Freedom Rider: Why We Need Black Rage
Here's the deal:
Cop-worship seemed to be the national religion as the U.S. ruling and talking classes sanctified five Dallas policemen. “Just at the moment when rage was most needed, hand holding, candle light vigils and pleas for calm became the order of the day.” Officiating over it all was the Actor-in-Chief, playing his familiar role as philosopher-preacher (he’s an assassin on Tuesday nights), who has “never used his authority to prosecute even one killer cop.”
School teachers are vilified and cops are glorified. Is there something wrong with this picture?
The corporate media needed to take black anger off of the front pages and the airwaves. Every photo of a black cop crying over his dead colleagues was placed front and center. Black protesters who shook hands with red necks were lionized. Every image of a white cop hugging a black child was suddenly deemed prize worthy.
The turn of events showed the depth of black American miseducation. The same feelings which brought rage upon seeing Sterling and Castille dead suddenly became useless, even damaging.
There is not even a pretense that journalism is going on:
The media promoted the foolishness and made no attempt to do the work of journalism. Every day an average of three people die at the hands of police in the United States, 1,134 in 2016 alone. Other nations have never had that number of police killings in their entire history. This data alone should be the catalyst for investigative reporting.
Instead, we get this:
Instead the media use well known racists like Rush Limbaugh and Rudy Giuliani to stoke useless anger and divert attention. Their opinions are irrelevant and giving them a forum is a substitute for raising the questions that white supremacy would prefer to keep covered up.
We are so fortunate that Obama ushered in a post-racial America.
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And because Obama has none nothing, we
get things like this: White House responds to petition to label Black Lives Matter a "terror" group 141,000 signatures. Think about that.
Why didn't Obama also attend services for Alton Sterling and Philando Castile? Or at least visit their cities for a few words?
The media has been pushing a divisive message also. The Dallas police chief repeatedly stated that Johnson wanted to "Kill white people" to the point that it would drive a wedge and the media keeps pushing it and pushing it. The media has also been posting stores that Sterling and Castile were in some way at fault for their own deaths. Damn sick world we live in.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.--Aristotle
If there is no struggle there is no progress.--Frederick Douglass
TPTB are playing divide et impera - on steroids.
If they can get us proles fighting amongst ourselves, they don't have to worry about our coming after them.
In fact, it's probably because they're afraid we're about to come after them that they are trying so hard to start a race war.
Resist.
Only connect. - E.M. Forster
Another question I have for Obama ---
Why didn't he attend Muhammad Ali's memorial service? I thought that very strange.
I read it conflicted
with his daughter's graduation.
Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur.
FBI Warns Protesters To Avoid Cleveland?
WTF?
J. Edgar Hoover wins from the grave:
If the FBI is worried about radical activists they should look in the mirror.
http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/07/15/combustible-gop-convention-r...
"They'll say we're disturbing the peace, but there is no peace. What really bothers them is that we are disturbing the war." Howard Zinn
At least one sane police voice in Cleveland
A truth of the nuclear age/climate change: we can no longer have endless war and survive on this planet. Oh sh*t.
Will the police be disarming,
Will the police be disarming, too?
FBI Monitoring Facebook
But of course they are. Are they monitoring caucus99percent?
https://theintercept.com/2016/07/16/feds-monitoring-activists-on-faceboo...
"They'll say we're disturbing the peace, but there is no peace. What really bothers them is that we are disturbing the war." Howard Zinn
Eye drops?? a) How much damage can one be planning with eyedrops
and 2) How would you see those tiny bottles even if you were "on the lookout"?
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"Are they monitoring caucus99percent?"
You betcha they are. Threat assessment scores and all. (Didn't notice those Facebook trackers that appear under the header of each article?)
Only connect. - E.M. Forster
What is an anarchist symbol?
Whatever someone decides to make it?
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It looks like this
"They'll say we're disturbing the peace, but there is no peace. What really bothers them is that we are disturbing the war." Howard Zinn
Seems these days, RL,
it's the American flag. Or a press badge. Or a police badge. It appears either political party, the press or police would be defunct without the anarchy they produce.
There is no such thing as TMI. It can always be held in reserve for extortion.
I'm guessing this:
And maybe this:
We be SO anarchic!!
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Norm Stamper Podcast
An excerpt:
http://whowhatwhy.org/2016/07/17/top-cop-says-need-reinvent-policing/
"They'll say we're disturbing the peace, but there is no peace. What really bothers them is that we are disturbing the war." Howard Zinn
Ooops!
Cali Kush and Rum! Yummy!
"They'll say we're disturbing the peace, but there is no peace. What really bothers them is that we are disturbing the war." Howard Zinn
Whatever happened to Chris Bowers?
I heard he asked Mary Scott O'Conner to be his sponser. How did that work out?
"They'll say we're disturbing the peace, but there is no peace. What really bothers them is that we are disturbing the war." Howard Zinn
Commitment Card Solution
This essay and a lot of other observations from all sides is strikingly one-sided in its pov.
No one needs Black Rage.
There is more going on in this country and more people need to wake the f up.
I offer MLK's Commitment Card for all to sign and stop the violence.
Prof: Nancy! I’m going to Greece!
Nancy: And swim the English Channel?
Prof: No. No. To ancient Greece where burning Sapho stood beside the wine dark sea. Wa de do da! Nancy, I’ve invented a time machine!
Firesign Theater
Stop the War!
Rage is not violence
Nobody's arguing with MLK. The flip side of the coin is how much of an assist MLK's message got from Malcom X. If non-violence by itself was the answer wouldn't the fight already be won?
"They'll say we're disturbing the peace, but there is no peace. What really bothers them is that we are disturbing the war." Howard Zinn
You're frigin kidding
"Rage is not Violence"?
Really?
Please do tell what planet you are on?
I could go Godwin, like Auschwitz sign "Work Sets You Free", but I won't.
Prof: Nancy! I’m going to Greece!
Nancy: And swim the English Channel?
Prof: No. No. To ancient Greece where burning Sapho stood beside the wine dark sea. Wa de do da! Nancy, I’ve invented a time machine!
Firesign Theater
Stop the War!