DONALD TRUMP: RACE INSIDE THE HOUSE OF CARDS

DONALD TRUMP: RACE, INSIDE THE HOUSE OF CARDS

By Fahim A. Knight-El



President-elect Donald J. Trump immediately showed his deceptive ploy by rescinding and recanting on most of the promises he made to his voting constituents. He soften his rhetoric about building a wall around the American and Mexican boarders and controlling Mexican illegal immigrants from entereing the United States by employing arm militia groups; Trump knew that those whites who have felt disenfranchised (majority of them were angry white men, although they have always been the beneficiary of white privilege) and were angry at black and brown people whom they blamed for the economic dismantling and collapse of the United States financial markets and the U.S. manufacturing industries (and their job losses)—they were politically vulnerable and susceptible to Trump’s covert race baiting politics (reference: Wayne Allyn Root and  Roger Stone; Angry White Male: How the Donald Trump Phenomenon is Changing America—and What We Can All Do to Save the Middle Class). Moreover, they believed that their jobs had been taking by illegal immigrants, but many of them did not understand that it was corporate downsizing and corporate outsourcing (that sent U.S. industry and jobs overseas) , which were the blame for the economic fall of America—they also did not understand that former President Bill Clinton initiated NAFTA and GATT and these reactionary public policies (and/or trade deals killed domestic American business interest and the legislation set in motion by acts of congress at the behest of international bankers and big business in conjunction with powerful political lobbies dealt a devastating blow to the United States economy in 2000 (these moves had started with President George Herbert Walker Bush in the late 1980s and in the early 1990s and Clinton took the dismantling to the next level with the passing of NAFTA). However, the rearranging of the U.S. economy was inevitable, because Industrialism as we know it had peaked 60 years ago and was on a steady decline in which Bill Clinton brought to an end.

Trump played the race card better than any presidential candidate in the last 100 years, perhaps even he did not know the level of discontent and dissatisfaction that existed throughout America amongst white voters. Many of them even decided to vote against their own political and economic interest, because deep down in their hearts believed they shared racial and ethno roots with the white billionaire Donald Trump and it was skin color which in their minds tied them together (Trump politically did nothing to alter this misnomer). Trump is a member of a low level Elitist group and as a member of the Petit Bourgeoisie class, he will never see himself as part of the poor working class Lumpenproletariat and the white skin color alliances that many of the white electorate had created in their minds was an absolute illusion and did not apply in Trump’s world and reality—Trump  was motivated by class interest and the acquisition of wealth is his primary modus of operandi, but having the white American experience he understood how to effectively use race when it was convenient in which to galvanize white voters (all white people in America know how to play this game). Trump was hitting all the white supremacy keys and cylinders and the evidence has already shown that he tricked them hook, line and sinker into a political movement. The enthusiasm and fervor resembled a Third Party political movement, but the only difference was how well financed his campaign was and it allowed him to function independent and outside of the traditional Republican Party political structure and power they have had to control Republican candidates and their message—Trump broke rank and went rogue. Trump made them believe that he shared their political, social and economic aspirations. He gave them a code word slogan ‘Lets Make America Great Again,” which to them meant they have for eight long years been politically subjugated under a Negro president in Barack Obama and they equally no longer desired to be under the dictates of another Democratic president be it black or white. Yet nor were they prepared to turn over the commander-in-chief and ruler of the so-called free world to a pants wearing white woman Hillary Clinton and Trump’s misogynist and sexist disposition did not affect his ability to even galvanize women to vote for him Matt Ferner, “Donald Trump Is Winning Because White America Is Dying” The Huffington Post The Huffington Post http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-noam-chomsky-white mortality_us_56cf8618e4b0bf0dab31838f; article on the views of Noam Chomsky February 29, 2016.
 

Trump was a political novice who had no prior experience in political office and he beat the republican machine (having access to wealth and resources attributed to this feat), it will eventually be the political scientist and pundits, as well as historians responsibility in the future to properly assess what Trump pulled off; we are perhaps twenty to twenty-five years removed from fully evaluating the political data in which to even begin understanding the magnitude of what Trump accomplished. It is too soon to evaluate and assess the magnitude of his 2016 U.S. presidential election because even as I write this piece Mr. Trump has not served one day in the Oval office.

The Talking Heads since the 9/11 hoax via the propaganda machines have created a fear and phobia towards Islam and Muslims and Trump was smart enough to chime into their fears by over criticizing Muslims and Islam and speaking tough language against Muslim immigration and terrorism relegating his criticism to the usual Western style propaganda and disinformation. Mr. Trump in the past has had many audiences with so many of the Islamic royal families throughout the Islamic world and he is no stranger to being a recipient of big oil money (the House of Saud). He has long standing investments in Arab oil (and is a Rockefeller puppet after all he is their candidate he was not elected but was selected in which his loyalty is to the House of Rothschild) this is why he selected oil tycoon Rex Tillerson (ExxonMobile) as his Secretary of State; this further tells us that having good diplomatic relationships with OPEC and oil producing nations was important to Trump and his empire.

Trump’s Hidden Hand handlers have since schooled him on what it means to be the top international diplomat and the president of the United States of America—the  inflammatory campaign language was inciting and outside of the political style of the office of U.S. president (and they cautioned him on the importance of appearing to the outside world of being capable of leading the world and this is what led to his somewhat pivot). Trump also simultaneously immediately revealed his deception by filling the offices and seats in his high and low cabinet with all Washington insiders (some things will always remain the same). These are some of the same individuals that have given us a 20 trillion dollar national deficit and has led the United States into two major wars in Afghanistan in 2001 and Iraq in 2003 (two wars that the United States are still directly and/or indirectly involved in and they have cost the American taxpayers billions of dollars—they also contributed to collapse of the United States economy in 2008 and allowed for Wall Street and the international bankers to go unchecked and unregulated (the devaluing of the U.S. currency and the global impact was systematically induced). Yet, if this crisis was induced its objective was to dismantle and realign their interest in global politics and controlling the world. Trump is a shrewd business venture capitalist and he will use the office of U.S. president (if you did not know the U.S. government is a corporation) as the most powerful CEO in the world under the title of United States president and solidify himself and his family as the new European monarch who sit in the west falsely creating the path for the establishment of the new Jerusalem in the West that will be rooted in a new dynastic bloodline equivalent to the old dynastic rulers of the world. Trump is about the accumulation of wealth and as a ruthless capitalist, he will use his new found power to go after and horde whatever wealth that has not been claimed by these vultures. Some seem to think that Trump and Vladimir Putin of Russia is a strange relationship, but these two white and Caucasian nationalist share global political views of further dominating the world in which Trump is about creating the next new business frontier and really is not concerned about the appearance of the conflict of interest. There is a very powerful small minority of Power Brokers who possess dynastic wealth and a long established Elitist and Aristocratic blood linage; For example, the Rothschilds, Morgans, DuPonts, Rockefellers, Oppenheimers, DeBeers, etc., have used their hording of the world's wealth and resources to dominate the world (they ultimately decides wars, famines, the money markets, etc., and use the likes of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund to carry out these hidden agendas). The world's wealth is in the hands of the 1% and they systematically use international banking and the likes of the Federal Reserve to wreck havoc on humanity politically, economically and socially.  

Now, may be some of my critics and pundits will start to believe what I have said about Donald Trump in a previous Blog (he was not serious about convening a grand jury which to indict Hillary Clinton and locking her up; he was only appealing to the radical right). I heard Senator Rand Paul recently say that Trump received 70% of the votes in Eastern Kentucky, but admitting I know very little about the demographic makeup of Kentucky, but I knew that Senator Dr. Paul was alluding to the racial makeup of his voting constituents and, perhaps this was a blue collar region of the country that had become economically depressed at the recent collapse of American industrialism. They are probably white, undereducated, poor, coal miners, and etc., thus, in their minds they shared a racial and ethnic commonality with the white billionaire Donald Trump and although systematic practices of American style racism has always giving poor and wealthy whites a sense of entitlement; however, unknowing to many of them that the type of privilege that the likes of Donald Trump is afforded will always remain just a figment of their imagination for these poor white Kentuckians. Yet, they believed so much in white skin, it caused them to vote against their own interest and the Maestro Donald Trump has played on the white dissatisfaction unlike any recent president since Ronald Reagan. I am not downplaying the dissatisfaction that exist inside of America because it is real and this 2016, presidential election serves as proof positive that the U.S. electorate desired to take a chance on a political novice who had no prior political experience because he tapped into political and social sentiments that were 250 years old, which was appealing to the historical unsettled question of race and white fear.

President-elect Trump's presidential run appeared to have been a brilliant planned out tactic and strategy and the social and political scientist will be assessing it for next 100 years and the significant of what he did cannot be fully appreciated until enough time has elapsed. Trump's campaign slogan of "Lets Make America great again' it also resonated with a large demographic of white people who lived outside of Eastern Kentucky in other states who voted for Donald Trump and this sentiment allowed Trump to redraw the electoral map, but for discussion I am using Eastern Kentucky as a mere political pilot assessment and a model for the racial theories that I have assessed as a backdrop to this article. Trump during his campaign continually gave racially charged speeches attacking Latinos, African Americans, Muslims, women, homosexuals and host of others—it was bigotry, discrimination, and racism at its best (yet for many it was this propaganda and duping which was serving as a reminder that hadn't much changed inside of America—racism was alive and well). But may be his overt and covert racist unorthodox appeals to both conservative and liberals were speaking volumes and his attacks on pluralism and the American melting pot outweighed the struggles for freedom and equality that was led by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and  the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s on one end and Minister Malcolm X on the other end. Many believed that in 2008 with the election of President Barack Obama that we had entered into a so-called post racial era (how wrong were they this African American president had been the most disrespected and ridiculed president in American history not because of his politics, but because of his race).

Perhaps some whites were hearing a message from Trump of turning back the clock (to a time in American history where slavery, racism, Jim Crow and racism reigned high) and many whites believe that they have the right to take back America (whatever that means to them); I never knew they lost America. White Hate groups viewed Trump's victory as a victory of white power and neo-Nazi groups were celebrating his victory, but unlike them Trump is not interested in embracing the ideology of white separatist groups despite of his campaign messages and he definitely does not support initiating a race war and declaring certain American states and territories a white nation and supporting a white nation succession mandate and movement this is beneath this man’s agenda. Yet, many white separatist have hailed Trump as their shining White Knight. Trump is an equal opportunity exploiter and capitalist, he is not concerned about color and race, he sees markets, money and opportunities; and he knows that it will not be politically and economically beneficiary to embrace backwards thinking; although, he intentionally during the campaign fed the white power groups a heavy dose of racially seasoned red meat (the white separatist have misread Trump he is both an integrationist and separatist and a staunch patriot). But Trump will exploit them no different than he has done to the people in Mexico, China, India, Vietnam, Eastern Europe, etc., for him it’s about finding cheap markets and cheap labor to expand the Trump brand.   

Now, as I stated above ‘many whites believe that they have the right to take back America (whatever that means to them); I never knew they lost America. This is the most asinine and etho-racist statement of white neo-manifest Destiny that could ever be made in 21st century and Charles Darwin perhaps would be applauding this present day mindset. The last time I checked North America and South America belonged to indigenous Native Americans from which the Europeans stole this land; this sacred land has been cursed because the thievery and genocidal acts committed against the Native Americans and the Native Americans have unloosed the Gods of Elements (fire, wind and water to remind the Robber Barons of their power to invoke ancient spirits some centuries later. The enemies are now in Cannonball, North Dakota where big oil is attempting create a five state oil pipeline with no respect of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe where sacred burial grounds have been bulldozed and the stealing of oil rich land that rightly belong to Native Americans who by U.S. Federal Law has been declared sovereignty —and a nation within a nation. I am here to warn the white man in the United States of America that the injustice committed against our red skinned and black skinned Native American family who are of Muurs (Moorish) descent is being weighed in the balance and Justice will prevail.

The Native American people possessed spiritual kinship with ancient descendants of occult societies perhaps even outside of our recognized galaxy. I think there are many levels of reality, but we have been brainwashed to only focus on the "Here and Now" due to the influences of western propaganda and disinformation. The practices of evilness have brought an imbalance to the global axis in which now polarities positive and negative energy (forces) no longer are viewed as being necessary and complimentary (although science sees the poles as being oppositional) entities designed to create balance in the universe. The macrocosm universe is affecting and dictating the microcosm universe, which has always told us that we have the ability to realign ourselves with the good in the universe and to affect positive universal change. A segment of the Native American people of the Americas for the most part have met up with their transmigration souls and some those that have chosen to reincarnate themselves to come back as earthly vessels who had incomplete and unfinished work on this planet called earth. We can just look around us and we can feel that the universe appears to be imbalance (we might not be able to articulate it in words but we know deep down inside something is wrong) which ultimately has effected humanity's ability to create and sustain healthy relationships, our health and wellness is being effected, money and wealth have been redefined, our spiritual houses of worship is failing us .i.e., religion, etc., they have many ways to control us and create human robots and then set us up to becoming prime targets for indoctrination. Yet, there are people out there who know this and have committed themselves to change this paradigm and are functioning from a higher vibration and energy to help awaken people to the TRUE REALITY OF GOD.

Trump as an agent for the House of Rothschild and Carlyle Group has no real interest in building a wall to keep Mexican immigrants out (Trump need them as cheap labor to tend to his massive real estate properties and militarizing the United States boarders is not going to happen and forcing Mexico to foot the bill; is not going to happen nor having a polarizing and antagonistic relationship with Islam and the Muslim world—these issues were toxic based on racial and ethnic scapegoating and Trump understood that when all fails in America feed the ignorant a heavy dose of race baiting politics and this allowed him to move the sheeple to the voting polls. President-elect Donald Trump is about money and expanding his wealth base; I saw a recent news clip talking about a top international Muslim and Islamic ambassador booking a convention at Trump’s new extravagant hotel on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, DC., the first international dignitaries of the Royal Family of Bahrain, which are Muslims and Islamic who ventured into Trump’s den as his official guest (these Arabs are filthy rich and Trump will be a good servant and oblige them in meeting all their material and food apatite and I am willing to bet you Trump sees gold and silver and mineral rights and has forgotten the mean spirited things he said about Muslims). Trump understand the economic complexities of the world much better than we give him credit for and that all the anti-Muslim campaign rhetoric is now out the window; he is going to be the consummate diplomat. The invitation read:  “On the occasion of the forty fifth national day of the Kingdom of Bahrain and the seventeenth anniversary of his majesty King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa’s accession to the throne,” the invitation begins, “Ambassador Abdulla Al Khalifa cordially invites you to a national day reception. This alone should tell you Trump is only playing Chess with the American people and the globe.

Fahim A. Knight-El Chief Researcher for KEEPING IT REAL THINK TANK located in Durham, NC; our mission is to inform African Americans and all people of goodwill, of the pending dangers that lie ahead; as well as decode the symbolism and reinterpreted the hidden meanings behind those who operate as invisible forces, but covertly rules the world. We are of the belief that an enlightened world will be better prepared to throw off the shackles of ignorance and not be willing participants for the slaughter. Our MOTTO is speaking truth to power. Fahim A. Knight-El can be reached at fahimknight@yahoo.com.

BEYOND HIDDEN COLORS: THEY STOLE IT, WE MUST RETURN IT

BEYOND HIDDEN COLORS: THEY STOLE IT, WE MUST RETURN IT

By Fahim A. Knight-El

I have always written every article in line with what Dr. Neely Fuller refers to as the Nine areas of Human activity . 1). Economics  2). Education 3). Entertainment 4). Labor 5). Law 6). Politics 7). Religion 8). and Sex 9).--War/Counter-War: Dr. Neely Fuller work titled, The United Independent Compensatory Code/System/Concept: A Compensatory Counter-Racist Codified Word Guide Compensatory Codes and his views on white Supremacy. I am advising that my reading audience try to find the online documentary "Hidden Colors" #4 and review it. Dr. Fuller in the above mentioned work, perhaps has giving us one of the best contemporary analysis of what continues to contribute to the motives and objectives of white supremacy ideology (acquisition of unlimited global power and dominance), moreover they have mastered the Nine (9) areas of human activity, which has rendered them global control over the minds of humanity, as well as led to the domination of the world’s resources and wealth. They have built the United States Government and politically structured it to insure that their power and control revolves around dictating the direction of Nine (9) Areas of human activity as it relates to the entire planet (ultimate motive to create and maintain systematic methods of oppression). Nine tenths of the planet are people of color/’melaninated’ and the Caucasian people is considered a minority, but through tricks and lies he keep the darker people relegated to minimum usage and confuses their understanding of the power and importance of being proactively engaged in all the Nine areas of Human activity (we first need some land and a nation that we can call our own).

Brother Tariq Nasheed in his documentary “Hidden Colors” put forth some very good historical perspectives on the affects the missionaries and the white Supremacy agenda had on us yesterday, which still impacts us to today psychologically and socially (reference: Joy Angela Degruy, Post-Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America's Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing, but unless we understand the paradigm shift and the present day global initiatives which have moved beyond race and yet racial politics only serve as a drawing card to be used (in some cases for and against) to further the capitalist agenda towards the One Word Government agenda. The white race is a racial and genetic creation of the black man; he is a hybrid by-product of the seed of the black man and woman (Reference: Elijah Muhammad, Message to the Blackman in America) and Yacub theory which was further explored in Paul Lawrence Guthrie book titled, Making of the Whiteman: History, Traditions, and the Teachings of Elijah Muhammad. Thus, putting it plainly, we made the white race (as the mothers and fathers of civilization) in which everything in him originally came from his African fathers and mothers of the planet; even his diabolical nature, which has played itself out from his inception on the planet for the last 6,000 years, thus, opposing God and reaping havoc on the earth. White Supremacy and Eurocentrism have set false historical standards in order to make European culture appear superior to Nubian people's culture and history. But Dr. Frances Welsing in the Isis Papers maintained that the white race greatest fear was genetic annihilation.

Yet, his nature was created that he would absolve the weaker germ (Gregor Mendel theory) and would be more prone to be opposite of the Original man. Although, he originated between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea in around the Caucasus Mountains (Elijah Muhammad—Message to the Blackman in America), Ivan Sertima: African Presence in Early Europe (Journal of African Civilizations, Nov. 1985, Vol. 7, No. 2,) and Michael Bradley's book titled, The Iceman Inheritance: Prehistoric Sources of Western Man's Racism, Sexism and Aggression all verifies his origin and existence. Honorable Elijah Muhammad taught that the entire planet was called Eurasia (or Asia) and (occupied by original people) the Western scholars believe that millions of years ago these continental land masses were not separated by water and geographically was one continued connected land masses (Pangaea theory). Some argue that these lands, that have sat on plates over millions and/or may be billions and/or even trillions of years ago shifted or separated and this gave way to the platonic theory concept, but prior to this geo-phenomena the planet of land masses were typographically connected and unified. When the plates had shifted and the waters we know today had separated these massive land masses and created a different geological outcome and assisted in rearranging all life and human species as well. No, one better articulated this than the Honorable Elijah Muhammad.

The history tells us that culturally Kemet and Kush fed the world (perhaps with the exception of China there was no civilization older). The Olmec Heads of Mexico and the replica miniature pyramids in Central America and the culture of the Mayas speaks to the transference of the Nubian culture making its way to the Americas across the Atlantic Ocean and was received by the Native people as being in the image and likeness of the Black Gods (they constructed images and statues as Deities to reflect the people they had come in contact with and the majesty they possessed). The author Horace Butler in his book titled, When Rocks Cry Out, gives us new historical spins on the pyramids and unlocked geographical secrets and codes and simultaneously dismantling some of our traditional views on historical people and events. I will perhaps deal with the historical significance of the book in another posting. The Solar Deities were best personified in Kemet (in particular the story of Ausr, Heru and Aset) which was personified in Mexico as Quetzalcoatl and although, the ancient people of the Americas had developed systems of measuring time and calendar—charting the sun, moon, and stars (they to were masters of astronomy) long before the establishment of the Gregorian and Lunar calendars. However, in my opinion, this phenomenon was not necessarily just indigenous to African people, because Native American Folklore tells us just the opposite (the interdependency factors and variables cannot be overlooked, but questions have always arise about how much of this influence was external and how much evolved as just pure internal enlightenment). I think the historical timeframes and the evidence and data would perhaps suggest that Kemetic culture might be recorded anywhere from 4000 B.C years to 10,000 B.C. (some even suggest this history goes back 20,000 B.C.).

Therefore, I think the transference of this knowledge was over the Atlantic Ocean as we know it today and the Nubians and those who occupied the Americas received it in this fashion, but the orientation was much simpler than we know, because the DNA and the collective consciousness of the two people were intact for the reason that essentially they were kith and kin and the same people. Moreover, the waters separated the people and cultures, but the inherited DNA and the telepathic memory linked the indigenous people of the Americas to their distant ancestors in Africa. VanSertima in his book titled, They Came Before Columbus: African Presences in Ancient America wrote about voyages and Africans who had sailed crossed the Atlantic Ocean long before Christopher Columbus and other European explorers had ventured into the so-called "New World". So there were cultural exchanges that had taking place in the Americas between these two indigenous people and there was a lot of historical evidence left behind to verify this reality.

So I found my place in Freemasonry as one who desired to raise the conscious level of black Masons by teaching them the knowledge of self and introducing them to this unconventional knowledge. The great Pyramids of Giza and the pyramids in general, should be declared eight and ninth wonders of the world (in my mind these sophisticated black people and their science should place them number one on the list based their high tech culture). Both Operative Masonry and Speculative Masonry had their roots and origins in Kemet (and I do not mean amongst some Mediterranean mulatto people who were light skinned with Caucasian features—these are imposters). The United Grand Lodge of England assembled in 1717, but George G.M. James in his book titled, Stolen Legacy gives us the Egyptian Mystery Systems (the greatest esoteric, occult and Gnostic schools of thought in the history of humanity)—these neophytes would run circles around the our Entered Apprentices, Fellow Crafts, and Master Masons in Europe and the United States and even around us after moving upward to the honorary 33rd degree, they taught and understood that true knowledge is found in the unbreakable circle of 360 degrees (the make up of all the points on the square and compass). The quest and search for knowledge is infinite it has no beginning or ending (reference: Zachary P. Gremillion;  African Origins of Freemasonry).

I have always advocated to my brothers the importance of acquiring 360 degrees of knowledge; but there is still a lot of room for improvement inside of Masonry. I feel like we are continuing to make steps in the right direction and to whom much is giving, much is required and expected; are we willing to venture into accepting the teachings of the knowledge of self and embracing the fact that Nubian people of Kemet (ancient Egypt) taught the Greeks and Romans civilization (and be willing to fight white supremacy on all levels). I think if they knew that the white man's history only goes back six thousand (6,000) years and he is a newcomer on the planet, and was taught that it was black people who invented medicine, architecture, engineering, mathematics, religion, etc., this would present them with a different worldview about black people's contribution to world civilization and curtail the hailing of Greek culture as superior and supreme to African culture, which is a historical lie (reference: Zachary P. Gremillion;  African Origins of Freemasonry).

Our learning in Kemet exceeded 32 or 33 degrees (this is only partial knowledge that has been afforded to my white Masonic brothers) but this keeps them at a frozen state and on a dead level. There are many conscious and enlightened white men and women who have delved deeply into secret societies and they have the same spiritual capabilities of the black man and black woman, because they have refuse to accept how they were created and have chosen to embraced the universal principles of good. This alone allows them (some of the white higher Orders and Societies) to re-tap into the esoteric, Gnostic and occult wisdom from which they evolved from. There are a select few of white people who know us better than we know ourselves (meaning they know that we are God and if you catch them in the right environment they will submit to you) (reference: Manly P. Hall; Freemasonry of the Ancient Egyptians).

I am here to tell you that inside the United States of America there is a lot going on politically and socially in this nation. We have to observe all these recent global events (including the election of Donald Trump--refer to my Blog and get a complete analysis on this low level operative) very carefully and be able to look beyond the Talking Heads and the propaganda and disinformation that are being spewed by the mass mediums. These phenomenons will only continue to hasten us quicker towards the New World Order and the One World Government agenda. Thus, this is why it is most imperative now that we have to be more diligent in our studies of the knowledge of self in order to be able to properly decipher world affairs and not be duped by the 'tricknology'. Europe and the Europeans are in trouble and the collapse of the white man’s world is inevitable (his 6,000 year rule is over). But we have to understand that to continue to embrace his Eurocentric value system will also mean our demise as well (the devil has a randevu with God himself) . He has even more devious plans to attempt to expand his global dominance over the indigenous people of the planet by using large scale deceptive ploys to exploit the resources of Africa and the globe.

Our ancestral linage have deep roots in royalty of ancient Kush (Ethiopia) and Nubian lands that extended far from Sudan to Kemet (Ancient Egypt) (reference: John G. Jackson: Ethiopia and the Origin of Civilization) and engulfed all of the continent of so-called Africa (southern Africa had some of the greatest kingdoms to be found any place in the world) and I am speaking of kingdoms that had predated the Biblical and Hebraic royal lineages of the likes of King David (the lineages of King Solomon, Nathan, Shammua and Shobab), and Queen Sheba (or Bathsheba) both the Jewish Talmud and Torah only gives us a glimpse into the kingdoms and the biblical and ancestral lineages(reference: Sterling Means: Ethiopia and the Missing Link in African History); our history predates the Hebrew linage and I will dispute anyone relative to pointing out that the true Jews were of African descent (reference: Ben-Jochannan, We, the Black Jews: Witness to the ‘White Jewish Race’ Myth). Most of these ancient religious fables and stories which were rooted in the three major religions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam represented the theological foundations of these faith traditions, but have their origins are in a much older theological text called the Book of Going Forth By  Day (popular known as the Egyptian Book of the Dead). Dr, Yosef Ben A.A. Jochannan in his monumental book titled, The Black man of the Nile and His Family and in his book titled, African Origins of the Major "Western Religions, tirelessly provided documentation and evidence that all religions are in debt to their African ancestors.

He exposes and traces all religions of having their origin in Africa amongst original people who even had written text that predated the Metu Neter (Hieroglyphics) and was transcribed as scrolls that was recorded before the introduction of papyrus—these Africans had a system of principles that were rooted in ethos and codes of morality (that predated the 42 Negative Confessions) correlated to them recognizing the balance of nature and in respect of the universal order of things. The question of right and wrong could only be answered by them having practices in observance of respect of all that existed in nature and built their humanity around the universal laws and they were wise enough to see God in both the material and nonmaterial world. They desired peace, harmony and tranquility (this was only the spirit of MAAT)—the Europeans who came later as conquers and imperialist have disrupted the entire global balance based on military aggression, greed and exploitation of other people’s land and territory (reference: John G. Jackson: Introduction to African Civilization).     

This above historical substantiation is relevant to our rights to lands, treasures and heritage rights beyond our slave status as so-called American Negroes in North America in which the scholar Rudolph Windsor in his books provided us with some historical context relative to the culture greatness of these ancient kingdoms.  They were not only the citadel of culture, but scholars came from around the world to be taught at Nubian universities of higher learning and they stood at the center of trade and commerce—they evolved around the Blue and White Nile Rivers. The Nile Valley Civilizations were much more extensive and complex than western scholars are willing to admit and those who do admit have always made attempts to whitewash Egypt and downplay the true ethno-racial identity of the dark skinned Africans called Egyptians by the Greeks). They even dominated all maritime activity coming off the Mediterranean Sea, Red Sea and Indian Ocean long before the Arabs, Asians and Caucasians ventured into these ports and military and commercial zones (reference: Chancellor Williams: Destruction of Black Civilization: Great Issues of a Race from 4500 B.C. to 2000 A.D ).

Cheikh Anta Diop has always informed us in his book titled, African Origin of Civilization: Myth or Reality, that there were direct cultural, historical and social exchanges that had taking place between Kemet ( Egypt ) and what Eurocentric scholars called 'Black Africa'. This Kemetic cultural synthesis was seen in religious practices, architecture science, mythology, astronomy, folkway, etc., in which the culture resemblances in some of the 'Sub-Saharan' social systems were strikingly similar to those found in ancient Kush and Kemet and it is this notion alone that has left little doubt that the Nile Valley Civilizations played a prominent role relative to cultural infusion in 'Black Africa'.

The Kushite rulership was steeped in a royal African genetic line and was more majestic than the aristocratic bloodlines of the historical and present dynastic Royal Families of England and Europe, and had much more splendid nobility and mystique than the Royal Families of Islam and Muslim Elite, which encompassed the Saud clan and/or any other blood dynastic linage coming out of Saudi Arabia and/or the Middle East (reference: Drusilla Dunjee Houston; The Wonderful Ethiopians of the Ancient Cushite Empire).  But Windsor gave us some good historical background information relative to some of the African Kingdoms and their rich culture models that influenced and impacted the world—they allowed the world to benefit and even prosper from their cultural exchanges. The post-Medieval Europeans (those that were brought out of the hills and cavesides of Europe) and became learned based on their early relations with the Moors of North Africa who took a high tech civilization all the way to the borders of Southern France led Tarik Ibn Zaid (reference: Cozmo-El; Moors: What They didn't Teach You in Black History Class. Dr. John Henrik Clarke maintained in his writings that it was the Blackmoors who in the 8th century that brought Europe out of the Dark Ages into an age of enlightenment and these people are un-doubtable in debt to our ancestors. I defer to his books from Babylon to Timbuktu and The Valley of the Dry Bones. The late Muammar Qaddafi the former president of Libya and was a true friend of so-called Africans on the continent and Africans in the Diaspora (the Libyan leader did not see himself as a Berber or Arab, he saw himself as an African). Thus, in his Green Book, he gave serious kudos to the black man being the original man, it is surprising that everyone else knows who we are, but we do not know who we are.

Now, we in theory have rights to stolen ancestral Nubian and Moorish lands, but unless we have a military and a military apparatus to retrieve our lands as our duly inheritance and yet, we are taught to respect and obey all the laws of the United States (so I do not teach nor advocate any illegal activity against the government that would be considered subversive pursuant to the laws of the United States of America, the country of my birth) to advocate such would be criminal and to advocate violence will only create mass suicide for my people. But to some this position may appear as an oxymoron, in particular after reading my long standing open rebellion against this system. We would have to eventually make our legal case in the United Nations, but rest to sure our claims will fall on deaf ears. However, there is a God in this equation when it comes to dispensing justice.  Our sovereignty have been ordained (nevertheless sovereignty/land rights is not achieved by rules of law, it is only gained by a people having a willingness to fight and die—history tells us this) and failure to do this will only continue to consigned us to a romanticized notion of history and culture and will only be a people relegated to sacraments, rituals, rites, etc., and possess no real substances; the white man and our enemies continue rule over our historical territories as imposters and Robber Barons (they know our history better than us because they were responsible of stealing our birthrights). We do not need anymore ceremonies or recognitions that allow us to glorify in tradition, but we need some land that we can call our own (reference: Bandele El-Amin: Nationality, Birthrights and Jurisprudence: New Social & Cultural Blueprint for Melaninated Indigenous People).

Fahim A. Knight-El Chief Researcher for KEEPING IT REAL THINK TANK located in Durham, NC; our mission is to inform African Americans and all people of goodwill, of the pending dangers that lie ahead; as well as decode the symbolism and reinterpreted the hidden meanings behind those who operate as invisible forces, but covertly rules the world. We are of the belief that an enlightened world will be better prepared to throw off the shackles of ignorance and not be willing participants for the slaughter. Our MOTTO is speaking truth to power. Fahim A. Knight-El can be reached at fahimknight@yahoo.com.

THE UNITED STATES CIVIL WAR: SLAVERY WAS THE GREAT DILEMMA

By Fahim A. Knight-El 

 

 
 

Thesis Statement: The American Civil War Possessed a Number of Political, Economic and Social Factors and Variables, that impacted the Causation of the Civil War, which has led to a Divergent of historical Opinions, Analysis and Interpretations being rendered by scholars.                               

                                                                                                                        Introduction

This research and analysis, will focus on some of the causes and affects of the American Civil War (1861-1865), which became the bloodiest and deadliest war within the  history of United States of America (approximately 540,000 to over 625,000 people lost their lives in this battle)[1] and evaluate and assess some of the historical variables that were germane to those who fought on the side of the Union and Confederate armies, in particular looking at how intertwined Chattel Slavery had become as a major part of the economic fiber of early Southern American life. Historian Kenneth Stampp called it the ‘Peculiar Institution’, he wrote about, the history of slavery in America, and he left little doubt, that the institution of slavery played a major and premiere role in fueling the American Civil War. Slavery (buying and selling of human cargo—for labor) was the free labor force that had created huge sums of wealth for large and small aristocratic plantation owners and property owners (which transitioned into generational wealth).[2] President Abraham Lincoln’s action during this time period and his political stance of attacking slavery was equalvent to devaluing a commodity (slaves and slave labor were considered to be valuable assets). Charles A. Beard who was an economic determinist and authored the book titled, An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States in 1913, maintained that the U.S. Constitution was essentially a document inspired to benefit and protect the economic interest of white male property and plantation owners.[3] Also, in order to understand, the complexity of the American Civil War, it was mandated that the writer, briefly review the history of the Transatlantic Slave Trade, as well as concisely survey early American Colonial history but only as historical frameworks with no in depth analysis intended, neither as a central argument of my thesis and research. 

It was cotton and other cash crops (rice, tobacco, rum, etc.), but cotton was considered the king of the cash crops, that allowed the South to become economically empowered, and the Elitist (planters class) had deep seated interest in keeping slave labor in tact (for them it was profit motive and capitalism incentive and slavery had become a way of life). Carl N. Degler in his book titled, Out of Our Past: The Forces that Shaped Modern American stated: “For two decades the southern people had been growing in the conviction that their culture, entwined about the institution of Negro slavery, made them a separate nation”. Jefferson Davis and other Confederate leaders knew and understood that the South could not easily relinquish their economic livelihood, and therefore, opposed the United States Government of essentially having no legal jurisdiction over the South and that the issue of slavery should be enforced and determined on the state governments levels without Union intervention.[4]
Historian Merrill Jenson, in his book titled, The New Nation, argued and stated: “The Civil War itself was the bloody climax of a social conflict in which the ultimate nature of the Constitution was argued again and again in seeking support for and arguments against antagonistic programs. But even the Civil War did not finally settle the constitutional issue. The stresses and strains that came with the rise of industrialism and finance capitalism produced demands for social and regulatory legislation. The passage of such legislation by the states involved the interpretation of the nature of the Constitution, for business interests regulated by statement governments denied their authority and appealed to the national courts. Those courts soon denied the power of regulation to state legislatures. The when regulatory laws were passed by the national government, the regulated interests evolved a ‘states right’ theory that limited the power of the central government, and the national courts once more agreed”.[5]

This argument would become one of the main impetuses for the Confederate states to attempt to secede in rebellion against the Union by declaring sovereignty from the United States Government in which other scholars would correctly argue that the various Constitutional Conventions had resolved and defined states rights in 1787 with the founding fathers framing the United States Constitution. David Herbert Donald in his book titled, Why The North Won the Civil War?, layout some possible causations factors and variables, thus, he stated: “For the most part attention {scholarly historiography} has been directed to the question of the causes of the war: was it states rights, was it slavery, was it Yankee abolitionists, or Southern fire-eaters, or was it national neurosis. . . .”[6]         
This writer, is of the opinion, that it was perhaps, a combination of all the above historical variables, because some of the historiography that this writer reviewed presented scholarly and empirical data defending the validity for all above said factors, but overwhelmingly historians and social scientist debated slavery as being the main and undeniable cause of the inciting the American Civil War. This writer finds validity and credibility in the slavery arguments put forth by historians Stampp, Beard, Jenson, and Degler as being the central theme of the Civil War. Yet, this writer thinks that the Confederates had a deep conviction to southern patriotism and pride in southern institutions and often these sentiments got overshadowed, because of the evilness and dehumanization affect slavery had on millions of human beings—this writer, thinks many in the Confederate South had internalized their racial politics as being rooted in a culture, which was believed by them to be as being American as baseball and apple pie.             

I think, as much as I appreciated Donald’s interpretation about the validity of all the above stated causation factors, that he attributed to the Civil War, but in my opinion, what possibly led to the Confederate downfall was that the North had just to much man power and economic resources and tactically and strategically used the question of slavery as a social and political disruption in order have the Southern Confederates distracted on two fronts. I think Davis and Lee thought that sense they were of the South and controlled the cotton commodity economy that this alone would have enticed, perhaps the British and French to intervene on the side of Confederate against the Union; however, this did not happen and U.S. imposed naval blockades all along the Eastern Seaboard, which furthered crippled the war efforts of the Confederates.

Also, the rise of the abolitionist movement such as the Quakers of Pennsylvania, John Brown (1800-1859) and Fredrick Douglas (1818-1895) who brought attention to the question of slavery as a moral and ethical contradiction (August 10, 1863 - The president meets with abolitionist Frederick Douglass). Their activism was impacting the Union or the United States Government to be more politically and if necessary militarily proactive in ending Chattel Slavery and it was their pressure that led to the inevitable, which was the gradual dismantling the system of Chattel slavery. Also slave rebellions and slave insurrections were becoming heightened throughout the South. The U.S. Courts would play a huge role in defining slaves (free slaves, runaway slaves and free territory (Missouri Compromise in 1850 and the Dred Scott Decision in 1857).[7]
                                     
                                                         Brief Pre Civil War Background and the African Connection

The American Civil War (1861-1865) has to be viewed and interpreted from various historical events and proceedings, and must be placed in its proper historical context relative to the African slave labor correlation and dilemma, it would be remised to overlook how this came about. This writer, will briefly addressed the African slave trade in order to give a succinct understanding of how and why the black labor force became to be so important within the Confederate and Southern economy. With the advent of Chattel slavery, which predated the bloodiest war in American history by two hundred forty-two years (242) and it did not come to an end until 1865. Most historians have traced the beginning of the African Slave Trade to about the 1440s where the Portuguese ventured into West Africa and brought twenty Africans back to Lisbon, Portugal who served as indentured servants. This would eventually lead to the Spanish, Portuguese and the Catholic Church (Pope Alexander VI and Bishop Bartholomew Las Casas who played major religious roles by sanctioning slavery) and later other European powers ventured into African Slave Trade, which eventually initiated the Transatlantic Slave Trade and the Middle Passage.[8]

It was in1619 that the British brought 20 Africans slaves (or Indentured Servants) to Jamestown, Virginia, which led to the inception of Chattel Slavery being introduced in the so-called “New World” as it pertained to the British colonies.[9] The Spanish and the Portuguese had signed various agreements relative to dividing the world up between two European nations pursuant to the signing of the Papal Bull of Demarcation and the Treaty of Tordesillas in 1494 in which Spain would take most of lands in the New World with the exception of Brazil given to Portugal. This would eventually lead to ten to fifty million Africans being brought to the New World as slaves.[10]

Claud Anderson in his book titled, Black Labor, White Wealth stated: “Black slavery was, purely and simply, racial and economic exploitation, that caused economic revolutions and entrenched disparities between blacks and whites. Economically poor, non-industrialized nations of Europe, like Spain, Portugal, Germany, and England, commercialized human exploitation and suffering for the primary purpose of looting gold, silver and precious commodities in Africa and the New World. Old forms of mercantilism were converted to new capitalism. Banking, currency, and marketing reforms were created. Africa became a warren for the commercial hunting of strong ebony bodies. Subsequently, skin color became a sign of degradation for its wearer and a sign of wealth for its owner”.[11]  
                                                                                       European Settlers Enter the New World
The new European settlers who arrived in the 15^th century to the New World and landed on the eastern seaboard had many challenges relative to making adjustments to a new and unfamiliar geographical territory and landscape. They were concerned about survival as it pertained to their quest for food, clothing and shelter (in observance of the first law of survival, which is self-preservation, this became their main priority).[12] Some historians maintained that the Native Americans had arrived to North America some 16,000 years before the European Settlers arrival. The Europeans initially tried to enslave the Native Americans, but it was very difficult, because the Natives knew the land and territories, which gave them strategic and tactical advantages over the Europeans enslavers relative to exploiting escape routes.[13]

Also, they were not accustomed to working long unbearable hours under the hot sun and many Native Americans died from sickness and diseases from being in contact with the Europeans. Nevertheless, if it were not for the alliances and treaties that took place between the Native Americans and the European Settlers, which allowed for the early Settlers to survive; because of their keen knowledge of agriculture and agrarian society —planting, cropping and taught them how to grow food and which crops to plant based on the planting season, the gathering of food was essential to the early settlers survival. The Native Americans taught them about how important it was to rotate crops and if were not for these early alliances with the Native Americans such as the Creeks, Yamasees, Seminoles, etc., that attributed to the early settlers’ survival. [14]

Some historians maintain that the early settlers’ alliances with the Native Americans was pragmatic and beneficial to their ultimate survival in the ‘New Word’ and some even believe that the Lost Colony that was sent by Sir Walter Raleigh to Roanoke Island (now part of North Carolina) in 1587 who disappeared either died due to starvation and/or were massacred by warring Native American tribes. The geography of the eastern seaboard and the landscape were very dense with woods and forest (possessing hot summers and mild winters). However, the British had economic interest relative to seeking valuable natural resources (initially the fur trade was lucrative because of the abundance North American animal skins) and to further empowering the financial coffers of King James of England and Queen Elizabeth of England. The venturing into the so-called New World was motivated by the economic projections that there were possibility of gold and silver to be found and this was most the important variable to the Europeans explorers and colonists motivations throughout the Americas—from Vasco Núñez de Balboa, Ponce Da Leon, Amerigo Vespucci, Magellan, Desoto, etc., the European explorations were rooted in economic interest.[15]
The settlers were motivated to create a homestead and this would involve clearing off land in order to pursue agriculture and farming and develop these territories into livable homesteads. Slavery would play a huge role in the development of America from clearing off land, agriculture, to building railroads, etc. and creating infrastructure.
                                                                                                           The Advent of Chattel Slavery
Some historians argue that the first African slaves arrived to North America on a Slave Ship piloted my Sir John Hawkins of Lubeke in 1555 and it was this event, which led to chattel slavery, but most historians agree that the first slaves arrived to Jamestown, Virginia in 1619 (some argue that they were initially viewed as indentured servants). Nevertheless, the exploitation of black human labor made its way on the scene in North America. W.E.B Dubois in his book titled, The Suppression of the African Slave Trade 1638-1870, maintained that anywhere from 10-20 millions Africans where brought to America as slaves and millions died in Africa and crossing the Atlantic Ocean and on the plantations.[16] Slavery flourished throughout America, in particular in Southern agriculture states and in the white plantation owners mind they had one main and essential interest, which was maintaining slavery—the foundation of the Confederate Southern economy.             
                                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                           The Civil War 
James McPherson in an article titled: “A Brief Overview of the American Civil War: A Defining Time In Our Nation’s History” stated: “The event that triggered war came at Fort Sumter in Charleston Bay on April 12, 1861. Claiming this United States Fort as their own, the Confederate army on that day opened fire on the federal garrison and forced it to lower the American flag in surrender. Lincoln called out the militia to suppress this ‘insurrection’. Four more slave states seceded and joined the Confederacy. By the end of 1861 nearly a million armed men confronted each other along a line stretching 1200 miles from Virginia to Missouri. Several Battles had already taken place—near Manassas Junction in Virginia, in the mountains of western Virginia where Union victories’ paved the way for the new state of West Virginia, at Wilson’s Creek in Missouri, at Cape Hatteras in North Carolina, and Port Royal in South Carolina where the Union navy established a base for a blockade to shut off the Confederacy’s access to the outside world”.[17] 

There were a number of key battles that was fought between1861-1865 pitting the Confederates and Union troops against each other, although, this research will not focused primarily on that aspect of the Civil War, nevertheless these conflicts cannot be entirely omitted. For example, First Battle of Bull Run in Virginia, between Washington, D.C., and Richmond (July 21, 1861); the Battle of Shiloh (April 1962); the Battle of Antietam (September 7, 1862), the Siege of Vicksburg (May 18 – July 4, 1863) etc. And there were many more Civil War battles fought between the Union troops and the Confederate troops. But this research was geared towards giving attention to, why did the United States Civil War break out in 1861?

So this writer believes that the Civil War (1861-1865) was inevitable and it was going to happen whether, it was Lincoln or some other social or political phenomenon (the quest for black freedom was starting to rise as a social antagonistic contradiction inside of America). However, Lincoln was extremely intelligent, he knew that, if he so-called freed slaves in the South, this would serve, as a strategic and tactical political maneuver employed, as an objective of weakening the South (he knew and understood this was a serious point of contention). Although, the South in theory had already succeeded from the Union and Lincoln had no jurisdiction and/or power or authority over the governance of the South—yet, both sides, the North and South used the black slave as a political football. President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1963 stated: “all persons held as slaves within any State, or designated part of the State, the people whereof shall be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free”.[18]

Lincoln's motive was to cripple the South economically and simultaneously incite blacks to become disrupted, which would ultimately affect an agriculture based economy that functioned and prospered off slave labor. The aristocratic white property owners incited poor white Confederates by imparting a false sense of white pride, which was rooted in the ideology of white supremacy and that they had a mandate from God to ensure that Black slaves would forever remain their property who were considered unequal to whites according to the language written in the U.S. Constitution, blacks were considered 3/5 of a human being. The Confederates built a racist patriotic theme of why they were going to war—to so-called defend their sovereignty from Union infringement on the southern institution of slavery and this gave them the right to secede from the Union, which was based on their interpretation of states right.[19]

But beneath this argument and rationale, was their effort of maintaining slavery, which was rooted in racism and economics. The Confederates in the South felt that the Civil War was the only route left to challenging the federal government and their centralization of authority and control over Southern slave states, and the North simultaneously would use the Civil War to keep the United States from becoming potentially twenty independent and splintered nations. The North fought the war to rein the Southern states back into the Union and the question of slavery was a mere secondary causation factor (the first being preserving the Union) but would have primary implications on why both sides had a vested interest in the question of slavery.

Jefferson Davis and Robert Lee, the faces of the Confederate South had declared that the South would secede from the Union before they would capitulate and give up slavery. The South viewed slavery strictly as an economic necessity (many revisionist scholars have always questioned the moral ineptness of this evil institution) and these wealthy white plantation owners were not willing to cripple their profitable economic enterprise by giving up their labor force without a fight. Some African Americans view Abraham Lincoln as a national hero, because he so-called freed the slaves on September 22, 1962 with the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation (but actually it would ultimately be the Thirteen Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1865 that truly abolished slavery); however the slaves that Lincoln freed in the Confederate South, he had no jurisdiction over those slaves (this was the social and political dichotomy his decision rendered).

David Herbert Donald in his book titled, Why The North Won the Civil War stated: “was the political system of the South to blame, as so many historians persuasively argue? What was the germ of death planted in the Confederacy at birth? Was it possible to create a nation on the basis of states rights, to fight a war, which required centralization of authority, on the basis of particularism? Well, the United States has been created on the basis—at least so Southern thought (and so the Articles of Confederation asserted)—and had managed to win independence nonetheless. Was it perhaps slavery the cause not only of the war, but of Southern defeat? There is a seductive poetic appeal about such an explanation. Perhaps slavery was the Achilles’ heel of the South. Slavery prevented foreign recognition; slavery gave the North a new goal and a new ideal; slavery encouraged states rights; slavery in the end weakened the economy and military effort more that it strengthened them.’[20]                                   
                                                                                                       The South loses the Civil War         
The South lost the Civil War and most reasonable historians would agree that slavery was the central theme of the Civil War (1861-1865) conflict, because it was the economic driving force of the nation at that time and perhaps the most value commodity in the history of America; but one should not be mistaken, because both the North and the South benefited from slave labor. This writer recently read a piece authored by Donald W. Livingston titled, “Why the War Was Not About Slavery” Livingston stated: “We think of slavery as an alien and "un-American" practice confined to the South in the 19th century. But an honest look at American history reveals a quite different picture. Slavery was woven into the economic, political, and cultural fabric of the Northern states from the beginning. The first African slaves were brought to New England in 1638 in exchange for enslaved Indians. Boston began importing slaves from Africa in 1644. For 164 years New Englanders sold slaves throughout the Western Hemisphere”.[21]  
                           
                                                   Civil War Historiography: Contradictory Historical Thoughts
Lastly, the historiography, was vast and contradictory on the history of the Civil War relative to the cause and effect and there were a wide range of diverse historical interpretations and opinions. Harry Steels Commager in his book titled, The Defeat of the Confederacy: A Documentary , he maintained that North had better resources monetarily and militarily (better armament, equipment and more human resources) and this gave the North a clear advantage over the South during Civil War and he also points out the South having ‘lost of nerve’.[22] Commager argument does stands to have some validity based other historians also pointed out similar contentions relative to the reasons for the North’s successful victory over the South and were equally critical in blaming some level of intellectual and military incompetency relative to the mindset of the Confederate leadership and poor military infrastructure (reference: scholars such as David Potter, Norman Graebner, T. Harry Williams and Harry Steels Commager, etc.).[23]

The North as this writer stated above had a distinct economic advantage, because almost all of the nation’s factories were been located in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states (industrialism was evident—machinery and mechanized armament). Students of military history such as T. Harry Williams, J.F. Fuller, B.H. Liddell Hart and Kenneth P. Williams agrees that the North had superior availability to assets and resources and this placed the Southern Confederate at a distinct disadvantage,[24] and also the African American Historian Charles H. Wesley in his book titled Collapse of the Confederacy, agrees with above historians, as well. The Union also had nearly twice the South’s population and thus, a larger pool of young available men to pull from and to serve in the Union arm forces. However, the South defeated the Union1861 in South Carolina when they attacked Fort Sumter, thus the Confederacy defeating Union troops at the First Battle of Bull Run in spite of the stated factors—initially this win spoke volumes of the Confederate preparedness and readiness to fight.

Now, furthering, the question of slavery, historian Ulrich B. Phillips in his seminar work titled, Life and Labor in the Old South he wrote as a sympathizer and as an apologist of Southern Confederate slave states in which he interpreted, the institution of Chattel Slavery as being benevolent and good for the African slaves. Phillips’ scholarship was no doubt in defense of the white Elite planters class, he stated: “The bulk of the black personnel was notoriously primitive, uncouth, improvident and inconstant, merely because they were Negroes of the time and by their slave status they were relieved from the pressure of want and debarred from any full-force incentive of gain”.[25]

But it was this type of racist reactionary scholarship that gave way to the work of John Blassingame in a book titled, Slave Community who challenged this contention that the slaves were happy loyal and docile and were content with being a slave on the plantation in which he pointed to three distinct personalities that evolved from plantation life, but often in American slave literature, it is always the ‘Sambo’ character that gets the most attention and the defiant slave personality that the slave plantation also created was often overlooked.[26] Phillips’ scholarship was an attempt to justify slavery and bring credibility and justification to white slave plantation owners and protect their economic interest and define their place in American history as a dubious and justifiable evil.      

The Southern wealthy white property owners financed and used poor white Confederate soldiers as mere cannon fodder and would literally do almost anything to maintain and protect their economic interest—slavery had not only become a way of life in America, it was big business. The passing of 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution ended slavery and freed the slaves in 1865 and it was not the Emancipation Proclamation, as many have come to accept. I think one must come to the realization that slavery was wrong and evil; it was justified based on economics, theology and the American jurisprudence system (law and God). There was no other way to look at the ‘peculiar institution’ other than being morally wrong; moreover, it was this compromised labor force that propelled the United States and the South, in particular into the Civil War (the bloodiest battle in American history). It was extremely economically prosperous to the Elitist plantation and property owners or Bourgeoisie class, but worked to the detriment of the African slaves who were victims of systematic brutality due to their enslavement and cause massive social disruption to African societies. Slavery gave the United States as a nation a 300 year economic advantage and made them into a world superpower nation, but no retribution has ever been made to the ex-slaves (not even the forty-acres and mule that were promised).

Fahim A. Knight-El Chief Researcher for KEEPING IT REAL THINK TANK located in Durham, NC; our mission is to inform African Americans and all people of goodwill, of the pending dangers that lie ahead; as well as decode the symbolism and reinterpreted the hidden meanings behind those who operate as invisible forces, but covertly rules the world. We are of the belief that an enlightened world will be better prepared to throw off the shackles of ignorance and not be willing participants for the slaughter. Our MOTTO is speaking truth to power. Fahim A. Knight-El can be reached at fahimknight@yahoo.com.
Stay Awake Until We Meet Again

Fahim A. Knight-El

             

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[1]Samuel Eliot Morrison, The Oxford History of the American People. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1965) 624. 
[2] Kenneth Stampp, The Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the Ante-Bellum South. (New York: Random House, 1956) 398-400.
[3] Charles A. Beard, An Economic Interpretation of the United States Constitution. (New York: Mcmillan and company, 1913) 6, 17-18.
[4] Carl N. Degler, Out of Our Past: The Forces That Shaped Modern America, (New York: Harper Colophon Books, 1959) 205.
[5] Merrill Jensen, The New Nation: A History of the United States. (New York Vintage Books, 1950) ix.
[6] David Herbert Donald, Why the North Won the Civil War. (New York: Touchstone, 1960), 14.
[7] Paul Finkelman, Slavery in the Court Room: An Annotated Bibliography of American Cases. (Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1949) 43-54.
[8] Richard Roscoe Miller, Slavery and Catholicism. (Durham, NC: North State Publishers, 1957) 22-69.  
[9] Lerone Bennett, Before the Mayflower: A History of Black America. (New York: Penguin Books, 1962) 28-29. 
[10] Ibid. Miller, 40-69.
[11] Claud Anderson, Black Labor, White Wealth: the Search for Power and Economic Justice. (Edgewood, MD: Duncan and Duncan, Inc., Publishers, 1994) 68.
[12]Henry Bamford Parkes, The United States of America: A History. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1963) 23-24.
[13]John Hope Franklin, From Slavery to Freedom: A History of Negro Americans; 5^TH Ed.. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1980) 13-14. 
[14] Samuel Eliot Morison, The Oxford History of the American People. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1965) 3-15.
 [15] John Henrik Clarke, Christopher Columbus and the Afrikan Holocaust. (New York: A& B Books Publishers, 1992) 57-58.  
[16] W.E. B. Dubois, The Suppression of the African Slave Trade 1638-1870. (New York: Kraus-Thomson organization Limited, 1973).
[17]James McPherson, “A Brief Overview of the American Civil War: A Defining Time in Our Nation’s History” Internet medium: (http://www.civilwar.org/education/history/civil-war-overview/overview.html).
[18]John Hope Franklin, From Slavery to Freedom: A History of Negro Americans; 5^TH Ed.. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1980)  214.
[19] Ida Hakim, Dorothy Blake Farden, Jamil Hakeem,& amp; Len Moritz, Reparations: The Cure for America’s Race Problem. (Hampton, Virginia: U.B. & U.S. Communications Systems, 1994) 121.
[20]David Herbert Donald, Why The North Won the Civil War .(New York: Touchstone, 1960) 
[21] Donald W. Livingston, Internet medium. “Why the War Was Not About Slavery” http://www.scv.org/pdf/Livingston.pdf                                                                
[22] Ibid., Commager. pp.10.   
[23] Ibid., pp. 10.
[24] Ibid., pp. 9.
[25] Ulrich B. Phillips, Life and Labor in the Old South. (South Carolina: University of South Carolina Press, 1929) XIX. 
[26] John W. Blassingame, The Slave Community: Plantation Life in the Antebellum South. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1972) 141-144.