The American working class is divided by race. Whatever the reasons for
that, the manipulations of the power elite, there is a racial divide.
Students in our elite colleges feel it. Our President's behavior is
influenced by it. And numberless black people are killed every day because
of it.
Miriam
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[mailto:blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Carl Jarvis
Sent: Monday, June 22, 2015 12:07 PM
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Subject: [blind-democracy] blind-democracy] Re: Texas march condemns
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I wonder if we'll ever see the day when Americans see past the charm and
smiles of the Ruling Class and their Clowns, and see b beneath that veneer
to the contempt that controls their behavior toward the American Working
Class?
Carl Jarvis
On 6/22/15, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
This anti-black prejudice is deep in our culture and in our bones. Itdamnedest times.
is a result of the rationalizations that we had to internalize in
order to transport people on ships in abominable conditions to our
shores and then to treat them as work animals rather than human
beings. We built a financial system based on buying and selling them,
a credit system, a whole industrial system in the North based on the
cotton they picked. When formal slavery ended, we created a caste
system to keep a majority of them apart from us.
Today we have a private prison system which prospers because our
police state funnels people into the prisons and our corporations now
derive profit from the slave labor of these prisoners. We have hedge
funds who are making billions by pretending to educate them in charter
schools which steal money from public school systems and set up a
separate and unequal educational system for them. Talk all you want
about changing hearts and minds. This country's treatment of black
people is a cynical plot to extract wealth from the majority of
African American people while permitting a small number to attain fame
and wealth in order to keep the masses quiet and passive.
Miriam
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[mailto:blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Carl Jarvis
Sent: Sunday, June 21, 2015 10:25 PM
To: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: Texas march condemns cop,attack on teen
pool party
To one degree or another we are victims of our own doing. Our actions
and our thoughts are products of centuries of conditioning. Changing
our behavior and our actions is difficult and painful. So we learn to
say the "Right Thing", while harboring our true beliefs. But because
the changes have been superficial, our inner being jumps out at the
Like for Officer Eric Casebolt, when he flared out of control whenearlier that day.
arriving at a teen pool party. His attorney said it was due to the
fact that he was depressed, that he had been dealing with two suicides
But that makes no sense. We might have expected Eric Casebolt to havefirst, respect for ourselves.
been even more sensitive and understanding, given the disturbing
feelings he carried with him. But to respond with violent actions and
words toward teenagers? Especially the Black children. And they are
children. No, Eric Casebolt is a victim of the conditioning that has
gone into his inner being from the day he entered this world.
This is in no way condoning his behavior. I am simply attempting to
point out that the problem is far greater than we can solve by
changing how we talk, or how we set the rules. Prejudice will
continue until we teach our children exactly what it is, and how to
deal with it. We must teach respect. Respect for one another. But
That,are.
sad to say, is something that is nearly impossible with the Eric
Casebolts, of the world. You see, they have been taught to be what they
Certainly they can change, with great effort. But many do not want to
change. Teaching young minds is far easier. Except the Corporate
Empire is taking over our public schools with their charter schools,
teaching even more of the crap that has made us the mess we are today.
Carl Jarvis
On 6/21/15, Roger Loran Bailey <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
http://themilitant.com/2015/7923/792354.html
The Militant (logo)
Vol. 79/No. 23 June 22, 2015
Texas march condemns cop
attack on teen pool party
Above, Reuters/Mike Stone
Hundreds of people demonstrated June 8 in McKinney, Texas, a suburb
of Dallas, protesting a police assault on unarmed teenagers, the vast
majority African-Americans, at a June 5 pool party the cops say got
too rowdy. A video taken by one of the teens shows police officer
Eric Casebolt cursing the youth, handcuffing some and ordering others
to disperse. He then grabs the head of 15-year-old Dajerria Becton
(inset), shoving her face into the ground and putting his knee on her
back. He also pulled his gun on a few teenagers trying to help her.
After the video surfaced, Casebolt was placed on administrative leave.
He resigned June 9.
- BRIAN WILLIAMS
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