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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On page one,  I addressed the fact that those of African descent in America after 1865 were legally free, free as a distinct people could be. The effort on the part of White people was to make the Negro race a self-reliant race, a race that would not be in perpetuity dependent on 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, was an edifying process that would 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. However, many also understood the attitude. After all, it was White males who created all the economic environments and all the political environments in America, which they jealously protected as their status environments. The solution to the Negro dilemma was obvious: a demand for a homeland in America for the descendants of slavery.  Unfortunately, we are all well aware that this obvious solution was never considered by the Negro males.

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 White males' society had to be very attractive to them to make such a prolonged supplication. So let us form the following hypothesis:

    Negro males intuitively believed that what existed in the living/ working environments of the White males (his 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, it is important to define how "culture" will be used. Here, culture, as it relates to human society, will be divided into innate and non-innate aspects.

• Arrested culture and Restive culture:  The two cultures represented here reside within the male and becomes discernible when his male group forms its society i.e. its social stratification system.1  Essentially, a grouping behavior has characteristics shared by the whole male group. The two cultures here represent a social stratification system created within their respective male groups, and for the sake of our discussion here,  it is whether the male group can form an occupational ranking social stratification system.  
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• (finish) the male group cannot create 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). 

Occupational Ranking & The Production of "Wealth" 

"Occupational Ranking is a characteristic of the Restive culture that allows the male group to achieve the necessary grouping and organizational behavior conducive to the production of 'wealth.' Wealth is essentially for 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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