Friday, December 14, 2007

Argument for relocation and resettlement of Caribbean Peoples in America

Brief introduction
The definition of genocide that is most widely accepted and generally recognized as the authoritative definition of this crime, inclusive for purposes of customary law, is that adopted by the United Nations through the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide of 9 December 1948 (Genocide Convention). According to Article 2 of the Convention, genocide means:
any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
Killing members of the group;
Causing serious bodily or mental harm to ­members of the group;
Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
9 No. 3 Hum. Rts. Brief 14 (2002)

The United States has been such a hospitable country that there are very few people that pay attention to the fact that it is not necessarily capable of recognizing its (destructive behaviors) towards its own minority populations.
There has been very little effort to find a new location for the African descended / Caribbean peoples of North America.
The underlying causes of the conflict stem from the enthusiasm of the African peoples for progressive culture. Because the majority culture is not used to competing against this minority, they have developed excessively negative perspectives of the culture and behavioral choices of the black population.
The majority culture tends to compete within its own group and is not used to having outside competition at a high level.
They are not willing to acknowledge the similar yet more streamlined correlation of cultures and have developed in the black community such a divergent and disjointed style that the two cultures tend to identify themselves to some degree by mutual exclusion.
The majority culture has begun to passively and without direct application undermine the development of these minority cultures. Because they not capable of advancing within their hierarchical structure, they are continuously suspicious of minority groups that are able to advance without subjecting themselves to similar cultural and traditional rituals.
There is an enormous range of destructive behaviors that are undisclosed to the public.
These behaviors include, the destruction of brain tissue, mutilation of the abdomen, the tainting and poisoning of water sources, the enforcement of unwritten rules and laws on people.
It is essential that there be a recognition of the torturous and extremely abusive realities of the lives of many people in America.

1 comment:

flyingvan said...

I have to wholeheartedly disagree with your basic premise. The leaders of the 'majority culture', as you refer to it, don't see it as competition. That's a perpetuated myth.
I've done well in a capitalistic society. I know that doing well isn't a race or based on keeping anyone down. Successful capitalists know, if YOU do better, I do better. There is no limit to the total amount of wealth. With the exception of illegal drugs, prostitution, and a few other things, most wealth is not acquired at the expense of others. I guess what I'm trying to say is we welcome competition, innovation and plain old hard work. What we fear is redistributing wealth from those who work to those who don't. People who work hard and work smart are a treasure and should be treated as such. People that only fight for entitlements don't see the big picture.