Political Views

But to address the question in the title: "Yes, Dr. King was a hero to millions of people, and not just Black people. He was an AGITATOR, thank heaves. Just as the Abolitionists wee agitators. NO he was a Communist, but he was a Christian and Democratic Socialist."
It warmed my heart to learn that one of the men I most admired was a fellow democratic socialist.

-Savant

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And while these rightwing nutballs try to make King and us look like “Amuhricuh-hatin' commienists”, let's remember that DEMOCRATIC SÖCIALISM is the way all our developed allies are organized.

That's right... not Iran, the USSR, N Korea or Cuba. No, DEMOSOCIALIST means:

FRANCE
GERMANY
ISRAEL
JAPAN
NEW ZEALAND
UK
CANADA
SPAIN
AUSTRALIA
DENMARK

Yep, every one of those countries is friendly and free. But they ARE different from the U$A. There people don't go into massivge debt to go to college. There a worker earns enough to live on. There universal healthcare is the norm. There the standard of living is HIGHER than for most of us in the U$A.

Ask the people of any of those countries if they'd like to trade for the U$A social system. You'll hear a resounding NOOOOOOO!!!

Wake up, Yanks.

-Barros

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I saw a fairly contemporary video clip in which Bobby Seale suggested that video cams today would be better than guns. I think new Panther-style patrols using latest technology could be quite effective. And if we don't have to carry guns as the Panthers did, this video can be tools of nonviolent resistance to police terror.

-Savant

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Interestingly enough, it is the young people who are carrying forth the new struggles, not the Al Sharptons. It was a young Black coed whom I referenced at the beginning of this thread who said to her 50-something Black professor: "How long are we supposed to put up with this? We need to bring back the Black Panthers!" These young people are aware of the realities of race and class oppression. I KNOW because I work with them, both as an educator and as a community activist. It is YOU who are on the outside preaching against a new tide of resistance in its nascent phase. It is you who are out of touch. And by the way, the UN Commission on Racism, Amnesty International, ACLUY and numerous scholars whose research have led them to conclusions similar to mind are obviously all "paranoid fools" by your misguided criteria.

-Savant

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You have not stamped out the conservatives, and some of your own posts suggests that you share many of their values. As for your nonsensical, false and stereotypical jibberish about intellectuals that also comes mainly from the "hymnsheet " of the Right. No one but an ignoramus oblivious to history can believe that "intellectual s can't walk the walk." American and French Revolutions, Abolitionism in America, a large part of the Black movement of the 60s, and many contemporary movements are heavily influenced and often led by committed intellectuals. Your infantile anti-intellectualism is more revealing about you than you realize.

-Savant

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Conscious Information

http://www.workers.org/articles/2015/01/19/philadelphia-protesters-target-police-summit/

http://blackagendareport.com/node/14635

http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2015/01/21/sotu-j21.html

http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2015/01/22/pers-j22.html

http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/10/09/hait-o09.html

http://columbiaspectator.com/spectrum/2015/02/18/honoring-malcolm-x-and-other-african-american-leaders-columbia


This is the link.

Savant on the Black Panthers

IN Logic this is known as the "fallacy of weak analogy." First of all, the Black Panther Party was a REVOLUTIONARY and anti-racist organization. The KKK was/is a notoriously RACIST and REACTIONARY organization. Moreover, the KKK was a TERRORIST organization--like Al Qaeda, although they were WHITE and CHRISTIAN (mainly fundamentalist). They bombed Black Christian churches just as Muslim terrorists bomb mosques of other Muslims. As for the endless clap trap about Black on Black crime, history shows that just a oppression breeds dysfunction, the struggle against oppression tends to reduce it. Hence the Black crime rate dropping 60% in Montgomery during the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Or drugs, homicide and prostitute being radically reduced in many Black communities in the 1960s and early 70s when the Black Panthers or SNCC exercised great influence. Furthermore, Black on Black crime is not so extraordinary as people commonly think. Most WHITE crime is "white on white." But there's an interesting observation to be. Blacks DO worry about Black on Black crime as well a police terror. We don't obsess over white crime. We are indignant about WHITE RACISM. Probably most of us aren't worried about you raping and killing each other. Whites, who are mainly victimized by white criminals, worry themselves sick over Black crime , but not the WHITE CRIME from which they USUALLY suffer. A lot of whites really just have racist paranoia regarding Black people.

-Savant

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Also, there are a number of SCHOLARLY critiques of those statistics which indicate that Black crime is proportionately INFLATED in the records, and white crime often UNDER-COUNTED. What some scholars also note is that among the white poor, those whose lives most resemble the Black poor of the ghettoes or the Latin poor in their impoverished hoods---THOSE whites show dysfunctions similar to what you find in impoverished ghettoex and barrios. Also, there is a greater police brutality in poor white areas than one realizes. Perhaps oppressed whites need something similar to Panther Party to raise a revolutionary consciousness. Maybe something like the IWW. Then maybe you wouldn't have so many whites as DUMB as "justthefacts " who's too stupid the know the difference between a politically advanced thread like mine and all the really stupid threads so common in Topix.

-Savant

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Also, there are a number of SCHOLARLY critiques of those statistics which indicate that Black crime is proportionately INFLATED in the records, and white crime often UNDER-COUNTED. What some scholars also note is that among the white poor, those whose lives most resemble the Black poor of the ghettoes or the Latin poor in their impoverished hoods---THOSE whites show dysfunctions similar to what you find in impoverished ghettoex and barrios. Also, there is a greater police brutality in poor white areas than one realizes. Perhaps oppressed whites need something similar to Panther Party to raise a revolutionary consciousness. Maybe something like the IWW. Then maybe you wouldn't have so many whites as DUMB as "justthefacts " who's too stupid the know the difference between a politically advanced thread like mine and all the really stupid threads so common in Topix.

-Savant