America is a failed state.

From The Partisan by Leonard Cohen
".....Oh, the wind, the wind is blowing,
through the graves the wind is blowing,
freedom soon will come;
then we'll come from the shadows..."         

America Is A Failed State.
Just say A fez.
To make it fast.
America was never meant to be what they said it would be,
That’s why we installed twenty-seven dictatorships
Where we murdered thousands and thousands of people
Who did not speak English.
Just so we get cheap bananas, cheap labor, and much more
In an endless theft of the riches of the world.
I can guarantee you that Somalia is a failed state,
And we are no different from them.
And do we care that the lower third of Americans
make seventeen thousand dollars a year?.
In this aberrant world of ours, the truth is dying.
America is a failed state
We are in the dying of democracy.
The death knell to freedom
The death nell to abundance
The death nell, to what we thought we had.
We have over five hundred seventy thousand dead.
Dead, not murdered, not injured, no, they were killed by
An America plague.
And none of the dead wore nametags of political parties.
We cannot hide behind that fact that we hoped COVID
Would just go away….
And the  many thousands just wanted
To make money….and made this money?
Learn this:
Our top one percent of one million two hundred and eighty thousand members.
Walked, skated, danced, sauntered, and grabbed to their hearts
Fifty trillion dollars.,

A White Guy’s Primer On Racism in America

January 2002

By Marc W. Kohler P.O.Box 16095, Rumford, Rhode Island 02916

marcwkohler@aol.com

This Pamphlet is Dedicated to my father, who taught me about stubbornness

Character, and racism

Contents(Page numbers refer to pamphlet)

Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

What Does History Say?. . . . . . . . .6

What Does Science Say?. . . . . . . . .10

What Does God Say?. . . . . . . . . . . . 12

How Did We Become Such a Racist Nation? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

What can a White Guy Do?. . . . . . . .15

What can You  Do Today?. . . . . . . . .16

Footnotes and Other Books. . . . . . 20

Introduction  Over the past year, I have been fighting racism, incompetence, and fraud in the Providence School Department.  Up until now, I have not been active in this “social/political” world.  I was declared disabled in 2000 due to Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Clinical Depression, and a history of being fired from seven jobs because I objected actively to their immoral and illegal practices.  Some would say that I am just a spoiled wealthy White Guy who has used the “system” to his advantage.  Others might suggest that my maladies are real, and that

they have helped me become the person that I am today.

A friend challenged me recently about this struggle saying that it was “arrogant” for a “White” person to speak for any minority population.  She said that it offended her if I said, “African-Americans will do X…”  So, in most cases in this essay, I am repeating what was said to me by

specific people in specific places at specific times.

If I overstep my bounds, then you will have to accept my flaws, but if I hit any bull’s-eyes, then the “misses” would have made it worth the effort.

NOTE: In this essay, I use “Black’, “Black Americans”, and “African-American” interchangeably, but these are odd words.  For instance, there is an established population of African-African Americans who were born and raised in Africa, and have dark skin.  So, if you bear with me, most of the words that we all use to deal with the problems of racism are, in fact, out-moded and in many ways corrupt.  The term “Caucasian” was invented when a sociologist stated that ALL the races of the world were contained in seven categories before 19001.  Science has since proved that his distinctions were completely inaccurate, unscientific, and racist.  Despite this, we continue to use the term “Caucasian” as if it meant something, when it expresses nothing.  For the purposes of this essay, I prefer to use the term, European-Americans to describe people with light skin.  Of course, this, too, is a limited term, since “light-skinned” people come from all over the world, too.  So, granted my own confusion, I hope this adds to yours.

My suspicion is that much of what I am writing here will offend many people.  For that I am sorry.  My intention is to plant the seeds to change our racism which has been with us forever, must to come to an end, has been supported by our selective history educations, a drag on our nation’s ability to move ahead, been debunked by science, and obliterated by my personal experience over these last 54 years.  You see, I am working for reconciliation, harmony, and the end to Racism in America.  Still, you will probably see me attacked and criticized.

The point is that what or who I am is of little importance.  The only thing important is my message which is that prejudice, racism, and active racism is over.

As a puppeteer, I have worked in every imaginable environment—Catholic Schools and Churches, Temples, Synagogues, Jewish Community Centers, Hispanic Centers, Inner City Recreation Centers, suburban and inner city schools, and the homes of the rich, not so rich and the poor.  What struck me was that I met no one who did not have problems with their parents, or their lovers or spouses, their neighbors, their pasts or their futures.  In fact, everywhere I went people worried about the same things with sometimes different names (For example: The Rabbi, Priest, Minister who is “right”, “wrong”, “lazy”, “careless” or “wonderful”) We are all much more alike than different, more similar than dissimilar, and more the same then you know.  It is our very similarities which make racism pointless and counterproductive for us as individuals and as a nation.  Marc Kohler, January 2002.

 What Does History Say?

If I told you that you know nothing about the history of the world for the past two hundred years, you would most likely be insulted, but let me ask you some questions in order to discover the areas that your education has failed you:

1. How many people did Hitler kill in concentration camps?

a)     Six million

b)     Six million Jews and one million others

c)     Six million Jews and three million others

d)     Six million Jews and four million others

The answer is D)2.  Yes, four million “others” were murdered as well.  Why do we not know this?  I do not know.  My guess is that there was not one racial, national, or ethnic category that represents these four million people.  That is, they were Christians, blacks, socialists, democrats, republicans, nationalists, pacifists, Greeks, Slavs, Italians, French, Spanish, Germans, Russians, women, men, children, homosexuals, heterosexuals, educated, uneducated, and…and…and, well you get my point—four million people.  In fact, all of these distinctions also apply to those six million who were called “Jews” since this term was often applied to people whom the Gestapo just did not like.  So, if anyone asks, Hitler exterminated ten million human beings.

2.     How many people did the Japanese kill during their invasion and occupation of Korea, Manchuria, and China from 1930-1945?

a)     500,000

b)        One Million

c)         Ten Million

d)     Thirty Million

The answer is D)3 again.  “Thirty Million”—no, you did not know that.  Why, most likely because to this day historians have hid this fact, Japanese educators drop it out of history books, and because there has been lots of reasons why we “good old Americans” have not wanted to bring up this “problem”.

So, get the picture, millions of people died under Stalin, Moa Tse Tung, in Cambodia, and many other countries.  Mass Murder based on race, creed, or any other excuse has been part and parcel of world history.

Was mass murder a new idea in 1930?

Hitler has been quoted as saying that the mass murder of Armenians gave him his excuse for thinking he could “get away” with it, too.  This is not true.  Yes, Hitler may have mentioned the Armenians, but mass murder was intrinsic to the colonial empires of the late Nineteenth Century on a scale that you simply will not comprehend.

2.How many people in the world died from 1860 to 1920 as a result of colonialism, the El Nino droughts, and Europeans hatred of other men, women, and children who were “different”, “in the way”, or “nor working fast enough”?

a)     30 million

b)     50 million

c)     75 million

d)     65-120 million

It’s D)4 again!  Now, when were Hitler and Allen Dulles born?  1889 and 1893, respectively.  Therefore, as teenagers, they were aware of these massacres, genocides, and horrific crimes because the atrocities were reported in the press throughout the world.  It was not only general knowledge; it was considered  “no big deal”.  Why did Theodore Roosevelt ask what we should do about the “White Man’s Burden”?  5 First and foremost, he knew that suffering was occurring on a scale never before seen in the world, and he thought mistakenly that his skin color actually made the difference. The only difference was that European and American colonial powers had the technology for lethal force, and used it with abandon, entertainment, and genocidal success throughout Asia, South America, Africa, North America, and any where else in the world where they wanted to—ultimately against their own people!

For every dollar that King Leopold spent in the Congo, he (not his nation or national treasury since he “owned” the Congo in the same way that you own your clothes) received back five dollars—a 500% return on investment.  Oh, there were costs.  The population of the Congo dropped from twenty million people in 1880 to ten million in 19206.  Civilizations that had existed for thousands of years were literally wiped off of the map in a mere forty years.  Have amends been made for this?  No.  Will they ever be made?  No, but this pamphlet’s purpose is start a discussion of making amends.  This pamphlet is about describing what is real, how we got here, and what the heck we are going to do about it.

What if Hitler had only paid “lip service” to his “Final Solution”, and kept the people he wanted dead alive and well enough to contribute to the economic and intellectual life of Germany?  Germany would have won the war, and we would be speaking German.  You see, his destruction of such a large amount of human capital destroyed his very chance to succeed.  So, if you want and need to oppress a people for economic success and security, here is we can learn from Uncle Adolph:

1.     Keep them alive (barely), keep them housed (minimally), and create the illusion that they are participants in your society even though they are prevented from owning property.

2.     Stigmatize them with images, which you know a false and misleading, that you "feed" to the public with every form of communication possible.

3.     As the sufferings of this oppressed group continues, make drugs and alcohol readily available to alleviate the stress and secure their image as “ne’er-do-wells”.  Let prostitution flourish.

4.  Figure out a way to contain the oppressed people in limited geographic areas in order to provide you with the maximum of control with the least investment of resources.

5. Like Hitler, you will have to use “Lethal Force”, “Extreme Prejudice”, “Executive Action”, or whatever term you want to use for officially condoned murder. Mix in riots, lynchings, maiming, starving, and other physical distress just to keep the pot brewing in your favor.  Kill not only their leaders, but the man on the street as well.  Use the young oppressed against the old.  Pit workers against students—make sure, no one finds out what you are doing---then, you will out-do Hitler---no, you won’t need gas chambers when you have thousands of acres of red-lined neighborhoods are available to you.

6.  Pit Blacks (Who you hate) against Jews (Who you hate) against homosexuals (Who you hate) against workers (Who you hate) against Teachers (Who you hate), and then you can change your name from Adolph Hitler to Allen Dulles.7

What Does Science Say?

Science?  Yes, how does science describe, explain, and define human existence and race?

Again, since this is a pamphlet, so this is going to go by real fast.  How are human beings made?  Well, the sperm from a male human fertilizes an egg of a woman human.  In fact, we have become adept at not even requiring bodies for this process.  Still, what is the "it" that happens in this union—well, the DNA from the woman merges with the DNA from the man to create a “new” independent creature—a fetus.  This “fetus”, if circumstances allow, will “grow” into a human being.  Again, what determines what this fetus will become?  First and primarily, DNA.  Alter the DNA, and you alter the future person.  Remove the DNA, and you have no person.  Certainly pre-natal care, nutrition, and health of the mother will impact on the health of the child. 

Now, please sit down, ‘cause this is the thing science has proven—all humans are 99.999% exactly the same8.  Only one one hundred thousandth of our DNA determines our sex, skin color, facial structure, hair color, skeletal size, foot size, etc.etc.etc.  I am suggesting that declaring that humans are "different" would be like claiming differences in two houses built exactly the same way from 100,000 bricks each, and making the observation that one of the bricks (one and only one) was different from one other brick in the other house.  Even an unreasonable person could see that what we are as human beings has nothing to do with what we see, but has everything to do with how we are built..

Let’s look at “seeing” itself for a second.  Hinduism teaches that the world is all “Maya”, not real and only an illusion of God’s expression into our world of the senses.  These Hindus might be right.  Rub your thumb and finger together; you think that the thumb touches the finger.  Such is not the case, though.  According to science, what is happening is that the atoms in the thumb have the same electrical charge as those in your finger.  Therefore, they push away at each other.  You “feel” it only because the electrical/nerve path from your hand to you brain “tells” you that touch is occurring.  Therefore, when you see an object, you can see only within the limits of the light being reflected from the object that you are looking at.  So, what is real is not, it is just an incredible arrangement of atoms and molecules. 

It sounds absurd, but we are nothing more and nothing less than beings that convert heat and fuel into energy and electrical impulses.  All of this occurs at a level that you and I cannot see, cannot touch, and least of all, cannot judge.  Who is to say that the electrical/biological activity in one human body is better or superior to another human being?  The fact is that “better”, “superior”, and such refers to only what we can see and touch, not anywhere near what we really, actually, and scientifically are.  Our actual selves are nothing, and they are everything.  Anything else is window dressing.  Skin, material goods, housing, clothes, restaurants, sports events, grades, schools, offices, hair fashions, deodorant are all irrelevant to who and what we are.  Why?  Because if we accepted the truth about ourselves, we would give up this insane civilization, make apologies to millions of “primitive” people that our ancestors and we (3 million people have been murdered in the Congo over the past five years, and you and I have heard NOTHING about it) murdered and start everything all over.

Science is unforgiving on this point: We are not our brothers’ keepers we ARE our brothers and sisters except for 001 %!

What does God Say?

This one is easy.  All religions that I have studied teach that hatred and rage, if tolerated at all, are worthy of God, but not of man.  Judaism, Christianity, Islam, BaHai, Mormonism, Catholicism, Zen, Hinduism, Wicca, and many that I cannot think of teach that peace and harmony are the goals of human life.  Jesus, who was a Gnostic Jew9, said, “You should love your neighbor”, the exact words from Leviticus (19:18).  He said “Love”—not “like”, not “tolerate”, not “understand”.  The commandment is uncompromising.  I would add, “Love first, and ask questions later”.

The White Aryan “Christian” Identity Movement represents the antithesis of everything that is holy, and if you sit and do nothing about it, then you are their ally, and that is why racism grows every day in America—not because of those idiots, but because of our silence.

How Did we Become Such a Racist Nation?

Here, the answer is easy—people of color stand out.  The darker your skin color, the more you stand out in America.  William Glasser10 suggested that to be mentally healthy, a human must be able to love, have the ability to be loved, and must live by a code.  Sounds simple, but men like Abraham Maslow suggested that we need more—we need to “self-actualize”11, one of the stupidest terms ever invented.  No human has ever self-actualized or actualized alone ever in the history of the world.  First, we need air pressure, balanced molecules, gravity, oxygen, friction (Where WOULD we be without friction?), and a billion other particles, molecules, and fellow humans and animals and trees just to stay alive.  Does Nietzsche's Superman where pants?  If he does, then in what style are they cut?  The clothed person is immediately the acculturated person—they have a past, they have language (which limits their ability to express those things for which their language has no words) they have parents, a history, their forbearers and their forbearers' choices, and…and...NO PERSON IS AN ISLAND, WE ARE ALL HERE NOW TOGETHER, AND WE WERE BROUGHT HERE BY OUR MUTUAL PAST.

So, let’s learn some more history.  After the Civil War, the lives of freed slaves were extremely difficult.  Sharecropping was less reliable than plantation life.  If former slaves moved, they encountered racism everywhere they went.  Violence against Blacks continued just as it had BEFORE the Civil War, or as Southerners insist, “The War Between the States”.

Riots, lynchings, burnings, maimings, and torture, started long before the War and have stayed with us ever since.  Just look it up.  Our amnesia is no excuse for stupidity.  “These (riots) were also acts of outright repression, usually surrounding slavery and abolition...During this time, 70% of America’s cities holding 20,000 or more people experienced major civil disorder.  There were 147 riots in 1835 alone...they covered the gamut of mob activity.  35 were against abolitionists, 11 in response to imagined slave insurrections, 15 of them were race riots:  11 against blacks, 3 to help fugitive slaves, and one by blacks…”12

From 1870-1920, though, many Black communities rose up all across our country.  The middle class black professional was not an exception.  A parallel universe existed.  In Wilmington, North Carolina, by 1898, the Blacks outnumbered Whites 14,000 to 10,000, and the city offices were being integrated led by Fusionists, Republicans, and Progressives.  On November 10, 1898, a planned “riot” by the Democrats brought flames to the Black community, death to Blacks and Whites, and the Black population dropped to below 9,000.  The newly elected Mayor and City Counsel were thrown out of office—no, this was not a riot—it was a coup.14  You probably do not know it, but the depression t from 1895-1905 was, in many ways, worse than the Crash of 1929.  Whites suffered tremendously from economic forces over which they had no control.  These established Black hamlets became the targets of their frustrations.  A whole viable way of life, an American Way of Life, was destroyed and murdered intentionally.11 

Then, after the Depression, the banking system was in shambles.  One way to rebuild was to prevent individuals from having too much control of any single banking enterprise.  This would mean new banking laws, new banking corporations, and a new “thriftiness” The core of this “new thriftiness” was Redlining.  Lending institutions all over the country drew red lines around poor and/or marginal neighborhoods.  At the time, these neighborhoods were poor Irish Americans, poor Italian Americans, poor French Americans, poor Polish Americans, poor African Americans, poor German Americans, and any other immigrant populations.  Red lining meant that no private mortgages could be written to ANYONE on properties within these lines.  With the deft

flip of a pen, American banks commercialized thousands and thousands of acres of land without one zoning board meeting, without one legislative act, and without the consent or approval of the governed.13

If a private mortgage cannot be written for a property, then it can either not be sold (vacant properties) or sold for cash (Absentee landlords).  Drive around any urban community, and you can tell exactly where these “RED LINES” were drawn.  This system of the direct destruction of our neighborhoods lasted well in to the 1970s, over forty years.  Today, it still occurs, and even though it has been outlawed, it remains the number one reason why we have segregated poor ghettoes filled with minority and poor Americans.

What can a White Guy like me do?

To me, this is a funny question.  If the Genome Project is right, then I am 99.999% human and only .001% “white”.  So, we need to truly identify the problem.  You see, minority individuals have no real or intrinsic problems.  We, the bums on top, create the problems for them.  It is sad, but the darker your skin color, the odds of you being in the bottom echelon of your society anywhere in the world is high.  No, people should not have to fight for their rights.  Rights are rights, and nothing, not skin color, cranium shape, hair color, or any other irrelevant aspect of a persons physiology should deprive a person of their rights.  Yes, through the legal process, individuals can “lose” certain rights.  Yes, they can be imprisoned.  Still, seriously, I have yet to attend the court sessions where it was declared that if you were not a “White American”, you had lost you rights.

Therefore, if I see a person practicing racism, why can’t I stand up and say, “HEY!  THAT’S WRONG.”  You see, if the person being victimized is a person of color, a disabled American, or a person who stutters, it does not matter.  What is wrong is wrong is wrong is wrong.  That’s all there is.  Prejudice and racism make our resources as a nation less than what they would be without them.  We are a “smaller” society if we stand by and do nothing about the wrongs right in front of our eyes.  So, yes, we White Guys and Gals can work seriously for equal rights for all Americans.  In fact, if you become aware of child abuse, you are breaking the law if you do not do something about it.

When you and I look at an person who is “not-white”, we cannot help but fall back on all of our trained, conditioned, compulsive, knee-JERK, foolish, short-sighted, absurd, and unscientific ways.  No matter what the courts decide, or what the police can do, or any other law enforcement agency can do, it is up to us to change—we are wrong.  We are wrong.  We have been wrong for centuries and centuries.  We are wrong when we get up in the morning, and when we go to bed at night.  We sit back and make all-white television shows the highpoint of our week.

 What CAN You Do Right Now?

1.  Stop hating. No, I mean it.  Stop hating anyone that you hate.  Hate is, in fact, nothing more than the inability to gain perspective and potency in your relationship with your world and the people in it.  You hate your sister because she brought dandelions to your wedding twenty-five years ago, but the real reason has do with your mutual and somewhat confused relationship with your drunkard mother-beating father.  All hatred is corrupt at the root.  Problems are solved, even on the battlefield, without hatred.  The best fighters and doers fight and do FOR things, not against others.

2.  Realize that if you have prejudice or racist feelings, realize that you are being used.  By whom?  First, by the forces and people who are in control.  Reactionary corporate forces to divert attention from what they were doing on a national and international level created both the violent racist movement and the violent anti-abortion.  You are being used the same way that Romanian Dictator used the “farmers” when he brought them in to club protestors.  The Klan kept the Democrats and plantation owners in power in the South.  Remember the mob (disgruntled White Democrats) burned out, and murdered the black citizens of Wilmington, North Carolina because the majority of the city was Black, Republican, or Progressive.

3.  Make a friend who is of a different color than you.  That is “friend”, not “acquaintance”, not “neighbor”, and definitely not the “I have a Black friend” friend.  Why not adopt people who are different than you. 

4. Acknowledge the theft and destruction of resources, ideas, creations, lives, hopes, dreams, religions, values, social structures, and ways of life of millions and millions of indigenous peoples throughout the world over the past five hundred years.  Support the idea of turning Columbus Day into Columbus-Taino Day to honor the Taino tribe that disappeared from the face of the earth after the arrival of the three little ships.  Support reparations and engage those who don’t with the question: How many more millions must die before we make things right?  Look, Elvis Presley became what he became because the record companies wanted a “back voice” without the “black skin".  The Charleston started at the Savoy Ballroom in Harlem.

5.  Patronize local stores.  Stop supporting large chains.  Realize that small business, locally owned and operated, has been and will always be the rock bed of prosperity for our country.  This way, people of every color can pursue their dreams by owning their own businesses.  Put McDonalds, Wal-Mart, and all the rest out of business.  Pay a bit more to save more over the long term. 

6.  Go live or spend a lot of time in the local “ghetto”.  No, it is not so far away either in distance or in style.  Find out first hand what it is like to live in a world complete and totally structured against you.  Realize that the “ghetto” is not really a ghetto for one color—realize that ALL colored people live in our poor neighborhoods, and they ALL need your help, power, potency, and wealth.  They cannot do it on their own.  Too much of the deck has been stacked against them.  This is NOT their fault.  It is our forbearers fault, and here and now, we can start to reverse and make amends for what they have done not to the ethnic populations but to us, and our world—think of the thousands upon thousands of people who could have or would have contributed directly to your life, and your happiness, and your dreams if, if ,if they had been given one chance to do so!

7. Take a local person of color to the bank and see if you can help them get a business loan.  You will be shocked at what you hear and see.  You will simply not believe it.

8. Give up your political views, and commit todiscovering

the truth about the history of the United States.  Find out that every time Lincoln ordered a Draft, hundreds of Blacks died in riots in major cities in the north—Yes, the Civil War was about and only about about slavery—nothing else is accurate.

9.  Start acting color-blind.  When you meet a new person look them in the eye.  Shake their hand.  Listen intently to what they have to say.  Think more about them than yourself.  Consider immediately not “What can this person do for me”, but rather think: “What can I do for this person.”  Soon, faces will look differently to you. Even your friends will look different.  You will see pain and joy that you have never seen before.  You will, in fact, become responsible (The ability to respond authentically to the people and the world around you.)  In this way, you will discover the wealth that you possess in your soul, and the wealth you have in your family and loved ones, the wealth, and potency you can bring to you friends and community.  Without adding one penny to your bank account, you will become one of the richest people in the world.  Here is a real stretch: If your children are grown, adopt a bright high school student who has no support, and provide for him or her as if they were your own child. (Ghandho sggested this to a Hindu family adopting an Islamic orphan, that they bring hp, up in a Islamic way)

 Well, I have more ideas, but I am running out of space.  I guess the idea I want to impress upon you is that all the people who you think are different are not different.  Know that volunteerism and your personal choices will make more of a difference than any government program.  Volunteerism is, and has always been the source of real change for centuries—the first doctors and nurses were volunteers!  Racism is just an uninformed, lazy way of looking at the world.  Stop racism, and you move towards spiritual wealth beyond your wildest dreams.  There are millions of people who have been shut out of America—welcome them in, do it every day, and your children and their children and their children will thank you!

Footnotes and Other Books:

1.R.I. College/RI Committee on the Humanities Project, The Black Experience publishing details not available, approx. 1985.

2.Grun, Bernard The Timetables of History, A Horizontal Linkage of People and Events, p. 524, Touchstone, Simon and Schuster: 1982.

Chang, Iris, The Rape of Nanking, The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II, Basic Books, 1997

4. Davis, Mike, The Late Victorian Holocausts; El Nino Famines, and the Making of the Third World, Verso Books: 2001.(Must read)

5. Roosevelt, Theodore, “Burden of the White Man” reprinted in The Life Story of Theodore Roosevelt, His Principles and Policies by Charles Morris, The John C. Winton Co.: 1909.

6. Hochschild, Adam, King Leopold’s Ghost, Houghton Mifflin 1999

7. Prescott Bush was convicted of acting as a Nazi Collaborator in the 40s, and Allen Dulles recovered all of his money in 1951.  John Foster Dulles and Allen Dulles were the two most powerful men in America in the 50s, and Allen most likely ordered the killing of John Kennedy.  There is much for you to read in this area, but if I were you, I would start with The Secret War Against the Jews, How Western Espionage Betrayed the Jewish People by John Loftus and Mark Aarons, St, Martins Press: 1997.

8. See: http://www.ornal.gov/hgmis/publicat/primer2001/4.html, Genome Project and Its impact on Medicine and Society: 2001 Primer.

9. The Five Gospels, The Search for the Authentic Words of Jesus, by Hover Funk and the Jesus Seminar, Maxwell McMillan International: 1993 10. Glasser, William, Reality Therapy, Harper & Row, New York, 1965

11. Maslow,  Abraham h., Towards a Psychology of Being,V. Nostrand

12.Smead, Howard, CIVIL DISORDER, http://www.lousiville.edu/

provost/womenctr/civil.htmlRun “race riots” or “Wilmington Riot” on the net. Best: http://chss2.montclair.edu/schwartsl/BN/wilmington.html

13. Articles and books about “Red Lining” are plentiful.

14. Smead, Ibid.

Other Books of Interest:

Hitler’s Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust, by Daniel Joseph Goldhagen, Vintage Books, 1997.(must read #2)

The Simple Stories in various volumes by Langston Hughes-and any other works by Mr. Hughes.

The Denial of Death and Birth and Death of Meaning, Ernest Becker

Love is To be Happy With by Barry N. Kaufman.

The First and Last Freedom, J. Krishnamurti

I Have a Dream, Writings and Speeches by Martin Luther King, Jr.

Clarence Darrow for the Defense by Irving Stone

Writings and Speeches of Eugene V. Debs, by E.V.Debs

The Speeches and Writings of Harry S. Truman, various editions

Copyright 2002   Marc W. Kohler   Stopracism1@aol.com

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What does "Race" mean?

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Definition of the term race

Posted Tuesday, August 7, 2018 2:12 pm

To the Editor:

America seems to be at some kind of crossroad. Rresearchers have found that the one unifying Trump voters was racial animous. This was even more important than the abortion issues. The trouble is that the word “race” means nothing. It was invented in the 18th century to create a fantasy structure where Europeans would be called “Caucasian.” This word, which normally referred to people living in the Caucasus that is today by Russia, Georgia, Azerbaijan and Armenia. Johann Blumenbach picked the word, and he claimed that the people of the Caucasus were the most beautiful of the world, even angelic. He believed that the Caucasian “race” was the first and prime race, and that all others were degenerations of the beauty of Caucasians. In fact, he claimed that Adam and Eve were Caucasian.

Blumenbach’s terms were used for one purpose: to establish the superiority of his “angels”, the Caucasians, and to defame and slander all other humans on earth. It was and remains a key part of the insanity of a Black Race, a White Race, a Yellow, Red, or Brown Race. The only way to identify human beings is by our ethnicity, captured in our DNA. 

Any use of “Caucasian” for any purpose is outright “Hatism.” You see, these haters are hating, and if we call it “Racism,” then we are accepting their premise that while we may not approve it, “Racism” or “Race Hatred” means something. They don’t. The use of the term “Hatism” and “Hater” describes the actor in this process; “Racism” doesn’t. Since Race does not exist, Racism cannot exist. The use of “race” in any situation is the tensions of calling black, red, brown or red is exactly the same as using the N-word.

Marc W. Kohler

Cranston

Column #2 Sub-Prime Mortgage Scam

I received an email about my last column, asking me to explain why the 2008 financial crisis was based on a scam.  What was the scam?  One hundred million sub-prime mortgages were written after the repeal of the Glass Steagall Act, were all ajustable mortgages.  The home buyers needed no down payment, the rate of the mortgage would be 2%, and there were no income requirments.  What these buyers were not told was that after two years, the interest rate for the mortgage woul dgo up to 13% or more.  This change would triple the monthly payments, and cause 95 home owners into foreclosure.  The “scam” was selling buyers mortages that they would never be able to pay.

This was key mechanism to accomplish the goals of the Scam.  The goals of the scam were many, and all of them were accomplished.  

 Repeal Glass-Steagall, so that the trillions of dollars in savings deposits could be used for investments which would ultimately become worthless.  

Use those trillions of dollars to create 100 million mortgages.  These sub-prime mortgages require no down payment, have a 2% interest, and are hated by main stream Americas as a hand out to the poor.   After two years, the mortgage rate on these mortgages will rise fo 13% or more, and 95% of them will go into forecloseure.

Gather together those mortgages into large “packages” which are used to back stocks, and make sure that these stocks are sold to people an institutions all over the world.  Everyone is told that “mortagages” are the safest long-term investment that money can buy.  The insiders know that the stock ail be worthless in two years, for. as adjustable mortgages, the interest rates rise to over 13% after two years.  

Create an un-regulated financial vehicle called “Credit Default Swaps”, so that very wealthy people can “insure” any losses from stock purchases which lose the assets backing them.  For a 1% fee, a Credit Default Swaps holder will received a $30 payment for every dollar in the foreclosed home.   

As the neighborhoods become depopulated, have hedge funds, which made fortunes with CDS, buy up and demolish all these homes.  During 2015. hedge funds were buying a thousand houses a week for cash. 

The red-lined neighborhoods will now be used to create new neighborhoods with spacious streets, the finest schools, and the best property bases in the history of the United States.  Mansions will be built n these neighborhoods, so that foreigners can use EB-5 Visas

to provide their whole families full freedom to enter and leave the US.

I hope this explains the Sub-Prime Mortgage scam.  If you do not know what “red-lined neoghborhoods” are, I will be covering that in my next column.

Column #1 for new political column

Here is my fist Column for a new summer series.  If you know of a newspaper that needs this kind of liberal work, please have them contact me.

Over the years, I have written quite a few Letters and columns about the real cause of our fianacial crisis of ten years ago, but the editor with whom I was working insisted that his readers would not understand my points.  I think he underestimated his readers, and I think it is information that should be known by all Americans.  The polirtical leaders of America created a fiscal siuation which was doomed to gigantic failure, could be blamed on poor people, and would reap trilions of dollars for about 2,500 investors and money managrs. 

There is certainly a real problem with the fact that this information has been withheld from us, but we should not be surprised.  How was this scheme created?  It started with Alan Greenspan, and attachemtn to Ayn Rand.  Here is what Greensan wrote about her“…Ayn Rand became a stabilizing force in my life. It hadn't taken long for us to have a meeting of the minds -- mostly my mind meeting hers -- and in the fifties and early sixties I became a regular at the weekly gatherings at her apartment. She was a wholly original thinker, sharply analytical, strong-willed, highly principled, and very insistent on rationality as the highest value…”  Greenspan would beomce the advocate for lives based of greed and selfishness, an dhis only caveat was that rational humans would not hurt themselves or their societies.  To a large degree, this is the point upon which Greespan’s name as the founder of the 2008 Financial meltdown.

Greenspan did everything he could to advocate and create a “regulation free” world for America financial corporations.

The climax came in 1998-1999, when the Glass Steagal Act was repealed.  Savings funds could now be combined with investment funds, and used for whatever the financiers wanted.  The major vehicle in these plans was the creation of Credit Default Swaps or Swap Bonds.  They were insurance but no really, so they had no regulation and have none today.  The CDS were designed to reward Swap buyers a prize if the assets backing their “swaps” lost value.  Does this sound difficult.  It is, and I might be explaining it badly.

The bottom line is that CDS holders would and still are being paid $30 for every dollar in a sub-prime mortage that go into foreclosure.  At the height of this scheme, 62 trillion dollars was invested in these Swaps.   When a $200,000 sub-primed mortage home gos into foreclosure. the CDS inversters receive six million dollars.  This is why there were offices thoroughout America who were creatuing fraudulant mortgages.  This is why one hundred mortages were written, and the hedge funds knew that most would go into foreclosure—amd 95 million of then did.  It is difficjult to get a real eastimate of the triallions of dollars that AIG paid out on these “Swaps”, and i veleive that the amount was 35-55 Trillion dollars. 

Further, eveyone who had bought the stocks backed by these mortgages lost every dollar that they invested.  I have read that the Hewlit Packard Foundation dropped from 12 billion dollars to 8 billion dollars.  Universities, colleges, pension funds, and all the other instituions that were not told that the whole scheme was the largest theft in the history of the world.

Anthony Bourdain's Suicide

Letter to the Editor
The Providence Journal

DATE: June 12, 2018

SUBJECT:  Anthony Bourdain's Suicide

Dear Editor:

            Anthony Bourdain has died.   I watched two of his shows last night, and heard Anthony say things that were depressive---like he was at the end of his rope. His future suicide was right there.  You see, he was a heroin addict when he was young, and he said, in an episode about opioids, that there was "something inside" of him which he needed to fight to quit. That "thing" never went away. 

I suffer from depression, and I have learned we do not “commit” suicide, we “complete” our suicides.   They say that Anthony had everything, for he was very rich. What we know now is the pain that drove him to use heroin never went away.  He loved his work when it started, but it was just replaced the heroin. Every year Anthony spent 250 days a year touring. His second wife traveled with him when they were first married, and stopped that after they had their child. Celebrities do not tour 250 days a year. Yes, some tour a great deal, but never 250 days a year.   

        So, the show became his new heroin---his new addiction with no relief in sight.   Anthony is quoted as saying that his production crew had become as dysfunctional as his family of origin. His heroin was replaced by an insane production schedule, and if you watch the shows in the last year, you will will hear him say how trapped he was, and how he was considering "end of life" questions. In an episode set in Marseilles, he suggests that the end means "turning into worm meat." He asked his friend if “this” is all that life meant, and if so, he came up deciding that it was a trap—ending in our becoming “worm meat”. 

          He had nowhere to turn.  His addiction, the show, was never going to stop, and he would never ever be a real person—only the puppet of the addiction from which he could not escape. His act was merely, in his mind, the most needed response to the reality that he could see---the only one. So, people who think Anthony had "everything", he had concluded that he had nothing—that there was one and only one way to escape the pain.  It is a place depressed people reach and have to move back from often.  In my life, I have been helped by partner Fran Slade and her family, my son Joshua. and work that I love.

Sincerely,

Marc Kohler

401-441-2129

marcwkohler.com

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White Guy's Primer on Hatism in America (PT2/Draft)

A White Guy’s Primer on 

Racism (Hateism) in America

Part 2

January 2018

By

Marc W. Kohler

P.O.Box 16095

Rumford, Rhode Island 02916

marcwkohler@aol.com

Blog: Liberal Truths

progressiveliberaltruths@blogspot.com

This Pamphlet is Dedicated to all those who Have 

come before me

Who have guided me to where I am

With their actions, thoughts, speeches, poems,

Ideas, suffering, determination, and guts.

Thank You

This is my second essay in a series titled A White Guy’s Primer on Racism in America. This is not an essay though, for it does not follow any essay form. Each section is separate, and they are placed in no particular order. 

“race” and “racism” mean nothing

This started off as the second part of a series of essays on racism in America, but the fact of the matter is that the word “race” is not real. It has no significant meaning. It was created in the 18th Century as a way of separating the people of Europe from the people of the world. In many ways, it is not a viable concept. If we consider that these distinctions of race are based on skin color, then they have no basis in reality, for the are hundeeds—-mabe hand oups in t We know today that there are many ethnic groups in the world and we know this because we can see it in our DNA. The DNA shows that people from Northern Africa have different DNA from people from southern Africa. Therefore there is no such thing as Africans. The only thing we can say with surety is that all of our skin is colored. That is all. Here is an explanation of how the term “race” came into use from Wikipedia :

“…..While some researchers use the concept of race to make distinctions among fuzzy sets of traits or observable differences in behaviour, others in the scientific community suggest that the idea of race often is used in a naive[12] or simplistic way,[18] and argue that, among humans, race has no taxonomic significance by pointing out that all living humans belong to the same species, Homo sapiens, and (as far as applicable) subspecies, Homo sapiens sapiens.[19][20].

So what we have instead of the meaningless terms Caucasian, Negro, Asian, etc, is a large multiplicity of ethnic lineages, all of whom descended from a only a single black race.,,,” © Linda Beckerman, Ph.D. 

“…The 1775 treatise “The Natural Varieties of Mankind”, by Johann Friedrich Blumenbach proposed five major divisions: the Caucasoid race, the Mongoloid race, the Ethiopian race (later termed Negroid), the American Indian race, and the Malayan race, 

So what we have instead of the meaningless terms Caucasian, Negro, Asian, etc, is a large multiplicity of ethnic lineages, all of whom descended from a only a single black race.,,,” © Linda Beckerman, Ph.D. 

So, we can talk about different skin colors, and we can talk about different ethnic and cultural backgrounds. What we cannot do is claim that there is a white race or a black race or a yellow race. “race” does not exist.

This means that racism doesn’t exist. It is a selective form of misanthropy. The only limitation is that the misanthropic hate is directed towards individuals who have similar skin color ethnic background, or culture. It is still rooted in hatred, and hatred is all that is made out. Race does not exist. Race hatred is the hatred of humans, and no matter in what way you define your hatred, the hatred is the only important ingredient. The fact of the matter is that we we are humans, and we have skin color. I am not white. I am beige. Others are not black. They are brown, tan, ebony, and many other colors. To use the term “black” or “white” is a denial of reality in the assertion of a class judgment. Europeans needed to feel superior to all the people they met, and they invented the structure of evil to run the world.

We Are All Africans

The Isis Papers: The Keys to the Colors, by Frances Cress Welsing (December 1, 2004) asserts and Cruise that the first humans had dark skin. Her theory is that the creatures who left Africa were albino members of these tribal units. It is a fascinating concept. She goes on to a CERT that the lack of pigment in the albino skin caused a very deep-seated resentment against those humans with pigmented skin. This means that I am not white. I am all by now. Albino. So, if you need to labeled me my label would be BSCHB (beige skin colored human being)or AHB (albino human being). You Candy side can decide your own acronym for the kind of human you want to be. There is no reason to use White, yellow, Black, Brown, or any other General hating term. From now on, all racism Will be called what it really is: hateism: The practice of hate. (it is also the name for a metal Rock band),

So, if anyone asks you what race you are, you can say I am of no race, race does not exist. I am an Albino-Descendent-Human-Being (said Ad-hab), or I am a Beige-Skin-Colored-Human- Being. (Said Bes-cab). The bottom line is that we are own Africans.

As dr. Beckerman says: “..So don’t forget, next time you fill in the U.S. Census you should write in the word Black next to the question about your race, regardless of your shade of pale….” We should say that instead of black you should write “Brown Skin Colored Human Being” (Said: Bes-hab).

Reproduced in its entirety with permission.  © Linda Beckerman, Ph.D.

http://adversity.net/FRAMES/Editorials/54_Paler_Shade_of_Black.htm

Who killed Lincoln?

It might surprise you that the assassination of Abraham Lincoln was directed been carried out on the orders of Edwin Stanton. Stanton was the secretary of war. He was one of the leaders of the radical republican party. He and his friends had lots of reasons to take Abraham Lincoln out of his office. People forget that the state of Louisiana fell to the Union as early as 1861. From that time on the state was run by the federal government. During the years that followed Lincoln tried many ways to run the state. One of his ideas was called the 10% solution. In this way,, 10% of the black population would be allowed to vote. In no way did he support 100% of suffrage for freed slaves.

On the night that Lincoln was assassinated, other members of the administration where also threatened. Stanton hoped to become president through their deaths. Andrew Johnson did become president, and the radical Republicans were able to accomplish their idea of reconstruction over his objections. By the time Grant was elected president, the fanatics had their way.

Reconstruction

Reconstruction is one of the least understood periods in American history. Even today, you can hear what president Woodrow Wilson sad about it. “reconstruction failed because Black people could not govern themselves”. This is one of the most outrageous statements ever made about American history. Woodrow Wilson was one of the most race Haiti presidents presidents we ever had. Only once in his two terms did he allow people of color to visit him. One of them was Booker T. Washington. After that visit, Woodrow Wilson did not allow a person of color to come through the front doors of the White House. You see, history has removed most of the truth of reconstruction. For instance, the carpet baggers described as people who wanted to help Southerners. That is simply not true. They were buyers of property what’s Northern money of Southern land. They bought properties for pennies on the dollar. Furthermore, it is never mentioned that Southerners who were white and helped with the civil war were not allowed to vote. This meant that the legislatures in the south became totally totally Black. It was during that period that’s a first black representatives entered the Congress. It was during this period that the first black Americans became Governors of southern states. The deprivation of the voting by white Southerners continued for 10 years. It was not stopped until after Rutherford Hayes was inaugurated in March of 1877. During that 10 year.. The white to white the white people in the south Took two violence to harass people of color throughout the south. They organize a tax on the legislatures. They organized a whole new set of laws that limited the rights of people of color. We under estimate and want to ignore the rage and hatred that reconstruction created. This arrangement was probably the worst thing anyone could do for people of color in the south. Disenfranchising them insane period. It raises the question about the cause of the war in itself. For in the reconstruction, they built a reservoir of have. When reconstruction was over, and when the haze agreed to end reconstruction, the north did nothing to and hands soup support or aid people of color in the south. They left them to be condemned to share cropping so, second-class school second-class educations, and lives that were equal to their lives as slaves. So, you Know that the war itself was fought slowly for the purpose of destroying the is the southern economy. At the start of the war come the wealth in slaves was greater then all the wealth in all the banks of the north. Therefore, reconstruction and the evil that it perpetrated against white Southerners launched the hating that we experienced today.

Of course we cannot forget that over the 10 year period whites in the south carry-on in violent ruthless and murderous campaign against both blacks and the union military. 

Nazis in America

Any discussion of the history of America over the last 75 years would have to include the role of Nazis and especially German Nazis in our life. I wish you could all read the secret war against the Jews buy errands and Loftus. It shows and proves that when Alan Dallas allowed 10,000 German officers to immigrate into the United States after World War II, our nation National corporate leaders found there guiding light. You see, American corporations supported adult Hitler and the third Reich as a way to create a bulwark against Communist Russia. They supplied the right.. They stayed in contact with the Reich throughout the war. After the war, and with the immigrants from Germany, they created a powerful and consistent ruling class for our country. You can see this in the shape of the Citibank Corporation logo. You can see this when you consider that both Avril Harriman and Prescott Bush were indicted as traitors after that had been working at a Nazi bank for years. They were able to avoid imprisonment by paying fines. In fact, when Eisenhower was elected President, Alan Dulles sued and recovered the fines that Bush and Harriman had paid. According to Aarons and Loftus, George H.W. Bush was put in charge of these German immigrants in a group called the Ethnic Wing of the Republican Party. Bush’s position was so prestigious that after only one and a half years as a representative, he was asked hi Nixon to resign from the House of Representatives and run for the Senate in Texas. He lost, but then landed up as the ambassador to the United Nations. After that, he worked as , as an envoy to China, an 365 days as the head of the CIA. This, appeared to be enough to have him selected as Reagan’s vice presidential candidate. There is no doubt in my mind that he was the Nazi candidate.

Subprime Mortgages and the Destruction of redlined Neighborhoods

We must remember that the most influential person in the economy of the United States of America was the racist Ayn Rand (1905-1982). She created if philosophy call objectivism. It extolled the the attitudes of selfishness, racial superiority, and hatred for the multitudes. Her most famous disciple is Alan Greenspan. From Wikipedia: ObjectivismObjectivism.

In the early 1950s, Greenspan began an association with novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand.[53] Greenspan was introduced to Rand by his first wife, Joan Mitchell. Rand nicknamed Greenspan “the undertaker” because of his penchant for dark clothing and reserved demeanor. Although Greenspan was initially a logical positivist,[61] he was converted to Rand’s philosophy of Objectivism by her associate Nathaniel Branden. He became one of the members of Rand’s inner circle, the Ayn Rand Collective, who read Atlas Shrugged while it was being written. During the 1950s and 1960s Greenspan was a proponent of Objectivism, writing articles for Objectivist newsletters and contributing several essays for Rand’s 1966 book Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal including an essay supporting the gold standard.[62][63]Rand stood beside him at his 1974 swearing-in as Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers. Greenspan and Rand remained friends until her death in 1982

It was through these irrational and antisocial beliefs upon which Greenspan based his

leadership of the Federal Reserve. Over and over again, he made decisions tha

encourage the worst behaviors. The premise of objectivism is that selfishness Will lead

to a rational distribution of goods and services, because capitalists Will consider there

needs and wants without damaging the society which in with they reside. This allowed

Greenspan and President Clinton to approve of corporate decisions to and

manufacturing in the United States and take it overseas. President Clinton said that we

were moving to a service economy. No one seemed to realize that without a 

manufacturing foundation the United States would fail to sustain itself over the coming

decades.

That is how it came to pass said Alan Greenspan, President Clinton, the Congress of

United States, and the capitalists agreed to create the largest scam and theft ever

created in the world history. The Congress voted to repeal the Glass-Stegalll A at and

that allowed money from savings accounts in American banks to be mixed in and use 

as a resource for investments. This wall between investment and savings finances had

been put in place after the 1929 depression. The scam was complicated and ver difficult

to understand. Americans became swept away in the use of new money to back what

were called subprime mortgages. Millions of Americans Took out these mortgages, but

in addition to those there were thousands that were created as forgeries. There were

offices in the United States that we’re producing a thousand fof these false mortgages a

a week.

What no one told these borrowers was the fact that their mortgage was going to go from

their original 2% to 13% after two years. This would mean that a vast majority of these

mortgages would end up in foreclosure, and over 95% of them did. There was a golden 

the lining to the clouds of these foreclosures.. These subprime mortgages were

brought together to form supposedly assets. These assets we’re put up to back stocks.

Millions of dollars or perhaps trillions we’re invested in these stocks. The people who

created the stocks knew that if the mortgages went bad the stocks would be

worthless. That sounds terrible doesn’t. What the designers of this scam had done

was to create an insurance backing these stocks. The fiduciary nature of this insurance

was called Credit Default Swap Bonds. They were not called Insurance, for that

would’ve required regulations. The last thing objectivists want in there money hungry 

lives is the intervention of any government or moral power. So, the credit default swap

Bonds insured they’re holders against the loss of value of assets backing stocks. If the

stocks lost their value, the credit default swap bondholder would be paid $30 for every

dollar of their investment. Therefore, when a $200,000 Home goes into foreclosure, the

CDSB holder receives $6 million dollars. The total amount of money paid out by AIG is

over $35 trillion. It is the largest theft in the history of the world. There were other goals

to this scam in addition to making vast wealth for a tiny number of people. Most of the

mortgages we’re given to people living in red line neighborhoods. The land that had

these homes on them had increased in value. So, if the houses were removed, millions

and millions of dollars could be made by building the mansions on this land. They

would then be sold through the visa five system to wealthy foreigners. Became pawns

and this theft.

Conclusion

I have many more ideas about these subjects. You can read some of them on my blog:

progressiveliberaltruths.blogspot.com.

Thank you for reading.

Here is the list of Ehnic categories on Ancestry.com site

East Asian

Benin-Togo

Cameroon

Caucasian

Central Asian

Eastern European

European Jewish

Finnish & Russian

Hunter-Gatherers of South Central Africa

Iberian Peninsula

Irish

Italian & Greek

Ivory Coast, Ghana

Malian

Melanesia

Middle Eastern

Native American

Nigerian

North African

Polynesian

Senegal

South Asian

Southeast Africa

Western European