Research from Others

During a visit to Baltimore several years ago, Katleen Cleaver gave a talk, in in part of her talk she read from once secret FBI files which revealed that J. Edgar Hoover was more worreid about Black Panther PROGRAMS (free breakfast, clinics, housing cooperative and political education) than about the guns they sometimes carried. Our secret police were more worried about Panthers organizing rent strikes and teaching folk how to organize than by an threat (usually exaggerated anyway) of violence from the Party. During her visit to the Bmore/DC area last month, Angela Davis--a close friend of the BPP--made similar analyses. It's partly due to the influence of elders who were former Bmor Panther leaders that I decided that education was the best place for me to be in order to promote progressive values and to bequeath unto students (white, black or other) the legacy of what some (like Cedric Robinson) call the "Black RADICAL Tradition"

Yeah sure. The global recession and 12 million hungry American children is proof positive how well capitalism works.


-Savant

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Harrisson wrote:

It's his "SIGNATURE line" for Chrissakes. Give the man a break.
Also, he is a European and specifically a Frenchman.
People from other "White" countries may have the same skin color as you, but they aren't always going to act the way you think "a real white man" should. They have a different CULTURE and a different HERITAGE!!!
Jeez, wake up!

 

Bingo! Too many American whites believe that all whites must think alike. Or if they think different from some rigid norm then they're not really white and are race traitors.
-Savant

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In America, poor white people outnumber the ENTIRE Black population simply because whits are the overwhelming numerical majority. But PROPORTIONATELY BlacK poor (also Latin & Indian poor) are far larger than the white poor.
Poverty is a product of our exploitative and now disintegrating corporate capitalist system. But the DISPROPORTIONATE scale of Black poverty is due to RACISM, plain and simple. Institutional racism under capitalist conditions means superexploitation and economic dislocation.
If your animosity were directed only at the 1%, I should see that as RATIONAL and would have no objections. But your animosity is RACIST, which is why Nazi propaganda appeals to you.
And that reason you have my unmitigated scorn.
-Savant (in Response to PTBW Forever)


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Harrisson wrote:

Skilled, talented South Africans of European descent, in my opinion, have a great deal to offer their country. I do not believe the authorities would tolerate anything against that group even remotely approaching genocide.
Unfortunately, however, black folks and guns tend not to mix very well either here in the USA or in SA. So I do feel bad for the white South Africans who get caught up in an intense wave of black crime, but they should be sensitive and realize that other black folks in South Africa are catching hell as well.
It's a human tragedy for South Africans of all colors and hopefully the government over there can develop a better response in the future.

 

Also, there's no MASS murder going on against whites in South Africa. They are sometimes victims of crime, but not mass murder.
There certainly was murder of Blacks in South Africa by whites, especially by police and military, but also by the apartheid system itself---the economy of which is stil largely in place.
As for crime--the conditions for which were created by the white racist system --most of the Black crime is very much like what you find in our ghettoes over here. Black vs Black violence, the poor and the oppressed directing their rage against each other.
But in South Africa, as in the USA, whites are not usually the victims of crime. Or when they are, they are most often victimized by other whites.
PTWB is talking pish posh... as usual.

-Savant