Musings, page 2

This reality is couple with gentrification of Black communities, which are being destroyed from the top down. Voting districts are being redrawn or annexed, gerrymandering that serves to eliminate the prospects of Black elected representatives dedicated to the New Afrikan community. At the same time, real estate moguls with the support of city and state officials gentrifies predominate Black neighborhoods, thusly entire communities are being displaced as part of the cleansing process. The aftermath of hurricane Katrina speaks volumes to this process.

In addition, with rightwing rollback of affirmative action policies, there is a drastic decline of Black enrollment in colleges, job hiring, promotions, and small business contracts. At the same time, welfare to workforce programs have increased the number of poverty stricken single mothers, while Section 8 housing programs are being cut causing an increase in homeless families. A USDA report, Household Food Security in the United States 2004 , says that 38.2 million Americans live in homes suffering from hunger and food insecurity, including 14 million children. Furthermore, the U.S. Conference of Mayors in the December 2006 report titled Hunger and Homelessness Survey 2006 , informed that requests for emergency food assistance increased an average of 7 percent. The study found that 48 percent of those requesting emergency food assistance were families with children and that 37 percent of adults requesting such assistance were employed. Given these general circumstances affecting Americans, the impact on New Afrikans is exacerbated exponentially by institutional racism

Hence, the criminalization of poverty: anyone who is poor, unemployed and homeless is likely to suffer the penalties of incarceration. While these socio-economic conditions are produced by government policies, the corresponding result is the increase in the construction of prisons that have become the new housing for the poor and unemployed. At the same time, an exponential increase in orphaned Black children is burdening the foster care system. As in a Spring 1964 speech to activist by El Hajj Malik Shabazz:

“You and I in America are not faced with a segregationist conspiracy, we're faced with a government conspiracy… it is the government itself, the government of America , that is responsible for the oppression and exploitation and degradation of Black people in this country… This government has failed the Negro.”
— [New Afrikan]1

Of which was affirm in many respects by the Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (Kerner Report), after the 1960s riots that nearly destroyed Los Angeles, Detroit, Newark, New Jersey, Cleveland, Ohio and other cities across the country. So, we find that many U.S., Inc.2 laws serves the continued morass of national oppression and class exploitation, as the police, courts and prisons preserve the system of domestic monopoly-capitalist domination, and prohibits the possibility of revolutionary social change.

1 Twelve Point Program of the Revolutionary Action Movement, 1964.
2 The Act to Provide a Government for the District of Columbia , Section 34 of the Forty-First Congress of the United States , Session III, Chapter 61 and 62, enacted on February 21, 1871 , states:“The UNITED STATES OF AMERICA is a corporation, whose jurisdiction is applicable only in the ten-mile-square parcel of land known as the District of Columbia and to what ever properties are legally titled to the UNITED STATES, by its registration in the corporate County, State, and federal governments that are under military power of the UNITED STATES and its creditors. ” (Emphasis added)
Furthermore, pursuant to Title 28 U.S.C. 3002 (15) (a), the United States is a Federal Corporation. Title 28 U.S.C. 3002 (15) (3), further informs that all departments of the U.S., is part of the corporation. The Commerce Department acquires birth certificates via county and state governments, which contractually, makes these live births ultimately commerce property of the U.S. Corporation, with a monetary value attached to each certificate.

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