"Roots of Oppression" - index to the online presentation
 


Part One: "History as seen in in the present"
 

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Chapter 1
Introduction to this presentation

Chapter 2
Our historical roots
in slavery

Chapter 3
Freedom and civil rights, so why so much anger today?

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Chapter 4
Behind the cotton curtain 

Chapter 5
The tobacco fields

Chapter 6
The sweet life in sugar fields

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Chapter 7
The slave camps

Chapter 8
Child labor and millionaires

 Chapter 9
Burned out in Immokalee

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 Chapter 10
Native Americans and
the struggle for ethnic pride

Chapter 11
No more genocide

Chapter 12
Restimulating slavery patterns

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Chapter 13
Shacks or shackles

Chapter 14
Psychic leaps in Washington North Carolina

 Chapter 15
Vagabonding between bankers and sharecroppers

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Chapter 16
Hunger in America

Chapter 17
The human cost of
the wolf philosophy

Chapter 18
Healthcare for profit

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Chapter 19
Apathy and
institutionalized fear

Chapter 20
Apartheid's
forbidden love

Chapter 21
Southern Man
and oppression

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Chapter 22
Our trashing of poor whites and their trashing of others

Chapter 23
Fighting hate crimes with hate is the real crime

Chapter 24
In bed with the
Ku Klux Klan

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Chapter 25
Open up mass murderers, but don't let them down

Chapter 26
Love crimes
or paternalistic racism

Chapter 27
Oppression without visible oppressors leads to self blame and destruction

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Chapter 28
Sex, singles
and saving angles

Chapter 29
Beggars and billionaires:
The perception of slavery

Chapter 30
The world right outside Disney World

 

 

 



Part Two: "The ghetto in our minds"
 

Introduction to Part Two comes later here

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Chapter 31

Chapter 32
Rats, ghettos
and white flight

Chapter 33
Guns or butter

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Chapter 34
Disposable society

Chapter 35
The scream from those
we dispose of

Chapter 36
Exalting the scream
from the ghetto...of those who jump to survive it

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Chapter 37
How to give a damn about our fellowman - children and drug victims

Chapter 38
Where children see their siblings in coffins rather than cradles

Chapter 39
Our blaming of the victims

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Chapter 40
Harlem's roses

Chapter 41
Why we oppressors
love such roses

Chapter 42
How white flight cause anger and violence in our outcasts

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Chapter 43
How we build ghettos to make ourselves richer

Chapter 44
Shooting up the white stuff in the shadows of Capitol

Chapter 45
The grey ghetto and the memoirs of Jewish ghettos

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Chapter 46
Welfare mothers in no
state of welfare

Chapter 47
Alphonso's family

Chapter 48
Our violent destruction
of the ghetto family

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Chapter 49
You can get it if
you really want

Chapter 50
Our oppression of
the black woman

Chapter 51
Brother, what a price
I paid!

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Chapter 52
Visiting the super rich

Chapter 53
Our unemployed
"Sad young men"

Chapter 54
Our racism stole the jobs and future of the sad young men

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Chapter 55
How I left the Rockefellers with "not a penny to spend"

Chapter 56
"One nation indivisible"
....but no school integration for MY white kids
"

Chapter 57
How we oppress ghetto children to become "dumb"
 - also in Europe!

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Chapter 58
Our oppression of the homosexual ghetto
and it's subcultures

Chapter 59
The ghetto subcultures are stereotypes of our own darkest sides

Chapter 60
And to our surprise -our nice little ghetto project is fighting back against us!

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Chapter 61
"Police brutality" - or are we talking about our own violent communication?

Chapter 62
Cop killings, riots, retaliation - but love and humanity after all

Chapter 63
Love among the oppressed - in spite of all

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Chapter 64
Do we have the same God?
 

Chapter 65
Fortress America

 

Chapter 66
Our final confinement of
the ghetto

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Chapter 67
Our ultimate oppression -the case of Popeye Jackson

Chapter 68
There is a man
who stands in all our way

Chapter 69
The end?

 

 

 

 

 



The personal letters here below, which I wrote during my hitchhiking around America, fits into the presentation in various places if you want to spend a little more time on it. They are very personal in nature and probably not all fit for American school kids - although European elementary schools have no problems with them.

 

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Book 1
Credits and citations

Thanks to people who helped me as a vagabond and later making this book.
 

Book 2
A personal foreword
My personal background for coming to America illustrated with pictures of myself in various situations.

Book 3
James 5:1-6
How I first stayed with a murderer in New Orleans, then ended up in "heaven" with a millionaire and finally found my place in poverty.

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Book 4
Defeat in Wounded Knee?
 

Book 5
Hitchhiking and psychic leaps

Book 6
Credo
 

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Book 7
On saying yes

Book 8
Ideological blinders

Book 9
Christmas in New York

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Book 10
Easter in Detroit
 

Book 11
Our historical oppression
of black women

Book 12
Luke 7: 36-50
 

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Book 13
On the Kennedy myth:
John 8: 1-11

Book 14
Among Eloi and Morlocks

 

Book 15
James' and Barbara's love

 

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Complete text here of
the original book in
printer friendly format

Book 16
Ghetto love

Book 17
A personal afterword