"ALL WHITES R TERRORISTS?"

@TAG, I accidentally flagged you while trying to recommend your comment. Sorry for that. I am having trouble with the new system.
Moon

BTW- Folks like Maurice Clemmons have totally repudiated Martin Luther King, Jr- it's obvious by their actions they have nothing but complete contempt for MLK, Jr.!!

Ever notice how the only people who want to dismiss or move on from racism are the people who directly profit from these actions, Until .you walk around in my skin ...BLACK skin and feel the stares of mistrust.the sideways glances.the over scrutinization of my very presence.only then will you understand. Racism for most non black people is out of sight out of mind. Rarely do they take a case of racism seriously because they are programmed to think "If the police shot him he must have done something" Or if you are out late at night you must be up to no good. we do not get the benefit of the doubt.Think about it how many times have you taken the other elevator because there was a black man on it. Tell the truth goddamit. white people have no more business talking about the racism a black man goes through every day. than a man has talking about childbirth and the pain that goes along with it. WE HAVE NO IDEA BECAUSE WE ARE NOT WOMEN AND CANT POSSIBLY CONCEPTUALIZE WHAT IT INVOLVES. The same applies to racism that we go through every day......oh yeah let me guess some of your best friends are black. and andy and amos was your favorite show until it was cancelled

Only A Pawn In Their Game:
By: Bobby D

A bullet from the back of a bush took Medgar Evers' blood.
A finger fired the trigger to his name.
A handle hid out in the dark
A hand set the spark
Two eyes took the aim
Behind a man's brain
But he can't be blamed
He's only a pawn in their game.

A South politician preaches to the poor white man,
"You got more than the blacks, don't complain.
You're better than them, you been born with white skin," they explain.
And the Negro's name
Is used it is plain
For the politician's gain
As he rises to fame
And the poor white remains
On the caboose of the train
But it ain't him to blame
He's only a pawn in their game.

The deputy sheriffs, the soldiers, the governors get paid,
And the marshals and cops get the same,
But the poor white man's used in the hands of them all like a tool.
He's taught in his school
From the start by the rule
That the laws are with him
To protect his white skin
To keep up his hate
So he never thinks straight
'Bout the shape that he's in
But it ain't him to blame
He's only a pawn in their game.

From the poverty shacks, he looks from the cracks to the tracks,
And the hoof beats pound in his brain.
And he's taught how to walk in a pack
Shoot in the back
With his fist in a clinch
To hang and to lynch
To hide 'neath the hood
To kill with no pain
Like a dog on a chain
He ain't got no name
But it ain't him to blame
He's only a pawn in their game.

Today, Medgar Evers was buried from the bullet he caught.
They lowered him down as a king.
But when the shadowy sun sets on the one
That fired the gun
He'll see by his grave
On the stone that remains
Carved next to his name
His epitaph plain:
Only a pawn in their game.

I wanted to comment on this article before people ripped to shreds but I am already too late. You have to understand the comment is about a perspective. “white people are terrorists" is not meant as cold hard fact. Its meant to introduce the reader to the experience of African American communities, which has not improved since the election of Obama. (I for one had no expectation that it would and warned that it was a way for the Democratic party to pacify their Black voters and then brush their concerns under the carpet.)

This is proof that paranoia is an equal opportunity employer.

I wonder if Mr. Maurice really wants the complete segregation and possible ghettoization of the populace if these BOW crimes persist. He couldn't blame non-African Americans for not wanting blacks in their neighborhoods, towns, cities, states, etc. I certainly wouldn't want angry people claiming their criminal actions are justified.

I can 'understand' his radical angle all be it, radical. I compare racism in the USA much like the 'cold war' with Russia. That they are both imagined by many to be over and are far far from it.
As I am frequently heard to say, "...wake up america..."

gepma--so what women are never discriminated against in society and what about Muslims? or gay and lesbian people or children or vegetarians or Christians or atheists or Jews or just about anybody who is a member of an subgroup--should we all f*** off because we aren't black men--who may or may not want to walk in your shoes--which reminds me what if I am in a wheelchair or got my legs blown off in Iraq protecting your freedom of speech? (and thus can't walk--sorry I figured from your post you might need the obvious pointed out to you)..but I guess you won't care because again I am not a black man WTF do I know? And according to you I am not worthy or intelligent enough to speak to the issues of discrimination or stereotyping or generally being hateful and myopic and how buying into these generalizations only furthers the divide and keeps us fighting with each other instead of working together to end ALL FORMS of discrimination and racism.

Bring It On.

Only a Black man can truely speak of the effects of racism on an everyday level. Anyone else is full of shit.....Walk a mile in our shoes...then and only then can you have an intelligent insightful opinion to offer.

Nothing a surgically placed Predator Drone wouldn't solve.

True, European and American culture has been dominated by racism for a long time. In fact, America was built on the destruction of countless native cultures. Thanks to democracy and education, that is changing. What we really need to do is stop pointing fingers at who is worse than who, and get to what's important, which is helping people feed their families, and keeping the government in check according to the interests of ALL its citizens.

Screw white supremacists, and screw the black panthers. They're both equally hateful, equally racist groups, and they have weak grips on reality. Anyone who gives radicalism of any kind a second of their time is wasting all of it.

Terrorist is an over used word. I don't think people even know what it means. Reminds me of the guy in the Princess Bride who kept saying Inconceivable and then his swordsman said, "I do not think it means what you think it means."

Yep I will agree all whites are TERRORISTS now that we have that settled what are we going to do to make things better for the rest of the world?

Eradicate whites, then another race can become dominant and start the process over again.

that is soooo punk . hellz yaaayuh .

racism is terrorism. isms are normally bad things.

The opinions in the article do not surprise me at all. Bigots come in all colors, including black.

um.....the president is black. So right now you're going to kill all white people and Obama?

not cool...

This is extremely wrong for anybody to say something like this. I have experienced his frustration on several occasions in my live, but to say and mean this with your heart is so wrong. I 've been terrorized by my own just as much in my adult life. I've had my home broken into by my own. People who have not paid financial debt to me and my wife were of my own kind.

For the most part the core establishment that sets the rule of law and enforces it in America are White, but today the negative effect of an unfair and unbalanced system affects everybody. Barack Obama is the president but he doesn't run this country. The Federal Reserve and Wall Street bankers do. He answers to them, and whatever they do affects us all.

I sorry to see this post, but the comment is just not true.

I'm not sure I like the black or the white people. They both seem like nothing but trouble to me.

reguardless of this chumps opinions they dont wanna walk that path i assure you.

You can't blame a whole race for the actions of a few, you can't argue that all people who are of middle eastern origin are responsible for the actions of the people who blew up the world trade centre. also as a side note Africans were being taken to asia as slaves long before europeans stated doing and Africans are not the only people to have been slaves it has happened for just about the whole of human history.

Somewhere along the line, the word 'terrorism' has become watered down. Yes, there are some arsehole officers, but terrorists?
This is just propaganda.

.....begining to think that our country has only gotten worse.....
The whole world has. It has nothing to do with Obama.

Slavery reparations? A mate of mine wanted that. HE wasn't stolen or bought, his ancestors were. He could have been living in Soweto but, because of slavery, he lives in a three-bedroom semi on a good estate, drives a Focus RS and earns close to £50,000pa. This is his reparation.

I'm speechless... this is unbelievably offensive.

This is still the divide and conquer attitude that hinders progress. As long as the powers that be can stir up unrest for reasons that most intelligent people know are bullshit, we will never be able to accomplish anything great and will be forever self destructively sprinting to our own extinction.

Now where are all the white women at? :D

my family and i have *nothing* to do with the oppression of black americans. during the civil war era we were part of the underground railroad. blanket statements like the one perpetrated by that website do nothing for their cause at all and further, serve only to further alienate those who would see an end to racism. hate and ignorance only beget hate and ignorance.

He's got his right to say this, but we aren't forced to agree with him. That's the great thing about free speech.

I do think that the police are terrorists though, not all of them, but they are being trained to be terrorists.

When you blame one race you become the problem.

Don't agree with the angle of the site, although some facts elucidated need to be more widely known.

As a Black radical, I can assure you (not that you require it or that it's the main focus of my work) that although most folks in our communities can definitely understand the sentiment behind the site, most would probably feel much of the solutions highlighted are unwarranted, muddled at best.

The police do, however, function as a kind of occupying army in the neighborhoods of certain ethnic groups. Of course my understanding of the historical development of the modern-day police is that it has everything to do with the type of political economy (capitalism) in which it was wrought and now forms a symbiosis.

This is just fancy language to say that the folks that created the webpage could use some development to see terror in the notion of police in general, not just "white cops," and hopefully re-examine the idea of government and freedom in general, just not "white" countries/laws.

To which your post alludes: you understand, of course, that this- the shocking presentation of position and ideas- is natural (as in, "readily understood") fallout from historic relationships between those identified and identifiable as Euro, African, black, white, rich, poor, etc.

All real revolutionaries understand that discussion and reconciling is key to real peace in the world (not our only skillset, but this marks our main trajectory).

Frustration comes about when we (those posited as "minorities" and pseudo-human "others", when we are not) are born into this society, neutral to most ideas and we keep being attacked and subverted- disproportionately to those even in the same "class." The link you posted exposes a segment of an oppressed community w/in the US where a multitude of strategies have been used for CENTURIES to curtail both horizontal (intra-group) and vertical (outside-sourced) violence, and at least begin the convo on causality - nevertheless, for many in this space, they've found that many of the older tactics and dialog are outmoded and ultimately gets us nowhere. Need I post hundreds of links to support this claim?...

I would suggest that you study in a more in-depth way the underpinning causes of such displays, communicate with others that both do and don't come to similar conclusions as yours, and not fall into the trap of thinking and almost expecting that there is an impending "race" war that's to occur fairly soon. Please develop ideas and act as though this can change in a substantive way.