Broadening the conversation about police violence

I've been saying all of this for years.

Police violence is a universal problem, and requires a universal solution.
I just ran across this video by accident.

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It's good to some opening of the dialogue. It is a definite problem that black/ POC are killed disproportionately to their population by the police. In my view it stems from the polices culture of violence. They can and do kill willingly as a first response, and mostly face negligible repercussions for it. They have what Chris Hedges described as a monopoly on violence.

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From 1966 to 2006, the monied interests of the United States controlled the government by jacking up white idiots about race. George Wallace discovered this constituency of Solid South Democrats, and Richard Nixon rode it to a 60% landslide in 1972. Reagan brought the strategy to its high water mark with another landslide in 1984. During these decades, the Dems had only two successful Presidential candidates -- southern Governors who avoided the word liberal like the plague. And Slick made a special point of rubbing the tummies of racists by executing a black human being while still Governor of Arkansas.

Rapidly changing demographics reduced this landslide majority to a shrinking plurality by the turn of the century. Shrub won his two elections by tiny margins featuring funky vote counts both times.

The Bush wars without end and an economic crash brought this paradigm to an an abrupt end, and Big Money changed sides in 2008. Hope and Change! Since then, the same racial divide that put the GOP on top is now being exploited by the Dems -- against the white idiots.

Same racial divide. Same political money driving the politicians. Same final result -- wars without end and a casino economy. The victory of Joe Biden in 2020, based on a cumulative margin of less than 100,000 votes in three swing states, serves now as a mandate for returning to the policies of George Walker Bush.

"Defund the Police" was a poison pill from the beginning. The goal is always to exacerbate racial animosity because that is how you rule a society -- keep it divided. It does not matter to the rulers which "side" gets the upper hand in the perpetual civil war between the ethnicities -- just so long as they remain at each others' throats.

Special credit goes to Hillary Rodham Clinton -- she insults both races, the super-predators vs. deplorables. Is this a great country or what?

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I cried when I wrote this song. Sue me if I play too long.

Think about the implications to what happened in Portland recently.

Portland cops ID victim of fatal police shooting as ‘white’ to prevent Antifa riot

Antifa militants attacked police in Portland, Oregon, after news broke of a deadly police shooting — forcing the department to quickly announce that it was a “white male” to prevent riots, according to police and reports.

The big picture is that the reality of class as a basis for action is simply dead and even declared racist. The ironic thing is that the people controlling the conversation and narrative around race are white progressive pundits, white academics, the white leadership of the DNC, and the white elite media. BLM is used more as a prop by the democratic party and AntiFa and allied white violent groups.

Of course the political fallout is that the gop can dog whistle about race to working class whites who the dems have abandoned, and!, and! and! appeal to African Americans and Hispanics that it is the party of law and order as people like AOC declare increased crime to be hysterics.

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The more they talk about "inclusion" and "diversity", the less there is of it.

People act AND TALK like they know EVERYTHING THERE IS TO KNOW - their minds are closed. This is WORSE than the "Bullshit of Infinite Possibilities" Jon Stewart talked about in his farewell address. This is NEO-MONOTHEISM - "There is only ONE Truth! There is only ONE small set of possibilities!"

If your story doesn't fit The Narrative(TM)? YOU. DON'T EXIST.

I keep feeling like Fortunato being walled up alive by Montresor - my entire life has been nullified; I never fit in, nor did I ever wish to, that used to be okay, because ther was infinite space for me to make a place for myself - now? If you tell someone you're something other than what they TELL you you are, they're like "NOPE! WE ALREADY KNOW THAT CAN'T EXIST. UNIQUE INDIVIDUALS DON'T EXIST. YOU'RE JUST BLIND AND IGNORANT." Odd how, if unique individuals don't exist, we can still be personally to blame for EVERYTHING.

#MyLifeDoesn'tMatter

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In the Land of the Blind, the One-Eyed Man is declared mentally ill for describing colors.

Yes Virginia, there is a Global Banking Conspiracy!