Volume 4: White Devil Chapter 289: Transferring Money in the Name of Freedom
At the beginning, Congressman Mike Bradley didn't understand why he, as a black man, was boycotted, cursed and scolded by his fellow black people even though he was clearly speaking up for his fellow black people.
Those angry black people showed up near his home and his children's school, saying all the insulting words about black people that no white person had ever said to him or his family. They actually questioned why they were deprived of the right to continue to be exploited by loan sharks.
The preliminary investigation report submitted by the FBI to the committee was shocking. Many black people engaged in illegal businesses after taking out loans and ended up dead on the streets. The FBI also reported to him that they encountered resistance when investigating the top management of KeyBank, and those people showed serious resistance.
After seeing the bloody news, Mike Bradley asked the FBI to continue its in-depth investigation and, if necessary, apply for a search warrant to formally launch a judicial investigation into KeyBank.
Looking back , that was when he stepped into a damn trap.
The day after giving the response, KeyBank said that under pressure from the investigation, it announced that it would cooperate with the investigation, consider suspending its small community entrepreneurship loan business, and disclose all relevant information of KeyBank to the public.
Coupled with the recent incident in which four black undercover investigators who were investigating KeyBank were shot dead by a black street gang because they appeared on TV for an interview, a large number of lower-class black people began to feel angry. Their thinking was very simple. They thought that the four bastard white reporters who had joined News Corporation's The Washington Post and New York Post had killed black people, which meant that News Corporation had killed black people.
And Mike Bradley is a traitor to the black people because he prevented them from getting the money from KeyBank.
As for the Fox TV network, which should have been primarily responsible, why was it not troubled by black people? Because the boss John Krueger, who had just returned to his old job, reacted quickly. It is said that he was furious about this incident and directly announced the dismissal of all employees of the news commentary program. He carried out a thorough purge and would later set up a new news commentary program and promised to give priority to hiring people of color.
The most important thing is that Fox Television Network announced a donation to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the families of deceased black people.
In contrast, the arrogant News Corporation and Congressman Mike Bradley, who forced KeyBank to stop lending to lower-class black people and thought he was righteous, have become the culprits in the eyes of lower-class black people.
At this time, KeyBank also promptly disclosed the information of its senior executives. The truth was completely different from the information obtained by the investigative reporters before. KeyBank was not founded by Jim Manzie, Tommy Hawke, Stephen Bean and others as it had solemnly announced to the investigative reporters. Instead, it was jointly initiated by the chiefs of five Indian tribes. Tommy Hawke and Stephen Bean were just simple investors, and Jim Manzie was only employed by the Indian tribe, holding a very small stake and serving as the executive president who presided over the daily affairs of KeyBank.
After seeing the photos of the five chiefs wearing feather decorations, the FBI immediately found Mike Bradley and asked whether to continue the investigation. As long as Mike Bradley gave a formal reply, the FBI was willing to go through fire and water for him and bring the five major Indian tribal leaders to justice.
The moment Mike Bradley saw the information voluntarily disclosed by KeyBank, he knew that things were starting to go wrong. If they had known that KeyBank was founded by Indians, not only would he not have investigated, but the four reporters would not have investigated either. It can only be said that he and the four reporters were fooled and someone maliciously led them into this investigation.
Who dares to investigate the assets of Indian tribes? No one, at least until capitalists find a more suitable white glove than the Indian tribes, no one dares to do so.
They are a more sensitive race than black people. All Indian affairs are handled by the Office of Indian Affairs, which is specially established by the federal government. If you want to investigate Indians, you have to start from the only Office of Indian Affairs. That means all the dirty things done by white capitalists in the name of Indians will be exposed, including oil fields, mines, factories, casinos, banks, ranches...
Even if we announce to the public that we will only investigate KeyBank and will not cause trouble for others, will the bosses who use the Indians to own large oil fields, large mines, and large casinos really believe it?
The Indians were the lenders, the blacks were the borrowers, and I and the four self-righteous investigative reporters were fucking fools who had offended two groups. It was impossible that the FBI did not obtain this information during the first investigation, but they did not choose to report it to me immediately, just to put themselves in trouble.
Mike Bradley is not an idiot. He knows that his political career is over. Someone is unhappy with him and wants to kick him out of Congress. If nothing unexpected happens, someone will expose his dirty laundry.
Soon, California Democrat, black lawyer, and BT TV president Earl Rush revealed through BT TV that Mike Bradley had previously visited South Africa and met privately with the leader of an organization defined as a terrorist organization by the US government, accepting a gift worth $2,900 from the other party without reporting it to the government.
He always claims that he is speaking up for black people, but in fact, the two black nannies in his family are all illegal black immigrants from Peru. As a U.S. congressman, he hired illegal immigrants, which violated federal law. What's worse is that he, who always claims to be speaking up for black people, actually paid social security taxes, or nanny taxes, for two illegal immigrants.
The FBI, which had previously obeyed Bradley's orders at a hearing and said it would continue its investigation into KeyBank, immediately took away Mike Bradley's two unlucky black Peruvian illegal immigrant nannies for investigation. Tax authorities and immigration agencies also subsequently intervened.
Subsequent investigations found that Bradley paid two illegal black people $150 a week, provided simple food and lodging, but made them do the work of four people, including gardener, cook, nanny, and driver. According to US employment standards, the minimum weekly wage for a trained professional nanny should be $250. However, this congressman only paid $300 a week, forcing the illegal black immigrants to complete the work of four people for a total pay of $1,000.
Before Mike Bradley had the chance to hold his second hearing on the KeyBank investigation, he was scheduled to attend a hearing of the Congressional Judiciary Committee to explain his actions to Congress.
From the accurate information leaked by a California black man named Earl Rush about his meeting with the leader of a black freedom-seeking organization in South Africa, Mike Bradley understood that someone was deliberately trying to make trouble for him. Who else except the President, who had been the director of the CIA, could get such details of his private meeting abroad?
Just because he had been calling in Congress for a boycott of the president's policies toward South Africa, and just because he called for attention to be paid to the release of Mandela, the president, who had close ties with South Africa's white financial tycoons, was ready to use the opportunity of investigating KeyBank to disgrace himself and force him to leave Congress.
The nanny scandal was a reminder for him, telling him that it would be decent for him to resign now, otherwise the other party could take advantage of the current attention to release more negative information about him. So Mike Bradley simply held a press conference, apologized to the people in public, and then announced his resignation and left Congress in disgrace.
The black people now have one less target to attack. The only ones left are the New York Post and the Washington Post, which hosted the four investigative reporters who killed four black people, and the Murdoch News Corporation behind them.
In fact, the two newspapers reacted quite quickly. When KeyBank allowed five Indian tribal chiefs to make an appearance, they immediately realized the problem. The public relations department immediately announced that it would donate to the Indian Cultural Preservation Association, and at the same time, it would increase coverage of the Indian group in the next two years, and immediately terminated the employment contracts of four white investigative reporters.
However, no matter what he did, it was wrong. Four investigative reporters were fired, and Earl Rush immediately called on the Alliance of Black Journalists, the Black Typographical Workers Union, and the Black Newspaper Delivery Workers Union to strike in support of the four investigative reporters who had been frightened by the whole incident and were severely depressed. He argued that investigative reporters should not have to bear all this, and the real problem was that their employers forced them to do so. Murdoch's news has always been like this, sensational and eye-catching, and then when he finds himself in trouble, he pushes his employees out to die.
The strike began in the early morning of one day when a group of black printing workers destroyed the printing press, making it impossible for the New York Post and the Washington Post to be published that day.
At the same time, because a large number of black people were on strike and besieged the newspaper building for demonstration, newspaper executives had to use helicopters to land on the rooftop helipad of the headquarters to enter and exit the headquarters building. The interrupted printing work could only be temporarily entrusted to the American Newspaper Production and Research Center in Oklahoma at a high price for printing, and then the printed newspapers were transported back to New York and Washington for distribution by plane.
KeyBank's holders, five Indian tribal chiefs, donated to the striking unions in the name of KeyBank to thank them for standing up for the oppressed Indians.
Countless American newspapers and television stations called this strike the American Wapping incident. Everyone was paying attention to one question: which American political bigwig would stand up and play the role of Mrs. Thatcher, the British who helped Murdoch use the military and police to beat workers and force the union to surrender.
What disappointed Americans who like to watch the fun was that from the beginning to the end, they did not see any politicians stand up to speak for News Corporation.
Because of the rising costs, the two newspapers lose $270,000 and $420,000 respectively for every day News Corp prints and distributes newspapers. They can either continue to spend money to airlift newspapers from other places and rely on helicopters for travel, or pay sky-high compensation to four severely depressed and mentally ill investigative reporters, and meet all kinds of exaggerated conditions proposed by the union, such as reducing computer platemaking and printing, ensuring the addition of one thousand jobs for printing workers, and increasing wages and benefits.
The striking workers continued the strike for three months because the union paid for their expenses during the strike and no politicians stepped in to suppress them.
The final outcome was that the federal news agency stepped in to coordinate and, in the name of ensuring the distribution of well-known American newspapers and workers' rights, organized and arranged for McCall's, where 67% of the management was black, to acquire the New York Post and the Boston Herald. It also organized and arranged for Ted Newspapers, where 62% of the executives were black, to acquire the Washington Post and several other local tabloids, ensuring the addition of one thousand printing jobs for people of color.
Earl Rush, who led a large number of lower-class black people to stir up a movement through BT TV and the Rainbow Organization, became a hot and popular figure in the California Democratic Party.
In March 1990, the reward for giving up a big piece of fat finally came. A supplementary clause on the definition of network information in the U.S. Communications Act was passed by Congress, and the information age officially arrived.
KeyBank announced that in view of the huge controversy, the board of directors decided to completely terminate the controversial small community entrepreneurship loan business, but the enthusiasm for serving the grassroots people will not be eliminated. KeyBank is planning to launch a new public welfare project that is more in line with the American spirit of freedom, more in line with universal values, and more in line with the American dream.
At the same time, the rubbish variety show "The Apprentice" directed by Stephen Bean was finally ready for broadcast after more than half a year of reshoots, editing and internal review.
The day before the show started, Stephen called Tommy to remind him to watch on time. He also mentioned the thoughts of KeyBank shareholders: "Although the shareholders did not object, they were actually very dissatisfied with Jim's announcement to terminate this micro-loan business. The return rate of this kind of loan is simply amazingly high, and the government will not investigate the Indians anyway. Even if it investigates, it can push the responsibility to the five chiefs. No one understands why it should be terminated."
"For this project, we need to give those black people real money. If it weren't for those black people helping me to go on strike, do you think I'd be someone who would lend them money?" Tommy asked as a matter of course.
Stephen said puzzledly: "Although we pay the principal, the other party will pay us interest, right?"
"That's right. This is the main reason why we want to upgrade this model. Before, we took out money to lend to those niggers and made them pay high interest. Now, taking advantage of everyone's doubts about our usury, we announce that we will no longer provide loans. Instead, we will let the blacks lend money to themselves and then pay us the interest." Tommy said.
"What do you mean?" Stephen asked.
"Jim and his team of economists are working on a project called Water Drop Fundraising. To put it simply, we will no longer use our own money to lend to black people to sell hemp. Instead, black people will collect money and give it to us. We will then help them transfer it to the Entrepreneurship Center, which will then lend it to other black people who are interested in high-risk entrepreneurship. We will not do anything this time. There will be no usury or collective punishment. We are just kind and want to help black people. We will help them transfer money in the name of freedom." Tommy asked the servants to help him pack his clothes:
"You can ask Jim about the specifics. He should be able to tell you everything more clearly. I'm busy packing my clothes."
"Shouldn't you be sitting in front of the TV right now waiting to watch my variety show? Where are you going, on vacation with Ottilia?" Stephen asked puzzledly.
Tommy said, "No, I'm going to San Francisco to get Jason out of the way, and I'm going to sit on it myself, so that those guys in Silicon Valley can see what Tommy's dad has been doing and what he's going to do next."
