Sunday, November 10, 2013
What needs to be done
History certainly is a blueprint of change, but it is also documentation
of how some things have not changed as much as we would like to think.
In the post-Reconstruction period, during the establishment
of the First Jim Crow period, it was deemed a social necessity by
Whites to use violence and socioeconomic pressure to "teach niggers
their place", and during the height of the nascent revolution that was
the Civil Rights Movement, television allowed us to document the
violence used by police and others against us and our allies. We find
ourselves at yet another moment in history, so I humbly suggest we learn
from the path behind us, so as to walk a different path forward. We
need to educate OURSELVES, as the American Educational system falls
further from relevance. We need to work together and EMPLOY EACH OTHER,
as the larger economy demonstrates it only exists as a tool for capital
accumulation for a few, not a "rising tide" lifting all ships. We need
to ACTIVATE POLITICAL POWER. as politics is a game of power, and there
is no way to win begging for mercy from those who don't value
compassion. This will also force the national discourse BACK TO THE
CENTER LEFT, and away from the right-wing edge of xenophobic,
misogynistic, tribalized oligarchy and neoconservatism. Lastly, we need
to arm ourselves, both literally and metaphorically, with the tools
necessary to engage in a long, vicious fight with a remorseless enemy.
WE NEED TO BE A COMMUNITY AGAIN. If we can do that, there are those who
will flock to our cause as naturally as birds migrating towards warmer,
more hospitable climes. The lines are being drawn, the drums of war are
beating in the streets of America again...
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