We all heard Martin Luther King preach that, "We Shall Over Come". It seemed like a very good idea, but exactly what did it mean? That is the point of this blog.
After the events in Ferguson, we keep hearing people spouting that "we shall over come". Next, we hear cheers from the crowds of people. They all seem to agree and that is good, but what are they agreeing too? What I am trying to do is to point out how hollow all this bluster is. What action does a statement like, "we shall over come" call for or exactly what is advocating? Don't know do you? That is why simple minded statements like the above are worthless when it comes to solving what ever is the real problem. Now we are getting to the point.
What is the problem that "we shall over come" proposes to solve? In the case of Ferguson, do we need some kind of "leader" or Judas to "lead" the people in the right direction? I think that I know why the Black community is far down the economic and quality of life ladder. When Martin Luther King promised that "we shall over come", he was setting up a straw man that the reason that Blacks were so far down the ladder was because some White person was holding down the poor Black person. If you feel that is true, then the solution is simple. All we need to do is to find that bad White person and get them to stop holding down that Black person. The fact that we can never find that White person is because they do not exist. That is just a straw man fraud. Notice that in the above and all discussion is centered around some kind of "central" authority magically moving the Black community up the economic and quality of life ladder. This business of "central" is at the heart of the problem with the whole effort.
What is needed is to get off the whole "central" control logic and think in terms of "distributed" control like honey bees and ants. In a distributed control system, each member controls and directs themselves, not some central King or Queen. What the Black community has to do is for each individual to take control of their own actions and not wait for some kind of magic control to come from some centralized King or President. Dose a Black person need the President to tell them to get out of bed in the morning and go to school, or do they have to just get themselves out of bed and go to school? It is the individual who needs to do the right thing. If every Black as an individual just did the right simple things that Black person would start to take small steps up that ladder. If that individual avoided doing things that brought them back down the ladder, eventually they would end up much higher up the ladder.
Do Blacks need the President to make sure they go to school and study? Do Blacks need the President to keep them from doing crime or drugs? Do Blacks need the President to keep them from knocking up their girl friends out of wedlock? Do Blacks need the President to keep them from killing other Blacks? Do Blacks expect the President to make Whites give Blacks "respect" or do individual Blacks have to conduct themselves in such a way as to earn respect from non Blacks?
The reason that a hive of honey bees works is because each bee takes care of himself and works as an individual bee for the welfare of the hive. It is the same for ants. If this distributed system has worked so well for so many million years for honey bees and ants, why don't you think that it is not the solution for the Black community?
PS----I just listened to Holder's speech about Ferguson. His position was that Blacks do not trust the Ferguson police department and that he is going to investigate to see if the police department is doing every thing possible to get the Blacks to trust the department. He did not seem to be concerned that the department may have followed 100% of every law and he did not seem to be concerned that the Black community just might need to change in some way. It seems the police department follows the law, so is it because Blacks don't like the laws or that they don't understand the law? Given that over 50% of Black males don't finish high school, that maybe one of the reasons.
Holder also said that the Blacks were marching for "justice". Why didn't Holder tell the Blacks that they have had justice under the rule of law of the USA and what they were doing was in violation of the law of the USA? He should have reminded the Black community that his job is see that the laws are evenly enforced and that is exactly what just happened. The reason that so many Blacks are in jail is because Blacks commit most of the crimes.
After the events in Ferguson, we keep hearing people spouting that "we shall over come". Next, we hear cheers from the crowds of people. They all seem to agree and that is good, but what are they agreeing too? What I am trying to do is to point out how hollow all this bluster is. What action does a statement like, "we shall over come" call for or exactly what is advocating? Don't know do you? That is why simple minded statements like the above are worthless when it comes to solving what ever is the real problem. Now we are getting to the point.
What is the problem that "we shall over come" proposes to solve? In the case of Ferguson, do we need some kind of "leader" or Judas to "lead" the people in the right direction? I think that I know why the Black community is far down the economic and quality of life ladder. When Martin Luther King promised that "we shall over come", he was setting up a straw man that the reason that Blacks were so far down the ladder was because some White person was holding down the poor Black person. If you feel that is true, then the solution is simple. All we need to do is to find that bad White person and get them to stop holding down that Black person. The fact that we can never find that White person is because they do not exist. That is just a straw man fraud. Notice that in the above and all discussion is centered around some kind of "central" authority magically moving the Black community up the economic and quality of life ladder. This business of "central" is at the heart of the problem with the whole effort.
What is needed is to get off the whole "central" control logic and think in terms of "distributed" control like honey bees and ants. In a distributed control system, each member controls and directs themselves, not some central King or Queen. What the Black community has to do is for each individual to take control of their own actions and not wait for some kind of magic control to come from some centralized King or President. Dose a Black person need the President to tell them to get out of bed in the morning and go to school, or do they have to just get themselves out of bed and go to school? It is the individual who needs to do the right thing. If every Black as an individual just did the right simple things that Black person would start to take small steps up that ladder. If that individual avoided doing things that brought them back down the ladder, eventually they would end up much higher up the ladder.
Do Blacks need the President to make sure they go to school and study? Do Blacks need the President to keep them from doing crime or drugs? Do Blacks need the President to keep them from knocking up their girl friends out of wedlock? Do Blacks need the President to keep them from killing other Blacks? Do Blacks expect the President to make Whites give Blacks "respect" or do individual Blacks have to conduct themselves in such a way as to earn respect from non Blacks?
The reason that a hive of honey bees works is because each bee takes care of himself and works as an individual bee for the welfare of the hive. It is the same for ants. If this distributed system has worked so well for so many million years for honey bees and ants, why don't you think that it is not the solution for the Black community?
PS----I just listened to Holder's speech about Ferguson. His position was that Blacks do not trust the Ferguson police department and that he is going to investigate to see if the police department is doing every thing possible to get the Blacks to trust the department. He did not seem to be concerned that the department may have followed 100% of every law and he did not seem to be concerned that the Black community just might need to change in some way. It seems the police department follows the law, so is it because Blacks don't like the laws or that they don't understand the law? Given that over 50% of Black males don't finish high school, that maybe one of the reasons.
Holder also said that the Blacks were marching for "justice". Why didn't Holder tell the Blacks that they have had justice under the rule of law of the USA and what they were doing was in violation of the law of the USA? He should have reminded the Black community that his job is see that the laws are evenly enforced and that is exactly what just happened. The reason that so many Blacks are in jail is because Blacks commit most of the crimes.
