Rafael Renteria, introduces his essay, “Look in the Mirror, Ward Churchill and White America”, with a defense of Ward Churchill by convicted cop-killer, Mumia Abu Jamal . Posted on 02/27/2005 5:47:26 AM PST by Beckwith
Rafael Renteria, introduces his essay, “Look in the Mirror, Ward Churchill and White America”, with a defense of Ward Churchill by convicted cop-killer, Mumia Abu Jamal .
"It is not enough for us to merely dumbly intone that Churchill has a right to write what he does. No. We must do more. We must insist that Churchill is right, and no one, not some rabid talk show parrot, nor a political whore like Governor Bill Owens, has a right to demand what is wrong, Churchill is right. From Death Row, this is Mumia Abu Jamal."
Renteria then writes, “It's the frontline of a war. Those of us who have not seen our colleagues or mentors purged from the academy can grasp neither the pain of it nor the stakes. Those who are purged are those who dream, for all of us, of a more natural condition, those who have not partaken in the great forgetting of their humanity that characterizes pre-fascist America.”
He continues, “But those of us who have seen it firsthand know the venal face of what America is becoming. I have often joked that those who have never been to jail have no education, no true sense of the meaning of the violence that permeates this culture, like blood seeps through the bandage covering the wound of an Iraqi child.”
Renteria’s negativity soars as he pleads, “I want to speak to you in your isolation, I want you to be in touch with your despair as I speak. I want you to remember what you already know -- the Earth is dying; oil is running out; Iraq is only the first in what will be a series of resource wars, as the impacts of global warming and peak oil cause the infrastructure we call globalization to collapse.”
“I want you to remember that George Bush and 59% of all Americans believe in Armageddon, just the way that we believe in Justice. I want you to remember that there is no time. It may already be too late. I want you to remember these things because it is only at the bottom of our despair it is only by touching that bottom that we can find its exit and emerge again into the possibility of enlightened, meaningful, even spiritual, action.”
“I want you to remember that America kills everyone who could lead it who threatens to lead it - out of its bloodlust, the sleepless remembrances of its genocides and Columbines, its My Lais and Sand Creeks, its Wounded Knees, Fallujahs and Alamos.”
Renteria then kicks into lefty overdrive with the following tirade. “Equality is a word that America hates, so let me say it again -- I am your equal, and I have no regrets. I blow myself up on you. “
He concludes with “One shows an implacable face to the enemy. This is the way of war. They never had any regrets and we, the Mexicans, we, the Palestinians, we, the Afghanis, Iraqis and Iranians, we the Black, we the Red, are the enemy.”
link: http://www.counterpunch.org/renteria02262005.html
All you white Christian Americans, either condemn yourselves as greedy, murdering imperialist pigs and destroy yourselves in shame, or else you are fascist Nazi pigs that must be destroyed by the 'enlightened' world.
Gosh, I don't feel the warm fuzzies here. I guess us fascist pig Americans just don't do enough for the people in the world. I'm going to destroy myself in shame. Anybody with me?
Note to Al Franken and other hosts at Scare America: Could you please give this guy a job? I believe he has the qualifications and would fit right in with the rest of you folks.
Thanks!
Hello, NY.
Do you really expect better behavior or more coherent thoughts from a former Pacifica network bigwig? For anyone who is not familiar with Pacifica, it is the DU of talk radio, full of lunatic conspiracists, promoters of extreme propaganda, for whom the truth is only useful as far as it will support their far left agenda, and when it won't, lies are just as good (they mix them so thoroughly that it's not worth even trying to debunk them--which is their intent). Pacifica is the first, and still the best, hate radio network.
Anyone who was a news director for them is either a hustler who doesn't care what he says or does if it'll get people to give him money (Pacifica operates on donations), or a true believer.
Thank you....everyone FREEP all the addresses are here...
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remind them THEY, the ADMIN of rotten CU are responsible
Look Jay, I know you're nice person and everything... but trashing my state ain't right.
You may say... no, I didn't say that, but I know you enough to know what you mean. And let me tell you.... it hurts, it hurts badly to be called a drug induced person. 
Beyond stupidity.Not worth my time to comment really. A royal class madman.Human garbage . Maybe he'll kill himself for whatever the hell cause he is ranting about.
"Speaking of which, why the He|| is Donna (the gorilla) Brazile a panelist on Meet the Press? Is she a regular? Is she now considered a journalist instead of a total left wing Rat party operative (like steffysyphilis). It's time to raise hell with ABC if she a regular."
Good greek! "Steffysyphilis"! I wondered how to spell George's name. Thanks.
Renteria is stark raving mad, he's bloated with insanity,
he reeks with irrationality.
Typical "liberal" spokesman exercizing his freedom of hate speech. Also, Democrat leader Dean states before the world that he "hates Republicans"! Very ill-liberals...How else would we know?
So we're not educated unless we've been to prison. No wonder Hillary Clinton wants felons to be eligible to vote.
Whew! Upsidedown and crazy...
It's ery clear thatRenteria is inspired by Karl Marx's
Contribution to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right:
Marx wrote:
"...but theory also becomes a material force as soon as it has gripped the masses. Theory is capable of gripping the masses as soon as it demonstrates ad hominem, and it demonstrates ad hominem as soon as it becomes radical. To be radical is to grasp the root of the matter."
That also explains the Democrats, Dizzy Dean, Michael Moore, Ted Kennedy, Julian Bond, et al. They grasp radical roots and demonstrate ad hominem.
Marxism is a mind game.
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