Real Truths Before 2014

 

It is easy to see that capitalism has been a very imperfect system. It has been related to slavery and wage oppression. This is not just me typing these words down. Capitalism has been criticized by Malcolm X, Dr. King, Fred Hampton, and our other heroes for years and decades. So, it is what it is. We all realize that capitalism deals with some form of slavery where the workers are enslaved by the capitalist class.  Capitalism deals with oppression. Human beings on many cases in that system are forced to work at a job owned by a capitalist (they owned the jobs, the means of production, and the profit from the jobs) in order to have benefits or have a strong "living." The job is owned by a capitalist employers including the wages, hours, and working conditions. Many workers are treated as a commodity, they are dehumanized, and some are treated as a hired hand. Many of the ruling class can destroy jobs, mechanize jobs, or take jobs to a cheaper labor place. That is why many workers are fighting for higher wages or safe working conditions. The jobless today can't find a job in many circumstances. The job market has been reduced and poverty grows (some folks have faced destitution or even death because of poverty or lack of job opportunities). All workers either face wage injustice, imperfections in the system, or physical, chattel slavery worldwide. Today, at least 27 million people are enslaved globally. About 95 percent of all 6.4 billion person living today work under lax wages. When human beings are controlled by others in control of their lives, then we should investigate that situation. Wage injustice is when a person must sell his or her labor power under the authority of an employer in order to survive literally. In America, Southern plantation owners and capitalists who made millions from the international slave trade brainwashed most Americans in the 19th century that chattel slavery was a fact of nature (which is a lie). Today, capitalists have programmed most contemporary Americans into believing that the evils of capitalist slavery are a necessity to stabilize society (which is another lie). Greed, selfishness, subjugation, and exploitation are all fruits of capitalism.

 

Now, continuing, it is morally right for Americans to end the chattel and overt bond slavery after the Civil War and Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation. Now, workers and the rest of the human family should be free from capitalist slavery. Cooperatives, commonwealth system, and other alternatives to capitalism are great replacements where human beings can live free from slavery of any kind. Politically and economically, all human beings have the right to sustain themselves and lead a free and productive life without exception. Some human beings are held into total slavery and physically beaten plus murdered now. There is even a horrific video of a rich capitalist Saudi Arabian family hanging an Ethiopian female slave upside down from a hook and beating her to a bloody pulp. The Sister was drenched in blood from the whips and sticks that the Saudi thugs used to torture her. See, this is what  they thinks of us. They are from a capitalist family and their slave torturing thugs are not even convicted or imprisoned, yet they are allied with America (which tortures folks too). Many capitalists worldwide are reducing workers to poverty and destitution via unemployment, polluting the seas, using defective nuclear energy plants, causing workers to be murdered in imperialist wars, having deadly austerity policies, etc. The capitalist millionaires and billionaires have increased their wealth 200% since 2009. The people in many times have no rights. 1.2 billion human beings or 24 percent of the total world population live in sever poverty. 46 million Americans lack health insurance, which is 30 percent more than in 1996. While the sales of the Top 200 are the equivalent of 27.5 percent of world economic activity, they employ only 0.78 percent of the world's workforce. Between 1983 and 1999, the profits of the Top 200 firms grew 362.4 percent, while the number of people they employ grew by only 14.4 percent. Many corporations pay no income taxes. We have as many as 43 percent of American workers in private industry having no paid sick days. Half of the world's population or over 3 billion people live on less than 2 dollars a day. A few hundred millionaires and billionaires now own as much wealth as the world's poorest 2.5 billion people. That is why some are calling all races, all genders, and all social classes to end this capitalist slavery system. In the corrupt system, the owner of the means of production utilizes less work than the worker, but the owner gets huge profits. The ratio of average chief executive pay to worker pay was 431 to 1 in 2004, up from 301 to 1 in 2003. A worker many times can't quit an oppressive job since few jobs are available that pay a living wage. We know that the invisible hand of the free market is nonexistent and that human beings have common welfare. 

 

School closings in Chicago have been tragic indeed. Many activists have exposed this situation as a racist school closing agenda. CPS or Chicago Public schools have announced plans to close 54 schools, shutter 61 buildings, and turn around 6 schools as part of 71 school actions. These are the most aggressive moves by the so-called education reformers recently. The consequences of such actions will be affected nationally. The growing movement to defend public education will have to increase its efforts in across the nation not just in Chicago. This policy is nothing new in Chicago. African Americans students in many cases experience education with issues. As Catalyst, the publication covering Chicago schools, notes: "Nearly 90 percent of the students in the closing schools are Black, though African Americans make up only about 40 percent of the district's entire student population" on the city's South and West Sides. Chicago Teacher Union or the CTU President Karen Lewis blasted Mayor Rahm Emanuel (who controls the schools via his handpicked board of education). There has been the closing of dozens of neighborhood schools. Children will be harmed by this reality. Since 2001, 88 percent of students impacted by CPS School Actions are African Americans. This is by design to benefit corporate interests at the expense of the lives of the students including the rest of the youth in the city of Chicago. Some of the corporatists followed Renaissance 2010 or a project of the Civic Committee of the Commercial Club of Chicago (that wanted to radically increase the amount of charter schools in Chicago). Corporations bankroll new charter schools, while CPS has systematically shut down 10 or 15 neighborhood schools each year. These massive closing only increase class sizes and does nothing radical to improve public education. Schools are privatized nationwide in America. Charters have virtually replaced all public schools in New Orleans after the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Only 41 percent of students attend such schools. Philadelphia is closing 23 schools. Cleveland has pit charters against traditional schools. Chicago community groups have fought back against the agenda too. In the aftermath of the strike, the CTU issued another study about the impact of racism in the city's schools: "The Black and White of Education in Chicago's Public Schools". The report highlighted the racist character of the city's actions. These closures affect poor and African American schools. This action never affects wealthier schools at all. We see that real estate speculators trying to demolish public housing as a means to create upscale housing too. This gentrification agenda has harmed communities nationwide. That is why the Kenwood-Oakland Community Organization (KOCO) has linked the fight for affordable housing to the defense of neighborhoods schools. KOCO's Jitu Brown summed up the struggle last year: "We tie it to a gentrification agenda. We tie it to a racist agenda. We feel like the voices of parents and the people most directly impacted are not respected." We see that there is a bipartisan agreement of trying to have austerity, the cuts in the federal budget, the slashing of the post office, and the privatization of the public schools. 

 

When you start to wake up, things start to change. We know that we have to defeat evil. Our people suffered waves of repression and racism, even now. Yet, that is never an excuse to give up. I will never give up in my life period. During these times, we can't get suck into reactionary movements. Many of these movements falsely claim to be the vanguard of black human values, but they advance women hating, authoritarian theocratic aims, and an anti-worker mentality. Some in such reactionary movements want to glamorize Jim Crow oppression. Many of these faux revolutionaries want to blame the victim for his or her own oppression. We have to honor the legacy of black working people who struggled to break the chains of racist oppression. Some of these reactionaries are nostalgic about Jim Crow oppression. During Jim Crow, black people were lynched, black people were violated heavily of their human rights, black people were not given massively fair trials, tons of black human beings were denied the right to vote unfairly, and black people suffered economic discrimination as well. Many sharecroppers faced huge debt to the plantation owner. Urban workers had to fight tooth and nail for a decent paying job in industry. Schools were filled with outdated books and dilapidated schools. In other words, the old system of Jim Crow is a system that I reject and abhor 100 percent. We don't need the system of Jim Crow or the current system of white supremacy in the 21st century either. From the days of chattel slavery to the wage slavery of modern industry, we witness the corrupt system of oppression. That is why many who obsess with lecturing us on "personal responsibility" refuse to talk about unemployment, health care, the prison industrial complex, police brutality, austerity, and other real issues harming the black community in the world (they certainly issue no solutions to these problems either). There is nothing with wrong having with any human beings having personal responsibility in the world, but we shouldn't use personal responsibility as an excuse to ignore injustices in the world. We should follow the example of Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, and others who believed in truth and justice. Men and women should work as equals in the fight against oppression. It is important to note that black women have been in the front lines of the struggle of black liberation. For example, Abolitionist Harriet Tubman led a battle before and during the Civil War as a means to fight for black freedom. So, nothing is wrong with jobs for all, for real childcare, for equal pay for equal work, and for economic justice. These things are just common sense. There must be not only workers solidarity, but Black Unity too. There is nothing wrong with Black Love and Black Unity. We need revolutionary solutions in the world. 

 

A lot of folks talk about Miley Cyrus. A lot of the controversial actions of her are concocted by the elite, her image is supported by the elite, and her agenda are intentionally created. She is a puppet and being used to promote the lie that her actions are cool and it overtly and covertly mocks black culture (and promotes the lie that true black culture is related to debauchery, because Cyrus claims to represent real hip hop, which she doesn't). Many of these artists are commanded or influenced by handlers as a means to advance certain trends in society. Yet, any artist should be accountable for their voluntary actions. At the end of the day, we have to find balance. We don't need to be an authoritarian theocracy where human rights are violated, but we shouldn't embrace nihilism either. Miley Cyrus was in the Disney Hannah Montana show. In that show, she acted more innocent in her social disposition. Afterwards, she is acting in a more controversial, vulgar fashion. Her video called "We Can't Stop" breaks the VEVO record as gaining the fastest in 100 million VEVO views. The agenda of the establishment certainly is about advancing wicked pseudo-morality, especially since much of her music is geared toward young children. That is a shame. The good news is that many human beings are fighting for truth and justice in the world today. Miley Cyrus' MTV performance (ironically the industry is anti-female and Miley Cyrus is being used in the anti-female entertainment industry) has been criticized even by liberals as going too far since little children were watching the awards show. I blame the handlers and the leaders in the entertainment industry more since those groups intentionally executed such a performance as a means to advance the agenda of lax morality. We know that VMA awards and other award shows have much occult symbolism and messages. The performances in such award shows are STAGED. Until 2013, Miley was signed with Hollywood Records, a record label that was founded by Michael Eisner, the CEO of Disney. Hollywood Records also owns other child stars such as Demi Lovato, Selena Gomez and the Jonas Brothers. Every artist in the record label’s stable has a carefully crafted image to be marketed to its target public. Miley is now working with Britney Spears’ ex-manager Larry Rudolph and signed with RCA records – one of the biggest music labels in the world that owns the likes of Justin Timberlake, Britney Spears and Ke$ha. So, Miley Cyrus is following the good girl gone bad motiff or archetype. So, we have the right to love wholesomeness. Robin Thicke performed with Miley Cyrus in the VMA Awards show. Both acted inappropriately with each other when Cyrus is a 20 year old girl and Robin is a 36 year old married man. His video Blurred Lines is blatantly misogynistic. That video has singers with clothes on while the female models are completely naked and treated as forced sexually objects (or as slaves. The models in the video are treated as inferior and powerless under the control of the singers). Blurred Lines is a disgraceful song. Robin Thicke said the following about the song in GQ Magazine on May of 2013: "...People say, 'Hey do you think this is degrading to  women? I'm like, Of course it is. What a pleasure it is to degrade a woman...We tried to everything that was taboo. Bestiality, drug injections, and everything that is completely derogatory towards women..." He is too gone and too wrong. The VMA performance has Cyrus twerking. We need to write about the puppets yes. We should always disagree with the errors of Miley Cyrus. Yet, we need to see those that pull the strings, who are even worse than the puppets. The puppets are wrong for some of their actions, but they are following the orders of the puppet masters directing the wicked show. The machine or the corporate elite controls much of the actions of artists like Miley Cyrus. We should condemn irrational, recreational drug abuse, sexual exploitation, any immorality, and other evils in the world too. Her actions are choreographed and staged as a means to cause a reaction and get people away from the big picture (which is the evil in the industry is found in the system). There is nothing wrong with prayer either. We should pray for folks to wake up in a compassionate fashion. We want all people to wake up and open their eyes to the truth at the end of the day.

 

 

By Timothy