Plantation politics: ''Are we there yet?''

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Plantation politics: ''Are we there yet?''
by ALTON H. MADDOX JR.
Originally posted 8/25/2005

By 1964, Black rebellions in the United States were
not novel. They had occurred for more than three
hundred years. Names commonly associated with Black
rebellions are Nat Turner, Denmark Vesey, Gabriel
Prosser, David Walker and Henry Highland Garnet. The
spirit of our ancestors was rising again.

Soon after President Lyndon Johnson was sworn in on
Air Force One, he started having migraines, and they
were not from the civil rights movement. Urban Blacks,
crying, ''Burn, Baby, Burn,'' were doing the damage at
home while the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution would prove
to be a fatal mistake. Johnson knew that he was in for
a bumpy ride, and Malcolm X was booking international
flights.

Johnson needed to offer the Black community a peace
pipe laced with dynamite. He chose August 6, 1965, to
sign the Voting Rights Act of 1965. August 6, 1965,
would be twenty years to the day after the United
States dropped an atomic bomb on Japan. Civil rights
leaders are still unaware of Johnson's malicious
intentions.

''No taxation without representation'' was the mantra
for the American Revolution. Crispus Attucks laid the
foundation for freeing the colonies. When the founding
fathers arrived in Philadelphia, they were all
suffering from amnesia. The people had fought for a
democracy. The framers authored a homophile timocracy
with the ''people'' being defined as white male
property holders.

After the Civil War, Congress had failed to give the
emerging Black ghetto a political structure.
Plantation politics, disguised as the Voting Rights
Act of 1965, would remedy this omission. The ghetto
had been a source of potential trouble under minority
while rule. Whites needed to authorize self-hating
Blacks, as neo-colonialists, to govern the Black
masses.

In 1965, Blacks were given the franchise to elect
their own plantation overseers, who would be
pre-screened by whites. An elective system of
frankpledge would emerge. These Black overseers would
be allowed to live large on the condition that the
Black masses are made to be too mentally tranquilized
to resist white oppression.

The state-sponsored assassination of Amadou Diallo was
a test case. Black leaders orchestrated mock
demonstrations, aided and abetted by the police, to
suppress Black rage. All cylinders, to veil the iron
fist, were proven to be functioning superbly. Black
leaders ended up calling for racial harmony after the
four assassins were acquitted and received promotions.
To create an illusion of power, Black elected
officials are allowed to attend legislative assemblies
but only as political proxies. Since Blacks spend
fewer than five cents out of every dollar with each
other, Black elected officials end up representing
whites. We are financing our own oppression.

Although Johnson had authored the Voting Rights Act of
1965 before ''Bloody Sunday,'' he chose to unveil the
Civil Rights Act of 1964, first, to destroy a market
for Black business. Johnson knew that Blacks would
jump at the opportunity to eat at Lester Maddox's
Pickwick Restaurant or sleep at the Dixie Motel. Thus,
No Economics! No Politics!

This was not the paradigm embedded in the
Constitution. Only kleptocrats were allowed to attend
the highly secretive Constitutional Convention of
1787. The Constitution empowered landlords and
creditors to oppress tenants and debtors. When Dr.
Martin L. King, Jr. declared war on the unequal
distribution of wealth, he was assassinated.

The Articles of Confederation had been a failure.
Since England had no written constitution, Benjamin
Franklin had to consult the Iroquois Confederacy. The
Iraqis are now debating the Iroquois' constitutional
blueprint, which also forms the legal basis for the
United Nations Charter.

These ''savages'' taught white men about the concept
of federalism, which is still haunting the United
States to this day. Federalism is critical to
commerce. At the end of the nineteenth century, Plessy
v. Ferguson decided this debate. Jim Crow was born in
order to terrorize Blacks for the next one hundred
years.

At the end of the twentieth century, George W. Bush, a
presidential candidate, summoned history to repeat
itself over issues of civil rights, gay rights and
abortion. The Democratic Party conspired with the
Republican Party to undo the Second Reconstruction by
suppressing the Black vote in 2000.

The voting rights legislation confirms the
fourth-class citizenship of Blacks in the United
States. It has the same value as a ticket on a horse
finishing fourth in the Kentucky Derby. None of our
civil rights fall within any provisions of the
Reconstruction Amendments.

Our civil rights, like the slave codes, fall under
positive law. The Fifteenth Amendment is an example of
a bait and switch scheme. By its own language,
enabling legislation is necessary to enforce it: ''The
Congress shall have power to enforce this article by
appropriate legislation.'' This constitutional
provision is not self-executing.

Johnson signed the voting rights law as term insurance
for five years to give white policyholders protection
against the risk of unruly Blacks fomenting urban
rebellions. Republicans saw its value as a pacifier
and extended it to 2007. Insurance companies have made
out like fat rats in a cheese factory.

Since this voting rights law has not allowed Black
voters to affect any public policy of the United
States, it is as though Black voters are still
disenfranchised. This is like picking cotton on the
plantation. Enslaved Africans enjoyed no benefits of
their labor. On the other hand, plantation politics,
in the main, has protected private property.
For the past forty years, political hustlers have
created a Black stock exchange for white political
candidates. Political endorsements, a seasonal hustle,
reap hefty commissions and give these political
parasites an opportunity to hibernate for the rest of
the year.

Traditionally, newspapers and organizations make
political endorsements. Today, these hustlers are
making racial endorsements for their own personal
gain. The white media is eating it up. Black voters
are portrayed as mindless and gullible sheep waiting
for a Black leader to give them marching orders.
After forty years of hallucinating about Black power
and being denied legal and political representation,
our condition, as a people, has gotten geometrically
worse. The misery index is ballooning. Plantation
politics has given Blacks an opportunity to do harm to
themselves. Lyndon Johnson is getting the last laugh.
Blacks are now asking, ''Are we there yet?''
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