Received: from fontainebleau.ensmp.fr (fontainebleau [193.48.180.100]) From: Dot Smith Reply-To: "yicim@worldnet.att.net" September 24, 2000 The Honorable Richard Gephardt Minority Leader, U. S. House of Representatives Rayburn House Office Building Washington, D.C. Sir: Article 1 Section 2 of the United States Constitution is the law of the land. Referred to as The Three-Fifths Compromise, its arcane existence is reflected in today's socioeconomic and political reality for slavery's descendants. Dot M. Smith's Chasm of Inequality provides an extensive scientific description at http://home.att.net/~yicim of how the 3/5ths value mirror disparities between blacks and whites in America. Generally, whites reject the Chasm analysis, even though they have no means of refuting Smith data. Published in T.H.I.N.C. (Teaching Humanity In New Consciousness): The Chrysalis of Evolution by Yohannes Sharriff Smith, she illustrates diagrammatically, the chief economic indicator of prosperity, medium family income reflects a stable gap between blacks relative to whites income going back to slavery. This stable relationship has persisted over good and bad times. Presently, slavery descendants understand the significance of the 3/5ths value as related to the benefits of citizenship enjoyed by foreigners in America on work visas. Even though they have never paid one penny in taxes, from the outset, they enjoy rights blacks can only dream about. Employers have used the same excuses to discriminate against blacks since Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka outlawed segregation. Blacks are kept out of certain areas of employment to maintain artificial labor shortages. Employers and politicians use industry wide shortages to justify importing foreign workers. By manipulating employment and unemployment, whites use the economic system to keep black medium family income at about three-fifths whites. Beginning in the late 1800s, mine, mill and factory owners turned increasingly to Europe for workers. Seen as trash, emigrants added whites to America's population and served as a buffer for traditional American stock to keep blacks separate and on the bottom. Today, H-1B is a bill, which continues this psychology in the new millennium. Similar to teacher, professor and researcher shortages, this bill will permit the high-tech industry to import 200,000 emigrants in addition to the 115,000 already permitted. Like "robber barons" in the early 1900s, Bill Gates and Silicon Valley plan to use foreigners to fill jobs, these same employers refuse to even consider blacks as employees. Their children attend private schools, therefore they will not train America's children to fill job shortages. These globalization magnets are raiding other countries for brain-power to avoid investing in developing America's public schools. Greed is sapping America's creativity. Sir, while claiming to support affirmative action, President Bill Clinton's administration acknowledged back in 1992 it was aware of these pending labor shortages, but did nothing then and is doing nothing now to open up these areas to blacks through training programs. Clinton and the Democrats are only discussing H-1B in terms of Latino amnesty. No Democrats including those in the Congressional Black Caucus see H-1B as an opportunity to address segregation in the high-tech industry. Silicon Valley looks like the U. S. Congress and every other powerful body in America, overwhelmingly white males. The employment practices in high-tech companies are the same as those used when companies producing steel, automobile, energy, Tele-communications, as well as, Wall Street began. Blacks were systematically kept out by discriminatory employment practices. H-1B continues America's institutionalized racism. Surely no one can object to using affirmative action in these high-tech jobs, because it is obvious all available qualified white Americans are employed already. The Chasm analysis answers the question, is there any difference between Democrats and Republicans? Neither party has done anything to narrow the gap between black and white income. Like Australia, America blocks United Nations observers from looking into its human rights violations. Whites refuse to acknowledge this country's true history of genocide against blacks and Native Americans. Black people are owed far more than an apology. Adding injury to insult, Pres. Clinton refuses to release his Initiative on Race committee's report because it supports Smith's research. Presidential contender Al Gore supports H-1B with Latino amnesty, but he will not make any statement concerning high-tech training for blacks. George W. Bush, Jr. supports H-1B as is without any help for Latinos or blacks. Moreover, Democrats are back, hat-in-hand asking black voters to help them regain control of Congress. However, blacks are waiting to be given a reason to believe Democrats will do differently than when they were in control before. As a minimum commitment from the Democrats and an in centive for the high-tech industry to change its employment practices, H-1B must contain a provision tying immigration slots one-to-one to training slots for blacks which lead to the same type of high-tech jobs. This way, high-tech companies will supply their own replacement workers. Otherwise, temporary visas become permanent and black wage earners will be locked into entry-level jobs without hope of ever getting into the corporate boardroom. Blacks have given every time Democrats asked but have not received anything in return. Where Is the Money? Respectively, John Burl Smith ------ =_NextPart_000_01C02629.9181EE60