"Can't Breathe" in Racist System: Angry Protests Mount Over Lack of Power to Deal with Problems Caused by Racism/White Supremacy
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From [HERE] Protesters enraged by a grand jury's decision not to indict the white officer whose chokehold killed Eric Garner took to the New York City streets Wednesday, bringing traffic to a standstill. Hundreds of people chanting 'I can't breathe' or holding signs reading 'black lives matter' poured onto the city's West Side Highway and through Midtown Manhattan where they snarled traffic Wednesday night. [MORE]
Powerless Class. Its not about "hooded sweatshirts," chokeholds or whether a bodycam could have helped, its not about stop and frisk laws, 'papers please' laws or stand your ground laws. Its not about "secret grand juries" - which work fine when Blacks are suspected of a crime (folks if you are confused by how easy the low standard of PC can be established then go to your local courthouse and sit and watch the preliminary hearings calendar. There you will see nigger after nigger come and go after live testimony establishes PC, all day, everyday - for real, go see for yourself).
This is about racism. And that means white people practicing racism against us and our lack of power to do anything about it. The devastating problems Black and Brown people face are caused by racism/white supremacy in this operating system of vast unequal power that most white people participate in or benefit from. Racist white people seem to be in control of everything of material value. Would the white Governor of Missouri have had the same reaction to an unarmed white teenager being shot to death by a Black cop in broad daylight? Would a Hasidic Jew have been strangled to death in the first place by the NYPD in HD video? We have no power right now to stop white people from practicing racism, no real power to solve our problems. So we beg and plead with them but that is not power.
"You Are in Prison and You Think You Are Free"
It is time to stop playing these mind games and get down to business. Black people should stop pretending they have power they do not have - like they are in charge of this or that. It is not true. Understanding this reality may be a path to actually do something about our zero status. Belief that we have some illusional power is actually submission to and/or cooperation with white supremacy. [MORE] How gullible are we to believe that "legislation" created & funded by white legislators, administered/enforced by white prosecutors & Gov workers and remedied by white judges and jurors would actually produce justice for Black & Brown people?
Black people are shook about dealing with the reality of confronting racism/white supremacy. We are scared to even say the phrase white supremacy. That means scared to confront white people in order to neutralize their ability to practice racism against us. We need some power. Gay people got some power unapologetically being themselves. Is it easy for an elected official or corporate entity to disrespect or ignore gay people nowadays? No courtrooms, elections or legislation are necessary. It is time to transform our fear and anger into pure energy.
It is time to start asking questions such as how do we get some power? what kind of power do we need to solve our problems? What kind of consciousness do we need to have to acquire this power? How do we develop this consciousness?
According to Amos Wilson, 'our salvation requires that we perceive White supremacy as the major social, political, economic, and spiritual problem to be resolved by Afrikan peoples, and that we ask and answer definitively the questions: What kind of culture must we construct in order to overthrow White Supremacy? What kinds of social identities, relations, arrangements, alignments, institutions, values, etc., when actualized, will allow us to attain and protect our liberty?; enhance our quality of life? What kinds of socialization practices must we institute in order to empower ourselves to become the kinds of people we must become if we are to secure our rights to be free?" [MORE]
