And even more than that, as regarding the police: If anything is to be learned in terms of comparisons between 1992 and today, it is this: as long as we doing stupid shit like beating up Reginald Denny en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Reginald_Denny or trashing small stores they ain't gonna come. They want us to look stupid on TV and we oblige them.
But when we get to f'king with the money (WalMart) then yon they come. But FTP, the point is: the mass of (wo)men are tired of living lives of 'quiet desperation' and given opportunity will strike out. We need to learn with our comrades such that all of us will strike *for*. And that takes work. We must engage with the community On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 9:48 PM, John A Imani <[email protected]> wrote: > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: John A Imani <[email protected]> > Date: Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 9:39 PM > Subject: Re: On the degeneration of the Anti-Zimmerman Protests into > Inanity > To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>, " > [email protected]" <[email protected]>, " > [email protected]" <[email protected]> > > > Cops don't show up when silly m'f'ers beating up somebody at Arco station > of Slauson and Crenshaw. Cops show up (in force) when the crowd bullrushes > WalMart. Tells ya what cops are for. > > And I ain't got no problem w bullrushing WalMart. But I do w stupid > shit. And with attacking small businesses (who are not our enemy. Wal > Mart, however, is). > > But all this, again, is on the Left. Go to "Bastards of the > Party"<http://dotsub.com/view/c81a88ea-7136-429b-9339-c6eadf9dec9a>to see a > version of this theory in its awful practice: > > "...the decimation of the Panthers led directly to a recrudescence of > gangs in the early 1970s." > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bastards_of_the_Party > > > On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 9:12 PM, John A Imani <[email protected]>wrote: > >> On the degeneration of the Anti-Zimmerman Protests into Inanity >> >> If the Left is looking for someone to blame for the degeneration of the >> righteous protest of the Zimmerman verdict into the crass opportunism of >> the mob then look no farther than itself. Ourself. >> >> It is our failure to connect with the masses, to articulate a vision that >> is both sensible and *apprehensible.* >> >> As long as we don't do that, the righteous indignation with the >> inhumanities that this system not only perpetuates but feeds off of will >> continue to degenerate into crass opportunism replete with violence. >> >> We must find a way to speak to, work with and inspire our class. W/o >> that we lose. >> >> -- >> JAI >> RAC-LA >> > > > > -- > JAI > RAC-LA > > > > -- > JAI > RAC-LA > -- JAI RAC-LA [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Digest: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Help: <mailto:[email protected]?subject=laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Post: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive1: <http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive2: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
