Americans tend to see racism in terms of being solely a Black and White, White versus Black sort of issue. And since we no longer have an overt and blatant, separate but not very equal Apartheid State, White Americans tend to pat themselves on the back and then deny that much any racism actually still exists in US society. This mindset then goes on to blame Blacks for there still being huge problems in their communities. Whites have done their part to make equality supposedly happen say these Whites, and if US Blacks are worse off today, it is only because they are not as good and hard working as Whites mostly think that they themselves are. These American Whites then go on to especially believe that Blacks have been given equal opportunities inside the Pentagon war machine, and therefore ALL societal racism has basically gone bye bye. Heck! The Commander in Chief himself is Black, so what's the real complaint any lazy no good 'un American' has in attacking our US society as still supposedly being largely a racist one? How so? It just cannot be! If anything, it is all us Whites who are victims of being falsely accused of always being victimizers, when we Whites have changed ourselves so drastically from back when MLK had to fight the police dogs! Enough is Enough! Let's ALL TOGETHER move on! Racism is just not a deep problem today anymore in the USA. What is still a problem, is how Blacks feel that thy are all so entitled, and yada yada yada.... So is this a true picture of US society, with White on Black racism just evaporating, and racism as an issue now no longer being a relevant issue in America? Has opportunity opened up, and is that now the end of story? Or, is it perhaps more factual, that this frame of reference about US racism that most Whites have about society is entirely wrong and off the wall to begin with? Is racism a problem that principally centers just around how American Whites treat Blacks, or is there more to it than that? What more might there be? As the title to my commentary shows, I believe that societal racism in the US is getting worse and worse, and that the bloated US military machine is the reason for that, rather than being solution to only a past racism that is being disposed of. We will examine why it can be argued that the US military is making institutional racism in the US worse, in the next look we take examining this issue.
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Al jazeera reports on the widespread use of torture INSIDE the US
The US government is always talking about Chinese human rights abuses, and China has begun to respond with discussing the US's own bad situation where human rights abuses are also very widespread. Unfortunately most Americans themselves are unaware that this is so. Al jazeera has an important report about the US's human rights abuses in its prisons where the use of torture is widespread. So, Americans... 'WAKE UP!' ...An estimated 80,000 men, women and even children are being held in solitary confinement on any given day in US prisons. ...The most abused segment of the US population? Blacks.
Sign this US Petition for Human Rights
Protect all of us from the Police and Military State that is growing daily much bigger all around us. Please sign this petition because it's not just demanding human rights for Black Americans, it's demanding human rights for all of us! Demand Obama institute a National Plan of Action for Racial Justice to end the epidemic of Black murders.
Reid asks: Why would Hispanics Vote GOP, GOOPers upset
Like, Jews voting for Hitler. Seriously, it's THAT obvious. The GOOPers actually are getting all bent out of shape because somebody pointed out that a) They've made official oppression of dark-skinned people a Platform Priority Plank ever since the only Good Republican was assassinated at Ford's Theater in 1865. b) A lot of us swarthy folk have actually noticed that fact and c) Calling people Racists for noticing that their Get Outta Our Party! "big tent" has a "No Coloreds" sign at the door, and the only bilingual sign on the tent is at the back door and says Servants Entrance, is kind of Stupid. OK so it's REALLY Stupid. They gun a man down, actually make him lay down on the concrete face down, THEN shoot him, Oscar Grant in Oakland California, the GOOP notice only that people of color say that it's a racist crime, and the GOOP do as they always do, and Back The Badge, say that the Colored Fellow deserved to be shot for talking back to Uniformed StormTrooper Thugs who believe and state that they're "The Law" in their own persons. Rex est Lex, animata et loquens The phrase is Latin and means, "The King IS the Law, breathing and speaking" They'll criticize any "Lefty Elitist" who actually knows the phrase without noticing that the Bush Administration "good ol' boys" resurrected the phrase to describe their own policies. I'll probably be called a Pseudo Intellectual again. See, it's a matter of Words for them. When their Might Makes Right "Let them hate us as long as they FEAR us" Shock and Awe policies, both foreign and domestic, was stated by one Gaius Julius Caesar II, known by his Latin nickname for Bootsie, "little boots" Caligula. And his second cousin Nero... Confronted by that, and that it was their own Elitist "intellectuals" in the PNAC who started calling their policy Oderint dum Metuant they get all huffy and try to talk their way out of it, with what they consider insults. They won't say "Faux Intellectuel" because it's French and they HATE French People so they pretty much have to invent combinations of words, also called "lying" by those who know Engish, they got burned publicly a few times saying just "intellectual" which means literally "intelligent and educated" (Only the GOOP could consider that an insult). They keep bouncing these words and catch-phrases around, trying desperately to make one stick so the people they call "The Great Unwashed" when they're not trying to get them to elect their Faux Intellectuel non-Elite elitist Racist collective Arse back into office. Trying to impress the Working class with phrases like "working class" without mentioning that it would mean that they, themselves, would be automatically the Non-Working class. Social Parasites in other words. What's tragic is that they've gotten quite a few of the TeaBags to buy into it. Now they believe they're going to get Blacks and Hispanics to forget that they're pushing a national law that singles out people who "look" Illegal for special harassment. They say that
The Whites win this one against the great Orange Juice Simpson
The media is so muted this time around. Racism in America is so volatile that a concrete channel for it must always be built by the ruling class and the damns only opened up to the common (religious) folk under the most controlled circumstances. Arab racism is now allowed to flow at a heavy rate along with anti-Latino/ anti-immigrant worker racism, but anti-Black racism can only be opened to a trickle at this time. So how to handle the OJ Simpson verdict to keep the levees intact? The Verdict 'In' is for 'The Revenge of Injured Whites' where 2 wrongs can certainly seemingly be used to make a seeming Right. What the Criminal Injustice System had working for it this time is that Orange Juice Simpleton continued to carry on in a vain, self centered manner, all to snatch justice away from injustice (or is it the other way around?), never mind all that money spent by the Football Guy the first time around. The criminal got beat by the con it seems! The Black criminal and the White Con, with the Smiling Police Officers, the prim and serious Judge Nancy Nice presiding. Oh Well, Oj. The prison system really is not that much worse than the typical American nursing home, and you'll get used to it in the short run. I know that at 62 you wanted to wait a few more years before going to the Shady Manor , but many of the people you'll meet will even seem already quite familiar to you. You'll be a star to them! So have fun! It's all such poetic injustice! We'll miss you...