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]
QuiQui, you’re a pain in the ass. Isn’t there some Columbian labor leader assassinated every 10 mnutes you could report about also?
Are you a Jew?
QQ, it happened at the Fruitvale Bart station in Oakland, not San Francisco.
You are all doing a great job in writing about Zionist atrocities.
Saludos.
Shokran. I fixed it. Good looking out.
Whoops! Looks like Will fixed it. Thanks hbb!
“”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.”"
It’s a fundamental problem of organization; hierarchies of power are necessary for a well-functioning society, but those hierarchies often corrupt from within if left unchecked. Though it takes a very high degree of corruption for the society to become worse than it’d be with no such hierarchy of power.
One concrete point where we could work to better ourselves, I think, is that the ‘protest lifestyle’ has become too comfortable — and it siphons people who’d normally be making a positive difference into a totally ineffective role.
Real institutional change comes from WITHIN, not from mass movements of protest.
If the protesters filming that atrocity were smarter, the lesson they’d take away from it is, “Holy shit, we need to train our damnedest to become cops, so in situations like that, we’re the ones making sure nobody gets shot, not some asshole like that guy.”
Instead, they’ll go twitter about it or something.
For the most part, you don’t change an institution by protesting it; you change an institution by joining it.
Anyone out here with a bullshit liberal arts degree who’s outraged by atrocities like these: Do something about it. Train to become a police officer. Join the FBI. The CIA. The NSA. Encourage your like-minded friends to do likewise.
You’ll make more of a difference than protest anger ever will.
(And again, this highlights the critical difference between ineffective leftists like QuiQui, and liberals like myself.)
My condolences to the poor young man and his family.
You guys can’t find anything to insult QuiQui on other than her political sympathies?
For the most part, you don’t change an institution by protesting it; you change an institution by joining it.
Perhaps more liberals should have joined the SS.
I’m not American so I shouldn’t really be commenting but here it is anyway:
What is wrong with you people???
Where’s the Greece style protests??
Yes, you should be joining the Police to make sure that people with common sense make up the Police Force, but that doesn’t meant that you shouldn’t protest. A similar event happened here in Britain where a Brazilian was shot dead because Police thought he was a terrorist. Eventually (taking 4 years), the head of the Police was forced to resign.
maybe this is a dumb question, but I don’t understand why the guy was shot. what was he doing wrong?
He was existing as a brown man.
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