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This week on CounterSpin: From community rallies around the country to the presidential election, the Black Lives Matter movement has changed the conversation. Keeping a spotlight on state-sanctioned violence against black people, activists have opened up a debate, including in corporate media, that addresses racism and white supremacy in ways more searching and less euphemistic than we’re used to. At least, fewer pundits tell us we’re living in a “post-racial” society—that’s a start.
CounterSpin frequently engages corporate media’s role in issues of racial justice. We’re going to revisit a few of those conversations on this week’s show.
We’ll hear from UCLA professor and author Robin Kelley, from media activist Malkia Cyril of the Center for Media Justice, and from researcher and author Richard Rothstein of the Economic Policy Institute.
Most Africans came to America as slaves, which means that they were selected from the low end of the slow thinking laboring-class. For the value of a black slave in the market place was greatest among those who had the weakest minds and strongest bodies.
Now the fact that everyone is born with a different level of intelligence, this is most perfect as it creates the opportunity for everyone to experience the bonding elements of society, namely compassion, pity and charity given in a way that produces a grateful response.
So, today the black race in Empire USA is the least educated and most impoverished because they are the least intelligent. Surely the heart and soul of the slow thinking laboring-class, that is the slum imprisoned blacks among us.
And as Empire USA has since World War II plundered half of the wealth on earth, the solution is simple, a law that gives the laboring-class lower half of society a forth of the wealth. For since 1776, all of the wealth in our Empire has been owned by our voting majority, namely the educated upper half of society.
Officers who use force and violence — Yours is a martyr’s profession
RULES
(1) Officer, your all encompassing priority is to reduce violence. If for any reason you should increase violence, even in self-defense, you shall be terminated from the force. Yours is a martyr’s profession.
(2) Officer, you shall never show your gun until after a suspect has pointed a gun directly at you. For if you escalate a violent encounter, for any reason, even in self-defense, you shall be terminated from the force.
(3) Officer, you shall never fire a weapon at a subject until after they fire a weapon at you. Otherwise you shall be terminated from the force, yours is a martyr’s profession.
(4) Officer, you shall never develop a god-ego by strapping a killing machine or Taser to your body. Hold a weapon in your hand or store it out of sight, else you shall be terminated from the force, yours is a martyr’s profession.
(5) If in the line of duty you should kill a man, woman or child, for any reason, even in self-defense, you shall be terminated from the force, yours is a martyr’s profession.
A recent report stated that 45% of those attacked with a taser by police have “mental illness.”
Not so, surely this is not so. For they are the homeless and most perfect is their perfectly normal intelligence. For the rich nobility have their mansions because of high intelligence, the Country Club class have their gated communities, middle-speed thinkers have their middle-class do nothing existence, laboring-class has their slow of thought slavery and to see if society has a heart, the homeless are the slowest among those so slow of thought.
For by intelligent design, “The poor you will always have with you.”
@JohnEllis02: There’s a Presbyterian Church in Syracuse, N.Y., with a nearly all black congregation because in 1942 a little white boy organized a church-league basketball team and invited blacks in his school to join it. His father, an elder in the church, insisted that to play on the team, the black kids had to join the church, which was then 100% white. His father took up collections, and when black families started showing up at the services and sitting in the back, he invited them to sit up front.
That little boy is now 85 years old. He has had black friends and acquaintances all his life, and he has never seen any evidence that they are intellectually inferior to whites. On the contrary, when he looks at the back of his hand, all brown splotches on pink with bulging blue arteries and veins, he suspects that blacks are a more developed race than whites.
Nothing like a comment thread that makes you lose all faith in humanity.
@JohnEllis02: “Now the fact that everyone is born with a different level of intelligence”
It’s not a fact at all, but a long-discredited theory. Your comment makes clear that ideology is in fact that the great limiter of effective intelligence.
There are only two possible reasons why you state that it is degrading to call someone less intelligent. Either you bigoted and predigest against we who are less intelligent, or your hired by the rich to destroy the place.
TO — Michael Lubin
There is only one reason why your educated upper half of society gets away with hoarding all the wealth, you lie through your teeth when you say that the laboring-class lower half is too lazy to get a college education.
TO — Lupine
Surely it is like solitary confinement posting in this forum, until we start exposing all the wealth hoarding corruption going on in your upper half of society.