[ A growth industry is a sector of an economy that experiences a
higher-than-average growth rate compared to other sectors. Growth
industries are often new or pioneer industries that did not exist in
the past. Lynching Black men is nothing new....]
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IS KILLING BLACKS A GROWTH INDUSTRY?  
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Ishmael Reed
June 2, 2023
CounterPunch
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_ A growth industry is a sector of an economy that experiences a
higher-than-average growth rate compared to other sectors. Growth
industries are often new or pioneer industries that did not exist in
the past. Lynching Black men is nothing new.... _

Six African-American men lynched in Lee County, Georgia, on January
20, 1916., Photo: Crisis magazine, April 1916.

 

Well, lynching Black men is nothing new, except in the past, the
lynchers didn’t get paid. Maybe the local economy thrived when
families attended lynchings in a carnival atmosphere. Souvenirs were
sold. The taverns were filled. Perhaps a piano player playing Theodore
A. Metz’s “There’ll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight.”
Photographers who snapped photos of tourists posing next to the
lynched got paid. But the average lyncher in those days did it for
kicks. You see white men and women often in the company of their
children, leering, grinning, and smirking up a storm as a smoking
Black corpse is swinging above them.

Contrast those who in the old days lynched for free with Kyle
Rittenhouse, who raised 2 million for a defense fund. He killed two
demonstrators. Daniel Penny, the killer of Jordan Neely, has broken
that record. As of May 19, Penny had raised $2,668,372. He’s
pleading self-defense even though he grabbed Jordan Neely from behind.
Ron DeSantis, who has been poking about looking for something Black to
run against, like a desperate Las Vegas gambler traveling from slot
machine to slot machine hoping for an avalanche of quarters, raised
two million for Daniel Penny, the right’s new matinee idol.

The old Southern Demagogues of lore used the N-worth to win elections.
They were true populists. At one time, George Wallace and his wife
lived in a converted chicken coop
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Using the N-word is too uncouth for DeSantis. He prefers to signify
Blacks by using code words like Woke, an idea attributed to Black
novelist William Melvin Kelley
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used the term in 1962. That’s because DeSantis went to Harvard and
Yale, which also graduated Steve Bannon and a member of the Oath
Keepers, Stewart Rhodes, who was convicted for his manic antics on
January 6.

Bret Stephens also has an excellent education. University of Chicago,
the London School of Economics. He uses his Times column to vent his
rage about Black people without fear of rebuttal. To him, we’re all
anti-Semites who live in San Francisco. Yet, I don’t know of a
single Synagogue shot up by Black people, nor did I see Blacks among
the marchers shouting the Jews Will Not Replace Us.

So it was no surprise that he would side with a vigilante. He defended
Penny. About the victim, Jordan Neely, he wrote:

“Very scary. He was a person who had been arrested more than 30
times. He had punched an elderly woman in the face. He had exposed
himself and peed inside a subway car. He had walked out of a
residential treatment program. There was a warrant for his arrest at
the time of his death — but cops probably wouldn’t have found out
about it because a group sued to stop the police from detaining people
solely to check for arrest warrants. He was the sort of guy who made
the subway frightening for a lot of passengers, particularly women.
People ought to know these facts before rushing to judgment.”

It doesn’t occur to Stephens that antipsychotic medication and
residential treatment centers are useless when treating some people
with schizophrenia and that there is a difference between the way
middle-class white schizophrenics are treated and the Black and the
poor, who are loaded up with medication, some of which is toxic. As
for the mentally ill unable to fulfill their commitments, they don’t
have a receptionist to remind them of their appointments or a car
service to drive them there.

For CounterPunch
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I wrote about how one drug company with full knowledge of toxic side
effects put a drug with dangerous side effects on the market. They
paid $6000 to every victim as a result of a class action suit. My
daughter used this drug, Zyprexa. It led to her acquiring a bad case
of diabetes. I am sure this drug contributed to my daughter’s death,
even though she had a five-star support system, unlike most Black and
poor people. Nothing worked. The voices never ceased. She died at 60,
leaving behind a novel and two novellas in which she would describe
her condition. Stephens hasn’t studied the disease that I was
required to review.

I found Stephen’s old Black Boogeyman trope about Jordan Neely as a
threat to women to be hypocritical. The Times rehired a writer
named Glenn Thrush
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who was fired from coming on too strong to women. Is Stephens going to
write a column about it?

Deceived by William Barr’s spin on the Mueller report Stephens said
the Democrats should apologize to Trump, whose assault on women is
well known. Moreover, when will the Times identify the complete list
of 999 guests at Jeffrey Epstein’s townhouse
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among the most powerful men in the world, including Bill Gates?

Danny Cevallos, CNN’s legal analyst, is smart, too. Danny is a
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and Notre Dame Law School graduate.
He just about delivered pro bono services to Penny’s defense team,
advising them about how the vigilante can get off. Nikki Haley praised
the vigilante’s actions. Under pressure after having dismissed the
confederate flag as no big deal, she changed her mind after the
killing of nine church members by a “replacement” nut. But she
hasn’t abandoned her support for one of the Confederate’s favorite
past times: Lynching Black men.

In the old days, lynchers were paid very little. In his 1756
Declaration of War against the Lenni Lenape people, Pennsylvania
Gov. Robert Hunter Morris said
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“For the scalp of every male Indian enemy above the age of 12 years,
produced as evidence of their being killed, the sum of 130 pieces of
eight . . . for the scalp of every Indian woman produced as evidence
of their being killed, the sum of 50 pieces of eight.” But expect
more to sign up for Vigilante services now that big bucks can be made.
Some of them might be former bounty hunters. They’re only making
about $50,000 per year. Why should they risk their lives when they all
have to sneak up from behind a Black man and squeeze out his life?
Only 15 minutes of work.

Penny’s defense lawyers say that $50,000 was his client’s amount
from small donations alone, revealing the cruel sludge in the heart of
segments of the settler population, which Donald Trump tapped. Penny
has the looks that might land him a movie role or a job with the new
CNN News. The media introduces him as “a Marine and college
student.” For the media, Jordan Neely is a homeless bum who danced
and talked loud on the subways. Of course, Jordan Neely was beautiful,
but given Hollywood’s lack of diversity, his moonwalks would never
have been accepted there.

Copycats are lining up to make their fortunes in a Gold Rush of
killing, or should we call it A Black Rush? But now, donors to
Rittenhouse and Penny face a dilemma. The latest vigilante is a
Chinese American. Rick Chow. He killed 14-year-old Carmack
-Belton, mistaking him for a shoplifter. Shot him in the back. Will
the right make him rich as they have the white vigilantes?

_[ISHMAEL REED’s play, “The Conductor,” about the role of
right-wing billionaires and their minority surrogates in the San
Francisco recall elections, in will enjoy a second run at the Theater
for the New City [[link removed]]. The link for
those who wish to make a tax-deductible contribution
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_Ishmael Reed’s latest play is “The Conductor.”]_

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