Race War Fraud

[Judi Lynn]

Race War Fraud
July 13, 2016
by Hiroyuki Hamada

Right after police officers were shot in Dallas on July 7th, so many people were trying to explain to me why racism is not the problem. I’ve heard someone proclaim “but Obama is black”. I was surprised to hear someone insisting that “all lives matter” instead of just black lives. I heard people screaming “all violence must stop”. I certainly didn’t hear such an urgent call until the Dallas snipper shooting. And a seemingly constructive argument on racism was met with “don’t be divisive”. And so on and on.

Any of these stances are just incomprehensible knowing that, according to the ever deteriorating statistics (1), somewhere in the US somebody is killed by the police authority everyday. People are killed by the police at a pace four times faster than in the heyday of the lynching era (2). It is so obvious and I do not really feel the need to explain, but at the same time, this is very important, and the obvious atrocity is just a finger tip sticking out of a huge mass grave right under the foundation of the United States of America.

It is not a coincidence that this country kills millions in colonial wars, incarcerates horrendous numbers of people for corporate profit, and treats education, health care, and all sorts of basic human rights as fair game in capitalist pursuits. It should be noted that more people lose their lives and suffer in many ways because of various forms of economic restructuring for the interests of a select few than because of wars. The US establishment has institutionalized the essence of slavery and settler colonialism as a global invisible caste system. The system preys on dehumanized minorities and economically disadvantaged populations caged in the lower layers of the caste system, where they endure a disproportionate amount of exploitation and subjugation. They function as the source of profits as well as a gateway to introduce unjust laws, inhumane precedents and the rest of the colonial schemes for the corporate capital. The momentum of plundering is powered by, as you might have guessed, capitalism.

A police officer leaving a body on scorching asphalt for hours is a street execution, parallel to the act of hanging a body from a tree. A dying Black man covered in his own blood is the headless body of an American Indian. Yes, white people get shot too, because anyone who can’t go along with the norms and values of the patriarchal white supremacy of money and violence is marginalized and located down at the bottom of the caste system, just as courageous white people were hung right next to their black friends by the lynchers.

More:
http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/07/13/race-war-fraud/

[PrideofJefferson]

1. Honest question

Why does the white patriarchy capitalist system allow POC and women to earn power and money? Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Loretta Lynch, Eric Holder, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, Sheryl Sandberg, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Carli Fiorina, Ben Carson, Michelle Obama, Cornell West, Janet Yellen, Janet Reno, Meg Whitman, Niki Haley. It seems like the success of these individuals is overlooked and assumed to be aberrations. What made these people so special that they succeed in ways that most of us can only dream.

[Judi Lynn]

4. Do you resent the people you named? Sounds like it, doesn't it? "What makes them so special?"

That's what you have to say in reference to this article you didn't read?

[PrideofJefferson]

8. Sounds like you don't recognize achievement.

A caste system? Ya'll need to get out more often.

Resent these people, no. I just recognize that even with all the problems we have in this country that we are a land where any one can succeed. I don't deny the problems but to saw we live in a caste system really negates what people in other countries around the world go through. This country elected BO twice. Remember that.

[raven mad]

2. Off to the Greatest Page, Judi Lynn.

Excellent, bookmarked for the snoring spouse. Anyone who doesn't think the U.S. is colonialist hasn't been paying attention.

[Judi Lynn]

3. Thank you, raven mad. It's amazing how many "people" can't see beyond their very own experience,

no curiosity, no concern, only self-interest so vast it will guide them into the grave.

They have never added a thing to the lives of other people, but rather have caused them suffering, grief, loneliness. They are incapable of compassion, or genuine companionship, or of earning respect from anyone.

It's going to take a little longer for this country to awaken, isn't it?

[Igel]

5. Interesting.

"People are killed by the police at a pace four times faster than in the heyday of the lynching era."

Of course, the population is 4 times greater, so that would entail "there's no change."

Except that the lynching figure was just the lynching figure. Those are extra-legal killings, not even the "police shot JJ in self-defense" sort of "legal". So for "parallel" you'd have to take lynchings + police killings. Doesn't prove the point, so we let the actual parallel slide.

Implicit in this article, fed by this equivalence, is the idea that police = lynch mob. What police do and what lynch mobs do are the same thing. Note that lynch mobs often took the victims from police custody, and often police had to either defend the suspect with lethal force or let him be taken. There's a reason that the California law that made "lynching illegal" actually criminalized the forcible removal of a suspect from police custody. More often than not, that's how lynchings started. The motivation behind lynchings is for "the community" to see that their justice isn't being served and to take justice in their own hands. They'd pronounce a guilty verdict without a trial and without all the evidence, they'd protest, they'd try to get the suspect if their demands weren't met, and then they'd implement the penalty for their prejudged verdict.

I can also only assume that the lynching victims were left hanging for purposes of forensic and criminal investigation. Otherwise we have two similar acts and the similarity is physical, the only parallel is physical, while the real parallel we are expected to infer is social and political--it's intended as intimidation in both cases. (So, okay. Next time a black man gets shot, please, let's clean up the body and mess in 10 minutes. If no evidence is taken, well, there's no evidence. But political perceptions must be served. And if the lack of evidence now hurts the person we already know to be guilty, the LEO, great: let the court do the lynching based on denial of exculpatory evidence.)

Again, there's the embedded but false proposition that "police = lynch mob."

Attack of the screaming memes.

[mia]

6. "It is an urgent challenge of our time to truly reach out

and share what it is to be human among all of us." Hiroyuki Hamada

Excellent article, thanks for posting it.

[elleng]

7. 'It is not a coincidence that this country kills millions in colonial wars,

incarcerates horrendous numbers of people for corporate profit, and treats education, health care, and all sorts of basic human rights as fair game in capitalist pursuits. It should be noted that more people lose their lives and suffer in many ways because of various forms of economic restructuring for the interests of a select few than because of wars. The US establishment has institutionalized the essence of slavery and settler colonialism as a global invisible caste system.'