IN 1863, PRESIDENT ABRAHAM LINCOLN ISSUED THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION FREEING THE SLAVES. NOPE, NOT QUITE TRUE IT ONLY FREED THOSE IN TERRITORY NOT YET CONTROLLED BY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT---EFFECTIVELY IT FREED NONE SINCE THOSE BEHIND CONFEDERATE LINES WERE NOT UNDER HIS CONTROL. AT THE CONCLUSION OF THE WAR BETWEEN THE STATES THIS HAD TO BE SET RIGHT WITH SOMETHING THAT WOULD TRUELY SET THE SLAVES FREE. BUT SOME IN GOVERNMENT WE ALREADY CONCERNED ABOUT SETTING MILLIONS OF BLACKS FREE TO WONDER A WAR TORN NATION. SO EVEN BEFORE THE 13TH AMENDMENT WAS ADDED TO THE CONSTITUTION MEASURES WERE BEING TAKEN TO LIMIT ITS EFFECTS.
AS YOU MIGHT EXPECT THE SLIMY POLITICIANS OF THAT DAY CAME UP WITH A PLAN, SOMETHING ENTIRELY NEW TO THE AMERICAN SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT. IT BECAME KNOW AS "40 ACRES AND A MULE". NEEDLESS TO SAY, THE IDEA SPREAD LIKE WILDFIRE WITHIN THE RADICAL REPUBLICANS OF THE DAY. IT WAS A WAY TO KEEP THE "FREEDMAN" UNDER CONTROL, DEFACTO SLAVERY WAS IN AND THE ROAD TO REPEALING THE YET UNWRITTEN 13TH AMENDMENT WAS UNDERWAY. THE BOYS IN WASHINGTON PATTED THEMSELVES ON THE BACK.
AFTER THE PASSAGE OF THE 13TH AMENDMENT THE ORIGINAL "BOYS IN THE HOOD" MAKE THEIR APPEARANCE AND ARE DETERMINED NOT TO BE OUT DONE BY THE "40 ACRES AND A MULE" CROWD AND FOR OVER 75 YEARS THE KU KLUX KLAN CONTROLS THE POLITICS OF THE NEW SLAVERY IN THE SOUTH AND FEW IF ANY LEADERS IN THAT SECTION OF THE NATION WILL STAND AGAINST THEM. THE KLAN IS RIGHTLY KNOWN AS THE "INVISIBLE EMPIRE". EVENTUALLY, HOWEVER, THE NEW "40 ACRE" BUNCH IS REPLACED BY NORTHERN DEMOCRATS UNDER THE LEADERSHIP OF FDR. THEY WANTED THEIR PIECE OF THE ACTION.
ENTER THE GREAT DEPRESSION AND THE KEYNESIAN ECONOMIST. THE CRISIS CAME AND THE NEW DEAL WAS BORN . SOUND FAMILIAR DOESN'T IT! THE FREEDMAN BEGAN HIS GREAT MIGRATION NORTH TO ESCAPE "JIM CROW" AND IN SEARCH OF A PROMISED UTOPIA. AND THE NEW DEALERS IN THE NORTH OPENED THEIR ARMS TO THE NEW ARRIVIALS KNOWING THAT THESE NEW VOTERS WOULD PROP UP THEIR CORRUPT BIG CITY GOVERNMENTS FOR YEARS TO COME. HELP WAS ON THE WAY AND THE NEW DEAL POLITICIANS REJOICED AS THEIR "BOYS" CAME TO TOWN. HERE WAS A CROWD THEY COULD CONTROL AND USE---YES THE SAME OLD SLAVES OF YESTERDAY ARRIVED.
NOW THE BLACK MAN WAS A SLAVE IN THE NORTHERN BIG CITIES RUN BY THE NEW DEALERS AND IN THE RURAL SOUTH RUN BY THE KKK. ENTER STAGE LEFT, ONE LYNDON B. JOHNSON AND THE "FAST DEAL" aka "THE GREAT SOCIETY". MILLIONS OF DOLLARS WERE PUMPED IN THE RURAL SOUTH (THEY NEVER FORGOT THE 40 ACRE THING) AND IN A FEW SHORT YEARS MANY BLACKS IN THE SOUTH FOUND THEMSELVES DEPENDING ON THE FEDERAL BUCKS FOR THEIR FOOD AND SHELTER. THE PLAN WORKED AND NEW CLASS OF CITIZEN WAS BORN----THE WELFARE MOMS. THE PROGRESSIVES WERE TURNING FLIPS AND DANCING IN THE STREETS. THEY HAD INFACT RE-ENSLAVED THE FREEDMAN AND COULD DEPEND ON HIS VOTE, JUST AS HE DEPENDED ON THEIR HANDOUTS! IT WAS PERFECT. WELL NOT QUITE!
MANY ON THE LEFT WERE NOT SATISIFIED AND WANTED MORE, THE ABSOLUTE REPEAL OF THE 13th AMENDMENT, SO THEY HAD TO GIVE MORE, TO HAVE MORE CONTROL. THEY BEGAN TO REALIZE THAT IT WASN'T JUST THE "FREEDMAN" THEY NEEDED SO THEY CAST THEIR NETS WIDER. THE FISHING WAS GREAT AS MANY GRABBED AT THE SHINEY BAITS TOSSED THEIR WAY. ALL KINDS OF FREE PROGRAMS WERE BEGUN AND MANY DANCED IN THE STREETS AND WERE HAPPY AT THEIR GOOD FORTUNE. THEY WERE GREATFUL TO THEIR GLORIOUS LEADER WHO KNEW THEIR NEEDS AND EAGARLY SOUGHT TO PLEASE THEM. ALMOST WITHOUT NOTICING THEY WERE BECOMING MORE AND MORE DEPENDENT ON THOSE IN WASHINGTON.
THE CENTRAL PLANNERS WERE AMAZED! THE 13th AMENDMENT DIDN'T HAVE TO BE REPEALED! THE FREEDMAN AND OTHERS JUMPED WILLINGLY INTO THE CHAINS OF SLAVERY. IT WAS OVER AND MANKIND HAD SAVED ITSELF FROM A FATE WORSE THAN DEATH : THE FREEDOM TO MAKE THE WRONG CHOICE!
