Using Racism as a Political Tool

By Dan Barber

When I first read about New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s remarks about racism going back for centuries I thought, “What a political moron.” But after thinking about all of the media coverage of current events I’m thinking that he might have a point.

I believe that ugly racism has been used like a weapon to gain political status, power and comfort since the beginning of time. To understand the root cause of racism I believe that we have to look at it through the prism of the human experience reflecting societal norms for the survival and belief systems of the individual.

Our history has shown that wars have broken out when some event took place to threaten the survival and beliefs of a society. Some of those historical events having impacted the individual view of survival much deeper by triggering the emotional need to avenge some historical wrong.

Divisive racism will end when it’s no longer used to control societal norms.

If allowed by voters and the media Congress will now have an opportunity to serve everyone through empowerment rather then through the oppressive governmental controls espoused by some progressives.

Conservative leaders need to study the past political strategies of the Progressives so they don't fall into the same trap of misleading voters for the sake of controlling them to win elections. Keeping people trapped in the high density Ghettos or high density urban developments with the promise of unionized employment is an easy and cheap way to maintain a voter base. For this reason, the Electoral College has been established so high population centers of America does not have the absolute power of “selecting” our President by excluding rural voters. 

Unfortunately for Americans, with a globalized economy those high-paying union jobs are disappearing from the rusted out factories and urban centers such as Detroit that once kept people contained in their comfortable society.

Also by using environmental controls, politically rather than scientifically, can and does oppress business and employment opportunities in rural America which can drive job seekers to high-density population centers. It is very important for the future of our country to pay attention and not allow politicians or their pundits the opportunity to manipulate our society, for the sake of a political party win.

Just recently leading Democrats have announced forming a task force as a strategy to counter Republican Party attempts to forward conservative goals for the country. Part of the Democrats plan is to garner support from minorities who they can only control through fear and oppression. The oppression comes from providing housing, medical care, food, and cash aid. The Democrats do not want minorities to be self-reliant because if that happened the progressive liberals would lose control of their vote. As soon as the Democrats lost control of the Congress in the mid-terms elections Obama turned up the heat on conservatives with his plan for allowing undocumented immigrants to stay in the US and work... Who do you think will suffer the most from this action? American minorities and legally documented immigrants who will be competing for any available jobs... a vicious cycle of oppression continues.

The fear aspect comes into play when the Democrats play up the fears of the people with the threat that mean Republicans will take away their free money, homes, food and medical care. Conservatives will want people to get out and work for what they get! My gosh... what a concept, self-reliance, personal responsibility, freedom to own what you’ve earned instead of sharing what you’ve earned (taxes) with people who don't want to work.

Just to add to our societal scare tactics, we now have agitators drumming up the old fears of blacks against whites and visa-versa. I hope that Obama, Reid and Pelosi really believe in what they are doing to help people, because they don't know any better. If they were actually manipulating people for their own political gain, then in my opinion, they are much worse then the original plantation owners and slave traders of old.

The enslavement of people with socialism has been shown to be a self-defeating model because it destroys the societal norms for the survival and belief systems of the individual...especially when one of the leading societal norms for Americans is freedom.