A holistic look at yesterday’s racial segregation suggests that it was a very efficient system in limiting America’s bounty by a two tier socioeconomic structure of a white class system and a nonwhite caste system. Mainstream upward mobility was limited to movement within the white class.  All sorts of skullduggery was perpetrated against people of color to avoid their gaining entry into the white class system including death - Tuskegee Institute Archives report 3,446 black lynching from 1882 - 1968.

The Civil War abolished slavery, but it did not enfranchise African Americans as people in the eyes of their former slave masters or their goons who were well aware that quality education would make blacks competitors in Mainstream America.  The White Citizen Councils understood that the enfranchisement of people of color would mean that the teachings of President Thomas Jefferson would be applicable in these communities. 

“By... [selecting] the youths of genius from among the classes of the poor, we hope to avail the State of those talents which nature has sown as liberally among the poor as the rich, but which perish without use if not sought for and cultivated” taught Thomas Jefferson. Thomas Jefferson’s educational teachings were bone chilling to racial segregationists but it was obvious black must denied an equal education as a very high goal.

In the 1896 Plessey vs. Ferguson decision, the U.S. Supreme Court legitimated the separate but equal doctrine that proved to be separate and far from equal.  This was the catalyst for the evolution of Jim Crow.  It also gave birth to racist whites exploiting grand propaganda schemes to poison White America against African American upward mobility in any form.  

The D. W. Griffith - Ku Klux Klan propaganda film, “A Birth of a Nation” reached the White House.  It was the first movie to be shown in the White House and Hollywood blockbuster.  The birth of a nation did an excellent job vilifying black America:

1.   The U.S. Civil War destroyed white southern privileged lifestyle with the freedom of the black slaves.

2.   Black men lust for white women.

3.   Black members of the U.S. Congress are uncouth buffoons.

4.   Blacks will use their votes to hold down white Americans.

On the other hand, the Ku Klux Klan is depicted as saviors of the white community from these demonic blacks.  When you look at some of the early Hollywood movies you may find black males depicted as scared subservient caste people.

Yet the two key debilitating scenes in this movie are when the Ku Klux Klan in full regalia on their horses intimidated blacks out of voting which negated their citizenship rights and they needed to come to the rescue white women where black males were tearing their house apart to take these ladies captives.  These scenes made it clear that voting polls were persona non grata for African Americans and all black males look forward to raping white women. 

D. W. Griffith understood that a picture was worth 1000 words, so he was hell bent on defining an indelible demonic caricature of African Americans for the next 100 years.  This movie became a justification for the atrocities of the Ku Klux Klan against the black community and it taught the propaganda power of the movie industry in shaping mainstream America.    

It was okay to exploit black females as bed wenches but marriage was taboo. Interracial children (a mogul breed of colored people) were labeled Negro which eliminated normal kinship bonds preventing their white parentage from guiding these children’s socioeconomic development in the economic mainstream.

In 1954 the U.S. Supreme Court knocked down the separate but equal doctrine, this action infuriated many southern white politicians who seized upon this opportunity to incite fear in their constituencies about the fallout of blacks getting educated alongside of whites in the same classroom.  Governor George Wallace of the State of Alabama evolved into the poster child for inciting his followers to resist this Federal mandate. 

Wallace created an anti-Federal Government fervor that told his disciples that it was honorable to ignore the U.S. Supreme Court ruling to desegregate America’s public schools.  His 1963 antic of standing in the door of the University of Alabama to prevent black students from attending the university was a symbolic offense demanding the perpetuation of racial segregation. 

Wallace made the infamous cry, “In the name of the greatest people that have ever trod this earth, I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny, and I say segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.” 

I was alive during the early 1960s before the civil rights and voting rights acts had passed, so I recall on the evening news seeing southern African Americans being beaten with clubs, sprayed with water hoses, and jailed for trying to desegregate the United States of America.  At the time many African Americans felt that the southern High Sheriff was a member of the Ku Klux Klan, hence any atrocities to blacks perpetrated by whites would never be punished. This sentiment is captured in a Klan statement after lynching a black:

"You did the work of men today and your deeds will resound in every state, village, and hamlet where purity and innocence are cherished and bestiality and lechery condemned."

The Klan has been able to evolve with the times by waiting for a new anti-nonwhite, non-nativist, non-WASP, and so on incidents to exploit in galvanizing nativist whites to ignite a membership explosion.  My guess is they see President Barack Obama’s election as tantamount to a Kristallnacht where they can take propaganda lessons from Adolph Hitler to build a new political base underpinned by fear mongering.  Their objective becomes to demonize President Obama while attempting to foster his failure at all cost.

The Patriot Movement appears nothing more than a variation of D.W. Griffith’s depiction of the Klan riding to rescue downtrodden whites suffering at the hands of demonic African Americans.  Only this time Hispanics, Jews, Catholics, Muslims and homosexuals are tossed into the portrayal of the sinister blacks in the movie “Birth of a Nation.” President Obama’s Waterloo was supposed to have been the defeat of universal healthcare; especially since no president in one hundred years had achieved this objective.  

In the past the Klan has helped to elect members of the United States Congress. The Klan knows political whoredom is alive, so they must have been jumping for joy at a Republican Congressional delegate mocking the Democratic Speaker of the House to incite passionate disdain in a crowd against the impending universal healthcare law.

Klan made a very serious strategic mistake in underestimating the leadership resolves of President Obama and the Democrats to find ways to circumvent their blocking tactics on moving a historic piece of legislation.  They forgot that President Obama’s white parentage taught him how to think and converse in mainstream standards versus carrying the yoke of the civil rights struggle. The President is educated at Columbia and Harvard Universities and surrounds himself with very highly intellectual people.  He is also an excellent salesman as well as a world class speaker. It is clear that the Klan forgot that you must know the enemy as you know yourself to win. 

My guess is the Klan was looking to Obama to provide their uptick in membership through excessive media and Internet attention in killing healthcare regardless of the number of uninsured people and poor senior citizens they sacrificed. The Klan must now rethink their hiding behind the caustic rhetoric of America’s Racist Trinity (Russ Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and Glen Beck) to exploit a 95 year old caricature of African Americans that may be simply wrong.

President Obama can now stop moving cautiously because he maintained his cool while every Republican political ploy in the book was thrown at him.  He must not just delegate but step forward aggressively for the Klan can no longer vilify him as the uppity black for their antics have made Obama into being Presidential.

Healthcare passage means the Nation has the President’s late mother to thank, surely the insurance industry probably had no idea that this African American kid watching his dying mother fight over insurance coverage, at her moments of great need, would someday become President with a personal vow to never see another dying parent be stressed out over healthcare coverage.