Democracy is talked about daily
as if everyone has a share of it. Democracy, they say, is representative government of the people and by the people
via free elections and equal access to public service. They point back to the so called democratic heritage in ancient
Greece (650bc-50bc). They single out the ideas of Polybius, Plato, and Aristotle in reference to "the proper ends
of democratic government." But they hide the fact that in Greece there were over 30 slaves for every single free
person, not to mention the enslavement of African Kmt which they, through their invasion and occupation burned/turned into
Egypt.
Then there was democracy in ancient Rome (150bc-476ad),
they argue. However, there were 33 slaves to every single free person in Rome, not including all of the subjugated peoples
and pillage outposts controlled by the larger Roman Empire. Rome parasitically lived off of Africans in what be came
Egypt, Nubia, Ethiopia, Carthage, and Arabs in western Asia to feed its people while they allowed subjugated foreigners to
starve to death. In fact, the prototype for European barbaric colonization of the world starting in the 15th century
was initiated in Rome circa. 30bc. Enslavement, pillage, theft, mutilation, massacre, rape---this is what democracy
meant in a slave economy which needed to nourish itself with the fruits of foreign and domestic slave labor. Imperialism,
empire, roads built to and from Rome, wealth stolen from Black people, forts built on their lands, Kmt now Egypt turned into
a granary, education for Blacks outlawed, crosses everywhere with Black people and others nailed to them---this was how Roman
democracy ruled what they came to see as their Empire. This was the model for 15th, 16, 17th, and 18th century Spain,
Portugal, Britain, France, Denmark, Prussia/Germany and Russia. Just thugs getting on boats going to conquer and rob
under the guise of trade. Whole hemispheres of the world were captured, entire civilization just burned to the ground,
entire populations just wiped from the face of the earth, millions of people kidnapped and mass shipped around the world to
be worked to death for white folk. Democracy for whom? What democracy? What freedom? What liberty? What justice
for all? What gods helping innocent people? What saviors? Just a filthy set of lies told by sick people with the
military might to beat a hole in anyone's head that says they are not right. To them might is right. Greece, Rome,
and England was their model, a slave model spanning 2400 years.
Then there was democracy in what became Great Britain during its Empire circa. 1650-1950. Another illusion. Again,
the writings of Machiavelli, Harrington, Locke, Hume and Montesquieu are displayed in defense of this stage of democracy.
Catholic church, protestant church, mosque, synagogue, all guilty, all invested in enslaving innocent Black people, stealing
and selling children breeding Black women, molesting Black children, castrating Black men; all worthless/heartless allies
in centuries of Black Holocaust. None having paid one dime in reparations for the great harm that they brought and continue
to bring against innocent Black people. None repenting, none repaying, none asking forgiveness, none atoning---just
a bunch of murderous slave populations continuing to prey on present generations of innocent Black people around the
world. And they can because the African populations have not organized to stop them. In time, hundreds
of millions of indigenous Africans, Indians (India), Australians, Arabs, New Zealanders, Chinese, indigenous Chechimecans
in North America were either enslaved, worked to death, or exterminated. Even today, whites from European nations, punch
drunk from years of publishing and consuming distortions of their own history, cannot see that for 500 years democracy and
freedom for a white skin meant mutilation and enslavement for a black or brown skin. In this historical relationship,
white gain is always Black lose. There is no win-win relationship when whites engage blacks. It is always a master-servant,
scientist-mystical, ruler-ruled, exploiter-exploited, first class-second classone in charge-the other being charged.
The whites always have to find a way to use the Blacks. Study history. Like an ant climbing on an elephant backwards
Greece leeched off of the ancient African Kmt civilization which was 3000 years older and scientifically more advanced---until
they brought that African civilization to an end/put it to sleep. And with its fall, Africa has been in a white age
of occupation, slavery, rape, death and destruction ever since.
Every modern Western white democracy maintains its standard of living off of Southeast Asia, India, Africa, Latin America,
Arab nation, South America, the Caribbean and the Pacific Islands. Add to Western white democracies the newly Eastern
European democracies, including Russia and you have a picture of the world wherein the relatively wealthy Northern Hemisphere
whites lives on the backs of a starving Southern Hemisphere dark skin peoples of the world. South Africa under apartheid
was/is a democracy. Israel under Zionism was/is a democracy. Nazi Germany was a democracy. Iraq today
is a growing democracy. This is what white democracy has grown into since ancient Greece---the right to vote in a
system that white slavemasters set up, the right to elect capitalist/slaveowner representatives that the slave system sanctions
and bankrolls, in a government that only the slavemasters designed, sanctioned by a constitution that only the slavemasters
signed into law, with a military that kills on sight any threat to their interests anywhere in the world that they can get
away with it. This is the history of their democracy. This is their system of checks and balances, this is equality---a
society/government that legalized slavery from 1619-1865, legalized segregation, Jim Crow discrimination, systematic inequality/cheating
people of color fro 1865-1965, then refined discrimination against Black folk until present. The masses of white
people, almost all of them, defend this system because they benefit from the theft of nonwhites' land, labor, lives, minerals
and plagiarized intellectual properties. As long as they get something out of it, they will continue to kill to protect it.
The founding of the white American form of democracy outlined in the Declaration of Independence (1776) and the Constitution
(1791) was no different. These were minority charters for a white capitalist society, drawn up exclusively by representatives
of white capitalist and slave-owners, drawn from a slave Greco-roman/Christian cultural heritage, dominated by rich white
men. Blacks were hacked, diced, sliced, severed into 3/5 of a human being by these slave making white degenerates in
their Constitution. Objectively, it had to reflect, directly, the image and interest of their class, race, gender, and
culture. No other population was present at the drafting or the signing but these white slavers who claimed democracy.
Little wonder that even today white males overwhelmingly dominate ownership of the means of production, the state, culture,
science, religion, education, medicine, law, military, mass communication, commerce, finance, manufacturing, mining, construction,
etc. The 97 percent domination quota was structurally seared into the very fabric of the nation at the drafting of the
document and has not changed much since. At the time that the Constitution was put into force, only 120,000 of the 6,000,000
white Americans, less than a mere 3 percent, had the right to vote---three percent, this is what American democracy started
out as.
In short, the question that these 55 powder-wigged white
men, dressed in silk stockings and panties, and decorated with perfumed handkerchiefs met in secret to resolve in document
form was: what in accordance with their place in production is their class compelled to do in order to fashion the primary
superstructural instrument, i.e., the state, which would "secure their more perfect union, establish justice, insure
domestic tranquillity, provide for their defense, promote their general welfare, and secure blessings on liberty to themselves
and their posterity." [1]When the cannons had been put away: (1) white men were still the ruling sex, (2) white capitalists were the dominant
political class, (3) and whites were the ruling race, (4) the ruling culture was greco-roman/christian, (5) and Black people
still were enslaved at the end of a rope and Chechimecans were still run off their land, hunted down and exterminated.
Therefore, representatives of rich white capitalist slave-owning men would write the ruling document of the land, the constitution,
in their own image and interest.
On the one hand, the Declaration
of Independence (1776) was a foreign policy document stating the objectives of the capitalist class with respect to independence
property rights, and the Revolutionary War (1775-1881) was the actual material resolution of the antagonisms which ultimately
centered around stolen land rights and privileges. On the other hand, the Constitution (1787-1791), as the "supreme
law of the land", was a domestic document which served to concretely design the capitalist state apparatus and firmly
situate it at the apex of the capitalist economy's superstructure as chief administrator, law creator, law enforcer, and
law interpreter. It was their manifesto, a concise compilation of views on what "the supreme law of the land"
should be---capitalist law. Essentially, its first seven articles are a type of organizational template which
document in summary form the slave-capitalist vision of the structure, purpose, procedures and function of the emerging capitalist
society. These 55 white men were drawing up the classic blueprint for a capitalist state apparatus which would systematically
manage the basis, superstructure, and ideology of the nation in their own image and interest.
From 1781, the United States in Congress Assembled, as the country was then called, had operated under the Articles of Confederation,
the first constitution. When in 1787 the new and improved Constitution was completed it was said to have established
the shining prototypic standard of "democracy" for all of the world to replicate. In fact, even today much
talk centers around this topic of democracy and Europe's so called democratic heritage, especially in light of the open
decomposition of much of the socialist world, including Eastern Europe, USSR, China, and Nicaragua.
Formation of the Capitalist Federal
State in the United States
When 55 white men (mostly slaveowners, lawyers and members of the propertied capitalist class) met in secret to outline the
ideological architecture for a state apparatus in their own image at the Philadelphia Convention (1787), no women, African
slaves, indigenous Chechimecans, indentured servants, white men (who did not meet various property requirement) were allowed
near the site.
At this time, over 97 percent of
the population fit in those latter groupings. In essence, democracy, as it had begun in all earlier slave, and feudal
societies in world history, began with only the representative interests of one class as a basis of the "supreme law
of the land." Then the vast majority of the population would have to submit to it. In fact, the minutes from
the Convention were so secret that they were not to be made public until 1819, some 32 year later. The same document
decides law in the interests of the capitalist class, the white race, and the male sex. They call it "the
rule of law"---as if these laws were made by representatives of all classes, sexes, races and ethnic groups in their
own image and interest.
Most of the capitalist central committee
which participated in the drafting of the US Constitution were versed in the history of ancient Greece and Rome, especially
when those two states were in the process of colonizing African Egypt. Many of them were lawyers. They also understood
confederations, federations and republics. Finally, they had an understanding of English history, especially since the
Elizabethan period. But there was another source of information which often gets overlooked. That source
is the written works of frenchmen such as Jean Jacques Burlamaqui, and Baron De Montesquieu.
The 1789 Constitution established (1) a capitalist state apparatus, (2) a federative republic, (3) a "supreme" constitutional
prototype for all subsequent State Constitutions, (4) measures for the growth and expansion of territories into the new union,
(5) guidelines for intra-capitalist relationships and relationships with other classes, including guaranteeing a slavemaster
his slave, (6) and a Supreme Court which was a supreme body entrusted with the authority to interpret laws, acts, legislation,
decisions, and to determine the constitutionality of individual behaviors based on a set of "supreme laws of the land"
that only capitalist and slave master exclusively had a hand in creating. This type of document is fundamental
to capitalist nation building.
The Constitution not only would
become the supreme law of the land, (capitalist law), but it would also provide the political architecture for the design
of a capitalist state apparatus. It cannot be denied that the design for a prototypical capitalist governmental
apparatus was an advance compared with the earlier feudal state apparatus and slave aristocracies around the world in that
period of history. The first seven articles laid out the tripartite division of federal government, i.e., bicameral Congress,
executive presidency, and a federal court system with a supreme court as a court of final appeals. Next procedures for
governing relations between states, and guaranteeing a republican form of government for every state were hammered out via
compromises on the so called Virginia Plan, the New Jersey Plan and the Connecticut Plan. In addition, the process of
amending constitution, procedures for entry of new states into the union were formalized. Finally, in the amendment
process and as a necessary political compromise with the middle classes, a Bill of Rights was instituted which is suppose
to guarantee certain rights to all citizens on a equal basis. Other amendments were to follow as the years and circumstances
of the times, in the view of capitalist warranted.
In sum, this
constitution was a "supreme law of the land" written by one class; interpreted by appointed "supreme court"
judges who were chosen by a president who was elected by a "supreme electoral college" of which the capitalist established.
Add to that: a congress of which the senate (or house of lords) was and is exclusively rich, white, and male; a house of representatives
(or house of commons) which was and is of the propertied class, disproportionately white, and male; and a president and its
administration which was and is never anything other than white, male and wealthy. This is the essence of modern white
American democracy.
The Supreme Court would become the "supreme"
nine white male umpires of the Constitution---white male umpires who were always on the capitalist team. Crown the basis of
the federal state apparatus with a Bill of Rights which: (1) guarantees freedom of speech but also guarantees Sedition Acts;
(2) prohibits government established religion but endorses "in God we trust" on its currency and pledges to King
James' Bibles for formal ceremonies; (3) guarantees freedom of press and allows capitalist to own, control and determine
the content of all of the major and minor mass communication print, video, and audio mediums; (4) guarantees against unreasonable
search and seizure unless, of course, the citizen is an African, or indigenous Chechimecan; (5) guarantees against the taking
of private property without just compensation unless one is indigenous Chechimecan, African, and poor; and finally (6) gives
voting rights to citizens of the US, except if you are female, indigenous Chechimecan, and African.
Finally, proclaim "freedom, justice, liberty and equality for all" and at the same time guarantee through legislative,
executive, judicial and military branches of government, well into the 20th century: (1) the eviction, and extermination
of indigenous Chechimecans, and (2) the enslavement, then apartheid of Africans.
Law
to Keep Africans Enslaved and Keep Stolen Land
Leading up to the founding father's drafting of the Declaration of Independence and Constitution which jointly argued
that "all men are created equal" while these founding fathers were busily defend their right to enslave millions
of innocent Africans, whites had historically used their governments to keep nonwhites in bondage.
In 1619, Maryland established the Maryland Segregation Policy which socially excluded Africans. In 1642, the Virginia
Fugitive Law authorized branding the letter "R" in the face of escape Africans who had been enslaved.
In 1660, the Connecticut Military Law barred Africans from military service. In 1667, the British Plantation Act
established codes of conduct which made whites superior to Africans. In 1686, the Carolina Trade Law barred
Africans from all unskilled and skilled trades. In 1705 the Virgina Public Office Law barred Africans from holding
any public office, and the New York Runaway Law criminalized escape and established execution for recaptured Africans who
had attempted to escape. In 1710, the Virgina Meritorious Manumission Law reward slaves with freed when they informed
on other slaves. In 1712, the South Carolina Fugitive Slave Act criminalized Africans who escaped from slavery in order
to protect white slave master's investments. In 1723, the Virgina Anti-Assembly Law barred Africans from meeting
or having a sense of community, and the Virgina Weapons Law prohibited Africans from keeping weapons. In 1740,
the South Carolina Consolidated Slave Act barred Africans from owning or raising cattle on any farm. In 1775, the Virginia
Runaway Law authorized the sale, mutilation or execution of enslaved Africans who had attempted to escape.
By the time that the Constitution of the United States of America
was ratified in 1787, the central problem of organizing procedures for determining white congressional representation
and taxation of states through population determinants arose. It centered around the south, African slavery, and political
power. Property-owning white men made the laws. Whites enforced the laws. Legally, enslaved Africans
were defined as both people and things by these whites. As people they were full human beings, and responsible members
of society deemed by the law to have both rights and social obligations, however restricted or retarded. As things they
were living extensions of the will of their white masters, deemed by the same law to be of no more human worth than a dog
or a horse. Should they then be counted as part of the southern population for the purpose of deciding the size of delegations
to the House of Representatives? If so, how should they be counted? Decked in powdered wigs, silk
stockings and perfumed handkerchiefs, the 55 founding fathers sat down to decide.
In reading over Montesquieu's De L 'Esprit Des Lois (The Spirit of the Laws) in chapter five, which addresses, among
other things, the enslavement of Africans, one can gain a sense of magnitude of degenerative philosophical discussion which
would later serve as a basis for James Madison's[2] (the main author of the Constitution) political definitions of slaves as part human:
"If I had to justify
our right to enslave Negroes, this is what I would say: Since the peoples of Europe have exterminated those of America, they
have had to enslave those of Africa in order to use them to clear and cultivate such a vast expanse of land. Sugar would
be too expensive if it weren't harvested by slaves. Those in question are black from the tip of their toes to the
top of their heads; and their noses so flattened that it is almost impossible to feel sorry for them. It is inconceivable
that God, who is a very wise being, could have placed a soul, especially a good soul, in an all-black body....One proof of
the fact that Negroes don't have any common sense is that they get more excited about a string of glass beads than about
gold, which, in civilized countries, is so dearly prized. It is impossible that these people are men; because if we
thought of them as men, one would begin to think that we ourselves are not Christians.[3] "
African people could not be defined as men and women, because if they were Europeans would have
to question their humanity given the gruesome acts demonstrated against Africans by these white Christians. "Negroes"
(Africans) could not be 100 percent human. Montesquieu had earlier spoke of "part" and "whole"
human beings; James Madison and the other white men at the Convention merely divided the Montesquieu's human
being into five parts.
Article I, Sections 2, and 3 of the Constitution,
Africans had to be seen as 3/5 of human that provided for the enslaved Africans to be counted this way for the purposes of
deciding on representation and taxation of the states. These white slavemasters granted themselves more affirmative
action quotas: each master got 3 political votes for every 5 slaves he owned. Madison got to the essence
of the matter, when in defending the notion of defining an enslaved Africans as 3/5 of a human: "Government is instituted
no less for protection of the property than of the persons of individuals."[4] As far as these whites were concerned, Africans were not human---they were to be dumped into the same filty wagon
as, pigs, chickens, oxen, cows, and other farm animals.
[1]See Max Farrand, ed., The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787, 4 vols, New Haven, Conn., 1937.
[2]See James Madison, The Federalist Papers No. 54, (New York: New American Library, 1961), pp. 336-341.
[3]See Charles Montesquieu, De L 'Esprit Des Lois(Paris: Garnier, 1927), livre 15, chapture 5, "De
L 'Esclavage Des Negres", my translation.
[4]See James Madison, The Federalist Papers No. 54, (New York: New American Library, 1961), pp. 337-339.
