[Marxism] Are we in a post-racial America?

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Post racial America? 
 
Great title. 
 
What America exist that is post Obama election as President? 

Obama elected President is a watershed event. So much in America has  
changed for the better, so much for the worse. Obama as President is national  
politics in the age of electronics, where modern means of production further  
crush wages and in absolute terms destroys the middle class created during th
e  rise and fall of the industrial era. Moreover, all the things making the 
 election of a black as President impossible and inconceivable - no longer 
exists  as the political foundation of American national politics. Obama’s 
election  confirms this meaning of change. 
 
Obama significance is not limited to him being a black man, although being  
black - African American, or multi-ethic is of the utmost importance. 
However,  he who does not see profound significance in a black man as President 
is not  familiar with American history or for that matter the past 600 year 
of world  history. Barack Obama being multi-ethnic means America is defining 
itself in the  ideological and political sphere. In the 
political/ideological sphere   Obama is confirmation of the meaning of America being 44 years 
into the post Jim  Crow era and at least 20 years into the era of domination 
of speculative capital  over the world total capital. 
 
During the past 44 years several political boundaries have been crossed. 
 
Is Obama merely domestic capitalism and external American imperialism with  
a black face? Why does imperialism need a black and non-secular face? What  
changes America and shifting political relations between countries and 
classes  calls for imperialism in black face? More accurately, why is a 
multi-ethic face  of American imperialism called forth.? 
 
The economic basis of white unity has been shattered forever. 
 
White unity was not simply an ideological agreement but based in the  
economic structure of industrial society. From 1865 until the 1950’s, the  
majority of blacks were located in Southern agriculture. The industrial working  
class was formed from waves of European immigrants and consolidated as Anglo, 
or  what is called the American melting pot.  The American middle class - 
an  industrial working class, grew based on the social dynamics between the 
various  European ethnic immigrants, with first the Irish and Italian at the 
bottom of  the social ladder and then the bulk of Slavic workers at the 
bottom of the  ladder. This relationship shaped our history up until the 1950's. 
Then the Civil  Rights struggle shaped - imprinted, the laws that would 
reform America for the  next period of history. 
 
Today, the decisive sectors of our working class can be won over to class  
unity, but communist are going to have to work very hard to make this 
happen.  This has never been possible in America before the election of Obama. 
This was  certainly the case when the social struggle peaked in 1978. Make no 
mistake,  white unity has been the fundamental ideological block to unity of 
the working  class in our political and ideological sphere since 1776. 
Beneath the surface of  this ideological block is 170 years of wage disparity 
between North and South; a  disparity that evolved from the core South 
possessing slave labor. 
 
A new political era has opened, corresponding with the new era that is the  
age of electronics. . 
 
Peoples wanted change from business as usual. 
 
The power of a new generation entered the political sphere in 2008 and is  
destined to reshape America as much as my generation shaped America in the 
hot  battles to advance human emancipation. The 60’s and 70’s were a period 
of battle  for the streets, universities, factories, hearts and minds of 
America and  involved monumental battles for and through the ballot box and 
outside the  electoral arena. A new generation has arisen to the same cause and 
task. That is  why the voting section of our working class elected Barack 
Obama. 
 
Electing a person to office is one phase, one side of the change process.  
After the person assumes office another phase unfolds where you fight to get 
the  things you want. One thing my generation learned is that our fight is 
on every  front and requires the fight for the streets, all the way up to 
the well  manicured boulevards that lead to the citadels of political and 
economic power.  Now that he is elected, a new phase of struggle confronts the 
American working  class. 
 
And yes, a new generation shall create its new leaders and heroes with new  
cries of liberty and justice for all. Apparently, the only question the new 
 generation asks is “what part of 'all' do you not understand.” 
 
Political boundaries and eras. 
 
A boundary is the point at which something ends or beyond which it becomes  
something else. Boundaries are hard to pin down in exact detail because  
generally you do not know you are crossing one until you on the other side. At 
 what exact hour, minute and second and on what day does a girl become a 
woman; a  boy becomes a man; when a toddler stops being a toddler? My dad told 
me when I  was mature enough to take care of myself (had a decent job!) I 
was a man. Mother  always said “that is a boundary you do not want to cross” 
when I was confronted  with many of the problems all young people face. 
Mother and father had clear  ideas about boundaries; ideas they had learned 
from life. 
 
People vote in America, but not the majority. The political class operates  
the political system based on those who vote because the ruling class could 
not  maintain a stable democratic society if every four years the country 
had to go  to war to determine President, members of the Senate and House. 
The two party’s  of capitalism - and everyone else, have to appeal to the 
workers and primarily  the voting middle class to settle their disputes as to 
whom shall loot the  treasury and enforce policy to protect capitalist private 
property and working  class poverty.  
 
 
Boundary 1964. 
 
The post Jim Crow era as a political boundary began on January 23, 1964,  
when the United States ratified the 24th Amendment to the Constitution,  
prohibiting any poll tax in elections for federal officials, to the 1965 Voting  
Rights Act, which began the political and social reform of relations within 
and  between classes in America; into the election of Carl Stokes as big 
city Mayor  (as material verification of the impact of the "Act") down to the 
November 7,  1989 election of David Norman Dinkins as New York Mayor. 
 
Although the social force behind the ratification of the 24th Amendment to  
the Constitution, was the result of the Civil Rights Movement, the poll tax 
 denied more whites than blacks the right to vote. The black struggle was a 
 struggle by blacks but a heck of a lot more than black people were 
involved. Any  group that achieves any equality for itself and over come their 
unequal status,  always requires the energy of all layers of American society. 
Millions of whites  always were a part of the equality struggle because they 
understood their own  long term freedom was at stake. More, it was 
understood that inequality is  wrong. 
 
When a population group overcomes its unequal status; say blacks, Mexicans  
or Asians, they merge with the general society where inequality is based on 
 class and economic dimensions of wealth. A black auto worker or Wal Mart 
worker  has more in common with a white auto worker or Wal Mart worker than a 
black  millionaire. No one can be emancipated beyond the class, of which 
they are a  member. 
 
Not possible.
 
WL. 
 
 
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Let’s look at some of the facts about the history of voting and how the  
American population has been manipulated. 
 
In Alabama the poll tax and grandfather clause disfranchised blacks, (they  
could no longer vote) but had the material impact of disfranchising more 
whites  than blacks. Yep! In the core South the fascist character of the 
political  regime could not be forced on blacks without being forced on whites. 
The reason  is the dialectic of oppression and exploitation. 
 
One person on their own cannot hold down ten people. In order to hold down  
say ten people million people and keep them in the hole of ignorance and  
poverty, another the million people have to climb into the same hole and sit 
on  them. And then the folks sitting on the head of the other folks must 
have the  moral and legal backing and authority of the government to act as 
oppressors. 
 
Wiki on Alabama states: 
 
“In its new constitution of 1901, the legislature effectively disfranchised 
 African Americans through voting restrictions. While the planter class had 
 engaged poor whites in supporting these efforts, the new restrictions 
resulted  in disfranchising poor whites as well. By 1941, a total of more whites 
than  blacks had been disfranchised: 600,000 whites to 520,000 blacks. This 
was due  mostly to effects of the cumulative poll tax.[25] 
 
The damage to the African-American community was pervasive, as nearly all  
its citizens lost the ability to vote. In 1900, fourteen Black Belt counties 
 (which were primarily African American) had more than 79,000 voters on the 
 rolls. By June 1, 1903, the number of registered voters had dropped to 
1,081. In  1900, Alabama had more than 181,000 African Americans eligible to 
vote. By 1903,  only 2,980 had managed to "qualify" to register, although at 
least 74,000 black  voters were literate. The shut out was long-lasting.[25] 
The disfranchisement  was ended only by African Americans leading the Civil 
Rights Movement and  gaining Federal legislation in the mid-1960s to protect 
their voting and civil  rights. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 also 
protected the suffrage of poor  whites. _http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alabama_ 
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alabama)  
 
“In Florida, Alabama, Tennessee, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Georgia, 
 North and South Carolina, and in some northern and western states, proof 
of  having paid taxes or poll taxes was made a prerequisite to voting. The 
poll tax  was sometimes used alone or together with a literacy qualification. 
Virginia  used this policy until 1882 and resumed it again in 1902. Texas 
added a  requirement for a poll tax by state law in 1901.[19] Such taxes 
excluded poor  whites as well at the turn of the century. Many states required 
payment of the  poll tax at a time separate from the election, and then 
required voters to bring  receipts with them to the polls. If they could not 
locate such receipts, they  could not vote. Many states surrounded registration 
and voting with complex  record-keeping requirements. [7] These were 
particularly difficult for  sharecropper and tenant farmers to comply with, as they 
moved frequently.” 
 
_http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disfranchisement_after_Reconstruction_era_(Uni
ted_States_ 
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disfranchisement_after_Reconstruction_era_(United_States) )
 
This same dynamic, wherein exclusion of blacks from the political sphere  
leads inexorably to exclusion of more whites than blacks, occurred in  
Mississippi, Georgia, North and South Carolina, Louisiana, Florida and Texas,  
more than less. Today, the state of Georgia has implemented a new poll tax 
being  challenged in Federal Court. Interestingly, Georgia was one of the 
original  seven Confederate states, leaving the Union on January 21, 1861, and the 
last  state to be restored to the Union, on July 15, 1870. At 41.5 percent 
minority,  Georgia now ranks eighth in the nation in minorities as a 
percentage of the  total population, with Atlanta being its largest population 
center with 519,145  people. Augusta places second, 195,182 people followed by 
Columbus 188,660  people 
and Savannah: 130,300 people. The states black population increased  by 22% 
and the “Hispanic” population by 70% in the past seven years.  
 
Georgia’s new poll tax - you must purchase government identification or  
possessed a government issued driver license, which cost money, as a condition 
 for voting, is aimed at the most poverty stricken section of the 
population and  meant to exclude more whites as a condition for excluding non-whites. 
Georgia’s  new “Black Code” has dropped the “black” and is simply “the 
anti working class  code,” meant to politically destroy any impact of the 
voting section of the  working class. 
 
Another few words about Georgia help clarify the same old challenge  
presented by an old degenerate political class, to the working class North and  
South.   
 
“On April 1, 2009, Senate Resolution 632 passed by a vote of 43-1.[65] It  
reads in part[66]: 
 
‘Any Act by the Congress of the United States, Executive Order of the  
President of the United States of America or Judicial Order by the Judicatories  
of the United States of America which assumes a power not delegated to the  
government of the United States of America by the Constitution for the 
United  States of America and which serves to diminish the liberty of the any of 
the  several States or their citizens shall constitute a nullification of 
the  Constitution for the United States of America by the government of the 
United  States of America.’ 
 
On April 16, Jay Bookman of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution wrote "It  wasn
’t quite the firing on Fort Sumter that launched the Civil War. But on 
April  1, your Georgia Senate did threaten by a vote of 43-1 to secede from and 
even  disband the United States."[67] 
 
(Also) 
 
Several United States military installations are located in Georgia  
including Fort Stewart, Hunter Army Airfield, Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay,  
Fort Benning, Moody Air Force Base, Robins Air Force Base, Naval Air Station  
Atlanta, Fort McPherson, Fort Gillem, Fort Gordon, Marine Corps Logistics 
Base  Albany Dobbins Air Reserve Base, Coast Guard Air Station Savannah and 
Coast  Guard Station Brunswick. However, due to the latest round of BRAC cuts, 
Forts  Gillem and McPherson will be closing and NAS Atlanta will be 
transferred to the  Georgia National Guard.
_http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_(U.S._state_ 
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_(U.S._state) )
 
Apparently, the old political class of the state is itching for another  
round of the American Civil War, perhaps feeling that its military bases can 
be  won to their “new cause for succession.“ In this way at looking at 
national  politics President Obama is the new Lincoln and out to destroy “
Southern  civilization.”  
 
One ought not forget the outcome of the Civil War and the march of Sherman. 
 Today, the blacks are not slaves and it is going to be virtually 
impossible to  prove to the working class in Georgia or throughout America that 
government  should not be used for the economic betterment of the American 
working class,  including nationalization of entire sections of the economy and 
these section  never being re-privatized. 
 
Obama is not the new Lincoln. The Civil Rights Movement completed the  
revolutionary aspects of the Civil War, which found its greatest expression in  
the slave rebellion within the Confederacy, then their emancipation as 
slaves.  Today, the working class North and South confronts a common enemy, with 
the  working class of the South having special task to carry out in wiping 
from the  face of the earth the old Southern reaction based in the old Slave 
Oligarchy and  planter class.  
 
Today’s fight takes place in the opening of an epoch of social  revolution. 
 
 
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