American Negroes : Their Own Country - Why It Didn't Happen (1865 to 1964) - Page 2

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II. Occupational Ranking & The Evolution Of Integration
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So, on page one,  I addressed the fact that those of African descent in America after 1865 were in fact legally free, free as a distinct people could be. The effort being on the part of white people was to make the Negro race a self-reliant race - a race that would not be permanently, and in perpetuity,   dependants of the white race. Of course, for Negro men, particularly those who were former slaves, becoming leaders and providers for their people, as well as moving their race toward self-reliance, this was an edification process that was going to require some time.  But the message from white males was always consistently clear, and many times even violently demonstrated, that white males did not want Negroes in their living arrangements, in their working environments, or involved in their political environments. Many Negroes were certainly frustrated by this attitude, many understood and others, they wanted in...but had to believe that that was not likely ever to become a reality. After all, it was white males that created all the economic environments and all the political environments in America - in which they jealously regarded as their status environments. The solution for the Negro race was obvious: A homeland in America. 

This leads us, again, to  our ONE question from page one: 

     Why didn’t people of African descent in America from 1865 to 1964 demand a homeland in America, whereby they could achieve mastery over their own destiny, and create their own DMG - their own society - separate and autonomous from the American DMG? 

     Since integration was so vigorously sought by Negro males (achieved in 1964 with the Civil Rights Act),  and for such a long period of time (since 1865), it stands to reason that something within American males’ society had to be very attractive to them to make such a lengthily supplication. So let us form the following hypothesis:
 

     Negro males intuitively believed what existed in the living/ working environments of the American males (the American males’ society i.e. his social stratification system) existed because of the racial group's culture and very likely would not exist among the Negro race - because of Negro culture - if they sought separation and autonomy. 

First, how the word “culture” is going to be used here requires a short explanation. The word culture, as it relates to a human society, is going to be divided into innate and non-innate.

• Innate-culture:  The innate-culture resides within the male and becomes discernible when his male-group forms its society i.e. its social stratification system.1  Essentially, an innate-culture is a grouping characteristic shared by the whole male group. And, for the sake of our discussion here, the innate-culture will only be used to identify whether the male group can form an occupational ranking social stratification system.  In other words, a male-group's innate-culture is either occupational ranking or non-occupational ranking. So if the innate-culture within the male group will not allow a social stratification system based on occupational ranking of the males, then the male-group will use a non-occupational ranking social stratification system (e.g. animal husbandry; subsistence farming). 

• Non-innate-culture:  Non-innate-culture within a society involves all those things that make the male-group’s society distinct, other than race (e.g. language, status symbols, religion, style of dress, diet, folklore, etc). Naturally, only a non-innate-culture can be taught.

  
Note: I am not going to delve into the theoretical origin of the Occupational Ranking culture. I have included a MAP (under construction) tracing the origins of the Occupational Ranking system as it concerns Western Civilization. This is not theoretical.

Occupational Ranking & The Production of "Wealth" 

"Occupational Ranking is an innate-culture of the male-group (excluding females) that allows the male group to achieve the necessary grouping and organizational behavior conducive to the production of "wealth." Wealth is basically the production of marketable material items. The better the male group is at stratifying itself under occupational titles, the more marketable wealth they will theoretically be capable of creating."

   
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1. The creation of a human 'society' has essentially always followed the same pattern: A male-group (males racially, linguistically and religiously similar) first claim a geographic area. This same male-group then creates a social stratification system  (to rank males within their own male group).  When the social stratification system is created,  a "society" now exists. The male-group that created the society becomes the Dominant Male Group (DMG).  Historically, societies have stratified their DMGs by either Occupational Ranking or Non-Occupational Ranking.  
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