Angelica King, 27, April 2015
There is a systematic war on black people. This systematic war on blacks is on the educational, employment, medical and police front. Black people are the victims of genocide and racism as a systematic dynamic for white power. Part of the objective of this war on black people is to keep blacks oppressed socioeconomically. Black people especially are undergoing war through incarceration, unemployment, and education
The common text book mainly teaches black people about their struggles, which were caused by white people caused. The identity of black people is being kept out of text books causing black Americans to believe they are only descendants of slaves. Black history didn’t start with slavery and black people did not all come to America on a slave ship. Black people were going to America thousands of years before Columbus. American public school history books don’t mention Mansa Musa, a black man who was the king of Mali in the 1300s, who still stands today as the richest person in history.
History of the Moorish civilizing Europe in 711 AD is not taught. Moorish people were black Africans and Arabians. They were wealthy and were advanced in agriculture, mathematics, astronomy and art plus brought civilization to Europe. Moors brought writing, culture, fashion, medicine, street lights, castles, hygiene, hospitals, paper and libraries to Europeans which brought Europeans out of the Dark Ages. The Moors had such a deep impact on Europe but are not mentioned in American text books. In the classroom black children are targeted far more than white students, especially black males. Sixteen percent of black students are suspended annually, while only five percent of white students are suspended annually, according to the U.S. Education Department's 2011-2012 Civil Rights Data Collection.
This educational war sets children up to believe they have no significant history. The school system forces parents to have their children tested. Black boys are four times more likely to be misdiagnosed with mental retardation than white boys. This sets up misdiagnosed children to believe he or she can’t have high achievements in school; it sets them up to aim low. Misdiagnoses of having a learning disability is a strong weapon imposed on black children.
Another aspect of the educational warfront is the testing systems that are in place, such as the IQ tests and SAT tests. These tests are focused on classism and racism to limit black opportunity. The IQ test implies cultural discrimination. It benefits white people more than black people. On the comprehension section it uses words and definitions that white people normally use. The SAT test was created by Carl Brigham, who was a white racist eugenicist and advocated the systematic extermination of black people. He gave many speeches of white superiority. Dr. Umar Johnson gave a "Psycho-Academic War on Black Boys" speech in Reno, Nevada. In part of that speech, he stated that test scores is the new Jim Crow sign. Dr. Umar Johnson stated:
60 years ago if you wanted to go to a certain college it was labelled whites only, colored only they can’t do that no more, still racist but you got to make it look scientific. So instead of saying your child can’t come to a university because their black they say your child can’t come to the university because their SAT scores were too low. They use numbers because that looks like it is not racist or discriminating.
There are so many things that black people especially black men are undergoing in this daily systematic war. The black people who do access higher education and get into colleges that are predominantly white find it hard to get a job even after graduating. In 2014, there were 12.4% of black graduates who were unemployed. The national black unemployment rate in 2014 was 10.4% while the national white unemployment rate was only 4.8%.
There was a eugenics movement in the United States in the 19th century which was the same eugenics movement that influenced Nazi Germany. This movement was focused on selective breeding and stopping “undesirables” from reproducing to improve the human race. In this movement “undesirables” were people of color who were poor, uneducated or mentally ill. Black women were forcibly sterilized by doctors through birth control and had forced abortion. Sixty-four thousand people were sterilized against their will during this movement that was permitted by legislation.
Black people are also the targets of police enforcement, five times as many white people use drugs compared to African Americans, but African Americans are arrested ten times the rate of whites. In 2014, police enforcement killed more black Americans than terrorist did on September 11th. There have been many riots and protests to end police war on blacks for years but within the last few years these protest have been shown increasingly in all the media. There have been protests to end the police killing unarmed innocent black people like Eric Garner, Oscar Grant, Mike Brown, Trayvon Martin, et cetera.
There are riots going on in Baltimore partly because police killed Freddie Gray. Freddie Gray did not get timely medical care; he died of injuries after being arrested. Some are in complete support of the riots there. Black people have constantly tried using peaceful tactics. Yet peace can only go so far when it is being ignored and change is not occurring. Black people are being systematically exterminated; the way blacks are negatively portrayed through mainstream media is. The propaganda serves to support reason to exterminate blacks. If the mass media shows black people as the problem, it will condition people to believe that the “problem” needs to be eliminated. Black people have to do what they must for change, because they must see change. America has become a place where being able to live is also a white privilege.
