US elections, Chinese industrial slavery and the Holocaust of Black Working Class
There is deafering politcal silence this campaign season about the growing army of American youth unemployed. By end of 2006, another million American jobs will disappear or be exported to China and other industrial slave plantations. Alomst 10 million young American workers and families will make up the most-at-risk segment of the North American unemployed and near homeless. The myth of the so-called medida created Black Bay Bay children has allowed most politicans not to be forced to address the youth unemployment crisis and in some casese actually cut youth manpower related funding.
The so-called Bay Bay social pathological roots of the Black post-industrial social insurrections in Africa and North American were analyzed in depth by Frantz Fanon, a medical doctor and revolutionary theorist from Martinique who wrote extensively on French colonialism. Fanon's contribution to understanding the psychology of colonialism, while lacking a critical analysis of North America slavery and modern capitalism, offered African American revolutionaries a critical starting point and methodological way to begin to analyze social pathology of modern capitalism and North American racism.
What Dr. Fanon did not address was the critical connection between and necessity of industrial education & employment and just how fragile and toxic the African America post-industrial persona would become. The idustrialization of Black American played a critical interpretive role. The industrial interpretive role allow Black workers to play as well as being a political gathering force self-esteem and worship and felloship. The manufacturing process allowed Blacks to better understand and be a active part of industrial history and cultural traditions in such a way as to inspire self-esteem, faith, and political actions linked to responsible involvement in social and political events that mark and circumscribe the lives of Black people.The industrial process allowed Black workers to interpet the political economy of the industrial world and fostered relational and therapeutic patterns which mediate the active care of the family and Black political struggle. This new post slavery, industrial labor power was the active side of the Black notion God's presence to the liberation of of massive of African Americans from political and social oppression. The industrial process allowed Black workers to transform the social order and to work to humanize social relations. Black workers become political therapeutic agents in the process of transformation, to proclaim liberty to captives, and to work for theri phyical and spirtual release from material and ideological bondage.
Nor did Dr. Fanon understand the consequences of the collapse of the Black America industrial identity in the face of dual effects of the Chinese slavery and the negative aspects of the emerging informational society. Dr. Fanon said nothing about the massive educational requirements of post-industrial service economies on African American employablity. Few Black American political or urban planners could have imagined the near total collapse of the auto parts industry and other advanced manufacturing industries in Detroit and near disappearance of the African American manufacturing class in just two generations.
As a politically conscious psychiatrist who factored political and social realities into the discipline of psychiatry, Dr. Fanon recognized that individual and collective emotional disorders of oppressed peoples form part of the social pathology of colonialism, which denied the validity of people and their cultures. Like colonialism before, and advanced post-industrial oppression now, both produce raw emotional rage, inferiority, alienation, self-hatred, conflicting social identities and other social disorders.
Many of the young people of Arab and African origins living in France and throughout Europe now face dilemmas of fractured identities in societies that are themselves experiencing a profound identity crisis. Like African Americans and poor white Americans, they are longer needed to work in European industrial plants. Massive Chinese slave labor industrial imports have transformed many Westren European manufacturing centers into ghost towns. Millions of former European manufacturing jobs are disappearing or being transfered to indsutrial slave labor plantations in China and Eastren Europe. Across Europe, communities of color, along with having to deal with an ensemble of hostile social forces, face tremendous odds as they attempt to develop cultural and social models that are genuinely multicultural, participatory and democratic.
African Americans are faced with a new and very different type fractured social identity never before faced by any industrial people in modern history, including the Jewish holocaust. Today's young African Americans are fighting the emerging media idenity of economicly useless segement of the workfore. The so-called Bay Bay social persona is in point of fact the new banalization of the urban unemployed reduced to living in urban reservations in the major cities. African America identity is rooted in New World slavery, with no locational homeland.
Unlike post WWWII Arab and Africans living in Europe and the United State today from colonial areas, African America core or primordial identity is a collection of New World slave traumas, their little accumulated material wealth and the Black church, the post Civil War industrial revolution and emerging informational post industrial economy. This fragile identity of 300 years of slavery and 100 years of industrialization is beginning stripped bear by 25 years of ruthless globalization, depression levels of unemployment, joblessness and lumpenization. Over 71 percent of the projected 7 million unemployed American youth are African American. Many have dropped out of high school and have not work experience to shape their self-worth.
A generation of African Americans is caught in a time warp between advanced industrial capitalism and post industrial Chinese slavery. Almost 10 million African Americans are not unemployable in either mode of productions. Between 6-7 million American workers 16-24 years of age are officially either out of school and or the workforce. In some local markets, Black youth unemployment is almost 80 percent. The increase in American youth unemployment is directly a function of the increase in Chinese manufacturing exports to the US home market. Almost 500,000 American at-risk youth are being forced out of the labor market each year for lack of employment oppoutnites, 71 percent of these are from inner city industrial families or Black youth.
China at the same time is creating jobs for 20 million young workers every year with the active help of US multinationals. According to the Financial Times of London, there is growing political concern in Communist China that rate of expansion of job creation may slow as state controlled industries are forced to downsize. Historically Chinese employment expands at a rate 1-2 per cent every year or 40 million jobs.
The globalization of manufacturing, led by US multinationals that have created massive Chinese centered industrial slave plantations that product over two trillion dollars of goods and services. These industrial salve labor plantations have replaced, destroyed and transferred tens of millions of advanced manufacturing sector jobs in or near the inner city. The public school educational system has collasped to the point that less 30 perecnt of the young workers get the critical industrial skill to tranistion into the industrial workfore.In too many cases, American youth do get the critical opportunity to develop an industrial based sense of self –worth and human potential. Many African Americans are hopelessly structurally unemployable in the inner city post-industrial economies of North America.
Now stripped of their industrial persona of cheap labor, these Africa American and young white workers are reduced to useless mouths in a emerging paperless service economy that appears to have no place for them. Their identity and self-worth no longer a refection of their labor power and critical thinking, but their distorted understanding faith and the larger white society handouts.
In a move that had yet to stir national political controversy, major North American teacher’s Union pension funds announced the start massive multibillion dollar investments in Chinese slave labor industrial plantations. These investments will aid in the destruction of the entry level manufacturing jobs, American youth need to transitation from high school to the world of work. The Bush Administration has de facto abandoned any serious attempts to fight Chinese slaver labor growth or constrain China trade now at record levels. The situation remains fluid and unpredictable, Chinese labor exports have leapfrogged to other parts of the US industrial economy.
The myth of American post-Civil Rights and French social model, which emphasizes social integration, generous social benefits and social equality for all of its citizens, is not only being called into question, but destabilized by new social actors. The concerns of the American youth must be addressed based on a new and very different social model. With the emergence of the two trillion Chinese slave economy, the American and French social model's emphasis on integration into main stream white society now serves as a cultural smokescreen to deny ethnic and racial minorities legitimate forms of self expression.
As a consequence of post-industrial Chinese industrial slavery, The once powerful African American industrial national identity - is being replaced with a degraded hip hop lumpenized identity void of critical thinking unable to grasp the politcial economy and condition of the their existence in spite of and because of the presence(and destructive) conditions pushing African Americans toward political and social fragmentation. The lack of indsutrialization and political education limits their critical thinking power to confront the prinipalities and power that are obscuring their interconnection and fundamental relational and communal character.
However, African America is not alone as this is a problem echoed throughout North American white industrial workers and Europe. In the United Kingdom, Spain, and Germany - only to a name a few – segments of white youth and young worker face similar obstacles as they negotiate the treacherous divide between what remains of their national modern capitalism infastrastructure and the emerging black hole of Chinese and Eastern European industrial slavery.
While young white workers may still know where their national homeland is, their industrial persona, like North American Blacks, is be stripped away and hidden in once a year PBS specials.
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