Saul Williams: George Washington wasnt only the 1st American president. He was biggest land-owner and the richest man on the continent before he became president. After the Civil War, when poor white militias formed, angry at seeing power continually held by the rich 1%, the government conspired to appease their woes by giving them segregation, and white only signs. Race was used to pit poor against poor and to keep us & you from fighting for real justice and real issues. Whats happening in the criminal justice system today is an issue that effects everyone. There are more blacks imprisoned in 2014 than were enslaved in 1850 (FACT) and there are more Americans imprisoned than any other nation. Do not let the fight for true justice be side-lined by your own defensiveness and inability to see that when we fight for justice it involves and includes you. Attempt to understand the anger and its relation to the ongoing struggle to distinguish hypocrisy from freedom. You may have been fed rhetoric your entire life about how great and powerful your nation is, but no nation is more powerful than the combined voices of its poorest citizens. There is no reason for police to not be a peaceful presence in society that acknowledges when they commit wrongs. You can uphold and enforce the law without allowing your ignorance or rage to enter the workplace. Those of elevated authority need to elevate the work they do on themselves. If you are programmed by the powers that be then you believe its us against them. If you over-ride the programming you realize its just us working against and through a system that could be more supportive & more just. Veterans learn first-hand of the governments hypocrisy when they return home and learn that their care is not a monetized priority. The system you are fighting to protect is flawed and the small changes, concessions, and amendments have always come about through hard fought work against naysayers who stand their ground, not realizing that they are indeed victims too.
Posted on: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 17:00:44 +0000
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