Race -- Class and War

[RWalker]

That the US is racist should not surprise anyone, as Dr. King pointed out it was born in the blood of millions upon millions of Native people and built on the blood of millions of enslaved Africans. A pattern that continues today with the brutal oppression and exploitation of the indigenous peoples and of the Africans here.

But too often today some people try to tell us that all that is in the past..these are deliberate lies and to the extent that we buy into them they are fatal to us as a people and a culture, not only in the US, but this whole hemisphere, in Africa and indeed throughout the world.

Look carefully at how forces such as ANC and others readily embrace the US... in the face of the treatment of the Africans in Haiti a supposed ally of the ANC by the US and Canada, and France.

In the face of the treatment of Africans in Panama, Grenada, in the Dominican Republic...there are elements in the African world who try to convince us that Colin Powell, Condoleeza Rice, Susan Rice, Oprah Winfrey, Bill Cosby are representive of the progress of Africans. This is I repeat a dangerous phenomena.

The monster Gary Ridgway, given the name the Green River Killer by the racist settler media, has boasted of killing as many as 71 sisters and officially admitted to killing 48 young African women. Yet, even though Washington state has the death penalty it refused to give this beast the death penalty. Just as the case of the cannibal murder in Milwaukee who murdered, butchered and devoured up to two dozen African and one Asian male, the people will have to execute this monster.

On the larger scale we have the Africans in New Orlean, we know that the whole handling of the natural disaster was cynically designed to destroy the African community of New Orleans, as the A-APRP called it a "cybernetic lynching"...the government did nothing to help people and indeed FEMA and other agencies concentrated on pouring armed thugs into the area to oppress the people. Even Michael Brown then FEMA director recently indirectly admitted our assertions I quote:

"..Instead, Brown said Washington's bureaucracy stifled him. During the hurricane's recovery efforts, Brown said he called the president and informed him that 90 percent of those people living in New Orleans had been displaced.

"I said that this was beyond the capacity of FEMA to do everything that we needed to do," Brown said, adding that he asked the president for military support. "I was assured that that was going to be taken care of."

By the end of the week, Brown said he was still waiting.
> "There is an e-mail with some very colorful language in it of me asking, 'Where in the blankety-blank is the Army?'" Brown said.

The biggest mistake Brown said he made was not acknowledging that the federal government's response was devastatingly slow despite his best efforts. He said he got caught up in the White House's attempt at damage control by reciting only "approved talking points."

"You say, 'We are doing everything we possibly can. This is working very smoothly. We work together as a team,' " Brown said. "It's b.s

http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/15140709.htm

a young Chinese high school in New Orleans recent as a volunteer clean up person made this observation:

"...The number of deaths caused by Katrina was reported to be 1,836, but like the woman whose yard we were working on, millions more lost their lives that infamous day. In just one day, millions lost everything they once knew and loved. Millions of lives were destroyed, as homes, mementos, memories, and loved ones were swept away by this storm..."
http://www2.townonline.com/westborou...ticleid=545220

and an Arab commentator compared what is happening to the Lebanonese people to the plight of the Africans in New Orlean:

"I am sickened and saddened by the flow of refugees. Israel has some nerve asking hundreds of thousands of people to leave their homes or risk death. How are they to live and survive? Fend for themselves like the refugees from hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, U.S.A."

http://www.amin.org/eng/uncat/2006/july/july28-2.html

It is clear that institutional and individual racism in the US go hand and hand. We must not fall victim to those who would argue otherwise.


One of the major ancillary dangers of accepting this posture is a refusal to acknowledge the true nature of the US and therefore denying the reality of the US's geostrategic and geopolitical position.


The question is what can we do about it? Well, first of all there two points we must consider:

Point 1.
These strategies and positions have garnered very little support from US citizens, and even less from the people of the world.

The AU has started to flirt with alliances with such forces as rvolutionary Venezuela and others. Libya while happily embracing normalisation with the US warns us of the US ploys to occupy Africa militarily.

China and Russia grow ever more concern and have increased their military, cultural and economic collaboration Recent polls taken in Europe show that the overwhelminig numbers disapprove of the war policies and consider the US the number one threat to the world.

Even in the US the people in general do not support the power structures, at least that part of it they understand, which is the government front people.

Bush's approval rating in the latest Gallup polls is a measely 37% and his disapproval rating is 59%. (Bush Approval Rating Dips To 37% From 40% -Gallup Poll Dow Jones) These are particularly low given the fact that the Bush people planned on the support the commander - in - chief in time of war to carry them forward. As you know there is no majority support for the war policies, so that strategic tactic has failed miserably.

The US economy itself is still in the dumper, with a anemic growth rate of 2.5 and increasing inflation pummelling the citizenry. (Economy Grows at Slowest Pace Since End of 2005 AP WASHINGTON (July 28))

Much of the inflation of course has to do with the cost of energy (i.e., the petroleum industry's obsene profits) and the interest rate (the cost of capital)

The US Supreme Court, a backwards Reaganite court at that!, is growing nervous about the imperial contempt that the Bush administration shows for the US Constitution as is the ABA. Courageous legislators such as Cynthia McKinney and honest citizens such as Cindy Sheehan consistently hammer at aspects of the Bush and Co. policies. All these are pluses

and

Point 2.
There is a negative side -- a very big negative.
Through ruthless violence, including domestic actions (including the use of private mercenaries and importation of Israeli professional killers in New Orleans for example) have made it clear that they will use every possible means to suppress democracy.

Of course, as always those who profit are exploiting and encouraging the growth of racism in the society -- racism so pervasive that even the titular "head racist" Bush felt he had to give lipservice to its presence in his speech at the NAACP.

The powers behind the current administration and most of the Congress, manipulation of the media and the increased corruption of the already corrupt US electoral system (a system that showed its true nature early on with the election of Jefferson based on the 3/5 vote in the electoral colleges that the slave states got as part of the deal to create a centralized federal government...in essence the Africans held in slavery, who obviously could not vote, were counted in the electoral college count at the rate of 3/5 of a vote. The margin of Jefferson's victory was these votes.)

However in the cybernetic age there are greater opportunities available to those who want to manipulate the vote. In addition to attempts to reinstitute the poll taxes, excluding people from the rolls, not opening polling places, switching the location of polling places without notifying the voters, state election heads (such as in Florida and Ohio) acting as Bush campaign managers/officials and so forth...there is the Diebold and related phenomena. The phenomena of electronic voting is a growing problem as it is at this very (historical) moment being used against the McKinney campaign in Georgia and has been imposed on the whole country by these forces. Cynthia McKinney has also been specifically targeted by zionism because of her relatively even handed position on the vital questions concerning the "Middle East" areas and her support for movement personalities such as the late
Minister Khalid, one time leader in the NOI and founder of the New Black Panther Party. Just as they did in previous campaigns the zionist and other racist elements are pouring in large amounts of funds into the coffers of her opponent who promises to return her district to a position favoring the most ambitious zionist and general imperialist agenda.


What's behind all of this?


"While American families get tipped upside down and have their savings shaken out of their pockets at the gas pump, the Bush-Cheney team devises even more ways to line Big Oil's pockets," Rep. Ed Markey, a Massachusetts Democrat, said in a statement on Exxon's profits. He is a member of the U.S. House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee. from "Exxon Posts $10 Billion Profit, Shares at New High
NEW YORK (July 27)"

"The Bush administration said today there is a lot of support for us to attack Iraq. Exxon, Mobil, Texaco, Chevron, they're all lining up." Jay Leno

The comedian Mr. Leno of course is referring to the fact that Chevron, which is the parent corporation of Texaco and Chevron and Exxon Mobil, the parent corporation of Esso, Mobil and Europe's Exxon Mobil companies - and the entity with the world's highest capitalization are all making super profits from the global war dirve, that is essentially focused on the area the British Empire designated the Middle East, but is aimed at world domination based on two flawed geo-strategic visions. The Brzezinski view that the US will rule the world by conquerng "Eurasia" ( See his book, The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives, Zbigniew Brzezinski) and the nearly identical position of the so-called neocons Project for the New American Century http://www.newamericancentury.org/. people like William Kristol chairman and co-founder of the Project for the New American Century. and the owner of the Weekly Standard. http://www.weeklystandard.com/AboutUs/bio_kristol.asp

Kristol recently prompted a searing observation from Juan Williams, a talking head on Fox of all stations. Here is a quote about that confrontation. (to get the full story go to http://thinkprogress.org/2006/07/16/kristol-williams/)

"This morning on Fox News Sunday, William Kristol argued that the Bush administration’s “coddling� of Iran had “invited� the latest outbreak of violence, and that the United States should join in the current fighting. Juan Williams pushed back:

"You just want war, war, war, and you want us in more war. You wanted us in Iraq. Now you want us in Iran. Now you want us to get into the Middle East. … You’re saying, why doesn’t the United States take this hard, unforgiving line? Well, the hard and unforgiving line has been, we don’t talk to anybody. We don’t talk to Hamas. We don’t talk to Hezbollah. We’re not going to talk to Iran. Where has it gotten us, Bill?"


At first glance one might wonder how can I link Zbig from the Carter administration and Kristol long associated with the Reaganites. This is easily understood if you view a little history, Zbig, who is the architect who created Al Queda as a tool against the USSR in Afghanistan, and Kristol, the vanguard for the Bush-Reaganites, have a long history of collaboration, much of it related to big oil. For example Brzezinski was the chair of a group called American Committee for Peace in Chechnya and Kristol was one of the loyal members. (see http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/1429)

This committee for peace emphasized the immense oil resources in Chechnya. Is it not interesting how often the Brzezinski-Kristol croiwd are allied with selected "Islamic" extremists isn't it -- such as those in Chechnya?

The Chechnya oil resources brings up us back to the two quotes at the top of this message. The oil companies support of the war is tied to their commercial and economic agendas.

Chevron,the number 2 oil corporation and number 1, Exxon Mobil, for example have made huge profits. Exxon Mobil posting 10 billion quarterly profits, and Chevron 4.35 billion.
(See "Chevron Profit Surges on Higher Oil Prices" Reuters NEW YORK (July 28
and "Exxon Posts $10 Billion Profit, Shares at New High"
NEW YORK (July 27) Reuters)

The article points out that to make up for the percentage of oil that they, Mobil Exxon can't get is made up by exploiting West African sources...hello Nigeria and the other petroleum states such as Angola...

So what do we do? What can we do...

I can only suggest that what we CANNOT do is give up, we must never stop agitating, stop educating, stop organizing, stop our development activities (what the party calls Revolutionary Fund Raising)...we, in the words of the late Adam Clayton Powell, keep the faith. And from the maintenance of our faith, the faith in the human spirit first and foremost, we will find that the everyday global citizen is our best possiblities to save global human civilization.

In the words of Thomas Paine, one of the greatest of the many propagandists of the 18th century movement for an unilateral declaration of independence in this part of the Americas,

"THESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated..."
the American Crisis

We face a global crisis. We must at the minimum stay in contact with each other...this is what I am doing and I thank you for your efforts to do the same. Our lives, our futures and those of our loved ones born and unborn depend on people like ourselves, global citizens like ourselves, not giving up the faith...at the minimum we must accept the truth about the monster.

In short we must organize, organize, organize, I would personally add Build the party (i.e, build the A-APRP and associated agencies envisioned by Nkrumah) -- but that is my posture, for those who do not understand the logic of Nkrumah's strategy, I would say build organizations that serve the people and facilitate the unity of the people. I thank you.