RACISM and HATE
an AMERICAN REALITY
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In our research into the subject matter for this book we concluded that the Southern Homestead Act , passed by Congress in July of 1866 ,was the first serious attempt and indeed the cornerstone for providing a form of reparation for the newly freed slaves after emancipation and the Civil War ended in 1865. The Act was intended to make available land to the newly freed ex-slaves and was to be administered by the “Freedmen Bureau” also set up by Congress. It was conceived over a few years before and during the Civil War by president Abraham Lincoln , the Congress of the United States, who had counsel with advocacy groups that included Frederick Douglass and other abolitionist to devise a plan to best integrate the newly freed slaves into American society. Of course at the heart of the plan was three things that the newly freed people would need to be productive as put forth by Frederick Douglass to president Lincoln, was education, capital, and land. The land was especially key because it played on the agrarianism ideas of Thomas Jefferson who envisioned that individual land ownership was critical to the growth and enrichment of the new country. 5 million newly freed Americans the majority of which was illiterate and penniless desperately needed land to live on, to farm and to use as a foundation for wealth creation. The barriers put up denying Americans of African descent access to this land I believe is at the heart of our economic disparities here in this country today. This 46,000,000 acres of land has all but been forgotten and the 40 acres and a mule has become a murky folk lore.
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“RACISM and HATE: An American Reality,” is a provocative new updated examination of Dr. Gunnar Myrdal’s epic study of the subject matter done over 70 years ago in the late 1930s. That study took a look at where race relations were in the country and the effect it was having on our democracy, some 70 years after the Civil War. That work was titled “ An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy” The author, in this work, looked back at our history here in America, dealing with race relations, over the last 70 years and through exhausted research and analysis, concluded that the dilemma was not so much a particular people, but in fact, the dilemma had more to do with the man induced “ self-fulfi lling prophecy of Racism”. To put a human face on the subject matter he used his own family’s history here in Georgia starting in 1784 through slavery, through the Civil War, through the Jim Crow laws of the South, through Plessey v Ferguson, clear up until 1954 when Brown v Board of Education overturned Plessey. The book take a critical look at the year 1954, fi rst analyzing the enormity of the 14th amendment rights violations that Plessey had allowed to occur and then secondly the ramifi cations of the Brown v Board of Education case. The author also examine the lighting rod effect the fi rst American President of African descent has had on bringing the hidden vestiges of RACISM out of the closet and placing it front and center on the nation’s conscience.
About the Author
Jimmy Cameron was born on February 4, 1945 in Hampton Georgia. He dropped out of high school in the eleventh grade and joined the US Marine Corp in February of 1963. He was wounded in Viet Nam on July 16, 1966 while taking part in Operation Hasting, at the time the largest such operation in the war, involving about 12,000 troops on our side and a like number on the enemy side. He spent nearly a year recovering from his injuries in the Philadelphia Naval Hospital and was Medically retired from the Marine Corp on April 30, 1967. Upon Graduating from Philco Ford Technical Institute in Philadelphia in 1968 he worked in the Information Technology field until retiring in 2007 from Computer Science Corporation. His first book, The Water Boy: The life and Trials of Jimmy C. Cameron , was released in 2010. He created and host The Hushmo Black Forum on BlogTalkRadio over the Internet He presently lives in Atlanta, Georgia.