BY DAN VALENTI

I have heard plenty about Critical Race Theory from both the right and left, and I have heard the term Cancel Culture used quite often by the right, but have never actually heard it used by the left.

Regarding reparations, I doubt that any African Americans would accept the claim that they were made in full when Lee surrendered to Grant, at least in part because the inequities persisted long after the civil war and remain even today.

Our country was founded by so-called religious white settlers from Europe committing genocide to the tune of around 50 million native American Indigenous Peoples and stealing their land and cultures for over three centuries. The Founding Fathers mostly owned Slaves, but fought the British Empire in the Revolutionary War in the name of classical Liberty. The word Capitalism is nowhere to be found in ALL of the written documents by the mostly slave holding Founding Fathers. When the U.S. Constitution was written and ratified by the states, nearly all of the industry was agricultural. In the 19th Century, the U.S.A. went through the Industrial Revolution where millions of U.S. Citizens and immigrants were exploited to create the 20th Century capitalist society we live in today. During the U.S. Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln wanted to free the Slaves and then send all of the black people back to Africa by force. Lincoln was assassinated before he could forcefully deport the former slaves and free black people back to Africa. U.S. History forgets that Abe Lincoln was really a racist who wanted a white supremacist America. After the Civil War, the U.S.A. entered the Gilded Age where Oligarchs controlled nearly all of the money in the U.S. economy. Blacks and other minorities endured second class citizenship under racist Jim Crow law and segregation. The U.S. Government and the states oversaw racist eugenics laws that were designed to decrease and eliminate black and disabled people from society. The U.S. Government in the 1920s passed racist immigration laws that targeted Jewish People and Italian People from immigrating to America. In the 1920s, Adolf Hitler published books where he praised the U.S. Government for passing laws that discriminated against Jews, Blacks, other minorities, and the disabled. It wasn’t until President Harry Truman that the U.S. Armed Forces were desegregated. Post World War 2, the “white flight” out of cities into the suburbs saw redlining and some communities did not allow black people to buy homes in their suburbs. It wasn’t until the mid-1960s when the U.S. Government passed the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts to end Jim Crow and treat black people as equals under federal law. After black people had equal rights in the mid-1960s, the federal government stopped investing in the working class and underclass. Instead, big business and big government implemented class warfare or structural conflict and violence against all of the American People who weren’t wealthy – thereby killing the American Dream of Social Mobility to rise up from poverty and into the middle class. In the 1970s through today (2021), the gap between rich and poor is now the largest in 100 years. The only two groups who grow in the U.S. economy or financial system are the dynastic billionaire families who run Wall Street and the U.S.A.’s huge underclass. There have been many recent academic books that explain that the U.S.A. is more classist today than it was 100 years ago. The U.S.A. used to criticize foreign countries such as the United Kingdom and India for its rigid class system, but now in 2021, the U.S.A. is more classist than both the U.K. and India. In 2021, the U.S.A. is in a K-shaped economic recovery for Wall Street, but an economic recession for Main Street. Big Business and Big Government – the corporate elite and the ruling elite – are doing better than ever, while the American People are experiencing a distressed economy that causes them only economic pain and financial loss. In the Swamp, K Street corporate lobbyist firms spend millions and billions of dollars buying off Members of U.S. Congress to give their well heeled big business clients trillions of public dollars and tax breaks. President Biden and his Biden “Crime” Family are all very wealthy thanks to suspect Hunter Biden’s alleged money laundering business schemes with adversarial foreign countries such as China, Russia and Ukraine. Let us all not forget that U.S. Government is in the business of war and arm sales. The U.S.A.’s number one non-farm export are military weapons to foreign governments. Since the end of World War 2, the U.S. Government, military, and the like, has killed millions upon millions of foreign Peoples in endless wars to make Wall Street trillions upon trillions of dollars in money. The U.S. Government still controls 85 to 90 percent of Iraq’s second largest oil fields (next to Saudi Arabia) in the world by military force. The U.S.A. is the second largest polluter of global warming greenhouse gases in the world; China is the largest. When one puts China and the U.S.A. together, the two countries alone account for nearly 50 percent of the world’s global warming pollution. In 2008, both the Democrat and Republican Parties in the Swamp gave Wall Street trillions of dollars in bailouts after Wall Street nearly destroyed the U.S. economy; while foreign banks who do business on Wall Street received hundreds of billions in federal bailout dollars. Big business was rewarded by the Swamp for bringing the U.S. economy to its knees in 2008! To be clear, the Swamp continually mortgages our country’s future to redistribute wealth to the top one percent or Wall Street year after year – “the system is rigged”, as U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren likes to say. In closing, the U.S. Government is all about the Almighty Dollar instead of their propaganda about democracy and rule by law that they push on the American People and the world. I wish I could write that the Founding Fathers didn’t own Slaves, Abe Lincoln wasn’t a racist, the 20th Century was fair to all Americans, and millions upon millions of foreign Peoples weren’t killed by our for profit war machine, and the 21st Century wasn’t K-shaped in the form of record economic inequality, but I would be lying.

Re: Inner City Pittsfield (Mass.) residents live in fear of gun violence – June 23, 2021

Please read the following news story by WAMC’s Josh Landes about gun violence in inner city Pittsfield, Massachusetts.

https://www.wamc.org/post/pittsfield-city-council-presses-mayor-gun-violence-plan

The inner city Pittsfield residents live in fear of gun violence. I know I haven’t lived in or around Pittsfield for over 17 years now, but I am saddened that North Street is known as “Social Services Alley” instead of a business district, while the area around North Street is known as the “Ring of Poverty” with decades of entrenched intergenerational family poverty, welfare and criminal cases.

My theory about why Pittsfield sucks is that the state and local leaders use inner city Pittsfield’s worst rated Level 5 public schools, social services programs, welfare caseloads, and criminal caseloads all as revenue sources instead of investing in the underclass and working poor who live there. I call it “Perverse Incentives”, which is similar to the state lottery regressive taxation predatory scheme that takes advantage of the unknowing poorest people and communities in Massachusetts.

Mayor Linda Tyer married a millionaire Accountant named Barry Clairmont who owns a near one million dollar home in a wealthy and elitist gated community very close to the Pittsfield border with Hancock. The Lovely Linda and Barry are very political in state and local government, but they are also disconnected from the majority of people who live in Pittsfield. I still believes the Mayor cares about all of the people who live in Pittsfield, but she in unfortunately unavailable to them.

Jonathan A. Melle

Another Hillary Clinton “suicide” John McAfee is dead

It is time for the insurectionist investigation. Republican Proud Boy Militia and former Trump election workers were involve.