Op-Ed by Clifford Jackson
People come here to experience the ” America Dream”. We have been taught and conditioned with this MYTH from the moment you are born in this country. Like “Home of the brave and land of the free”, these statements are the apex of American Propaganda that contravenes the racist and criminal history of the United States. The Migrant crisis is a direct reflection of the rapacious and barbaric economic, militaristic and social policies of the last 500 years, and especially the last 160 years since the advent of the so-called ” Industrial Revolution”. Colonialism is a greater evil than Hitlerism and Stalinism combined. The white western world from the two papal bulls promulgated by the Catholic Church in the 15th century to first the Portuguese Empire of Pedro Cabral, and then to the Spanish Empire of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella said to’ Christianize and subjugate the pagan and unholy people living on the west coast of Africa”.
This led to a period of white western domination and the transatlantic slave trade that has destroyed indigenous cultures of African , Asian and Latin American societies, and the impact is still being felt to this day. Christopher Columbus did not discover America, however his murderous rapacious voyage to what is now called the ” Bahamas”, he thought he was in India, opened the doors also to the transatlantic slave trade and a level of physical, cultural, psychological and worldwide violence by the white western world that has engulfed every aspect of our conscious and subsconcious nature. This has been further solidified by centuries of a perverted Christianity from Constantine, the first Roman Catholic Emperor, that has dominated the continents of Africa, Asia and Latin America . This evil colonialism has been reflected also as far as the British Colonial control of Northern Ireland that goes back more than 5 centuries. The colonization and enslavement of Mozambique, and Angolo by the Portuguese. Morocco, Columbia, Panama by Spain, Liberia, Venezuela, El Salvador, Nicaragua by the United States, Algeria and Martinique by France, the Congo and Central Africa by Belgium, Italy in Ethiopia, Suriname and Indonesia by the Dutch has been normalized and justified as far as western so-called education. As Malcolm X said ‘ the criminal has been able to justify to the victim the destruction of the victim”. Another factor that , falls into place to what Malcolm X was referring to, is what Che Guevara saw when he travelled throughout Latin America in the 1950’s as a doctor helping the poor and those who had leprosy, both a byproduct of the rapacious and inhumane colonial powers of the white western world. He said” the educational system of the indigenous populations has been replaced by force with the history of the colonizer”. The consequences of that cannot be overstated, what this has done is to make people in Africa, Asia, Latin America and people of color around the world clones of the very people that have subjugated them . As I say daily black people in America are ” Black white people”. We have been through centuries of unspeakable crimes and domination that has led to a pathological state and in essence we have become ” white people with dark skin” with the erasing of our identity by white America.
Organized religion has cemented this wiping out of the identities and history of indigenous cultures of people of color around the world by the white western world. Why do you think so many African-Americans will banish you if you challenge their connection to Jesus of Nazareth? They are no different than millions of whites who claim to be Christian and catholic in this country and are some of the most racist, ignorant and hateful people in the world. These same people define the poor as “lazy” yet call themselves Catholic. I have seen this in Irish and Italian American communities around westchester and certainly for 40 years working on wall street. This ignorance and disdain for the poor is mirrored to a lesser extent in African-American Communities and communities of color. Like I said they are ‘ white people of color”. The reason why catholicism is the leading religion for people throughout Latin America today is the same missionary and colonial processes that go back to the Spanish and Portuguese empires of the 15th century. There will be people that will say ” well Dr. King was a Christian!”. Yes his Christianity was a part of a colonial process that made his family lineage subjugated to this like anyone else. The difference is Dr. King had his house bombed several times, was jailed over thirty times walking the walk of Jesus of Nazareth most people dont, and you see it with the hypocrisy that is glaring during this holiday season. That hypocrisy is in your face from many in the white community, when you challenge them in their contradictory behavior regarding their faith, they rationalize by saying ” we do the best we can”.
In the 1880’s there was a conference in Berlin Germany that has led to not just the ‘ migrant crisis” but the creation of the so-called ” third world”. What happened was that all of the leading colonial powers literally split up the continent of Africa into different territories that each country such as Belgium could take . Belgium’s King Leopold II was there and he took Central Africa and the congo where over the next 30 years Belgium enslaved and colonized Central Africa resulting in the deaths of more than 15 million black African Congolese. It is interesting how we are constantly told about the holocaust in Nazi Germany but rarerly are we told about a crime that in terms of the people killed and the resulting colonial impact was more evil and inimical. The British had already been raping South Asia, modern day India and Pakistan since the 18th century taking capital out of those countries where they were especially in the case of India had thriving mercantilist societies going back to the period of Alexander the Great . India was reduced to mainly Peasants that were living in poverty where there were 25 periods of starvation that the British Monarchy orchestrated in India and Pakistan when they were one nation from the 18th century to the period of WWII. Three million Indians in the province of Bengal starved to death under Winston Churchill. The British did the same thing in Ireland leading to the starvation of hundreds of thousands of Irish in the 1840’s through the early 1850’s. The myth we are told is that the Irish left Ireland because of the ” Potato famine”. What happened was a diabolical and evil effort by the British to destroy the crops , which Potato’s were one, that they intentionally destroyed to kill many Irish especially in Northern Ireland. This colonial evil has been perpetrated by the Israeli’s for 75 years destroying the fishing and olive growing industry of millions of Palestinians virtually leading to their their destruction.
The ‘ Third world”, which millions of the migrants and refugees coming from Africa, Latin America, south east Asia and the carribean have had their countries raped by the White Western World for generations. To put this in perspective the 5 million people who die of starvation and malnutrition every year in the aforementioned continents and territory are a direct result of the rapacious, barbaric and inhumane policies of the west. This has been created and exacerbated by all of the colonial dictatorships and military junta’s that have been put in control in Africa, Asia and Latin America through the overthrowing of governments that were not friendly to the west or dictatorships that have allowed for the raping of these countries by the United States, Britian, France, Belgium and Germany . Millions die of starvation and malnutrition from the nefarious political economic policies that are many times enforced and facilitated through the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and USAID. Where corporate America and corporations in Britian, France and Belgium profit from these relationships. Taking valuable resources such as copper, oil, tin, uranium, manganese, cocoa and many other resources. Wall Street has thrived for more than 100 years trading these resources that were taken from these countries via the same illegal and violent methods of overthrowing governments and supporting dictatorships. Baby Doc and Papa Doc Duvalier in Haiti are one example of the united states supporting dictatorial regimes in order to rape a country. Those dictatorships are one of the reasons why Haiti is in the condition that it is in. The Somoza family dictatorship that ruled Nicaragua for 5 decades leading to the death of hundreds of thousands of Nicaraguans was implemented by the United states. The overthrow of the democratically elected socialist regime of Mossadegh in Iran by the CIA and British Petroleum in 1953 that led to the installation of the Shah and his dictatorship for 26 years where tens of thousands of Iranians were tortured imprisoned and killed by the CIA trained Savaki, the Iranian Secret Police. Batista in Cuba and the US raping of that country for 60 years led to Che Guevara and Fidel and Raul Castro Kicking them out in 1959. The overthrow of the democratically elected socialist regime of Salvadore Allende in Chile orchestrated by Henry Kissinger and Richard Nixon on September 11th 1973 and the installation of General Pinochet where more than 5 thousand Chilean Civilians were slaughtered. One of many reasons why Mayor Eric Adams is extremely ignorant and an absolute disgrace in praising Henry Kissinger because this man was a WAR criminal many times over especially in Vietnam and Cambodia. Five generations of dictatorships supported in Guatemala by the United States is one of the reasons why many of the migrants coming here are coming from Guatemala and why they are coming from Haiti, Venezuela, Columbia, Ecuador because these countries have been invaded more than 75 times just since the early part of the twentieth by the united states.
“People come here for a better life” that is a myth! they come here because they have had their existence in every way possible assailed and attacked by the same people who claim to be their savior.
American history is pure evil, and my analysis here as well as many other academics tells the real story of why we have a migrant and refugee crisis worldwide.
Clifford Jackson, Larchmont, NY
