Posted on 09/29/2014 2:01:39 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Written Aug. 31, 2014 – Before recent days, who among us had ever heard of Ferguson, Missouri?
Because of what happened there, the brief but intense experience of state repression, its name will be transmitted by millions of Black mouths to millions of Black ears, and it will become a watchword for resistance, like Watts, like Newark, Harlem and LA.
But Ferguson wasn’t 60 years ago – it’s today.
And for young Blacks from Ferguson and beyond, it was a stark, vivid history lesson – and also a reality lesson.
When they dared protest the state street murder of one of their own, the government responded with the tools and weapons of war. They assaulted them with gas. They attacked them as if Ferguson was Fallujah, in Iraq.
The police attacked them as if they were an occupying army from another country; for that, in fact, is what they were.
And these young folks learned viscerally, face to face, what the White Nation thought of them, their claimed constitutional rights, their so-called freedoms – and their lives. They learned the wages of Black protest: repression, repression and more repression.
They also learned the limits of their so-called leaders, who called for peace and calm, while armed troops trained submachine guns and sniper rifles on unarmed men, women and children.
Russian revolutionary leader V.I. Lenin once said, “There are decades when nothing happens; there are weeks when decades happen.”
For the youth, excluded from the American economy by inferior, substandard education; targeted by the malevolence of the fake drug war and mass incarceration; stopped and frisked for Walking While Black, were given front-row seats to the national security state at Ferguson after a friend was murdered by police in their streets.
Against the full force of U.S. military might, Ferguson protesters kept coming.
Ferguson may prove a wake-up call. A call for youth to build social, radical, revolutionary movements for change.
The real ‘outside agitators’
Written Aug. 19, 2014 – As the days and nights of angry resistance rage on in Ferguson, Missouri, the corporate media embarks on its newest campaign: the proposed banning of “outside agitators.”
It is ironic in the extreme to hear Black reporters and Black cops – and, indeed, Black activists – launch verbal attacks against “outside agitators,” when, were it not for such protestors during the hottest days and nights of the Civil Rights Movement, they would not exist!
For the phrase “outside agitators” was born in the minds and mouths of white Southern segregationists, who decried the arrival of white and Black students from the North, who worked to register voters, founded freedom schools, and joined the Freedom Riders on buses, to break state segregation laws.
Remember the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)? That’s Martin L. King’s organization. When SCLC staged marches in Alabama, that state’s governor, George Wallace, called SCLC “professional agitators with pro-Communist affiliations.”
Sound familiar? How close to “outside agitators”! The phrase begs the question: outside of what? The state? America?
This country is called the United States of America, founded upon a Constitution. Do all people have the right to protest, or just some residents?
Is what happened to Mike Brown a local matter, or is this really a national issue?
It’s not the job of media to police protests, pitting “good” demonstrators against “bad” ones. Their job is to report what is happening – period.
Were it not for these protests – let us be frank – the media would’ve ignored this story.
If the media was doing its job, reporting on the vicious violence launched against young Blacks the nation over, perhaps Mike Brown would be alive today.
Let us look at the cops, almost 98 percent of whom are outsiders to Ferguson. They work there; they kill there; but they don’t live there.
They dwell in neighboring, whiter counties and towns.
Who are the real outside agitators?
1-2-3 Fergusons
Written Aug. 17, 2014 – For over a week, the media and millions of viewers and readers have been focused on the ever-changing events of Ferguson, Missouri, where a local teenager, Michael Brown, was shot to death by a white cop.
What has been consistent and un-changing has been the level of outrage among Black Ferguson residents – men and women who have resisted every attempt to silence or sidetrack their efforts.
Their efforts? To achieve the arrest, prosecution and conviction of the white cop (Darren Wilson) who shot and killed Mike Brown.
They are fueled by fury and a long train of police repression.
They haven’t let anything – promises, provocations, politicians or police – turn them away from their objective.
The System has used weapons of war – sniper rifles, armored personnel carriers, submachine guns and other implements of military violence to intimidate the people, to threaten the people, to silence the people.
They only continued their marches for justice for Mike Brown.
They faced sweet talking politicians promising peace, police with dark faces promising protection, preachers praying for placidity – and they kept on marching.
They were threatened with arrests if they broke curfew and received the acrid rain of tear gas – and they kept on marching. Marching for justice for Mike Brown.
A reporter for a national cable outlet asked five teens clad in baseball hats and bright red bandanas to identify themselves. One by one, they announced their names: Mike Brown.
They were all Mike Brown.
As they marched past fear, they are indeed Mike Brown. As are we all.
I get it. In fact it’s my lily white fault that blacks commit crimes.
> They never give up trying to blame their self-inflicted pathologies on Whitey.
It pays better than getting a real job...
I'm glad you showed a link to 'prisonradio.org'. I take it that means he is still serving his time for murder. He should have gotten a death penalty (Genesis 9:6 Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.), but I suppose life behind bars is what we do nowadays...
I remember the chants and t-shirts (funny book cover - by the way), but since they had died out over the years I assumed he had died behind bars. Guess he's still kicking around.
It's about Mumia.
I'll pass.
So I wonder what causes them to act the very same way and worse in places where whites aren’t a factor, like Haiti, Rwanda, etc?
Why that piece of filth is still wasting valuable oxygen is beyond me. Someone shank him and do the world a favor.
Hill has been a Mumia buttbuddy for over a decade. He is also a Marxist. Now teachers at the traditionally black Morehouse College.
Seems Temple Un. may have shown him the door over some kind of misconduct. No real details but I heard there was some question about his integrity/professional conduct.
Many black American newspapers carry Mumia’s crap, just as they carried columns by Benjamin Chavez, first of the United Church of Christ, then a front man for the Communist Party USA’s front “National Alliance Against Racist & Political Repression” (Angela Davis’ old organization), then as the head of the leftist NAACP, then he became a Black Muslim with Louis Farrakhan’s Nation of Islam.)
The Afro-American newspapers of Baltimore and DC were run by the Murphy family, loaded with CPUSA members and sympathizers including George Murphy Jr.
This is why many blacks are so misinformed and disinformed about events.
And Lamont Hill likes this psychopathic communist killer Mumia.
Academia is the greatest refuge of the Marxist wackjobs.
Hill has been a Mumia buttbuddy for over a decade. He is also a Marxist. Now teachers at the traditionally black Morehouse College.
Seems Temple Un. may have shown him the door over some kind of misconduct. No real details but I heard there was some question about his integrity/professional conduct.
Many black American newspapers carry Mumia’s crap, just as they carried columns by Benjamin Chavez, first of the United Church of Christ, then a front man for the Communist Party USA’s front “National Alliance Against Racist & Political Repression” (Angela Davis’ old organization), then as the head of the leftist NAACP, then he became a Black Muslim with Louis Farrakhan’s Nation of Islam.)
The Afro-American newspapers of Baltimore and DC were run by the Murphy family, loaded with CPUSA members and sympathizers including George Murphy Jr.
This is why many blacks are so misinformed and disinformed about events.
And Lamont Hill likes this psychopathic communist killer Mumia.
Academia is the greatest refuge of the Marxist wackjobs.
That's easy....whitey causes their problems too. How? Beats me...but evil whitey is behind their problems as well.
It’s a kick in the groin every day to every cop in the country and trauma for the widow that this murdering piece of filth is still breathing.
Agreed. I’ve studied Daniel Faulkner’s murder extensively, and there isn’t the slightest doubt Wesley Cook killed him. His case has been examined and re-examined half a dozen times by forensic experts, lawyers, and judges and none have ever arrived at any other conclusion.
This piece of garbage was duly tried, convicted, and sentenced to death, yet because he made some influential friends, he’s still defiling the world with his presence. He long ago made a mockery of “due process.” He and OJ simpson are the poster boys for Black Privilege.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.