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On 6/22/15 12:45 PM, Mark Lause via Marxism wrote:
I find it interesting that the entire media discussion has worked furiously to make the issue about the Confederate flag rather than the police, the institutional constraints on the black community in the face of its qualitatively worsening condition in the U.S. Is it possible for the mainstream political culture to ever focus on the substance rather than the symbols nowadays?
At the risk of sounding like a contrarian, I don't think the Charleston murders, as bad as they were, can be seen in the same light as the KKK terror of the 1950s and 60s. The ultrarightist that Roof hailed has repudiated him and Ted Cruz has repudiated the ultrarightist.
The main threat to Black people is the cops. Beyond that, the economic oppression that is entirely legal and peaceful costs the lives of many thousands each year from early childhood diseases, alcoholism, drug overdoses, suicide, etc. All this talk about "healing" from Wolf Blitzer is enough to induce projectile vomiting especially when CNN keep referring to "thugs" during the Baltimore protests.
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