Malcolm X

https://www.scribd.com/doc/256455086/Malcolm-X-50-Years-After-His-Assassination ______________



Great! Now this is the kind of conversation I hoped to elicit when I started this thread quite some time ago. We need to begin talking more about what we WANT, what we want ended, and what we want begun. And we need to become DREAMERS and VISIONARIES again. We must begin again to ENVISION a better world, a new kind of society which we will forge with our own hands, a society in which the human person can fully flower in all his or her manifold potentialities. A world in human dignity and happiness will become the universally recognized birthright of every man, woman and child on earth. That is what our forbears were REALLY fighting for in the 1960s. That is the quest that we must carry forth. FREEDOM RISING!!!

-Savant

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Not just the Democrats, but also the Republicans--in short, the 1%. The corporate capitalist plutocracy whose lapdogs are the Democrats and Republicans. Also, poverty isn't peculiarly "negro" even if in this racist society it is more concentrated in communities of color than in white communities. Poverty is multiracial and many-colored; and as much as racism aggravates and worsens it for Black and Brown communities, poverty is due more to class and the inherent dysfunctions of the global and domestic capitalist market--especially the financial sector (which now trumps the industrial). Our thrust must be toward a new COOPERATIVE society, multiracial, antiracist, democratic and with freedom, justice and equality for all....The Beloved Community.

-Savant

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Interestingly enough, I've come across a good number of Black and Hispanic officers have complained about the de facto and even UNDISGUISED racism within the official bureaucracy of many big city police. I know of some who've gotten in trouble for attempted to expose or file complaints about police racist misconduct--abuses that are a matter of POLICY---not merely the "attitudes " or misconduct of a bad or "rogue" cop here or there. Of course, Black cops and Latin cops CAN and often do play a repressive role. We forget that even in South Africa during the late 80s, about 40% of the police in that monstrous regime were Black Africans--which didn't make the system less racist any more than Jewish capos made Nazi system less racist and anti-Semitic. People have to reject the silly notions (like Freddy's) that racism is just a "state of mind", or that (as Nikki naively believes) police abuse is a matter of "good" cops as against "bad" cops. Things are not that simple. The police as an INSTITUTION is severely flawed (as are most other major institutions in our society), and what's needed is a STRUCTURAL analysis of the institution and measures informed by that re-appraisal and analysis. At least the beginnings of such a new approach is evident among young people in the new insurgencies and movements against police brutality and repression


-Savant

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That that is a great link and a great post, young brother! Feel free to post it elsewhere, including in the thread "Bring Back the Black Panthers?". Yes, it is young brothers and sisters like these---like YOU--that inspire me with the confidence that we can win!. Many of my students--Black, white, brown and others--are now involved in this movement. It's interesting that article reveals how militant Black youth activists in Ferguson not only inspired Black activists across the country, but how they inspired a multiracial movement across the country--indeed across the world (e.g. London, Hong Kong, Japan, Palestine, etc). Mass demonstrations broke out even in communities with only a handful of Black residents, like one of those Massachusetts towns that is nearly lilly white. It points out how the young people with new organizations (e.g. "Milennials United") are even advancing new ANALYSES of the situation, and of the nature of racism itself, that discredits the illusions of a "post-racial " America, revealing the STRUCTURAL nature of racism and its links with economic inequality and oppression. It interestingly enough, exposes also the limitation of such White House initiatives as "My Brothers Keepers", which lack such a structural analysis or program informed by such an analysis. (And so much for the idiotic notion of people like freddy the fool that racism is simply a "state of mind"). Keep up the good work, brother Timothy both here and (more importantly) in our real world communities. We can win! A Luta Continua!

-Savant
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Racism is an institutionalized power relations, and intimately interlinked with capitalism. with economic exploitation. It is that SYSTEM which breeds the racist state of mind and the racist culture. You're more like an annoying fly. I can't say you burn me up. What burns me up are 12 million American children going to bed hungry in the world richest nation. What burns me up is the prison industrial complex which is transforming America into a protofascist carceral society. What burns me up are millions of homeless in the world richest nation, a nation which readily wasted billions in idiotic wars in the Middle East (largely at the behest of Halliburton) but then claims that funds for education, health care and job creation is wreckless spending. What burns me up is a rapacious plutocracy which is pillaging the nation and the world, and which is mainly responsible for the growing and dangerous economic inequality, not only between Blacks and whites, but between haves and have nots the world over. What angers me is the measures taken to disfranchise, or at least limit the franchise of millions of people by new restrictions on voting, just five decades after the heroic fight in Selma. What angers me is widespread and seemingly increasing police misconduct, especially (though not only) in Black communities, and the summary exoneration of killers with badges no matter how blatant their abuses. What burns me us is the increasing militarization of even local police, with fascist pig cops confronting nonviolent demonstrators with tanks and rubber bullet--outrages that didn't even happen in Birmingham and Selma in the What burns me up is the general devaluation of the human world, and virtual deification of things and property. A mindless mediocrity like you don't merit is hardly my main concern. As for my work in the real world, I am at least ENGAGED in the real struggles of the real world. And I've been "open" enough in mass rallies, in the media and in community forums and organizations where my REAL identity cannot be concealed. You may doubt what you please, but that hardly matters. Some of us are committed to MAKING history. People like you are just along for the ride.

-Savant