Racism and Hate: An American Reality

By Jimmy C. Cameron

RACISM and HATE: An American Reality, is a provocative new updated examination
of Dr. Gunnar Myrdals epic study of the subject matter done over 70 years ago in the
late 1930s.
That study took a look at where race relations were in the country and the effect it was
having on our democracy, some 70 years after the Civil War.
That work was titled An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy
The author, in this work, looked back at our history here in America, dealing with race
relations, over the last 70 years and through exhausted research and analysis, concluded
that the dilemma was not so much a particular people, but in fact, the dilemma had
more to do with the man induced self-fulfi lling prophecy of Racism.
To put a human face on the subject matter he used his own familys history here in
Georgia starting in 1784 through slavery, through the Civil War, through the Jim Crow
laws of the South, through Plessey v Ferguson, clear up until 1954 when Brown v Board
of Education overturned Plessey.
The book take a critical look at the year 1954, fi rst analyzing the enormity of the 14th
amendment rights violations that Plessey had allowed to occur and then secondly the
ramifi cations of the Brown v Board of Education case.
The author also examine the lighting rod effect the fi rst American President of African
descent has had on bringing the hidden vestiges of RACISM out of the closet and
placing it front and center on the nations conscience.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Dec 27, 2013
• ISBN: 9781491815809

Jimmy C. Cameron

Jimmy Cameron was born on February 4, 1945 in Hampton Georgia. He dropped out of high school in the eleventh grade and joined the US Marine Corp in February of 1963. He was wounded in Viet Nam on July 16, 1966 while taking part in Operation Hasting, at the time the largest such operation in the war, involving about 12,000 troops on our side and a like number on the enemy side. He spent nearly a year recovering from his injuries in the Philadelphia Naval Hospital and was Medically retired from the Marine Corp on April 30, 1967. Upon Graduating from Philco Ford Technical Institute in Philadelphia in 1968 he worked in the Information Technology field until retiring in 2007 from Computer Science Corporation. His first book, The Water Boy: The life and Trials of Jimmy C. Cameron , was released in 2010. He created and host The Hushmo Black Forum on BlogTalkRadio over the Internet He presently lives in Atlanta, Georgia.

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CONTENTS

Foreword

Chapter 1 Racism

Chapter 2 The Melting Pot

Chapter 3 The Author’s preface to Sarah

Chapter 4 Sarah

Chapter 5 The Civil War Years

Chapter 6 Out of Bondage into Political Purgatory

Chapter 7 Historical Events, Documents and Studies

Chapter 8 Brown versus Board of Education

Chapter 9 Civil Rights, Turbulent Sixties and Viet Nam

Chapter 10 The Two Party System

Chapter 11 The Political Discourse

Chapter 12 Reparation

Chapter 13 The Long Road from Hate

Conclusion

Selected Bibliography

This book is dedicated to my fellow American Citizens of 2013

My hope is to add insight

GOD BLESS

FOREWORD

After my first book, The Water Boy-The Life and Trials of Jimmy C Cameron, I had planned on writing a more detailed version of my family’s history, the Cameron Clan, here in Georgia, but as fate would have it, the conversation in the society today seems to be more and more about race and racism, due in no small part, to the fact that we have our first African American president.

I think it’s apropos at this time to join in the conversation, because my family’s history provides the perfect platform for a discussion on racism and hate.

The topic of race in this country instinctively, more times than not, conjures up images of Racism and Hate.

I used W.E.B. Du Bois’s epic work on Three Centuries of Discrimination Against the Negro that he condensed down to essay form to present to the United Nations in 1947 and Dr Gunnar Myrdal’s study that he did on race relations from 1938 to 1944 title An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy as barometers to trace the development and progress of those relations from 1865 to 1938 and then I looked back in time from 2013 to 1938.

This Fourth of July 2013 provide the perfect backdrop for me to finally finish this project which has been in the works now for over five years. If I could live vicariously through the spirit of Frederick Douglass, it would be déjà vu all over again, to that Fourth of July back in 1852 when he delivered his famous speech dealing with the plight of Americans of African descent at the time when some 95% of them were slaves.

Just what should they be feeling about this celebration of Independence Day when they were for the most part not party to the liberty that was being celebrated?

In that speech, Frederick Douglass explained to the rest of America that the moral decay in the country at the time paralleled, eerily close, the story of the old city of Babylon in the Bible, a society so morally corrupt that God Almighty intervened and brought it to an end.

The only difference today here in America is that slavery has been replaced with this shroud of racism.

This moral decay because of racism is just as devastating on our society as was slavery.

Through historical events, essays, documents and thorough analysis this book attempts to shed a brighter light on the phenomena that is racism and its most profound byproduct "hate."

This book examines those two words racism and hate. I think my unique life experiences allow me to bring a more modern and up to date perspective on the subject matter.

We provide a fresh examination of Dr.Gunnar Myrdal’s epic study on race relations that was conducted in the late 1930s. This study was commissioned by the Carnegie Corporation and included work from some of the top social scientists of the day, who studied American of African descent, including WEB DuBois, Arnold Rose, Dr. Benjamin E Mays, Ralph J. Bunche, Donald R. Young and James Weldon Johnson to name a few.

A copy of the study, which is over 1500 pages, can be found on the Internet. The original study is at the Schomburg Library in New York City, donated to them by copyright holder, Gunnar Myrdal, where they are available for scientific reference.

I bring 68 years of acute observation as one who once hated, or at least, I thought I did, white people, for the racism that I experienced as a child growing up in Georgia.

That same racism, by the way, followed me from Georgia, to Ohio, to the Marine Corps, all the way up until this very moment, morphing from overt to introvert, harboring to life today in the prison of the nation’s conscience.

I spent part of my formulative years in Ohio, from the third grade thru high school. I discovered that, while some of the whites there were racists, the majority were not. I did notice that the majority of the whites, that did not appear to be racist as kids, some of them did adopt a racial bias in some social formats as they aged.

Over my forty years of working in the computer field, where, in order to solve a problem, you sometimes, had to take in a huge amount of information, massage it around, and come up with a solution to solve the particular problem.

I used that work experience to look at a huge amount of information, including documents, essays, books, newspapers, research over the Internet and most importantly historical events that has been recorded by history, along with current events and interaction with my peers, to create a unique perspective about the problem of Racism and Hate.

The racism that I write about lends itself only to the racism put in place by the Anglo-Saxons of Europe who founded the United States of America and enslaved my African ancestors. These Anglo-Saxons were descendents of the Germanic tribes. During their journey over many generations from the German forests to England to America they experienced various forms of Xenophobia within the Caucasian people that made up the collective group, the Normans, Saxons, Germans, Celtics and etc., but it was not until a period of about 200 years between 1600’s and 1700’s known as the Period of Enlightenment in Europe, that the Anglo Saxons began to settle on the North American continent and to enslaved the Africans that racism between the Whites of European descent and the Blacks of Africa descent matriculated. I use the 20 African slave’s arrival at the Jamestown settlement in 1619 aboard a Dutch slave ship as the beginning of my story.

The Anglo-Saxons that inhabited and founded the United States of America came out of this age of European Enlightenment convinced that they were a superior people and a Divinely Chosen People destined to rule over other people, for their own betterment no less.

When George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and the rest of the founding fathers was setting up the US Constitution after the 1776 Revolution slavery was able to survive under its Laws because of this racial superiority complex held by the southern states that counted on slavery for their economic survival. Five southern states demanded that slavery be allowed in their state constitutions without any restrictions by the newly written United States Constitution. When the other 9 states acquiesced to this demand this set up what I refer to as an Anglo-Saxon Self-fulfilling Prophecy of Racism, with the United States Constitution itself a co-conspirator.

The convergence of slavery, racism and capitalism here in the United States of America made for a unique phenomenon in social society.

A word about the documents themselves. In order to conserve space, I made some cuts to some of the documents, however, without altering the original meaning of the writer or speaker. The source is given after each selection except as indicated, when a number of selections come from the same government documents.

CHAPTER 1

Racism

It’s easy for pundits on both sides of the divide to get stuck on the realities of the present day conditions, but I think it’s impossible to appreciate the enormity of the problem without examining the history of this Country and how White Racism and Black Hate evolved.

After 400 years of toiling in America, why is it you ask, that we Americans of African descent find ourselves today, 2013, in a conversation about race, still fighting for respect, and equality?

From a white American perspective it appears the question is What in the hell are those Black folks complaining about? After all, we now have a Black President.

I suppose, it’s a legitimate question for younger Americans of European descent who trace their generational history in this country too after 1865.

I suggest that the question of the blacks and the question of the whites can be answered if we carefully examine just why it is, in 2010, the Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University can released a study showing that the racial wealth gap between white Americans and black Americans has increased fourfold between 1984 and 2007 and is on a widening trajectory. Even though I knew all too well that there was a financial disparity the study both shocked and alarmed me none the less. To see it increase so dramatically over the last 20 years should cause most Americans of African descent a great deal of concern and a new urgency of focus on the matter. That complete study is included in this book.

I contend that the economic disparity is because of an inherited disease that still exist in about 20% of Americans of European descent today called Racism. It’s an American phenomena, beginning sometime in the early 1600s. It evolved into this Self-fulfilling Prophecy of Racism.

Racism is a multi prone phenomena, first as a moral disease it is highly contagious and can be passed on genetically. It attacks, the Spirit, the very essence of the Soul.

It appears to have been passed down through the generations from their forefathers, some of the founders of this country, who literally invented the term for no other reason than to justify their own deranged morality, in respect to the enslaving of other human beings and reducing them to mere property who could be bought and sold for profit.

Racism as a legal phenomenon became much more pronounced after the Civil War with the separate but equal laws and the trouncing of Americans of Africa descent 14th amendment protections.

That’s a pretty bold statement so why don’t we look at some of the evidence and you can fletcherize it yourself.

Looking back on the history of this Man induced Self-fulfilling Prophecy of Racism and its effects and causes, some 168 years after the revolutionary war of 1776, Dr. Gunnar Myrdal in 1944 completed a six year study on race relations in America at that time, title An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy, as a social scientist he defined it as: the theory of the vicious circle.

"A deeper reason for the unity of the Negro problem will be apparent when we now try to formulate our hypothesis concerning its dynamic causation. The mechanism that operates here is the principle of cumulation also commonly called the vicious circle. It is, or should be developed into, a main theoretical tool in studying social change.

Throughout this inquiry, we shall assume a general independence between all the factors in the Negro problem. White prejudice and discrimination keep the Negro low in standards of living, health, education, manners and morals. This, in its turn, gives support to White prejudice. White prejudice and Negro standards thus mutually cause each other. If things remain about as they are and have been, this means that the two forces happen to balance each other. Such a static accommodation is, however, entirely accidental. If either of the factors changes this will cause a change in the other factor, to, and start a process of interaction where the change in one factor will continuously be supported by the reaction of the other factor. The whole system will be moving in the direction of the primary change, but much further this is what we mean by cumulative causation.

If, for example, we assume that for some reason White prejudice could be decreased and discrimination mitigated, this is likely to cause a rise in the Negro, which may decrease White prejudice still a little more, which again allow Negro standards to rise, and so on through mutual interactions. If, instead, discrimination should become intensified, we should see the vicious circle spiraling downward. The original change can as easily be a change of Negro standards upward or downward. The effects would, in a similar manner, run back and forth in the interlocking system of interdependent causation.

This economic disparity over the last twenty years is an example of the downward spiral of economic wealth in the black community because of a heighten negative racial attitude in a segment of white society over that same period of time.

This heighten negative racial attitude of white’s today show up in a number of ways from the onslaught of reverse discrimination law suits in the work place, a skewed criminal justice system, to various state and federal court cases rolling back affirmative action and voting right laws that protect blacks and other minorities. Those in our society harboring this heighten negative racial attitude also elect and send their representatives to the Us Congress and in 2010 this resulted in the election of about 80 so called tea party members of the House of Representative who opposed just about every bill brought up in congress on the grounds that they were some kind of wealth re-distribution scheme aimed at taking money from one group to give to another group, chief among these was the Affordable Health Care Act.

All of these various impediments have a negative economic effect on the black community.

When I came into the world on February 4 of 1945, I was born into a society consisting of this Self-fulfilling Prophecy of Racism that had evolved into this Interlocking System of Independent Causation.

World War II was in its final stages and Franklin Delano Roosevelt was in his final months as president before he died that April.

I like to jokingly tell the story that I was born in the middle of a cotton field in Henry County Georgia, but to be honest the story is more truth than fiction. My family was dirt poor sharecroppers for a local White farmer in Henry County Georgia at the time living in a wooden shack that sat in a cotton field.

Reverend W.W Weems, the longtime Baptist preacher who married my parents back in 1930, his wife was also the mid-wife in the community and she came to our home that chilly February day and delivered me right there in that wooden shack in the middle of the cotton field. The same wooden shack where two years later, on and overcast afternoon, I was sitting on a high table in a window in the kitchen, while my mother was cooking, lightning struck something near where I was in the window, knocking me to the floor and my mother into shock. By the time my mother reached me and picked me off the floor, I was yelling and screaming, but for first time I became aware of my outer reality.

By the time I was four years old in 1949 I had firmly grasp the concept of racism and hate. By that time I had already witnessed firsthand the white landowner that my uncle share-cropped for kicking him around in front of his family as if he was an animal, the visit of the KKK to my house one night inviting my father outside and the death of my grandfather in 1948 in Hampton Georgia and the horrific trip back to Opelika Alabama for his burial.

So by the age of 4 racism had been planted in my psyche in such a way that shaped and affected the rest of my entire life.

Let us examine the word racism; the new Standard online dictionary defines it as:

[rac·ism

—noun

1. a belief or doctrine that inherent differences among the various human races determine cultural or individual achievement, usually involving the idea that one’s own race is superior and has the right to rule others.

2. a policy, system of government, etc., based upon or fostering such a doctrine; discrimination.

3. hatred or intolerance of another race or other races.]

The dictionary further states that its origin dates back to the 1800s.

The phenomenon that is racism, as we know it today in the United States, I believe, got it’s first Christian moral authority from the Catholic Church in the1400s.

Pope Nickolas V issued the following decree, known as the Dum Diversas, in 1452. This decree has been credited with ushering in the West African slave trade. The following is from Wikipedia.com on the internet.

"Dum Diversas is a papal bull issued on June 18, 1452 by Pope Nicholas V, that is credited by some with "ushering in the West African slave trade."[1] It authorized Afonso V of Portugal to conquer Saracens and pagans and consign them to indefinite slavery.[2] Pope Calixtus III reiterated the bull in