The Coming Race War Won’t Be About Race

[Blue_Tires]

Will 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 student’s thesis on Civil Unrest in the Early Twenty-First Century?

The answer can be found in May of 1970.

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 nation’s youth was energetically mobilized to end the Vietnam War, racism, sexism, and mindless faith in the political establishment.

You probably haven’t 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/

Orangeburg is another incident which isn't mentioned or discussed very often in our national memory:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orangeburg_massacre

[Still Sensible]

1. An excellent article by Kareem. n/t

[Al Carroll]

2. Kent State better known than Cambodian genocide

It was Nixon's carpet bombing and invading Cambodia, killing up to 600,000 Cambodians, that brought the Kent State and Jackson State protests. But the four deaths at Kent State loom larger in US memory than over half a million dead Asians.

[Fred Sanders]

3. America has a lot to answer for, "exceptionalism" is a propaganda phrase coined by your ever so

forgetful and homogenous media to bury the bad parts of America's history, the better to keep you in the dark content with the scraps.
It is a substitute for "nationalism" and it is time to abandon it.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

4. "Fascism will come to America under the guise of Patriotism." --Huey P. Long nt

[VanGoghRocks]

5. "Wrapped in the flag and bearing a cross." -- Sinclair Lewis

[PotatoChip]

6. Another good portion of the article:

One way to keep these 50 million fractured is through disinformation. PunditFact’s recent scorecard on network news concluded that at Fox and Fox News Channel, 60 percent of claims are false. At NBC and MSNBC, 46 percent of claims were deemed false. That’s the “news,” folks! During the Ferguson riots, Fox News ran a black and white photo of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., with the bold caption: “Forgetting MLK’s Message/Protestors in Missouri Turn to Violence.” Did they run such a caption when either Presidents Bush invaded Iraq: “Forgetting Jesus Christ’s Message/U.S. Forgets to Turn Cheek and Kills Thousands”?

A minor pet peeve, though- I take issue with their calling the protests 'Ferguson riots'. I don't deny that there were some there intent on causing mayhem, but most appeared to be peaceful protesters who want to see meaningful social change.

[Matrosov]

7. The race war has already been going on for 400 years n/t

[951-Riverside]

8. +1

[JEB]

9. War on Blacks is part of the larger class war.

The often brutal suppression of Occupy, the horrid treatment of Hispanics, the second class status of poor people, are all fronts in the elites war on the underclasses.