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Fundamentals of USA Economic Crisis: Effects on Black Families

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