Banking Elites The Great Depression The Birth of Dependency

➡ Ron Partain, on his Hedgehog Channel, discusses his article about how powerful bankers manipulated the 1929 crash to control America’s economy, leading to the Great Depression. He argues that this was not an accident but a deliberate act to create dependency, affecting both white and black Americans. He also talks about how government aid programs, while appearing helpful, were actually tools for control, fostering dependency rather than empowerment. Lastly, he suggests that this system of control continues today, with politicians using welfare programs to gain votes and power.
➡ This article discusses how systems of control, such as welfare and labor laws, have been used throughout history to keep people dependent and divided. It argues that these systems, which were initially presented as temporary solutions, have become permanent, replacing community support with state control. The article suggests that the real battle is not between races or classes, but between those who seek freedom and those who profit from control. It concludes by encouraging individuals to look inward and rely on their own character, rather than waiting for rescue from the state.
➡ The text discusses the idea that racial tension has been used as a tool for political gain, specifically by the Communist Party in America. It suggests that this has led to a sense of guilt among whites and a feeling of oppression among blacks. The text also explores the theory that Martin Luther King Jr. was soft on communism and may have been influenced by communist handlers. Lastly, it touches on the welfare system, the prison system, and the manipulation of society, and ends with a call for individuals to strive to be the best they can be, regardless of race.
➡ The speaker shares insights from expatriates living abroad, highlighting interesting experiences. Despite these stories, the speaker remains hopeful about the future of the United States and plans to stay. They express gratitude to their audience and look forward to future interactions.

Welcome everybody to the untold Hedgehog Channel. My name is Ron Partain. It is Tuesday, July 8th and normally I do this with with, with Mike King but he had to cancel last minute. So I thought I would do something really cool and read my the first article that I put out on Substack. So something different and I I kind of need to do this anyway because they want to put the the audio I need to get an audio track for it. So so here we go. I get you guys get to have fun with me. Was I as I read this and give me some feedback on this.

Let me know what you think of this. It was took me a little bit of time to put this together but I, I, it was, it was in response to somebody and but I thought it was once I kind of started to dig into it it’s like wow, this is actually really I like this a lot. So anyway give me some honest feedback. So in the meantime here we go. Let me get it to pull this onto the stage and we will read it. So it’s the banking elites, the Great Depression and the birth of dependency.

How the bankers rigged the 1929 crash to enslave white America with the New Deal. Then the Great Society re enslaved black America through Civil Rights act or the Civil Rights Act. A manufactured system of control. And this is an obviously an image of both a white and a black man working a chain gang in the 1930s, victims of the deliberate cashing of the banking system and economy. The image represents how both white and black persons were indiscriminately targeted by the elite. Most people think of the Great Depression just as bad luck or a natural crash of the market.

But the truth is it was, it was carefully created. A small group of powerful bankers working through the newly formed Federal Reserve in 1913 gained control over America’s money supply. They made it easy to borrow money in the 1920s, which got a lot of people and businesses deep in debt. They then the Fed raised interest rates and pulled money out of the system which caused prices to drop, banks to fail and people to lose everything. It wasn’t an accident. It was on purpose. This didn’t target one race, but it hurt poor people the most. And since black Americans were already on the bottom of the economic ladder, they were hit the hardest.

They were the first to lose jobs and the last to get help. Another major law, the National Industrial Recovery act, or the nira helped big companies team up and control prices and wages. This crushed small businesses and farmers who couldn’t compete. Roosevelt even helped Wall street insiders like the Rockefellers take over more financial power while pretending to fight against them in public government. Jobs and aid programs like the Works Project Administration, or WPA and the Federal Agency Relief Administration, or FARA, gave work to some people, but only if they played politics. In the south, black workers were either left out of were either left out, or paid far less than white workers for the same work.

In the north and west, poor white people without political connections were also denied help. That wasn’t about race. It was about control. Even Roosevelt’s own Treasury secretary, Henry Morgenthau, admitted in 1939 that all the spending wasn’t working. We’re spending more than we’ve ever spent before, he said, and it does not work. We have just as much unemployment and an enormous debt to boot. Later, in what can only be viewed as criminal, Roosevelt allowed the Federal Reserve to tighten credit even further in 1936 and 37, which caused another major downturn and hurt recovery even more, Prolonging, even exacerbating, the depression, White Americans were the first group to be quietly pulled into the system.

They were told government help was a reward. But over time, that help came with guilt. Schools, newspapers and politicians began saying that white people only had jobs or land because they were privileged. This made many whites feel ashamed to speak out, even when they were poor or struggling. That guilt kept them silent and compliant. In 1957, Republican Congressman Thomas Abernathy of Mississippi entitled or entered into the Congressional Record a now infamous quote from a document entitled the Racial program for the 20th century. The passage was we must realize that our Communist party’s most powerful weapon is racial tension.

By propounding into the consciousness of the dark races that for centuries they’ve been oppressed, the white races can be made to feel guilty. We will aid the Negro to rise in prominence and power, and then we will use them to promote our cause. Our ultimate goal is racial tension, revolution, and finally, the dissolution of the United States through the Though the authorship of the quote above has been disputed, the strategy it outlined was chillingly clear. To inject guilt into white Americans, fuel resentment among black Americans, and use racial conflict as a tool to destabilize the nation from within.

Decades later, even without verifying its origin, the manifestations are undeniable. The shift from open segregation to manage dependency, the weaponization of guilt and grievance, the federal absorption of racial narratives, all reflect a playbook that has unfolded with stunning precision. Although the southern Dixiecrats publicly opposed the 1964 Civil Rights act on grounds of preventing Segregation and state sovereignty. Their opposition masked a deeper irony. They feared that federal intervention would empower black Americans and dismantle the South’s racial order. Yet the outcome of this intervention did not lead to freedom in the true sense. Instead, as the Great Society policies followed in 1965, black Americans were absorbed not into equal opportunity, but into a new system of federally managed dependence.

Welfare programs that weakened family structure, eroded community leadership and replaced local self determination with bureaucratic control. While southern Democrats fought fiercely to block the Civil Rights act, many Republicans, especially from the north and west, supported it. Their motives were mixed, but rooted in both principle and politics. As the party of Lincoln, Republicans still carried the legacy of emancipation and often framed civil rights as a constitutional duty to ensure equal protection under the law. Some also saw it as a way to distance themselves from the Democrat party’s internal chaos and to strengthen their standing in northern urban areas.

Others recognized the intentional stakes in the Cold War. America’s racial inequality was an embarrassment on the world stage. Supporting civil rights was not only morally justifiable, it was a strategic move to preserve US Credibility abroad. Led by figures like Senate minority leader Everett Dirksen, Republicans helped secure the votes needed to overcome the filibuster and pass the legislation. While their intentions may have varied, their votes were decisive. This shift mirrored an older system with a new face. As Douglas Blackman documented in Slavery by Another Name, after the Civil War, Southern states used laws and legal loopholes to re enslave black Americans through convict leasing, forced labor and racial radicalized, excuse me, racial and racialized criminal codes well into the 20th century.

What followed the Civil Rights act was not an abandonment of racial control, but a transfer of management from local sheriffs and planters to Washington based bureaucrats. Ironically, they were resisting the very system that would ultimately preserve elite control just under different terms. Black Americans, who were mostly shut out during the 1930s were brought into the system in the 1960s under President Johnson’s Great Society program. Alongside the Civil Rights act and Voting Rights act came a wave of new federal aid. Medicaid, food stamps, public housing, Head Start, and Aid to Families with Dependent Children, or afdc. These were supposed to help poor people, but they came with strings attached.

Some programs actually punished marriage by taking away benefits if a father lived in the home. Government workers now stood between people and their doctors, landlords, schools and jobs. Local leaders in black communities were turned into program managers, not voices for real change. The system didn’t empower families, it managed them. What looked like progress was actually a new form of control. The black vote Was not secured. Excuse me. The black vote was secured not through economic freedom, but through dependency. And the more people relied on the government, the more easily the the government could control them. This kind of control didn’t stop with black families.

It spread to everyone. The welfare system became a tool used by both political parties. One year they’d increase it to win votes, the next they’d cut it to sound tough. But no one ever dismantled it because it worked exactly as planned. In 1970s, politicians, specifically Ronald reagan, Used the image of Linda taylor, the welfare queen, to blame poor black women for abusing the system. But that wasn’t the real problem. The problem was that the entire system was designed to keep people trapped. The ones who benefited the most weren’t the poor. It was the people who ran the programs, handed out the money, and gained votes and power by keeping others dependent.

People were trained to blame each other Instead of looking at the real cause. Whites were told they were privileged, even if they were broken. Blacks were told they were oppressed, Even if they couldn’t criticize the very programs that fed their families. Anyone who asked questions got called a bigot, a traitor, or worse. White guilt and black victimhood became tools. Guilt kept one silent. Victimhood kept the other loyal. And while both groups argued, the system kept growing. Programs that were supposed to be temporary became permanent. Families that once supported themselves now waited for checks. Churches and neighbors that used to help were replaced by social workers and rules.

When things got worse, like crime, bad schools, and drugs, More programs were added. But they didn’t fix the root problem, they just managed it. Even when new technology came along, credit cards, surveillance, social media, the goal stayed the same. They keep people distracted, dependent, and divided. This pattern repeated in 2008 during the housing crash, and again in 2020 during the COVID lockdowns. First came the fear, then the relief, then the restrictions. Small businesses were crushed, Big corporations were bailed out, and poor families got stimulus checks along with more rules. Privacy shrank. Dependency grew. This strategy wasn’t new.

Long before the welfare state, black americans were controlled in other ways, through labor laws, police power, and convict leasing. In the years after slavery ended, the southern states passed laws that criminalized back life. For example, every southern state except arkansas and tennessee had passed laws by the end of 1865 outlawing vagrancy that were so vaguely defined that virtually any freed slave not under the protection of a white man could be arrested for the crime. There were curfews and more vague disorder charges. The egregious nature of these laws would be Incomprehensible today. One example was of Ben Holt, convicted of vagrancy on August 29, 1906, he was ordered to pay Shelby County, Alabama, a fine of a dollar.

The cost of his arrest on Prosecution, however, totaled $76.28. Instead of paying, he confessed judgment with a white farmer named James Wharton, who paid the fine and fees and in return owned Holt for a minimum of 200 days. The goal wasn’t justice. It was to keep cheap labor flowing to farms, mines and factories. Black men were jailed and leased to private companies for profit. Entire towns participated in this. State control was racial, violent and profitable. Welfare, though, was a softer system, but it grew from the same root. Later, in the 19th and early 20th centuries, groups called charity organization societies shaped how Americans thought about public health.

They didn’t believe in giving money to the poor without first investigating their morals and behavior. Cos leaders thought poverty came from laziness or alcohol or poor choices. They taught that it helped that they taught that if help was too easy, people wouldn’t work. Their ideas built the foundation of the modern welfare agencies, especially under Roosevelt’s New Deal. Helping wasn’t about justice, it was about discipline. The same mindset is alive today. Welfare isn’t run by neighbors or churches. It’s run by systems that keep records, issue rules and decide who gets what based on who follows the right political lines.

It was never meant to lift people up, it was meant to manage them. Even modern scholars recognize this. Political theorists like Lawrence Mead have written that welfare programs don’t just feed or house people, they reshape them. Mead says modern welfare replaces family, church and community with a state that trains people to follow rules instead of build character. Others, like Christopher Beam, argue that welfare weakens democracy because it turns citizens into clients who obey instead of participate. But the system works exactly as intended. It makes the poor dependent, the middle class distracted and the ruling class untouchable.

It creates obedience disguised as compassion. This system was never about helping people. It was about controlling them. It gave just enough to prevent rebellion, but never enough to set anybody free. And that’s why the New Deal wasn’t just about jobs. It was about psychology. And the Great Society wasn’t just about rights. It was about reshaping identity. It all started with a crisis, but became. But it became a cage. And unless Americans of every color and class see it for what it is, the cage will only get tighter. Because the real battle isn’t black versus white. It’s rich versus.

It isn’t rich versus poor, it’s the People who want to be free against the people who profit from keeping them controlled. And let’s be clear. White people are not clinging to racism. They’re clinging to the ability to pay rent, feed their families, and hold on to what little dignity that this broken economy allows. The same utility companies that shut off power in poor black neighborhoods will do the same in poor white ones. Grocery stores, landlords, credit card companies, none of them care about race. They care about one color. Green. The constant push to divide Americans along racial lines distracts us from the truth.

The working class of every color is being squeezed by the same system. And those who continue to hold on to racial animosity, whether out of business media propaganda or, excuse me, whether out of bitterness, media programming or a need to feel morally superior, are only holding themselves back. Truthfully, those who see racism in every, in everything, often carry it in themselves. What they project onto the world is not a reflection of justice, but a justification for their own resentment. The damage that has been done by policy, by propaganda, by generations of psychological warfare is real. It has affected black and white Americans in different ways, and if we’re being honest, black Americans much more so.

But the goal has always been the same. Dependence, division and obedience. Yet this trap is not unbreakable. The attitudes that have been shaped, entitlement, laziness, guilt and victimhood, they’re not hand, they’re not hardwired. And they were. They were trained into us and that and that. And what can be, what can be trained in can also be trained out. The recovery begins with truth. Black and white Americans alike must stop looking to Washington for rescue and start looking inward to their families, to their faith and their communities. The state cannot replace character. No subsidy can replace purpose.

The lies that told one race, they were oppressors, and the others, that they were helpless, have broken spirits on both sides. But dignity is not dead. Self reliance is not lost. It has been buried under decades of managed decline and weaponized guilt. But it can be unearthed. We must teach a new generation that work is not oppression, that struggle is not failure, and that strength is not hate. Black families must reclaim the pride that once built businesses and towns under far worse conditions. White families must speak the truth without fear and reject the lie that their silence is justice.

No bureaucrat can do this. No politician will save us. This is soul work. And it begins in the home, around dinner tables, in honest conversations, and through example, not entitlement. If we’re ever to break free from the system designed to weaken us, we must remember that freedom is not granted it is taken not in violence, but in discipline, unity, and moral courage. The answer has never been in Washington. The answer is us, we, the people. And that’s basically the end of the article. And there’s, there’s a. I’ve got several links here to talk, and primarily about racism and whatnot.

But I wanted to read the article real quick and then go back up and talk about some of the imagery that I created for this. This is so obviously this. It was an image that was supposed to be representative of, you know, guys working on a chain gang. And it doesn’t really matter if you’re white or black. The, the police behind you, they don’t, they don’t really care. This is from left to right, Joseph p. Kennedy, that’s JFK’s dad, seated at the far left. So that’d be here. Bernard Baruch, right here in the center, left, center.

And then Paul Warburg on the right, right here. And, and then in the shadowed, shadowy Rothschild agent or Rockefeller proxy standing behind. That’s just a, A face, but overseeing the discussion, a symbolic rendering of the financial architects behind America’s engineered economic collapse. Basically, what they’re saying is that they, they knew what was coming in 1929, and they were, they were just getting ready to. They were getting ready to profit from it. This Right here is FDR signing Executive Order 6102, which is, which took away the Americans ability to own gold. And I found these, I found these very interesting.

The wpa, the work program and Farah. If you look at the symbol, if you look at the artwork here, very kind of reminiscent of almost like communist type. Communist type artwork, right? So that you’d see in the Soviet Union. Very interesting. This is the, this is the picture of Thomas Abernathy. He’s the one who wrote about the, the, the quote that was, I don’t believe that this quote was, was fake. I believe that it was actually a real quote by Israel Cohen. But you can’t find it. I have looked everywhere for it and it says it’s impossible to find.

And if you go to, if you go to Wikipedia, it’ll say that it was, that it’s just, it’s, it’s a fabrication. I mean, it throws all kinds of slanderous words at it, but it, you know, if you, if you, if you really analyze how the world has played out, it, I mean, it’s, it’s, it’s a perfect, it’s a perfect manifest. In fact, I don’t think, in the article, I don’t think it was. It was actually correct. Let me see if I can pull this up as here we see. Israel Cohen, leading Communists in England in a racial program for the 20th century, wrote in 1912 the following.

We must realize. We must realize that our party’s most powerful weapon is racial tension. By propelling into the consciousness of the dark races that for centuries they’ve been oppressed by the whites, we can mold them into the program of the Communist Party in America. We will aim for subtle victory. While inflaming the Negro minority against whites, we will endeavor to instill in the whites a guilt complex for their exploitation of the Negroes. We will then aid the Negroes to rise in prominence in every walk of life and professions and in the world of sports and entertainment.

And with this privilege, the Negro will be able to intermarry with the whites and begin a process which will deliver America to our cause. Now, you can say what you want about being fake and all that other stuff, but, I mean, is not what we’re living today a physical manifestation of this right here? I mean, whites are guilty and blacks are the, you know, calling themselves oppressed. And, and it’s, I mean, it’s all. It’s like it was, I mean, very, very prophetic. This right here is LBJ shaking hands with Martin Luther King. And, you know, I’m of the opinion that, you know, if you really dig deep into Martin Luther King, he was, I, I, you know, that he was very soft on communism.

Very soft on communism. And in fact, he had quite a few people that were his. They were like his handlers that were. That were, you know, basically communist. They wrote his speeches and everything. But I think there was a point in time when he began to see the light in, in many cases, I almost feel like it’s a, it’s. It’s a similar case to that of Manning Johnson. And Manning Johnson was a prominent leader in the Communist Party, the black Communist Party or the Communist Party usa. But he, you know, he was, He. He was a black man, and he what, he realized what the hell’s going on here? And he realized the.

He realized the game and he bailed. He’s like, I’m out of here. The Deuces. And so I, I tend to think that Martin Luther King was kind of starting to wake up a little bit. And when he started to wake up, he was no longer useful. They had to eliminate him. And by eliminating him, they made him a martyr. And so anyway, I don’t have anything to substantiate that. That’s Just kind of my, my belief based on things that I’ve read and whatnot. But there’s. I can’t prove that. That’s just my belief here. And this was a meme that I created or an infographic that I created.

And it’s called Crisis by Design, Enslaved by Relief. And it’s got the New Deal enslaves white America, Great Society re. Enslaves black America, Manufactured system of dependency and control. So just, just that little infographic. This. Kind of dress it up. And then this is, this is the welfare cream. The Welfare Queen. In the 1970s, Ronald Reagan villainized a Chicago woman for bilking the government. Her other sins included possible kidnapping and murders were far worse. And then I think I had a link here that talked about this. Let’s see. Yeah, here’s the Welfare Queen. Listen, code switch dives into story behind the Welfare Queen.

So, but anyway, you guys, if you want to check that out, you can see the. You can check out the sub stack. So. And this stuff about the, the, the prison system, I didn’t really know much about this. I have to say I was a little embarrassed when I, and I, when I read about it, I was like, whoa, that’s. That’s not, that’s not cool. And if you read the 13th amendment, I was like. It said, yeah, you. A 13 minute. The 13th amendment said that if, you know, it abolished slavery. Except in, except in terms of like, like, if you were incarcerated, you could be.

You could be leased out. Your labor could be leased out. And I actually have done a much deeper dive into this and something that I’m working on now that goes into, you know, much more depth and, you know, and critiques this. But it’s. This right here is the. Is a picture of the elites laughing behind the scenes while white and black men, you know, basically just, you know, scrounge for table scraps. So. And then, and then these are, these are really good programs. This is Carmen jc She’s a. She’s a very. She’s a young black thought leader in up and coming on YouTube.

This is. I believe his name is. Oh, it’s. What is his name? Coleman Hughes. Thank you. So Coleman, he’s. He’s actually participated on some of the CNN roundtables with guys like Scott Jennings and whatnot. He’s. This is actually a really interesting podcast to listen to. They want us to hate how identity politics shield racism. This is actually a really interesting podcast. It’s about an hour. I listened to it twice, but it’s, It’s Very good. And if you have, if you’ve never seen this about what are we doing to white people, this is actually really good as well.

So. And this is this guy’s. I think he’s a former cop or whatever, but he’s like, enough with the anti white propaganda. So a lot of this stuff is, you know, I, I put a lot of work into this and there’s a lot of really good, you know, it’s, it’s, it’s sourced very, very, very diligently. So this article was sourced. So anyway. All right, guys. Well, that’s kind of all I had for tonight. I apologize that, that Mike Keane couldn’t make it. Thank you, Ed, for, for showing up. I appreciate it. And Texas GGU as well.

It’s disgusting to learn the depths of how far and how long the people of the country have been manipulated. Exactly. Well, it goes back even further than what I’ve got here. I mean, you go back into the, it’s, it’s, it’s been going on a long time. So, but anyway, I mean, the only thing that we can do is just be the best human beings that we can. And as being the best people that we can be, that’s how we overcome this. So that’s, that’s kind of my two cents. And that’s what I strive to be. I, that’s, that’s, that’s what I strive to be, is the best, the best person that I can be.

And I don’t, I’ll try not to look at race at all. Sometimes it’s a little difficult. I can’t, I can’t lie, you know, but when people act a fool, they act a fool regardless of what color they are. And, you know, and so, you know, there’s fools in every, every walk of, of society. So I just abhor behavior that is rewarded, you know, I just abhor negative behavior that’s rewarded. Like all this crap is going on with the Carnival Cruise right now. It’s just so much, so much, so many, so much noise that’s out there, that’s really irrelevant.

And, and, but, but it is absolutely a sign of the manifestation of the degradation of our society. So, and I really do hope that we get that back and we turn it around. It’s, it’s, it’s probably, it’s going to take a little bit of time, but, you know, it’s not impossible. If you look at Russia, you know, a lot of people think that the, you know, you look at what happened in Russia when they collapsed, their system collapsed. In 1990. 19. 1989 was on the wall, came down. 1991, I think, was when the Soviet Union collapsed.

And then all through the. All through the 90s, they had weak leadership. And then Putin came in and the latter part of the 90s took over and started to rebuild. And they, you know, I mean, he started to put in mandatory training for, like, morality training that was not necessarily. It could be. It could be Christian, it could be Muslim, it could be, you know, secular, it could be whatever, But. But people still had to go through that sort of training. And what we see now in Russia is. Is a whole different. It’s a whole different life.

It’s. I mean, people there are respectful for the most part. I mean, you’re always going to have your. Your criminal. Criminal element, but the life in Russia is a whole lot different than it is here. You know, there’s. I follow Quite a few YouTubers who are, you know, people who have migrated over there and they talk about what life is like, what life is really like on the ground. You know, just the kind of the nuts and bolts that you don’t get from, you know, watching the news. If you just only watch the news, then. And what you see is like, man, that’s not really what it’s like, you know, but if you listen to people who actually have moved over there and are, it’s like, whoa, that’s interesting.

I didn’t. Did not know that. And I mean, there’s all kinds of expatriates who, who are living all over the world and they talk about, you know, stuff that’s really cool. I still think that the United States is, Is on track to be. To rebound, and things are going to be really good. And so I’m holding out hope and I’m sticking around. So on that note, guys, want to thank everybody for, for tuning in. Appreciate it, and look forward to seeing you guys tomorrow. Appreciate that.
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