"It is very curious (and revealing) that in all the hours that the media dedicates to the situation in Ferguson the word "class" is never heard. Apparently that concept has been eliminated from the political discourse."
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Yes Gerardo, it is very revealing! And you are seeing the manipulation, that must be recognized by more Americans.
Racism has always been a tool of power and oppression. In order to keep the people atomized and powerless against our rulers, we are to believe that all of the forces against common people are completely separate complex issues, which only the ruling elite can understand.
Racism, school closings, privatization of all things public, the global and domestic terrorist complex, etc. are all designed to support the total power of the plutocrats, and help them wage class warfare. Middle class whites are manipulated with coded language to view other races and anyone poorer as criminals. They are simultaneously directed to view their own well being linked with obedience to, and reverence for, the criminal corporations and billionaire class.
When the massive university propaganda machine called the people of this neighborhood "prostitutes, gangs, and drug addicts" it was interpreted by the local gentry to indicate a war against black people, immigrants, and the poor. It was coded language designed to fool and rally the gentry. Future riches would trickle down to them, if they colluded with the corporate/state forces in this war. Middle class whites would be "cleaner and safer" and not dirty and dangerous, like those savages they are manipulated to fear. It worked exactly the way they intended!
But our rulers did not want immigrants, black and brown people, and working class whites to unite against their common enemy! So all of these attacks must be completely separated and never associated with plutocracy and the power of a ruling criminal elite. They want working class whites and blacks to point at each other, and lash out at each other.
Historical racism was used similarly. We always had a plutocracy in America since its founding. White supremacy was not developed because the rulers had a special love for working class whites, but to enlist their support to keep other peoples controlled and working. As Wilma mentioned, new immigrant groups were often given the job of brutalizing former slaves as overseers. Skin color is meaningless as a biological or scientific concept. But it is a powerful weapon, when rulers seek to divide and conquer through ignorance.
Martin Luther King JR, Cornel West, and many others encourage people to connect these dots, and see the relationships between class and racism, and how this interaction is designed to maintain extreme power for the ruling elites.
But you will never see the corporate propaganda machine connect these evils! And these domestic evils will never be connected to the global terrorism, that our elite rulers wage around the world. Here, they try to rally working class whites and blacks to feel "cleaner and safer" by the slaughter and oppression of the poor in foreign lands.
Thanks for your very important, sagacious observation!
Peace and solidarity,
Glenn, a citizen of earth
-----Original Message-----
From: Gerardo Razumney
Sent: Aug 22, 2014 3:07 AM
To: Richard Conrad
Cc: Glenn moyer, Wilma de Soto , "[email protected]"
Subject: Re: [UC] False flag, agent provocateurIt is very curious (and revealing) that in all the hours that the media dedicates to the situation in Ferguson the word "class" is never heard. Apparently that concept has been eliminated from the political discourse.Gerardo Razumney
On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 1:41 AM, Richard Conrad <[email protected]> wrote:
According to an MSNBC story, towns like Ferguson were called something like ‘Daylight towns’ because after dark any blacks the police came upon could be arrested just for being out of doors.Curfew laws I’ve been told, even into the 50’s and early 60’s, in MANY locations / jurisdictions - specified criteria for BOTH different age-groups and also RACIAL categories.The story of MASSIVE numbers of Illegal detentions for fictional ‘offenses’ to create labor forces like that of Birmingham Steel was described on PBS, as in MANY WAYS worse than Slavery in its effects.And in our GLORIOUS Modern Times: - OMG - The Cops to SUCH a large degree, seem to have become BLOODY ADDICTED to corrupting the essential judicial processes and they are in BIG-TIME denial about it!!!Bullying, segregating, denying due processes, and executing repressive, BIASED, and illegal detentions… oh..., and murders - > THESE ALL MUST BE STOPPED!
On Aug 21, 2014, at 6:43 PM, Glenn moyer <[email protected]> wrote:No, i didn't read that book, but I know some of that earlier history. Someone said at the 52nd St. rally that the word "officer" was derived from overseer.As the mission of the police state evolved during the twentieth century, their role extended to protect elite power and property, while squashing dissent. We see this all over the world. The East German Stasi seems to be the closest historic model for our "homeland security" complex, while the system retains all of the historical racist missions of the post-reconstruction "fraternity." Institutional racism is carefully perpetuated in our society as tool of oppression, and to keep poor and working class peoples of all ethnic groups from uniting!My message to working class whites is to understand that we must join in solidarity with immigrants and our minority brothers and sisters. We share the same oppressors and have much more in common with each other, than with the morally bankrupt upper classes of any race!There have been great discussions at the rallies, and in my opinion; its broadly understood among the dis-empowered peoples that these systemic problems are not solved merely by increasing the number of black cops. Yes, they're brought into the same system with the same mission. There is some good information just published at "The Black Agenda Report" on this, and the example of Newark NJ is a prime example. (Everyone should follow the Black Agenda Report and Democracy Now on a regular basis)Peace and solidarity,Glenn-----Original Message-----
From: Wilma de Soto
Sent: Aug 21, 2014 5:10 PM
To: Richard Conrad
Cc: Glenn moyer , "[email protected]"
Subject: Re: [UC] False flag, agent provocateur
Have either of you or anyone else ever read, "The Police Mystique", by Anthony Bouza?
Anthony Bouza was a Chief of Police in Minneapolis for over 25 years. I believe he teaches a course in Criminal Justice at the Univ. of Chicago.Bouza explains very plainly about the role of the Police Force which was extended after Emancipation of Slaves. Their role was like that of the former Plantation Overseer. Their jobs were to control Blacks, make them docile and endure any indignities they were made to suffer and the beat the hell out of them, torture and maim them or even worse if they were not compliant.After slavery ended the police took on that role. Many White ethnics such as the Irish who stood low on the class scale in America and the Italians were given that power over a group of people they despised. The Police are there to protect Whites from Blacks primarily.If you read the book, which at one time was difficult to find because it contains so many truths, it will appear very plain to you that they are "just doing their job" as they were trained to do.Black police make little difference because if they or anyone else break the "police rules", they will suffer the bitter consequences.http://www.amazon.com/The-Police-Mystique-Insiders-Criminal/dp/0738205834On Aug 21, 2014, at 4:34 PM, Richard Conrad wrote:On Aug 21, 2014, at 11:03 AM, Glenn moyer <[email protected]> wrote:Here is the execution video that caught the Missouri terrorists in another round of lies. (very graphic). Compare this to the lies the terrorists spread before they knew a citizen had filmed the entire killing!!The description which I had heard on the news the night before, by a police officer was that the ‘perpetrator’ had his right arm up over his head with a knife - in the downward stabbing position - and charged at the cop (and he raised up his own arm > and totally acted out the scenario)…The video shows nothing like that.One shot in the leg would have apprehended - but instead, 8 or 9 Automatic rounds were used, much like an execution in Vietnam or in Syria, or like the deliberate putting down of a rabid dog.More and more cops are becoming increasingly addicted to bullying and slaughtering American citizens; and they are in massive denial about that.
