The supreme court kills integration efforts

The senate halts attempts at immigration reform

There's a common thread

The right wing is winning its long-standing battle

against the inclusion of racial minorities

in mainstream American society

The conservative movement in the US

evolved from a visceral hostility

toward both communism and the civil rights movement,

in roughly equal parts

Today's most admired icons of the right - including

Ronald Reagan, Barry Goldwater and William F Buckley

- all strongly opposed the dismantling of Jim Crow

in the South and laws intended to stop pervasive

racial discrimination while guaranteeing voting rights to blacks

White Supremacy: The Bedrock of American Culture

Bush was wrong. Oil is not America’s number one addiction, rather it is the disease of racism or white supremacy which pervades and poisons every fabric of American and western society.

White supremacy also affects African, Asian and Latin culture, thus it is a global phenomena, administered through the economic institution of capitalism and imperialism.

It is not purely economic but cultural as well.

The virus of white supremacy is spread through cultural imperialism, or the imposition of western culture upon the subject peoples.

Of course, western culture is by the nature of power relationships, the superior or dominant culture, all other cultures being inferior and relegated to the lower rung on the ladder of civilization.

The culture of white supremacy has the self-endowed duty to civilize all other cultures, especially those it has colonized or recently allowed to step up to the more modern stage of neo-colonialism.

Such cultures exercise a modicum of independence but yet remain shackled to the master culture, economically and psychologically.

For the most part they remain enslaved to the western free market system which at best enables them to become wage slaves and consumers of crass materialism and partakers of reactionary spirituality or more precisely religiosity.

The myth-rituals of western civilization maintains it grip on their psyche and physicality: their minds and bodies become captives of the western model of reality and the metaphysical.

The people subjected to white supremacy allow themselves no opportunity for original thinking, or thinking out of the box, for they have never seized the opportunity to consider another world view or national view, only the views of the Mother country (the white supremacy global rulers) have relevance.

The people have been totally brainwashed into the addiction of white supremacy, to the extent that they wear clothing with corporate brand names, advertising their acceptance of economic and cultural imperialism.

It never occurs to them to wear clothing with their names or indigenous brands.

Even after the 60s naming rituals, most African Americans continue calling themselves by European names, although they try a little originality, now and then, especially in the southern area or dirty south.

Recently Bill Cosby suggested they were wrong to exercise this degree of originality, disclosing his own ignorance rather than theirs.

Why do they not have the human and divine right to name themselves, why should they continue disclosing their slavery heritage.

Why can’t they think out of the box of cultural imperialism, break the chains after centuries of putrid degradation.

White Supremacy & the Truth about Black Youth Crime

I am prepared to state openly that the experience of young black people within the criminal justice system and in the wider society is influenced to a large degree by the system of white supremacy that operates in Europe and the US.

Let me be clear that when I use the term “white supremacy” that I am referring to the structured and systemized forms of discrimination, and racial disadvantage that are brought to bear, sub-consciously or intentionally upon people of African descent.

This, at the same time, confers privilege and advantage to individuals racialised as white.

What we are seeing here is a system of criminal justice that confers privilege amongst whiteS – because they are less likely to be stopped and searched and less likely to be arrested – which discriminates against people of African descent.

That is the first proof of white supremacy at work.

Whether one uses the term white supremacy or not, the reality is the same; that black people have historically been denigrated, demonized, routinely targeted by the police and have encountered discrimination within the criminal justice system.

This has led to the present situation of a minority of black youth being involved in criminal activity, but accounting for a disproportionate rate of crime among the 10-17 age group.

As experts have argued, the criminalization of the black community breeds crime; it does not solve it, but has a destabilizing effect on families and individuals.

"Prisonisation" entrenches a criminal identity in an individual making it more likely that they will commit crime than not.

At the same time, whilst black families are demonized by the state and mainstream media and blamed for crime within the black community, the reality is that white families produce more criminals but are not subject to the same levels of scrutiny and judgement as black families.

Despite the civil rights movement and 'political correctness', there are still widespread perceptions of black people as inherently inferior to Europeans and inclined towards crime and deviance.

Given that in the preceding 200 years, Christianity, scientific racism, literature and popular culture have all served to justify slavery and denigrate people of African descent it is hardly surprising that most whites would hold these views

The supreme court kills integration efforts.

The senate halts attempts at immigration reform.

Hmm. See a common thread there?

Last Thursday, the senate killed immigration reform and the supreme court all but buried its landmark Brown versus Board of Education decision of 1954, which ordered the desegregation of American schools.

The two decisions underscore what has become increasingly evident in recent years: the right is winning its long-standing battle against the inclusion of racial minorities in mainstream American society.

The conservative movement in the US evolved from a visceral hostility toward both communism and the civil rights movement, in roughly equal parts.

Today's most admired icons of the right - including Ronald Reagan, Barry Goldwater and William F Buckley - all strongly opposed the dismantling of Jim Crow in the South and laws intended to stop pervasive racial discrimination while guaranteeing voting rights to blacks.

Less sophisticated leaders of the conservative movement openly expressed their hostility toward non-whites using epithets that have since become taboo, though the more respectable phrase that everyone understood in those days was "states' rights".

The right ultimately lost many of those battles in the 1960s, but it has since reversed its fortunes in no small measure by co-opting another term - colour blindness - that embodied Martin Luther King's vision for America.

In just one of many examples of their remarkable sophistication in salesmanship, conservatives have used that word to subvert everything King and other supporters of equal opportunity and civil rights stood for.

Supreme court justice John Paul Stevens, in dissenting from the court's decision to strike down Seattle and Louisville's school assignment plans, called out chief justice John Roberts for employing the sort of deception that has become second nature for the right on matters of race.

Stevens wrote: "There is a cruel irony in the chief justice's reliance on our decision in Brown v Board of Education. The first sentence in the concluding paragraph of his opinion states:

'Before Brown, schoolchildren were told where they could and could not go to school based on the color of their skin.' This sentence reminds me of Anatole France's observation:

'[T]he majestic equality of the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.'

The chief justice fails to note that it was only black schoolchildren who were so ordered; indeed, the history books do not tell stories of white children struggling to attend black schools."

So now Louisville and Seattle, along with hundreds of other US districts that have voluntarily implemented school-assignment systems tailored to reduce the racial isolation of their children, must go back to square one.

Some will try to jump through the vaguely worded and largely impractical hoops that justice Anthony Kennedy, with his controlling fifth vote for the majority, set forward as acceptable tools for encouraging integration.

Others districts may consider substituting socio-economic factors, which wouldn't pose legal risks, for racial ones in student assignment.

But no doubt some school boards that until now were committed to the goal of achieving racial balance - partly in recognition of the abundant research showing that low-income minority students in diverse schools do much better than those in racially isolated, low-income schools - will simply give up.

The senate, too, gave up its efforts to try to enable the 12 million undocumented immigrants in the United States to emerge from underground, after paying a fine and meeting various requirements.

Although the legislation under consideration had myriad flaws - most especially an unworkable and immoral guest worker program - the decisive barrier to sensible reform was the extremely vocal block of individuals who are deeply hostile to immigrants and immigration.

The groups involved in organizing and giving voice to those opponents are almost entirely connected in one way or another to the conservative movement.

They are rejoicing over the fact that "illegals" will remain unconnected to mainstream society; the only better outcome to them would have entailed sending the immigrants back to where they came from.

In the 1944 classic work An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy, which was cited in the original Brown decision, the Swedish economist Gunnar Myrdal argued that the pursuit of American constitutional and democratic principles would pave the way toward integrating blacks into society and ultimately eradicating racism.

As it turned out, significant, hard-earned progress was indeed achieved as a result of the civil-rights movement.

But as the nation has reverted from policies that reach out to minorities to pushing them away, in accordance with conservative ideology, the visions of Myrdal and King seem to be slipping farther and farther from our sight. Greg Anrig @ CIF