I’m reminded of one of the things that radicalized me. It was Angela Davis explaining how violence in service of black liberation wasn’t becoming violent but rather returning fire after decades and centuries of a one sided race war.
The rich decry class war when the working class step out of line, but every poor family struggling to meet their needs is a victim of a class war. Every hungry person, every homeless person, every person relegated to the criminal class is a victim of class war. Every worker struggling with any or all bills needed to keep their life together is a victim of a class war. We’re taught to sympathize with the rich, expected to see their success as necessary, taught to not demand too much of them, taught to forgive any evil of theirs. They have been waging a class war on us for a very long time. We can continue to suffer or we can strike back.
They can join us on an equal footing or they can find the final equalizer.
Your first paragraph reminded me of a song that has stuck with me since I heard about it. Give the song “Long Violent History” by Tyler Childers a listen. Obviously I don’t know your musical tastes, but it’s a powerful message in a genre that typically doesn’t embrace the same ideologies.
There was a video clip of a woman speaking about supermarket looting that made me start questioning my total pacifism. This is a different video transcript from her but, on the same topic. I really appreciated how she laid it out.
… So if I played 400 rounds of monopoly with you and I had to play and give you every dime that I made, and then for 50 years, every time that I played, if you didn’t like what I did, you got to burn it like they did in Tulsa and like they did in Rosewood, how can you win?
- Kimberley Latrice Jones on the topic of the social contract.
Skin colour was just a visual indicator of class that told white people that black people were lower in the social hierarchy than them. There’s a lot of overlap, it’s not like white people were terrified of the colour brown generally.
I think it would be a mistake to say that the Tulsa massacre, also known as The Black Wall Street wasn’t a heady mixture of both classism and racism.
This is some /r/im14andthisisdeep garbage. Don’t turn this place into some wannabe terrorist keyboard warrior forum. This Fain guy is being completely nonviolent and seems to be going well with negotiations. Grow up.
I’m reminded of one of the things that radicalized me. It was Angela Davis explaining how violence in service of black liberation wasn’t becoming violent but rather returning fire after decades and centuries of a one sided race war.
The rich decry class war when the working class step out of line, but every poor family struggling to meet their needs is a victim of a class war. Every hungry person, every homeless person, every person relegated to the criminal class is a victim of class war. Every worker struggling with any or all bills needed to keep their life together is a victim of a class war. We’re taught to sympathize with the rich, expected to see their success as necessary, taught to not demand too much of them, taught to forgive any evil of theirs. They have been waging a class war on us for a very long time. We can continue to suffer or we can strike back.
They can join us on an equal footing or they can find the final equalizer.
The time is NOW!
Your first paragraph reminded me of a song that has stuck with me since I heard about it. Give the song “Long Violent History” by Tyler Childers a listen. Obviously I don’t know your musical tastes, but it’s a powerful message in a genre that typically doesn’t embrace the same ideologies.
There was a video clip of a woman speaking about supermarket looting that made me start questioning my total pacifism. This is a different video transcript from her but, on the same topic. I really appreciated how she laid it out.
I don’t think the Tulsa Race Massacre was a class thing but a race thing, with the whites killing black people.
Skin colour was just a visual indicator of class that told white people that black people were lower in the social hierarchy than them. There’s a lot of overlap, it’s not like white people were terrified of the colour brown generally.
I think it would be a mistake to say that the Tulsa massacre, also known as The Black Wall Street wasn’t a heady mixture of both classism and racism.
This is some /r/im14andthisisdeep garbage. Don’t turn this place into some wannabe terrorist keyboard warrior forum. This Fain guy is being completely nonviolent and seems to be going well with negotiations. Grow up.
So, uh, have you done anything for this meaningful in this “class war”?