The State of the American Mind: Stupor and Pathetic Docility: Volume One

By Amechi Okolo PhD

This book, The State of the American Mind: Stupor and Pathetic Docility
Volume One begins to unravel some of the most obvious, perplexing, embarrassing
and enduring problems and contradictions of American history and sociology, viz., how
could the American revolution that started with the most ringing and most inspiring Declarations of human equality in
world history end up establishing the most vicious, exploitative society the world ever knew Black chattel slavery and
only ten percent white enfranchisement, etc. Further, how could men of such great wisdom and intellect like George
Washington, James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, and others who were Enlightenment scholars and clearly knew that
slavery was despicable and evil, because they had variously experienced white servitude and slavery themselves,
collude to establish and institutionalize the horrible system of Negro chattel slavery in America; and also disenfranchised
over 90 percent of people of their own race actions that racism could not explain. The structural/institutional slavery
system they established, and the resultant consequent racism hobbles America today as it did in the past, and forced Eric
Holder, the Attorney General to declare that, America is a nation of cowards, when it comes to race discussions. Thus,
this book starts with serious critical discussions of race in America and reveals what no textbook has ever done, viz.,
that most early American whites and Blacks were slaves an uncomfortable fact that would shock most Americans
because it contradicts the orthodoxy or the dominant narrative that only Blacks were brought here in chains. Further,
the book also shows the year Black slavery started something almost, all textbooks got wrong. It also shows who, was
the fi rst Black slave in America something no textbook ever mentions. It also shows when and how racism started in
America and many other very sensitive and embarrassing but necessary issues that America avoids but must be frankly
discussed for America to move forward. This book therefore shatters the two dominant themes of Americas history and
sociology that Blacks were brought into America in chains as slaves while whites came to America in search of freedom,
as Obama famously told us in his race speech. Thus, the crowning lesson of this book, in addition to discussing some
critical policy issues like education, health care, etc., is that it discovers the centripetal force of the American society that
eluded contemporary Americans because American bosses have laboriously concealed the facts from the public the
scary but clearly healthy uniting fact that most Americans are united by their common ancestry, their universal history
and experience of servitude, bond-indentures and slavery. Nothing is more universal, more common and more shared in
American history and sociology than the fact that most of our ancestors, black and white, were servants, bond-indentures
and slaves who were dominated and super-exploited by few overlords. Colonial America was the preferred dumping
ground for British, outcasts, rejects, criminals, masterless class, vagabonds, bond-indentures, slaves, etc., until 1776 when
Australia replaced America as the British dump for its rejects and surplus citizens. Thus, that America was a nation founded
by British rejects and losers is inherently more rational than the prevailing orthodoxy or the Obama theory of Americas
founders that they were great honorable men who journeyed across the ocean for freedom because of the obvious
reason that good, powerful achieving citizens do not normally emigrate to new uncharted lands.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Jun 10, 2010
• ISBN: 9781477179727

Amechi Okolo PhD

Professor Amechi Okolo who is a social scientist, sociologist, and political economist is a proud graduate of Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana from where he got his doctorate in May 1978. Since3 then, Dr. Okolo has taught in a number of universities and colleges in Nigeria and the United States as well as in America’s public school system. Dr. Okolo, the consummate educator, proud and happy teacher, currently teaches American government and society, and economic development courses. Readers are also invited to visit Dr. Okolo’s blog, socialjusticecenter.com to read more of his works on public policy. Dr. Okolo is married with fi ve children.

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Contents

American Framers Are Not Racists: They Are Evil Geniuses

List of Illustrations

Some Useful Websites

About This Book

About the Author

Preface

Acknowledgement

Chapter 1: Some History and Theory of This Book

Chapter 2: Why I Wrote This Book

Chapter 3: Responding to My Students Email

Chapter 4: Most Early Americans—Whites and Blacks—Were Bond-Indenture Servants and/or Slaves

Chapter 5: Most Early White Americans Came from Service Trade, Servant Trade and Spirits

Chapter 6: Black Slavery Started in 1640 When the Court Sentenced John Punch, A Black Run-Away to Life-Servitude Instead of Extending His Indentures as His Other White Colleagues Received

Chapter 7: The Bacon Rebellion of 1675-76 in Virginia Shaped the Future Dynamics of Colonial America

Chapter 8: The Shays Rebellion of 1786-87 in Massachusetts was the Basis of the American Constitution of 1787

Chapter 9: Barack Obama was the First Black President of United States as John Punch was the First Black Slave in USA

Chapter 10: Racism: What, When, Why, Where, and How it Began?

Chapter 11: How and Why Blacks Became Slaves in America

Chapter 12: The 1662 Virginia Law Made Children Slaves and Properties of Their Fathers

Chapter 13: At Death, Thomas Jefferson Freed His Slave Children

Chapter 14: A Structural Theory of the American Mind

Chapter 15: The American Constitution Shamelessly Made Blacks Three-Fifths of Persons

Chapter 16: Why Did Both Al Gore and John Kerry Abandon Their Presidencies to W. Bush After 2000 and 2004 Elections?

Chapter 17: Iran Was the new WMD for Bush

Chapter 18: My Studies at Purdue University Failed to Teach Me about WMD

Chapter 19: American Media is the Guardian of White Supremacy in America

Chapter 20: Princes Pocahontas as America’s Founding Mother

Chapter 21vThe American Police is Institutionally/Structurally Racist and Therefore a Disgrace to Modern Policing

Chapter 22: Profit Motive is The Tragedy of America’s Medical Care System!

Chapter 23: Iranians Vigorously Protested Their Stolen June 2009 Elections: Noble Democratic Actions that Americans Were Too Scared

to Take When Bush Stole Their 2000 and 2004 Elections

Chapter 24: Dr. Condoleezza Rice, W. Bush and Bin Laden PDB of August 6, 2001: Was It Ignorance and Incompetence or Were They Osama’s Moles?

Bibliography

The Fundamental Paradox of Freedom and Slavery

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While American colonists waged war against the British, some patriots recognized the irony of their struggle for independence amid widespread slavery. To contend for liberty, wrote John Jay, one of the founding fathers, and to deny that blessing to others involves an inconsistency not to be excused.

Thus the America system was founded on the principle and practice of inexcusable inconsistency as John Jay aptly stated; and this book is part of my efforts to unravel this American inexcusable inconsistency!

Amechi Okolo, Ph.D.

American Framers Are Not Racists: They Are Evil Geniuses

The American government is not racist, but it is the most vicious, the most non-caring, and most nonchalant of any government I can think of, especially given its unprecedented capabilities and resources.

Most people, especially those on the left are quick to term American leaders as racists and America as structurally/institutionally racist. My point is that both statements are not the same. They look similar and sound similar but they are not the same; and it needs critical rigorous analysis to understand the important differences between the two as well as appreciate their significant policy differences.

American framers and leaders are not necessary personally racists as evidenced by the great humane statements by some of them, but they structured and institutionalized America as a racist system that endures because it is strategically useful for their dominance and continued exploitation of the all Americans—whites, Blacks, Hispanics, etc.

Racism is therefore the strategy of control. It is the strategic control mechanism that was invented by the framers to help them control the bourgeoning white, Black, Native-American popular unity and cooperation that threatened to undermine their power, control and exploitation of the American masses in colonial America.

The framers then structured and institutionalized racism in America so that America has been running in what I call, auto-pilot racism ever since, so that it is not really important whether some leaders are or are not racist.

The important thing is that the system is running on auto-pilot racism. Auto-pilot-racism is important for the American bosses because it helps to keep the American masses divided, balkanized and antagonistic to one another instead of uniting to fight their common enemy, their common exploiter and oppressor.

Auto-pilot racism, is therefore the control strategy of the American bosses that helps them maintain unlimited, unprecedented and unchallenged dominance of the system, which other leaders, even Stalin, Adolf Hitler, etc, would envy; and the horrible, shameful, unbelievable ordeal of Sgt. Chuck Luther and thousands other patriotic American Veterans who fought for the bosses wars and for the bosses profits in Iraq and Afghanistan and discarded as worthless fodders prove.

Honestly, it beats my imagination to see a government which professes to love its soldiers treat them with such viciousness and callousness. What do they mean by pre-existing condition? What has that got to do with the injury he suffered while fighting for America? Sgt. Chuck Luther had the so-called pre-existing condition, yet Pentagon recruited him and he fought gallantly for them? The Pentagon argument honestly sounds so inane to be believable. And that President Obama knew of this vicious treatment of our soldiers and Pentagon’s silly argument right from when he was a Senator is beyond me. Please read the transcript below from theworld.org for more details:

This is the Ordeal of Sgt. Chuck Luther and Thousands Other Iraq/Afghan Veterans Who are Treated Horribly and Discharged by Our Government as told by BBC World Service, PRI and WGBH Boston

Read the Transcript

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MARCO WERMAN: I’m Marco Werman and this is The World, a co-production of the BBC World Service, PRI and WGBH Boston. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have produced a generation of American veterans with physical and psychological ailments. They require, and national leaders insist, they deserve the best care the United States can offer. But that care isn’t always up to that lofty standard. The stories about poor conditions at VA hospitals come to mind. Over the last few years, investigative journalist Joshua Kors has been writing about the care American service men and women receive, particularly as they are discharged. Kors reports for The Nation magazine, which has just published his latest article in a series arguing that soldiers have been deliberately misdiagnosed by military doctors in order to deny them medical care and disability pay. Joshua Kors, this latest story focuses on a veteran, Sergeant Chuck Luther. He was deployed to Iraq and your story makes a series of pretty extraordinary accusations about his treatment by fellow soldiers. What does Sgt. Luther say happened to him?

JOSHUA KORS: Sure. Well they’re not accusations. This was two years of combing through the medical records kept by his doctor, confirmation from his commander who was there to watch his treatment, and from others who came to visit him while he was in confinement. Sgt. Luther had been wounded by mortar fire while serving in Iraq. Slammed his head against the concrete and ended up with severe traumatic brain injury. The headaches resulting from that blow to the head caused blindness, his vision to shut off in one eye. He said the other eye felt like someone was stabbing him in the eye with a knife. He went to the aid station to get care for that, but they told him that his blindness was caused by a personality disorder. He thought that was ridiculous, how could a problem with his personality cause blindness? But Marco, this is part of a larger story. For the last three years I’ve been reporting on wounded soldiers, pressed into signing these papers saying they have a personality disorder.

WERMAN: Let me just jump in there a second Joshua, because personality disorder, we should say, is a recognized condition or class of conditions that tends to emerge in childhood. And the military treats PD as a pre-existing condition rather than a result of combat.

KORS: That’s right. Personality disorder is a real mental illness that emerges in childhood. Of course, this was a soldier in his late 30’s who had passed through eight screenings, served for a dozen years and won 22 medals for his performance. It was only after he was wounded by mortar fire that this pre-existing condition was discovered. I think most Americans know the phrase pre-existing condition now from the health care wars. Pre-existing means you could be locked out of the insurance system. It’s the same in the military. If your wounds can be linked to a pre-existing condition, that means no disability pay for the rest of your life, no long term medical care and, one of the small print conditions of a personality disorder discharge is that these wounded soldiers have to give back a slice of their signing bonus. That means that Sgt. Luther, like tens of thousands of other wounded soldiers coming back from Iraq and Afghanistan, were given a bill on their final day in uniform.

WERMAN: If we get back to Sgt. Luther’s story now, it doesn’t end with that diagnosis of PD, it’s also the way he says he was pressured to accept the diagnosis, that’s pretty shocking.

KORS: That’s right. Sgt. Luther was put in a closet and held there for over a month under enforced sleep deprivation with the lights on all night, blasting heavy metal music at him all through the night, but when he tried to escape the closet they pinned him down, injected him with sleeping medication and dragged him back to the closet. Finally, at the end of a month, he was willing to sign anything and he did. He went ahead, signed papers saying that he had a pre-existing personality disorder. They flew him back to Fort Hood, and that’s when they let him know the repercussions of that discharge. No disability pay for the rest of your life, no long term medical care, and here’s a bill for $1,500.00.

WERMAN: How has the Pentagon reacted to the story? And how does the Army see Sgt. Luther’s case in particular?

KORS: Well, the Army’s been fine with it. These are not accusations, his doctors documented his treatment in meticulous detail in stacks of papers. I interviewed a fellow soldier who came to visit him while he was there in confinement in the closet. I talked to his commander who described for me why they treated him as they did. They even allowed Sgt. Luther to keep his backpack, which had his digital camera. He took photos of the closet that he was stuck in for that month.

WERMAN: Your investigation shows that Sgt. Luther isn’t the only one in this situation. You found at least 24 cases like his from Army bases around the country. If so many have gone through the same routine, why has there been no action or reaction from the military on this?

KORS: It’s a much larger problem than just 24. Since 2001, 22,600 soldiers have been booted out of the military with personality disorder. Taking those wounded soldiers and sliding them out the side door with that mental illness is saving the military 12.5 billion dollars in disability and medical care. And that is why, then Senator Barack Obama was so up in arms about this issue. Along with Republican Senator Kid Bond, he put forward a bill to halt personality disorder discharges. That made him both a hero and a disappointment to so many veterans. A hero because he was addressing this critical issue; a disappointment because during his Presidential run, and now from the White House, he hasn’t spoken at all about personality disorder. The result was that the issue sort of withered on the vine. A lot of people on Capital Hill didn’t understand what was happening and were afraid that blocking these discharges would open a flood gates to benefits for wounded soldiers. And so what they did is they watered down the bill, put it into an amendment, which was part of a spending bill signed by President Bush. The amendment required the Pentagon to study personality disorder discharges and five months later, when that report landed on Obama’s desk, the Pentagon concluded that not a single soldier had been wrongly diagnosed and not a single soldier had been wrongly discharged.

WERMAN: Joshua, where is, and how is Sgt. Chuck Luther right now?

KORS: Luther’s has an amazing recovery. He’s gone from being a medal winning soldier, to essentially a captive, and now, today, after all his wounds, he’s one of the nation’s leading veteran’s advocates. He started an organization called Wounded Warriors, which is out there helping other soldiers like him, who have been wounded in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, then denied benefits.

WERMAN: Joshua, thanks very much, good to speak with you.

KORS: Thank you.

List of Illustrations

Figure 1.1: Kissinger can’t see beyond his nose: Okolo

Photo 1.1: Prince Akwaeke Abyssinia Nwafor-Orizu. He was American educated, my high school principal and a former president of Federal Republic of Nigeria.

Photo 1.2: Kwame Nkrumah was the first President of the Republic of Ghana. He was deposed in 1966 and later killed by C.I.A.

Photo 1.3 Louis Armstrong Satchmo during his 1960 State Department Sponsored Africa tour.

Photo 1.4 Louis Armstrong Satchmo with US Ambassador during his 1960 State Department Sponsored Africa tour.

Photo 1.5 Louis Armstrong Satchmo with Egyptians during his 1960 State Department Sponsored Africa tour.

Photo 1.6 Louis Armstrong Satchmo on Carmel during his 1960 State Department North Africa tour.

Chart 1.1: Jail Incarceration Rates by Race and Ethnicity , 1990-2004

Photo 1.7: The national and world-renowned Professor Henry Louis Gates arrested and in handcuffs in his home. A white professor of his repute would not get this treatment for doing nothing.

Photo 1.8: Sgt. James Crowley and Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. President Obama and Vice-President Biden sat down for Beer at the White House, July 30, 2009. (Some called it the White House Beer Summit)

Photo 1.9: President Obama toasting Professor Gates at the White House Beer Summit, July 30, 2009.

Chart 1.2: America’s Homicide Rates in 1996, State by State from Fox Butterfield

Graph 1.1 America’s Murder Rate from Fox Butterfield’s FBI Data

Chart 1.3: America’s Murder Rates from Fox Butterfield’s FBI Data

Table 1.1: America’s Murder Rate of States per 100,000 by Rank prepared by me from Fox Butterfield’s FBI Data. Data shows that the South is the murder capital of America and not the North. For example, it shows that New York is 20th.

Figure 2.1: President Barack Obama was chosen to do traditional Black clean-up duties in America

Photo 2.1: My Group Photo at Central Bank of Nigeria, Tinubu Square, Lagos taken in the fall of 1971 as I prepared to leave the Bank for further studies at Purdue University. I was seated second from Left.

Photo 2.1: Protests by Veterans against the War

Figure 2.2: America’s Economic Pyramid

Table 2.1: Occupational Prestige in the United States and Around the World

Table 2.2: Prestige Ranking of Occupations in the United States

Photo 4.1: Cover page of the Immigration Book, which is popular in US public schools is published by Pearson Group

Photo 4.4: Sir Thomas Smythe, the English financier who helped finance and raise necessary funds for England to defeat the great Spanish Armada at the battle of Waterloo in 1588, the turning point in Spanish global hegemonic rule, and set the stage for British global ascendance. He rescued Virginia Company when he acquired its charter in 1609.

Photo 4.2 Captain John Smith Leader of First American Settlers

Photo 4.3: Attorney General, Eric Holder declared that America is a nation of cowards on race discussions, as he celebrated 2009 Black History Month at the Justice Department.

Figure 5.1: Captured Africans to be taken and sold in the New World as slaves

Figure 5.2: White capturing Africans they will sell in the New World as slaves

Figure 5.3: Captured Africans on the march to be loaded in cargo ships for the Trans-Atlantic or the middle passage.

Photo 5.1: The Virginia House of Burgesses. This was an assemblage of the moneyed, oligarchy; the aristocratic, land-owning, planter class that were only white free males who constituted less than 5% of the population while about 95% of the population - regular, common white males, all white females, all Blacks and all Indians who were largely unfree, slaves and/or bond indentures could not participate, vote and/or be voted for.

Figure 5.4: African Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade

Figure 5.5: Triangular Trade

Chart 8.1 US Constitution Timeline

Figure 8.1: We the White Male Planters and Landowners of the United States Hereby Form Plutocracy or Democracy for the Few

Figure 9.1: The Propaganda System and Sub-Systems in America (TOIDS & CMPS)

Figure 9.2: Countries with Nuclear Weapons

Chart 11.1: Basic Structure of the English Society in the Seventeenth Century That Replicated itself in the New World

Photo 11.1: A nearly-naked masterless white man being arrested and whipped through the streets of London by local authorities in 1567

Photo 11.2; Sample Bond-Indenture Contract (Source: Whiteknact. Op. cit. p. 35)

Chart 11.2: British Ruling Class (BRC) and Their Subjects

Key   BRC = British Ruling Class

Masterless class, Irish Scottish, etc

Chart 14.1: A Structural Theory of American Mind

Photo 14.1: Abbie Hoffman Visiting University of Oklahoma in 1969 to Protest the Vietnam War

Figure 16.1: 2002 US National Gas Prices Before Bush Attacked and Occupied Iraqi Oil Fields and Gas Prices Rose Up to Over $4.00 in Some Cities

Photo 16.1: General Smedley Butler addressing the Bonus Army, July 24, 1932.

Photo 16.2: Iraqi Al-Qaeda Reactions to 2006 Midterm Election Results. This New York Post cartoon correctly depicted al-Qaeda rejoicing and jubilating in Iraq after the 2006 midterm election results showed that the Democrats who opposed Bush’s Iraq war had made significant gains. Contrary to Bush/Republican propaganda, even New York Post did not show al-Qaeda preparing to invade America, rather we see them relaxed and happy because the invaders and occupiers

Photo 16.3: Iraqi Show Bomber

Photo 17.1: After prolonged discussions, agreement was eventually reached at Versailles Conference to end World War 1, and Germany was summoned to sign Versailles Treaty on 28th June 1919.

Figure 17.1: Although Germany was not happy with Versailles Treaty they had no choice but to sign it. This cartoon clearly Germany being forced to swallow the bitter reparations pills of Versailles Treaty

Figure 18.1: Countries with Nuclear Weapons, 1997 (Adapted from Figure 9.2 in Chapter 9 of this book)

Figure 18.2: U.S. Military Aid to Israel and Palestine, FY 2009.

Figure 18.3: Americans Want Neutral Stance on Mideast

Photo 19.1: Father Michael Lapsley, South African activist who lost his hands, one eye and was burned severely in an assassination attempt under De Klerk apartheid government

Photo 19.2: Jeremy Scahill, the Investigative Reporter, who Writes about Blackwater.

Photo 19.3: Bryant Gumbel, was let-go by NBC after 15 years of great success as Today host

Photo 19.4: Charlie Gibson, the veteran retiring ABC World News Anchor. He was a former co-host of ABC’s Good Morning America (GMA)

Photo 19.5: Diane Sawyer, promoted from her job as GMA’s co-host of to become the new ABC World News Anchorperson

Photo 19.6: Johnny Carson hosted NBC Tonight Show for 30 years from 1962-1992

Photo 19.7: Michael Jackson, Eddie Murphy and Arsenio Hall

Photo 19.8: Jay Leno and Arsenio Hall

Photo 19.9: Arsenio Hall with two children in 1992

Table 19.1: Unemployment Rate and Widening Gap between Whites and Blacks in New York City

Photo 19.10: Jimmy Fallon, host of NBC Late Night with Jimmy Fallon Show

Photo 19.11: Jay Leno, host of NBC Tonight Show

Photo 19.12: David Letterman host of CBS Late Show

Photo 19.13: Conan O’Brien and Jay Leno. O’Brien replaced Jay Leno when NBC move Jay Leno to 10.30 pm slot. Then NBC moved Jay Leno back to 11.30 pm and then pushed Conan O’Brien and Jimmy Fallon backwards. It is fascination to see how racism spins the around.

Photo 19.14: Senator Harry Reid, Senate Democratic Party Leader who made racist remarks about Obama during Obama’s 1988 presidential bid. He said that Senator Obama might get elected president because "has light skin color and does not Negro Dialect, unless he wants to.

Photo 19.15: Conan O’Brien received $45 million White Male Privilege payoff from NBC to go away quietly and let Jay Leno resume his natural white privilege job as host of NBC Tonight Show.

Photo 19.13: Professor Amy Bishop, pictured in a mug shot Saturday, February 13, 2010 is accused of killing three faculty members at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, Alabama, USA on Friday, February 12, 2010.

Figure 20.1: The Abduction of Pocahontas

Photo 20.1: The Baptism of Pocahontas (John Gadsby Chapman’s painting, commissioned in 1837)

Photo 20.2: 19th century depiction of Pocahontas

Photo 20.3: The statue of Pocahontas in St George’s Church, Gravesend, Kent, England.

Photo 20.4: A Pocahontas Statue Erected in Jamestown, Virginia in 1922

Photo 20.5: Captain John Smith made friends with the curious Pocahontas at age 11 by showing her a compass and giving her presents

Photo 20.6: Statue of Liberty at Ellis Island, New York, USA

Figure 20.2: Pocahontas Trans-Continental Roles for Early Colony and England

Figure 21.1: List of Unarmed Civilian NYPD Victims

Figure 21.2: Roles of Police and the Military in the Society Compared

Chart 22.1: Theoretical and Expected Rise of Corporate Profits

Photo 23.1: W. Bush Extends Civil Rights Reauthorization Act for 25 Years on July 27, 2006.

Photo 23.2: Jesse Jackson addressed a crowd and charged that Blacks were blocked from voting on 7 December, 2000, which is a violation of their constitutional rights and civil right law. Yet, Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, our two leading civil rights activists, failed to mobilize and lead a national protest movement against the stolen election that would have been unrelenting and refused to back down in the face of all threats and crack down including the illegal selection by criminal Supreme Court judges as Iranians did in 2009 when their election was stolen. Malcolm X or Dr. King would have led such protests and would not have taken any other advice from anyone, which is the mark of leadership with guts in pursuit of social justice. Thus, Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton failed the nation when we needed them most. Perhaps, they might have prevented the criminal Bush gang from taking office, which would have saved America and the world from all the deaths, the destructions and economic collapse of the Bush epoch. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton are certainly too big to be arrested and jailed for protesting obvious stolen elections. Further, their probable arrests and jail would have brought more focus on election frauds and minority suppression in America, which the bosses want to keep hidden.

Figure: 23.1: The Phases of Democracy in America: From Feudal or Primitive Democracy to Plutocratic/Oligarchic Democracy or Democracy for the Few

Chart 23.1: Graphic Representation of America’s Oligarchic Government according to Webster Griffin Tarpley in his book: 9/11 Synthetic Terror: Made in USA, page 77.

Photo 24.1: Tammy Duckworth on wheelchair

Photo 24.2: President Barack Obama Hugging Tammy Duckworth

Photo 24.3: President Barack Obama Strolls With Tammy Duckworth

Photo 24.4: George vs. George Book Cover page showing the rebel and insurgent George Washington opposing George 111, the king and royal.

Photo 23.3: Gov. Jan Brewer signs the Racist and Fascist Arizona Immigration Bill on Friday, April 23, 2010

Poster 23.1: NO ILLEGALS = NO BURRITOS (No Mexicans) poster—Supporting the Bill

Photo 23.4: A Border Patrol officer inspects vehicles this week at a checkpoint in Tombstone, Arizona, near the Mexican border. (Source: CNN, Friday, April 23, 2010.)

Poster 23.2: ArizonaTeaParty.com poster. This is the Arizona branch of Tea Party which is a national fascist, racist movement in the age of Obama. Sarah Palin, Senator John McCain’s Republican Party’s 2008 Vice-Presidential candidate and the blazing bull of the racist right-wingers is the leading spokeswoman of the National Tea Party Movement.

Photo 23.5: Former Alaska Governor, Sarah Palin with Arizona Governor Jan Brewer as she supports Arizona immigration law at a news conference. The writing on their podium say it clearly—SECURE THE BORDER SUPPORT ARIZONA, with their website: www.SecureThe Border.org

Poster 23.3: NO HUMAN BEING IS ILLEGAL poster—Opposing the Bill

Poster 23.4: WE PAY TAXES! poster—Opposing the Bill

Photo 23.5: Al Sharpton as he announced in New York that he would go to Arizona and walk the streets to protest their Immigration Law

Poster 23.6: Cartoon of Al Sharpton being arrested in Arizona by a police officer who points gun at his back.

Photo 23.6: Rand Paul, the Tea Party landslide primary election winner is facing fire about the outrageous statements he made about Civil Rights Act.

Photo 23.7: A 1947 propaganda comic book published by the Catechetical Guild Educational Society warning of the dangers of a Communist takeover. Is This Tomorrow was a massive anti-Communist propaganda machinery, which was distributed free to millions of Americans through church groups and other organizations.

Photo 23.8: Inside Cover of Is This Tomorrow that spelled out the evils of communism

Photo 23.9: The Back Cover of Is This Tomorrow that spelled out how to fight communism and what it calls, Ten Commandments of Citizenship.

Some Useful Websites

• Socialjusticecenter.com—This is my website. Visit for critical analysis of important social and public policy issues and problems written by me and some others like minds.

• http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/—an archive of articles, speeches, books, etc, that seek to tell the truth about America’s democracy, media, prisons, foreign policy, MNCs, their global impacts, etc.

• Ccrjustice.org—Center for Constitutional Rights id dedicated to advancing and protecting rights guaranteed by US Constitution and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

• Namesofthedead.com—Every year, more than 44,000 Americans die simply because they have no health insurance. Visit this website for the names and personal stories of those Americans who lost their lives because they do not have insurance or adequate insurance.

• Womensconference.org—The premier forum for women

• Nycfuture.org—Center for an Urban Future is a New York City-based think tank that fuses journalistic reporting techniques with traditional policy analysis to produce in-depth reports and workable policy solutions on the critical issues facing our cities.

• Teachingforchange.org—For those interested in teaching critical thinking in our schools. Teaching for Change provides teachers and parents with the tools to transform schools into centers of justice where students learn to read, write and change the world.

• stealingamericathemovie.org—A feature documentary on vote rigging and stealing elections in America based mainly on Bush high thefts of 2000 and 2994 elections. Visit and download the movie for free. A must for all those who are interested in free and fair elections in America, and for those neo-colonial third world countries like Nigeria and others who invite Jimmy Carter, Colin Powell, NDI, Madam Albright and other CIA imperialist agents to come and teach them about democracy and/or to observe their country’s democratic elections. This movie confirms that US has horrible, racist, undemocratic electoral system and elections processes, must therefore heal itself before going to infect and pollute other countries.

• ivaw.org—Site for Iraq Veterans Against the War. Google winter soldier to find out more details about Vietnam Veterans Against the war (VVAW).ivaw.org is for soldiers who are opposed to Bush/Obama murderous, illegal and unprovoked wars.

The World According to Monsanto—This is a documentary about Monsanto, which is the world leading biotech industry that is threatening to destroy agricultural biodiversity that has served and sustains mankind. Present in 46 countries, Monsanto is the world leader in genetically modified crops, as well as one of the most controversial companies in industrial history. Go to google or youtube to learn more how Monsanto how destroys human lives in US and the world by destroying agricultural diversity for profit. With the help of FDA in both Republican and Democratic administrations.

• Demofound.org—Site of the Democracy Foundation that seeks for changes that will make people more powerful in the country.

• drjudywood.com—For works, books, writings, speeches, etc of Dr. Judy Wood. Very important for those interested in 9/11 to see and hear an engineering professor declare and show that the Bush official story of 9/11 was wrong—things many of us know and have been saying for years—that 9/11 was the biggest hoax on American people, which was why Bush refused to investigate it and Obama is aiding Bush and leading the cover-up by refusing to investigate 9/11. The most patriotic act any American can do today is to push Obama to investigate 9/11.

• humanrightswatch.org (Read, 2008 Report: Democracy Charade Undermines Democracy and Human Rights)

• publicintegrity.org (The Center for Public Integrity and the Fund for Independent Journalism—That Bush and his top officials issued 935 false statements about Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, WMD and his connection to al-Qaeda in the two years leading to the war.)

• theworld.org—Great for global perspective, BBC news, Haiti, etc

• commondreams.org—Great for those who are interested in greater good, social justice, etc and who want to read/see/hear the great industrious, proud people of Haiti and their great contributions to western civilization and not western trashy news of Haiti as the poorest nation in the west.

• upsidedownworld.org—Please read, for socio-political events in Latin America

• cageprisoners.com—for news and information and Guantanamo prison, Abu Ghraib, the Afghan prisons, the black sites and other US secret prison/holding centers around the globe.

• Oaklandinstitute.org—for western corporate imperialist domination of African agriculture. Food crisis and hunger in Africa.

• Globalvoicesforjustice.org—for lectures on a variety of social justice issues from critical independent thinkers, e.g., Cornel West critique of Obama; Vandana Shiva’s speech on Global food crisis and many more

• http://www.felaonbroadway.com/—For Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, the leading Nigerian revolutionary Afrobeat, musician, singer, artist and legend. Fela dedicated his life to fighting C.I.A. sponsored brutish and fascist military government of General Olusegun Obasanjo in Nigeria. Fela, as he was affectionately called by his millions of fans all over the world, was constantly brutally attacked and persecuted by General Obasanjo and his Zombie soldiers, as he called them; and The CIA fired up the army. Fela = a major destabilizing risk. Fela who died on August 2, 1997 is being remembered in a hit Broadway Show, simply titled, Fela! depicting his continued relevance to the current problems of Nigeria and USA and the roles of revolutionary, anti-establishment artists, singers and performers in the struggle for social justice.

• World25.org—This is the site for We are the World 25 for Haiti It is received a simultaneous worldwide broadcast Saturday, February 13, 2010 at 2:00 P.M. Eastern time/11:00 A.M. Pacific time (1900 GMT). We Are the World 25 for Haiti, is a remake of the 1985 Michael Jackson smash-hit charity single We Are the World, was scheduled and received a worldwide simulcast on Saturday, February 13, 2010 on 53 domestic and international channels. One domestic channel that aired it on the Saturday broadcast was Nickelodeon. A shorter, three-minute version of We Are the World 25 for Haiti was shown on Friday, February 12, 2010 during NBC’s coverage of the opening ceremonies of the Winter Olympics. The full-length We Are the World 25 for Haiti is a seven-minute video featuring nearly 100 of today’s biggest stars, young and old. The video also shows images of some of the devastation in Haiti due to the January 12, 2010 earthquake—a disaster that has claimed over 200,000 lives and affected countless others. We Are the World 25 for Haiti will incorporate video clips of Michael Jackson from his 1985 recording sessions of the original We Are the World—an Ethiopian-famine charity single that he and Lionel Richie co-wrote in order to raise money for the poverty-stricken nation. Michael Jackson will be shown singing alongside his famous sister, Janet Jackson. Michael sang solo during some parts of the original recording, in addition to the group singing. Visit the site, enjoy the great music, tell friends and loved ones; and make some donations for our brothers and sisters in Haiti.

• Wbai.org—This is one of the greatest sites you will ever visit for honest, unadulterated full information and news about Unites States and the world. Wbai on Channel 99.5 FM is the king of alternative media unlike the trashy, sanitized, whitewashed, establishment, pro-Bush, pro-Obama war-mongering, war-cheering anti-masses news from establishment, power-serving, profit-driven, MNC-based media like CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS and their affiliates. Wbai is the peace media with its flagship program Democracy Now led by my woman, the courageous, super-talented gold-voiced Amy Goodman who daily brings us the news others will not touch with her very clear, distinct succinct voice. I listen to her daily for proper news. I do not know her personally, but I received an autographed copy of her book, The Exception to the Rulers, which I enjoyed tremendously; and I am happy that she is on Democracy Now to properly inform the world. Wbai also has many other great programs like Wakeup Call hosted by Deepa Fernandes and Esther Armah, TalkBack hosted by the super-academic Hugh Hamilton, Caldwell Show hosted by Veteran See-it-all Journalist and Professor Earl Caldwell, Howard Jordan Show hosted by Professor Howard Jordan, and many other incredibly useful programs for your health, happiness, enjoyment, technical, computer knowledge, etc. Visit this site, listen, enjoy, tell friends; and also donate some money for their continued existence because it is also a listener-sponsored channel that depends on your generous tax-deductible donations for existence; and I can assure you that Wbai is, perhaps, the only news media that you need alive in this Bush third term called Obama first term.

About This Book

This book begins to unravel some of the most obvious, perplexing, embarrassing and enduring problems and contradictions of American history and sociology. These are some of the problems that have bothered me ever since I came to America from Nigeria and began to experience real America at Purdue University that was distinct from the myth America that my generation was fed in Nigeria; and which still largely prevails—an utopian, sanitized version of America that is still largely taught and spread around the world and especially to the children of the third third.

Most tragically, the same whitewash version of America—the propaganda version—that was used to lure my generation of Nigerians and many others around the world is also fed to Americans inside America through various institutions that I call The Organized Institutional Disinformation System (TOIDS) which includes all the relevant institutions, foundations and professions in the country—schools, professors, teachers, pundits, etc.

The basic enduring and embarrassing problem of American history and sociology is how could the American revolution that started with the most ringing and most inspiring declarations of human equality in world history end up establishing the most vicious, exploitative society the world ever knew—Black chattel slavery; only ten percent white enfranchisement, etc.

The American Declaration of Independence was clearly classic for its time and for generations yet unborn because it was the affirmative egalitarian assertion of human struggles for justice, peace, equality, happiness, etc. Thus, the Founders proudly proclaimed to the world as follows:

We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness—That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed, and that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these Ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it.¹

Above are some of the great, elegant and most inspiring words that America’s founders proudly and boldly and without mincing words, proclaimed to the world as they embarked on American revolutionary struggles against the British monarchy in 1776; and no body, no government has written a better, more inspiring or more quoted one since then. Thus Cato Institute, in 1998 wrote:

Indeed, for more than two centuries the ringing phrases of the Declaration have inspired countless millions around the world.²

Therefore, the American Declaration of Independence of 1776 remains the unassailable piece and treatise of innate human aspirations and quest for peace, dignity, equality and pursuit for happiness.

And therein, lies the major inexplicable perennial problem and contradictions of America—how could men of such great wisdom and intellect like George Washington, James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, and others who were Enlightenment scholars and clearly knew that slavery was despicable and evil collude to establish and institutionalize the horrible system of chattel slavery that also disenfranchised over 90 percent of people of their own race—actions that racism could not explain. The structural/institutional slavery and consequent racism hobbles America today and forced Eric Holder, the Attorney General to declare that, "America is a nation of cowards, when it comes to race discussions."

Because of the inexplicable contradictions between the noble Declarations of the founders and the real America they established, Americans committed to eulogizing the founders have found it difficult to explain what happened and why the wide gap between their Declarations and the reality. And, unable to successfully explain the contradictions, America orthodoxy has resorted to playing the Ostrich, i.e. concealment, with America’s children and the public by exorcizing the facts from textbooks and pretending that the contradictions do not exist.

Unlike most books, this book starts with open and clear admission that the contradictions exist, are inherently troubling and therefore seeks open serious investigation of reasons for the wide contradictions.

The uniqueness of this book, and perhaps, one of its most important contributions to American society, to academia and to the attentive world is its candid, open, direct and critical approach and discussions of those very issues that Americans do not talk about, are not encouraged to talk about; and are not comfortable talking about. It is therefore a tough book. Very difficult to write, at times, demands extraordinary courage to proceed, and very educative too because some of the issues uncovered and discussed here were also unknown to me at the beginning of the enormous research.

This book starts with serious critical discussions of race in America and reveals what no textbook has ever done, viz.,—that most early American whites and Blacks were slaves—an uncomfortable fact that would shock most Americans who what been taught that only Blacks were brought here in chains. Further, the book also shows the year Black slavery started, who was the first Black in America, when and how racism started in America and many other very sensitive and embarrassing but necessary issues that America voids but must be frankly discussed for America to move forward. This book, and its sequel, Volume Two, are, therefore must be read by all who want to know the truths about America’s history and sociology and not the sanitized version that pervades the system now

This book exposes some classic pervasive and unbelievable American lies that were invented, and have been historically perpetuated, maintained and reinforced by American orthodoxy and by various American gatekeepers that they now seem normal and are fully accepted by American and global audience as truism.

This book has therefore been a particularly difficult one, and has taken me decades to research and write because conventional and traditional knowledge, which most of the lies have become to Americans and the world, are usually difficult to challenge and overthrow, which is the prime objective of this book. This book may therefore seem too lengthy for some but when one is challenging societal conventional wisdom and orthodoxy; one is bound to need extended explanations, substantiation and documentation to make his points.

During the pains and rigors of this book, I often reminded myself of Adam Smith who published a very controversial book in 1776 titled, An Inquiry in the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, which is now popularly known and listed as The Wealth of Nations in books, libraries, etc. The book which is very lengthy has turned out to become an indisputable classic of social sciences, and some rightly call the book an apologia for the emerging capitalism of the eighteenth century. Adam Smith’s book was necessarily lengthy because it needed a lot of time and space to demolish the prevailing mercantilist orthodoxy of his epoch before proposing his own profoundly new theory of wealth of nations, which has guided the world ever since. While Adam Smith’s book was accepted and hailed by some in 1776 as a truly revolutionary work of genius, which it really was, many, who felt threatened by his new theory, because they benefitted from it, seriously opposed and challenged it because it was a serious and fundamental attack on their means of liveliness since Adam Smith’s new theory threatened to overthrow the prevailing mercantilist orthodoxy that sustained the ruling elites of the era.

This book, The State of the American Mind: Stupor and Pathetic Docility—Volume One with its accompanying Volume Two, challenges some of the pervasive lies about America which have helped to sustain America’s ruling elites. I therefore expect some establishment scholars, pundits and gatekeepers like Pat Buchanan, Ann Coulter, Bill O’Reilly Rush Limbaugh, George Will and some others to attack this book. However, I am pre-warning that these books are fully researched and that all challenges are welcomed and will be vigorously defended.

When one writes that the so-called founding fathers are not the real ones, that George Washington was not the first American president, that the enormous invaluable roles Pocahontas in American history and sociology should be officially acknowledged and that she should be officially recognized as America’s founding mother, that most American whites were also brought to the New World in chains as bond-indentures and slaves like blacks, that the American constitution was a racist, fascist, oligopolistic document designed by America’s ruling class and money-bags who were fundamentally shaken and scared by Shays rebellion of 1786-87 to deliberately crafted the constitution to protect and insulate them from common highly exploited and despised Americans and not the great democratic document as we are told. The depiction of the American constitution, has survived some two-hundred, twenty-two years as the longest surviving written constitution on earth, as the great peoples’ democratic document is a height of American fallacies, lies and deception as well as the deification of Abraham Lincoln really is also shown in this book series. Also, when a book challenges and depicts the might medical profession as fundamentally fraudulent and unethical, as this book shows, one must expect serious pushback from their entrenched professors and gatekeepers.

More importantly, I acknowledge that the founding fathers were geniuses because they crafted the clearly racist constitution which has historically guided America but that they were not racists, which is why the American system has remained an enigma, almost impossible to understand, yet highly loved and admired by many Americans, including this author, and most people in the world. America is therefore, indisputably the most successful brutal, exploiting, predatory state of the modern times, according to Harold Pinter, the 2005 British Nobel Laureate.

The selection of Obama as the Democratic candidate in 2008 and his convincing victory on November 4 election and his presidency confirm clearly that the American ruling elites, the real American bosses, the money-bags are not racists even while the system they operate and benefit from is fundamentally, structurally, and institutionally racist.

One should therefore not write books of such fundamental propositions without expecting some serious opposition, but I am ready for you all. My only request is that you read this book with an open mind, I am sure that many will be convinced when they do. In spite of all the efforts, rigors and energy I put into this book, it cannot be the last word on this most important issues about America’s basic history and sociology. I therefore invite readers to read the two volumes of this book thoroughly, do their own research and then contact me for whatever they like or do not like about the books. Meanwhile, I wish everyone, Happy Reading!

About the Author

Professor Amechi Okolo, Ph.D.

Professor Okolo who is a social scientist, sociologist, political economist and social activist is a proud graduate of Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana from where he got his doctorate on May 13, 1978. Dr Okolo has taught in a number of colleges and universities in United States and Nigeria—Purdue University, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ife, Nigeria, University of Wisconsin, Platteville, Wisconsin, Medgar Evers College, Brooklyn, New York, Hostos Community College, Bronx, New York, Long Island University, New York and Nassau Community College, Garden City, New York. Dr. Okolo also with New York City, public school system as an educator, social studies teacher, student council advisor, school leadership team secretary, and academic intervention specialist—positions that allowed him to gain invaluable insights and knowledge of America’s educational problems.

Amechi Okolo came into United States in 1971 as a foreign student on students’ F-1 visa to study at Purdue University. As a social activist he became actively involved in the social, economic and academic life of the huge, beautiful and imposing Purdue University in the 1970s when he was there.

As president of African Students Association at Purdue University in the 1970s, Amechi Okolo organized a number of sit-ins, teach-ins and protests in conjunction with Africana Studies Program, Purdue University against the negative United States government’s domestic policies against blacks, minorities and poor whites as well as against United States global hegemony and imperialist policies such as the Vietnam War, South Africa’s apartheid policies, US intervention in Angola and others.

The Purdue Exponent, February 2, 1976, titled, Kissinger can’t see beyond his nose: Okolo in appendixes was typical of my social activism at Purdue University in the 1970s. It depicts a level of social involvement by students in the lives of their communities and the nation that I wish could be re-kindled in our current students.

Professor Okolo also operated as a presidential adviser in Nigeria in 1980s as he advised the presidency on critical national policies. He was also a presidential adviser to President Clinton in the 1990s during his impeachment nightmare.

Also as a doctoral student at Purdue University, Amechi Okolo received many academic awards and accolades including International Fellowship Award that funded his trips to the White House, IMF, World Bank, VOA, Pentagon, C.I.A, F.B.I. and other strategic decision-making centers in Washington, DC.

Professor Okolo is a social justice enthusiast who strongly believes in the principles of freedom, equality and fairness for all—especially for the underprivileged of all races. Readers are also invited to go to his website, socialjusticecenter.com to read his works on various important social justice issues.

Professor Okolo is a critical academia, which means that he has cultivated and developed the idea of asking probing questions and of not accepting anything on its face value. He also strongly believes in the positive power of criticism, and perhaps, the most important lesson he teaches his students is to let them know that it is okay, beautiful, acceptable, productive and positive to be critical, to be skeptical, and to ask questions about what they read, see and hear.

Preface

The State of the American Mind: Stupor and Pathetic Docility shows that the present world view of America is wrong because it is based on sanitized, whitewashed, utopian version that is fed to students in schools, colleges and universities by teachers and professors who were themselves also fed the same garbage as students. This means that what happens in American schools is mostly garbage-in, garbage-out or what is called, intellectual garbage recycling, because professors and most so-called-experts are too lazy to do their own independent research.

It is especially sad and regrettable for social science professors because their professional progress and advancement should depend more on original research and publications, yet most of them get to heights of their profession by essentially recycling, replicating and reproducing forms of the sanitized, whitewash versions of American history and sociology they were taught themselves in America’s public schools, colleges and universities with little or no efforts for their own original research and publication.

Thus, most social science professors took the easy path because it is certainly easier to recycle the garbage and lies they were taught in schools themselves and to teach from standard textbooks that replicate and reproduce those lies and half-truths than to go through the drudgery of tedious independent original research and publication.

The State of the American Mind: Stupor and Pathetic Docility therefore challenges school districts, chancellors, superintendents, principals, teachers; and especially professors, experts, colleges, universities, research centers and institutions, academic publishing organizations and institutions, etc to prove the data of this book wrong or change their curricula, courses, course-contents, textbooks; and what they teach students to reflect the truth white bond-servants and white slavery existed in early America. Especially American history and sociology courses and textbooks should include, reflect and discuss white slaves and white slavery as comprehensively and voraciously as they treat black slaves and black slavery because America’s children, America’s public and the world deserve better.

I did elementary and high schools in Nigeria before coming to the United States for further education at Purdue University in 1971. My high school education in Nigeria included extensive readings, teachings and classroom discussions about African-American slaves and slavery, triangular trade and its horrors, etc but no textbook, nor any teacher ever talked about or mentioned anything about white slaves and white slavery in early America, which showed that my teachers, as British colonial products were also not taught anything white slaves and white slavery.

Colonial subjects in India, Caribbean, Latin America, Philippines and Asia were and are also not taught about white slaves and white slavery in early America even though they all have elaborate textbooks and classroom discussions about African-American slaves and slavery in America, thus confirming that the deletion of white slaves and white slavery from textbooks and from national and international curricula is an international conspiracy of the global white ruling class.

The virtual elimination and deletion of white slaves and white slavery in American/European and global textbooks, classroom and academic discussions while there are always full elaborates voracious documentations and discussions of African-American slaves and slavery is not by accident or by chance but rather the result of deliberate global white-elite conspiracy designed simultaneously to protect/and insulate American whites and continental Europeans from slavery and to smear Africans and African-Americans with slavery.

If white-Americans and African-Americans were to know the truth that both groups shared in slave heritage, I am sure that social discussions, classroom discussions and public policy debates in this country would be different. There might have been more unity of purpose and unity of understanding among the divergent races of this country if we knew the truth—our common slave heritage should provide some centripetal binding forces for us.

Specifically, the stringent centrifugal voices of the extreme right wing and the KKK whose motto is that this is a white country and that blacks were brought here from Africa as slaves to work the plantations would be toned down when they realize that their own ancestors were also brought here from Europe in chains and sold at public auctions to work the plantations as slaves and bond-indentures.

Also some of the positive effects of discovering white servitude and white slavery in early America is that it immediately help solve some of the hitherto perplexing and daunting problems of mysteries of America’s historiography, viz. how did a revolution that started with such unrivaled proclamations of human equality in its declaration of independence end up institutionalizing the most horrible system of human inequality and oppression of western civilization.

Specifically, the much trumpeted founders’ constitution of 1787 allowed voting rights to Americans as follows:

a) Full Voting Rights—to only male planters and land owners—about 5% of the population

b) No Voting Rights to majority of white males

c) No Voting Rights to all white women

d) No Voting Rights to all Native Americans

e) No Voting Rights to all Negroes.

The above structure and provisions of the reverential and highly regarded American Constitution of 1788 does not make any sense at all both from the stand point of the noble and acclaimed words and pronouncements of the American Declaration of Independence that "all men are created equal .." and from the conventional understanding that the founders were racists—the structure they created are illogical either way.

If the founders had followed the dictates of their Declaration of Independence that "all men are created equal," they would have given everyone the votes from get go, as I had thought when we read it in Nigeria, but they did not. They restricted the vote to the small powerful, rich male white elite. Further, if the founders were racists, as I was made to understand when I came to America, and as some would argue, they would have restricted only African-Americans and Native Americans from voting and would have gladly given votes to all whites including white females, which they did not.

Further, it took the President Andrew Jackson in the 1830s, fighting for his political survival in the era of Jacksonian Democracy for him to extend vote voting rights to all white males and not just the white male landowners as designed by the founders. Then, it took till August 18, 1920 after the heroic struggles of women to get the 19th Amendment ratified for women to vote.

So voting rights were not light issues in this country. They are not gender issues, they are not racial issues because the original few male white elite bosses (the planters and land owners) of this country were bent on holding on to power and not sharing their power with anyone; and the conventional explanation of racism did not satisfactorily explain to me their determined opposition to sharing power with even members of their own race until I uncovered white slavery in early America.

Now, the explanations seem quite clear and logical—the white male bosses, the planters and land owners—were reluctant to grant voting rights to all because they did not want to share power with their white and black bond-indentures and slaves.

Even the traditional black reaction and complaint about the American constitution is that the founders did not include blacks when they created the constitution. The truth is that the founders also excluded the majority of white males and all white females when they designed the constitution of 1787; and I believe that once people start seeing that the constitution excluded vast categories of Americans from its major privileges, and not just African-Americans as popularly held, the fundamental deficiencies of the constitution will become obvious and the acclaimed wisdom of the founders will be questioned.

I particularly challenge history, sociology, political science, psychology and anthropology professors to prove the data and information of this book wrong or change their teaching and re-write their textbooks to reflect the new information and data uncovered in this book. I call them new information but there is really nothing new about them. They have been there all these time—in the achieves, court records, special library collections, etc—except that history and social science professors were happy and comfortable with their lies and half-truths and/or too lazy, too scared to venture outside, too lazy to think and act outside the box they were socialized into.

Like any endeavors, breakthroughs and inventions depend on people’s ability to venture outside their conventional comfort zones. People must imagine and think. Thinking and imagination are therefore the twin engines that propel societies forward. For example we will have no cars and planes today if people remained comfortable with the horses and horse-drawn carts of previous centuries, to just name a few of the great strides and progress we have made in recent centuries from thinking.

For example, America’s physical and chemical scientists and professors have been great and have been doing phenomenal jobs as attested by the many inventions and gadgets that flood the system either as direct results of their research or as ripples from their research. Thus American research universities continue to be the envy of the world due to their research outcomes in physical and chemical sciences—physics, chemistry, computers, etc. Personally, I am not technologically savvy or inclined; and I am always trying to exist with the minimal technological knowledge necessary for my survival and to do my duties. I am, however curious and always impressed with the ever changing technologies and gadgets that my young students carry and tote around, and I often stop to get a minute lesson and tutorial from them about what they carry around.

However, unfortunately, while thinking and imagination impel physical, chemical and even medical scientists and professors to soar to ever higher heavens and always invent new things and new technologies that both improve and compound our lives, humanities and social science professors have perched firmly on the ground with their claws tightly gripping the floor and refusing any imagination and thinking that could or would pull them away from the mental stupor of their comfort zones or known orthodoxy.

Thus, as a social science professor, I am ashamed of the intellectual laziness that afflicted my noble and exciting profession and discipline, which Aristotle called the master science because it was the root of all intellectual human existence and growth, yet the blandness and mediocrity of most present practitioners have brought disdain, contempt and even ridicule to the once admired discipline.

Thus, it is unbelievable that no textbooks in the American public school system or any history, sociology, psychology, anthropology textbooks, nor are there any courses or themes or topics in any social science or humanity departments or professors who teach and discourse white bond-indentures, white slaves and white slavery in America, which is most appalling, regrettable and unforgivable because we always vigorously and voraciously discuss, teach and write about African-American slaves and slavery in America.

This great omission in American social science education is very shameful and totally unacceptable not just because it is wrong but because of the grave negative public policy implications the lies and half-truths have fostered and festered in America. In chapter 9, I discussed and sketched the Continuous Massive Propaganda System (CMPS) and The Organized Institutional Disinformation System (TOIDS) that allow the government to spread the lies and half-truths to keep the people uninformed and exploited. But professors cannot claim ignorance because of the corrosive and intellectually-limiting influence of TOIDS and CMPS. As professors, they are supposed to have transcended such artificial intellectually-limiting constraints and proceed to do their own independent investigation and research, which no government can restrain.

In fact, no government can restrain or constrain the nature and outcome of social science research or any research for that matter, which is one of the inherent features of scientific research that I teach and discuss in class.