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Re: What blacks should be protesting: Detroit high students revolt against staff
Basically, from what I read, this is the gist of it. First, the Civil Rights movement and War on Poverty were a case of corporations and elitists giving money to the moderate leaders and sects they approved of in order to ensure that those people were kept in power. Basically, what the author is saying, is that some movement leaders sold out for money. Its funny that people are always accused of selling out when they take money when without the money they would never make it to begin with. Also, why would anyone want to give money to a radical? Lets use the best example in this case. Malcolm X vs Martin Luther King. One was a radical Islamist who preached hatred and the other was a Christian minister who preached peace. Who do you think "elitists" (in other words people with money) and corporations would want to give money to? Who would you give money to? I know Malcolm X wouldn't have gotten a dime of my money because he hated me to begin with. At least MLK made it known that he just wanted equal rights, not special ones. Second, I love the way the author portrays the War on Drugs as some kind of race hunting spree that targeted blacks. Sorry bud, but you don't roll through white suburbia and see white kids on the corner dealing drugs. You see that in the black inner city. That's just facts. In addition, and this is my favorite part, is the way he portrays it as black people just minding their own business, you know, just selling some heroin and BOOM! Johnny Law comes around the corner and makes a victim of him. How dare the law enforcement officers actually ENFORCE the law instead of turning a blind eye. This guy is actually implying that its not the black drug dealers fault that he got caught BREAKING THE LAW but the cops fault for ENFORCING THE LAW. You can't make this stuff up. The fact of the matter is this. Cops don't go looking for drugs where there are no drugs. I'm not saying white people don't use drugs. They certainly do. But like I said, you don't roll through white suburbia and see drugs being dealt. You see that in black inner cities. Just like in the country. You don't see cops looking through nice, two story houses for meth labs. You see them looking through run down trailers that have tin foil over the windows. Imagine if cops came around frisking middle class families, of any color, while they were talking a walk down their nice sidewalk in Anytown, USA. We'd be up in arms. Headlines would read "Off target cops frisk mom of 3 while on walk". We would wonder what our law enforement was doing harrassing obviously innocent people. But, that's what the author insinuates should happen. We should either A) Target all citizens as possible drug dealers, pimps, and thieves or B) Just let the aforementioned criminals have at it because we don't want to seem racist. Again, you can't make this stuff up.
Basically, from what I read, this is the gist of it. First, the Civil Rights movement and War on Poverty were a case of corporations and elitists giving money to the moderate leaders and sects they approved of in order to ensure that those people were kept in power. Basically, what the author is saying, is that some movement leaders sold out for money. Its funny that people are always accused of selling out when they take money when without the money they would never make it to begin with. Also, why would anyone want to give money to a radical? Lets use the best example in this case. Malcolm X vs Martin Luther King. One was a radical Islamist who preached hatred and the other was a Christian minister who preached peace. Who do you think "elitists" (in other words people with money) and corporations would want to give money to? Who would you give money to? I know Malcolm X wouldn't have gotten a dime of my money because he hated me to begin with. At least MLK made it known that he just wanted equal rights, not special ones. Second, I love the way the author portrays the War on Drugs as some kind of race hunting spree that targeted blacks. Sorry bud, but you don't roll through white suburbia and see white kids on the corner dealing drugs. You see that in the black inner city. That's just facts. In addition, and this is my favorite part, is the way he portrays it as black people just minding their own business, you know, just selling some heroin and BOOM! Johnny Law comes around the corner and makes a victim of him. How dare the law enforcement officers actually ENFORCE the law instead of turning a blind eye. This guy is actually implying that its not the black drug dealers fault that he got caught BREAKING THE LAW but the cops fault for ENFORCING THE LAW. You can't make this stuff up. The fact of the matter is this. Cops don't go looking for drugs where there are no drugs. I'm not saying white people don't use drugs. They certainly do. But like I said, you don't roll through white suburbia and see drugs being dealt. You see that in black inner cities. Just like in the country. You don't see cops looking through nice, two story houses for meth labs. You see them looking through run down trailers that have tin foil over the windows. Imagine if cops came around frisking middle class families, of any color, while they were talking a walk down their nice sidewalk in Anytown, USA. We'd be up in arms. Headlines would read "Off target cops frisk mom of 3 while on walk". We would wonder what our law enforement was doing harrassing obviously innocent people. But, that's what the author insinuates should happen. We should either A) Target all citizens as possible drug dealers, pimps, and thieves or B) Just let the aforementioned criminals have at it because we don't want to seem racist. Again, you can't make this stuff up.
