Why It Is So Easy to Sell the Fear of Dark Strangers and the Use of Extrajudicial Force Upon Them in America (Paperback) | Released: 08 Jan 2015

The purpose of this book is to examine the fear of empowered and liberated black men determining their own destiny and that of their families from slavery to the present. This fear has resulted in a surge of unwarranted killings by police, arrest, convictions and incarcerations comparable to the Jim Crow Era. Most of these police killings are unrecorded and few if any are indicted. Solutions are sought on methods and means that could save lives and provide public safety for communities of color. Analysis is given into why changes in the treatment of African-Americans have evolved incrementally rather than substantially as presumed by conservatives. Highlighted is the violent repression experience upon African-Americans from slavery, the Apartheid of Jim Crow, and today's Jim Crow Jr., is perused, scrutinized, and revealed. A rationale for a socio-political movement is provided to insure that all Americans are treated equally before the law. It does appear from the onset of this study that a wide discrepancy exist between our ideals, beliefs, attitudes, and practices. The book examines the brute stereotype from its roots in slavery roots in slavery, including its evolution toward arbitrariness at the highest level. The brute caricature appears to be more prevalent after slavery during the Reign of Terror against African-Americans when lynching them was commonplace entertainment. The lives and experiences of African-Americans in the Jim Crow South is the pinnacle of the examination. During that period, white people were particularly taught to fear the perceived savagery and brutality of African-American males who did not know their place as "Servants of the Servants of God." Legal and extralegal means were commonplace in protecting the white population, particularly women, and civilization from this perceived subhuman. This belief and such fashioned the "defacto" prejudice toward African-Americans and the first US President of this descent. It affects the dominant group on all levels and socioeconomic classes in its devaluation of the lives and value of blacks outside of entertainment, including sports. Enablers of this hysteria and devaluation include pseudo-science presented by Drs. William Howard, Arthur Jensen, and Charles Murray's Bell Curve that have encouraged racial polarization and genocidal eugenics against African-Americans. Other enablers including politicians, the media and over publicized brutish blacks have reinforced this undesirable caricature. The history and politics scrutinized demonstrates that regardless of the level of education and aptitude, racial stereotypes that generate wealth to the dominant group prevail and dictate perceptions of competency and fear of African-Americans. It is evident that the lives of African-Americans have a lower value in a Post-Industrial, Information Age. Yet, slave and cheap labor, the latter mostly supplied by immigrants, evidently generated our nation's wealth. The labor of European immigrants have traditionally received most, if not all, of the credit. This book presents the argument that slave labor is responsible for generating the wealth that helped this nation rise from a, obscure agrarian colony to an industrial society. The migration of black labor along with immigrant labor did fuel the industrial revolution once the capital accrued from slavery built the factories, warehouses, and ships for trade and commerce. Yet, it was not until the Post-World War II period before the nation as a whole would be willing to knowledge the civil rights of African-Americans after an extended non-violent struggle that resulted in the loss of forty lives and violent beatings. The story of how we got from Jim Crow to a so-called post-racial era is given. Data is given to show "how little has changed" in race relations and treatment of Black American, particularly by our justice system. Recommendations are given to close the apparent disparity.