Wright Was Right

Barak Obama's former pastor, Jeremiah Wright, made statements that the U.S. is still racist and that the taking out of the two towers was brought on by U.S. foreign policy. Barak, of course, is worried about the political hay this will make within his campaign. If you read the article from the Associated Press, the author explains that this is just the rhetoric of an old style pastor raised in the '60's during the civil rights movement.

What I loathe about this type of shit is that everyone is too chickenshit to pick up the ball and run with it.

You see, America can't be racist anymore, they don't have black only water fountains. Calling blacks "niggers" is a thing of the past (unless you have a group of usually white males together discussing race or certain blacks referring to each other). Leaving blacks accused of whatever hanging and roasting in the town square is a thing of the past as well.

Let's bring up the boarding school issue here to add some clarity to this subject. The reason the United States Government no longer KIDNAPS Indian children and forces them into boarding schools to have the "red nigger" beat out of them, is that they U.S. has molded indigenous peoples into an ineffectual group that cannot stop it's illegal occupations of our lands nor the continued genocide of our peoples. They have "designed" leaders within the group to "play by the rules of the kings," and these are the only "red nigger" types they will work with.

Just because the U.S. has allegedly ended its apartheid against blacks and you no longer see angry mobs hanging black folks in the town squares and having picnics beneath their dead bodies is because the black power movement has been made ineffectual by the U.S. government through programs like COINTELPRO and the folks that they work with that are black are the ones who work WITHIN THE SYSTEM. Those who have a reason to take up arms and fight back don't, made ineffectual via television, poverty, ignorance, surrender to the system, self-medication, etc.

"The Revolution will not be [happening]."

Wright...is right.

Racism is alive and well and it has taken on an insideous form that is commonly accepted by U.S. citizens. Barak, or ESPECIALLY those racist campaigners within the Hillary/Ferraro camp, could pick up this ball and bring a greater understanding of the issue of race and racism to this nation, but such a thing would never happen because that is NOT the way the system is designed and the next king or queen will have to play along with the system. That is why Barak will distance himself from Wright, that is why the Hillary camp will continue its racist methods to attack Barak, all without calling him "nigger," of course.

Don't think racism is alive and well? Ask my honey, Shusli, how she gets treated for being a light skinned Indian.

What I HATE about this type of shit is that it is ALWAYS brought to the COMFORT level of your average white citizen. When folks of non-white races bring up racism, White folks immediately take it as an attack on them instead of taking the initiative to deal with an issue that is continuing to this day. Check out the Pine Ridge Rservation if you don't believe me. No matter what, when race comes to the national forefront, it is always turned around to be an issue of whiteness and White's fears of POSSIBLE DISCOMFORT in dealing with such an issue.

At KBOO, frustrated with the People of Color Caucus rarely meeting and only to insure parity of racial employment at the radio station, I started The People of Color Committee. The first three months were filled with dozens of attendees, white and non-white, who basically just came to insure that the committee wasn't being formed to attack whitey. When that was secure in their minds that I wasn't attacking whitey with this committee, EVERYONE STOPPED COMING.

What I wanted to do with this committee was not only to address issues of race and racism as they arose within the station, but to create a unity amongst all races, have a common and safe place to meet and share our cultures and understandings with one another, to create programming around this issue, etc. Nope! Folks didn't want that. They just wanted to insure that whitey's interests were not being DISCOMFORTED.

This presidential campaign stood on the threshold of doorways of ugliness that need to be looked into by this nation as a whole. Not just racism, but misogyny, poverty, dis-education, massive human rights violations WITHIN THIS NATION, etc., but it won't. You see, that doesn't serve the interests of "the system." That would serve the interests of the people, who may then organize and actually REVOLT when they see the lies that have spilled forth from the most detestable and genocidal nation ever to have existed.

And, as far as the two towers comments by Wright, he was right there, too. Ward Churchill put it best in his essay "On the Justice of Roosting Chickens," the one that Bill O'Reilly took two years to read and then misquoted to get shit heaped on Ward. Ward also states it in his lectures. I paraphrase: People are tired of seeing their babies being killed by U.S. policy. They are fighting back. If the U.S. stops killing other peoples babies [as well as babies here, living ones that is, anti-abortion folks, you know, the ones you don't give a shit about], then the terrorism will undoubtedly stop.

He also quotes Madeline Albright (also a member of racist and genocidal Hillary campaign) that 5,000 dead Iraqi children every month due DIRECTLY to U.S. sanctions forced upon Iraq was an acceptable loss.

Damn fucking straight U.S. foreign policy IS RESPONSIBLE for the attacks that brought down the two towers. By the way, has anyone ever answered the question as to why 6 of the 19 terrorists were still alive and in the Middle East (Saudi Arabia, I believe), after they committed suicide attacks in New York?