Now that the slogan 'Black Lives Matter' has been taken up in a worldwide spread fight against racism in all aspects of social intercourse in many Caucasian nations, the murder of Blacks and people of other ethnicities by American military, even by Black-American military, must be noted and condemned by the leaders of the original movement that focused selectively as if only Black American Lives Mater.
American Imperialism seeps in, waters down and corrupts all efforts at social justice. The Occupy Wall Street movement targeted the opportunist injustices of the 'one percent' but seeking to represent the whole '99 percent' for a better cut of the imperialist pie, kept quiet about USA wars and other crimes against humanity. Martin Luther King Jr. put it well in his Beyond Vietnam - a Time to Break Silence New York earth shaking sermon, "Look across the seas and see individual capitalists of the West investing huge sums of money in Asia, Africa, and South America, only to take the profits out with no concern for the social betterment of the country. This is a role our nation has taken, " refusing to give up the privileges and the pleasures that comes from the immense profits of overseas investments. This is not just."
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