This is a lot to digest! I do believe that racism, as it is embodied today, is a distraction from class and an excuse to not challenge the marriage of wealth and power. Being black and living under a bridge and being white and living under a bridge are, first and foremost, living under a bridge. I now live in the south and have learned so much about concepts of exceptionalism and demonization, and how they are used to "keep people in their place/class." However, when I went to the Free Black Thought site, I was disgusted. It was a love fest with Israel and that I cannot and will not condone. Israel enforces separate laws for Israelis and Palestinians, which fits the definition of apartheid. Israel is an occupier, just as USA colonizers were occupiers of the indigenous, with the added sin of slavery. As to the Founding Fathers, they put Edward Bernays to shame, using the most eloquent of words to create the perfect undemocratic democracy, replacing a monarch with an oligarchy to ensure, with few exceptions, that the moneyed class (and its human corporations) retain political and economic power. My heroes live in the Black Agenda Report, and I will quote the late Glen Ford as long as I have voice, describing the black faces in high places who do the white man's bidding.
This is a lot to digest! I do believe that racism, as it is embodied today, is a distraction from class and an excuse to not challenge the marriage of wealth and power. Being black and living under a bridge and being white and living under a bridge are, first and foremost, living under a bridge. I now live in the south and have learned so much about concepts of exceptionalism and demonization, and how they are used to "keep people in their place/class." However, when I went to the Free Black Thought site, I was disgusted. It was a love fest with Israel and that I cannot and will not condone. Israel enforces separate laws for Israelis and Palestinians, which fits the definition of apartheid. Israel is an occupier, just as USA colonizers were occupiers of the indigenous, with the added sin of slavery. As to the Founding Fathers, they put Edward Bernays to shame, using the most eloquent of words to create the perfect undemocratic democracy, replacing a monarch with an oligarchy to ensure, with few exceptions, that the moneyed class (and its human corporations) retain political and economic power. My heroes live in the Black Agenda Report, and I will quote the late Glen Ford as long as I have voice, describing the black faces in high places who do the white man's bidding.