America in Black and White: And Why Democracy Has Failed

By Dr. Carl O. Duddersoon and Dr. Carl J. Duddersoon

In this compelling book, authors Carl O. Duddersoon, Sr. and Carl J. Duddersoon, Jr. share a personal journey fueled by intimate motivations and a growing awareness of the profound social injustices deeply ingrained in American society. Drawing on experience in the United States and comparing an upbringing in England, the authors question why race holds such pervasive influence in America.

The narrative delves into America’s decline, scrutinizing internal political divisions and their impact on the nation’s vulnerability to destructive forces. Key themes explored include failed leadership, questionable democracy, moral turpitude in the treatment of the Black race, and the pitfalls of affirmative action.

Ultimately, America in Black and White concludes that racism is not just ingrained but serves as the bedrock shaping almost all interactions and decisions across America. It calls for a reevaluation of voting power, urging the Black population to wield it effectively and break from blind allegiance to either political party that clearly do not represent their interests. Prepare to unveil America’s chilling truths, providing a stark examination of challenges amid its downward trajectory and advocating for meaningful change.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Archway Publishing
• Release date: Mar 12, 2024
• ISBN: 9781665757492

Dr. Carl O. Duddersoon

Dr. Carl O. Duddersoon Sr., an engineering scientist, and Dr. Carl J. Duddersoon Jr., a board-certified MD, are first-generation American immigrants with over thirty years of combined experience in the United Kingdom and the United States. Dr. Duddersoon Sr. offers candid insights into America and the European Union’s survival odds, complemented by the heightened awareness of Dr. Duddersoon Jr. of trauma’s national and global impact. Together, their collaborative work presents a unified perspective on New Rome’s trajectory toward failure.

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CONTENTS

Preface

Chapter 0:     At Some Point, Freedom Must Be Free

Chapter 1:     America’s Leadership in Quicksand!

Chapter 2:     American Democracy Is a Failed Concept—Here’s Why

Chapter 3:     Moral Turpitude—America on Its Human Rights Record

Chapter 4:     Affirmative Action Was Always a Bad Idea

Chapter 5:     Corruption in the United States Government Contracting—and Why It Matters

Chapter 6:     Insurance—the Most Underregulated Racket in America!

Chapter 7:     America’s Industrial Base—Squandered for Profit

Chapter 8:     Driven to Extinction—the Black Man Is a Shadow

Chapter 9:     The EU’s Days Are Numbered—So Might Be America’s

Chapter 10:   On the Bloodsucking Televangelists—Abusing the Abused!

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PREFACE

Why I Penned This Book

I penned this book driven by many intimate motivations, yet as I wrote, I became consumed by a grander purpose. My twenty-three years in the US exposed me to a torrent of injustices, deeply rooted in racial bias, saturating America’s very essence. It bewildered me how England, my birthplace and upbringing for my formative years, lacked the intensity of such encounters. My first question loomed large: Why does race wield such profound, pervasive influence in America? And make no mistake—racism exists in England, but its grip pales compared to its omnipresence in American societal and economic frameworks.

The book, however, looks more closely at factors driving America’s decline and addresses how America’s distractions with internal squabbles between its two main parties have left the country wide open to the destructive forces that brought Rome to its knees. It examines America’s failed leadership, America’s failed and questionable democracy, America’s moral turpitude and poor human rights record in its systematic ethnic cleansing of the Black race, and the reasons why affirmative action was always a bad idea for Black people.

It addresses the deep-seated corruption in America’s government procurement arm and the extent to which that corruption has become the greatest threat to America’s security and defense today. It examines how America’s industrial base was squandered for profit while resurrecting Adam Smith’s determination that service-based economies, which is primarily what America has become, are the weakest economies that cannot sustain their currencies—with America’s currency having itself lost 40 percent of its value these past forty years, and 80 percent since 1970, with further decline being coordinated by America’s foremost adversaries. It examines the fact that America’s insurance sector is underregulated, bleeds Americans dry, results in over five hundred thousand bankruptcies every year, and does nothing for the economy.

In the end, I was forced to conclude that racism toward Black people isn’t just ingrained; it’s the bedrock on which interactions occur and decisions are shaped. This book will unveil the chilling truth of all these observations and expose why the Black population should begin to wield their voting power effectively and cease to blindly lend their support to either party, Democrat or Republican, neither of which has truly represented their interests.

Composing over thirty million potential voters, Black Americans possess the collective might to tip the scales in America’s presidential elections, because no party has ever garnered even half that number when they have won a presidential election. The book underscores the urgency for Black people to unite under a block voting system—the Black block vote—channeling their votes to candidates acknowledging their struggle, as meticulously outlined in this book. In the ultimate analysis, Black Americans must seize control of their destiny through the ballot or face imminent decimation within the next five to ten years, relegated to perpetual societal bottom-feeders.

The book attempts to swipe at and scold the immoral pastors in America whose focus on stealing from the downtrodden and the poor at the expense of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, sent to save the souls of humankind, have profited with expensive homes, expensive cars, private jets, private educations for their children, and the souls of men.

Finally, it must be said, America! Your future is in your hands, but sadly, your hands have been cut off, and now they [i.e., hidden adversaries within and known adversaries without] want your feet!

CHAPTER 0

AT SOME POINT, FREEDOM

MUST BE FREE

"When the cost of freedom is your entire life, and decades

after wars have been fought and won, there is no end

in sight for the price you continue to pay for freedom,

then you have paid and are paying too much." Author.

W HEN THE NUMBER OF BLACK people who have fought in American wars exceeds 7 percent (one in every thirteen Black people) of the total living population of that race of people today, and you still have no freedom and no quality of life, then you have paid and are paying too much. When the median White household holds $188,200 in wealth—which is 7.8 times that of the typical Black household (only $24,100), and you still have no freedom and no quality of life, then you have paid and are paying too much. When less than 2.5 percent of America’s wealth belongs to Black people, who make up 14 percent of the total population, and you still have no freedom and no quality of life, then you have paid and are paying too much.

When Black people have the highest unemployment rates of civilian noninstitutionalized Black and White men and women over age twenty, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and a Black man is more than twice as likely to be unemployed as a White man, and you still have no freedom and no quality of life, then you have paid and are paying too much. When Black people—men in particular—are overrepresented among prisoners by a factor greater than five to one (32 percent versus 6 percent), and you still have no freedom and no quality of life, then you have paid and are paying too much. When the rate at which an unarmed Black person is likely to be shot dead by law enforcement officers on the streets of America is three times that of a White person, which means you as a Black person venture the streets in fear of your life because of those who should protect and serve, then you are not free, and you have paid and are paying too much. And worse, when those who should protect and serve you rely on a doctrine called qualified immunity, which allows them to walk free after decimating your civil rights and taking your life, you are not free, and you have paid and are paying too much.

When lenders and insurers redline cities and towns to keep Black people out, making Black-area zip codes the basis on which loan interest rates and auto and health insurance premium rates are determined, ensuring that Black people pay on average 30 percent more for mandatory health and auto insurance than White people, you have paid and are paying too much. When the total average federal spend each year is $6.5 trillion and less than 1.7 percent of that spend goes to Black businesses and Black communities, then you have paid and are paying too much. And when, as a consequence, generationally deprived Black communities resemble war zones, with broken-down drug-infested buildings, and young Black men stand on corners at midday with no jobs, no future, and no hope, and armed police units sit on either side of their street corners twenty-four hours a day, then you have no freedom and you have paid and are paying too much.

When at birth Black people have a shorter life expectancy compared to White people (70.8 and 76.4 years, respectively) as of 2021, and Black people experienced larger declines in life expectancy than White people between 2019 and 2021, then you have paid and are paying too much. When Black infants were more than two times as likely to die as White infants at birth and beyond (10.4 versus 4.4 per 1,000), then you have paid and are paying too much. When Black women had the highest rates of pregnancy-related mortality, and Black children were over twice as likely to be food insecure than White children (13 versus 4 percent) as of 2021, then you have paid and are paying too much.

When Republicans redistrict a jurisdiction, redlining Black people into areas that limit the power of their vote, denying them the basic tenets of democracy, and rendering their one person, one vote power ineffective, then Black people have paid and are paying too much. When the Democratic Party receives, on average, 80 percent of the Black vote, and then proceed to systematically ignore the plight of Black people as designated here in this book, and Black people continue to give away their vote to such Democrats, with no conditions attached, then the Black people have lost their sense of self-worth and self-esteem, have no freedom, and are paying too much.

When a Black Democratic president, Obama, could ascend to the highest and most powerful office in the world, and yet become the worst thing to happen to Black people, for he did nothing to change the plight of Black people outlined above—and even went as far as to completely ignore the plight of Black people as outlined in this book, thereby cementing the plight of Black people in the eyes of White America—then Black people will be less free today than tomorrow. His deliberate nonresponse to Black people’s plight set the stage for White people to ask, behind closed doors, If he didn’t care, why should we? They had a Black president, who had all the power in the world, and he did nothing for them; how can anyone expect us to do more?

When the Republicans vie for the Black vote but make only token references to the plight of Black people in America, and Black people still shift their votes to Republicans, with no conditions attached and no demands made, then Black people have become their own worst enemy and have lost their sense of self-worth and self-esteem.

Black Americans fought America’s wars and bled and died for America’s freedom—yet they are not free, are poorer for the price paid, and are still treated like third-class citizens in a first-world nation.

No Freedom, No Life, No Hope, No Vote

In truth, no Black person in their right mind should vote Democrat ever again unless the conditions of that vote address the plight of Black people described in this book. And no Black person should walk across the aisle and give their vote to the Republicans, as they are equally, if not more, complicit in the systematic oppression and destruction of Black people in America! And unless Black people understand the concept of the Black block vote (BBV), they will never receive any consideration by either party.

Fact: The Black voting population numbers around thirty-three million people as of the end of 2022, and no party has ever won by half that many votes. Black people have sufficient voting power to put in office any party that meets their demands and keep the other out.

To do so, they must subscribe to the BBV concept, where statewide caucuses of Black voting pools give their BBV only to those leaders in states that put an end to the criminal levels of discrimination outlined above and, in this book, and openly vow to put it into law. Such leaders should be able to clearly state the legitimate methods they will use to accomplish true equity without delay, and within the first thirty days of being in office. They must in addition create transparent levels of mandatory and frequent reporting that make it impossible for offenders (including corrupt contracting officers) to hide behind the term minorities, whereby they continue to abuse Black people under the guise of the said term, which includes all other minority races who are not subject to even a fraction of the level of illegality and discrimination expressed herein towards black people.

Tokenism will not do! New executive orders will not do! The world is watching a nation that has heralded itself as a supporter of democracy, humane actions, and truth but that in fact lies in and through its inhumane actions, hypocritically pointing the finger at the likes of China, Hong Kong, and Russia while openly depleting the lives of an entire race of people.

What is ethnic cleansing, if not this? What are crimes against humanity, if not this? What is death by slow decree, if not this? There are crimes being committed here and now against a race of people, and just as the world sat quietly until over six million Jewish people were slaughtered, and until it was much too late to save them, so the world sits quietly while Black America is disposed of by White America.

This book, America in Black and White: And Why Democracy Has Failed, is a close look at the true plight of Black people in America and a call for those in authority to fix it before it really is too late! For the Black people first, but ultimately for all America!

Earth and the Universe are Impossible Places

– Who created and put them there?

We are in truth, one race of people – descendants from the same two people – made by one God – living on one enormous mass called Earth—not in it but on it! I mean, on its surface! Earth is not a perfect sphere, and we know it is slightly flattened at the poles and bulges at the equator due to its rotation at over one thousand miles per hour. As a result, the circumference (center) is slightly larger around the equator than it is around the poles (the top and bottom of Earth). This equatorial circumference is often used as a standard measure of Earth’s size and weight. The estimated weight or mass of Earth is approximately 5.972 × 10^24 kilograms!

But what does that really mean? For starters, 5.972 × 10^24 is equal to 5.972 followed by twenty-four zeros, which represents the approximate mass (weight) of Earth in kilograms. This notation is a way of expressing very large or very small numbers in a more compact form using powers of ten. In this case, it means you take 5.972 and multiply it by ten raised to the power of twenty-four, which results in a tremendously large number.

In simpler terms, Earth’s actual weight is 5,972,000,000,000,000,

000,000 metric tons, or 5,877,681,383,000,000,000,000 long tons (UK), or 6,479,034,670,000,000,000,000 short tons (US), or 12,958,069,340,000,000,000,000 pounds (US)!

So, to start again, we live on an enormous mass called Earth that weighs a tremendously large amount, yet it floats effortlessly around in space. Not only does it rotate at the equator at over a thousand miles an hour, but it revolves around the sun at an equally dizzying speed. It has oceans and seas (i.e., water) that also occupy space on the surface of Earth and that bend to the curvature of Earth. Nowhere else in the known universe does water bend to an unseen intangible surface. The Bible calls it the firmament. To the contrary however, and as far as we understand, water only assumes the shape of the tangible objects it occupies. So, on the one hand, the seas and oceans obey the laws of physics below the surface, but they defy the laws of physics above the surface, bending to the curvature of Earth in a mind-boggling, inexplicable mystery.

So, the answer to one key question eludes us all: How is this possible?

My response: All this speaks to the existence of God—the one and only creator of all things that exist, seen and unseen, and that we as mortals see but do not fully understand. It was Paul, the New Testament apostle, who said,

For now, we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known. (emphasis added)

That is, there are secrets about the world we live on, even secrets about humankind that have not been revealed to us but soon will be. Humankind, according to the scriptures, is also a mystery, and it was Paul who also said,

For thou hast possessed my reins: Thou hast covered me in my mother’s womb. I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: Marvelous are thy works; And that my soul knoweth right well. My substance was not hidden from thee, When I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. (emphasis added)

The secret things belong to God—that much we know—including why He made man. But one day, every person who ever lived will give an account of their life to this very God, and among those accounts will be the way we have treated one another! And lest those among us would plead ignorance, helplessness, or an avid preoccupation with the matters of life, that will not abide God’s grace, for as ignorance is no defense in the natural world, so it will be of no defense in the spiritual, and we will pay with our own lives as those whose plight we ignored paid with theirs. The difference will of course be the added detriment of eternity, for your worms will not die.

So, what’s the point?

Psalm 9:17 states the following: The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God. It is impossible to deny who God is and the power that He wields over the very universe in which we live. The concept of natural evolution is without merit when we consider the extreme levels of systematic organization that characterize our universe and that suggest an intelligent being made all that we see. The time will come when we will all have to answer to that being, known as God, for the things we have done. And make no mistake—the issues raised in this book will be among them.

The New Rome—Elon Musk Alone

Cannot Change Its Trajectory

America, Where Is Your STEMM (Science, Technology,

Engineering, Mathematics, and Manufacturing)?

America has been undergoing change these past few years—the kind that weakens nations; mocks democracy; barters productivity for services; and cannibalizes its own basis for growth, its industrial base. Many of these alterations were formerly the essence of ancient Rome prior to its decline, but they now serve as symbols of new Rome, which is America.

To begin with, America’s transition into a service-oriented economy occurred gradually and resulted in severe setbacks for its manufacturing sector. As Adam Smith pointed out many years ago, such a shift carries more disadvantages than advantages, ultimately causing a decline in a nation’s manufacturing industry and adversely affecting its capacity to generate crucial goods and technologies. Interestingly, a significant portion of manufacturing job losses occurred during Republican presidential administrations, as illustrated in figure 0.1.

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Figure 0.1. Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics, US Department

of Labor, Occupational Outlook Handbook, in Ruth Strachan and

Sebastian Shehadi, Who Killed US Manufacturing? Investment

Monitor, May 12, 2021, https://www.investmentmonitor.ai/

manufacturing/who-killed-us-manufacturing/?cf-view.

In the last decade, the United States has witnessed a deceleration in the crucial development of its transportation, energy, and telecommunications infrastructure, posing challenges to its ability to maintain a competitive advantage. Alongside several Western nations, America has been trailing behind China in the race to advance technologies and retain top talent, potentially allowing Beijing to establish dominance in certain sectors. A recent report highlighted by the Guardian reveals that China holds a leading position in thirty out of forty-four technology categories monitored during a yearlong project conducted by the think tank the Australian Strategic Policy Institute. These categories encompass electric batteries (The new EV company, BYD a prime outcome of the same), hypersonic technology, and advanced radio frequency communications, including 5G and 6G.

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Figure 0.2. Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics, US Department

of Labor, Occupational Outlook Handbook, in Ruth Strachan and

Sebastian Shehadi, Who Killed US Manufacturing? Investment

Monitor, May 12, 2021, https://www.investmentmonitor.ai/

manufacturing/who-killed-us-manufacturing/?cf-view.

The systemic inefficiencies in America’s defense spending have not only affected the approval of defense budgets and the allocation of resources but also directly hindered the modernization of the country’s military and its ability to keep pace with technological advancements. The absence of consensus regarding funding for research and development has further exacerbated this issue, resulting in slower progress