The popular interpretation of the Supreme Court ruling was that any White person can buy or sell or kill any Black person without any legal or moral penalty. Thus, not one lynching crowd such as in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1921, where the entire Black neighborhoods were burned to the ground by White law enforcement personnel and ordinary citizens, and over 300 were burned to death, has ever been brought to justice in this country.

 

The implication of the Dred Scott Decision not only licensed cruel mistreatment of Negroes, but confirmed a culture of financial and other kinds of discrimination.  For example, between 1865 and 1948 the eleven former Confederate states spent roughly $9,000,000,000 educating White males for the medical profession and  $0 (zero dollars) educating Negroes for the medical, legal, or research professions.[1]   As late as 1960, Texas allocated $1,350 per student at Prairie View A&M University, the state agricultural and engineering college for Negroes.  In that same year, Texas allocated $6,500 per student at the all-White Texas A&M University.  That same pattern of $5 to $1 for White colleges, and teachers versus Black colleges, schools, and teachers held throughout the South.  The end result is that White families are twenty times richer than Black families.  For every $100,000 that White families possess, Black families own a mere $5,000, and this disparity, a continuing legacy of slavery, is growing.

 

We should note that the U.S. Supreme Court has never apologized for such an atrocious unscientific, unreligious, sadistic ruling.  Indeed, this year, the U.S. Supreme Court once again weakened the 14th Amendment and subsequent “Voting Rights” acts, by upholding a voter restriction law passed by the Arizona legislature.

 

The tragedy of the Dred Scott decision was not that the U.S. government invited Whites to disrespect Blacks, that Law of the Land invited Whites to hold Blacks in contempt, which most did, creating a self-fulfilling prophecy. So much so that many Black young people today dress, cut their hair, walk, talk and act as if they are still in some quasi-slave status, outside the norm of respectability.

 

The strategy that ICOT XIX will propose is not to justify or raise anger, nor to plan a strategy to defend against a race war which many extremists advocate; nor to create arguments for taxpayer-funded reparations, which less than 20% of the White population support.  Rather, ICOT XIX will plan a campaign to begin to implement Professor Milton Friedman’s remedy, plus the other four research-based remedies that will lift all citizens to high-status equality:  Offer every child, White, Black, Red, Yellow, and Brown, the same high-quality Plato-esque, wisdom-laden, general education, plus a creative, career-skill-oriented education that the wealthiest child might receive from early childhood and complete within ten years as found feasible by New York Times “Best Selling” author Malcolm Gladwell.  Nobel Laureates Milton Friedman and Theodore Schulz gave the world the economic blueprint for such a capitalist-funded, “more perfect” system that will augment, not replace, the public education system.

 

The failure to remedy racism costs every American adult, child, and baby over $5,000 per year, according to a 2013 study funded by the Kellogg Foundation and conducted by professors from Brandeis, Johns Hopkins, and Harvard Universities.

 

The thinkers invited to this ICOT XIX will therefore lay the groundwork for saving America $1.9 trillion per year. Plus, as predicted by the founder of Economics, Professor Adam Smith, 1776, such a proper education will increase the wealth of every nation and family 60-fold, eliminating, over time, poverty and crime altogether.

[1] 73 years x 60 students per year x 4 years x $50,000 per year x 11 states = $9.526.000.000