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January 14, 2008 at 21:52:40

Negating Negroes, whipping up Whites and the Third Rail: Sexism as a valued added tool in Race and Class Warfare

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Once his mind threw off the chain of limited perspective, his vision broadened into a universal fight for human rights. And this is what got him killed.

As long as he stayed within the race-limiting blinders of the ‘valley,’ he was just another loud-mouthed Negro preacher pleading for white folk to give up on their favorite pastimes, lynching blacks and knocking negroes upside the head. However, when he broadened his vision to include poor, poor whites and social justice, that was when he became dangerous, for in doing so, he raised the possibility of uniting two groups “against the machine.”

That was when he challenged an economic system, which had made billions of dollars by keeping blacks and whites at each other’s throats. That was when he taunted the tiger by challenging the race-based economics of a labor-intensive southern economic structure, which had clung to viability by keeping black and white workers at each other’s throats.

In destroying unions which tried to united white and black workers by pitting whites against blacks, the elite pandered to the never far from surface white supremacism which they had used as a social suppression tool for centuries.

The system saw the threat and eliminated it—much as King himself had predicted.

Today, the tools are much more sophisticated. Rather than sending a whack job assassin in to eliminate social progressives with violence, today’s tools are usually comprised of a manipulated media and reporters who often can’t connect the dots, or understand the implications of what they are writing about, and if they do, there is little market for their work.

 

This is why today's media latches on to the surface, the silly and the slanted point of view to destroy, demonizd and neutralize political candidates and social movements. Hence, this is why we get fluff pieces about whether Hillary looks like a hag, or whether Obama is “black enough,” or whether Romney is actually a Mormon priest stealth candidate, who would turn the government into a Mormon enclave. This from the same delightful Fifth Column—oops, Fourth Estate, who brought us the “Dean Scream” and nibbling Monica.

With this kind of “coverage” from so-called main stream media, is it any wonder that Internet-based and non-traditional news outlets are cropping up faster than a politician can cook up an alibi? The female vote has now become the ‘third rail’ of politics—and the only question is which candidate will that power block fry.

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