Dear Dean Magazine: September 2023

F E A T U R E D B L O G
B y M a r c u s A . B a n k s - B e y , M . D i v
The American populace has been blinded by the belief of
evolution. This belief dates as far back to Darwin himself
with respect to his theory of Survival of the Fittest, that
the strongest survive and consume the weak.
This theory even fueled Manifest Destiny, and the
consolidation hence, murder, of so many Native American
tribes upon this U.S. soil. Developing ideologies that a
flicker of light cannot exist in darkness, and that with
integration, all hatred and bigotry would be absolved.
And yet, just as the Underground Railroad was a
successful shadowy, covert operation designed to get
those who were forced into chattel bondage a route to
freedom, another railroad established itself. Not codified,
yet parallel to those very tracks. It laid in the ashes of the
Confederacy, bitter with defeat, hatred and the need for
vengefulness in its demise.
In 2023, years after the first U.S. President of African-
American Descent has left the office, well after the days
of COINTELPro of the age of Hoover, and the FBI's
search and assassination plot for the Black messiah, and
after January 6th and an insurrection in an attempt to
overthrow the legislature for the first time since 1776, it
would appear that there has been quite the evolution of
the U.S. that no citizen could have foreseen.
Supremacy has been officially declared as a threat to
the democratic republic of the United States. That
which has always been present, yet hidden as the poison
to the nation, a single ideology, not substantiated upon
anything but rhetoric, bigotry, fear, power, and the need
to maintain a position of social stratification with the
image of the European male as primary to all other
human forms.
Sight is now being returned to the blind. It is being
returned to as a whole, and this whole is humanity,
regardless of the appearance of one's complexion of
skin. Acts of violence, hurt, inhumane treatment, and
willingness to inflict pain in order to maintain the status
quo of a group or select population of individuals, is in
fact what any population or group of people will do
when they are in fear of losing power or control when a
system is not just, and intentionally administered to
favor and disfavor.
It is simply human behavior, justified by an ideology to
carry out that said behavior. The nature of the system
designers and those whom benefit continually become
exposed. The Confederate Railroad has evolved into a
particular ideological party, they love the color red, and
for some reason believe that America would be great
with both those railroads running parallel again.
Where out of the shadows, the covert operation of the
Confederate Railroad has been exposed, a flicker of the
light in the darkness, where the illness of White
Marcus A. Banks-Bey, M.Div
DEAR DEAN MAGAZINE | SEPTEMBER 2023 | p.17