The ruling class elites are excellent at fishing. They know how to bait a hook to get the oppressed masses to bite on their political rhetoric. The masses have been falling for their lures and tricks for centuries. In the U.S., the masses have been swallowing the same hook, line and sinker since 1789. In 2008, the ruling class decided to put a little bit different bait on the same old hook with Barack Obama, the first \u201cBlack\u201d President, and the fish went wild. The ruling circle knew Amerika was becoming more ethnically diverse, and racism among the masses was at a low point, and they could see that the masses were fed up with the white aristocratic oligarchy that had brought on the worst economic crisis since the \u201cGreat Depression.\u201d So they switched bait on us.<\/p>\n
George W. Bush took billions of tax dollars away from social welfare programs and invested it in his phony \u201cWar on Terrorism,\u201d (that had nothing to do with fighting terrorism), which triggered deeper crisis in the economy, and created a debt crisis as well as trillions of dollars missing from the Department of Defense that still hasn\u2019t been accounted for. So the masses of voters turned to Obama and his false promise of \u201cHope.\u201d Obama was supposed to be against the war and everything Bush and the Republicans represented. He was supposed to put a new color on everything, but in reality he was fronting for the same ruling oligarchy as Bush, and Clinton before him, and Bush\u2019s daddy before that. \u201cHope\u201d turned out to be a cruel joke.<\/p>\n
In 2008, the ruling class \u201cse-elected\u201d Obama to continue \u201cbusiness as usual,\u201d the 44th<\/sup> overseer on the \u201cAmerikkkan Plantation\u201d representing capitalist-imperialism, neo-colonialism and neo-liberalism. Being half \u201cAfrikan\u201d he was an ideal choice for continuing Bush\u2019s AFRICOM strategy and uniting Afrika under U.S. neo-colonial hegemony. In 2008, no Afrikan country would host U.S. troops on its territory, but under Obama, AFRICOM has established military to military relations with 51 Afrikan nations and forced regime changes in Libya and C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire. The \u201cDark Continent\u201d is now dotted with covert U.S. bases and instillations as well as overt bases in Djibouti, Senegal and Uganda. U.S. killer drones and U.S. special operations teams are deployed at strategic locations. U.S. trainers are \u201cadvising\u201d most of the armed forces in Afrika. \u00a0A continental military establishment is being created under U.S. control and command.<\/p>\n Because Obama is half \u201cBlack,\u201d New Afrikans were deluded into thinking his administration would change their socio-economic, cultural and political status in a positive way. Instead, racist whites have been encouraged by the Obama administration\u2019s evident lack of commitment to these issues to roll back the gains of the Civil Rights Era, and racist police have become even more oppressive and violent. What New Afrikans didn\u2019t realize is the ruling class didn\u2019t select Obama to serve the interests of the oppressed peoples but to serve their class\u2019 imperialist interests. He is their puppet. They don\u2019t mind putting a few \u201cblack faces in high places,\u201d but racism serves capitalism and can\u2019t be reformed away.<\/p>\n Neo-liberalism doesn\u2019t mind \u201ctalented Negroes\u201d performing needed services so long as they adhere to and advance the kleptocratic plutocracy\u2019s interests. In fact, it absolutely needs such individuals, of which Obama is the archetype. These \u201cHouse Negroes\u201d have always performed a necessary service to keep the \u201cField Negroes\u201d in harness to the \u201cMassah\u2019s interests.\u201d The \u201cUnited Snakes\u201d Constitution, established in 1789, is the same one that Obama took an oath to uphold, on January 20th<\/sup>, 2008. It is the same one that for years classified Black people as 3\/5ths of a human; according to this Constitution: Black, brown, red or yellow pigmentation of the skin disqualified one from being fully human. It stated:<\/p>\n \u201cRepresentatives and direct taxes shall be apportioned among the several states, which may be included within the union according to their respective numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole number of free persons, including those bound to service for a term of years, and excluding (Indians) not taxed, (three-fifths) <\/strong>of all other persons. <\/em>(Article 1, Section #3).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n For those who don\u2019t know, during the 1787 Constitutional Convention, where 55 aristocrats, most of them slave owners, debated the proposal of states like Georgia and South Carolina that slaves should be counted as full-human beings for purpose of determining representation, whereas northerners felt they shouldn\u2019t be considered at all. A \u201cGreat Compromise\u201d was reached to count the slaves as 3\/5th<\/sup> of a person and thus appease the slave-owners. Following the Civil War and the abolition of slavery by the Thirteenth Amendment (1865), the three-fifths clause was nullified, as all people were now free (except those convicted of a crime). Section 2 of the Fourteenth Amendment (1868) later superseded Article 1, Section 2, Clause 3. It provides that “representatives shall be apportioned … counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed.” Today, rural counties count prisoners in determining population for representation, even though we can\u2019t vote.<\/p>\n I\u2019ve said many times, \u201cyou cannot change the personnel of an oppressive, racist, and murderous system and expect the system itself to change.\u201d Instead we must end this system and replace it with one based upon socialist people\u2019s power, then it won\u2019t matter what personnel are ethnically, because they will represent us and the interests of all humanity. Elections don\u2019t change systems, revolutions do. To illustrate my point, imagine throwing a white person in a lake. Then ask yourself, \u201cdoes he get wet?\u201d Then, go jump in the lake yourself. Same result, right? Of course, no matter what color, ethnicity, gender or whatever \u2013 people get wet in the lake: Unless you change the characteristics of water. \u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n Under socialism \u2013 real socialism, revolutionary socialism \u2013 the wealth and power of the ruling class is expropriated by the people, and those who do the work in society become the actual \u201cruling class\u201d who use this wealth and power to reconstruct society based upon principles of real equality and social justice for all. This is the only way Black Amerikans are going to escape conditions of wage slavery, oppression, discrimination and super exploitation. If you think voting is going to liberate us, go jump in a lake until you figure it out.<\/p>\n Douglas L. Wilder was elected the first Black state governor in Virginia in 1989. What did he do to make the lives of New Afrikans in Virginia any better? Right, splash! I could go on and on with Black Amerikan firsts. Why should we have expected the first Black Amerikan President would have worked out differently? In fact, he didn\u2019t really help any of the demographics who voted for him, except in the sense we can say a Republican administration might have been even worse, (but not essentially different). That\u2019s because we have a \u201cTwo-Headed Snake\u201d political system in the United Snakes of Amerikkka. We have two parties representing the same ruling class. So, no matter who gets elected, the ruling class wins and we lose.<\/p>\n In 2008, we had Jesse Jackson, Andrew Young and John Lewis shown all over the Establishment\u2019s media gushing emotionally about the fulfilment of Martin Luther King\u2019s dream. In 2016, we have masses of Black people trying to get across the message that \u201cBlack Lives Matter,\u201d and if MLK was still alive he\u2019d be marching with the youth demanding an end to racist mass incarceration and rampant police brutality and murder in our communities. He\u2019d be telling people to \u201cWake Up!\u201d In his own words:<\/p>\n \u201cA true revolution of values will soon look uneasily on the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth with righteous indignation. It will look across the seas and see individual capitalists of the west investing huge sums of money in Asia, Africa and South America only to take the profits out with no concern for the social betterment of the countries and say: \u2018This is not just\u2019<\/strong>.\u201d \u00a0\u00a0– (cited in \u201cBeyond Vietnam, a Speech Given at: Riverside Church on: April 4th<\/sup>, 1967.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Dr. King made many more speeches and public comments vilifying the U.S. government and capitalists\u2019 crimes against the poor here and internationally. He is quoted as saying:<\/p>\n \u201cWe must recognize that we can\u2019t solve our problem now until there is a radical redistribution of economic and political power\u2026 this means a revolution of values and other things. We must see now that the evils of racism, economic exploitation and militarism are all tied together\u2026 you can\u2019t really get rid of one without getting rid of the others\u2026 the whole structure of American life must be changed. America is a hypocritical nation and [we] must put [our] own house in order.\u201d-<\/strong> Report<\/a> to SCLC Staff, May 1967.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n \u201cThe evils of capitalism are as real as the evils of militarism and evils of racism.\u201d<\/strong> \u2013Speech<\/a> to SCLC \u00a0Board, March 30, 1967.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n \u201cYou can\u2019t talk about solving the economic problem of the Negro without talking about billions of dollars. You can\u2019t talk about ending the slums without first saying profit must be taken out of slums. You\u2019re really tampering and getting on dangerous ground because you are messing with folk then. You are messing with captains of industry. Now this means that we are treading in difficult water, because it really means that we are saying that something is wrong with capitalism.\u201d <\/strong>\u2013 Speech<\/a> to his staff, 1966.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n \u201c[W]e are<\/u> saying that something is wrong \u2026 with capitalism\u2026. There must be better distribution of wealth and maybe America must move toward a democratic socialism.\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Speech<\/a> to his staff, 1966.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n And:<\/p>\n