America is playing a deadly game with the black worker. And the game is fixed. Our country no longer needs or wants black labor. The explosion in immigration we have been witnessing for the past generation is the result of a new approach to the control of those in the working class. As of now all of us aren't suffering from this new policy but those of us who are unskilled or semi-skilled have been triaged and are being allowed to die from economic exclusion. It looks like blacks in the public sector are next.

There are excuses given for not employing the black worker. However the real reason is that we are no longer sufficiently passive to suit the employer class. Therefore other workers are being imported to fill those positions which we traditionally occupied. These new workers aren't taking our jobs. The jobs are being given to people who come from feudal cultures and consequently are acclimated to excessive control, long hours without overtime compensation and a general working atmosphere where authority is not questioned. As a result of this exclusion large numbers of blacks are idle, angry and driven to desperation and outlawry. A few years ago a young black man in Oakland, California named Lovelle Mixon, who was looking for work but couldn't find any exploded and engaged in a firefight with police. Four policemen died and so did Lovelle. Isn't it too bad that no one could hire this young man and relieve his sense of hopelessness?

Lovelle belonged to what has been called the Underclass. When did this class come into existence? And who comprises this new group in America? How is it even possible to be permanently unemployed in the richest country in the world? Are black Americans the only members of this underclass? Are there any Japanese, Jews or maybe Koreans in this group of outcasts? Mexicans aren't in the underclass because they are readily employable. Obviously we have been targeted for exclusion from society because you can't have a role in society without a role in the economy. We had definite roles in the American economy until we rebelled in the 60's. Since then the think tanks and their sponsors have devised ways to try and insure we never raise our wooly heads again. Economically we are being destabilized without our realizing what's going on. Our demographics are diminishing as a proportion of the national population not due to infertility but due to a lack of economic viability and the lack of a wage with which to head a family. All over the country black men of working age are wandering the streets aimlessly and demoralized. The claim that there are people who don't want to work is false and is a cover up for not giving certain workers a chance. The victims are being blamed for being passed over.

What might we do to offset these efforts to flush us down the commode? That depends on what we want. Do we want economic independence? If so it will require great efforts because we're starting from almost zero. Do we want justice for the executions of black pedestrians and motorists? That will require major sacrifices! Whatever we want it will require acknowledging our oppression and the fact that black Americans live in a hostile environment. Historically only the Nation of Islam and the Black Panther party have explicitly warned us to be alert and get busy. Obviously we need to be told again.

If we dare to face what we are up against in the job market surely we can devise some form of organizations, or mutual aid societies to get our people off the street. Waiting for the government is obviously useless. Given the massive unemployment that exists in some of our communities any job however humble would help relieve the demoralization and fury which too many young blacks suffer from. Whether we choose or not we are our brothers keepers. As Harold Cruse told us long ago in his book The Crises of the Negro Intellectual From It's Origin to the Present all power is group power and as long as any of us belong to a weak group it will affect us all. Perhaps we can go from each one teach one to each one hire one! The solution is in our hands.

If we dare to face what we are up against with wanton police terror surely we can find a way to defend ourselves. Despite having a black attorney general, black supreme court justice and putative black president the legal system is not working for us. On the contrary the courts and police are waging an undeclared war on its black citizens. Where is the determination to fight back? Have we been totally terrorized into submission?

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BlackCommentator.com Guest Commentator Wallace Nixon is a BC reader and subscriber, a graduate of Knoxville College, an historical black college, and has attended the universities of Illinois and Tennessee. He is currently a free lance English teacher in Tenochtitlan, Mexico. Click here to contact Mr. Nixon.