A Rebuke to "Jim Crow 2.0", and the Roberts Court??
In his speech this morning to University students in South Africa, President Obama said it was the Divestment Movement to end Apartheid in South Africa that got him, at the age of 19, first interested in politics. Given the overwhelming numbers and large percentages of unemployed youth around the world today; that message should serve as a warning to young and old, black and white, rich and poor, and, especially, to those businessmen and investors who have financed our turn backward, towards "Jim Crow 2.0".
Facing only scattered and weak resistance, the tightly organized and well financed forces favoring racial suppression in this country prevailed, in the Roberts Court Rulings last week. Much tighter organization, and denial of financial support, for those funding and, otherwise supporting the Extreme Right, remain as the only weapons for resistance. We are bombarded with the wails of one such "business person" who is being abandoned in droves by corporate sponsors in response to uttered "racial" language. Since Citizens United, another gift of the Roberts Court, money has become the most valued weapon for those seeking to 'hold-tight' to the "white side" of the "color line". (Gays, who might think they received a "favor" from the Court last week, might re-consider; given the increased power the Court handed to the 50 States to restrict the right to vote for ALL citizens).
What "book" is the Court following? W.E.B. DuBois http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Souls_of_Black_Folk described in detail the "chapter and verse" of the methods we see practiced all around us, as the Congress and Court are in rebellion against the recent gains in Suffrage for black citizens. The Roberts Court. last week, abrogated, again, the 15th Amendment of our Constitution. Young citizens, victims of our "integrated education" of the past 50 years, do not understand what is happening. Read the "book"! It will provide fresh lens through which the Zimmerman Trial should be viewed. The 12 years between 1865 and 1877 provided the foundation for the "mess" our country is in today.
Another approach, practiced by many people I know is People-To-People Networking for purposes of gaining sustainable employment, and increasing individual control over personal time and quality of life. This is the only technique left to citizens, as corporations continue to "tighten the screws" in the work place. Removing discrimination (on the surface) for Gays, while ignoring age discrimination in hiring and job retention, only serves to short-change the entire economy. Ways have to be found for small businesses to "trade" and seek financing across borders, the way large companies do. Otherwise, the workers will never gain leverage, or stop the slide toward total peonage.
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