Democrats War on Poverty or War on Black People?

My recent blogpost was of a gentleman by the name of Tommy Sotomayor who rubbed me the wrong way on first sight simply because of the way that he bashes his own people in a public arena and receives praises by racist Whites for his disdain for his race. However, I watched one of his videos on the modern child support system and something that the brother said made perfect sense. In this specific video he wasn’t cooning and calling sisters out of their names but making some very valid points on how the system has us Blacks in America caught between a rock and a hard place.

Usually I have some funny illustrations on my posts but today I don’t have time for that. I just got to stick to the facts.

This is where I get so frustrated when Blacks are duped to vote Democrat and run to their policies as if they are doing them a favor. One thing that nobody can deny is the fact that America was a country born from the fruits of slavery. When someone says not to go blaming slavery for the plight of the Black Man in modern America then I must correct them being that we’re dealing with a system that in so many ways has a failsafe to protect its number one asset….the slave.

The Slave will always be America’s number one asset being that it is a Human Resource. Slavery never ended but was cleverly reconstructed by a system that masked its attacks on the same people that it enslaved with shackles and plantation work now is enslaved by the prison and military complex. Though with the majority of the Black race in America being plantation minded they aren’t able to see this transition.

The war on poverty in fact was a war on Black People in poverty. The best warfare on anyone is waged in a stealthy manner. Already being the victims of psychological warfare, physical warfare and economical warfare it was easy for the slippery slope on the war on poverty (Black People in Poverty) to be implemented. This came about from a government structure that upheld segregation, racism and Black Second Class Citizenship.

Before I go on any further I will use a good metaphor for Blacks in America. Where I live we use air conditioning for heat and air. In the summer time we use the system to cool us off, and in the winter time the heat quite naturally. Between seasons we have to manually take the filter out of the unit and clean the dirt so it can perform efficiently.

Throughout American history it seems that we’ve been breathing the air without a clean filter. Under the impression that seasons have changed we are still breathing the air from a dirty filter as a people in this country. We’ve never cleaned our filter of religion nor have we’ve cleaned our filters from a political stance. How the hell can you expect to breathe clean air through a dirty filter?!

How can you take a religion given to you on the plantations and call it good? How can you take government assistance from the same machine that embraced the idea of your expedited death and call it help? It wasn’t help and evidence of that is the state that our People are in right now in America.

Tap dancing Tommy is quick to bash the state of mind that some of our sisters is in from the wearing of weave to the downright unacceptable behaviors. The self-hatred that he carries for himself and the self-hatred that these sisters present are both manufactured right here on American soil…and on purpose.

The Black Man was pitted against the Black Woman and vice versa during the Jim Crowe days. This is something that was carried from one generation to the next. To all of my White readers…read this with an open mind and think before you speak. I’m going to put you in the shoes of a working class Black Man during the Jim Crowe era that all of our surviving elders can attest to.

Imagine you as a MAN having to deal with not only maintaining your household but being talked down to and put in a position where you can’t legally defend your family let alone yourself. Imagine being put in a position where you as a MAN is talked down to not only in front of your woman but also in front of your kids. Mentally what would that do to you? This is a reality that you as a White Man would never dare let happen to you without a fight. The first thing that you would refer to is your Constitutional Rights.

Generations of this happening to Black Families primed the easy infiltration of the Family structure. The sisters wearing the weaves, the Brothers’ fascination with light skinned to White Women all comes from this type of background and evidence of this type of self-hatred was conducted by Dr. Kenneth B. Clark and Mammie Clark that used dolls to test the levels of self-hatred in our community.

Fast forwarding to the war on poverty, Uncle Sam seen the lack of stability that existed between the Black Man and Black Woman and gave the Black Woman power of her household by implementing welfare. This was also the transition of the method of slavery in America and it was done within the boundaries of the Constitution.

We all know that families are stronger when they stand as a unit. What this war on poverty done was getting the Black Man out of the household that the Black Woman had lost her faith in to provide. No Man can compete with the state let alone a Black Man. Uncle Sam is now the daddy. Uncle Sam provides a roof over the heads of the family and provides the food that they will consume.

A woman can have this free lunch so long as there is no man involved. What this leads to is a generation of dysfunctional kids that only a few are accepted into institutions of higher learning while the rest are railroaded into privatized institutions of mass incarceration. This also starts a trend of women taking advantage of the system to have the securities of a home and food.

It was designed for them to take advantage of. And the system is not at all just when it comes down to breaking that cycle or rendering justice fairly. It only pacifies the problem and condones it for the demise of all families. Let's take race out of the equation for a bit. Blacks were used as an experiment. Now this same problem of household breakup is bleeding over into the White Community. 

This is evidence of a system that hasn’t changed since the Jim Crowe days. Jim Crowe just transformed and integrated himself into the court systems where I’m quite sure that there are more horror stories like mine to be told.

It’s time to change the filter. Breathing this dirty air is not healthy for our homes or our health.