"The speed with which the mainstream media forgot all about coronavirus, ‘social distancing’ and masks to de facto promote a race war with coverage of riots and looting in the Twin Cities makes one wonder about their priorities.
Just days ago, the sanctimonious shills on cable channels were clutching their pearls in concern over Americans failing to maintain ‘social distance’ and going out in public without masks, while wringing their hands about the 100,000 deaths attributed to the pandemic in the country so far.
Then George Floyd died with a Minneapolis police officer kneeling on his neck. Within three days, protests turned to looting, then rioting, then arson. Minneapolis and St. Paul burned, as local authorities ordered police to stand down and let it happen." https://www.rt.com/op-ed/490175-minnesota-riots-covid-media/
Much is being said by the right and the left about the tragedy happening in Minnesota. It is a reflection of what could happen in any city across the nation, especially a large one. It could be Oakland, CA, it could be NYC,New York, it could be Detroit, Michigan, Houston, Texas, Los Angeles, CA, and etc...
What happens in these cities and many others in the United States, is the oppression of the black community. It is so blatantly obvious, if one has lived in, or near, one of these cities. The divide between, the white and the black, is there, and it could be just right at the next corner.
One moves from beautiful homes and pristine gardens to bar after bar, liquor store after liquor store, cheap shops after cheap shops, black people wandering, police helicopters hovering over, throughout the night, and even, seeing police with automatic weapons pointed at, one unarmed black man, with his hands in the air. Yes, I have seen this with my very own eyes, in Oakland, California, USA.
Many whites are condemning the violence, but what they do not understand, is what fuels it. Shootings, killings, drugs filtered into their neighborhoods by the CIA, dire underfunding of public schools, underpaid workers, and little hope for a future.
Angela Davis made a statement regarding violence and revolution years ago, she gets it. She has been there. I will post this interview after this writing. She has been on the frontlines and has lived through years and years of racial oppression. And, she still stands tall.
So please do not condemn the people who are angry, they have good reason. You don't live their lives. So who are you to judge? I can understand it because I've seen it. Especially growing up near Oakland and seeing the Black Panther Movement awaken and rise to protect the black communities against police violence and to protect them from being turned into what they are today.
I am not saying that violence is the answer nor the solution, it is a symptom, and a worse symptom than any of the Covid-19. It has been simmering and festering for years upon years and every several years, those symptoms implode.
So this is what you are seeing in Minnesota right now. The black community has always been less than, the white community. The black community knows this and nothing seems to change it, so the anger comes out. The anger comes out, and we are all responsible, because, most care not, for the fate of the black communities. We are immune and happy to be so.
These are facts that we choose to be blind to...for the blind cannot see, what really is, the reality. Judge ye not, for your fate and your reality is not theirs.
In great solidarity with all black communities in the country,
Maria Joan Juarez Beam (Boheme)
"What I think is different today is the lack of political connection between the black middle class and the increasing numbers of black people who are more impoverished than ever before." Angela Davis
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"Truth is on the side of the oppressed." Malcolm X
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"In the beginning it was all black and white." Maureen O'Hara ://quotesgram.com/black-panthers-movement-quotes/
"We've got to face the fact that some people say you fight fire best with fire, but we say you put fire out best with water. We say you don't fight racism with racism. We're gonna fight racism with solidarity." ~ Fred Hampton
Fred Hampton, assassinated Black Panthers Movement member, by Chicago police1969
RIP
George Floyd killed by Minnesota police, 2020
RIP
On the morning of December 4, 1969, lawyer Jeffrey Haas received a call from his partner at the People’s Law Office, informing him that early that morning Chicago police had raided the apartment of Illinois Black Panther Party Chairman Fred Hampton at 2337 West Monroe Street in Chicago.
Tragically, Hampton and fellow Panther Mark Clark had both been shot dead, and four other Panthers in the apartment had critical gunshot wounds. Police were uninjured and had fired their guns 90-99 times. In sharp contrast, the Panthers had shot once, from the shotgun held by Mark Clark, which had most likely been fired after Clark had been fatally shot in the heart and was falling to the ground.https://www.zinnedproject.org/materials/assassination-of-fred-hampton
