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[June 5, 2004 Smithsonian Magazine; "Off The Beaten Track" by Paul Maliszewski
on insurance salesman daughter Felicia Blackman of Alabaman single mother-of-
nine Annie Blackman; 1965 photo (smm4605.jpg) by Bruce Davidson.]
[The poverty of the underclass Afro-American's 'culture' (not a small part of
which is 'easy' reproduction and 'casual' child-bearing-and-rearing) is
manifest in the 'substance' of his endemic idlemind-occupation, his
'easy creation of primitive idioms' in the absence -facility, education,
capability et cetera- of 'something better to do': the 'pidginized english
creation' of 'African-root' or 'catchily-singular', sometimes unpronounceable
first-names (Acquendolyn, Deasianique, Pleajhai); 'dissing' and other
'language'; 'jheri' nails and 'high fives'; break-dancing and skewed baseball-
caps, and the clowning in general that the enslaving White had come to
expect -and adopt in his own, eventually-present-day idlemind-occupation. Born
out of 'nothing better to do', 'incantatory, thumping rap', for example, -
informationally empty 'social comment' that has not even some 'artfully
primitive' musicianship about it, boom-box-and-all harkening to prohominid
evolution itself- does nothing more than provide some 'sense of being' where
there is none for the unemployed and only rudimentally employable Afro-American
'at the bottom of the pile'. -It is not out of sensitivity to light that many
Afro-American males wear 'shades' (even at night), but out of 'intimidational
value'. (-See 'idle-mind occupation' in Kernel Properties
of The Hominid Organism.)]
As to experience- having nothing upon 'emancipation' and being essentially
irrelevant to civilizational progress except as expendable labor, the
Afro-American eventually forgot 'how to ask questions'. Passed on from
generation to generation -that ignorance become idiomatic and endemic, the
underclass Afro-American child today does not know how to 'learn by asking
questions' because his parents, critically in one's first formative years, had
not themselves 'learned how to ask questions' -has learned rather, 'faking
learned cool'. Ignorant Whitey in turn, sees only ignorance 'greater than his
own' (purely circumstantial) and wonders further if the Afro-American is not
really 'just stupid and lazy'. -The Afro-American has thus-far been, in
reality, an unenfranchised aborigine trying to keep from drowning under
advancing civilization.
The world of business and money essentially White, the
Afro-American's 'success' in it is generally marked by its 'assimilation' of
him, and his assimilation in turn, of Whitey's more massive life-style-
and-quality (the
Afro-American becoming 'white', in effect) -nor could it be other than such
supercession of 'Afro-American idiom and experience' which, however promoted by
his lesser compatriots among themselves, the 'successful' (and intermarrying)
Afro-American does not observe as 'essentially meaningless and insignificant'.
The Marsalis's, Colin Powell, Tiger Woods and Quincy Jones for example, all
'speak English' and care little about 'self-esteem' and
the 'socially-critical substance of rap', about 'Black Studies' and other
'hokily affirmative-action perpetrations'. Dennis Rodman, 'OJ', Mike Tyson and
(yes!) Snoop Doggy Dog meanwhile -their children and/or relatives likewise
better taken care of and at least 'more attentively' educated, bootstrap
themselves out of that 'essentially unemployable underclass' by what is a
Whitey-subscribed-and-supported exploitation of that 'Afro-American idiom and
experience'.
['Rap', it should be observed is NOT reporting 'the realities of Afro-American
life' as generally defended -'white rapping' not much different; it is rather,
ranting that makes money under 'American capitalist democracy free enterprise' -
whatever sells to an American public generally well-to-do enough to indulge its
casualness out of McDonalds-level 'knowledge' and time on its hands.
Rappers in general, furthermore, have 'no employable talent other than rapping'
-one doesn't have to be a mental giant to see 'thug life' in association.]
ASSIMILATION
The majority of Afro-Americans -generally 'unsuccessful'
and 'on the outside, looking in'- are in the unenviable position of having to
'ask' for various conditions and opportunities in 'American democracy' thru
which they too, may 'be equal and share the American dream'(*6). Neither Whitey nor the Afro-American however, knows what
the latter needs in this respect -and worse, any Afro-American assimilation -
and employment, consequently- is subject to the more serious influence of world-
wide overpopulation (America included) on economics and unemployment(*7). That overpopulation will be found 'unsustainable under what
the system can bear', and its control will, necessarily, 'affect some element
of Afro-American ethnic extraction'. The Afro-American's logistical
problem then, is to 'meld into ethnic American' as soon and fast as possible -
race/color, economic capability and life-style-and-quality- 'before the
disaster begins to set'.
'Equal opportunity' and 'affirmative action' are Whitey's 'dealing with
the lesser Afro-American' where instead of dragging the Afro-American up,
Whitey suffers the 'nuisance' (and burden) of letting him drag himself up; the
'lesser', consequently, has nothing to do except be 'lesser'. What the
Afro-American needs is a massive reconstitution of those 'condescensions' to
center them, uncompromisingly, upon miscegenation and monoculturalism, and what
the successful
Afro-American should do in this respect is 'whatever necessary' to force
both Whitey and the 'lesser' into bringing the latter into that 'equivalent
economic capability and life-style-and-quality': paid internship, pure
and simple, for whatever job of valid interest and in whatever education
necessary(*8) -nor does this mean either equal or less than
poverty-level pay when the learner/student has 'yet to earn his keep'. And
last, the Afro-American must also understand that Whitey should NOT have to
'suffer him his idiom and experience' -must understand that mankind in general,
miscegenating, will eventually and properly advance beyond 'suffering any one
or other culture' at all.
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