Police and vigilante murders of African Americans rooted in national oppression (Masks coming off)

Fight Back! News ^ | September 6, 2014 | Freedom Road Socialist Organization

[2ndDivisionVet]

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On July 17, Eric Garner, an African American father of six, was choked to death by New York City police, who then went through his pockets instead of calling an ambulance. Three weeks later, Michael Brown was shot at least six times and killed by policeman Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri. His body was left in the street and no medical help was called. For more than a week the police refused to release Officer Wilson’s name and turned in no official police report. All of this shows that another cover-up is underway in the murder of Michael Brown.

Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Jordon Davis and Trayvon Martin and just the most publicized of the recent string of police and vigilante killings. Across the country Black and Brown men are being hunted down, some guilty of nothing more than “walking while Black,” while others are accused of petty crimes where the police have acted a judge, jury and executioner. These killings are but the tip of the iceberg. For every murder by police and vigilantes, there are thousands of Black and Brown men and women who are singled out by racist police, racist laws and courts set up for the rich and powerful, filling the prisons of this country.

One of the foundations of U.S. wealth is the oppression of African Americans. For the first 200 years of the British colonies and then the founding of the U.S., millions of Africans were taken from their families, homes and people to work as chattel slaves in the Americas. Millions died in the infamous “middle passage” between Africa and the Americas, and those who survive have been forged into an oppressed nation, with a common culture, language and economy in the U.S. South.

To suppress the slaves’ fight for freedom, the U.S. institutionalized local government militias to put down slave revolts. After the Civil War and the freeing of the slaves, the rise of the Ku Klux Klan, founded by former Confederate general Bedford Forrest, along with the with the use of African American prison labor in the infamous chain gangs saw the union of racist vigilantes and the system of police and courts, to enforce a system of U.S.-style apartheid segregation known as Jim Crow. This is at the root of the criminalization of Black people in the U.S.

Legal segregation was broken in the 1950s and 1960s by the African American freedom struggle known as the Civil Rights movement. This struggle not only brought about gains in the rights of, and opportunities for, African Americans, but also set the stage for Chicanos, Latinos, Asians, Native American, women, and LBGT people to launch their own movements for liberation. The 1960s was also a high tide for labor struggles and strikes, and saw the beginnings of many government programs such as Medicare, Head Start, Medicaid that benefitted the elderly, children and poor.

But the 1% who rule America rallied under President Nixon behind a two-fold strategy to deal with the Black Liberation Movement. On one hand, there was a wave of repression, centered around the FBI COINTELPRO to murder and jail African American leaders and organizations such as the Black Panther Party. At the same time, there was a conscious development of a new sector of Black capitalists and government managers. While traditionally Black-owned businesses were based in African American community and needed the support of the working masses, this new sector of elite African Americans was to serve at the highest level of U.S. corporations, military and government. One result is the traditional Black national bourgeoisie was weakened as mainstream corporations took their markets.

We can see this strategy at work today. On one hand there is the militarized response to the protests that rocked Ferguson for more than a week, complete with storm-trooper like police to military armored personnel carriers. On the other hand there are a few African Americans at the highest levels of power, from former military Chief of Staff Colin Powell, to Attorney General Eric Holder, to McDonald’s CEO Don Thompson, to president Barack Obama.

But the masses of Ferguson and their supporters from the Saint Louis area and around the country withstood both the police repression and the efforts of established Black leaders to cool out their fight. They rejected the police attempt to criminalize Michael Brown and to justify the shooting. While the media have been echoing the police claims of “outside agitators” across the country, in fact, the vast majority of those arrested were from the Saint Louis area.

The Freedom Road Socialist Organization hails the African American working masses of Ferguson and Saint Louis as heroes for standing up to intense police repression and continuing to fight, night after night, for justice for Michael Brown. Just as the Civil Rights movement attracted supporters from across the country, the fight in Ferguson is drawing people to the struggle today. Political consciousness is spreading, from rap artists who take up the cause to local politicians who side with the protesters and not the police.

New challenges will face the movement. Police body cameras, which many people hope will limit police brutality, are now being turned on the protesters to try to criminalize them. Officer Darren White has not been arrested, and instead the case has been turned over to a secretive grand jury under the direction of a prosecutor with strong ties to the police. Their plan is to drag out the proceedings behind closed doors for months and hope that the movement dies down, allowing them to let Darren Wilson go free.

There is a saying that there are many Black leaders, but there is no leadership. What is needed is leadership from a new generation of Black youth, who can organize and lead the working masses of African Americans in the ongoing struggle for justice, equality and power. Just as the Student National Coordinating Committee or SNCC emerged out of the Feb. 1, 1960 Greensboro sit-in and the wave of civil disobedience against segregation that followed, so today what is needed is grassroots, militant organizations that can rally a broad movement against racist police and vigilantes and for equality and power.

Above all, we must continue to focus on the demands: Justice for Michael Brown! Arrest and jail Darren Wilson and all killer cops and racist vigilantes!

[2ndDivisionVet]

These people, in their own way, are more dangerous to us than al Qaeda, the Muslim Brotherhood and ISIS.

[MeshugeMikey]

ah Venge Malkome Ex!!!......

[MeshugeMikey]

hey Al Sharpton....one of Obies Boyhood Heroes hasnt worn a mask since way before the ferguson mess came done....WAY WAY before...be mush assured....

[Mastador1]

I have to ask, the murders of African Americans by other African Americans, ( which I believe is the largest percentage )what exactly pray tell is that rooted in? Brotherly love? or is that all just orchestrated by racist Whitey?

[1010RD]

Right. What will Ill-Annoy Nazis say now: The white is using the black against the black?

[knarf]

Freedom Road Socialist Organization ... that’s all I needed to read

[Nuc 1.1]

All the wealth the slaves provided was destroyed when the north destroyed the old south. This article is pure bilge. And yes they are dangerous. The dim leadership thinks they can use and control these people. Well, they can use them and have for decades. But they are loosing control of the brainwashed blacks and brainwashed whites. In a recent past election dim candidates were attacked by their supporters using slogans about the Iraq war, as I recall. The dim candidates were incredulous that dim supporters actually believed the lies of the left. They have created a monster that in the end it appears will destroy the United States and the free world with it. And the dims will not survive that destruction.

[driftless2]

The biggest danger to any law-abiding black American is not the police but a young, black male. Nothing else comes remotely close.

[Secret Agent Man]

i see the black community is doubling down on blaming everyone else for their problems.

still can’t get past 93% of black murders committed by other black, yet whites cops and vigilantes are what’s destroying the black community.

[Dalberg-Acton]

I don’t understand how “Freedom” and “Socialist” can relate in that name.

[Brother Cracker]

[UCANSEE2]

The source seems like a Commie Front that wants to use the ‘blacks’ to overtake our nation.

[WilliamofCarmichael]

These are FBI stats from actual police records. This does not address directly any of the race-grievance industry's wild talk of white vigilantes murdering black Americans round the clock but the arrests for murder by race seen pretty even until you consider that whites out number blacks by at least a minimum of 6-to-1.

The separate publication called the Department of Justice Criminal Victimization in the United States, [YYYY] Statistical Tables had race of victim and race of offender for a variety of offenses but those data (in Table 42 of Criminal Victimization in the United States, [YYYY] Statistical Tables) are no longer published since Obama-Holder Dept of Just Us took over. A little too much racial honesty, I guess, when it came to rape and sex crimes. Just to emphasize.. the Criminal Victimization in the United States, [YYYY] Statistical Tables are not police records they are surveys of crime victims.

FBI Homicides Statistics

Year of Stats	Race of Victims	Total	White Offenders	Black Offenders	Unknown & other
2012	White	3,128	2,614	431	83
	Black	2,648	193	2,412	43
2011	White	3,172	2,630	448	94
	Black	2,695	193	2,447	55
2010	White	3,327	2,777	447	103
	Black	2,720	218	2,459	43
2009	White	3,518	2,963	454	101
	Black	2,867	209	2,604	54
2008	White	3,643	3,036	504	103
	Black	3,024	230	2,722	72
2007	White	3,587	2,918	566	103
	Black	3,221	245	2,905	71
2006	White	3,709	3,026	573	110
	Black	3,303	208	3,034	61
2005	White	3,785	3,150	516	119
	Black	3,289	230	2,984	75
2004	White	3,727	3,123	522	85
	Black	3,067	228	2,784	55
1995	White	4,954	4,124	699	131
	Black	4,764	281	4,422	61

I did not find data for the years 1996 through 2003

www.fbi.gov About Us CJIS UCR Crime in the U.S. Here's the links to most of the FBI tables I referenced above.

Here's 2012

Here's 2011

Here's 2010

Here's 2009

• choose Continue to Crime in the United States, 2009
• choose Homicides
• choose Expanded Homicide Data Table 6

Here's 2008

Here's 2007

• choose Homicides
• choose Expanded Homicide Data Tables / Table 5

Here's 2006

• choose Expanded Homicide Data
• choose Expanded Homicide Table 5

Here's 2005

• choose Expanded Homicide Data
• choose Expanded Homicide Data Table 5

[Zeppo]

His body was left in the street and no medical help was called.

Uh, "He's dead, Jim..."

[M-cubed]

what exactly pray tell is that rooted in? Brotherly love? or is that all just orchestrated by racist Whitey?<<

as I get older....I think its time to fund both sides of the “Black on Black Wars”...When they quit..the few survivors will prolly run the country in a few years after..../s

[WilliamofCarmichael]

Millions died in the infamous “middle passage” between Africa and the Americas . . . .

Here's the source for that. A U.S. Congressman said it and the MSM reported it so it must be true. Golly.

Is that a reference to Congressman Major Owens saying slave traders threw 200 million Africans into the ocean on the way to the Americas?

Democratic [Congressman Major Owens] from New York City . . . stated in a 1995 speech on the House floor that during the African slave trade more than 200,000,000 people were thrown over the sides of the slave ships which carried them across the Atlantic, permanently disrupting the ecology and causing sharks to follow any and all ships since the trade was stopped in the 1850's. This figure worked out to be 152 slaves taken aboard nine ships per day for 200 years to get the total amount of slaves thrown overboard. After reworking his absurd figure down to 100,000,000 slaves, Owens' claim was picked up by ABC News, which reported the claim as "fact".

Another example of now some blacks take advantage of Black Privilege and have total disregard for facts. One sure thing, MSM employees back Black Privilege 100 percent.

[CorporateStepsister]

“Millions died in the infamous “middle passage” between Africa and the Americas . . . .”

And they’re still holding a grudge?

[El Cid]

“Millions died in the infamous “middle passage” between Africa and the Americas . . . .”

I doubt it was millions as the slave traders were in the business to make money, and not dump bodies overboard.
I doubt reasonable accounting ledgers exist, but we should consider the two alternatives:
1) Their neighbor tribesmen that took them prisoners would have just killed them had there been no option available to sell them.
2) They'd have been sold to Muslim customers who would have castrated the males.

There is no excuse for slavery. It is a sin that has existed since probably at least the time of Nimrod, and exists today. It is an abominable defiance of God's command to love our neighbors as ourselves. That said, when people complain about how their ancestors were brought as slaves to America, they should consider the alternatives.

[Lil Flower]

Lead the working masses of African Americans

Working masses? Hahaha

[tumblindice]

Or me be ‘e was just restin’.
It would have been awkward if they tried to zip him up or cover him and wheel him into a meat wagon, and he jumped up and ran off.
So they just wanted to make sure he was completely dead.