I Fear For Black America

[Solomon]

What happened in New Orleans makes me fear for the urban populations of every major city in America, at least where critical resources exist.

I don't think the powers that be trust us so close to our resources. We are probably seen as a security threat if we are attacked.

Quite a coincidence that the Supreme Court made that ruling about government can take your property for business purposes.

The way the media played the violence in NO, raised the bloodlust to the point where people were advocating shoot to kill. ...

Man that's some real scary shit.

All the media has to do is cry "Black men raping, looting, and murdering, rioting", and the white people of america will authorize anything. ANYTHING.

I hear people complaining that some of the "refugees" don't want to get on the cruise ships. I hear them spouting vitriol at the black people who managed to survive and chose to stay there.

Given the current circumstances, having been called a "refugee", I don't know if I'd want to go on a boat either. I mean damn, now I can't even have land under my feet? Last time we were all segregated on boats that big, ...

I mean hell, it's one thing to be saved by a cruise ship, but quite another being put there after you're saved. What's that about?

The worst part of racial episodes is always the aftermath. First comes the moment of illumination, the clarity of sight, when it's sparkling clear for the whole world to see, when there is absolutely no doubt about it, it's usually so bad that it shocks the conscience. Racism. Pure and unadulterated.

After getting over the shock of it, a lot of white americans then begin the process of convincing themselves that race had nothing to do with it. Like always, it was the victims own fault, their own stupidity. This is a healing process that some of them go through, because the shock of the racism is so violent, that some healing is necessary. But while you're healing yourself, repairing your precious psyches, you say the most despicable things about the victims.

A lot of white people get on the radiowaves and call in talk shows, and the tv and they convince themselves that race had nothing to do with it.

I hate this part so much. The aftermath. When we have to hear how great you are. How fucked up we are. Happens everytime. Even when we managed to get a videotape of raw unadulterated racism, you convinced yourselves that Rodney King was attacking the police and deserved the beating he got.

This country is awash in white supremacy, so much so that it doesn't see it, much as a fish doesn't see the water it swims in.

I mean just think about it. The utter gall of saying you are defending your "way of life" by obliterating Iraq. You are fighting them there so you won't have to fight them here.

At least I have the tiny solace of knowing that it's only americans who delude themselves. The rest of the world knows all too well our hypocrisy.

I apologize to all the nonracist white people. I know full well there are many not like that. But I can't let the existence of nonracist whites fool me into deluding myself about white supremacy. The same way I don't let people like Clarence Thomas fool me about white supremacy.

[AllieB]

1. I honestly don't know why Black America isn't rioting

this is just too much to bear... :cry:

[billbuckhead]

2. I bet a lot of the snipers were white

Between capitalists and turner diaries fans, I bet there was a sizeable contingent of evil white guys with guns.

[donheld]

6. That too has surprised me.

If ever there was a time it would be understandable it's now.

[blonndee]

3. It's time for another Civil Rights Movement. Black AND

white. On behalf of ALL poor and dispossessed. That includes our elderly!

I've been so conflicted today, and I don't want my "white guilt" to take precedence over anyone's plight, so I haven't said anything. But it's clear that even if race wasn't a primary issue in the way the GOVERNMENT responded (I think it was; however, this evil government is capable of painting the poor with an equally blighted brush), it is still a primary factor in the response to the plight on the part of the American people, the crazies who blow shit on the RW shows and amongst their like-minded friends. This probably doesn't need to be said, but for anyone who might (justifiably) be fearing another such division (as in the RK debacle):

please don't let racist, fearful idiots be a cancer on a potentially beautiful friendship. We are in this together, and we are on each other's side. We have to believe that.

[Fire Walk With Me]

4. Think BushCo is looking for an excuse for Martial Law?

[IndyOp]

8. Looking? Several signs that they have been...

1) Bush tried to force Governor of LA to allow him to federalize the LA National Guard - so Bush could control them.
2) Bush lifted 'posse comitatus' - at least in Gulf region? - the law that prevents US military from acting as police on US soild.
3) Martial Law is in effect in a number of places along the Gulf coast - in LA and MISS, at least.

If you are asking, are they looking for an excuse for Martial Law across the US? I think they would do it at the drop of a hat.

[lwin]

5. Can't say that I disagree with a thing you said...

I know it's small comfort, but it was painfully clear to this white girl early on in this debacle, that racism was playing a HUGE part. I think a lot of people got a big reality check this past week.

I turned to my hubby last Wednesday and said "The New South...my ass. Looks like the same old South to me."

[IndyOp]

7. I wish the African American Freeper in the office next to mine

understood what you understand, "I can't let the existence of nonracist whites fool me into deluding myself about white supremacy."

It is real. It is not rare. It is a threat to you and all African Americans. A threat to your freedom, livelihood, and life.

I keep thinking about racist firefighters who - realizing that the fire is in the black part of town - drive real slow.

:grr: :nuke: :grr: :nuke: :grr: :nuke:

Any person who would find this in any way acceptable would do well to realize that that they could be next - African Americans, Hispanics, Asians, gays, foreigners/immigrants, sick, poor, mentally retarded/mentally ill - us.