No matter who wins the 2020 election, nothing will cure the great Black America/White America divide. At least nothing that has already been tried since the last life ended on the last Civil War battlefield. Ending slavery was the beginning of healing. Voting rights was a step. But segregation and discrimination persisted for 100 years. In 1945, Branch Rickey of baseball’s Brooklyn Dodgers broke the color barrier by signing Jackie Robinson. Then, in the mid 1950’s, the racial dominoes began to fall. Schools were desegregated. Businesses followed. In greater and greater numbers, Black Americans entered every arena of American life, including politics, education, business, sport and entertainment. Affirmative Action and other similar initiatives greased the wheels. The Black movement upward culminated when White America elected Barack Obama in 2008 and again in 2012. In 2020, Black Americans occupy high positions in Federal, State and Local Governments. Black Americans dominate major professional sport and are also over represented per capita in the music and entertainment industries. Black America comprises 12-13 percent of the U.S. population; yet represent at least 50% of the personalities in television advertising and in sport programming. This summary by no means intends to paint a comprehensive view of the Black/White subject — but does intend to suggest that Black progress not only has failed to conciliate the Black Community, but curiously has created greater dissatisfaction, greater disunity and greater racial divide. A casual observer from outer space might ask: “Why?” Good question, Matilda. But no one answers. Still, somebody is being blamed for systemic racism and social injustice. Since it is Black America doing the blaming, you must assume the “somebody” is anyone who is White. Under these dire circumstances, you believe America should suck it up and consider potential solutions for the alleged injustice and systemic racism. One apparent solution is to turn over all government positions to Black America — from U.S. President, to Congress, to the Supreme Court, to the Joint Chiefs, Governors, Mayors, etc. This strategy logically should take the starch out of Black Lives Matter. Black leadership on this grand scale may prove to have the same tonic for success that has been exemplified by Chicago and Baltimore, and among 2/3 of America’s 100 largest cities, also controlled by Black American administrators. Another obvious solution would be the transfer of White America wealth to Black America. It could work this way: If a black family has a household income of $40K per year and a white family’s income is $150K — the government would confiscate and transfer $55K from the white family, resulting in both families having equal income. This is a superficial, overly simplistic example but you get the idea. But neither of these two ideas seems fair, does it? A more equitable solution would be to fix the blame for bad blood exactly where it belongs, and dispense punishment accordingly. All Americans who are direct descendants of America’s founding colonists, particularly those who migrated to the South, should be forced to relinquish their assets; and those whose ancestors were slaveholders should be indentured to black families. This solution may also sound harsh, but the goal is to somehow, finally, satisfy Black America’s hunger for social justice. By redistributing wealth and punishing the privileged white class, you must assume, or guess, or wish, that Black Americans would effectively move to take over the professional careers of the guilty parties — careers like medicine, engineering, architecture, finance, mathematics and all the sciences. To be expected, many White Americans would object to any of these solutions, offering lame excuses that argue they are not personally responsible for social injustice or systemic racism. You will admit that there could be some truth in valid excuses; but in most socialist societies, much sacrifice is inevitable; and actually justifiable, to further the cause of social equality. To those who believe these solutions are widely unrealistic, if not ludicrous, you suggest they pick up a history book. Pick up A. Solzhenitsyn’s Gulag when the “privileged class” was displaced and put on ice (literally) at the Archipelago Islands. Well, this is America. It can’t happen here, can it? In any event, no matter who wins the election, Black America will not be satisfied. If Trump wins and Black lives continue to improve, they will still feel scorned. If BLM, Biden and Barack win, Black Americans will laugh all the way home, go back to their lives and expect a “better seat at the table.” Just what they expected for the eight years under Barack. The well documented truth about socialism is that devoted advocates trust they will get that seat at the table. They always think it. And think it . . . . . . . . .

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