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Judi Lynn

(160,219 posts)
Tue Dec 9, 2014, 05:29 PM Dec 2014

Divide and Conquer, the American Way

December 09, 2014

Rebellion: From the Boston Tea Party to Ferguson

Divide and Conquer, the American Way

by SANFORD KELSON


“Black on Black crime” is a racist statement. It is an attempt to excuse the illegal killing of Black citizens by certain police officers because Black citizens have illegally killed Black citizens. Law enforcement officials serve the cause of justice in our name. Nothing non-state criminals do, regardless of their race, can excuse any illegal conduct by police officers.

NYC had a policy to stop and frisk Black Americans without any reasonable suspicion of criminal activity. The same percentage of White citizens use and sell illegal drugs as Black citizens but Whites are not stopped and frisked without reasonable suspicion. White collar crime abounds in Wall Street but business men are not stopped on the streets to have their brief cases searched.

Oppression in America extends beyond what occurs in the Black communities. Certainly you remember the wider oppression? Remember a few examples:

Remember the savings and loan scandals of the 1980s and 90s? 1,043 savings and loan associations in the United States failed due to white collar crime. Thousands of innocent customers suffered great financial harm.

Remember the Enron scandal? Enron customers were cheated through fraudulent overcharging. Hundreds, maybe thousands, of Enron employees lost their jobs, pensions, savings, health insurance and more by reason of its CEO’s criminal conduct. Innocent investors also lost millions of dollars.

More:
http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/12/09/divide-and-conquer-the-american-way/

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Divide and Conquer, the American Way (Original Post) Judi Lynn Dec 2014 OP
The American way indeed 99th_Monkey Dec 2014 #1
, blkmusclmachine Dec 2014 #2
 

99th_Monkey

(19,326 posts)
1. The American way indeed
Tue Dec 9, 2014, 05:47 PM
Dec 2014

"I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half." ~Jay Gould (19th Century Railroad Barron's
idea of how to destroy unions.)

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