While the US was riveted and divided by OJ, the GOP used the distraction to takeover Congress.

[OneGrassRoot]

21. I don't dispute the fact that TPTB use social issues to divide and distract...

but racism is a real issue...not a media concoction...and it needs to be dealt with and talked about and explored, not swept under a rug. Well, imho, at least.

Heck, I'm just going to copy and paste something I shared elsewhere last night:


To my friends focused on the NSA surveillance controversy who feel the Zimmerman trial is a media distraction, used to divert attention away from Snowden/NSA and to pit Americans against one another....

1. Whereas I'm normally the first to criticize mainstream media as useless, providing white noise as a means to confuse and distract from the work of the puppet masters, I don't view what's happening now concerning the Zimmerman verdict in that light.

What I'm seeing is a national conversation trying to get started about institutional, systemic racism. There are a lot of commentators/hosts/pundits of color who now have a national platform and they are personally devastated by this verdict. This is the proverbial straw that broke the camel's back. They personally fear for their own children even more now.

They are passionate and eloquent and REAL. I've seen more honest dialogue on TV in the last two days than I have in the last 10 years. The corporate mask of BS has been ripped away and they are simply being human, asking to please come together to figure this out, for the safety of our children. They also realize the Stand Your Ground laws and other aspects of this case have the potential to negatively affect many innocents.

2. Regarding privacy and freedoms, the NSA, etc., we must ABSOLUTELY be aware and do what we can to fight all injustice and infringement on civil liberties. No doubt about it. We must multitask and fight this larger battle on multiple fronts.

3. Lastly, and most importantly, I wonder how many white people outraged about the NSA have stopped to consider that people of color have had to deal with profiling and surveillance EVERY SINGLE TIME THEY WALK OUT THE DOOR.

EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. Men and women of color, all ages. Not only young black men.

It's time to rise up LOUDLY against ALL of the injustice. The oppression and war against people of color, against women, against students|education, against the poor, against the planet....we must rise up against all of it!!!