The Fourth of the Lie

Here we are again... Looking at this year's annual lie filled story about the 4th of July representing freedom and independence for people living in the U.S. The lie will be presented in true imperialist patriotic fashion, complete with a smothering blanket of propaganda designed to tie the useless deaths of hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqis and Afghani citizens and hundreds of U.S. service people to this fabrication about protecting U.S. democracy.

News flash: The U.S. wasn't founded on freedom and democracy and those things are not facets of this system today. The U.S. was founded on the exploitation of labor which was initially European labor along with Indiginous labor, and most prominantly in the South, African labor from the chattal slave system. Since the original U.S. system which was organized through the signing and institutionalization of the Declaration of Independence in 1776 was all about protecting the land rights of white men, this set in motion the initial wealth of white people in the U.S. Since this wealth was based on land and was transferred down, it institutionalized the disparity between white wealth and the lack of wealth of people of color and poor whites (who worked to provide wealth for the wealthy white emerging classes). So, white people today, who have generations of land ownership, if you check that history in each case closely, there is no question that at some point, that land ownership is tied to the exploitation of folks. This is why the majority of wealthy folks are white and the majority of poor folks are not white. It has nothing to do with hard work as the African, Latino, Asian, and poor white folks have worked harder than most wealthy white people would ever imagine possible. This isn't democracy and it certainly isn't freedom. Instead, its capitalism and that's what you celebrate every July 4th.

To underscore the point that 7/4 is all about wealthy white people, all you have to do is do the math. Since the D/I was signed in 1776, we know that chattal slavery as an institution continued in full form for another 87 years until 1863. If you count the segregation period of continued exploitation, that is another 102 years until the Civil Rights legislation of 1965 which outlawed "legal" segregation. If you understand capitalist exploitation, then you continue to realize that this still continues so there is certainly no merit for any African or logically thinking person of any nationality to consider July 4th a day of freedom. Instead, at best, it can be what it really is; a day for rich white people and the wealthy people of color who apologize for capitalism to celebrate their continued dominance of the world's resources and benefits from the exploitation of the majority of the world's populations.

We strongly suggest that those who celebrate this July 4th enjoy that party to the fullest because last call is coming soon. That party is in its final hour. Everything happening in the world today; from the economic slowdown in capitalist countries, to the rise of countries like North Korea and Iran in challenging imperialist hegemony. Its not a question of whether everything about Iran and North Korea's positions are correct. Especially since uncle sam the pimp is in no moral position to question the legitimacy of any claim for justice. Its a question of understanding that people are no longer going to permit uncle sam to run buckwild controlling all of the world's resources for the capitalist countries while the majority of people suffer in silence.

We celebrate the true progress of human existence. This can never be represented by false claims to justice as those made by the apologists for capitalist and imperialist exploitation. This can only be accomplished by the mass organization and forward movement of all justice loving peoples of the planet. As that progress continues, the Fourth of the Lie will continue to be exposed for what it is, the justification of rich white supremacy and the statement of continued exploitation of the planet.