Jan. 27, 2007 (World News Trust) -- It seems the more things change the more they stay the same. In Atlanta’s Fulton county, (White Atlanta suburbs push for secession) the majority white suburb in the northern side of the county has introduced legislation to form their own county under the name of Milton County. This Republican led legislation would allow North Fulton County to free itself from the tax obligations to greater south Fulton County, a majority black suburb. It is interesting to watch the resurgence of segregation via economics and the legal system as they absolve themselves of the cost of local infrastructure for roads, mass transit, hospitals, and schools.
America is in the process of a long slow decline with its state and local governments apparently unable to fund social services and infrastructure maintenance without ever increasing property taxes. Examples of this are the Texas Health Care Crisis, and the TennCare crisis leaving 200,000 Tennesseans without medical coverage. Along with this is the move toward the privatization of public highway infrastructure, in which states sell off their public highways to private corporations who takeover the cost maintenance, but can charge unusually high toll charges. With this move to cost cutting and privatization comes the rise of the Private Town, commonly known as a Gated Community.
In Security Analyst, John Robb’s article, Security: Power to the People, he paints a picture in which upper and middle class people will seek to form armored suburbs with privately owned utilities, roads, security, and medical services as the local, state, and federal governments flounder in providing services or cut services all together.
This is economic segregation in which the wealthy insulate themselves from contact with and obligations to the poor. The Private Town is most common in third world countries where there is a wide wealth disparity. It is segregation where race is only one of many factors in which the wealthy no longer want to carry the tax burden necessary to provide public infrastructure and social services. In the future, if you cannot afford the cost of buying in a private town, you will not have the same standard living that most Americans have taken for granted. You will be economically segregated to poor rural areas, dilapidated suburban sprawl, and rusting
inner cities.
As the U.S. Government weakens due to increasing government budget deficits and the inability to obtain foreign funding, reliance on a strong central government will decline and with this the common American identity into a third world nation. The poor and working poor should get the message; you are on your own.
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Eran Reya was born in 1971 in Virginia. Both of his parents worked for the Federal Government in Washington D.C. His summers as a child were spent with his grandparents in the countryside. From these experiences he was influenced by rural African-American culture and learned outdoors skills such as farming, shooting, and horseback riding.
In second grade he was diagnosed with a learning disability and placed in special education for three years. The teachers found that he had a love for learning and quickly completed his class work by mid-day. As a reward they allowed him to spend the remaining half of his day in the elementary school library reading. At the library, Eran began reading about the Civil War which led him into his life-long study of African American history.
While attending college in Virginia, Eran continued his independent study of African American literature. It was also in college where he began to see the identity issues and social problems of the Black Bourgeoisie and the Black masses. During his college years, he read works by authors such as: Carter G. Woodson, E. Franklin Frazier, W.E.B. Dubois, Booker T. Washington, and slave narratives.
In 1994, after graduating from college, he ended up in Atlanta, GA working full-time and writing screenplays and short stories in the evenings. This is also when he began his study of the Bible. In 1995, Eran witnessed Freaknic and Dayton’s Black Beach Week. The events he witnessed on those trips troubled him and lead him to a deeper study of the Bible in an attempt to better understand human nature. It was at this time that he accepted Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior.
After relocating back to the Washington D.C. area, he began working in television production for a major news network. He continued writing screenplays and short stories which were never sold or published. While working in D.C., he watched the continued decline of the black community. In 2006, he began research to understand the root causes of the decline of Black America. He found that the biggest problem affecting Black America is the identity crisis of Black males. The Death of Black America is his first published book.
He currently resides in Virginia with his wife and two sons.
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