Space Traders
Essay title: Space Traders
I would contend that the story that professor Bell presented is pretty tangible and plausible. I am not saying that we can pull certain historical event that much the extremity of Prof. Bells story, but we can find certain events that can approximately fit the Space Trade event.
The space traders were extraterrestrials that came from some part of the galaxy, to communicate to the American leaders that they can save their country from the debts, pollution and the lack of fossil fuel. But in return these aliens wanted to collect all African-Americans and take them back to their home land. The white American leaders and much more than half of the white population, saw this opportunity as to gain resources that can ease up their homeland issues, and that African Americans will finally be removed from this white dominated country.
The exploitation of African American is evident once again in keeping the country running and prospering. This story exemplifies white American supremacy and that after centuries and decades of fighting inequality, peoples point views about different races have not changed much. The elite of this country, the ones who make or break the laws, the ones who decide on the outcomes of the most important issues are still dominated by the white audience. The elite as described in this story and also in real life are not worried about society as a whole and the consequences of their actions; all they weary about is money gain, power and control. Most of the high authoritative figures in the story; for example the president always keeps a minority figure inside the circle, so that any criticism of maltreatment of minorities could be justified. The irony is that most minorities believe that even their own people, who are among the elite, are betraying them which most of time is not the case. The truth is that the small minority proportion that exists is trying to do right by its people, under the curtain. For example, Golightly was part of the president cabinet, and after trying to influence the cabinet members not to go on with the trade, he figured out that their decisions were made up and there is no swaying to be done. As Golightly during the convention tries to find away to explain to his people that there is no way around it; they called him a sell out and not worthy of being black. It is sad how white America is able to manipulate the few minorities to follow their rulings and decisions, and in consequence makes them look unworthy as representatives to their people.
Lets take some real life events that took place in history that fit some what, but not to the extreme of Prof. Bells story, but never the less a pretty strong correlation does exist between the story and the real world events. Lets begin with Native Americans and how they were worked and used by the European settlers, who made America their home. The settlers viewed the Native Americans as being less worthy and that they should be subjected to the worst conditions. The American settlers used and abused the Native Americans trust, and in consequence the settlers enslaved the Natives to do their dirty work. There was so much killing and maltreatment of Natives, that extinction was probable. For instance, “Sale (1990) has suggested that prior to the arrival of Europeans, there were about 15 million Native Americans in North America. According to Healey (2003), nearly four centuries later, in 1890, only 250,000 remained” (Gabbidon & Greene pg. 6). This proves that not only did the settlers use these people to prosper, but once they found them to be of no more use they (Natives) were exterminated. “The Indian Removal Act of 1830” (Gabbidon & Greene p 7) was also a message to the Natives that the white Americans did not want to share the land or anything else with them. The white people wanted all the resources for themselves; they did not want any other racial group to gain the same level of wealth or power.
As far as the Space Trader story is concerned, the white people kept African Americans in check. The government never gave adequate amount of support for the black community. As long as African American kept to their-selves and stayed out of the way, they were aloud to carry on a life without constant discrimination. Lets not forget that African Americans spend more money then whites; and that the less fortunate whites, did not feel so unfortunate because they had the African Americans to