If you truly want to know the future of America, you must first understand its past. In particular, you must understand the past of African-Americans, for they are the canaries in the coal mine.
What then are African-Americans' history? First, in the days of slavery, they were treated like furniture. Then, in the years of segregation, they were treated like they had the Bubonic Plague. And now, in the 21st century, they are treated like hostages.
This has of course happened before. The Nazi treatment of European Jews was in many ways a drawn-out international hostage crisis. Germany knew how much the free world cared about Jews in the Eastern European countries Germany had gobbled up, and they used this fact against the Allies; in particular the United States of America.
The Nazis kept the subservient Jewish population as international bargaining chips in an attempt to forestall war with America until it was too late for the New World stop their attempt at global conquest.
But as with every hostage crisis, eventually negotiations fail, and a desperate rescue attempt is made. And that is when people truly start dying. The United States called what they thought was Germany's bluff in December of 1941, and committed itself to the liberation of Europe. But it came too late to save most of Europe's Jewish population.
Flash forward to the dawn of the 21st century, and America has been confronted with its own dark epiphany. It has realized that the rest of the world cares infinitely more for the well being of its African-American population than it does. And as with so many villains of the past, many Americans are now ready, willing and able to use this new bargaining chip to their own benefit.
Like European Jews, African-Americans are gradually becoming hostages in the renewed struggle for modern supremacy. And just as in the past century, America's foes will eventually attempt to call what they think is America's bluff.
That is when African-Americans will start to die. First by the dozens. Then by the hundreds. Then by the thousands. And finally -- Lord forbid it -- by the millions.
During the Civil Rights Movement, with the Holocaust fresh in their minds, Martin Luther King Jr was repeatedly asked by his followers about the prospects of an American genocide against blacks. In the final sermon of his life, which he gave a matter of hours before being assassinated, King declared that he had "been to the mountain top". And he said that even though some among them might not get there, African-Americans as a people would "make it to the promised land."
It was a bittersweet message, and one which has resonated throughout the halls of American power ever since. If you would like to hear my opinion on the matter (and if you've read this far, you likely do) history has always been the single greatest authority on what is to come. Anything that happens in the future likely happened first in the past, and humanity's past is a tragic yet heroic tale of the survival of righteous men and women against all odds. Many are persecuted. Many are killed. Victory at times seems impossible. But in the end, victory does come.
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