"Wake up to the REAL way the system operates and then maybe you can know how out-of-place your hate is. The average white person has NO say in the way things are ran, place your hate at the controllers of the system. ANYTHING else is falling to the trap 'they' place."
Says the person who has never read a book about race or politics. You are playing a role RIGHT NOW and your actions here reflect that. What do you do for the world that is so great, high and mighty? In what ways have you taken the time to educate yourself? How do you know the REAL way the system operates? You are talking to people who organize communities, stage protests, and scare governments. My city just successfully demanded the FIRST EVER documented case of Reparations for Black people in America. What have YOU done?
And Black Live Matters isn't an organization, there is no official funding for it. It's a movement made up of coalitions, advocacy groups, and individuals. Some people with lots of money have donated to certain coalitions within the movement so that they can use it for things like Bail funds. Your outrage over this is pretty silly. Every successful movement ever has had rich people contribute to campaigns. That's just how it works, we live in a world where you need money to do things. In my city, we got reparations for victims of police torture and had to fight for it every step of the way. Don't make generalizations, and don't assume we don't know how the system works when some of us dedicate our lives to understanding it so that we can strategically and effectively dismantle it.
For someone who bashes on mainstream media so much, you seem to rely on it for your opinions pretty extensively. And all of the "sources" you've linked (if you can call youtube a "source) have been from conservative neoliberal news outlets, which is kind of ironic. You are falling for a corporate agenda hook line and sinker.
Immortal Technique isn't my favorite--but here's an excerpt from a spoken word piece of his that I really like. I dunno what else to tell you...if you don't get it, that's on you and not on us. Understanding takes effort and motivation, which you clearly seem to lack. But please read this.
"I'm quite sure that people will look upon my attitude and sentiments and look for hypocrisy and hatred in my words. My revolution is born out of love for my people, not hatred for others
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As different as we have been taught to look at each other by colonial society, we are in the same struggle and until we realize that, we'll be fighting for scraps from the table of a system that has kept us subservient instead of being self-determined. And that's why we have no control over when the embargo will stop in Cuba, or when the bombs will stop dropping in Vieques
But you see, here in America the attitude that is fed to us is that outside of America there live lesser people. "Fuck them, let them fend for themselves." No, Fuck you, they are you. No matter how much you want to dye your hair blonde and put fake eyes in, or follow an anorexic standard of beauty, or no matter how many diamonds you buy from people who exploit your own brutally to get them, no matter what kind of car you drive or what kind of fancy clothes you put on, you will never be them. They're always gonna look at you as nothing but a little monkey. I'd rather be proud of what I am, rather than desperately trying to be something I'm really not, just to fit in. And whether we want to accept it or not, that's what this culture or lack of culture is feeding us
I want a better life for my family and for my children, but it doesn't have to be at the expense of millions of lives in my homeland. We're given the idea that if we didn't have these people to exploit then America wouldn't be rich enough to let us have these little petty material things in our lives and basic standards of living. No, that's wrong. It's the business giants and the government officials who make all the real money. We have whatever they kick down to us. My enemy is not the average white man, it's not the kid down the block or the kids I see on the street; my enemy is the white man I don't see: the people in the white house, the corporate monopoly owners, fake liberal politicians; those are my enemies. The generals of the armies that are mostly conservatives; those are the real Mother-Fuckers that I need to bring it to, not the poor, broke country-ass soldier that's too stupid to know shit about the way things are set up
In fact, I have more in common with most working and middle-class white people than I do with most rich black and Latino people. As much as racism bleeds America, we need to understand that classism is the real issue. Many of us are in the same boat and it's sinking, while these bougie Mother-Fuckers ride on a luxury liner; and as long as we keep fighting over kicking people out of the little boat we're all in, we're gonna miss an opportunity to gain a better standard of living as a whole
In other words, I don't want to escape the plantation. I want to come back, free all my people, hang the Mother-Fucker that kept me there and burn the house to the god damn ground. I want to take over the encomienda and give it back to the people who work the land
You cannot change the past but you can make the future, and anyone who tells you different is a Fucking lethargic devil."
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