Ota Benga and Martin Luther King

Slavery is America's original sin, and it is kept alive by people who gravitate to political power to exercise racist eugenics.  There is a pretty horrifying story of a African pygmy exhibited in a New York Zoo with apes and labelled the missing link by racist eugenicists, in the early 1900s.  How could people be so cruel, back then?


Last week the head of the ailing New York schools suggested "Sophie's Choice" like decisions, and birth control be used to solve economic problems.  Margaret Sanger launched the birth control movement in USA expressly to advance racist eugenics, so when people call birth control a solution, it is clear code for who is the problem.


We have an industry processing black males into prison. We flood the ghetto with joblessness, crack and welfare checks,  make crack offenses nine times longer than cocaine, plus 3 strikes you are out. White lawyers and professionals who use cocaine get treatment and diversion... blacks using crack get hard sentences, and recidivism means a life term.  Welcome to America.


Washington Post quotes liberal "Sociologist James Q. Wilson, who in the 1980s helped develop the "broken windows" theory that smaller crimes must be punished to deter more serious ones, agreed that sentences for some drug crimes were too long. However, Wilson disagreed that the rise in the U.S. prison population should be considered a cause for alarm: "The fact that we have a large prison population by itself is not a central problem because it has contributed to the extraordinary increase in public safety we have had in this country.""


But, but, but... crimes statistics are rife with inaccuracy, misrepresentation and falsification, since they are reported by political entities.  Crime rate has not gone down, the rates have been lowered by those who report crimes.  And since most people in prison are there for nonviolent drug offenses, how can Wilson claim and extraordinary increase in public safety, when there was never a threat to begin with?


According to the New York Times, "By their mid-30's, 30 percent of black men with ... a high school education have served time in prison, and 60 percent of dropouts have..."  The people who would put Ota Benga behind bars are still active in government today, in particular the criminal justice system. Government is big enough to be a great platform to operate if you want to effect racism and eugenics.  


The Jim Crow laws in the south were laws, not business practices.  It was government that required racist policies, not business.  Government laws were overcome by civil rights legislation.  Businesses were more than happy to finally be allowed to take black folk greenbacks.  And after casting out one demon, seven came back and took its place.


LewRockwell has a review of a civil case in which the court found that several citizens and various government agents conspired to murder Martin Luther King.  Analyzing the findings in the court case, the author says King was murdered for his plans for wealth redistribution in USA and his antiwar stance.


Ahem.  Nobody gets murdered for advocating wealth redistribution.  Such a plan can be defeated politically.   But certainly being nonviolent, antiwar can get you killed, because it is an idea that the powers that be cannot deal with via the political process.  But I am more interested in what King had to say, or what we did not get to hear, about his economic plans.


In a free market it is not possible to amass exceptional wealth, nor to aggregate the excess necessary to mount assassination operations and the necessary cover-up.  In a free market wealth is experienced as access to a far wider range of goods and services than a managed economy affords.  In a free market it is division of labor, not love of money, that obtains the widest spread of ever widening selection of goods and services.


Free markets do not perfect humans, it merely gives them freedom to act as they would free from coercion and free to pursue the good, the true, the beautiful.  People commonly behaved in nazi germany in ways they would never do in Hong Kong today.  The system matters, some system are superior for people than others.


I think King should not have argued equal rights for blacks.  He should have argued for equal rights.  Equal rights for blacks can be ignored, and the proposition plays into the original sin of USA that blacks are a unique case.  They are not.  The problem was not one of lack of rights for blacks, but lack of rights. Only now, as whites experience what blacks always have (at airports, lack of opportunity, etc) are whites objecting to the system.  

An excellent recounting of the civil rights movement is the controversial book by Rev. Ralph Abernathy, the brains and courage behind King's charisma and eloquence. Read the book and you see quickly why it is controversial, but enlightening.  Jesse Jackson has some explaining to do.

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