Urban Ghettos: A revolutionary core within American society

100 blacks rioted in Brooklyn at a vigil for one of their comrades -- the "urban ghetto" inhabitants revolutionary fervor is growing

In 1984, Professors Daniel Fusfeld and Timothy Bates published “Political Economy of the Urban Ghetto.” Not once in the book did the authors surmise the conditions of the ‘urban ghettos’ might be due to the inhabitants of the community, but like in so many sociology books blamed ‘white flight’ for the economic climate – without asking themselves why wherever these frequent white flyers land they instantly create conditions in their community ripe for economic expansion.

But it’s on p. 258, the last page of the book, the good Drs. Fusfeld and Bates leave us with this chilling thought:

Economic and political gains for blacks and other minorities will come at the expense of other economic interest groups. In particular, lower-middle class income whites may feel threatened as the present underclass moves up. A political backlash and heightened racial tensions or conflict are probable effects of economic and political gains by blacks and Hispanics. Indeed, economic gains for them are a threat to the existing economic and political power structure in general. 

One is tempted to draw historical analogies. A traumatic social upheaval on the scale of the Civil War was required to break up the system of coerced labor embodied in slavery. The next pattern of coerced labor, sharecropping, debt tenure, was eliminated under the combined impact of three great social forces, the depression of the 1930s, the economic changes stimulated by World War II, and the technological transformation of southern agriculture. What will it take to eliminate the current pattern of coerced labor embodied in the ghetto economy? Will the majority of Americans willingly give up their favored economic position relative to the racial minorities of the urban ghetto? Probably not, unless they are forced to do so by a social upheaval that reorders basic economic relationships. In this sense, the urban ghettos represent a revolutionary core within American society whose presence will create continuing turmoil within the larger economic and social order. 

The “urban ghettos” represent a revolutionary core within American society, many of which provided important votes to President Barack Obama in the 2012 election, such as Richmond and Norfolk, Virginia; Detroit and Flint, Michigan; Cleveland, Ohio; Orlando, Tampa, Miami, and Tallahassee, Florida; and in Philadelphia and Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

Though political commentary in America requires one to be blind to monolithic black racial loyalty in elections (be it on the local, city, state, or national stage), one can only wonder if those urban ghetto occupants – the very people responsible for the ‘blight’ in their community – helped push the election in those states to Obama?

But never forget that’s what the presence of ‘urban ghettos’ in places like Birmingham, Atlanta, Memphis, New Orleans, Columbia (SC), Jackson (MS), St. Louis, Minneapolis, Des Moines, Kansas City, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, and Chicago represent.

A book from 1984 that warns urban ghettos "represent a revolutionary core within American society whose presence will create continuing turmoil within the larger economic and social order."

One hundred + black people rioted in Brooklyn at a candlelight vigil for a 16-year-old shot by cops (the black kid killed was pointing a gun at cops), throwing bottles at police and powerful reminding anyone willing to pay attention to truth behind the “revolutionary core” argument of the ‘urban ghetto’.

Kimani 'Kiki' Gray, the name of the 16-year-old gunned down, rolls off the tongue of the “urban ghetto” dwellers with the same efficacious anti-white (to ‘urban ghetto-ites’, the police are always a symbol of ‘white power’) rallying power as “Trayvon Martin.”

This riot should have been put down with the full force of the state, ifthe “state” truly was the white monster imagined by the “urban dwellers”; actually, the current incarnation of the state is the “urban ghettos” best friend.

After all, it tolerates the existence of blighted communities throughout America’s greatest cities – in fact, it redistributes tax revenue to ensure these communities can proliferate with EBT, Welfare, Section 8, free/reduced lunches, and the all important Lifeline phone (the Obamaphone).

Would the imaginary white monster in control of the urban police departments tolerate this – large swaths of major cities virtually uninhabitable for law-abiding citizens and for the investment of capital to start legitimate, tax-revenue producing businesses?

No. Of course not. But our society, which funds the “urban ghetto” tolerates this [6-Month-Old Girl Shot Five Times Dies

Chicago top cop said incident has "very strong gang overtones", NBC Chicago, 3-13-13]:

A 6-month-old baby has died after she was shot Monday while her father was changing her diaper. 

After several surgeries, Jonylah Watkins passed away Tuesday morning, Chicago Pastor Corey Brooks confirmed. 

Jonylah's father, identified by family members as 28-year-old Jonathan Watkins, is in stable condition. He was changing the little girl's diaper on the front passenger seat of the family van when the shooting occurred, police said. 

"The city of Chicago should be outraged that a 6-month-old baby could be shot and killed in our city," Brooks said. "It's horrific." 

Police Supt. Garry McCarthy said incident has "very strong gang overtones" and the father, who has an extensive criminal history, was the intended target. Police are pursuing several angles, McCarthy said, and urge anyone with information to call Area Central Detectives at 312-747-8380. 

"This is another tragedy, because no child, certainly not an infant, should be a victim of gun violence," McCarthy told reporters Tuesday. 

Brooks said the baby's mother, Judy Young, is distraught and in a lot of pain. "We're going to find who did this and make sure they are brought to justice," he said. "We're not going to be afraid. We're going to take back our neighborhood."

Why are these people even having kids? [Baby dies after she and dad shot: 'We have another tragedy in Chicago', Chicago Tribune, 3-13-13]:

Family members said the girl's 20-year-old mother was at work at a McDonald's when the shooting happened. She had been shot in the leg last spring while pregnant with Jonylah, they said. More than two dozen shootings occurred within a few blocks of Monday's shooting through 2012, city crime statistics show. But through February 2013, the area has seen far fewer shootings than during the same two-month period in 2012.

Down the street from the shooting site Monday, Sedell Brown, watched her grandchildren, 12 and 13, walk to her apartment from school. The two grandchildren live with Brown, 54, who doesn't let them play outdoors.

"It don't make sense how they kill people around here," she said.

A 365Black slaying...

No sane society would allow these conditions to endure. 

The only way to "take back our neighborhood" is to confront the people responsible for the conditions found in the neighborhood that "make playing out doors" a life-threatening scenario -- the "urban ghetto" community themselves. 

Chicagoland is, after all, a city where a white woman riding a Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) train was attacked by a black man brandishing a bag of feces and where a 72-year-old black man on his way to dialysis treatment was killed right in front of his home, shot as he waited for a ride to the hospital. 

Life in the "urban ghetto" is cheap - hence the reason for white flight and the avoidance by legitimate business owners from opening stores in these areas - and our government continues to transfer (via confiscatory levels of taxation) vast sums of money to ensure these communities are constantly replenished with fresh meat for the grinder. 

Funding the urban ghettos, which "represent a revolutionary core within American society whose presence will create continuing turmoil within the larger economic and social order."

They will explode again, just as they did in the 1960s. 

This scenario is reminiscent of the opening scene of Armageddon, where Charlton Heston narrates how a meteorite hit the earth with the force of 10,000 nuclear weapons 65 million years ago; he warns, "it happened before, it will happen again. It's just a question of when."

The black uprisings in places like Rochester, Detroit, Camden, Baltimore, parts of Chicago... they represented an "Armageddon" for the civilizations white people had built and sustained in those cities. 

The question of "when" the next uprising might take place is unavoidable at this point. It's just a shame there's one simple solution to the problem, which effectively destroys the "urban ghetto" once and for all. 

It's the equivalent of Bruce Willis' character in Armageddon destroying the meteorite just as it approaches the zero-barrier and saying, "We win Gracie."

And it's simply restoring the very legal protection on property that, when they were removed, created the mess we are in today.