Jamaal Bowman
Posted on 12/21/2020 6:59:43 PM PST by MarvinStinson
House Representative-elect and new “Squad” member Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) proclaimed Monday that capitalism is “slavery by another name.”
Bowman said in an interview with The Root:
I believe our current system of capitalism is slavery by another name. We’ve moved from physical chattel enslavement and physical racial segregation to a plantation economic system. One that keeps the majority of Americans unemployed, or underemployed and struggling just to survive, while the power elite continues to concentrate wealth in the hands of a few, and allow large corporations to pretty much run the world as multinational corporations.
“The pandemic has revealed it. With almost 300,000 dead from the pandemic, disproportionately black and brown, and Jeff Bezos is the first $200 billionaire,” he added. “In the next six years, he might become the first trillionaire. That’s slavery by another name. It’s a system that’s not working, so we need a new system.”
Bowman, a former principal, made headlines earlier December when he accused police of “terrorizing black and brown communities,” and called for a dramatic reduction of officers in “poor communities.”
Bowman defended the slogan “Defund the Police,” claiming it means “a dramatic reduction in the number of police in our poor communities and, particularly, our poor black and brown communities.”
“Historically, when our communities have needed jobs, they didn’t bring us jobs. They brought us police, and they created a system of mass incarceration,” he told CNN.
Leading Democrats, including former President Barack Obama, have cautioned against “snappy” slogans such as Defund the Police, warning they aren’t as politically expedient as one may think.
“You lost a big audience the minute you say it, which makes it a lot less likely that you’re actually going to get the changes you want done,” Obama recently explained.
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Jamaal Bowman
Taxation IS Slavery.
Well then if he feels that way I guess he will have NO problem giving up the majority of his wealth to Govt since ya know, capitalism is so bad and stuff
I am sure that Mr. Bowman takes advantage of capitalism 24/7/365 unless he is living in a cold cave somewhere.
The hypocrisy is strong with the “squad.”
Hurr durr - I live in bizarro world where I force people to provide you food and healthcare and build you a house and I call that freedumb!
Wotta retard communist.
YOU are the “power elite,” twit!
What she is describing is “corporatism”, and yes, it is slavery. Just as socialism and fascism is...
True capitalism is what the US was built on, but then Democratics got involved...someone more patient than I should explain it to her
I am 100% confident this yahoo doesn’t actually live in a neighborhood he is advocating dramatically reducing the police in!
Question about The Squad——Where do they find these turkeys? Not one worthwhile member in the whole lousy club.
Communism is slavery, Commierad.
Socialism is slavery to the state.
No one is free unless everyone is in the chains of socialism, huh, big guy?
Why don’t you take your Trickle Up Poverty ass to Venezuela and leave us capitalist unmolested.
I believe Jamaal is free to leave, which is sorta like the antithesis of being a “slave”.
And his two armed security team members watching the gate and home entrance video boards agree that there's no worry with defunded local police. Just do common sense things to stay safe.
Since you bring it up, what is the going salary of a freshman Representative these days?
Take good ol’ fool “Jamaal”, and air drop him into China. Let him see how the common citizen lives over there. I wanna hear him squealing like a pig being trapped in China for the rest of his miserable life, dreaming of capitalism and the riches it accorded people. This guy is a classic “social justice warrior”, substituting easily repeated slogans for brains and reasoning. A dope.
Collectivism is starvation by another name.
Corry Booker is pissed !
Enough for tips at their top of the line fancy restaurants and elite resort vacations. With lobbyists who take care of the real income matters for them.
Pelosi, Feinstein, Bernie Sanders, Bill Clinton and all the rest never worked a real job in a real enterprise outside of politics "public service" work (stop laughing, please). Somehow they have hundreds of millions of dollars a few years later.
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