Economic and racial oppression in America has finally reached a boiling point. Systemic change will take a systemic realignment of the economic and political structure in the United States.
What's so threatening about the rebellion today, that has now seen protests in every state and the deployment of over 60,000 National Guard troops, is 1) that it's a multiracial movement, 2) that people are losing their fear-of the cops and of the "don't upset Democrats' electoral possibilities" bugaboo, and 3) that it exposes the pretense of "democratic" consent and legitimacy, and the failure of representational diversity that accommodates to the capitalist economy.
Ya wanna know the REAL problem".??? It's EVERY race, class and gender in the streets.. That's a HUGE problem..
- ICE T (@FINALLEVEL) May 30, 2020
What's been the reaction of the political leaders across the rainbow? 1) Stop looting. 2) Outside agitators are ruining our peaceful mourning moment . 3) We're calling out the cops and the troops and will crush the bad looters without disturbing the peaceful protestors. 4) Go home and vote .
In other words, all the same lines and policies that have been used against uprisings for racial and social justice throughout our history-including by reactionary racist politicians against black-liberation protests through the civil-rights era and including by the likes of Donald Trump today. What's the substantive difference between what liberal Democratic Tim Walz and his comrades in New York, Seattle, D.C., and elsewhere are doing compared to what reactionary Republican Donald Trump is?
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