Summary of the Argument of the Invention of the White Race

By Armondo Ramone

In Summary of the Invention of the White Race, Theodore Allen explains that the "White Race" is a social construct invented by European and early American elites, over time, as method of social control. Allen's argument centers on the power relationships between Euro-American elites, Black and White free- and non-free bond laborers, and the Native American population eventually decimated by Euro-American ruling class interests. Allen's Summary uses historical legal and social record to prove that race, in reality, is a bunch of phenotype (skin-based) non-sense, used by the Euro-American elite power structure, for control purposes. He focuses his historical inquiry on the colonial slave societies of Virginia, the British West Indies, and corporate England.

Ted Allen's argument imagines a class society structured, roughly, in three parts:

First, there is a very small ruling class elite that through military and political conquest, and the hereditary descent of wealth, is able to limit the options of social policy in such a way that it maintains perpetual hegemony over the whole society. Secondly, there is an "intermediate buffer social control stratum", or middle-class, that is greater in number, but lives in social subordination to the ruling class elite. The relative comfort of their lives is ensured by the good-will of the elite, but normally they are in day-to-day contact with their social inferiors - the lower-class, or poor. This last group is devoid of productive wealth except for their ability to work. In Allen's class society, the poor constitute the majority of the population, and live a life marked by extreme dependency on society, and constant insecurity concerning their ability to obtain and maintain material resources within the society.

In Colonial America, African-Americans, Native Americans, and European bond laborers primarily constituted the last stratum. European males made up the elite group (although Allen does recognize the presence of a relatively small number of African-American in this group as well). And there was a conspicuous absence of an effective middle-class. This absence is what Allen says led to the invention of the White race.

In early colonial America, "race" as a biological fact, or even a class status, wasn't a fixed issue. In fact, Allen's historiography shows that African-Americans and European-Americans worked side-by-side, and had many common social interests. He also shows that Native Americans were sovereign peoples, not at all subjects to the legal dictates of England or the then forming United States. And also adds that, in fact, Irish immigrants were more akin to African-Americans in social status, than they were to any of their other European counterparts.

The inter-mixing of a mass populous soon proved dangerous to the ruling elite though. Allen points to incidents like Nathaniel Bacon's 1676 rebellion to show how real the threat to elite rule mass uprising was in colonial America. In the rebellion, four hundred members of the laboring class, representing all ethnic distinctions, rose up against the Governors of Virginia's Commonwealth. Threats like this sparked the notion of "a perpetual Brand" of color "upon Free Negroes and Mulattos" as a safety valve on society.

This harsh distinction was in no small part related to social situations like the one in Jamaica at the time. There, an ethnically mixed labor class became so numerically powerful, the ruling class elite had to agree to a radical redistribution of land ownership wealth and political power within the interior of the island, to create a middle-class buffer-zone between them and the rebel Maroons, living in the mountains. Allen says that a fear of something like this happening in Virginia caused U.S. lawmakers to create a "white skin" merit system that "invented" the White race, and further obscured unequal material wealth and power relationships in America.

Allen asserts that, unlike the "free Colored" Jamaican middle class, the White race was created so that the ruling elite wouldn't have to redistribute wealth to anyone. On the contrary, instead of material rewards "white privilege" only gave its middle-class full-participation in their own destruction as a reward for allegiance to ruling class interests. This paradox led to the western expansionism that eventually decimated the indigenous American populations; essentially destroyed a future for Black/White labor solidarity; and, led to the tragic legacy of lifetime Black bondage slavery, Jim Crow legislation, and a post-civil rights era Black society poised to even further exaggerate American wealth inequalities.

THIS IS A REPOST OF A BLOG WRITTEN BY MY FRIEND JIMI DHARMA, THE LEAD SINGER OF BLUE STATIC. IT'S ABOUT NEVER GIVING UP ON YOUR DREAMS. YOU'VE GOTTA READ IT...

Life is like a timeline... that we want to chart out ourselves so badly we miss the good parts that are placed there by the universe. But we are also afraid to follow our hearts. People love people without explanation, or activities that don't seem to get them anything...

We think we are wise when we choose jobs, activities or relationships that seem to "make sense" from an outside perspective,, only to find that "it wasn't what we truely wanted in our hearts."

I've only loved 2 things in this world, and countless people told me to work towards other things because they made more sense,, they were safer bets. I'm so done with that.

The activity I loved, I treated as a hobby for the fear of what my immediate peers would think of someone who was really poor and struggling out of what appeared to be "stubbornness." I invested in "PLAN B." That was the biggest waste of time ever... 

I've only found myself wasting time again and again putting time and years towards things that are just not truely with my heart 100% because the surrounding world seems to "approve of."

Our pride keeps us from our true passions and suppresses the thing that God installed in each and every one of our souls - TRUE LOVE. We work painfully towards goals that our taught vision of reality tells us is possible, when we know deep down that there's something we want more..

Somewhere along the line we were tricked into believing that we couldn't have what we wanted... and that we had better work towards getting something that "works" in the eyes of this crazy world we live in.

What ever happened to supporting one another and chasing our dreams without fear??

Now I watch the time go by like a man waiting for a bus... and the bus is not there because he was has no idea if this bus is even coming. He knows it's stopped there before and he was afraid of leaving then, but now he's sure and is waiting for the bus' return.

Will the bus return?? I believe it will because I believe love and faith are the only 2 things that you cannot create.... they are already there and cannot die... Nothing great ever happened without them, and the both of them combined never failed. I have them both... for the 2 things I love.... some of you know what those are.

I urge you all to defeat fear and fuel your actions with passion! Let nothing convince you that you can't have something you KNOW is the longing of your soul!!!

Life is tough and beautiful... but a waste if you denied your love and chose fear.

Let's start living right.... Love and Faith are the most powerful things in the universe,, and they're free. Let's start using them!!!

Love all!!!

-Kenny Heavin- www.myspace.com/jimidharma or www.myspace.com/bluestatic

 

 

New book exposes little-known facts on presidential candidate John McCain

By C.J. Raven
U.S. Veteran Dispatch
September 14, 2008

A just released book about the 2008 Republican presidential nominee takes a critical look at Arizona Sen. John McCain's rise to power and his amazingly successful political career, which continues to draw its inspiration from a questionable military career.

Vetting John McCain is based on carefully researched and meticulously documented public and military records, eyewitness accounts, and on statements McCain made in his book, Faith of My Fathers: A Family Memoir.

Written by Vietnam veteran and former Green Beret Ted Sampley, the book explores McCain's years at the United States Naval Academy, his early career as a Navy aviator, and his exploits before and after his five and one-half years in a Vietnamese prisoner of war camp.

Sampley, a long-time POW/MIA activist delves into McCain's puzzling relationship with his former captors and his apparent abandonment of other Americans left behind in Vietnam as missing or prisoners of war.

Leaders of the POW/MIA movement describe how they fought to have McCain and the U.S. government investigate reported sightings of missing and imprisoned military members, and describe their contemptuous treatment by McCain and his staff.

"My overall impression is that this is the book that needed to be written about McCain 20 years ago, before he became a national political figure," former Rep. John LeBoutillier (R-N.Y.) said. "The public should have known this side of John McCain."

How do I Love Thee? Let Me Count the Ways....

 

1 Day I was sad and lonely...My heart was still broken into 2 pieces...It felt like it had been just 3 dayz since Love last left me...and 4 the life of me I swore I was through with the whole affair for good finally....Then 5 minutes after that thought hit, another one sprang up in its place...It has actually been 6 years since Love last sent me to 7^th Heaven…The trauma of that experience cast me quickly back down to the 8^th level of Purgatory, and since then I've been struggling inside myself to forget…"9", "No", "Nada", "Not Ugh Playboy", my mind told my heart when I met you…But you, in your imperfect way, introduced me to a perfect 10, that has made me forget any objections my imagination could formulate about falling off the deep end again…you have shown me, in your oh so clever way, My dear, that the past was the past, it was all for the good, and that the future is a totally different story that I have a chance to help write….

 

Next I think I'll write you a poem, telling you all about the 11 things I most admire about you…'til then…PEACE!!!  

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I just got back from Detroit, where I shot a music video with Michigan's own Revolutionary Focus. The song is called "Rock With Me". This video is the lead track from Focus' upcoming, untitled, debut album, slated for release this fall. The video is also the directorial debut of BigPotz . com. This version is the Rough Cut, the final version will debut on the next update of BigPotz . com
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EDITOR’S NOTE

A Familiar Kiss is a psychological novel that chronicles ten years in the life of an "educated hustler" named, Sincere Troudeaux. As a literary product, A Familiar Kiss will most easily be marketed in the African-American Erotic Noir, and Crime Thriller, segments. The story follows Sincere from his senior year in college, through to his tumultuous post-college adiulthood - where Troudeaux is seen as a father, widower, divorcee, ex-convict, and millionaire!

A Familiar Kiss is an interpolation the real life experiences of its author, Eric Currie. Mr. Currie began journaling the story as therapeutic excercise while he was incarcerated in the backwoods of Louisiana. In total, Currie served three years, of a five year sentence for interstate trafficking.

After his release, Mr. Currie transfered his rough draft to electronic manuscript form, and gave the work to me, Armondo Ramone, for editing. I am given the honor of editorial credit for bridgiing the gap between Mr. Currie’s thoughts, and the imagination of his story’s potential readership. My job has been to make A Familiar Kiss a more palatable work for literary agents, publishers, and market readers alike. Where neccessary, special attention was given to spelling, grammar, logic, and coherence issues, but the work, as it stands, is as creatively imagined a read as Mr. Currie intended, without the slightest hint of the editor’s voice.

Over the next month, I will post excerpts from the book as bulletins and blogs. Add E. Currie to your friends list and ask him for an advanced copy. See what he says.

Also, for all my Facebookers, I’m posting single chapters of the book in the TruthWriters group, for an infomal peer review of the work. Until next time: KEEP FUCKIN’ WITH YA BOY....PEACE!

The Closing of any HBCU in America is a tragedy. The closing of Baber-Scotia College, however, highlights the failure of the American education system to adequately serve the needs of every-type of African-American learner. America, which so even-handely subjegates its citizens of non-european descent to a racist capitalistic lifestyle, is, and should be, charged with the duty of ensuring that Barber-Scotia College will again open its doors as an educational institution that is a part of American history at its highest levels.

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