Getting Down With the Founders

Unfortunately, many Americans, who just happen to be “melanin-ally endowed,” find it difficult to accept that most incredible document of this nation, the US Constitution. Instead of having an appreciation for what is the greatest work of representational government in history, they feel cheated of its freedom because it did not initially include everyone.

Slavery was the Constitution’s greatest sin, but in 17th century America it was ingrained in everyday life. Since the stream of indentured servants has essentially stopped, slavery became the cheap labor of the day working mainly in agriculture on the plantations in the South, sort of like the undocumented workers of today. Perhaps, slaves then were doing the jobs no early American wanted to do.

Unfortunately, slavery and racism were truly the norm of the pre 20th century world. In fact, in many places these scourges of humanity still exist. Many founders grew up with and inherited their slaves, and many weren’t comfortable with that arrangement. George Washington, America’s first president actually freed his slaves after his death.

While America’s founders were far from perfect, pro-regressives use those faults to literally drive a wedge with one of this nation’s important minorities. They conveniently forget that the North Africans actually enslaved more Europeans than there were slaves in the US and treated their captives far worse. Pro-regressives believe erroneously that only white people can be racist.

So, successful have been pro-regressives in their propaganda, they created one of the most dependable voting blocks for progressing pro-regressive politics. Yet, very few turn the spotlight of racism on pro-regressives themselves. If they did, they’d see that pro-regressives have many skeletons in this regard in their closet as well.

Karl Marx is the founder of the pro-regressive movement. Author of the Communist Manifesto, he fathered communism and coined its most infamous phrase, “to each according to his need, from each according to his ability.” So many have succumbed to this siren of socialism that Marx, a white German, has become a cult hero to unions like the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and civil-rights organizations like ACORN. Both are close allies of President Obama.

But, a little known fact that many don’t know about Marx is that he was without doubt an ardent racist as well as an anti-Semite. In fact, Marx has a lot in common and was an inspiration for another German who only decades later attempted to implement Marxism to purify the Aryan race by murdering millions. His name was Adolf Hitler, and no he wasn’t on the extreme right as pro-regressives always propagandize.

From Marx’s writings, he really didn’t think well of minorities. Of Mexicans, he wrote, “Is it a misfortune that magnificent California was seized from the lazy Mexicans who did not know what to do with it?” If he could be resurrected from the dead, he’d probably be an ardent supporter of Arizona’s new immigration law.

In 1862 Marx wrote of a political competitor, “He, … by his cranial formation and his hair, descends from the Negroes from Egypt, assuming that his mother or grandmother had not interbred with an N-word.” And Marx continued, “Now this union of Judaism and Germanism with a basic Negro substance must produce a peculiar product. The obtrusiveness of the fellow is also N-word-like.” Fredrick Engels, his partner in Communism crime, held similar racists beliefs.

True, neither of these men ever owned slaves, but would they had any problems with their conscience if they had? And racism wasn’t just confined to pro-regressivism’s founders, but also many of its adherents.

During the purges of the 1930’s Stalin targeted Jews, Moslems and Mongolians. Lucky survivors found themselves impoverished, enslaved, and worse in Siberia. During Soviet times Kremlin pictures contained virtually no women or minorities in the Politburo.

Then, there’s Che Guevara, Fidel Castro’s right hand man in the Cuban revolution. Many famous people wear Che tattoos and shirts like Mike Tyson and Carl Santana. Neither has probably read “The Motorcycle Diaries,” which demonstrates clearly Che’s racism, anti-Semitism and homophobia.

Che wrote, “The black is indolent and a dreamer; spending his meager wage on frivolity or drink; the European has a tradition of work and saving…” He also wrote, “The blacks, those magnificent examples of the African race who have maintained their racial purity thanks to their lack of an affinity with bathing, have seen their territory invaded by a new kind of slave: the Portuguese."

Unfortunately, racism is the norm not the exception in this world. What all Americans should do is work for a post racial America, What’s done is done. There’s no changing the past. Slavery and segregation were wrong but continuously reliving them or even inflicting them on others would be misguided at best and most likely would cause future racial disunity.