For over 400 years in America on plantations you had a class struggle. Yes, a class struggle between the field slaves and the house slaves. Slave owners that were successful at manipulating and cultivating this environment made themselves richer writing “How to” books on how to perfect it. Not at all unlike tutorials on how to build a successful Ant Farm. The basic idea was to use unearned privileges to stir up jealously and animosity between the African slaves. That way they wouldn’t organize themselves and kill your ass.
I know if I was a slave owner and I saw that book on the rack I don’t think it would hurt to give it a read.

House slaves were generally the masters children, fair skinned and protected from the harsh brutality that was a part of the day to day life of the field slave. They ate better, slept in better conditions, had access to better facilities, generally had better health, etc.. Except for the fact that the Masters wife would often try to slit your throat in a jealous rage for fucking her husband, (like you actually had a choice) life was compared to the field slave easy street.

When this social experiment was done well, the house slave actually served as the masters eyes and ears, protected his interest by letting him know when a slave was planning on running, or when they were organizing to kill him or whatever ill might fall upon him. Why? Because they knew they had it good…uh I mean better than the other slaves and they didn’t want to lose that privilege, in short by looking out for his interests they were protecting their own interest.

Well 150 years after slavery has been abolished in this country that “house slave” mentality is still alive and well. It may not be thriving but it is far from dead. Let me introduce you to Ezola Foster, vice presidential candidate for Pat Buchanan’s Reform party.

I said: 8/11/00 in What’s New?
Pat Buchanan nominated a black woman as his vice presidential running mate? What the FUCK? Reform Party presidential candidate Pat Buchanan raised his hands with his newly named vice-presidential candidate Ezola Foster after a press conference today. I saw it with my own eyes on CSPAN. Ezola Foster becomes the first biologically Negro woman named for the nation's second highest office on a national political ticket. I mean I have heard of House Negroes in my history books but Pat actually found one. You have to admire Pat. I guess Pat figures if Bush can get people to believe that he is competent then he can get us to believe he isn't a racist, ethnocentric, nationalist, nazi sympathizing, isolationist, white supremacist, Christian fundamentalist. Hey why not? That can't be any easier than what Republicans had in front of them in getting us to believe that Bush was off cocaine.

For those of you that were taken back by Pat Buchanan’s pick of a black woman as his running mate, for those of you that almost dropped the kerosene lamp and burned down the barn during the militia meeting when you heard that Pat Buchanan picked a filthy colored bitch as his running mate, rest easy, pat did not turn against you, she is whiter than you are.
 
Foster grew up poor in a little Louisiana town during the 1940s and '50s, but she says segregation wasn't really so bad.
“Sure, the law said black people had to sit at the back of the bus, but sometimes,” she says, “the less racist white drivers would me sit wherever I wanted.”
And blacks could attend the local movie theater only one day a month, but that wasn't so bad either, she explains, because "it was so exciting to have the theater all to ourselves."

And black folks were forced to sit in the back of her Catholic church and couldn't receive Communion until the whites were finished, but she didn't mind because, she says, "after the Mass we saw the whites and blacks hugging and talking."

"It's a gross distortion to say we were all ill-treated," she wrote in her 1995 book, "What's Right for All Americans."

In 1995, she organized a testimonial dinner in Los Angeles for Laurence Powell, one of the cops convicted of beating Rodney King.
She calls the civil rights movement "a revenge-and-reparations movement."
She calls Jesse Jackson and other black leaders "Leninist race-baiters."
She calls the public school system "socialist training camps,"
She defends the principles of the Confederate flag
She says that that God brought African slaves to America "so that their descendants would know freedom."
Foster crusades against AIDS education because it promotes homosexuality ("We'll know before this is over who's standing for family values and who's standing with the perverts.") and illegal immigration because “Mexicans kill cattle, rape white children, get into the states by traveling by way of the sewers, smell like shit and don’t bathe.”

"This idea that you come to school hungry--come on! It's crazy!" Foster says. "It's just so they can bring in all these lunch programs, breakfast programs--next, it's going to be dinner! . . . That's not the job of the schools--to feed the children. Let them pay for it or let them bring their own."

You are looking at living history.