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This week on CounterSpin: Many people were outraged by video evidence of a police officer violently assaulting and arresting a young black woman—not just by the brutality of the attack on a person who posed no threat, but because of where it happened, in a high school classroom. The incident at Spring Valley High School in South Carolina reflects a lot of problems, from the school-to-prison pipeline to the marginalization of black girls and women in conversations about state violence. We’ll talk about it with UCLA and Columbia law professor Kimberle Crenshaw, of the African American Policy Forum, producers of the report Black Girls Matter: Pushed Out, Overpoliced and Underprotected.
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Also on the show: A New York Times headline referred to “The Dueling Narratives of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.” Such language implies a symmetry of power that doesn’t exist. We’ll discuss what’s missing from coverage of the most recent violence in the region from political analyst and writer Yousef Munayyer, executive director of the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation.
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And our usual look back at the week’s press, including Donald Trump’s anti-war claims, industry-funded food reporting and high-speed police chases.
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LINKS:
- Black Girls Matter: Pushed Out, Overpoliced and Underprotected, African American Policy Forum
- US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation
- “Netanyahu’s Holocaust Revisionism Actually Reflects Widespread Dehumanization of Palestinians,” by Yousef Munayyer (The Nation, 10/24/15)
The police chief said that race discrimination could not be involved as the cop was dating a black woman. Problem is, we would not be incarcerating in our jails and prisons over a forth of all the prisoners on earth, unless there was some kind of acute discrimination going down. Comes now the facts:
FACTS
(1) All of law enforcement is of the educated upper half of society
(2) The upper half owns all the wealth.
(3) The upper half is the voting majority and they always vote to enslave by poverty the lower half of society.
(4) The lower half is all of the impoverished laboring-class.
Comes now a realization that the root cause of all our wealth disparity and class warfare, surely it is the desire in the hearts of mainstream America to be enriched upon the misery of those in a lower class.
Very relevant to Spring Valley school incident is this report from the Journal of American History:
“A War within Our Own Boundaries”: Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society and the Rise of the Carceral State
http://jah.oxfordjournals.org/content/102/1/100.full
Excellent piece as always, but I’d like to respectfully point out one thing: the description of the victim as a “woman” (“…a police officer violently assaulting and arresting a young black woman”) implies she is an adult. Perhaps she could have been more accurately described as a child, teenager, or student in that line. This unfortunately echoes cases such as Tamir Rice’s, where the shooting officers claimed the 12 year old boy looked like an older male.