| |
Chapter 66
|
|
|
|
|
| |
My journey had gradually "railroaded" me into the ultimate
closed system - the prison - where I met again the 3 ghetto robbers who five
years earlier had attacked me on my
arrival in the country. While society had slowly closed like a vise around me, these people
meanwhile had opened up to me and had (through
my own ghettoization) become a
part of myself. |
| |
|
|
| |
I now understood that they had had no real choice: Their freedom was
one-dimensional. Their choice of whether or not to make me a victim is the choice
of white society: Should we stop oppressing an oppressed people in order not to end
up ourselves in a repressive kind of prison? Or have we lost the freedom to choose? |
| |
|
|
| |
The freedom to choose may already be lost in a
system where "life's design is already made." If we think granting billions of dollars for slum clearance,
education and jobs will unlock those imprisoned in the ghetto, then our great
liberal open hand will soon suffer a quick conservative pull-back. |
| |
|
|
| |
Humiliating crumbs from above will only worsen the self-hatred
among those we disposed of and now halfheartedly try to reclaim - and they will
bite the hands which feed them. In the hest years
of liberal tokenism, 1960-67, $348 billion was spent on war, $27 billion on
space exploration, and only $2 billion on aid to ghetto areas. Is it any
surprise that our rejects burned down the ghettos in contempt? No, we can't just pay off our racism!
|
| |
|
|
| |
Such a helping hand from above will unintentionally function just as the
American penal system does. Here 95% of the money is used to dispose of the
unwanted and brutalize them, and only 5% is spent on paternalistic
"rehabilitation" of the waste product which took years to produce. Most inmates
are so wrecked by the prison system that afterwards they can never adjust to
society outside again and therefore return to prison. No other nation including
Communist Russia and South Africa under the apartheid regime has
ever locked up more people than America! |
| |
|
|
| |
Millions
of people who need psychiatric treatment as a result of the ghetto's
institutionalized, chronic, and self-perpetuating pathology (completely like we
now see the same phenomenon in our ghettoized Muslims in Europe) are in our system
being locked up instead of getting treatment. 25% of American prison inmates are
mentally retarded as a result of their impoverished backgrounds. More than half
the inmates are people of color. When I first traveled in America in the 1970's
only 10% of black men were in prison. Today 40% of black under 40
are in prison, according to New York Times. In the 70'es I saw
more blacks in college than in prison. Today more blacks are in
prison than in college! |
| |
|
|
| |
When in addition you learn that blacks on
average receive sentences twice as long as whites for the same offense, you
begin to understand why many blacks see themselves as political prisoners. The
undisguised contempt they show for the system, the admiration many lucky
hustlers receive in the ghetto subcultures as well as the way they justify criminal
acts as being a protest against the system which has knocked them down - all of
this shows an unmistakable political protest and a deep dissatisfaction with
the life society has granted them. |
| |
|
|
| |
It may seem that I present blacks (or the ghettoized Muslim
youth in Europe) as helpless victims, but how
else will we see the executioner in ourselves. Throughout this show our racist
subconsciousness has tried to
disclaim responsibility by thinking that the problem, after all, is probably due
to black innate inferiority. |
| |
|
|
| |
But we forget that black West Indian immigrants, who were not
forced to internalize our racism, are doing just as well as whites in America. So when native blacks - deeply shaped by our racism - have only
half the white income and make up more than half of all prison inmates, yes,
then they are as a matter of fact helpless victims of our racism. |
| |
|
|
| |
The images of broken and apathetic people in this show are not
the images blacks - struggling to maintain a little dignity - like to see of
themselves. But oppression always has more human defeats than heroes, and if
we do not understand those who are too weak to resist, how will we ever realize
how destructive our racism is? |
| |
|
|
| |
These prisoners did resist. What made them choose our ultimate punishment was not actual
need or hunger, but uncontrollable anger - a vicious cocktail of hatred and
self-hatred which made them despise everything. They are only the visible symptoms of our oppression, for their
anger is shared by all black Americans. |
| |
|
|
|
Their anger constantly comes out and defeats them, makes them
stumble where others easily succeed, - and instead of looking at the cause of
their anger we then blame their lack of success on themselves. We don't understand the ghetto monster we create - therefore
turn our backs to it, put it in prison or perhaps one day concentration camps -
and destroy our own society in the process. |
| |
|
|
|
But let us not forget that for those who can adjust to the
system, our society from inside our barred windows and fear-ridden deserted
streets can be experienced as the freest in the world. A presentation like this one will to the surprise of most
outsiders be greeted with open arms because the system is so
strong and massive in its oppression that all criticism is lost upon it and
becomes instead entertainment or religious escape. |
| |
|
|
|
| |
|
| |