by Paul Craig Roberts
We often hear that we need a conversation on race. Considering that Americans are a brainwashed people living in a false history, such a conversation would resemble the one the Russians were expected to have with the British in regard to the Skripal poisoning: “Yes, we are guilty. We will pay reparations. Where would you like us to send Putin for trial?” In other words, the only acceptable race conversation in the US is one in which white people accept the accusation that they are racist and offer to make amends.
Considering that the only slavery experienced by any living black or white person is income tax slavery, race is an issue only because it has been orchestrated as an issue along with gender and sexual preference. These divisive issues are the products of Identity Politics spawned by cultural Marxism.
In real Marxism, conflict is class conflict. Workers and capitalists have different interests, and history is a struggle between material interests. The capitalist is the villain and the workers are the victims.
In the pseudo Marxism of Identity Politics, the white race is the villain, especially the white heterosexual male, and racial minorities, women, and homosexuals are the victims.
There is, of course, no such thing as a white or black race. There are many different nationalities of whites, and they have done a good job throughout history of killing each other. Similarly, there are many different black tribes and Asian ethnicities who also have fought more among themselves than with others. But all of this goes by the wayside, along with the fact that in the world the “racial minorities” are actually majorities and the “white majority” is actually a minority. There are more Chinese or Indians alone than there are white people.
But orchestrated histories are not fact-based.
The working class, designated by Hillary Clinton as “the Trump deplorables,” is now the victimizer, not the victim. Marxism has been stood on its head.
The American ruling class loves Identity Politics, because Identity Politics divides the people into hostile groups and prevents any resistance to the ruling elite. With blacks screaming at whites, women screaming at men, and homosexuals screaming at heterosexuals, there is no one left to scream at the rulers.
The ruling elite favors a “conversation on race,” because the ruling elite know it can only result in accusations that will further divide society. Consequently, the ruling elite have funded “black history,” “women’s studies,” and “transgender dialogues,” in universities as a way to institutionalize the divisiveness that protects them. These “studies” have replaced real history with fake history.
For example, it was once universally known that black slavery originated in slave wars between black African tribes. Slaves were a status symbol, but they accumulated beyond the capacity of tribes to sustain. The surplus was exported first to Arabs and then to English, Spanish, and French who founded colonies in the new world that had resources but no work force. The socialist scholar Karl Polanyi, brother of my Oxford professor Michael Polanyi, told the story of the origin of the African slave trade in his famous book, Dahomey and the Slave Trade.
The first slaves in the new world were white. When real history was taught, this was widely understood. Movies were even made that showed that in King George III’s England, the alternative to criminal punishment was to be sold as a slave in the colonies. See, for example.
[Update: Readers have identified the movie in the broken link. It is Cecil B. DeMille’s “Unconquered” starring Gary Cooper and Paulette Goddard.]
Among the first New World lands to be exploited by the Europeans were the Carribean Islands, which were suitable for sugar and rice production. The problem was that the white slaves died like flies from malaria and yellow fever. The Spanish lack of success with a work force of natives of the lands they conquered led those in search of a work force to the slave export business of the black Kingdom of Dahomey. The demand for black workers rose considerably when it was discovered that many had immunity to malaria and resistance to yellow fever. This meant that a plantation’s investment in a work force was not wiped out by disease.
The resistance of blacks to malaria is due to the protective feature of the sickle cell trait that, apparently, only blacks have.
Slavery existed in the New World long before the United States came into existence. George Washington and Thomas Jefferson are today written off by Identity Politics as racists simply because they were born when slavery was a pre-existing institution.
Slavery had existed for many centuries prior to the Confederacy. Yet, in some accounts today one comes away with the impression that the South invented slavery. As the tale sometimes goes, Southern racists so hated blacks that they went to Africa, captured blacks at great expense, only to return them to the South where they whipped and abused their investments to the point of death and demoralized their work force by breaking up black families, selling children in one direction and wives and husbands in the other. This tale is not told as an occasional abuse but as the general practice. Economically, of course, it makes no sense whatsoever. But facts are no longer part of American history.
Northern states held slaves as well. However, the predominance of slaves were in the South. This was not because Southerners hated blacks. It was because the land in the South supported large agricultural cultivation, and there was no other work force. The South, like the United States, inherited slavery from the work force that European colonists purchased from the black Kingdom of Dahomey.
Why wasn’t there an alternative work force to slaves? The reason is that new immigrants by moving West could take land from the native Americans and be independent as opposed to being wage earners working on someone else’s land. The Western frontier did not close until about 1900. At the time of the War of Northern Aggression the Plains Indians still ruled west of the Mississippi River. It was Lincoln’s Northern war criminals, Sherman and Sheridan, who were sent to exterminate the Plains Indians. Ask the American natives, or what is left of them, who the racists are: the Northerners or the Southerners.
Black studies has even corrupted other aspects of history. Consider the so-called “civil war.” The name itself is an orchestration. There was no civil war. There was a War of Northern Aggression. A civil war is when two sides fight for control of the government. The South had left the union and had no interest whatsoever in controlling the government in Washington. The only reason the South fought was that the South was invaded by the North.
Why did the North invade the South? As was once understood by every historian and every student, Abraham Lincoln invaded the South in order, in Lincoln’s own words, expressed time and time again, “to preserve the Union.”
Why did the South leave the Union? Because it was being economically exploited by the North, which, once the North gained the ability to outvote the Southern states, imposed tariffs that benefited the North at the expense of the South. The North needed protection from British manufactures in order for the economic rise of the North. In contrast, the South’s economy was based on cotton exports to England and on cheap manufactures imported from England. Tariffs would bring the South higher cost of manufactured goods and retaliation against their cotton exports. The economic interests of the North and South did not coincide.
Slavery had nothing whatsoever to do with the war. Lincoln himself said so over and over. Prior to his invasion of the South, Lincoln and the Northern Congress promised the South Constitutional protection of slavery for all time if the Southern states would stay in the Union. Historians who have read and recorded the war correspondence of both Union and Confederacy soldiers to relatives and friends at home can find no one fighting for or against slavery. The Northern troops are fighting to preserve the union. The Southern ones are fighting because they are invaded.
Nothing could be clearer. Yet, the myth has been established that Abraham Lincoln went to war in order to free the slaves. In fact, Lincoln said that blacks were not capable of living with whites, who he said were superior, and that his intention was to send the blacks back to Africa. If America ever had a “white supremacist,” it was Abraham Lincoln.
What about the Emancipation Proclamation? Didn’t this order by Lincoln free the blacks? No. It was a war measure on which hopes were placed that, as almost every able-bodied Southern male was in the front lines, the slaves would revolt and rape the Southern soldiers’ wives and daughters, forcing the soldiers to desert the army and return home to protect their families. As Lincoln’s own Secretary of State said, the president has freed the slaves in the territories that the Union does not control and left them in slavery in the territory that the Union does control.
Why did Lincoln resort to such a dishonorable strategy? The reason is that Lincoln had run through all the Union generals and could not find one that could defeat Robert E. Lee’s vastly outnumbered Army of Northern Virginia.
The character and generalship of Robert E. Lee, who is dismissed by Identity Politics as a white racist, is so highly admired by the United States Army that the Barracks at West Point are named in Lee’s honor. Not even “America’s first black president” was able to change that. Black history also covers up the fact that Robert E. Lee was offered command of the Union Army. In those days Americans still saw themselves as citizens of their state, not as citizens of the US. Lee refused the offer on the grounds that he could not go to war against his native country of Virginia and resigned his US Army commission.
If Lee had been in command of the Confederacy at the First Battle of Bull Run when the Union Army broke and ran all the way back to Washington, Lee would have followed and the war would have ended with the South’s victory.
But Lee wasn’t there. Instead, the Southern generals concluded, watching the fleeing Union Army, that the Northerns could neither fight, retreat in order, or ride horses, and were no threat whatsoever. This conclusion overlooked the superior manpower of the North, the constant inflow of Irish immigrants who became the Union’s cannon fodder, the Northern manufacturing capability, and the navy that could block Southern ports and starve the South of resources.
During the first two years of the War of Northern Aggression the Union Army never won a battle against Lee’s vastly outgunned army. The North had everything. All the South had was valor. Lincoln was desperate. Opposition to his war was rising in the North. He had to imprison 300 Northern newspaper editors, exile a US Congressman, and was faced with the North’s most famous general running against him on a peace platform in the next election. Thus, Lincoln’s vain attempt to provoke a slave rebellion in the South. Why didn’t such allegedly horribly treated and oppressed slaves revolt when there was no one to prevent it but women and children?
Everything I have written in this column was once understood by everyone. But it has all been erased and replaced with a false history that serves the ruling elite. It is not only the ruling elite that has a vested interest in the false history of “white racism,” but also the universities and history departments in which the false history is institutionalized and the foundations that have financed black history, women’s studies, and transgender dialogues.
It was Reconstruction that ruined relations between blacks and whites in the South. The North stuffed blacks down the throats of the defeated South. Blacks were placed in charge of Southern governments in order to protect the Northern carpet baggers who looted and stole from the South. The occupying Union Army encouraged the blacks to abuse the Southern people, especially the women, as did the Union soldiers. The Klu Klux Klan arose as a guerrilla force to stop the predations. Robert E. Lee himself said that if he had realized how rapacious the North would prove to be, he would have led a guerrilla resistance.
The generations of Americans who have been propagandized instead of educated need to understand that Reconstruction did not mean rebuilding southern infrastructure, cities, and towns destroyed by the Union armies. It did not mean reconstructing southern food production. It meant reconstructing southern society and governance. Blacks, who were unprepared for the task, were put in control of governments so that carpetbaggers could loot and steal. Whites lost the franchise and protection of law as their property was stolen. Some areas suffered more than others from the Reconstruction practices, which often differed from, and were worse than, the policies themselves.
Reconstruction was a contentious issue even within the Republican Party. Neither president Lincoln nor Johnson would go along with the more extreme Republican elements. The extremism of the Reconstruction policies lost support among the northern people. When the Democrats regained control of the House of Representatives in the 1870s, Reconstruction was brought to an end.
In the South, and most certainly in Atlanta, where I grew up, schools were neighborhood schools. We were segregated by economic class. I went to school with middle class kids from my middle class neighborhood. I did not go to school with rich kids or with poor kids. This segregation was not racial.
When the North again got on its high moral horse and imposed school integration on the South, it disrupted the neighborhood school system. Now kids spent hours riding in school busses to distant locations. This destroyed the parent-teacher associations that had kept parental involvement and displinine in the schools. The South, being a commonsense people, saw all of this coming. The South also saw Reconstruction all over again. That, and not hatred of blacks, is the reason for the South’s resistance to school integration.
All of America, indeed of the entire West, lives in The Matrix, a concocted reality, except for my readers and the readers of a handful of others who cannot be compromised. Western peoples are so propagandized, so brainwashed, that they have no understanding that their disunity was created in order to make them impotent in the face of a rapacious ruling class, a class whose arrogance and hubris has the world on the brink of nuclear Armageddon.
History as it actually happened is disappearing as those who tell the truth are dismissed as misogynists, racists, homophobes, Putin agents, terrorist sympathizers, anti-semites, and conspiracy theorists. Liberals who complained mightily of McCarthyism now practice it ten-fold.
The brainwashing about the Russian and Muslim threats works for a number of reasons. The superpatriots among the Trump deplorables feel that their patriotism requires them to believe the allegations against Russia, Syria, Iran, and China. Americans employed in the vast military/security complex understand that the budget that funds the complex in which they have their careers is at stake. Those who want a wall to keep out foreigners go along with the demonization of Muslims as terrorists who have to be killed “over there before they come over here.” The Democrats want an excuse for having lost the presidential election. And so on. The agendas of various societal elements come together to support the official propaganda.
The United States with its brainwashed and incompetent population—indeed, the entirety of the Western populations are incompetent—and with its absence of intelligent leadership has no chance against Russia and China, two massive countries arising from their overthrow of police states as the West descends into a gestapo state. The West is over and done with. Nothing remains of the West but the lies used to control the people. All hope is elsewhere.
Paul, I follow your writings on http://www.rense.com and I find you are always sensible and definitely not biased toward the Republican Party who you served in politics.
This history you supplied on the so called Civil War is eye-opening to this Western Australian citizen. Since my venture into computers and my knowledge obtained via this technology, my previous lifetime accumulation of man’s history has been turned upside down, thanks to the previous lies told by so-called historians. Especially the written history of World Wars I and II.
My first break through into the real criminal activities of msm, politicians, intelligence agencies and police forces came while researching the event known as the Port Arthur Massacre in Tasmania. That was our 9/11 in so many ways.
Since then, because there was no criminal proceeding against the real culprits, I believe, this is why the Sydney Siege was able to have happened, in which three more lives were lost.
Just as WW1 was the mother of WW2 the destruction of Dixieland turned out to be the blueprint for every subsequent “all-in-the-name-of-liberation” Yankee invasion. It sure was THE turning point in U. S. history.
Paul Craig Roberts is listed in my website’s sources of information (oziz4ozoz.com How Australia was globalised), which should suggest I hold him in high esteem (along with most writers in Chossudovsky’s GlobalResearch.com), however, he seems to have gone a little overboard in this article.
Painting Lincoln as a monster is as historically invalid as painting blacks, immigrants, refugees, Muslims, homosexuals, and women as endemically GOOD, relative to their purported opposites, who are BAD.
We need to recall context… which is that until 1960, everybody was racist, and xenophobic, and bigoted. That was standard culture everywhere. Between 1960 and 1973, there was a generational rebellion against post-war belief-ism and mandatory conformity. From 1973 onward, the new age of PC commenced. Roberts gets that right.
Using democracy as a historical litmus test: the ancient Greeks supported democracy, but only for the 18.5% of people whose parents were Athenian-born. Thomas Paine supported democracy, but only for Christians. Abraham Lincoln supported democracy, but only for white races. Lord Acton supported democracy, but only for the educated part of the electorate.
When I was a kid, mixed marriages where whispered about, but these referred to the heresy of a white Catholic marrying a white Protestant. Nobody in polite society even conceived of marrying across race.. When people began doing this in the mid 1960s, the hippies celebrated it but everybody else looked on in shock and the expectation of automatic relationship disaster. “It’s just not natural”, was the immediate critique.
Even 1980s movies were careful to partner blacks with blacks and whites with whites.
Today, under-thirties do not give racially-mixed marriages a glance but the older generations continue to look askance; even if discreetly.
My point is that change has been eternal. What was right or wrong at any given time depended upon the ethic of the times. One cannot judge history by today’s standards and not look pretty bloody stupid. What Roberts did get right was that culture and morality and ethics and history today are almost entirely fabricated. For anyone under thirty, entirely fabricated.
Ironically, PC Roberts (pun intended) has commenced dividing and ruling on his own account. In contrast, I want effing immigrants sent back and to have the door slammed shut on all intending immigrants; not because I am an ignorant old white redneck, but because only 4% of this continent is arable, and that precious remnant is being destroyed by developers, inappropriate cultivation, monoculture crops, and chemical fertilisers. Moreover, our inadequate water resources are being threatened by fraccing, cotton, and rice. Ergo… our national food security is being destroyed. We cannot afford to have a higher population.
I want Muslims out because they will never accommodate Australian culture and language; and Sunnis have come to colonise us.
I could go on, but you get my drift.
It’s a pity Paul Craig Roberts had to go overboard and emulate the very propagandists he so rightly condemns.
“My point is that change has been eternal. What was right or wrong at any given time depended upon the ethic of the times.” Tony I agree.
In South Africa mixed marriage was at one time a criminal offence. (Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act, 1949)… now every TV show has a mixed marriage.
It felt like the latest Royal wedding was the “arranged” mixed marriage for the rabble.
As society morphs — or is encouraged to morph, the boundaries of right and wrong change.
A race of meat eaters and BBQ lovers we are presently. But if we all lived in a world that maintained the standards my vegan daughter would prefer — not one animal would be slaughtered, or even milked. The eggs of chickens would not end up in the frying pan.
“It felt like the latest Royal wedding was the “arranged” mixed marriage for the rabble.”
I completely concur. She’s mixed but just enough that it isn’t too visible. The message gets still posted without too much in the way of awkward graphics.
Dee & Paul
That notion never occurred to me… that the monarchy made a production of the wedding to back-door the masses. How clever is that?
It’s a bit like the sly introduction of the word “elite” in relation to sportspeople, once accepted, now is edging towards social ascendancy as a born-to proposition.
When I was growing up in the States, much of what Roberts wrote about was commonly known. The South rebelled because of economic reasons, ‘freeing the slaves’ had absolutely nothing to do with the rebellion. I also remember terse words about ‘Carpet Baggers’.
I don’t see things getting better, rather I see it getting worse with all the PC and identity politics and the increasing censorship of factual information and rational discussion. – America is toast.
Dr. Robert’s last paragraph sums up my attitude.
It does sum it up.
More hope for China you reckon:
Good for posting this video. Maybe “homo sapiens” are toast.
“With blacks screaming at whites, women screaming at men, and homosexuals screaming at heterosexuals, there is no one left to scream at the rulers”.
The point being that no one can have any real respect for the opposite sex without acknowledging there ARE fundamental differences: Same principle applies to tolerating alien cultures
you may say im a dreamer.. but im not the only one…
re population in australia, im pretty sure we still have enough land & resources to be able to grow enough to feed us all as well as some left over to export.. if they stopped the geo engineering.. our rivers might run a bit better and fewer droughts..
shouldn’t be that hard to get along with people with different skin colour and those who have different religions .. some of my best friends are catholic for crying out loud!
im pretty sure those who risk their lives on leaky boats wouldnt even want to come her if we left them live in peace in their homelands, where their families have been for generations before them, if only we stopped dropping bombs on them and stealing their resources.. and the ones that are genuinely struggling, well it is said that just 10% of the annual budget that is spent worldwide on military.. could end world hunger!?
nothing humane about the human race..
Fair dinkum… perhaps your first task to realise your dream is to learn to read.
The truth lies with nature. If man did not maintain his creations they would disappear by corrosion. The artificial world of man is a lie. Only narure holds the truth.
OK so man creates which is his purpose but when his creations are not in harmony with nature there are consequences. Before aeroplanes or cars most modern people lived and died within a radius of about eighty kilometres. They were tied to the land. So we have to consider the consequences and they can be manyfold. For example the effect on our physiology having slaves human or mechanical,do the work. The loss of wisdom one acquires being rooted in one place.
So it is possible to understand the consequences that the rapid changes to the way we live may put us all at great risk if we fail to live in harmony with nature. Amish anyone?
David Andresen
You are a victim of propaganda.
We are encouraged by the media to accept the proposition that ‘mankind’ is poisoning the planet. That is asinine waffle.
Neither you nor I were ever consulted about the behaviour of the mega-corporations that are destroying us and our world. And these corporations are owned by the Rothschild-Rockefeller investment banker alliance who most profit by this destruction.
These same sociopathic elites took over the previously grassroots organisations set up to fight this… the World Wildlife Fund, Greenpeace, and so on.
They also created the wars in old Yugoslavia, Ukraine, Sudan, and Afghanistan in order to eliminate populations on proposed oil and gas pipeline routes and not have to pay compensation. The same refugees were directed into western nations to dilute demand for national sovereignty and to create tension and conflict (divide and rule).
This triple-action strategy is the signature of the Rothschilds, now adopted by all of their partners. They own all the world’s media, the governments, the NGOs. They fund the various global rights movements (especially Soros), not because they give a fig for victims of oppression, but to further undermine cultures and family.
There is an absurd notion that, as far as I know, was first recorded (as a written explanation) in ancient Greece. It is called the dialectic and it proposes that the “truth” is the resolution or combination of any two conflicting opinions.
The notion was revived by Hegel and given practical application in the fanciful speculations of Charles Darwin (“survival of the fittest”) and was adopted as the justification for many subversive and destructive ideologies and programmes, some of the most well known, being Marxism, Nazism, Capitalism and the many eugenics, enslavement and genocidal programmes past and present. But they’re just some that are reasonably well publicised these days.
But there are others more covert and insidious that lurk in all sorts of covers and disguises to promote perversity and strife such as cultural degeneracy, instutionalised theft by usury, speculation, unjust taxation by “governments” that are just puppets for a variety of secret societies wittingly or unwittingly working to promote and protect version of Jewish ideological narcissism. The most ubiquitous of these at initiation swear putrid oaths that are directly enforceable by bribery, blackmail or other “inducements”, to protect their “brothers” and their “secrets” whether or not they know who or what they are protecting or why.
This perfidious sect has been at the forefront (behind the scene) of procuring and promoting revolutions and wars all over the world since, at least, the French Revolution. They have a catchy slogan “order out of chaos”. First, create the chaos, second, impose a “new” order. It’s pretentiously called “novus ordo seculorum”… proudly boasted on the Yankee dollar bill.
Race doesn’t figure in it all much except for Jewish narcissism and their “racial supremacy” in the “New World Order”. Otherwise it’s just another excuse to create chaos in the victim society… a clear plan in the revised Marxism of the Frankfurt School.
You don’t have to look too far to see that racial engineering didn’t really get going anywhere until the late nineteenth century:
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=arlo+guthrie+shenandoah+youtube&t=ffsb&ia=videos&iax=videos&iai=_zWgfzGq5g0
And that U. S. secession movements have been a constant:
https://www.ozy.com/acumen/the-united-states-of-secession/61365
I agree with every word you say, except your use of the word Jew… the presumption being that this refers to people who are descendants of the ancient Israelites.
Israel and the banker alliance are made up of Ashkenazim, not one of whom have even a nano-particle of Hebrew DNA (as was pointed out a decade ago by Schlomo Zand of Jerusalem University.
Askenazim are descendants of the Khazar Empire, whose 8th century king decreed that all Khazars must adopt the Jewish religion. In the 13th century the Mongol Hordes invaded and destroyed the Khazar empire and the refugees fled either north to Russia or west to Germany. Thus, Yiddish is a hybrid language of German and Khazar.
Mayer Rothschild and other Zionists plotted to invade a nation and create a “lost tribe” myth as a cover for invasion. After a few false starts they eventually targeted Palestine, and the rest is well-known history. In the US, whose foreign policy is shaped by AIPAC, only 2% of “Jews” are not Ashkinazim.
Meanwhile, in Israel, the actual Jews (Sephardi, Mizrahim, etc and fellow Semites, the Palestinia s are all treated as second class citizens… hence the oft-heard charge of Israeli Apartheid policies.
Fair enough! But I define Jewry as an ideological narcissism that is rarely or ever defined by racial or cultural (or religious) parameters.
So what war/major conflict was ever based on DNA associated cultural differences ?
Judaism, like Communism and Fascism, is an ostensibly beneficial, but inherently flawed, belief system(religion) in as much as it fails to counter in certain aspects of human nature. Anyone can become “a good party member” so long as they’re prepared to stick to the rules and refrain from asking certain inconvenient questions. ( Modern Israel strikes me as being more commie than judaic but that’s beside the point)
Oz has the highest number of temporary part time workers in the world . Half of the workforce . Competing for jobs that pay $10 per hour . 150,000 homeless in Sydney and Melbourne alone .
. . . the point piper keeps playing the tune .
56… try three million unemployed and homeless.
Tony ,
Yes , you’re figure is correct and probably higher .
The figure I mentioned previously , is for the people out in the cold tonight , sleeping in parks bus shelters etc .
The strange thing is that after a week or so they seem to disappear . Where do they go?
Funny how slavery was the cornerstone of the constitutions of the traitor states.