11.29.2014
Much detail. Dialogue with a young friend regarding the violence in Ferguson Missouri vet so horrifying as, disgusts, outrages, and apalls this young friend...
* To a respected young friend who posted that no one should ever behave the way people are behaving in Ferguson Missouri I replied:
Wow. Totally, profoundly, disagree.
JFK, "Whoever would make unviolent revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable." The in-justice system in this country, that for people of color, and the not rich, has been unjust forever, and more so, every day... is an attack on democracy, the majority of Americans... and was supposed to be an alternative to violent revolution. Society, those in power, those on the sidelines, have chosen to allow this slanted system to get worse, and worse, and worse. The choose to 'hear' the poor, the people of color, less less and less. They have chosen for America to NOT BE THEIR COUNTRY. I lay the behavior at the feet of the whites, the privileged, those standing on the sidelines watching, or IGNORING, the bias, the injustice... year... after decade.... That's all I have to say.
* In reply to this my friend wrote at great length how she profoundly saw otherwise, in America, where other options, such as those that I utilize, are available.
* To this I replied:
Sister, I think we owe each other enough respect to acknowledge when we profoundly, totally, absolutely disagree. I owe you and give you that respect regardless of whether and when it terminates our relationship. I could say many many many many many things to what you have just written, but I will mention just a few. I believe you have 0 conception, 0, of what it means to be born black in this country, what it means to be born poor in this country, what it means to be a poor, uneducated, adult in this country, and what it means to be a black person in this country. 0. You seem to have zero understanding that there are two Americas. There have been two, there are two, and there may be two forever. There is an America for the white, educated, and and to a lesser degree the white uneducated. And there is an America for the rest of us. The so-called justice system, in fact, in truth, unless I am totally blind having been among the poor for almost a decade now and living among poor black people for years now, the so-called justice system has two functions, in fact, in truth, in daily practice, one is to protect the affluent and educated and white, and the other is to keep the rest of us from interfering with their lives. And the police, our men and women in uniform, are paid to do that, and they lose their jobs when they do not. And they are permitted to use, they are expected to use, whatever means, whatever force , what ever violation of civil rights they deem necessary and can get away with. Are there exceptions to this? Of course. The existence of an exception shows that there is a rule at work. You seem to have zero conception that there are two Americas. You seem to have zero conception of your white educated upwardly mobile privilege. I'm just speaking from the heart, as were you. Be well sister.
Sister, I think we owe each other enough respect to acknowledge when we profoundly, totally, absolutely disagree. I owe you and give you that respect regardless of whether and when it terminates our relationship. I could say many many many many many things to what you have just written, but I will mention just a few. I believe you have 0 conception, 0, of what it means to be born black in this country, what it means to be born poor in this country, what it means to be a poor, uneducated, adult in this country, and what it means to be a black person in this country. 0. You seem to have zero understanding that there are two Americas. There have been two, there are two, and there may be two forever. There is an America for the white, educated, and and to a lesser degree the white uneducated. And there is an America for the rest of us. The so-called justice system, in fact, in truth, unless I am totally blind having been among the poor for almost a decade now and living among poor black people for years now, the so-called justice system has two functions, in fact, in truth, in daily practice, one is to protect the affluent and educated and white, and the other is to keep the rest of us from interfering with their lives. And the police, our men and women in uniform, are paid to do that, and they lose their jobs when they do not. And they are permitted to use, they are expected to use, whatever means, whatever force , what ever violation of civil rights they deem necessary and can get away with. Are there exceptions to this? Of course. The existence of an exception shows that there is a rule at work. You seem to have zero conception that there are two Americas. You seem to have zero conception of your white educated upwardly mobile privilege. I'm just speaking from the heart, as were you. Be well sister.
There is not one America. There are at least two. If everyone was born in your America Lizzie, your educational system all being white, all being attractive, all being educated, all being born in a community trained to moral standards, the way that the legal system treats you, the way that the educational system treats you, the way that the police system treats you, the way that the medical system treats you , the way that bystanders would treat you ... Then I would tend to agree with your statements above. But this is not the America that exists
I am NOT trying to pile on here, but there are two additional points that you're writing brings to my mind. One is your extremely correct mention of the role of the media. Among the more insightful articles on Ferguson that have caught my eye are several that have mentioned that arson, loading, vandalism, is the voice of the voiceless, it is what the voiceless the ignored, the overlooked, the unheard do. The other is your mention of such extraordinary souls as Alice Paul. Whatever horror, outrage, indignation, disgust, disdain... You feel toward the small minority of Ferguson protesters is came compared to what was felt toward, spat at, beaten into... The likes of Alice Paul in her day. One final thought, sorry, Gandhi is understood as the father of nonviolent action, and rightly so. He is almost universally misunderstood as being against violence. This is categorically incorrect. He was categorically against cowardice, against inaction in the face of injustice. For him that was the cardinal sin, cowardice, in action in the face of injustice, let alone decades and centuries of injustice such as our black brothers and sisters have received and receive hourly in this country . Unforgivable is cowardice and injustice in the view of Gandhi. . He said that he strongly preferred, and highly recommended, nonviolent action. But he demanded of people that if they did not have within them the ability to respond nonviolently, they were to respond in the only ways that they knew, and if that meant violence, then it was their duty to be violet.
Wow. Totally, profoundly, disagree.
JFK, "Whoever would make unviolent revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable." The in-justice system in this country, that for people of color, and the not rich, has been unjust forever, and more so, every day... is an attack on democracy, the majority of Americans... and was supposed to be an alternative to violent revolution. Society, those in power, those on the sidelines, have chosen to allow this slanted system to get worse, and worse, and worse. The choose to 'hear' the poor, the people of color, less less and less. They have chosen for America to NOT BE THEIR COUNTRY. I lay the behavior at the feet of the whites, the privileged, those standing on the sidelines watching, or IGNORING, the bias, the injustice... year... after decade.... That's all I have to say.
* In reply to this my friend wrote at great length how she profoundly saw otherwise, in America, where other options, such as those that I utilize, are available.
* To this I replied:
Sister, I think we owe each other enough respect to acknowledge when we profoundly, totally, absolutely disagree. I owe you and give you that respect regardless of whether and when it terminates our relationship. I could say many many many many many things to what you have just written, but I will mention just a few. I believe you have 0 conception, 0, of what it means to be born black in this country, what it means to be born poor in this country, what it means to be a poor, uneducated, adult in this country, and what it means to be a black person in this country. 0. You seem to have zero understanding that there are two Americas. There have been two, there are two, and there may be two forever. There is an America for the white, educated, and and to a lesser degree the white uneducated. And there is an America for the rest of us. The so-called justice system, in fact, in truth, unless I am totally blind having been among the poor for almost a decade now and living among poor black people for years now, the so-called justice system has two functions, in fact, in truth, in daily practice, one is to protect the affluent and educated and white, and the other is to keep the rest of us from interfering with their lives. And the police, our men and women in uniform, are paid to do that, and they lose their jobs when they do not. And they are permitted to use, they are expected to use, whatever means, whatever force , what ever violation of civil rights they deem necessary and can get away with. Are there exceptions to this? Of course. The existence of an exception shows that there is a rule at work. You seem to have zero conception that there are two Americas. You seem to have zero conception of your white educated upwardly mobile privilege. I'm just speaking from the heart, as were you. Be well sister.
Sister, I think we owe each other enough respect to acknowledge when we profoundly, totally, absolutely disagree. I owe you and give you that respect regardless of whether and when it terminates our relationship. I could say many many many many many things to what you have just written, but I will mention just a few. I believe you have 0 conception, 0, of what it means to be born black in this country, what it means to be born poor in this country, what it means to be a poor, uneducated, adult in this country, and what it means to be a black person in this country. 0. You seem to have zero understanding that there are two Americas. There have been two, there are two, and there may be two forever. There is an America for the white, educated, and and to a lesser degree the white uneducated. And there is an America for the rest of us. The so-called justice system, in fact, in truth, unless I am totally blind having been among the poor for almost a decade now and living among poor black people for years now, the so-called justice system has two functions, in fact, in truth, in daily practice, one is to protect the affluent and educated and white, and the other is to keep the rest of us from interfering with their lives. And the police, our men and women in uniform, are paid to do that, and they lose their jobs when they do not. And they are permitted to use, they are expected to use, whatever means, whatever force , what ever violation of civil rights they deem necessary and can get away with. Are there exceptions to this? Of course. The existence of an exception shows that there is a rule at work. You seem to have zero conception that there are two Americas. You seem to have zero conception of your white educated upwardly mobile privilege. I'm just speaking from the heart, as were you. Be well sister.
There is not one America. There are at least two. If everyone was born in your America Lizzie, your educational system all being white, all being attractive, all being educated, all being born in a community trained to moral standards, the way that the legal system treats you, the way that the educational system treats you, the way that the police system treats you, the way that the medical system treats you , the way that bystanders would treat you ... Then I would tend to agree with your statements above. But this is not the America that exists
I am NOT trying to pile on here, but there are two additional points that you're writing brings to my mind. One is your extremely correct mention of the role of the media. Among the more insightful articles on Ferguson that have caught my eye are several that have mentioned that arson, loading, vandalism, is the voice of the voiceless, it is what the voiceless the ignored, the overlooked, the unheard do. The other is your mention of such extraordinary souls as Alice Paul. Whatever horror, outrage, indignation, disgust, disdain... You feel toward the small minority of Ferguson protesters is came compared to what was felt toward, spat at, beaten into... The likes of Alice Paul in her day. One final thought, sorry, Gandhi is understood as the father of nonviolent action, and rightly so. He is almost universally misunderstood as being against violence. This is categorically incorrect. He was categorically against cowardice, against inaction in the face of injustice. For him that was the cardinal sin, cowardice, in action in the face of injustice, let alone decades and centuries of injustice such as our black brothers and sisters have received and receive hourly in this country . Unforgivable is cowardice and injustice in the view of Gandhi. . He said that he strongly preferred, and highly recommended, nonviolent action. But he demanded of people that if they did not have within them the ability to respond nonviolently, they were to respond in the only ways that they knew, and if that meant violence, then it was their duty to be violet.
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11.28.2014
nd. Friends fighting for Palestine: PLEASE, let's ALWAYS refer to Israel's attacks by WHAT THEY ARE: "TERRORISM." Yes????????? Please??????? They have SET the definition, and they, and they ALONE FULFILL the definition. We must do what we can to reframe the dialog, media... and replace ISRAEL'S LIES with Palestine's TRUTH.
Friends fighting for Palestine: PLEASE, let's ALWAYS refer to Israel's attacks by WHAT THEY ARE: "TERRORISM." Yes????????? Please??????? They have SET the definition, and they, and they ALONE FULFILL the definition. We must do what we can to reframe the dialog, media... and replace ISRAEL'S LIES with Palestine's TRUTH.
nd. I go in for a pre-op consultation on Tuesday regarding the growth in my lung, detected in last week's cancer scan.
I go in for a pre-op consultation on Tuesday regarding the growth in my lung, detected in last week's cancer scan.
11.27.2014
11.26.2014
article. Letter from a Palestinian Christian... In my peaceful town of Beit Sahour, mostly Christians, the first boy to get killed by Israelis was 16 years old. He was walking home from the store when Israeli soldiers dropped a huge rock on his head from the top of a building and watched him crawl home bleeding until he died at the front steps of his home. He was Christian, he did nothing to them. ....
vid George Galloway, a Soldier of the Creator. 'The Gangster Terrorist State of Israels' Days Are Numbered.' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eYVhQxcxhw
vid George Galloway, a Soldier of the Creator. 'The Gangster Terrorist State of Israels' Days Are Numbered.' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eYVhQxcxhw
11.25.2014
pic. “We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered.” ― Martin Luther King Jr.
vid. Utterly breathtaking, brilliant, courageous, passionate, heart-rending.... BRAVO JON STEWART. This Might Be Jon Stewart's Best Rant Ever. Because Ferguson. http://www.upworthy.com/this-might-be-jon-stewarts-best-rant-ever-because-ferguson?c=ufb3
vid. Utterly breathtaking, brilliant, courageous, passionate, heart-rending.... BRAVO JON STEWART. This Might Be Jon Stewart's Best Rant Ever. Because Ferguson. http://www.upworthy.com/this-might-be-jon-stewarts-best-rant-ever-because-ferguson?c=ufb3
nd. I need to wrap my mind around the fact, and learn to deal with the truth, that 'Fundamentalist' groups (Zionists, Israeli's, Chr'stians...) CONSIDER IT THEIR DUTY TO LIE, DECEIVE, LIE, DECEIVE... WHATEVER IS 'REQUIRED' TO ACHIEVE THEIR 'SACRED' ENDS. I've been clueless, blind... to this; a sitting duck... unable to see it... clueless as how to deal with it, combat it, defeat it. So much to learn... we're out of time.
I need to wrap my mind around the fact, and learn to deal with the truth, that 'Fundamentalist' groups (Zionists, Israeli's, Chr'stians...) CONSIDER IT THEIR DUTY TO LIE, DECEIVE, LIE, DECEIVE... WHATEVER IS 'REQUIRED' TO ACHIEVE THEIR 'SACRED' ENDS. I've been clueless, blind... to this; a sitting duck... unable to see it... clueless as how to deal with it, combat it, defeat it. So much to learn... we're out of time.
FB dialog: To someone I knew as a child, in my white NYC suburb, who wrote: "What has been accomplished by rioting, looting, arson, and shooting off guns? Destruction of property, causing people to loose their livelihoods when the stores close, and for what?..." It went on for three more paragraphs like this. My reply: " I think you are a nice person, not that you should care what I think, but I do. I think the whites in South Africa during Apartheid, were nice, I do. I think the white Germans, exterminating the Jews were nice, I do, and so did the armies of US psychologists going to catalog the hoards of psychological monsters, that said instead, these Germans are just like us. And you are one of them friend... a nice, white privileged oppressor... totally blind to your privilege, just as it always is. Willfully, to a degree, as always. I'll be unfriending you soon, or I'd have to leave comments like this to you all the time, and it is not my place to inflict myself or my views on folks. Be well. "Nothing in all the world is so dangerous as sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." MLK Jr. Your brother forever, no matter what."
To someone I knew as a child, in my white NYC suburb, who wrote: "What has been accomplished by rioting, looting, arson, and shooting off guns? Destruction of property, causing people to loose their livelihoods when the stores close, and for what?..." It went on for three more paragraphs like this. My reply: " I think you are a nice person, not that you should care what I think, but I do. I think the whites in South Africa during Apartheid, were nice, I do. I think the white Germans, exterminating the Jews were nice, I do, and so did the armies of US psychologists going to catalog the hoards of psychological monsters, that said instead, these Germans are just like us. And you are one of them friend... a nice, white privileged oppressor... totally blind to your privilege, just as it always is. Willfully, to a degree, as always. I'll be unfriending you soon, or I'd have to leave comments like this to you all the time, and it is not my place to inflict myself or my views on folks. Be well. "Nothing in all the world is so dangerous as sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." MLK Jr. Your brother forever, no matter what."
pic. I can’t undo the Genocide of the American Natives this Thanksgiving... ... but I can honor their memory by spending Thanksgiving here... in front of the White House, fighting the US/Israeli Colonial Settler Extermination of their Palestinian Native, Indigenous sisters and brothers. And I shall... here... Creator willing.
pic. I hate everything about Thanksgiving * The Slaughter of Native Americans * The Slaughter of our Fellow Creatures * The Gluttony * The Orgy of our US Over- privilege... in the face of such horrible global need * The Nationalism, Propaganda, Lies * The ‘Nuclear Family’ instead of Universal Family * The once-a-year Charity... to avoid the EVERY DAY SOLIDARITY WITH OUR NEEDIEST
***** article. Why we need professional revolutionists. "The rebel, possessed by inner demons and angels, is driven by visions familiar to religious mystics. And it is the rebel alone who can save us from corporate tyranny. I do not know if these rebels will succeed. But I do know that a world without them is hopeless."
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