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By now, everyone'southward heard of the expiry-threatening actions of Krystal Lake, the college educatee working her style through schoolhouse at Domicile Depot who dared to wear an "America Was Never Peachy Lid." Never citing racism, Lake said that her wearing the chapeau was in response to co-workers in support of Trump and that she was beleaguered with Trump's campaign of exclusion.

On diverse social media sites Black folks are rise to her defence and raising the question, "exactly when was America groovy?" While I empathize everyone's sentiment, I accept to accept the rode less traveled and disagree. In all of information technology'southward sickness, racism, and double standards, America once was "smashing" for nigh people willing to work difficult, earn a decent living, relieve money, and then on and so forth…the and so-chosen American Dream (minus the getting hung, burned, shell, having your home firebombed stuff).

I say that in lieu of the world in which we now live where our sis, Ms. Lake, upon graduation (unless she had scholarships or parents paid for school) will have mountains of debt, based on her field of Communications, will enter a earth of freelance and contract work, and volition exist unable to afford to live in the same neighborhood she grew up in. That'due south because America is definitely reeling and we all had a warning of it during the glory days of old President, Neb Clinton.

Westward illiam Jefferson Clinton, Governor of Arkansas, was elected the 42nd President of the U.s. on xx January, 1993. Black Americans were excited and eager having accustomed the new President every bit their own. He had that Southern twang and played saxophone and was a breath of fresh air subsequently Large George Bush.

Information technology was during that start year that a pocket-size book was put out by a little known publishing company, FCN Publishing Company. The title of the volume was "A Torchlight for America" and information technology was authored by Minister Louis Farrakhan. There was no New York Times Book Review nor any media coverage concerning the release of this book. A quick look at its content, some 23 years after, and the chapter titles read similar a mirror image for issues that are ailing our country today: America is on Her Deathbed, Hiding the Light, Greed & Leadership's State of Mind, Fixing the Public School System, Rebuilding the Economy, Developing America's Moral Backbone, & Catastrophe the Wellness Intendance Crunch.

This is how the volume opens:

America is clearly suffering, and from my vantage point, America lies on her deathbed in dire need of guidance and a new direction. If you examine her vital signs, you volition accept to agree that they bear witness America is steadily on the decline.. …Without truth the American people are left paralyzed, unable to constructively address their problems. Min. Farrakhan

"A Torchlight for America" is full of insight. All the same, the talk throughout the book is of reject. If something is to decline, it must first have some identify to decline from and this is where our story begins.

I' ve said information technology before, and I'll say it again, if y'all have even so to read "The Warmth of Other Suns" please stop reading this now and proceed to that book. Isabel Wilkerson, via interviews and research paints a poignant film of some of the six (6) million people who migrated from the South to the North and out Due west between 1910 and 1970.

Black people wanted to escape the overt and constant racism that Jim Crow assaulted them with daily also as get out of the fields that their forefathers toiled in for gratuitous. At that place was factory work, the word spread silently through the Black community, and many of us had to "steal away" in the night — fifty-fifty afterwards slavery (surprise) we were viewed as property — to take that trip out of the southward.

The Detroit Black Middle-Class was born out of Ford factory employees, with Ford's penchant for hiring Black employees a thing of legend. Blacks in Seattle had to wage war with Boeing while the Usa waged war with the Axis Powers, simply they somewhen overcame that obstruction and many up mobile Blacks in Seattle found their origins in that location. The same is truthful of factories all over America.

In the "Autobiography of Malcom X" Malcolm described the "uppity, lodge" type in this fashion:

What I idea I was seeing there in Roxbury were high-form, educated, important Negroes, living well, working in big jobs and positions. Their quiet homes sat dorsum in their mowed yards. These Negroes walked along the sidewalks looking haughty and dignified, on their manner to work, to store, to visit, to church. Malcolm X

And, although Malcolm X said these Blackness people were actually working menial jobs similar porters, postal piece of work, etc. information technology simply shows that even having that form of employment, one could improve their life from a life of field work and sharecropping. One could purchase property, send their children to college, fifty-fifty do every bit much travel as ane possibly could in those deep days of segregation.

Fast-forwards forty-plus years and information technology's an entirely different pic.

T he reality of modernistic America is that most people will never live to be Center Class. When Professor Amy Glasmeier of MIT adult her Living Wage Figurer what she learned was that the Middle Class shrank considerably between 2001 and 2011.

When I look at the minimum wage compared to the living wage, in many places in the United States, it would accept working 2-and-a-half to three minimum wage jobs to make ends meet. So from the standpoint of how families are doing, we can say clearly that minimum wage every bit a baseline is making it very hard for families. That's the showtime thing that jumps out to me. Professor Amy Glasmeier.

Listed in a higher place is the superlative ten states every bit far as income required to be Centre Class Lower and Upper Jump. Some people wait at those numbers and cramp thinking that they can hands accomplish the Lower Bound Middle Class numbers…until they exercise the calculations.

If we were to look at the last state on the list, Mississippi, and what it takes to be lower Centre Class there — $25,309 — that number seems so low it'due south almost laughable. But what does that equal to as far as hourly wage? According to convertunits.com:

As a uncomplicated baseline calculation, let's say you have 2 weeks off each year as unpaid holiday time. Then y'all would exist working l weeks of the year, and if you work a typical twoscore hours a week, you have a total of ii,000 hours of work each year. In this instance, you can speedily compute the annual salary by multiplying the hourly wage by 2000. Your hourly pay of $12.65 is and so equivalent to an average annual income of $25,300 per year.

I can almost say with 100% surety that most jobs are not just hiring for less than $12.65 an 60 minutes but that the chances of an employee even getting 40 hours a week in the current economy is almost impossible.

And this is why Donald Trump'southward message is almost a double entendre — the true Republican bulletin indeed.

By definition, any Religious person that maintains their Religion'due south values and has a desire for an upright society would exist classified as a Bourgeois. Furthermore, as a person rises up the revenue enhancement subclass, they likewise desire less government interference and are looking for tax breaks. Supposedly, this is what the Republican Political party stands for.

But what we all can concord on is when Donald Trump says "Make America Not bad Again," the above image (of Black folk hung) is what comes to Black people's minds…and based on the death threats hurled at our sister, Ms. Lake, and the campaign trail of Mr. Trump where Mob mentality and racism prevailed, information technology is exactly the aforementioned thing that almost Trump supporters come across also.

America has potential. The principles laid out past the Founding Fathers of the land and the apparent hypocrisy of their words laid the foundation for this countries culture. America speaks of freedom while working to curtail the freedom of it's lowest citizens. America preaches about beingness a country of immigrants yet vehemently rejects all-non white immigrants. And this has always been the instance.

The matter is, now, America is becoming a place that practically no one can afford to live in — white or Black and all people are being led like sheep — whether information technology's by the slick Clinton machine that imprisoned more than Black folk than any other Presidency or the Trump campaign that screams all of this "America Great" rhetoric, yet the one doing the screaming has e'er been in the one% and has no plan or intention to aid those who are his supporters.

Our sis Krystal Lake expects to be laid off from Domicile Depot and is currently looking for a job in her field. At 22, she'south growing up in a different world than the world Minister Farrakhan grew upwards in.

When Minister Farrakhan was 22, America was entering some of information technology'south greatest years of prosperity (and hanging Black folk wholesale). Black people knew that they had to work harder, focus on educational activity, etc. These are the morals that were taught in that generation on downwards to mine. Racism was in your face up.

The world that Ms. Lake is growing up in — the so-called "post-racial" world is a world of lies and fallacies. According to the Economic Policy Found, "the Dandy Recession and its backwash is the longest, most severe period of economic weakness in more than than vii decades," and every bit a issue unemployment among college graduates is high. That, coupled with the fact that the factories or other service jobs that the non-college grad would work are dried up, leads to an exorbitant amount of unemployment.

This affects people of all races…and similar Government minister Farrakhan mentioned above, "Without truth the American people are left paralyzed, unable to constructively address their problems."

I close with more words from "A Torchlight For America:"

Even though America says she wants change and renewal, she must deal with the ground of this country's woes. Either she must evolve from the limited vision of the founding fathers and repudiate that vision, or, America must say that she believes in the true vision of the founding fathers and that darker people volition never exist respected as equals inside of this nation. Min. Farrakhan.

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