We will see it, I hope. I won't be around for it, I fear.
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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. It 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
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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 damnedest times.
Like for Officer Eric Casebolt, when he flared out of control when 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 earlier that day.
But that makes no sense. We might have expected Eric Casebolt to have 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 first, respect for ourselves.
That,
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 are.
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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