Race-Related: The Rise and Fall of the African American
By Lee Bines
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Race-Related: The Rise and Fall of the African American is a lightening fast read, chronicling how a government authorized and CIA run Crack Epidemic, Reaganomics and the so-called War on Drugs, wiped out most if not all social and economic gains African Americans had struggled to achieve during the sixties and early seventies.
Now targeted by law enforcement and left little to look forward to other than economic depression and emotional despair, the African American has become America's first 21st century socioeconomic catastrophe. Still, while the short to medium term looks bleak, the long term may show promise.
Lee Bines
The Author:Lee Bines is a geopolitical pundit providing opinion and analysis on specific subject areas (most typically U.S. domestic politics, U.S. foreign policy and current geopolitical issues as they relate to the United States).A satirist and political provocateur, Lee has developed and blended a unique mix of entertainment and social activism through thought provoking conversation.Lee Bines has also been described as a bit of a rogue, a rascal, a renegade, a rebel, a revolutionist and reincarnated Robespierre ready to rant and rave to rattle the rafters of America’s rotting Republic.Managing to push the envelope to the very edge of social acceptability without crossing the line of good taste is a difficult task in today’s media, but Lee Bines has mastered that challenge. When Lee is not gallivanting around the globe seeking entertainment value from man’s inhumanity to man, he can be found in his New York based studio Blogging and Podcasting his findings. This second of many e-books to come is but a sampling of his work.
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Race-Related: The Rise and Fall of the African American
By Lee Bines
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Introduction:
This digital document you are about to read is actually two separate tales, written to explain the perpetual state of racial tension in America.
Through a series of Blog posts, entitled Issues Under Fire
, inspired by the recent explosion of African Americans dying at the hand of police, this document will attempt to reveal the unspoken rationale behind accepted policing practices like Zero Tolerance, Stop and Frisk and Broken Windows.
Race-Related will help the reader understand how severely these policing policies have impacted the average African American, while offering little in the way of service and protection for the people said policies are imposed to provide. It will also explain why America uses law enforcement to separate and isolate the African American demographic from the general population.
In part two, entitled, The Rise and Fall of the African American
, this document will explain precisely who was responsible for the rapid demise of the African American, as well as how they brought it about. After a nearly meteoric climb from segregation to Black Power and Black independence in the sixties and seventies, the African American was reduced to depending on public housing and public defenders just to survive.
In less than twenty years, the gains African Americans had struggled to achieve were wiped out, leaving little to look forward to other than economic depression and emotional despair. Fortunately, not all Black people suffered the fate of those identifying themselves as African Americans, because Black People
were able to weather the storm of the Crack Epidemic, Reaganomics and the so-called War on Drugs.
Table of Contents
Race-Related: 5
Like NYC, Baltimore Law Enforcement Needs New Leadership 5
Cops of Color 6
When Broken Windows Ignore Empty Refrigerators 7
Critical Shortage of Smart Cops 8
Eric Garner and the Pauper’s Payout 9
Barack Obama is My Brother’s Keeper 11
Black-ish America 12
The Isolation & Occupation of Black America 13
African Americans Are Losers in the Race of the Races 14
Malcolm X or Dr. MLK: Who Was Right and Who Was Wrong? 15
The African American Leadership Shortage 16
Building Black Men for the 21st Century 17
It’s A Black Thing! 19
African-Americans, Education and the Social Totem Pole 19
Black People, African Americans and Knowing the Difference 20
Let the Confederate Flag Fly 22
The Rise and Fall of the African American 24
What Happened to the African American and Why? 24
The Rise 24
The Fall Begins 26
The Fall Continues 27
The Birth of Thug 29
Rocks to Riches 30
The New Nigga Nation 32
The Occupation of Nigga Nation 33
The Occupation Expands 35
Occupation Management 101 37
Police Killing Sprees Continue Unabated 39
The Excuse: Noah’s Curse 45
The Black Exodus of 2015 48
A New Beginning 50
Race-Related:
Like NYC, Baltimore Law Enforcement Needs New Leadership
While examining the conflict between the citizens of Baltimore and those charged with enforcing the law, it became apparent that the root of the problem might be simpler than what's being portrayed. Perhaps this crisis of confidence in law enforcement is born out of a crisis of competence in law enforcement.
If Baltimore Police Commissioner, Anthony Batts, has failed to understand the systemic issues facing the community he was hired to serve and protect, then it’s reasonable to presume the problems plaguing the city of Baltimore will persist. A mere cursory review of Baltimore's past of community vs. law enforcement conflicts will reveal a history of the same stop and frisk, zero tolerance and broken window type policing tactics that are causing a national revolt among communities of color.
Applying heavy-handed policing without consideration for or acknowledgement of the underlying causes of criminal conduct only exacerbates the problem. If someone can't get an education, they can't get a job. If they can't get a job, it’s only a matter of time, before alternative lifestyles and radical options are considered in order to survive. More often than not, these alternatives and options are illegal.
Once you're engaging in illegal activities, it’s only a matter of time before you're doing time. Once you've done time, you can no longer get a job, even if you were lucky enough to get an education while you were doing time. Once out of jail or prison, you're right back where you started and the entire cycle begins anew.
Any policing authority that fails to develop and maintain close relationships with local leaders, elected officials and the community at large will always be seen as an occupying force. The disconnect between the lives minority citizens live and the law enforcement authorities that monitor and control those lives may have grown too far to bridge for those with limited capacities for thinking outside the box.
Bottom line: Apparently, Baltimore Police Commissioner Anthony Batts has the same problem NYC Police Commissioner William Bratton has. Neither of these men possesses the mindset nor the intellect to adopt strategies and tactics to offset the socioeconomic challenges facing communities of color.
It’s impossible to properly serve and protect a community you don't understand or even respect. And, the fact that Police Commissioner Batts is also a man of color makes the problem