There is much to be said about the plight of Black America in the context of what the fifty million or so people haven’t done to change the trajectory of over four hundred years of oppression, tyranny and murder.
Not one for passing the buck or talking about what “the man” has done to us I have always sought to look inwardly at what we African people haven’t done to ensure we climb out of the abyss of disadvantage and make sure that never again will our proud race be degraded and abused the way it has been by others.
Notwithstanding I must continue to point to the blatant disparity in the ways laws are enforced in the United States which one could argue create a certain sense of despair in people of color in America.
After Michael Brown was executed by Ferguson Missouri cop Darren Wilson the predictable no prosecution, decades of despair and abuse boiled over into rage and mayhem turning the streets of that town into a war-zone.
Of course it may reasonably be argued that it was the authorities which turned the town into a battlefield with tanks and armored personnel carriers against abused American citizens crying out for justice in their own land.
Despite rhetoric to the contrary the Blacks had military style tactics used against them as the American Government did in Philadelphia as recent as 1985.
The use of the military against the people is prohibited by the constitution, so it was not called a military assault on the people it was called police.
Never mind that the tactics, weaponry and everything else was clearly militaristic and of course the people did not count as citizens most were Black.
Instances of raw aggression by States Government against African Americans are well know and well documented in this Country whenever they dare stand up against the tyranny and acts of barbarity against their persons by agents of the various states.
On these pages I have long argued that the Black man must start taking responsibility for his own country and his own heritage, once he does that it will be difficult for him to accept on a continuüm the barbarism being perpetuated against him.
Republican Presidential candidate Barry Goldwater in 1964 said ““Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice, moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue!”
If these arguments have merit, why then are Blacks demonized and further abused when they seek justice? Shouldn’t justice look the same for all people?
In April 2014, the Bureau of Land Management acted on a court order to seize the cattle of southern Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy. Hundreds of western men and women traveled to the area outside Bunkersville, NV to stand with Cliven Bundy.
There are various accounts as to the legitimacy of the Government’s actions against Cliven Bundy the Rancher at the heart of the conflict. Conversely there is also the little issue of picking up arms against the Government whether one is right or wrong. Yet in all of it the main stream media seem to have been issued strict orders not to show pictures or talk about events there as the Federal Government backed down from the Militiamen.
Emboldened by the Federal Government’s lack of back-bone Cliven Bundy’s sons led a militia to Oregon where they commandeered a woldlife reserve. The anti-government militiamen dug in despite the ranchers they claimed to be defending denounced their actions and turned themselves in to the law.
The Militia began the siege in protest of the jailing of Dwight Hammond, 73, and his son Steven, 46, convicted of arson for setting fire to federal land. The Militia-men are heavily armed and warned they will defend themselves if the authorities use force to dislodge them.
Thus far we have heard no call to bring out the national guard to route them from their illegal armed occupation of Government property.
We have not seen a Military build-up against these domestic terrorists.
Bear in mind that these men are armed and have vowed to kill Federal Agents>
Black demonstrators are armed with placards but their protests are met with massive force and aggression.
As we watch these events unfold the so-called main stream media is deafeningly silent in the face of what is open warfare against the Government by what are clearly domestic terrorists.
At the beginning of this Article I pointed to the two different justice systems in America, one for white men and the other for everyone else. Now the racist demagogues are silent. There are no virulent gibberish dripping from their rancid lips about looters and people doing damage to Government property. The fact that schools in the Oregon Area have been closed with kids unable to go to school is no big deal.
None of the right wing imbeciles are talking about shooting them down which are the demands when Black lives matter activists stand up against agents of the Government who wantonly violate their rights.
Sheriff David Ward said the protesters’ ultimate goal was “to overthrow the county and federal government in hopes to spark a movement across the United States.” The Hammonds have set themselves apart from the armed movement, and from Bundy in particular. The father and son have both already served several months in jail for arson, but a judge in October ordered them back to prison to serve the remainder of their sentences after they lost an appeal. The Hammonds were convicted after starting what they said was a controlled fire on their ranch in Harney County.
The fire spread and consumed 139 acres (56 hectares) of federal land. Witnesses at their trial said that Steven Hammond had illegally slaughtered deer on federal property during a hunting expedition and then handed out matches in order to “light up the whole country on fire,” according to a Justice Department statement. So far, there has been no visible police presence at the reserve, where several armed men in vehicles are guarding the entrance while others kept watch from a lookout tower. Schools in the area have been closed for the week. Online, public opinion was sharply split on what was quickly dubbed the #Oregonstandoff, with many branding the takeover an act of domestic terrorism, while others saw an act of resistance against government oppression. (Mialonline.com)
So how does the government justify assaulting one race and bowing to the other?
It doesn’t, it simply hope that Black Americans will continue to be the stupid doormats they have always been , more content with victim-hood than victory.