The American economic system seems to do just fine with the planned abysmal education of Black children, the massive unemployment of Black adults and the hyper-incarceration of Black men. In fact, the stock market recently reached a new high. This current employment discrimination/wealth deprivation may be the most recent form of planned racial control to replace the old American systems of Slavery, The Black Codes, Convict Leasing and Jim Crow, along with modern-day Mass Incarceration. And it might be more effective than any previous form of racial control.
Almost anyone from anywhere in the world can come to America to achieve their dream, but most Blacks who live in America-educated or not, crime-free or not, hard-working or not-will not be able to acquire minimal wealth or to get jobs even sweeping streets, cleaning toilets or picking cotton. Living in America has become a nightmare, not a dream, for many Black Americans. Obviously, the magical formula for economic success in America is to have white skin. It has been this way for at least 400 years, and-barring a breakthrough-will likely remain for the next 400 years regardless of how much education Black people achieve.
And now that our Northern cities have tired of their Black populations, much of America is “getting out of the Black-people business.” Neighborhoods that used to be “Black Belts,” like Harlem in New York City, Bronzeville in Chicago and much of Washington, D.C., have gone upscale, and, as a result, most Blacks cannot afford to live there. Social programs and human infrastructure have disappeared. So it is out of our urban centers and back to the rural South for many of us. This time, however, we will not be allowed to even pick cotton because there’s no more cotton for Black Americans to pick.