Blacks Have Thrown in the Towel

It seems that the black population has decided that it is time to give up on the “Dream”. Is it because the replacement for universal freedom is touted by a very charismatic, young politician whose “skin looks like mine”? Or is it that they have just given up the fight? Universal Healthcare is a throwback to a time when Government wanted to control life rather than protect it. I remember learning about an era when the banner march of “Let Freedom Ring” continued into the streets and the mindsets of strong black Americans well after the death of Martin Luther King Jr. What happened to those freedom cries? Well, the Left happened. 

The left has perverted the idea of what it is to be black in America. They have destroyed the strong and powerful lineage of fighters for freedom. Where have all the leaders gone such as Crispus Attucks, Frederick Douglass, and Martin Luther King Jr., all who fought against the tyranny of Government in order to secure inexorable freedoms for their people? Where are those leaders today? They are on the Right.

Believe it or not, the only ones currently fighting for the same freedoms that our hero’s of the past fought for are on the right. The same ones that are called racist are the ones determined to keep our freedoms sacred. 

In 1639, Virginia instituted a law that allowed the population to carry firearms. The only exception to the law was [blacks]. 

Act X. All persons except [Blacks] are to be provided with arms and ammunitions or be fined at the pleasure of the governor and council.

This one act began a paradigm shift sending the Black race into the realm of inferiority. There were Royalty and Nobles, Gentlemen and Servants but not Blacks and Whites until the demarcation line was established. [Blacks] and only blacks were no longer allowed to protect themselves with arms. The freedoms that [blacks] enjoyed were being stripped away.

Since that time, the Black population moved from indentured servant where they could work for 3-7 years and then gain there freedom and land to the station of a lifetime of slavery. Freedoms were then completely eroded and did not fully return for another 314 years. It was not until 1964 did the enforcement of the myriad of proclamations, Constitutional Amendments and Civil Rights Laws became a reality. Yet today, the black population seems content in giving some of those freedoms back. 

The foundation of black America is intertwined in the history of the slave state, Black Codes and Jim Crow Laws. Why is that foundation crumbling today? Just as the Master controlled the Health Care of the slave, so too now we blacks ask for the same prescription once again. Where is the progress? Where is the fortitude to go it alone and fight for ones freedom from the Government? 

The left has always had contempt for the black population, maybe unknowingly but present nonetheless. They are perceived as the saviors when in actuality they are the destroyers. Universal Health Care is just one more example of the left determining that minorities are an inferior race. They justify their actions by claiming benevolence towards the poor. In truth, their actions justify a long held leftist paradigm that minorities can not take care of themselves. Minorities, as a race, are “inept”, “unable to advance” and “inferior” unless they are given a leg up, a subsidy or some kind of entitlement. Personally, I find it demeaning and offensive.

Frederick Douglass once spoke to a group of abolitionists in 1865 about “What the Black Man Wants”. He was very clear in his speech and said the following about slaves: 

…I know that we are inferior to you in some things--virtually inferior. We walk about you like dwarfs among giants. Our heads are scarcely seen above the great sea of humanity. The Germans are superior to us; the Irish are superior to us; the Yankees are superior to us; they can do what we cannot, that is, what we have not hitherto been allowed to do. But while I make this admission, I utterly deny, that we are originally, or naturally, or practically, or in any way, or in any important sense, inferior to anybody on this globe…

This charge of inferiority is an old dodge. It has been made available for oppression on many occasions…

…I understand the anti-slavery societies of this country to be based on two principles,--first, the freedom of the blacks of this country; and, second, the elevation of them. Let me not be misunderstood here. I am not asking for sympathy at the hands of abolitionists, sympathy at the hands of any. I think the American people are disposed often to be generous rather than just. I look over this country at the present time, and I see Educational Societies, Sanitary Commissions, Freedmen's Associations, and the like,--all very good: but in regard to the colored people there is always more that is benevolent, I perceive, than just, manifested towards us. What I ask for the [Black] is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice. The American people have always been anxious to know what they shall do with us. Gen. Banks was distressed with solicitude as to what he should do with the [Black]. Everybody has asked the question, and they learned to ask it early of the abolitionists, "What shall we do with the [Blacks]?" I have had but one answer from the beginning. Do nothing with us! Your doing with us has already played the mischief with us. Do nothing with us! If the apples will not remain on the tree of their own strength, if they are worm eaten at the core, if they are early ripe and disposed to fall, let them fall! I am not for tying or fastening them on the tree in any way, except by nature's plan, and if they will not stay there, let them fall. And if the [Black] cannot stand on his own legs, let him fall also. All I ask is, give him a chance to stand on his own legs! Let him alone! If you see him on his way to school, let him alone, don't disturb him! If you see him going to the dinner table at a hotel, let him go! If you see him going to the ballot- box, let him alone, don't disturb him! If you see him going into a work-shop, just let him alone,--your interference is doing him a positive injury. Gen. Banks' "preparation" is of a piece with this attempt to prop up the [Black]. Let him fall if he cannot stand alone! If the [Black] cannot live by the line of eternal justice…the fault will not be yours, it will be his who made the [Black], and established that line for his government. Let him live or die by that.

In the slave state, the care of ones own health was especially sacred. It was the most protected asset of [blacks] because it represented the only wealth that one had. It was the only thing of value that a slave still retained within himself. Even if he had no freedoms, at least he had his own body to do with as he pleases. If he became injured, it was a cat and mouse game to avoid the care provided by the “Master”. The “Master” could invade that which was most sacred to a slave, his body. Today, the black population readily gives up that Freedom and that Right.

There have also been numerous cases of the benevolent government structure sanctioning experiments against those of an inferior race. The Tuskegee Syphilis Study in Alabama allowed black men to wallow in disease for years only to view the effects of the disease on their health. The men thought they were actually being treated when they were being given aspirin. The study ran from 1932 to 1972. Nurse Eunice Rivers, a black women was the linchpin of the study since she gained the trust of the poor black men. She was the only member of the study to remain for the duration. Nearly 399 men died in the experiment after succumbing to horrific maladies. The government compensated the families and survivors with $9 million dollars and free health care for life. There are countless examples in the annuls of history referring to the brutality perpetrated on unsuspecting minorities in the name of medical progress. Why don’t we remember these events before we decide to hand over our health care to a Health Care Choices Commissioner appointed by the President? Do I really think that President Obama has malevolent intentions with Single Payer Universal Health Care? Not in the least. But that’s not the point. I don’t trust government and neither should you. President Obama may be in office for another seven years at the most, who then will be in control of your health care? Whether you are on the right or left, you should be concerned. Especially if you are black, with our history, we should be concerned. 

Today, the black population has a 25% poverty rate. That is 3 times more that the white population. Even in the best of Universal Health Care systems such as the one in Sweden, the care becomes rationed and the costs increase over time. Everyone is forced to visit their local Doctor and you can not move your care from town to town. You are stuck in your local. This saves money but it also leads to rationed care. When the premise for the overall redesign of Health Care is about saving money above better care, those on the lower rung of the ladder get hurt the most. Do you really think that subsidized care will be equal to the care that is not? When you don’t pay for it yourself, you have little to no rights. Beggars can’t be choosers! It may not be in the bill or law that may pass but it will be the understood truth. You can’t expect equal care if you don’t pay for it equally. In this Health Care Utopia, who gets to try out the new drugs that come out on the market, who gets to use the lesser effective yet cheaper drugs, who will get the most needed transplant, those that pay into the system or those that get paid by the system? 

At least today you have a choice. At least today you can build a relationship with your doctor to pay less for your care. At least today, you may be able to barter for your care rather than paying cash. At least today you have choices and options. With Universal Health Care, the Health Care Choices Commissioner, appointed by the President will determine your choices for you. It may save money, but it is not Freedom.