Friday, 6 November 2015
Monday, 2 November 2015
AFRICAN AMERICANS ARE AN ENDANGERED
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FOUR REASONS WHY Black Lives Matter ACTED CORRECTLY IN THIS SCENARIO
Clinton interrupted by Black Lives Matter at ‘African Americans for Hillary’ launchIncept from RT Published time: 31 Oct, 2015 00:55
Eight activists of Black Lives Matter including DeRay McKesson, chanting protested against Hillary Clinton on Friday 30 October, chanting, "black lives matter”. In this protest which took place at Clark Atlanta University prompted the Democratic presidential candidate to go off script momentarily .
Rep. John Lewis (D-Georgia), a civil rights icon, tried and failed to stop the protesters.
Eventually, security escorted them out where more discussions took place, including with R&B singer Usher and Clinton’s head of outreach to African-Americans, LaDavia Drane. Usher told one of the protesters, “If you cannot hear, if you cannot ask the question, and use this power you have appropriately, you'll never get the answer you're looking for,” to which the protester replied, "The issue is the fact that Hillary never allowed that space to ask."
Back inside the auditorium, Clinton carried on, saying, “Let’s remember that everyone in every community benefits when there is respect for the law, and when everyone in every community is respected by the law.”
1. Rep John Lewis has absolutely no right to dictate to other activists, how they should carry on their struggle. He earned his record, others should earn theirs too.
2. Hillary, as a politician and public figure, you have no right to escort out of your meetings anyone calling for 'justice for African Americans'; especially in a platform where Justice is the subject.
Your White-centred American Justice System, has left them this legacy: 'According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, one in three black men can expect to go to prison in their lifetime; according to recent data by the Department of Education, African American students are arrested far more often than their white classmates; The war on drugs has been waged primarily in communities of color where people of color are more likely to receive higher offenses;Voter laws that prohibit people with felony convictions to vote disproportionately impact men of color. An estimated 5.3 million Americans are denied the right to vote based on a past felony conviction'.
3. Usher, you are allowed to stick to music, and let the activists tackle your rights issues in White America. A quick reminder: the issue of African Americans is past 'talks' or 'negotiations', you are a race under systemic extinction. Desperate times, call for desparate measures. White America owes you and your ancestors, 'reparations', not a platform to do intellectual gymnastics.
4. Hillary you are either economic with the truth, or just plain lying, because experience should have taught you by now. Not everybody benefits when there is respect for law, because frankly speaking capitalism (and I am not a socialist), breeds a justice system for the rich and another for the poor. So in its purest sense, as it is in Imperialist US, capitalism is in itself a catalyst for disdain to the
law as it applies to the poor. As the 'rich', justice for you means exactly what is happening to African Americans.... sanitise them and civilise them through misuse of the law, and teach them how to really live in the world's White bastion of power.
Wednesday, 28 October 2015
The ObamaPolice state
On RT This Morning - 2015/10/28
SC officer who body slammed black student has been sued twice before
Obama praises US Police for a job well done, amidst an outcry of police brutality, see photo below. The report further revealed that in 2015 alone, at least a 1000 have died in the hands of police.
For me to see a security personnel in the learning centre, a classroom, and not just see them, but watch them brutalise a student, a female for that matter, is Déjà vu. The apartheid state adopted the same practice in the height of the liberation struggle, during the worst decade in terms of state violence in SA, the eighties. It was system that was lambasted internationally, and it was declared inhuman, barbaric and racist.
How did Obama get here? What happened to the euphoria of seeming change and hope for the African child in racist USA? What happened to the expectation of world cooperation and peace because an African was ascending to the towers of White Power after 43 Presidents, all of whom more or less danced to the dictates of White Monopoly Capital and its War-engineering doctrine of racism, as well as divide and rule?
African-American males are leading the charge in several categories when it comes down to incarceration, homicide, school dropout rates, fatherless homes, drug addiction, sexually transmitted diseases, high unemployment, and poverty, I add: police brutality.
After two terms in office, I look back and ask Obama, "what have you done to make sure that the 60% prison scourge of African American men is broken, never to be repeated"? Criminology teaches that crime is a socio-economic phenomenon. Well, if Obama wasn't dancing to White Monopoly Capital, which put him in power in the first place, African American conditions would have improved during his term of office, and the end-result would have been a reduction in repeat-offending, while also serving as deterrence to new offenders.
Instead of concentrating on improving the conditions of the most oppressed, Obama is worried about the Gitmo force-feeding videos being hidden from the eye. Thank God the Court has rejected his administration's request to withhold Gitmo force-feeding videos from the public. This is the same Gitmo he has promised to shut down during his election campaign.
Well, Obama is sailing in safe waters, staying afloat with an assurance of a sweeping two-year budget deal staves off the threat of a government shutdown for the rest of President Barack Obama’s term, raises the national debt ceiling until spring 2017, and also increases domestic and military spending (RT - 2015/10.28). From this anticipated military spending, is the Defence Authorisation Bill, which will enable funds for Syrian rebels, the Ukraine, boots on the ground in Iraq, as well as perpetuation of the Gitmo Torture Camp.
Well done Obama! Cry the beloved Americans!
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