Marginalization=Slavery=Our Way Of Life

I had written about how our society "marginalizes" large numbers of individuals and effectively removes them from the mainstream, thus freeing up more "goodies" for us, the consuma-trons that have not yet been marginalized.
I said some things about Black Americans. SO I was taken to task by one of the 2 black members of the Grey Beards, essentially for the reason that I am not black, and so on... I have aged beyond the point of being politically correct and feeling obligated to give way to (1) black people, or (2) women, or  (3) black women.

Now Robert ( we shall call him "Robert" in this post......mainly because that is his name) is a black man and he was calling me out. Of course, I did not back down. We were not discussing the black experience as seen through the eyes of black people; we were talking about the black experience as seen through the eyes of other observers.
What is the status of Black Americans? Consider the present situation of foreclosures on householders with sub prime mortgages. I have heard this discussed. I believe all the rational heads on Cable have talked about it. I believe I heard Ms. Orman discuss it. They ended up by saying that people should have given enough weight to the "fine print" ,as it were, that the mortgage rates would escalate in a few years.

Another trap, like gambling, like drugs, like alcohol... First, society spends money and time to create Icons of Responsible Citizens. One of the icons is Home Ownership. So we pitch Homes to the black populace and create wondrous landscapes for hours...then a minute of "read the fine print."
Now this is not the end of my tirade, for it is obvious that the injunction "read the fine print" is also related to education. Now just how good is the Educational System? Briefly, it is terrible. People are not being taught to read. People are not being taught to see through the lying Icons that consumer society serves up to them, for the society depends on consumerism. If people did not buy, the whole thing falls apart. So people must not be taught to think critically.
In Detroit, if I recall, the graduation rate from High School is 25% as reported in 2007. AND if you do not believe my baloney anymore, I will quote the following: Talking Points Memo: TPM
 
The Plunging Homeownership Rate for African Americans
http://www.tpmcafe.com/blog/coffeehouse/2007/nov/14/the_plunging_homeownership_rate_for_african_americans  

"The rate of homeownership among blacks increased sharply from 1994 to 2004, rising from 42.3 percent in 1994 to 49.7 percent in 2004. In just three years it has now fallen back to 46.7 percent and it is virtually certain to decline further in the next year and a half. In other words, the big push to increase African American homeownership rates was in reality a big push to increase foreclosure rates among African American households, but the ideologues of homeownership were too blind to notice the impact of their policies."

We shall remain slaves until we stand up against this oppression.

Addendum
In the New York Times, November 11, 2007, page 12 of Sunday Business section in an article beginning on page 1, same section, dealing with Countrywide Bank:  

"...At a conference sponsored by the Milken Institute about two weeks ago, he [Mr. Angelo Mozilo, founder of Countrywide Bank] explained that borrowers forced lenders like Countrywide to lower their mortgage standards. The industry faced special pressure from minority advocates to help people buy homes, he said."

Forced? This is all rather like the AMA saying that minority advocates forced doctors to provide more health care by eliminating the extra cost of anaesthesia.
It makes a grammatical and syntactical sense, but it is entirely laughable. If advocates knew what was going on, they were in on the feast off their own people. If they did not know, then what kind of educational system do we have when leaders are ignorant?
The sub primes were a scam on the poor just like state-run lotteries. The sub primes were a destroyer of a group of people just as insidious as drugs, as violence, ...and as non-nutrtitional food that fills them to an obese childhood and an adulthood of disease, during which the chances they will have health care are not rosy.
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