Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Part II: The Sixties And The Negro Revolution: Terror Over The San Francisco Bay




The Sixties And The Negro Revolution

Part II

by

R.E. Prindle

Terror On The San Francisco Bay


SF Leg Of The Bay Bridge
 
It was back in’59 of the old century that I was discharged from the US Navy at Treasure Island in the middle of the San Francisco Bay.  Thus my adult life began as the Sixties dawned.  Who knew?  It was a terrifying period for me.
I was to take up residence in Oakland the crown jewel, so to speak, of the East Bay.       In the three years I had been gone, that is in the cocoon of the Navy, the country had not so much changed as advanced very rapidly.  I was more than slightly out of touch.  The country was on the cusp of a gigantic leap in scale.  I wasn’t.

Without myself, or as I think, anyone else realizing it, or using the term, the Negro Revolution was in full swing. 

As Charles De Gaulle, the President of France, once noted:  The US while being a White country acted as a colored country.  Thus the US knowingly and purposely sabotaged European relationships with the colored or, as it was known, The Third World.  The vast majority of the US was in favor of this course being of a sanctimonious nature feeling quite superior to the evil Europeans.  I was opposed to it, I liked the way the maps were colored.  But, I was very nearly in a minority of one.

Thus, however, when the Mau Mau Rebellion in Kenya erupted the US sympathized with the black Africans.  When Ho Chi Minh defeated the French Foreign Legion at Dien Bien Phu a year later most Americans believed justice had been served on the evil Europeans.  None of us knew at the time that those howitzers bombarding the FFL were not provided by the USSR; they were of US manufacture shipped to Hanoi from Okinawa when they were not needed for the conquest of Japan.  Unknowingly the French were fighting both the Reds and the US.

Negro revolutionists in the US were turned loose in 1954 when the Supreme Court subverted American freedom by beginning compulsory integration of the races with the Brown vs. The Board Of Education of Topeka decision.  The hounds of war were loosed.  All hell broke loose in Alabama as the famous and mourned Bull Connor began his legendary career of opposition.

Abetting the Negro revolution in the US, in 1957 the African State of Ghana was granted its independence by the withdrawal of Great Britain and then beginning in 1960 colony after colony was made independent until the former virtual colony of Europe was a congeries of African States filled with warring tribes.  I, so far as I know, alone viewed this with great sadness.  The great Quest for the Source of the Nile as detailed in Alan Moorehead’s great work The White Nile also published in 1960 had ended in disaster.  The nature and extent of the disaster wouldn’t be realized until the Africans began the invasion of Europe shortly thereafter.

But I was just taking the first baby steps leading to the rest of my life.  Even if I had been knowledgeable of the contending forces I would have been a drop in the illimitable ocean.  Still, as my own entity, I considered myself the center of the universe.  I considered the planet the center of the universe, indeed, the only part of the universe that counted.  What effect could the light emitted by stars from a billion years in the past, the source of which might even no longer exist, have on me or my home on Earth?  None.  I and it were where it was at.

So there I was a small lone figure, a stranger in the strange land of California, the Fool of the Tarot deck, taking the first step to begin my journey of a thousand miles.

Although from Michigan I had always considered San Francisco my spiritual home especially the San Francisco Bay Area and now I would become intimate with it in its entirety and even most of Northern California from Bakersfield to Redding.

The Bay is an immense thing stretching from Sacramento and Stockton down to Santa Clara County, San Jose and what has become known as Silicon Valley.  It is like a great wound separating the communities that border it North and South and East and West.  In the attempt do bind it into a unit great sutures known as bridges crossed the vast waters, the Bay Bridge is eight miles long, to make the various communities into one.

Even a great tunnel beneath the waters called the BART- Bay Area Rapid Transit- would be drilled beneath the bay.  A truly astonishing achievement among such astonishing achievements as the Golden Gate and San Francisco Bay Bridges.

Further to the South the equally amazing but built over shallow water is the San Mateo Bridge and below that the rather commonplace Dumbarton Bridge.  To the North above the Bay Bridge is the major construction of the San Rafael Bridge and above that the Carquinez Straights bridge.  In the Sixties all these bridges were readily passable without long waits or even waits.

For now the story is of Oakland.  Henry J. Kaiser one of America’s great industrialists, ran his shipyards there where the so-called Liberty ships were built.  Sixteen million White men were impressed into the wars of the ‘40s.  They were all removed from their jobs into their uniforms.  From this distance I doubt that sixteen million men were needed at one time, but they were taken leaving behind the women and Negroes.  The Negroes were in the South so they were entrained to the factories of the North.  This is called the Great Migration.

After the wars were over and the White men returned wanting their jobs back the Negroes kept coming North and West.  However the returning Whites were now competing for the jobs with the Negroes who hadn’t been there when they left.  Then in ’54 came the criminal Brown decision.  The Negroes had been living the high life during the war enjoying wages that could never have imagined while the Whites were getting their asses shot off around the world.

The Negroes kept coming although there were no longer enough jobs for both veterans and themselves.  During the fifties and sixties thousands per month arrived in the Bay Area transforming it into a different peoplescape, especially Oakland.  There was a strict segregation.

Oakland is divided East and West by the great street of East 13th.  That street runs from the Bay all the way through Oakland and the adjoining cities of San Leandro and Hayward all the way through Niles and Warm Springs, then independent towns to the Nimitz Freeway where the five towns were incorporated into a city called Fremont.  Fifty miles or so.
In Oakland it was determined that the west of East 13th, West Oakland, would be abandoned to the Negroes.  Now, West Oakland had a history dating back to the founding of Oakland.  It was a fine neighborhood.  It had been home to some  families for a hundred years.  This was an established area.  No matter.

As the Negroes came in their in their thousands and tens of thousands the Whites were just moved out, a block or two a month.  The rudely displaced Whites, I mean this was a sight to see, had to have a place to live so huge apartment buildings and great housing developments beyond the San Leandro border into Hayward and over into Contra Costa County popped up like mushrooms in Springtime.  Orchards and farmland disappeared beneath concrete.

Contra Costa (Against the Coast) County just East of Alameda County and its Oakland was a barren desert irrigated into immense fruit and nut orchards.  Truly a desert had been made to bloom.

These orchards were uprooted and piled along the roads as bulldozers moved in to clear the land for the houses that would populate that huge desert.  Thus an undesirable social situation was created as tens of thousands Southern socially crude Negroes displaced tens of thousands of Whites who had to form new communities and associations.  Everyone was unhappy and it showed.  Tensions were unbearable.  A great depression settled over the entire Bay Area from Sacramento to San Jose and all the Peninsula below San Francisco and the East Bay.  It was fairly congenial to me as I was suffering from a childhood induced depression myself.  It was pretty pathetic though.

Oakland was in turmoil.  It had always been a rough town.  If you want a nice portrayal of its early days check out Jack London’s Valley Of The Moon, a very nice near memoir.  So anyway, you had his tremendous influx of really raw material, the rawest, displacing almost overnight the whole of West Oakland.

I’m not being critical but as people these Negroes were completely out of touch with a modern technological world and when I say out of touch  I mean neither myself or any White I knew had any idea of why things were happening or even what was happening that’s how out of touch they were.

What I write is a matter of placing in context what I study compared with what I remember.  Some things, like Freudian motifs, I dimly perceived then, the Mafia presence of course was or should have been obvious to everyone except J. Edgar Hoover but I couldn’t tell you the first time I heard he CIA mentioned and I had no idea what the Ford and Rockefeller Foundations were doing.  The Foundations one discovers were instrumental in many social situations.

The West Side that the Negroes appropriated was a very nice area in a modest way, very desirable tree lined streets.  It was not a slum when the Negroes arrived.  Being a flat level naturally air conditioned apron of the Bay the displaced were indeed unhappy being translated to the desert of Contra Costa.  Only the Negroes could disparage West Oakland as ‘the Flatlands.’

The Negroes had no social graces or knowledge of what they called ‘the White Man’s law.’  What was to them natural behavior was condemned by the White Man’s law.  By the time I began showing up in Oakland in the late fifties they were threatening 98th Street, the boundary between Oakland and San Leandro.  The latter city had a Sundown law or custom, at least.  Temporarily at least the Negroes couldn’t advance beyond 98th.

In the meantime the behavior that was criminal according to White Man’s law but normal to the Negro mind multiplied to the detriment of the White population exponentially plus.  No exact accounting is possible but take the situation at Oakland’s Castlemont High School as an example.  Castlemont was out on the cusp of the eighties and nineties.  The Negro invasion was in the seventies crossing over into the eighties in ’58 when I spent my liberty time in Oakland. Castlemont was half White at the time and wholly hell for that half.

The Negroes were in beat down and rape mode all the time.  The White students got no sympathy from the community, they were on their own while any fights the boys had to get involved in were always charged to them while the guilty Negroes were exonerated.  The rapes of the girls were either disregarded or unreported.  They just expected it.

It was absolutely essential for them to clear the school directly after the last bell.  Negro boys roamed the halls looking for the tardy girl.  I knew a girl from Castlemont and witnessed the situation.  It was shameful, even criminal, what those parents made their children endure. I have often wondered what happened to some of them.

As for the disorder cast into the lives of the Whites who had been forcefully evicted from homes of perhaps two or three generations it was astonishing to see and also hazardous for them as they all fought for a shred of old self-esteem and standing.  Many lives were destroyed, but, we all had to survive.  As the chef says, you have to break a few eggs to make an omelet.

Some chose rough behavior while serial murders began in earnest probably being more common than recognized.  Those were taut times in the Bay Area.  You had to watch your step and it got progressively worse.  About ’63 and into ’64 before I entered college full time I had a job with a mortgage banking firm, Lowell, Smith and Evers.  It was there I learned every square inch of Northern California, except Contra Costa County.  When I started the territory was divided equally but I eventually did all the work except for Contra Costa because my senior partner, I forget his name, call him Dale, always retained CC for himself.  Perhaps the extreme depression suited his mental state.  What with all the population transfers CC was a fairly rough place, everyone suspicious of the other.  I learned enough about rough places myself so Dale could have CC and welcome to it.

Located in Contra Costa is Mount Diablo- Devil Mountain.  Dale trained me in CC.  Dale was a graduate of Stanford University over on the Peninsula.  I forget his major but it had no commercial value so that upon graduation the only job he could get was selling coffee to grocery stores in Chicago.  Thus he, a graduate of Stanford University, had to deal with store managers who at best were high school graduates as equals.  It was more than he could bear.  He couldn’t handle the differential in expectations.  He quit Chicago and came back to the Bay Area.

Our job was not a quality job, it barely kept us in the white collar class.  I never could understand why he accepted it.  He still worked with high school graduates like myself but even though we were equals he could consider himself the senior member.  This still left him very bitter. His was a desperate situation.  I still had he college option.

Although declassed or perhaps because of it he lived near the UC Berkeley campus where he dropped a tab of acid every day before he left to work CC.  Berkley had an LSD experimental lab so Dale was well supplied.  On the first day he offered me a tab but I declined.  For lunch break that day as every day of training we got a sandwich and he drove half way up Mt. Diablo to a magnificent lookout spot.  Work was just leisure for Dale so these were two, three, four hour lunches where he would let his acid drenched mind rove through he stars.  He delivered some magnificent raps that were thoroughly engrossing.  I mention this in detail because the Zodiac killer began his depredations four years later in 1968.  Zodiac also had some very cosmic thoughts centered on Mont Diablo not too different from Dale’s.  I have often wondered if Dale was Zodiac.

By 1964 when Dale and I sat on Mt. Diablo I’d been taking night classes from three different Junior Colleges- Merritt Campus of OCC- Oakland Community College-, Marin Jr. College, and Chabot Jr. College in Hayward.  Fall term of ’64 I quit Lowell, Smith and Evers and entered California State College at Hayward- now styled California State University East Bay-  full time.

OCC was an old high school on the Oakland-Berkeley border so it had a special character, Oakland with a Berkeley flavor.  Of course ’60 to ’62 when I attended was pre-hippie so there was a different psychology but the flux and change of demographics had its own special quality.

As I said, the Bay Area was in turmoil.  If you had a taste for it it was quite wonderful.  There was a change from the culture of the old San Francisco of the thirties through the fifties in which the DJ Don Sherwood who was on the way out had been representative and the transition into the sixties of Herb Caen and LSD, rock and roll and the Black Panthers.  I began OCC at the same time Huey Newton did.  Our paths did cross one time.  The Neo-Abolitionist Whites had seized Oakland City College.   They were ardent practitioners of Columbia University’s Eric Foner’s Unfinished Revolution.  They were there to finish it so we were part of the continuation of Reconstruction.  Phase two.  The forces of evil were on the march.

In the course of my college career I attended the previously mentioned Jr. Colleges plus Cal State, and grad school at UC Berkeley and UOregon.  While all the schools were Liberal none was involved in the Negro Revolution and Reconstruction like OCC.

In addition the Homosexual Revolution was in full bloom in the Bay Area while the faculty at OCC was heavily if not morally infected.  This would involve an additional twist of fate for me.   The whole Liberal Coalition was composed of justified sinners who considered themselves above the law, vigilantes in effect.

The Neo-Abolitionists who actually believed they were continuing Reconstruction against the Rebels now styled us as ‘racists’  were intent on exterminating us as they had been the Southerners.  The homosexuals as a semi-secret society were at war with we heterosexuals.  By 1969 and the Stonewall Riots in NYC they actually won a major battle and took possession of the field.  Identifying themselves with law and virtue they felt no compunction at committing crimes they could conceal.  As Voltaire advised his followers:  strike but conceal your hand.

Faculty pressure was put on students to compel them to adopt Neo-Abolitionist attitudes, rigged so-called debates and really if one were vocal, expulsion.  For some reason the NeoAs seemed to believe that no one had experience with homosexuals and Negroes even though Oakland’s high schools were actual rape factories and war zones.  Affirmative Action was the order of the day that is, egregious crimes against Whites.

In my own instance I sat in class next to this forty some year old Negro.  In passing back test papers we had taken I noticed that this Negro had gotten a B while I had received a C.  But then I noticed that he had a score of 64 while I had a 76.  Thinking that the homosexual teacher had made an error I pointed out the incongruity of scores and grades.  The teacher sneered at me telling me that it was time for Negroes to get a few advantages to redress old grievances.

I can’t believe I was picked out to be the recipient of this ‘social justice’ so I presume the teacher was indulging himself in random acts of criminality.  In the event there was no remedy for this crime so I was somewhat dazed and bewildered not able to understand what was happening.  Discrimination of this kind was going on constantly.

There appeared to be agents or spies attempting to trap the unwary into making comments that could be interpreted as ‘racist’ or ‘homophobic’ although those terms were not yet in use.  Once identified, as I look back, it seems clear that spies or agents tried to discredit any so identified.  A homosexual trick was to inject themselves into conversations then correct the pronunciation of the victim trying to make him look ignorant.

This notion was probably patterned on the tricks of John F. Kennedy who was running for president at this time which was 1960.  Anyone who noticed that Kennedy was an Irish Catholic was shouted down as a bigot yet the 1960 election was a transfer of power from the Anglo-Saxons to the Celts and from Protestants to Catholics while the Kennedys- Jack, Bobby and Teddy- passionately embraced the Negro side of the race war.  Teddy in 1965 would be instrumental in changing the immigration act which would allow Africans and West Indians to immigrate to the US.  Most people either discounted the Irish Catholic background of the Kennedys or were shamed into silence but Kennedy’s Celtic and Catholic background would be an element in his assassination three years later.

The Kennedys’ election triumph was a major change of direction for the country.  Had Jack not been assassinated it is probable that a Jack, Bobby, Teddy succession amounting to twenty-four years of Irish Catholic rule would have guaranteed a significant if not total shift in mores not unlike the current Clinton-Bush-Obama succession.  It was not for nothing that Jack’s presidency was styled Camelot after the Celtic King Arthur of Mallory’s Le Morte d’Arthur.

As if to characterize the change as a break Jack began to change the pronunciation of words.  Thus mobile always pronounced as mobul became mo-bile to the approval of the press corps.  In subsequent years whole dictionaries would change regularly to keep people on edge.  Wholesale name changes from Peking to Beijing and Bombay to Mumbai would take place.

In seeming keeping with Jack’s linguistic gymnastics as I was talking to a couple people an aggressive homo came over.  I was talking about the movie producer Elia Kazan.  As in his movie America America in which he introduced himself as Eel-ya.  I used that pronunciation.

The homo contradicted me.  You could have seen the loss of credibility on the faces of my listeners.  I countered with a request for the correct pronunciation to which the homo offered E-lie-a.  I of course offered Elia’s own pronunciation from the movie that, fortunately, the others had seen so turning that charge back.  The psychological warfare went on as continually as the racial warfare but unrecognized as such.

Coming from the cocoon of the Navy I wasn’t aware of the changes taking place while I was away.  They occurred at work as well as at school.  In 1961 I was employed by the trucking firm P.I.E.- Pacific Inter-Mountain Express- since defunct.  I had worked my way up to entry office job suffering fair humiliation in the process.  One had to actually beg to get one.  And entry level was as a mail boy.  Once there an opening occurred at the Commission Agency Desk for which I applied and my mailroom supervisor as a favor allowed me to take the job with many admonitions to watch my step. 

I had been at the desk for a few months when it was announced that we would be employing a Negro, we were all White to that point.  The Negro had been recruited.  He had no training or experience.  He was to given a grade 4 pay rate.  I was a 3 while 4s were rare.

I had been working full time while attending night school.  As noted when I applied I had to beg my way into a mailboy job.  As a boon I had been granted the grade 3 job at the Commission Agency Desk.  Let us say that I had felt the whip on my back.

Now this unprepared Negro was being given for free a grade 4 as Affirmative Action which was a term not yet heard and management knew the guy wasn’t capable of doing the work.  They proposed that I take the desk next to his which was also a grade 4 and do that work as well as his for him.  Thus I would be doing two grade 4 jobs, and grade 4s were fairly complex, for the pay of one.  I would have done it for a grade 5 but they were too cheap.  They’d rather pay a Negro for nothing than add a dime an hour to my paycheck.  C’est la vie.

The guy came to work but had no interest in learning to do his job.  He soon drifted up to a cluster of desks handled by several attractive young girls where he spent his days romancing them.  For some unknown reason he was soon gone.  Perhaps he quit unable to endure the burden of having to be anyplace let alone at a consistent 8:30 in the morning.

Unable to endure such social injustice I quit.  I had no further encounters with Negroes in either jobs or other educational institutions until the early seventies.

That doesn’t mean the Negro revolution didn’t continue to develop in the Bay Area as well as the curious White attitude toward Reconstruction.

In 1966 the rapist ‘with intent to murder,’ Eldridge Cleaver was released from prison due to the efforts of several Jewish women.  He had served only eight years having been incarcerated in 1958.  He was very far from reformed, that is, he was still in paramilitary mode.

Cleaver, as a Negro, was a vicious person.  He said he developed his raping skills on the West side of East Thirteenth then crossed over to hunt the big game, White women.  While rape may be a crime by White Man’s law as the Negro thought of it assaults against White people or their property were acts of war therefor laudable and not reprehensible.  Only White thickness prevents their seeing the difference in point of view.  Thus all Negroes can be seen as paramilitary troops.

While Cleaver’s crimes are heinous enough the attitude spread to Whites.  Since 1954 and the criminal BOE decision there had been a steady deterioration of manners and attitudes toward crime among Whites.  White criminals, or revolutionaries in their term, raised the slogan of expropriating the expropriators which led to wholesale theft and crimes of violence on an ideological basis.

The adoption of Negro manners by an increasing White minority led to the corruption of the entire White generation.  One learned rudeness in self-defense.  I altered my behavior in order to compete beginning in 1961.  This was all the result of the Board Of Education decision.  A well-meaning but ignorant folly.

The Negro attitudes were aided and abetted by Freudian psychology.  The White ideal until the Second Reconstruction began, for that is what it is, was the notion self-control and consciousness, the abatement of violent or what Freud would call ‘instinctive’ behavior.  He called the suppression of ‘instinctive’ behavior repression.

Freud thought repression was bad for the person and his health.  He called for the indulgence of the unconscious or liberating the repressed.  During the fifties and sixties the unconscious was increasingly indulged, the abandonment of repression, or more accurately self-control, was embraced while self-control was abandoned.  The result was disastrous resulting among other things in the Me generation.

In 1966 then Cleaver was released while at the same time, perhaps not coincidentally, Huey Newton now six years older than when I met him in 1960, formed the Black Panthers.  Rather than a new idea the Panthers was a logical development of previous years.  In Chicago a paramilitary outfit called The Blackstone Rangers had been formed.  Their crimes they, of course, thought of as military operations.  Only White Man’s law called them crimes.

In addition a series of Negro insurgencies, styled riots by Whites, in which cities were severely damaged had taken place in New York, Philadelphia, Detroit, Chicago and of course the famous Watts explosion of LA in 1965.  These insurgencies would be a continuing recurrence all through the sixties especially in the major eruptions of ’67 and ’68 which virtually engulfed the country much like he Tet offensive in Viet Nam.  So, Huey’s Black Panthers were just the next logical step.

Cleaver on his release was set on creating his own paramilitary group but opted to join Newton and the Panthers.  Newton was not so militant although he was convicted of murdering an Oakland policeman so that a rift developed between the two men.  Cleaver did lead an insurgency in West Oakland that resulted in several deaths.  The failure of the insurgency led to his famous flight to Algeria.  It was then my path crossed with the Negroes once again.

At the time I was attending grad school at UOregon in Eugene where I had opened a record store as the ’66 to ’78 golden age of phonograph records, vinyl, was beginning to take off.  Nineteen sixty-eight to seventy-four was a period of constant unbearable turmoil that had to negatively affect the national psyche.

The Hippie emerged in 1966.  By 1967 I was one too.  Although the Negroes were a privileged group the Hippies weren’t.  Restrained in their activities with Negroes the cops turned their fury on we Hippies.  All regards for rights and laws were thrown out the window.  I fully sympathize with the Negro hatred of the police.

The Black Panthers engaged in all sorts of bogus community projects that were merely extortions and shakedowns.  At the same time paramilitary operations continued.  The biggest was the confrontation with authorities at the Democratic Convention in Chicago.  This was a major battle with the authorities involving the Panthers, the Blackstone Rangers and others.

While slightly beyond the sixties paramilitary operations increased leading through drive by shootings in San Francisco to the Zebra assaults of ’72 and ’73.  The stated intent of the Zebra operations was to activate the race war but the ever tolerant Whites refused to play the Negro game preferring to call the assaults ‘crimes’ according to White Man’s law and riots rather than battles according to the law of war.

Hell, even the 9/11 paramilitaries who leveled the Twin Towers killing 3000 or so people while devastating NYC were tried as criminals.  Three thousand murders and tens of billions in damages were treated as a light crime.   What do you have to do?  How thick can the authorities be?

Now, aiding the Negro revolutionaries were the acts of the Jews.

To back up a little bit and blend the Negro Revolution with the Jewish Revolution that was going on at the same time.  In the Bay Area at UC Berkeley from 1964 to 1966 the Jews fomented the so-called Free Speech Movement.  This was double speak for its opposite, the suppression of free speech, the subordination of the university to the Jews

By 1966 the Jews were in control of the university attempting to compel submission to their program.  In some zany way they had convinced the mainly upper income White students that they were a privileged class without the merit of earning it.  Essentially they claimed the Whites had stolen their places from equally qualified Negroes on the basis of their White skin.  I and 60-70% of Whites had no illusions of benefitting from White Skin Privilege.  We had worked damn hard to get where we were although it was still not anywhere from nowhere.  Yet these absurd masochist upper income White students claimed to represent all White people.  It was demanded of all we rest to sacrifice our wellbeing for the benefit of Negroes.

Huey Newton and his Panthers then stepped in to fill this vacuum of self-abnegation.

Now, Jewish women had done the heavy lifting to get the rapist with the intent to murder, Eldridge Cleaver, out of prison.  Another very dedicated paramilitary Negro, George Jackson, was also raising hell in prison.  Jewish women set to work to free him also.  A hysterical female Jewish lawyer representing Jackson somehow even managed to fuck him through or around the barriers then went home and expected her husband to congratulate her.

Your brain spins when you read this stuff with the author relating his story in the same tone as:  I went to the grocery store and bought a loaf of bread.

Jackson was smuggled some guns into San Quentin then in total rage tried to blast his way out of the prison.  It should come as no surprise that he was killed in the shootout.  Angela Davis, of the East Village,  then organized the subsequent shootout in the Marin County court room that was truly an insurrectionary act. 

While it was clear that Davis was as guilty as Bomber Billy Ayers of the Weather Underground she as he was able to boast ‘Guilty as hell, free as a bird.’  Quite clear that both had somebody watching over them.   Someone very, very powerful.  Like Ayers she was rewarded with a PhD.  He to go on to become a ‘distinguished professor’ at UIllinois while she has an honored position at  California’s Red campus UC at Santa Cruz.  She probably attended Panther human bar-b-ques out there in the woods.  Huey was given his PhD at Santa Cruz also.  There are some bennies for being Black.

Negroes have continued to receive favored treatment down to the present when Liberal Whites installed their pet Negro Barack Obama in the White House.

Also outside the scope of the Sixties a man of questionable intelligence, the singer Bob Dylan, put his queer shoulder to the wheel in 1976, the US Bi-Centenary, during his Rolling Thunder tour of the home of the American Revolution, New England. Perhaps Dylan thought he was leading the second American Revolution celebrating the takeover of the country by his Jews.  As if to mock the Whites he played the tour in White Face, that is white grease paint.

Hurricane Carter was a Negro boxer who had been convicted of murder once and then a second time on his appeal.  Dylan wrote a song called Hurricane Carter in an attempt to generate sympathy for the murderer and free him from prison.  Perhaps this was a symbolic repetition of Lincoln freeing the slaves.  We’ll probably never know but the song was the focal point of the tour.  It did result in the freeing of Carter.

Dylan was rewarded for his courageous defense of Carter when the Negro Obama was elected president.  One of his first acts was to summon Dylan and his fellow Red Joan Baez to Washington for a command performance for himself and Michele.  Bob responded with his anthem Blowin’ In The Wind.  A song that every flatulent person loves.

While I wasn’t aware of it at the time or, at least, didn’t view the situation as a race war, it is clear now that the government’s, by this time of Richard Nixon, duty was to suppress the Negro paramilitaries.  Bear in mind that a time we had a race war at home and a foreign war in Viet Nam.

Coming to the Viet Namese’s aid in 1968 the Red Chinese had initiated a cultural invasion and war in the US inciting a type of Civil War.  Things were getting pretty hot.  To defeat the Negro insurgency a program called Cointelpro was formed.  While this agency affected Whites not at all, I never heard of it ‘til years  maybe decades later.  The Jews defamed and belittled this US effort to quash the Negro revolt as ‘un-American.’   What would they know about it?

By 1970 the Negro, Jewish and Homosexual Revolutions had succeeded.  The country was in deep turmoil, nearly anarchy, at home and abroad.  Check out movies like Putney Swope, Midnight Cowboy,Death Wish, Dirty Harry, Cruising and a host of others.

While I have never admired Nixon, like Warren G. Harding in 1921 in his suppression of the Communist insurrection, Nixon was able to defuse the situation and return the country to a simulacrum of what Harding called ‘normalcy.’  This was no mean feat although Nixon under the guidance of the Jew Kissinger botched the job.

In 1923 Harding died a mysterious death.  While there is no hard evidence as yet that he paid that price for defeating the Red takeover can it be coincidence that Nixon was driven from office for the same offence?

Part 3 broadens and returns to New York.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Friday, March 7, 2014

The Crime Of Henry Ford



The Crime Of Henry Ford
by
R.E. Prindle
 
 
 
Very few truly great men such as Henry Ford have been reviled or defamed so much.  One might well ask what Honkety Hank do to merit such contumely.
 
The answer is simple.  He challenged and refuted deeply held religious beliefs.
 
I'm sure that everyone knows that Henry Ford founded Ford Motors.  While there isn't a crime there he did it without the aid of bankers and that might be called an egregious error from their point of view.  In 1914, however, he successfully challenged one of the most sacred biblical beliefs, that belief is that the poor shall always be with us.  The whole of the economic system was based on that Old Testament belief.
 
Because it was believed that the poor shall always be with us it was made morally defensible to formulate the Iron Law Of Wages.  That law is that the proper wage for any job is the lowest wage that anyone will accept to do it.  The law applies most harshly to those who have no training or skill such as common labor.
 
Thus slavery, in which men are forced to accept subsistence wages or even less, in many instances in the history of slavery men and women were simply worked to death, was depressant of wages where it offered competition to free labor such as in the American South.  Indeed many plantation owners wee training slaves to perform mechanics jobs so as not to have to depend n not only higher labor costs from free workers but cash labor costs.  What a slave did cost the owner the same whatever he did..  Of course, following the Iron Law Of Wages the more skilled the labor the more the worker would want in privileges if not money.  Indeed, as a skilled blacksmith expended more calories he would perforce need to be better fed.
 
But the slave mechanics of necessity were driving the free mechanics from business.
 
Thus the Northern wage slave, ostensibly free, if only free to starve, feared the freed slave who could subsist on less and would drive the price of labor even lower.
 
The Northern plantation mentality recruited laborers from all over Europe taking advantage of language and national differences in the attempt to drive wages down or prevent their rising.
 
As I say, this attitude was based on and sanctioned by biblical scripture.  The Word of God, so to speak.
 
This was the existing situation when in 1914 came a sainted man who said that by adopting certain procedures he could drive the cost of manufacturing so low that he could lower the cost of his product, raise wages above subsistence level and still increase his profits.
 
So, one day in 1914 he announced he was going to double wages of his unskilled labor force from  actually less than 2.50 to 5.00 a day.  He said in effect that the poor need no longer be with us.  A visible shudder went through the religious community and the economic system based on that religion.
 
For a brief moment all faces were turned in disbelief toward Detroit.  Then a murmur was heard throughout the land swelling into a thundering chorus:  Get Henry Ford!  Crucify the bastard!
 
And essentially they did just that.  When the Great Hank died in 1947 there were virtually none to mourn him.  He had been thoroughly reviled.  Well, no good deed ever goes unpunished.
 
His legacy of a living wage lived until the presidency of Ronald Reagan.  During his administration the airport controllers went on strike for absurd wages.  Everything gets out of hand sooner or later.  Ronnie Reager said:  Let 'em.  That broke the back of the labor movement and began the decline of the Ford dictum.
 
Today the plantation mentality is acting in many ways to return to the world of the Iron Law Of Wages.  The American economic structure after Reagan has been all but destroyed.
 
The Savings an Loan industry was looted out of existence.  The borders were thrown open to encourage an influx of low cost labor.  High cost jobs were transferred to low labor cost areas around the world.  What was left of the economy was shipped to China to be performed if not by slave labor by what is equivalent to it.
 
Home owners were encouraged to dissipate the value of the homes by refinancing them then being unable to meet the higher mortgage payments they were stripped of their net worth as neatly as the Savings and Loan industry had been looted.  One name has stood out in both.  I won't mention it
 
Thus 100 years later the crime of Henry Ford has been nearly extirpated.  The Great Heretic who disproved religious economic theory and actually was forced to apologize for it has been rolled over in his grave to spend eternity face down.
 
Strange world, isn't it?