OBAMA POLICY ON BLACK SOCIAL MOV. CASE: FERGUSON.
1. With Obama the US has the world’s second-highest
incarceration. comprising about 1/3rd of the world’s overall number of women
behind bars, and the world’s highest youth incarceration rate. The US uses for-profit prisons,
prison labor, and widely tortures (and here) prisoners, including juveniles and people with
mental disabilities. The US disproportionately
targets its ethnic minority citizens, particularly African Americans
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2- “The
[US] criminal justice system, from start to finish, is seriously racist. It is
used a criminal justice system enforced
since the age of slavery ended [in 1965]
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3- Racial profiling,
abuse, and discrimination on the part of law enforcement goes up… it has
been documented
in great detail by sociologists, political scientists, and those in the field
of criminal justice through observational and statistical analyses focusing on
highway arrest rates by race (particularly as related to drug searches)
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4- The US claims to have
precise numbers, down to the person, for people killed in countries that the US
seeks to conquer, such as Syria. But not report on
full “body counts” domestically, & it is not considered that most killed abroad
happens to be ours. Since 1968-2011 black people are on average over 400% more
likely than whites to be killed in a confrontation with police.
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5- A report on police violence
in Chicago last year “expresses its deep concern at the frequent and recurrent police
shootings or fatal pursuits of unarmed black individuals.” .. ““…no Chicago police officer has
been convicted for acts of torture.. most of them committed against African
Americans–, and these people have received no compensation for the
extensive injuries suffered.”
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6- While the USA’s domestic
regime disproportionately targets its own
vulnerable/minority groups, mainly African Americans, at international
system under the US stranglehold disproportionately
targets African nations, as the West has done for centuries. Of
the nine official ICC investigations that have taken place, all are of African
nations.
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7- Prof. Noam Chomsky
reminds us of our culture’s trajectory: “What’s happening in Ferguson is a
reenactment of five hundred years of American history. It goes back to
1619. Slaves were brought over, they were tortured, terrorized, treated
hideously. You want to know how they were treated? Take a look at
this morning’s New York Times. There’s a very evocative article on ISIS and how
it treated Yazidi prisoners. That’s the way our African American
population was treated. Worse than that, in fact, and for a long period .
Militarization was one of the techniques of crushing the slave movements, .. TODAY it’s incarceration and militarization of police.
We’re reenacting five hundred years of American history.
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8- “It is
roughly estimated that Africa lost 50 million human beings to death and slavery
in those centuries we call the beginnings of modern Western civilization…
American slavery [was] the most cruel form of slavery in history… There is not a country in world history in which racism has
been more cruel, for so long a time, as the United States.” Said Historian Howard Zinn (PhD, history,
Columbia University)
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9- There is virtually no case in history of a large
scale protest against crime involving afro-americans as the one happened in Ferguson during the Obama
administration. Should all protests thus be forgotten and forbidden?
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10- General police brutality is front and center in
the Ferguson movement for reasons including:
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Killings by police “reached a record high
last year [461], while the number of
officers killed in the line of duty fell to its lowest level in decades
[27].” A community study that tracks killings by police by
analyzing news reports finds that there have been “At least 1,769 [people]
killed [by police] since May 1, 2013″, and “1,015 … since January 1,
2014″.
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This
while policing is not even one of the top ten most dangerous
jobs, and most police deaths “occurred
accidentally rather than feloniously … not in some heroic high speed
pursuit of a child murderer, but in routine
traffic accidents.”
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By Robert Barsocchini. ALSO SEE: Hillary Clinton’s Record of Support for War and other Depravities.
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More on racism from Chomsky :
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