*Maybe they could take a break from trashing statues, and converge on* *the US Penitentiary, Coleman, in central Florida, where they've been holding* *Leonard Peltier for over 40 years, on bogus charges used to lock him up,* *in furtherance of the US government's covert campaign against the American* *Indian Movement (AIM), which had allied itself with the Black Panther Party* *(which the state also destroyed). As Anthony Hall points out (below), in* *this BLM moment there's been no audible reference to America's founding * *genocide **of the Indians, or the misery of their descendants to this day. * *Protesters could demand an honest public inquiry into Peltier's sentence, * *which **would result in his release at last. *
*And, speaking of the BPP, maybe the protesters could stop attacking statues* *—not **only of Confederate leaders, and frank imperialists like Theodore Roosevelt,* *but also of black soldiers who fought for freedom in the Civil War, and of* *Ulysses S. Grant, a staunch advocate of Reconstruction—**and take a moment * *to demand that FBI headquarters no longer be named **in honor of J. Edgar * *Hoover, whose virulent racism postdates the sins, **real or imagined, of all * *those 19th-century figures, and who micromanaged **the **destruction of the * *Panthers, persecuted Martin Luther King (then helped **frame James Earl Ray), * *and who evidently ordered the murders of Fred **Hampton and Mark Clark. * *(**Also, protesters in Philadelphia might assemble **at the state penitentiary * *i**n Mahonoy, Pa., where Mumia Abu-Jamal has been **held prisoner, on * *bogus * *charges, since 1982. Protesters could demand an **honest public inquiry into * *his sentence, which would result in his release at last.) * *And maybe the protesters could take a break from knocking over statues* *honoring slave-owners like Francis Scott Key, who flourished 200 years ago, * *and assemble at the doorways **of the Israeli embassy in Washington, and * *Israel's consulates in other **cities **nationwide, and demand an end to the * *atrocious current occupation of the West **Bank and Gaza, and Israel's * *apartheid **system overall, since that subjection **of the brown lives over * *there is no **less racist, and far more lethal, than the * *systemic mistreatment * *of black **people over here. * *I'm tempted to elaborate on several other of the many cogent observations * *that Prof. **Hall makes in this piece; but I'll desist, and end by urging you to * *read it for **yourself, to get a firmer grip on the post-COVID pseudo-revolution * *raging **now, as a slo-mo extermination program* planned for all of us unfolds * *right before our eyes.* *MCM * ** **BLM has not protested Bill Gates' lethal vaccine programs throughout * *Africa * *(and Asia), and, likewise, not protested Melinda Gates' suggestion that black * *people **here should **be among the first to get injected with the experimental* *COVID-19 vaccine. * BY PROF. ANTHONY HALL <https://ahtribune.com/author.html?id=874> <https://www.facebook.com/anthony.j.hall.33> Protest, Riot, Loot, and Burn for Black Freedom in America?June 21, 2020Our Current Dilemmas Go Much Deeper Than Racism https://ahtribune.com/us/4237-deeper-than-racism.html 1 SHARES - <http://facebook.com/share.php?u=https://ahtribune.com/us/4237-deeper-than-racism.html&title=Protest,%20Riot,%20Loot,%20and%20Burn%20for%20Black%20Freedom%20in%20America?> 1 - <http://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=Protest,%20Riot,%20Loot,%20and%20Burn%20for%20Black%20Freedom%20in%20America?&url=https://ahtribune.com/us/4237-deeper-than-racism.html> - <http://reddit.com/submit?url=https://ahtribune.com/us/4237-deeper-than-racism.html&title=Protest,%20Riot,%20Loot,%20and%20Burn%20for%20Black%20Freedom%20in%20America?> 0 - <http://linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url=https://ahtribune.com/us/4237-deeper-than-racism.html&title=Protest,%20Riot,%20Loot,%20and%20Burn%20for%20Black%20Freedom%20in%20America?> 0 - <http://vk.com/share.php?url=https://ahtribune.com/us/4237-deeper-than-racism.html> - <http://ahtribune.com/component/mailto/?tmpl=component&template=t3_bs3_blank&link=https://ahtribune.com/us/4237-deeper-than-racism.html> - <https://ahtribune.com/us/4237-deeper-than-racism.html?tmpl=component&print=1&layout=default> [image: BLM Oakland dfb81] In *Russia Today* <https://www.rt.com/usa/492305-cream-wheat-butterworth-jemima-racism/>, Helen Buyniski reflects on corporate responses to the depiction of Black people in brand labeling. Buyniski highlights the comments of B and G Foods as it jumped onto the bandwagon of corporate virtue signaling. The company signaled its intentions to *“proactively take steps to ensure that we and our brands do not inadvertently contribute to systemic racism.”* The company informs consumers that B and G Foods *“unequivocally stand against prejudice and injustice of any kind.”* Two of the brands Buyniski highlights were introduced at the World’s Columbian Exposition that took place in Chicago in 1893 to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus’s discovery of America in 1492. Whooopeee! The World's Columbian Exposition is exactly the kind of event that merits close consideration in any meaningful re-examination of American history. Both *Cream of Wheat* and *Aunt Jemima’s pancake mix* were introduced at the Columbia Exposition during an era when brands were still a relatively new form of capitalist commodity. [image: Cream Wheat 6c21e] [image: Aunt Jemma 28794] The Columbian Exposition introduced America to a vast array of new products, concepts, celebrities and systems, everything from hamburgers to motion pictures to Harry Houdini and Antonín Dvořák. The US identification with Columbus’s westward expansion of Christendom was calculated to advertise the emerging role of the United States as the self-declared leader of “Western Civilization.” There was at the Columbian Exposition in 1893 a "Colored Peoples Day" when "negroes" attending the Fair were given a free slice of watermelon. I'm serious. Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show touched down in Chicago at the edge of the Fair. 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