People with black skin and people with white skin have found ways to get along. That is a much larger reality than "race war." MUCH LARGER.
THE UNIQUE INDIVIDUAL is a much larger reality than race war. The ideas embedded in the Constitution turn out to have a lot to do with the unique individual developing his own vision and power and creative force -- if he will realize that fact.
I haven't spent the last 40 years writing for white people or black people or yellow or tan or red people. If that had been my goal, I would have burned out long ago.
Coming out of World War 2, propagandists and government planners and marketers and intelligence agencies and think tanks and corporate advisors and mass communications experts began to realize they could strengthen their position by: convincing individuals to think of themselves as GROUPS.
Groups are easier to control.
Make a group, define it, urge the members to conceive of themselves in limited terms, profile the group, sell products to the group, show the group they have political aspirations that can be satisfied by big government...and the whole society changes.
Face it, these marketers and propagandists are, in many ways, the scum of the earth. They see a glint of promise in group-think, and their goal becomes: create groups. By name, by agenda, by class, by race, by religion, by age, by preferences, by economic background, by every possible marker.
Believe it or not, the marketers caught on to what was happening in the Civil Rights movement of the 1950s and 60s; they looked at Martin Luther King, and they said, "WE HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY HERE." Yes. And it was an opportunity that went far beyond the justice of voting rights and integrated education.
The marketers said, "We can create a new group. Not just black Americans. Black Americans with government benefits. We can dead-end the whole Civil Rights movement into a Welfare State of vast proportions. We can create total dependence on government -- and at the same time, we'll be expanding the size and power of government over the people. It's a double winner."
From the point of view of the marketers, the fairness and justice and right of black Americans to receive welfare was entirely beside the point. That wasn't the issue at all. The issue was the pacification of black Americans. A way to use money and benefits to keep black Americans under control. The cynicism was breathtaking.
The marketers realized, of course, that they would need black leaders to say, over and over again, that welfare was a right, and it was fair and just and reasonable, based on the history of slavery. Based on racism. And some black leaders who emerged were co-opted into that cause and that OPERATION.
"But black people DO deserve welfare."
Again -- the marketers are going to choose an issue that can be argued, that can be justified. But the real motive is hidden.
It all starts with forming a group. "Black people must be taught to think of themselves as black and nothing else. As black victims. Certainly not as unique individuals."
Certain members of the Black Panthers, and Malcolm X, recognized the basic con. They saw certain white liberals who were "on their side" as the enemy. They saw that these fawning liberals were actually hoping and working for a way to PACIFY and sideline black independence.
And of course, on the other side, the marketers would need to create a group of white liberals, a very large group, who would support "black rights," naively believing this was all about fairness and justice and NOTHING ELSE.
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