Opiate
Of The USA
By David Truskoff
15 January, 2007
Countercurrents.org
In
Deutsch-Französischen Jahrbücher— Karl Marx said
"Religion is the sigh
of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul
of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people."
Marx lived and wrote a long
time ago. As hard as it might be for my grandson to believe that was
even before cell phones.
Today there is new opium
that replaces religion. It is called mass media
The oppressed can sigh and
believe and make believe.
On January 15,2007 Americans
celebrate a holiday. It is the birth of Martin Luther King that they
celebrate. They will hear excerpts from his famous "I have a dream
speech over and over that day.
WE will hear from billionaire
Oprah Winfry and the half-black Senator, who may be a presidential candidate,
Barack Obama and White Americans will feel good.
Reality can not penetrate
the media induced high Americans will receive, however the truth makes
the constant repeating of the Dream Speech an obscene mockery of the
great man whose birthday we celebrate.
The truth is Northern schools
are more segregated today than they were before the dream speech. The
wall of fear between the all white suburbanites and the non-white city
dwellers is much thicker than it was then.
According to The State of
Black America 2005, the income level of African American families is
only one-tenth of that of white families, and the welfare enjoyed by
black Americans is only three-fourths of their white counterparts. In
2004, the poverty rate was 24.7 percent for African Americans, 21.9
percent for Hispanics, and 8.6 percent for non-Hispanic whites. In New
Orleans, 100,000 of its 500,000 population live in poverty; with the
majority of them being black Americans. The homeownership rate for blacks
in the USA is 48.1 percent compared with 75.4 percent for whites. Although
blacks are just 12.2 percent of the American population, 41 percent
of American prisoners detained for more than one year are blacks, and
8.4 percent of all black men between the ages of 25 and 29 are behind
bars.
Only 29 % of students in
a Connecticut all black school graduates with their class. The drop
out rate leads to the unbelievable rate of street shootings in our cities.
All of our cities have become places of fear. Guns are everywhere.
Martin Luther King’s
dream is still just that, a dream, but on January 15 we will breath
deeply and once again go on the nod and enjoy our media induced high.
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