Palestine in America: Our own war here at home
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This happened here, in this country, on New Years day. At a BART station in Oakland, CA, across the bay from San Francisco.
His name was Oscar J. Grant. He was 22 years old. He was somebody’s dad.
His family has filed a $25 million law suit. If justice is served (“if”), it will only be because somebody caught it on tape – regardless of the number of witnesses present.
Folks see this in their neighborhoods everyday. Here, in this country, everyday. And nobody cares. Some folks can’t be believed no matter what they say. No matter what evidence they have. These are stories we can’t bear to believe. They’re too difficult to come to terms with. After all, we are the civilized.
Every couple of hours, today’s Al Jazeera (English) keeps looping back to footage of a gentleman in Gaza holding the corpses of toddlers with sniper bullets in their chests. He insists — and this is proof, he says — that Israeli soldiers are very explicitly targeting civilians. Sniper bullets!
Following him, there’s an interview with another gentleman from the UN who insists — insists — that there were no Hamas militants at that school Israel targeted. None. I’ve seen him give interviews all over the place. He’s everywhere. The guy with the black hair, balding on top, slight combover. Ah! There he is again. John Ging. Something tells me he’s hoping, since they don’t believe Palestinians, maybe they’ll believe it when a White guy says it.
That remains to be seen. I don’t doubt, as is the case over and over again in cases like these, they’ll consider him a liar like they do their victims. Again, some stories are too difficult to come to terms with; too difficult to bear.
We are the civilized.
[Tarboush Tip: Alvaro]
