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"In the wake of the deadly terror attacks
in Paris, Republicans across the board
want to change the rules in the middle
of the game. Isn’t it funny how a slew
of white corpses turn men into mice?"
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Isn’t
this the strangest thing? Donald Trump and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz joined
the chorus of Republican governors vowing to defy the Obama
administration’s plan to accept 10,000 Syrian refugees into the United
States. Isn’t it funny that Republicans had no problem accepting
refugees from wherever, as long as they served their purpose? Now that
they’re scared to death, they want to put the brakes on.
In the wake
of the deadly terror attacks in Paris, Republicans across the board
want to change the rules in the middle of the game. Isn’t it funny how
a slew of white corpses turn men into mice?
Now,
Republicans don’t mind opening the floodgates to Pakistani and migrants
from India when they wanted more techies? Nor, do they mind opening the
floodgates to brown bodies from South of the Border when they want
their houses cleaned, gardens manicured or fruit picked; all the while
undercutting American wages and employment opportunities.
The
governors of at least 27 states — all but one of them Republican — say
they will refuse to accept any refugees from Syria following the
revelation that one of the terrorists involved in Friday’s attacks may
have entered Europe as part of a wave of migrants from the war-torn
region. None of those 27 governors spoke up to demand that the US stop
de-stabilizing those African countries. On the positive side, there are
15 states that are willing to accept Syrians (…and the jobs Black
Americans won’t get when the Syrians arrive is another commentary).
Now,
Americans—white Americans—are playing the race card. It’s evident that
“terrorism” fear is the veil being used in lieu of fear of “those dark
skinned-people.” Whenever it comes to carrying out “The American Way,”
the way gets lost when the people are dark. Remember Haitians? Remember
Rwandans? Sure, you’ve got institutional selective memory, huh?
After
Friday the 13th November attack in Paris, white people are scared…once
again. Fear is the usual excuse for acts of racism, though no one
openly claims it. For all of the de-stabilization that the US partakes
in, they should be scared.
And, Republicans are running with people’s heightened sense of fear…
While
Republicans are whipping up the fear of Syrians turning into truck
bombers on American soil, I know they really are not the dangerous
ones. Consider, William Hudson―the Texas man charged with killing six
people at an East Texas campsite in early November 2015. Hudson had
befriended the group earlier, even helping them dislodge one of their
vehicles from mud. Let’s continue.
Thirty-three
year old William Hudson met the seven people―all members of two
families― and spent time speaking with them on a Saturday. One of the
campers’ vehicles became stuck in mud and Hudson pulled it out. Later,
the seven campers, with Hudson, gathered around the campsite, hanging
out together. What happens next?
Hudson
returned hours later and killed six of them, though authorities have
not said how or why. The bodies of a man and a woman were found in a
travel camper and four bodies, including one child, were later pulled
from a pond about a half-mile away. One woman survived and alerted
authorities.
Now, back
to fear of Syrians..The US unapologetically claims an exceptionalism
that’s insulting to anyone else’s existence. Who do you know that
enjoys being the butt of someone else’s supremacy? That’s the idealism
of the infamous Ku Klux Klan.
Hudson’s
alleged murder spree and the KKK epitomize evil. And, if they don’t,
what does? White men have proven themselves to be as dangerous—if not
more—than any other group of people on planet earth! Yes, I am sick and
tired of America’s white society making me out to be the bad guy―and
any brown person, or any non-Western European, non-Christian―for that
matter. Any people with pigment darker than a brown paper bag gets
attacked by people of Western European heritage. This is not hyperbole.
I’m stating an fact.
So. If you
want to talk about keeping danger out of this country, start with
Western European white people. They’ve historically harmed everyone
they’ve encountered. Just ask the Arawaks of the Caribbean or First
Nations people of the Americas. I see these recent acts of terrorism as
simply an excuse to go Klan, resulting in subversive acts of genocide
against brown and black people.
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BlackCommentator.com Columnist, Perry Redd, longtime activist & organizer, is the Executive Director of the workers rights advocacy, Sincere
Seven that currently owns the FCC license for WOOK-LP 103.1FM/ok103.org. His latest book, Perry NoName: A Journal From A Federal Prison-book 1 , chronicles his ‘behind bars’ activism that extricated him from a 42-year sentence and is now case law. He is also the author of As A Condition of Your Freedom: A Guide to Self-Redemption From Societal Oppression, Mr. Redd also hosts a radio show, Socially Speaking, from his Washington, DC studio. Contact Mr. Redd and BC.
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