After 30 years Income Gap Increased
Decades after the civil rights movement, the income gap between Black and white families has grown, according to recent
studies that tracked the incomes of some 2,300 families for more than 30 years. The result: In 2004, a typical Black family
had an income that was only 58 percent of a typical white family's. In 1974, median Black incomes were 63 percent those
of whites. In 2007, those numbers have worsened due to increased unemployment, the ending of affirmative action, foreclosures,
repossessions, evictions, loan defaults, rising gas prices, and inflation.
One reason for the growing disparity:
Incomes among Black men have actually declined in the past three decades, when adjusted for inflation. They were offset only
by gains among Black women. Incomes among white men, meanwhile, grew slowly but steadily, while those of white women
increased more than five times those of other groups. The reports found that about two-thirds of the children surveyed
grew up to have higher family incomes than their parents had 30 years earlier; and yet incomes among whites increased more
than double those of their Black counterparts. In addition, middle-income Black families do not pass on higher incomes to
their children in the same way that white families. Only one in three Black children from middle-income families grew up to
have higher incomes than their parents.
That means a majority of Black families ended up slipping down; their
wealth was not substantive---it was spent paying bills, rent, house-notes, health care, car notes, food bills, transportation
cost, education cost, etc. Among whites, about two-thirds of the children from middle-income families grew up to have
higher incomes than their parents.
In sum, even after the civil rights movement, generally Africans
in America have faired worse financially relative to their white counterparts. Thirty years later, on average, economically
we are worst off than our grandparents. Even with college educations, we are still clocking dirt for our sweat in some
fantasy democracy, paying house-notes soon to be foreclosed and car-notes soon to be repossessed---on our collective
knees waiting on the saviors of enslavers to bail us out.
This is no way for
children of the Holocaust of Black Enslavement to live out this gift of life. Study the fundamentals of economics to
get answers to why this economic system works for th ruling class, culture, race, and gender and not for Black people in general.
Fundamentals of Modern Economics Every society has
at its core land, a settled population, a cultural way of adapting to life, and an economy---a system of producing, distributing,
exchanging, consuming, and reproducing the necessities/luxuries of life. Every economy is controlled by a ruling class/race
via a political system welding the instrument of state government, enforced by brute military force, and usually greased (made
acceptable) with a mystical religious brew of afterlife deception and fear. The political system determines the quality
and even the quantity of life via a social system's institutions (education, health care, law, mass media, family, religion,
science, culture, recreation, sport, etc.). Religion is also made up, planned, written, published, printed mystical
ideas propagated by the ruling race, class, sex/gender, and culture.
So, who gets what and how much
they get is no accident; it is not by chance that the poor are poor and the rich are rich. This is all planned.
The source of wealth is nature and human labor. Gold has no innate, inherent, natural value, neither does paper with a dead
white president's face on it (money). Even the churches, mosques, synagogues are bought and paid for out of the
labor of the masses. Everything that surrounds us in our daily life---cell phones, computers, IPODs, printers, flatscreen
tvs, space shuttles, cars, trucks, highways, clothing, houses, books, etc., luxury articles as well as necessary ones---is
created by skilled, semi-skilled or unskilled human labor. Most ofthis wealth is appropriated without indemnity by the
ruling class, race, culture and sex/gender. They created a set of laws, a constitution, a government, an armed
military and paramilitary force, an education system, a religious and cultural system, a mass media, prisons and symbols of
power which re-inforce their rule. In fact, they create the gods that are always, always, on their side. The mechanism
of taking the wealth from those who work is always different and is based on the society's mass population degree of development.
But it is a system, and like every thing else it has a period of birth, development, maturation, decline, decay, and
deterioration, death and replacement with a more relevant/adaptable system. If planets, solar systems, stars, galaxies,
and even universes come to an end (over billions of years), die, and end up recycled in a Black Hole, transformed in to Black
Dark Matter, then Black Dark energy, thenbaby universes---surely a few societies with 400-500 year life spans also run
their course. The feudal, capitalist, and socialist ruling classes under stand this. They, (like anything
old, moribund, rotting, dying away) try to hold on---some in creative ways.
Having fashioned an economic, political, social, and cultural system in their
own image and interests, why wouldn't the United States (1776-1791) capitalist, greco-roman, male, white rulers ensure
their rule through military force, mass media coercion, and religious indoctrination? Consequently, the few rich
people exist only because the masses of poor people exist---they live off of them; an economy is finite, there is only so
much money circulating at one time and somebody has it and somebody doesn't. Somebody, less than 7% of the United
State's population, today owns over 91% of the nation's wealth. Poor people produce the means of existence for
themselves at the businesses the capitalists set up, and also work more, surplus time, in order to produce the means of existence,
including luxury articles, for rich people. Throughout European history there has been a working class which held
different names such as slave or serf or industrial worker. Since the destruction of primitive communalism, there has always
been a ruling class. The name or designation of that ruling class has always been closely associated with the society's
technology. Fundamental Institutional Changes
Modelling Greece, Rome, and England common law, United States law/state came into existence to maintain the
relative position of rich above the poor in a functioning society/government; they (white, capitalist/slaveowner, Greco-Roman,
male) created it, wrote the constitutions, created a supreme court to interpret/referee it always in their behalf, built and
trained the army, set up the governmental agencies, endowed the schools with money/means and the ideology of white supremacy,
and set up the rules for electing representatives to their local, state and federal governmental agencies. Laws are
established by the dominant class, race, sex, culture, and generation and so they reflect their interests.
No
matter how complicated they are, the essence of these laws is very simple: to force poor people to work at a profit to the
class that own the means of producing, distributing, and exchanging. Keep them always in a poor state, to make
rich people even richer via profit, government entitlements, martial/legal expropriation, seizure, and tax breaks. To
make these laws work in real life they have to be supported by force, thus requiring the creation of army, police, prisons,
in short, the state. The ruled vote for the ruling classes-supported candidates---the best that rich people's
money can buy. These candidates become senators, representatives, presidents, governors, vice presidents---all bought
and paid for by rich capitalist lobbies of businesses seeking their interests represented. The white ruling class fundamentally
has to have whites representing them in their key positions of power. Chinese have Chinese representatives.
Men have men; Greco-Roman/christian culture has greco-roman/chrisitian educated representatives. It would be impossible
for Arab/Islamic culture to have ancient African Kmt culture/civilization representing it; the Arab mass would not stand for
it. The same is true in the United States. This is why African-centered education is merely infusing/integrating
harmless fragments of white-acceptable Black history facts into an ultra-white supremist Greco-roman/christian curriculum
as opposed to creating an independent Kmt-African/Maat curriculum for Africans. The white ruling class/race/culture/gender
would not allow it within their system of education. Neither would the Arabs.
Society is a system of organizing people, production needs, and social purpose; it is organic in
form, but uniquely human in cultural content. People make their own histories, institutions, relationships; but
they are not free to make them as they please. They are constrained by the level of cultural/technological development
of their society and the scientific education (or lack there of) of their population. The foundation of society is made
up of two basic interdependent parts of what we call the economy. One side is the way we produce and the other side is the
way that production is distributed. The production process today is computer automated, but not necessarily capitalist or
socialist. An "ism" in this sense is a political term, a sort of shorthand for classifying the goings-on of
production, distribution, exchange, consumption and reproduction controlled by one class/race/culture/gender. A
system of production is called capitalism because the capital (the means of production) are privately owned; socialist because
that technology/production output is state-owned for the working population. An industrial economy is the combination of human
labor and power driven machinery. Its political core can be either socialist or capitalist or even feudalist as is the case
in Saudi Arabia.
In capitalism, the workers sell their ability to work, their labor power, and buy
the commodities that are necessary to live. The capitalist buys this ability to work, the labor power, the nerve and muscle
and energy that, once put in motion, becomes work, and sells the commodities that work produces. So long as everyone
participates in this buying and selling in the free market (which is anything but free), the system works. It works
unfairly, it cheats nonwhites, and women, it is uneven for most, but it works. Workers meet their basic needs of
food, clothing, housing, transportation, recreation, health care, education, and culture relative to the history
of what they have accepted overtime. When their relative conditions worsen fundamentally, crisis ensures. Add roboticised
computer automated machine production. And GM, Ford, Chrysler, Delphi, IBM---every major capitalist manufacturing, agricultural,
mining, construction and service industry---must advance/upgrade their technology to increase productivity while permanently
putting workers out of work.
The workers buy commodities and sell
their labor power in the process of production. The robots produce the cars, computers, IPODs, shoes, harddrives, desks, etc.,
but they don't buy or sell anything. The system is being disrupted; it doesn't work anymore.
Recession, Depression, National Crisis, Collapse Advances in technology and their application to (use in) the production of societal goods and
services are at the basis of economic, political and social change. Computer automated machine production
(CAMP) will end wage labor, while globalization will establish the world's lowest possible wage as the standard for workers
around the world. As CAMP extends throughout the global economy, workers around the world compete with each other and
with their electronic counterparts; this will slash the cost of production to its absolute minimum, driving down the value
of human labor and wages and forcing more members of the household to enter the job market, work past retirement age, or take
on multiple jobs to maintain a slipping standard of living. When people don't work, they cannot pay for the goods
and services directly or indirectly (through taxes). Without the ability to sell their labor power and with no economic
safeguards or political voice, workers will struggle openly on issues of necessity, such as food, clothing, and shelter.
Unless the market can absorb the constantly expanding output of the capitalist society, the economic system freezes
up and enters a crisis. Ultimately, this crisis is a result of the introduction of advanced technologies that brings on a
crisis in profitability, but it appears as a crisis of overproduction, the inability to circulate commodities that the market
cannot absorb. So, to out-compete the other capitalists on this world stage, each capitalist is compelled to seek out the
cheapest labor and the most advanced technology. Delphi, GM, Ford, Chrysler, Farmer Jack, New York University, New Orleans
must lower wages to reflect global wage levels. The increased productiveness of capital has not been matched by a proportionate
increase in markets. The central economic problem in 2007 is a growing, permanent surpluses of goods, labor and productive
capacity inevitably generated by technological innovation and the free-running industrial globalization.
These
surpluses affect steel, auto, textiles, agriculture, telecommunications, computer technology, robotics, clothing manufacturing
electronic appliances - virtually every industry, except those on the cutting edge today (like semiconductors). To maintain
profitability, corporations must lower their break-even point, redeploying parts of the production process overseas, reducing
fixed costs by selling plants and other assets, cutting retirement benefits, cutting health care, slashing wages, cutting
out middle-level employees, converting jobs to temporary work, hiring scabs and breaking unions. This results in reserves
of millions of idle people (initially Black populations) with no job, no food, no futures. Then there is the unused
production---which in mass leads to market fights, then imperialist wars, and next internal class struggles.
Each stage in the development of the productive forces produces and
is administered by a specific race, class, gender, culture, and generation (RCGCG). In modern history,
necessity drove a group of white royalty-paid-pillagers out of Europe and around the world to seize from other places what
they could not produce at a moment when their feudal economic system was in decay. Innovations were made and applied
in emerging sectors that promoted their ability and expanded their capacity to carry out more pillaging, kidnapping, theft,
and working to death of millions of Africans worldwide. As a result of these bloody, global invasions and indescribable
destruction of life, profits soared for the class of western, white, wealthy men who organized a process of production reflective
of their image and interests; created and fulfilled market demands through systems of consumption and distribution; established
a basis and standard of exchange; and put into place institutions and ideology to promote the reproduction of their class.
The forward advance of white civilization took place because of the accelerated regression of African land, labor, and
natural resources. As the whites enriched themselves stealing from the Black masses and enslaving them, the Blacks were
(as a result) impoverished.
The impact
of technological change has definite race, class, gender, culture and generation implications. The same
ruling class that owns the means of production and fervently pursues ways to cheapen production, organizes institutions of
health, education, welfare, law, politics, recreation, military, and criminal justice according to a stratification system
that favors members of its race, class, gender, and culture. Working class USA whites have been bought off in the form
of privilege, better wages, better jobs-and as a result, better food, clothing, shelter, education, health care, recreation,
culture, transportation, luxuries, etc.-which means that they will do what is politically, socially, and economically necessary
to secure the few remaining jobs, including eliminating affirmative action in education and employment. The white ruling
class will continue this white race and culture hierarchy of white over Black by creating new (mostly low-paying service)
jobs in largely white communities; and directing tax revenues to white capitalists through contracts and kickbacks. The result
in African communities is increasing unemployment and cutbacks in jobs and services, which bring about further lay-offs, service
reductions, and school, hospital, clinic, and recreational facility closures.
The ideas of the ruling race, class, gender, and culture (RCGCG) are the ideas
of society. The ruling ideas of a society are the ideas of the ruling class. The state form is determined
by the needs of the ruling class and its ability to reorganize society in accordance with its needs. The ruling RCGCG
uses the state apparatus to organize its affairs and to impose its will. Any change in the form or function of
the state machine undertaken by the ruling RCGCG is made in accordance with its changing needs and always with reference to
strengthening and extending its position of rule.
The polarization of wealth is the basis for an emerging social movement. The polarization
of wealth and poverty expresses the developing class polarization in society and the destruction of the social "middle."
Movements develop on the basis of such extreme shifts in wealth and class formation and reflect the race, class, gender, culture,
generation and psychological character and interests of their originators. The social middle has been the glue in capitalism,
cultivating a new group of educated workers to both work in high profit and information generating sectors, as well as having
the purchasing power to fuel the economy through their consumption. The reality of layoffs among the working and middle
classes resulting from technological change and competition with cheaper labor around the world produces movements driven
by affected populations to formulate final solutions. Economic collapse opens the curtains on the historical stage for these
groups to galvanize the masses around addressing what they deem the fundamental threats to their existence.
Incremental shift in superstructural institutions
to reflect changes in production relations. To serve its interests as long as possible, the ruling group takes
public money from social programs to finance its causes. Retrenchments of spending in education, health care, and safety
net programs occur, first in the geographic areas and economic spheres dominated by of African Americans and then only gradually
among other people. At the same, time investments in war and military policy and operations (domestic and global) increase.
Economic crisis leads to the dismantling of protections to workers in the form of labor unions and affirmative action policies
and programs; the de-funding of higher education and liberal/progressive organizations through local, state, and federal policy
changes; intensification of secrecy campaigns; the termination of basic services to which the public contributes. Such
deterioration in quality of life angers those who know that they deserve more; who know that their lives are worth more.
Neo-nazi groups vie for the hearts, minds, and hands of disaffected whites with a plan, promises of a great and noble future,
and determination to ensure victory.
The
group that seizes power from economic collapse reorganizes society in its image and interests. The whites
stole this land and through a will to not be defeated, murderously seized control from coast to coast. They dragged
African women, men, and children half-way around the world to be worked to death so that they could live. As owners
of the means of production, the economic, political, and social system evolved to reflect their race, class, gender, generation,
culture, and psychological image and interests. The white, wealthy, western, aggressive group organized around a new
set of industrial productive forces defeated the southerners and forged economic, political and social systems in their image
and interests. An economic collapse precipitated by STR promises a more intense decay than the prior change of hands,
within which a bloody war will be fought over the next group to rule.
The serious contenders include the
emerging group of reactionary neo-nazi whites, organized around an obsolete means of production versus reactionary ruling
group attempting to hold onto a sinking ship; the bulk of whom will ultimately unite against all the social and racial undesirables.
Of Black people remaining-those without the foresight to have gotten out-some will unite with the Nazis as informants, others
will fight bravely to their death, while most will take their last breaths in gas chambers and ovens.
Next: Transformation to open White Neo-Nazi rule.
Initially, transformation to open neo-Nazi rule will be gradual-e.g., beginning with slight changes in policy-and
will accelerate as the economy moves from crisis to collapse. The mass of whites bent on "conserving" their
white race, capitalist class, male gender, and greco-roman/Christian culture will vote to handover state/military power to
their Nazi far rightwing.
Shifting
realities force African people to consider ‘outs.' The scale of societal change resulting
from the negation of human labor from production has no precedent; even the tenuous African middle class is eroding.
With the "destruction of the middle" in society, there is a growing deterioration of the political buffers that
formerly absorbed African people's energy in reformist struggle. The "market-state" is next in which all pretense
of a commitment to democracy and the common good, and all illusions of class cooperation or compromise are cast aside and
replaced with a blunt renunciation of democratic rights and any responsibility for the well-being of the people.
Given the centrality of race in the organization of production and the social relations that reflect it, racial conflict
and violence will be pronounced first in locations where numerically whites are equal to Africans or in the majority-already
present is violence in the form of selective law enforcement in African neighborhoods, worsening educational conditions, diminishing
job quality and quantity, and increased disease risk of disease and illness. In all places violence will eventually
find its expression, as the single most important role that ensured a place for Africans in this country no longer is needed;
those out of work will experience (are experiencing) an ever-diminishing quality of life, while those with jobs will face
increasingly hostile environments. When white violence and mistreatment increase a more systematic and coordinated consideration
of emigration will take place. Yet given the accumulated rage against whites for their treatment of us over these past few
hundred years, coupled with the tough and hardened youth who have nothing to lose by fighting back, the African reaction will
be unprecedented.
Prisons, down-low degeneracy, drugs, silly mystical crawling around with the enslaver's
religions, race-wide immorality and broken families work against this Black humanist, trend but it is only a temporary
brake. Jobless, homeless, abandoned masses can pray all they want; unless they organize and take their lives in their
own hands, they'll be rounded up, gassed and thrown into the same ovens (modernized) that Jews ended up in Nazi
Germany.
People will move
in masses to correct their situtation only when the conditions have become unacceptable; it is at this
time that the work of preparation must be complete. As harsh as it is struggling to make ends meet with diminishing
wages, employment, health issues, closing schools, neighborhood and relationship violence with limited support, without heat,
gas, phone, car, etc., African people will not be driven to leave USA or other white and arab ruled countries until the absolute
bottom line falls out. We have a sorry history of accepting slavery and hundreds of years of brute oppression without
all out race war. Look at that history. Look at how long these whites and Arabs had their way with us, our children,
our husbands, our wives. Look at how many millions stood and did nothing. Look at how many 100's of millions
are standing and doing nothing in face of Darfur, today.
In the history of USA, the conditions that drove
people to move in mass from one place to another wasn't unemployment, hunger, lack of housing, utilities, transportation,
water, health care or education; it was mass white violence. In this moment, when white violence intensifies against
African women, men, and children some will fight back. However the reality of being outnumbered and out-gunned will
hit and those remaining will quickly move to places where Blacks rule marginally, within, then outside of the country.
The areas most organized to receive and process this mass population, the closest, most adaptable, the most flexible, the
most historically prepared---the best fit---will be the areas to which they migrate. They will carry what they are unless
they change before they leave.
These bad habits include: worthless dependence on the former white and
Arab slave masters for the production of food, clothing, housing, education, health care, transportation, recreation, religion,
culture holidays, language from crib to grave; the crawling around praying to white and Arab gods; the wasting of time protesting
instead of preparing, studying, planning, organizing, moving; the poor technical/scientific training and zero engineering
skills---the complete dependence on whites/Arabs to build everything for us; Black self-hate manifested in hyper-violence/murder
against Black people, the willingness to accept the misleadership of fast talking/ignorant/backward ministers and imams instead
of studying for ourselves; lying, cheating, down-low, drug-dealing, adultery, spinelessness, lateness, lameness, laziness,
following losers, not keeping our word, not honoring deeds, not appreciating hard work, flashiness, and fear. Nowhere
in the world will allow you to take your filth into their nations. You must fit yourselves; clean up now.
In the course of change, people are drawn to
places (solutions) that appear to address what they consider to be the fundamental problems (causes of their changing conditions).
For so long African families have been running from the horrors of violence, rape, enslavement and destruction, carrying with
them the hope of landing in a place where they could make a way---but always carrying the mark of slavery, the unreconstructed
rottenness of having accepted oppression and degradation for long period. Twenty-seven hundred years of flight across
rivers, land, oceans and sea carrying shattered dreams, broken hearts and bloodied bodies. Unequipped-technologically
and in terms of will-to fight determined killers and enslavers, African people were concerned with the fundamental problem
of survival. In this current moment, the changing economic, social, and political conditions are creating a climate
that are fostering a reprisal of Nazi white violence against African people which will send many searching for new homes;
they will move first within the USA, from south to norths, from west to east, and from USA to the Caribbean. These are
only temporary solution.
Issues of survival will drive African families around the world to leave their
existence as white doormats behind and travel to places where Black people rule on African soil; for it is only in such
places will African people temporarily get time to overcome the cowardly but murderous zeal of white and Arab Nazis and begin
the necessary process of rebuilding. Unable to turn to anyplace where whites or Arabs rule, they will be forced to consider
parts of Africa lightly touched by invaders. Others will seek every chance to return to the bosom of their enslavers
but will be repelled and successfully liquidated by the millions in time by those historical enslavers.
In the final analysis, this great move marks a necessary phase in the reclamation of African humanity and the technological
reconstruction of African civilization within this life time. Only those who have fit themselves will survive this emerging
global crisis.
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Declining Property Values
United States Mortgage Crisis
Global Economic Crisis
Banking and Foreclosure Crisis
What Will Happen Next
Today, the construction
of modern factories, big or small, from the very beginning exclude human workers from production. In manufacturing,
agriculture, mining, construction and service industries, computerized robots are breaking into all spheres of activities
that use human labor. They are not merely labor enhancing, but are labor replacing. This contemporary technological
process demands absolute clearness of the working place. Even the presence of human beings is considered a polluted
environment in the production of microprocessors, for example. Modern achievements/advancements in genetics allow
people to grow vegetables, fruits, domestic animals in artificial conditions much faster and in greater quantities with
much less human labor expenditure. The original size of these products can be considerably increased; even their rates of
growth are accelerated. Further penetration into nature's processes have opened the way for cheaper kinds of energy and
is practically eliminate labor in excavating raw material for fuel like oil, gas, and coal. Like clockwork, when a modern
capitalist economy emerges from a crisis and production begins to work under normal economic conditions, factories hire fewer
people than before the depression. The situation is this: on one side, an army of unemployed
is growing every year without any hope of finding jobs to secure the average standard of living, and on the other side,
the quantity, of produced commodities for mass consumption increases geometrically due to the high productivity of robotized
factories, computer automated machine production, and microelectronics. Work hours are increased for those still
working because they have to take on 2-3 different jobs to match what they once earned with one. These two process are
intertwined/interrelated but contradict each other. Companies would produce goods for mass consumption
on an increasing scale and at the same time eliminate the consumer market as they lay off workers. Ford, GM, Chrysler,
etc., are laying off the population of the market that would potentially purchase their products (cars). No homemarket,
no domestic economy, no domestic economy no tax base for government and social services. For this reason the companies
can't realize their profits, for the sake of which they robotized their production and reduced manpower---so they must
sell abroad where China has positioned itself with nearly 2 billion people to take advantage of capitalism's profit motive.
The result: an economic crisis that cannot be solved with the Federal Reserve Bank, lowering interest rates, and
dragging out academic apologist whom they have earlier handed Nobel Prizes to. The old economic policy, the
essence of which is to stimulate the private sector by reducing taxes on capital, by reducing the interest on money borrowed
from the Federal Reserve, in short, by creating favorable economic conditions for capital to function will not work this time.
Capitalists will only seek loans to invest in robots or move to Asia where socialism temporarily allows them a dirt cheap
nonwhite labor force to exploit/cheat.
This economic policy will fail, because the main reason for the
crisis is absence of a solvent market in the face of high unemployment, consisting of workers who never will be
engaged in production, and never will restore the market for goods of mass consumption. The old means of treating
an economic crisis by stimulation of business, which in turn enhances market solvency by attracting more and more unemployed
people into production, will no longer relieve crises. CAMP/robotics will forever eliminate workers from production,
especially most unskilled and semi-skilled Black people who were strapped to the most antiquated technology in the first place.
Globalism is not the answer---only a stop gap measure reflective of capital's need for cheap human labor/surplus
value. The existence of the global market only postpones the economic crisis in a given country, because capital increases
export of its goods abroad for realization of profits when the solvency of the domestic market diminishes. This process
will proceed until the robotization of production in underdeveloped countries, especially Africa, South
America, and South east Asia reaches the same level as it has in developed capitalist countries.
International competition will force them sooner or than later to implement robotization. Of course after they have
worked to death millions who were not organized enough to fight back.
Today, cheap labor (in Mexico,
the Caribbean, and the Arab world) can no longer compete with unmanned factories producing the same product, so underdeveloped
countries are now compelled to implement robotized production, and are now feeling worst consequences than developed countries
experience. Under these conditions the global market will exhaust itself as the valve that eliminated economic pressure
on the domestic market. In its social aspect, unemployment resulting from the robotization of production means
a violation of the balance between the interests of rich and poor, the preservation of which is the major function
of any class-based state. Under these conditions it is most likely that the patience of working people left without
work will be exhausted and they will begin to demand jobs, food, clothing, health care, education, transportation and
fair distribution of wealth. The robots can do this for them effortlessly. But the capitalists want/need profits.
They could care less who they take advantage of to get those profits. Unemployment forces governments to become
fascist dictatorships ---which is open season on Black skin; Workers merely want jobs, equal food, clothing, shelter,
education, health care, transportation, recreation, and even to hold families together. Lose a job permanently in a
capitalist society you lose your ability to live life. This situation never has existed in a capitalistic society for
the mass of white people.
What this Means For Black
Populations Unlike the machines characterizing
early industrial production, whereby human labor was supplemented by technology, currently, human beings merely supplement
whatever human capabilities the machine lacks. Whereas humans once took machine in hand, today, machines now take humans in
hand. Humans in the last half of the 20th century have been inserted into gaps where electromechanical devices were
underdeveloped or remain too costly to implement. Though electromechanical maturation of the advanced technological
components of machine systems had an extended early incubation period lasting roughly from 1890 to 1970.[1]Today, such technological development and their social coordination within some degree of a CIM system
have accelerated in an unprecedented manner. Since the early 1980s a revolutionization
of science and technology has been occurring. Though elements emerged in a scattered manner prior, it was in this earlier
period that the incremental developments emerged in an embryonic form. Advances in microelectronics, principally in
microchip technology, superconductivity, and parallel processing made possible operations previously impossible. The
diffusion of these advanced microchips into microprocessors, variant computers, machine systems, robots, and other electromechanical
devices accelerated the diffusion of computer-programmed machines into large-scale automated production factory facilities.
The union of these automated technologies with sixth, seventh and eighth generation computers to possessing greater information
processing capabilities and their application to manufacturing enabled production to be more systematically organized via
Flexible Manufacturing Systems (FMS), Computer Integrated Manufacturing[2](CIM), Group Technology (GT), and Just-in-Time (JIT) production. More sophisticated methods of
transferring information, communicating, and transporting goods and services on a global sale rapidly led to the emergence
of production centers, production regions, and an international production complex with the ability to communicate via space
satellite, Internet, and integrated systems communication between linked machine systems. With each innovation in microchip technology, and its resulting application to the programmable control[3]of automated machine systems, the less the value of skilled mental human labor is necessary in the production
equation. Indeed, the significance of Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM) is that it establishes programmable control,
by degrees, throughout the manufacturing process and, therefore, coordinates direct networks between various machine organs
of production and a central processing and control center. Similarly, we spoke of central nervous system in the latter
phase of computer automated machine production. Although analogies are limiting in technical elasticity, the use of the term
is extremely relevant to this discussion. Because all that is missing technologically in the total negation of humans from
the industrial production process, aside from standard incremental refinements, is the brain being replicated in electromechanical
form. The technological processes described above are heavily located in manufacturing
industries, which have historically employed a relatively small, but significant, percent of black women. Given black
women's historical positioning in production, their susceptibility to technological displacement, their vulnerability
to fluctuations in the economy, and the increased financial responsibilities for their children (and other family members),
such a reversal in the relationship between technology and human labor possesses enormous implications. Advances in service production technologies are significant for this population, because they are largely
concentrated in service producing industries. By the late-1980s employers
began to recognize that blacks were no longer a source of docile and cheap labor. This shift in the character of the
black labor supply should be understood primarily in terms of the heightened consciousness of blacks developed by the civil
rights movement...employers began actively to recruit and to switch to new labor supplies, mainly Latinos already in the United
States and new immigrants from Latin America, the Caribbean, Asia, the Pacific Islands and elsewhere. In less than 15
years over 20,000,000 new undocumented/illegal alien Hispanics emerged in the United States, while at the same time Black
populations who were undocumented were barred, kept out, caught, imprisoned, deported. These groups became a major source
of new labor supplies for the private sector. While millions go unemployed. The capitalist state had established a system
of allowing cheap labor into the United States to boost their profits. Hispanic populations are now larger than Black
populations. Employers succeeded in reestablishing low-wage employment, which grew rapidly, but a remarkably small percentage
of these jobs were filled by blacks. As the applications of these new scientific
technologies to the workplace expanded a new economic category, the structurally unemployed, was created. This was the
industrial reserve to be thrown into production---as the need arose. The widespread elimination of the black people in the
industrial work force was inevitable since they were last to be allowed in the least developed industrial positions.
The least developed industrial technologies are the first to be replaced. Such a place in production lead inevitably
to the replacement of the technology and the worker from the production equation. This is a systematic process whereby black
people are last to be hired and first always to be fired.
[1]The temporal parameters roughly mark the points of the revolutionization of computational and computer
technology. The early date, 1890, was roughly when advances in computer technology emerged. Fulfilling a need
to speed up the tallying of the U.S. Census, the U.S. Bureau of Census used a counting machine invented by Herman Hollerith
(Billings 1995). "The machines were able to complete the Census in two years, which was an amazing feat for its
day. Hollerith's company eventually came to be known as International Business Machines (IBM). [2]Computer Integrated Manufacturing is the name given to manufacturing that uses a complete control system
which incorporates a product design and analysis, quality control, inventory control, cost accounting, purchasing, and order
entry. CIM is used to integrate the various components of the manufacturing process, as well as enhance the productivity
of the entire manufacturing enterprise. [3] The more the mental work is automated, particularly in terms of designing, writing, testing, and implementing,
the less valuable on the market workers are in knowledge and information intensive industries
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