Black folks are the traditional and still the most common victims

[Jackpine Radical]

of police brutality, but don't kid yourselves or take comfort in the protective function of your lack of melatonin. It's not going to end there.

It's not just racism, not just crazy killer cops. That's just the entering wedge.

I believe our police are being armed more heavily than ever before in anticipation of massive social unrest.

From Haymarket Square in 1884 through the "labor unrest" of the first half of the 20th century to Kent State and Jackson State and beyond, the primary function of the police and the National Guard has been to serve as the enforcement arm of the government, which has always had as its primary function (in the words of James Madison) "to protect the minority of the opulent against the majority."

In these times of climate change, massive impoverishment of the masses, and overpopulation, our Lords and Masters are arranging the forces with which they plan to defend themselves from us.

[scarletwoman]

1. There was a quote I read years ago - can't find it, can't remember where it came from,

but the essence of it was, those who have oppressed others, can never forgive those whom they have oppressed.

Because the continued existence and presence of those who you have wronged are a constant reminder of the wrongs you have committed - and you hate them because you want to think of yourself as free from fault.

Anyway, point taken on your larger thesis. TPTB has always put much concerted effort into making sure that the proles do not get out of hand.

[Cleita]

2. You are right.

After all the kids killed at Kent State were white. The Ferguson police were using their big weapons in a neighborhood where police thought no one would care. It seems it could be practice for the big riots to come when the white populi finally stopped drinking the Tea Party Kool-Aid and figure out how badly they've been screwed.

[Jackpine Radical]

3. Here are a few more examples:

All from Wikipedia:

The Bay View Massacre (sometimes also referred to as the Bay View Tragedy) was the culmination of events that began on Saturday May 1, 1886 when 7,000 building-trades workers joined with 5,000 Polish laborers who had organized at St. Stanislaus Catholic Church in Milwaukee, Wisconsin to strike against their employers, demanding an eight-hour work day.[1]
By Monday, these numbers had increased to over 14,000 workers that gathered at the Milwaukee Iron Company rolling mill in Bay View. They were met by 250 National Guardsmen under order from Republican Governor Jeremiah M. Rusk to "shoot to kill" any strikers who attempted to enter. Workers camped in the nearby fields and the Kosciuszko Militia arrived by May 4. Early the next day the crowd, which by this time contained children, approached the mill and were fired upon. Seven people died as a result, including a thirteen-year-old boy.[2][3] Several more were injured during the protest.

The Ludlow Massacre was an attack by the Colorado National Guard and Colorado Fuel & Iron Company camp guards on a tent colony of 1,200 striking coal miners and their families at Ludlow, Colorado, on April 20, 1914. Some two dozen people, including women and children, were killed. The chief owner of the mine, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., was widely criticized for the incident.

In the Memorial Day massacre of 1937, the Chicago Police Department shot and killed ten unarmed demonstrators in Chicago, on May 30, 1937. The incident took place during the "Little Steel Strike" in the United States.

And then there was the "Bonus Army:"

The Bonus Army was the popular name of an assemblage of some 43,000 marchers—17,000 World War I veterans, their families, and affiliated groups—who gathered in Washington, D.C., in the spring and summer of 1932 to demand cash-payment redemption of their service certificates. Its organizers called it the Bonus Expeditionary Force to echo the name of World War I's American Expeditionary Forces, while the media called it the Bonus March. It was led by Walter W. Waters, a former Army sergeant.
Many of the war veterans had been out of work since the beginning of the Great Depression. The World War Adjusted Compensation Act of 1924 had awarded them bonuses in the form of certificates they could not redeem until 1945. Each service certificate, issued to a qualified veteran soldier, bore a face value equal to the soldier's promised payment plus compound interest. The principal demand of the Bonus Army was the immediate cash payment of their certificates.
Retired Marine Corps Major General Smedley Butler, one of the most popular military figures of the time, visited their camp to back the effort and encourage them.[1] On July 28, U.S. Attorney General William D. Mitchell ordered the veterans removed from all government property. Washington police met with resistance, shots were fired and two veterans were wounded and later died. Veterans were also shot dead at other locations during the demonstration. President Herbert Hoover then ordered the army to clear the veterans' campsite. Army Chief of Staff General Douglas MacArthur commanded the infantry and cavalry supported by six tanks. The Bonus Army marchers with their wives and children were driven out, and their shelters and belongings burned.

[JEB]

4. They know that they can brutalize blacks and not be held to account,

same with mentally ill people, same with brown people, same with poor people. Race has always been used to divide us. But that will change as things get worse.