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Our insurgency at home
White America must return to the source of its racist society. They must take responsibility for slavery, Jim Crow and the Ku Klux Klan. Restitutions must be made.
By Dylan Miracle
The shooting of a black man by a white police officer last Sunday resurrected the debate of whether the Austin Police Department is an intrinsically racist institution, or whether minorities experience a greater number of entanglements with the police because a greater number of criminals are minorities. While there are problems within APD, this shooting points to a deeper problem in our inherently racist society.
When a white officer shoots a black man, it is easy to fault a racist cop. When a white officer is quick to shoot a black man out of fear, the racist society is at fault. That officer may believe that the black man views the police as an institution made with the purpose of arresting and harassing black men.
We have passed the eras of slavery and Jim Crow, but they have left a virulent and powerful legacy. Our powerful economy was built upon slave labor, and the very group of people who were once slaves now suffer the most crime - poverty and incarceration.
The two major political ideologies in the U.S. have different solutions to the problems of black crime, black poverty and black incarceration. The conservative solution is one of punishment - the black communities teach disrespect for the law and should therefore be punished. Further, this view claims poverty is a result of laziness and should not be rewarded with government handouts. Build enough prisons to contain criminals from the black communities and eventually only those who respect the law will be left. This is the "strict father" model. The strict father will discipline his children when they do wrong and eventually they will be good. The model of discipline was also used between masters and slaves. The conservative solution to the problems facing black society is a perpetuation of the system that created the racist society in the first place.
The liberal solution is one of nurturing - black communities are poor and helpless and need guidance by a helpful white society. Parents should pick children up when they fall and nurture them to become compassionate adults. Welfare and education are the way to bring a decrepit black society into the light of liberal whiteness, as the nurturing of a parent will create empathy and economic success. Liberal policy still holds black society as being a child who should be molded into the white ideal.
Both major political philosophies are racist in their solution to crime, poverty and incarceration in the black communities. White America must return to the source of its racist society. They must take responsibility for slavery, Jim Crow and the Ku Klux Klan. Restitutions must be made.
As the U.S. pulls out of Iraq over the next decade, trillions of dollars will be spent on propping up the economy of the Iraqi people. No expense will be spared to make sure a powerful Iraqi economy exists and that the U.S. is its primary trading partner.
A strong economy will also ensure that there is no effective Iraqi insurgency. Black society in the U.S. needs exactly that kind of economic restitution. Instead, societal pressures suggest blacks must abandon their culture and become more like their white counterparts in order to participate in the economy.
White society is not improving black communities by treating them like children to be nurtured or punished. While white society and black society are not completely segregated, to many growing up in poor black communities, the affluence of white society may seem unattainable. Through this disparity, and through botched attempts to fix poor black communities, white society has created an insurgency of young, black men. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, a black male has a 32 percent likelihood of going to prison in his lifetime - that's 26 percent more likely than a white male.
Police are on the front lines of a fight against our own citizens. If the police are on the front lines of a fight against black men, it is to be expected that black men will continue to be shot by police officers. Quelling the insurgency at home requires white society to invest trillions of dollars into giving black society the power to build itself, guard itself and support itself.
Dylan is a physics graduate student.
http://media.www.dailytexanonline.c.../Opinion/Our-Insurgency.At.Home-2913261.shtml
White America must return to the source of its racist society. They must take responsibility for slavery, Jim Crow and the Ku Klux Klan. Restitutions must be made.
By Dylan Miracle
The shooting of a black man by a white police officer last Sunday resurrected the debate of whether the Austin Police Department is an intrinsically racist institution, or whether minorities experience a greater number of entanglements with the police because a greater number of criminals are minorities. While there are problems within APD, this shooting points to a deeper problem in our inherently racist society.
When a white officer shoots a black man, it is easy to fault a racist cop. When a white officer is quick to shoot a black man out of fear, the racist society is at fault. That officer may believe that the black man views the police as an institution made with the purpose of arresting and harassing black men.
We have passed the eras of slavery and Jim Crow, but they have left a virulent and powerful legacy. Our powerful economy was built upon slave labor, and the very group of people who were once slaves now suffer the most crime - poverty and incarceration.
The two major political ideologies in the U.S. have different solutions to the problems of black crime, black poverty and black incarceration. The conservative solution is one of punishment - the black communities teach disrespect for the law and should therefore be punished. Further, this view claims poverty is a result of laziness and should not be rewarded with government handouts. Build enough prisons to contain criminals from the black communities and eventually only those who respect the law will be left. This is the "strict father" model. The strict father will discipline his children when they do wrong and eventually they will be good. The model of discipline was also used between masters and slaves. The conservative solution to the problems facing black society is a perpetuation of the system that created the racist society in the first place.
The liberal solution is one of nurturing - black communities are poor and helpless and need guidance by a helpful white society. Parents should pick children up when they fall and nurture them to become compassionate adults. Welfare and education are the way to bring a decrepit black society into the light of liberal whiteness, as the nurturing of a parent will create empathy and economic success. Liberal policy still holds black society as being a child who should be molded into the white ideal.
Both major political philosophies are racist in their solution to crime, poverty and incarceration in the black communities. White America must return to the source of its racist society. They must take responsibility for slavery, Jim Crow and the Ku Klux Klan. Restitutions must be made.
As the U.S. pulls out of Iraq over the next decade, trillions of dollars will be spent on propping up the economy of the Iraqi people. No expense will be spared to make sure a powerful Iraqi economy exists and that the U.S. is its primary trading partner.
A strong economy will also ensure that there is no effective Iraqi insurgency. Black society in the U.S. needs exactly that kind of economic restitution. Instead, societal pressures suggest blacks must abandon their culture and become more like their white counterparts in order to participate in the economy.
White society is not improving black communities by treating them like children to be nurtured or punished. While white society and black society are not completely segregated, to many growing up in poor black communities, the affluence of white society may seem unattainable. Through this disparity, and through botched attempts to fix poor black communities, white society has created an insurgency of young, black men. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, a black male has a 32 percent likelihood of going to prison in his lifetime - that's 26 percent more likely than a white male.
Police are on the front lines of a fight against our own citizens. If the police are on the front lines of a fight against black men, it is to be expected that black men will continue to be shot by police officers. Quelling the insurgency at home requires white society to invest trillions of dollars into giving black society the power to build itself, guard itself and support itself.
Dylan is a physics graduate student.
http://media.www.dailytexanonline.c.../Opinion/Our-Insurgency.At.Home-2913261.shtml
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