[Blackwatch]

In these times in America, white folks are running scared about their position in the social heirarchy in America. In the confederate south, there was a more strident racial social hierarchy. Whites were at the top, Blacks at the bottom, regardless of socioeconomic status. Sure there were poor whites, as will be in any Capitalist society, but money wasn't the only indicator of status in the confederate South, white skin was very important as well. Things like voting and free passage on trains and land ownerdhip, etc. were predicated on skin color.
Today in America, whites are beginning to see that power is not just a skin color thing anymore, with the rise of the minority population in the last census and the apparent expansion of the minority middle class, whites have began to feel threatened. They are beginning to see what Dr. jawaanza Kunjufu once stated that when you take the shackles off of black folk, "we can fly !!!" They cannot compete, and with the economy fluctuating like it does, they are finding their social standing to be fleeting at best. They percieve a need for a more permanent basis from which to maintain hierarchy, which is skin color. Skin color is something blacks can't take away. They begin to go back to the basis of white supremacy, skin priviledge (not money priviledge). Thus we see the waxing nostalgic about a white racist political, economic , and social system called the Confederacy.
Personally, I think we ought to be alarmed. As black folk, and as black folk who are college educated, all of this Confederacy talk serves to take away any gains that blacks could have gotten due to hard work and discipline and render status in this country to system predicated on skin color alone. I stress college educated because we are the ones who are in position to effect more systemic change (Bro. Dr. W.E.B. DuBois' talented tenth theory). We need to fight this.
Blackwatch!!!!!!