D M Butler

Blackitalism D M Butler

"The Era of Blackitalism," is a future era in which race loses the meaning that our contemporaries attach to it, often negatively. The story itself is a memoir, told by a man who grew up in an American ghetto, who is shaken from his underclass pinning, and is inspired to join his people in a race war. However, this race war will be fought, not with guns and bombs, but with creativity and economic prowess. It has been said that capitalism gives vent to our baser nature: the need to compete and the desire to dominate. When capitalism walks beside the rule of law, life is made better for all. A true capitalist venture is bent on meeting needs and satisfying wants; the people who do this best are the winners. In cultures that do not embrace capitalism, violence between groups must be suppressed or they will find their vent in warfare; Needs are met by taking what belongs to others and domination is based upon fear of death. Our nation is not purely capitalist. It is still an experiment in which we continually meet success and failure. In the American ghetto, capitalism is a foreign word. The ghettos across our nation are war zones, in which our baser nature is clearly exposed, and there is little hope of changing it and no will in the offing. The need to take what belongs to others is only partially quenched by welfare, which essentially is the same thing. This story is about the "Era of Blackitalism," a time in which this will change. In this story, the Black Community is inspired to compete and "needs" to dominate, for the sake of its own freedom and the chance for a prosperous future. A future in which, in some measure, everybody wins.