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Today, for the most part, the manner in which African Americans confront White racism is very outdated. In fact, it may be compared to the example of an old prize fighter shadow boxing in the corner of a ring long after, and totally unaware that, his opponent has moved behind him now pulverizing him from the rear, or that of a matador in a bull fight waving his red cape in the wind attempting to taunt the bull not realizing that the bull has already gouged out his heart. These examples, although very brutal, are appropriate in describing how Black America is faring against today’s modern, and much more sophisticated, system of White racism. Today, unfortunately, whenever the topic of racism is discussed among African Americans, this implies (for most) the images of police brutality, consumer profiling, driving while Black, and, of course, the Ku Klux Klan and other similar White anti-Black organizations. While these are all serious elements of institutionalized racism that collectively deserve our attention, these noted racist elements are neither the most prevalent nor the most detrimental form of racism faced by African Americans today. Because the blatant methods, of assuring that its White dominance be maintained, used and condoned in the past are no longer morally and socially acceptable, the U.S. Government secretly implemented a far more sophisticated method of maintaining its white dominance. In fact, one may compare America’s old system of white racism- used against African Americans in the past– to that of its modern type by saying that the previous system had a GED while today’s methods has a PHD. For today’s system is for more sophisticated, elaborated and proficient then any system of racism previously faced by African Americans-even slavery. Today’s modern method of white racism in the United States is now secretly applied through the government’s proven method of Covert Counterintelligence Program [COINTELPRO: A misnomer for Domestic Covert Actions.]

Although the formal COINTELPRO covert operations employed by the FBI directed against African Americans during the period of 1956-1971 was discontinued [upon the surface]. However, in truth–because the nineteen sixties were a period of massive black rebellion and unrest that caused the U.S. Government to feared the uprising of a violent revolution– the FBI did not actually cease its formal domestic counterintelligence programs against African Americans, but instead actually advanced it by targeting it more broadly and secretively. Today there is a far more sophisticated and massive counterintelligence program being implemented against the entire African American population.

Because the U.S. Government’s socialist and psychologist were well aware of the fact that those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable, it became necessary to create a more sophisticated system of white racism that deliberately wears only the appearance, if any, of being totally self afflicted by African Americans themselves. A system of white governmental racism that is implemented through the American educational, judicial and prison systems– that prevails and is concealed through the usage of Psychological Warfare implemented through the national media that fosters a consensual environment for its unethical undertaking. By doing so, the United States Government acquired a far more insidious and covert method of ensuring that its white dominance is maintained that exists behind a clever shroud of secrecy and deceit — for it is in this way that the evils of racism thrive best — when its victims do not recognize the evil.

While although this modern method of governmental white racism covertly uses the American educational system to mortifyingly mis-educate and disesteem black students and the judicial and prison systems to severely reduce black growth and upward mobility by reducing black America’s ability to procreate and to vote thus to maintain its white dominance. However the most significant and detrimental aspect of this modern system of white governmental racism used today in America is its aspect of using psychological warfare against African Americans. Governmental Psychological warfare is the art of directing masses and individual towards governmental objectives by means of cleverly manipulating theory and misinformation. Today the United States Government uses mis-education, false statistics and negative propaganda media reports that equates a psychological warfare that conspires to corrupt blacks of unity, reason, and common sense, thus deliberately soliciting the disparity that has now become modern Black America as a mean of meeting its objective of maintaining white dominance in the United States . …..Here is a simplified analogy of the psychological aspect of this modern system of racism that is now being implemented against America ’s Black population. Let us say, for example, that a group of people was aboard their own massive ship and that their ship was being shadowed by another neighboring ship, a neighboring ship that was constantly broadcasting derogatory messages to the first group that their ship was lesser, smaller, not seaworthy or perhaps slowly sinking or that their crew was incompetent or was planning a mutiny. With time, the group receiving the negative messages, being unable to refute or to confirm these derogatory messages and deficiencies will grow weary and paranoid of the negative messages and will eventually comes to accept these negative assessments of themselves. The perception created by the taunting now unconsciously influences how the taunted group perceives themselves, subsequently causing them to become distrustful of themselves, doubting themselves, hating themselves and, eventually, fighting among themselves. The taunted group may even become so besieged by deep feelings of inadequacy that they may even jump into the sea and attempt to swim towards the taunting ship now believing it to be superior to their own boat even if their own ship was in fact better.

This concept of warfare uses psychology as the decisive factor in the outcome. The basis of the concept is that the human being’s most critical aspect is the mind. This science of psychology works by affecting the unconscious mind through deception. Its weapon is the message that it carries and the way this message affects the recipients in terms of their behavior. Within a real world setting, this is implemented against African Americans through U.S. governmental agencies that leak false derogatory press releases, documentaries, and media information concerning its Black population that are designed to perpetuate and frame the myth of Whites’ racial, moral, and ethical superiority over its Black population. Its collaborators in the news media, which either knowingly or unknowingly carry the false information or create their own false information through news releases in magazine articles, radio, and television, work to demoralize, discourage, berate, subjugate, and or dismantle the Black population. The weapon is not the way it is sent, but the messages that it carries and how the messages affect the recipient and influence society.

This perversion of reality insinuates that America would be a better society as a whole if African Americans were gone, thus psychologically changing the root problem of racism in America to be due to Black’s behavior rather than White’s proclivity for racism. This shift of victimization that the problem of racism in America is due to the fault of African Americans, is perpetuated unrelentingly everywhere through the media. This campaign engenders distorted perceptions and increasingly prejudiced and acrimonious beliefs about its African American population that creates a consensual environment that facilitates the easier exploitation and suppression of Black America. [For when contempt of Blacks appears to be justifiable, it is the fiercest and most effective type of racism because its witnesses, bystanders, and jurors will sit by idly allowing African Americans to be brutally mistreated under the belief that it is justified.]

Although this may sound a bit like bad science fiction, Psychological Warfare is a real and well-proven technology that exceeds the territorial limits of conventional warfare to penetrate the proposed target. This type of psychological warfare has been used by the military since World War II. The British Special Operation Executives (SOE) was pioneering this form of propaganda during the Second World War. The British Government, between1930-1940, conducted psychological warfare against Germany, by putting together a massive department staffed by many former journalists that conducted secret journalism and planted favorable stories in the world’s press. Generally using friendly newspapers editors, but also using bribery to get pro-allied stories in print, British pilots also dropped propaganda leaflets and spread rumors concerning Germany ‘s relations with France and other aspects of the war.

An example of the usage of psychological warfare within a military setting may be seen in the deployment of massive fleets of U.S. Naval battle carriers to the Mediterranean Sea to foster the psychological response of fear or intimidation from the neighboring countries. Psychological warfare may also be used to perpetuate the myths of America ‘s military dominance over its enemies thus adversely affecting their moral and motivation to fight back. Such is seen where perhaps a company of enemy soldiers are well fortified within their trenches well prepared for the anticipated incoming American military assault. The U.S military may respond to this enemy’s high state of combat preparedness by using pilots to fly over their positions dropping propaganda leaflets spreading rumors and false information concerning the enemy’s vulnerabilities or giving them an exaggerated number of the incoming American troops. The targets here are the minds of the enemy troops and the objective is to deeply affect their morale and motivation to fight back. Under this psychological operation of influence, the enemy troops may surrender at the first sight of the approaching American troops without the Americans having fired a single shot. A popular motto among the users of these covert operations is “Capture their minds, and their hearts and souls will follow.” For once their minds are reached, they’re defeated without bullets. Used in all aspects of war, the effectiveness of psychological warfare is limited only by the ingenuity of the commanders using it.

The uses to which psychological warfare can be applied are virtually unlimited. For the U.S. Government also uses psychological operations to assist in the sales of arms and weaponry. The United States Government is the world’s largest arms dealer, and to ensure that these sales continue, it often resorts to the unethical usage of psychological operations. Here is an example of how such an implementation may be done. Let us say, for example, that an African kingdom that has purchased arms in the past from the U.S. Government has now decided that there no longer exists any threat from its neighboring kingdoms and therefore elects to discontinue their spending of millions of dollars on unneeded weaponry. The U.S. Government may respond to this refusal to continue buying their arms by themselves creating a threat of imminent war between the targeted kingdom and its neighboring African kingdoms. This would be done by employing Special Forces and other types of espionage specialist to plant lies and rumors of war thus igniting conflict and distrust between the targeted African kingdom and its neighboring kingdoms which often results in both empires now buying arms from the U.S. Government.

Although the usage of psychological warfare began within a military setting, it was eventually realized by governmental and societal elites that this method of psychological warfare could be useful for totally controlling society. Therefore, psychological warfare technology evolved from its military usage against foreign enemies to being used to control society domestically. Today, the U.S. government, like many other developed nations, conducts planned campaigns of extensive strategic psychological operations through the national media to influence the perception and climate of the nation towards the attainment of its governmental objectives. Participating federal agencies may include the National Security Council, The Office of Strategic Council, The Central Intelligence Agency, and The Federal Bureau of Investigations. However, when it is executed domestically it is more often commonly referred to by governmental and military officials as psychological operations [PSYOPs] rather than Psychological Warfare.

Psychological warfare can also be used to create a brazen deception in order to create a pretext for war with the true intent of achieving global geo-political objectives. This is where governmental agents secretly create or allow terrorism in the United States for the purpose of mobilizing public opinion in favor of the government’s objectives. Many people have compared this example to those actions taken by the U.S. government after the September 11, 2001 attack on America wherein several terrorists high-jacked four American commercial air liners and crashed them into strategic targets in Washington , D.C. and New York , NY . For although all ties to the terrorist attack pointed towards Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia and given that all the historic evidence showed that Saddam Hussein was a vigorous arch enemy of Al Qaeda, President Bush, in his official speech to the nation responding to the atrocious attack, redirected the nation’s attentions towards Iraq as a means of fighting the terrorism of Al Qaeda. This strategic operation of influence gained the U.S Government the support of the nation that it needed to send thousands of its service members to war under the pretext of being a war on terrorism, while in fact it successfully met the U.S. objective of what appears to have been more about securing its interest in the Iraq oil wells. The targets, then, were the minds of the entire American population, our military troops and the civilian population. [For those readers that find this premise too difficult to accept, I strongly suggest that you read a 1962 governmental document now unclassified and provided under the freedom of information act entitled “Operation North Woods” documenting a governmental plan to take a civilian aircraft, replace it with an automatic unmanned aircraft, then shoot it down and blame the incident on Cuba in order to go to war.]

The preceding example of U.S. government usage of psychological warfare to influence the nation is only a single act among a long list of many conducted by the U.S. Government. Every act of the government has a psychological impact, and it is ongoing from President Bush’s media coverage stunt where he landed upon a U.S. Naval battle carrier dressed as a pilot, to the U.S. soldiers pulling down the statue of Saddam Hussein in Iraq , to the staged rescue of Jessica Lynch. These strategies are all part of the sophisticated system of psychological warfare, and they are on-going, all around us, all of the time.

The ability to influence the nation in mass using psychological operations through the national media is highly effective because the media itself is very powerful in terms of its influence. For the media helps shape our views of the world, what we consider to be good or bad, and also forges our deepest values, identities, and our sense of what it means, for example, to be male or female. These facts, combined with those studies showing that the average American watches 18 hundred hours of television each year, affirm that there is a great inclination for Americans to be affected by psychological operations conducted through the national media.

The reason psychological warfare is so unknown to most Americans is because its very nature is to be covert, and because it is not the stuff of adventure and the excitement of war that films or novels portray. However, psychological warfare is a real, sound, and proven governmental technology that has been used by the U.S. Government for many decades, and its usage is ongoing even now. For as recently as July 2004, a story was reported by the New York Times that the Defense Department had paid the Rendon Group, a Washington-based international consulting firm, $100,000 per month to help the Office of Strategic Information (OSI) with a broad campaign that would include negative propaganda or disinformation. The report stated that the OSI was established to spread positive messages about the war on terrorism, but it would also use disinformation and misinformation to mislead friends and foe alike. The report went on to say that the office of Strategic Influence had been set up to disseminate truthful information openly but also to spread what senior pentagon officials called “the Blackest of Black programs.” The organization works on ways to influence and mislead the media abroad and also domestically in America, such as spreading positive messages about the war on terrorism or perpetuating disinformation through its frequent collusion with news media personnel to publish false and distorted material at the government’s behest.

The U.S. Government’s methods for implementing domestic psychological warfare also include the ability to suppress particular targeted groups. [ This is when governmental agencies leak false, derogatory press releases, documentaries, and media information to its collaborators in the news media which the media knowingly or unknowingly carry as its own and submit the false information through news releases and in magazine articles, radio, and television to demoralize, discourage, subjugate, and or dismantle the targeted groups.] This method of psychological operation is disseminated through face-to-face communication or television, audio media, newspaper, books, and magazine. The weapon is not in the media used, but the message that it carries and how the messages affect the recipient. Sound familiar doesn’t it Black people? This method of psychological operation works by, first, simply learning everything about the targeted group, their beliefs, likes, dislikes, strengths, and vulnerabilities. Once you know what motivates your target, you are ready to begin psychological operations against them.

We have completed a review of the U.S. government’s history and methods of applying psychological operations of influence, most particularly its method of utilizing the national media to disseminate domestic psychological operations to suppress targeted groups. The intention is to now show in a constructive manner rather than an accusatory manner that, since the means of economic and political control used in the past under the pretext of national interest are no longer morally and socially acceptable, the U.S. governmental and societal capitalist elites have modified their methods of exploiting and suppressing its Black population into a form more socially acceptable with contemporary times through the usage of psychological warfare operations.

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