Our complacency with and complicity in this situation leaves most of us unable to recognize this as a problem at all. We consider ourselves solely as “Americans” because some of us have realized the “American Dream.” We don’t feel any connection to Africa or any other Black people in the Diaspora. Most of us feel that those other people must have either organized improperly to secure their liberties or that their “Great Emancipators” must not be as warm hearted or industrious as our American benefactors.
I will not debate America’s influence toward restraining the growth and prosperity of other nations and consequently the creation of their oppressed classes here. However, I do think it is worth noting that this is not the first time a “minority” population within a prosperous, Western society find themselves in a similar position as “African-Americans” in the twenty first century.
Prior to the “Nazification” of Germany, Jews enjoyed economic prosperity and legal equality, similar to and in some cases superior to native Germans. They settled into a certain complacency, satisfied that they were indispensable to the German way of life....
Prior to the “Nazification” of Germany, Jews enjoyed economic prosperity and legal equality, similar to and in some cases superior to native Germans. They settled into a certain complacency, satisfied that they were indispensable to the German way of life....
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