Friday, March 26, 2010

Child Support is the New Slavery

The slave trade was not just about the capturing and selling of Black men, women, and children for profit. It was largely about the perpetual undermining of Black people so that the system would survive on its own forever. Slavery taught Black men to oppress Black women, and Black women to view Black men as their enemy. This is not to negate the fact that the majority of Black men and women used their intellect and instinctive conscious good, to thwart the diabolical designs imposed upon them. However, many fell victim to the designs and became avid tools in their own destruction. Thought the systems have changed names throughout the centuries, its function has remained on virtual auto-pilot.

After Slavery was abolished, the system morphed into Jim Crow laws restricting the movements, and aspirations of free Black men and Women. It once again acted as a catalyst to cause Black people to turn on each other instead of to each other as the real enemy of the system made itself most difficult to defeat. When it was defeated, the share cropping and tenant farming system was put into play along with its punitive partner, the prison system. It was designed to first break the family economically, then severe the Black man to the chain gang and work farm. As we should know, the thirteenth amendment only abolished arbitrary slavery. But did allow slavery as punishment for crime. "Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

Section 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation."

http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/data/constitution/amendment13/

Following next, the welfare system proved the most effective de-facto slavery, because for the first time, it provided a profit margin for the "slaves" to destroy each other. It encouraged a systematic exclusion of Black men from the family, and gave Black women the false impression that this was a workable dynamic. When the system felt that it had achieve its goals, and was once again operating on auto-pilot with Black men and Women at each other, it abolished it, in favor a system that didn't cost them, but paid them even larger profits. As the welfare system was being dismantled, justified by criticisms of welfare fraud, abuse, and mythical stories of welfare queens, a new system was implanted. While simultaneously deconstructing welfare, the government created its next "slavery." During the period of 1990-2000 the system passed 15 new laws in 10 years, amongst which included criminalizing failure to pay child support. "Imposed a Federal criminal penalty for the willful failure to pay a past due child support obligation to a child who resides in another State and that has remained unpaid for longer than a year or is greater than $5,000. For the first conviction, the penalty is a fine of up to $5,000, imprisonment for not more than 6 months, or both; for a second conviction, the penalty is a fine of not more than $250,000, imprisonment for up to 2 years, or both."

http://www.childsupportanalysis.co.uk/information_and_explanation/world/history_usa.htm

As with the previous slavery systems, they provided economic lures (child support payments) to appeal to human greed coupled with the criminal justice system (restraining orders) to effect the removal of the Black man from the household.

We won't belabor the details of the restraining order trick. Nor will this blog attempt to pass judgement on the thousands of hard working, honest, needing, Black women and men who use the system in place for legitimate concerns for themselves and their children. Nor will we deny that the system harms or helps others races or nationalities. However, this blog will attempt to expose the current flaws that make child support a virtual slavery. It contains no less than the abuse, fraud, and child support "queens" as the welfare system did. Moreover, it does not possess any of the protections that welfare used to safeguard the government from being abused by dishonest women. Therefore, being consistent with other forms of slavery and de-facto slavery; it must also be dismantled. As a victim of this system, I am broke, but not broken. So this blog is not for the broken, but for those who are resolved to fight back and break the system as we have broken other slavery systems before it. So do not use this blog to curse, threaten, and talk other foolishness that will only prove that you are who they think you are.

The classic story and movie, A Raisin in the Sun tells the common tragedy of the Black family destroyed by false beliefs, mis-education, and greed in a system that has traps, snares and lures to undermine people who become entangled in it. At one point the family is at each other as the system has designed; Husband against Wife, Mother against Son, Black man against Black women. However, in the end they used their intellect, and instinctive good minds to overcome and prevail. So, I take Sidney Poiter's famous quote from his character in the movie as he rails against the system that has sought to entrap him and the Black family; " ... I am a volcano!"

1 comment:

  1. While I agree with the facts that you have pointed out demonstrate how child support laws have been enacted to skirt Jim Crowe Laws and to again enslave persons in the nation, I vehemently disagree that it is an issue that only affects blacks, is even aimed primarily to dismantle or oppress blacks. I believe that it is more so aimed at wiping out the middle class in America, as absolutely no-one will come to the aid of the 'evil white man' who gets crucified for 'all men's sins'. We are mentally conditioned to seeing an innocent white man being murdered for something he didn't do. It all goes back to treat people the way YOU want to be treated. But if saying this is aimed at destroying black families helps me to see my black baby, then I am all for saying that slavery is wrong, and it hurts babies to take their fathers from them, robs them of financial resources, and impoverishes the working class, while lining the pockets of thieves in law offices, courts, and legislature, and needs to be called what it is: ' modern slavery skirting Jim Crowe Laws'. I commend you on your work to take a stand against this tyranny against children in this nation.

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