current rhetoric and riots that are going on today, allegedly aiming to mend racial divides, there are no pictures or mention of Daryl Davis. In fact it is unlikely that the majority of protesters have even heard of him.
Even the name Martin Luther King jr. is seldom invoked amidst current arguments that black lives matter. I think it is because MLK jr. was always abundantly clear that all lives matter, all humans are part of the same family, and universal freedom and unity, not grievances and retribution, is the dream and ultimate goal.
So even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character… [that] one day right down in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.
And when this happens, and when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God’s children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual: Free at last. Free at last. Thank God almighty, we are free at last.
Martin Luther King Jr., August 28, 1963
During the civil rights movement in the 1960s, I believe that racial inequality was a real issue on the minds of people in society. There was a slow and steady build of support from all races for the principles of equality and freedom. Today’s fight for racial equality seems to have just sprung up out of nowhere, and does not even resemble the grassroots struggle of Martin Luther King Jr. and his contemporaries. Many people in the African-American community do not support it.
It has all the earmarks of a hyped-up publicity stunt, promoted by the ruling class’ marketing arm, the mainstream media. A tried-and-true mass mind control technique used by mainstream media is to turn the actions of one man into a bellweather for the state of the union. Such is what has been done with the uncannily opportune and well-recorded ‘racial chauvinism’ of a police officer in the George Floyd case.
What is the Real Problem?
I believe the real problem in our world today comes down to class, not race. That’s what the ruling class is trying to hide from you with all these distractions. The economic disparities between the class of people at the very top of the socioeconomic pyramid and the majority of people below them is staggering. According to the 2020 Credit Suisse Global Wealth report,
The top one percent of households globally own 43 percent of all personal wealth, while the bottom 50 percent own only one percent.
That top-tier one percent amounts to 52 million people who are all millionaires in net wealth (after debt). Within this elite fraction are 175,000 ultra-wealthy people (those with over $50 million in net wealth), or 0.1 percent, who in turn own 25 percent of the world’s wealth. (source)
During this ‘Pandemic,’ the rich got richer, which will tell you everything you need to know about who is behind it (see Covid-19 Compliance is Spotlighting the Global Elite Control Pyramid for All to See (Part 1: the First Wave)) and (Part 2: the Second Wave). These are the same people who accrue profit from war, as revealed by Major General Smedley Butler in his book War is a Racket. The actual tactic doesn’t matter to the ruling class, they will do whatever works. In this case, racial division is the tool of choice.
A sure sign is the involvement of the ruling class’ trans-national corporations. If you haven’t figured it out by now, trans-national corporations have become so enormous because profit and expansion of power is and has always been their sole guiding principle. And so the calculus of any ’cause’ they get involved in is based on securing them more wealth and power. This is from a CNET article entitled ‘These are the major brands donating to the Black Lives Matter movement.’
Many of the large tech companies in the US have donated substantial sums to the cause. Google has committed $12 million, while both Facebook and Amazon are donating $10 million to various groups that fight against racial injustice. Apple is pledging a whopping $100 million for a new Racial Equity and Justice Initiative.
Please don’t be fooled by any of the sweet and righteous rhetoric coming out of the big players in the corporatocracy. They are no more sincere than their advertising campaigns. By and large, those at the very apex of the pyramid are elitists, part of a club that has utter disregard and even contempt for the human beings that are not in their class. And they are trying to convince us that they want to heal racial division?
You have to ask yourself, is all this corporate money going to the poor and underprivileged population in question, to help them rise out of poverty through new opportunities? Or is it simply laundered to the high-profile minions who are willing and able to keep the fires of division burning? How is BLM leader Patrisse Cullors (a devout Marxist, by the way) able to buy a $1.4 million home in white upper-class Topanga Canyon, LA as part of her $3 million real estate portfolio? How is congresswoman Maxine Waters, who is telling protestors that “We’ve got to get more confrontational,” able to afford to live in a $4.3 Million Dollar Mansion in California? A little digging will reveal a cavalcade of such people who have profited from their compliance with this ruling class agenda.
What Can We Do?
A society that is divided is a society that can be controlled, manipulated, and enslaved by a small group of powerful rulers. Many of us are still in the habit of ‘choosing a side’ of any particular division that has been created, believing that we are going to change things for the better.
Yet, more and more people are choosing to know the truth, wherever it leads them, even if it leads them away from a comfortable side of the divide. As Daryl Davis proved, opening yourself to the other side of the divide and respecting opinions you don’t agree with is the only way to bridge the divide.
Accordingly, I personally welcome views from my readers that oppose anything that has been written in this article. I don’t expect you to accept my words blindly and I encourage you to do your own research. These are my truths, based on my own limited perspective. The only way we will arrive at THE truth is for us to actively create safe spaces in our lives with other people in which all our different views can be heard and respected, leading to a deeper understanding for all. The ruling class doesn’t want that because they know that this understanding will allow us to simply walk away from their system.