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in amerikkka. True. Whether that translates into reparations? This I seriously doubt. But nice fantasy. While slavery is an historical fact along with post slavery segregation(amerikkkan apartheid jim crow laws) the powers that be and their cliven bundy, zimmerman, sterling tools could give a damn less about those realities. That racism, bigotry and ignorance is rife, especially because a man with melanin in his skin is occupying the white house located at 1600 Pennsylvania ave. means nothing to the people who are happy for those divisive tools of racism, ignorance and downright stupidity of some that keeps the races at each others throats. Poverty, that's minority as well as appalachian type poverty, is used to keep us at each others throats. We fight over the crumbs from the loaf the 1% enjoy everyday. People like ryan, cruz, issa, paul, palin, and their media mouthpieces, we all know their names, keep stirring up racial difference as a tool to divide and conquer the 99%ers. As long as one race is continually told of their superiority and others are reminded of their alleged inferiority, by the institutionalized racist mechanisms that keep us divided, we will continue to fight over the crumbs tossed at us like hungry dogs while the PTB continue to eat at the table of affluence.They laugh and enjoy the fruits of this system while we tear at each other because of something as inconsequential as skin color and consequential like the manufactured poverty of a large portion of the 99%. They will never own up to the reasons for a lot of the racial discord in this nation. The major religions helped to perpetuate racism, Southern baptists, bob jones university, the pat robertsons still think that blacks are somehow inferior to whites. And many do believe that if Jesus says so, according to their religious leaders, then it must be true. No, reparation will never happen for the african-american. The japanese got reparation for american racism, native americans even got a sort of reparation, some have casinos now, but african-americans will never see a balancing of the books for all of the labor provided, while in chains of bondage and oppression. The building of this country into the 'democracy' that it is today entailed genocide and slavery. Classes were created. Poor whites, poor blacks with the blacks at the lowest rung of the american class ladder striving for some of that american pie and that ensured racial discord among the 99%. That manufactured discord is very apparent today. No, there is no slaver active in this country today, true. But the almighty dollar or lack of them keeps us enslaved by the poverty that creates class division. The actions and history of the past mean nothing to the corporate heads or bankers that run this country. They will continue to keep us divided in the name of profit which ran the original engine of slavery and never give any thought to paying a dime for any past injustice....institutional racism is a tool and the PTB will never allow any type of real soul searching until we, the 99%, make this the country that provides liberty, equality and justice for all. Just my take on this gentleman's article and call for conscience awakening. Interesting article premise though.
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