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In reply to the discussion: What is NOT particularly helpful with regard to Ferguson [View all]AverageJoe90
(10,745 posts)59. You continue to miss the point.
it's human nature as expressed by the racism as applied in this country to minority's by racist whites. It is their human nature. You are living a misguided lie. Always has been, always will be the human nature of the white racist to hate blacks.
So are you saying that all white people are predisposed to hate blacks? Or what? Now you're not being clear at all.
. I talked to the africans from Nigeria who studied in russia and they were just as put off with the racist nature of white russians as they were put off with the racist nature of a lot of white amerikkkans.
As I said, I never once said that Communists were automatically immune to prejudice. But this anecdote, true or not, doesn't at all disprove what I said; in fact, as King Charlemagne *accurately* pointed out, the Russians did support many Liberation movements after the Stalin era ended, something that we *didn't* do(because hey, who cares about liberating people when there's big money involved, even if it means letting your buddies keep their minorities down to an extent?). And you can't deny that at least some of that was genuine, just as some in Washington genuinely didn't care about repression too much, as long as we could keep the Soviets at bay, and the dollars flowing.....
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Yes, they need to have faith in the system that has let them down over and over again!!
jeff47
Nov 2014
#33
Happens when the "concern" is served up with heaping spoonfulls of racism & classism.
baldguy
Nov 2014
#9
I apologize that it has taken me so long to respond. I should say first of
KingCharlemagne
Nov 2014
#66
Interesting article that bears on this subject directly (vis-a-vis the BPP and Cointelpro):
KingCharlemagne
Nov 2014
#68
That is a bit of an over-simplification. Riots in and of themselves will not
KingCharlemagne
Nov 2014
#40
Yeah I wrote this in haste and almost edited to reflect the very thing...
socialist_n_TN
Nov 2014
#42