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The Coming Race War Won’t Be About Race
Ferguson is not just about systemic racism it's about class warfare and how America's poor are held back, says Kareem Abdul-JabbarWill the recent rioting in Ferguson, Missouri, be a tipping point in the struggle against racial injustice, or will it be a minor footnote in some future grad students thesis on Civil Unrest in the Early Twenty-First Century?
You probably have heard of the Kent State shootings: on May 4, 1970, the Ohio National Guard opened fire on student protesters at Kent State University. During those 13 seconds of gunfire, four students were killed and nine were wounded, one of whom was permanently paralyzed. The shock and outcry resulted in a nationwide strike of 4 million students that closed more than 450 campuses. Five days after the shooting, 100,000 protestors gathered in Washington, D.C. And the nations youth was energetically mobilized to end the Vietnam War, racism, sexism, and mindless faith in the political establishment.
You probably havent heard of the Jackson State shootings.
On May 14th, 10 days after Kent State ignited the nation, at the predominantly black Jackson State University in Mississippi, police killed two black students (one a high school senior, the other the father of an 18-month-old baby) with shotguns and wounded twelve others.
There was no national outcry. The nation was not mobilized to do anything. That heartless leviathan we call History swallowed that event whole, erasing it from the national memory.
http://time.com/3132635/ferguson-coming-race-war-class-warfare/
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The Coming Race War Won’t Be About Race (Original Post)
Sam1
Aug 2014
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elehhhhna
(32,076 posts)1. I have been thinking about this a lot
it is obvious.
Thanks so much for posting!
randys1
(16,286 posts)2. Excellent, Kareem.
raindaddy
(1,370 posts)4. Well stated!
Thanks for posting this!