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Why Black Lives REALLY Matter: Corporate America is fueling race war to deflect attention from massive wealth inequality — RT Op-ed
Why Black Lives REALLY Matter: Corporate America is fueling race war to deflect attention from massive wealth inequality
We all live in a Material World surrounded by narraetives

Ask the average person on Main Street to describe the biggest news story of 2020 and the Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests will probably take a close second place just behind the Covid-19 pandemic. That answer, however, is more of a reflection of the US media’s unmatched power for shaping the public narrative than an honest assessment of the real problems confronting Americans. Indeed, far more worrisome than racial tensions, and a virus with a 99.75 percent survival rate, is the colossal transfer of wealth to the golden 0.01 percent.

Why Black Lives REALLY Matter: Corporate America is fueling race war to deflect attention from massive wealth inequality — RT Op-ed
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Systemic ‘bogan’ racism is on the decline in Australia

Global White supremacist attitudes are on the decline, including those of Australia’s bogan racists, writes Bilal Cleland. IN THE USA, we see White supremacists arming themselves, applauding the police killings of blacks, invading state and national legislatures and threatening prominent White politicians who resist them. Here in relatively COVID-19-free Australia, we suffer more from moronic bogan supremacists than armed insurgents. That there are terrorists amongst us is certain, as we saw from the Christchurch massacre, perpetrated by an Australian export. That we have wannabe fascist militias was indicated by the recent neo-Nazi weekend camp in the Grampians, although we are told that ‘they broke no laws’.

Systemic ‘bogan’ racism is on the decline in Australia
Default Racism, Internalised Racism

Capitol Attack Was Culmination of Generations of Far-Right Extremism

Kelley now worries that the downturn in organizing, coupled with the Biden-Harris victory and the spectacle of right-wing violence at the Capitol, could make that demobilization permanent. “What we end up doing is demobilizing the very anti-fascist movements that many of us were in the streets fighting for this summer,” he said. “And then re-mobilizing it against these mobs by giving the state a pass.” The challenge in a post-Trump United States is “reminding people that there’s a long history of racism, and it doesn’t come from white men with horns. It comes largely from state policy and a long history, and a deep history, that we have to contest,” Kelley said. Otherwise, he said, “I fear that the summer of 2020 is going to be forgotten.”

Capitol Attack Was Culmination of Generations of Far-Right Extremism
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A white farmer’s murder was deemed a racial issue. Then police arrested his widow
Wine farmer Stefan Smit drinks with friends at his Louiesenhof Wines farm which is next to the Kayamandi township outside Stellenbosch, South Africa, in 2018.

So when Smit was killed in June 2019, some people saw the case as evidence of targeted attacks against white farmers, a rallying point among white minority rights groups and their allies in the US who claim that white farmers are killed at higher rates than other South Africans. That narrative has been upended in this case, after the arrest of three people on murder charges, including Zurenah Smit, 54, Smit’s second wife. Advertisement

A white farmer’s murder was deemed a racial issue. Then police arrested his widow
Default Racism

Aboriginal people feel pressured to lose values, culture to be successful, study says – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

A new report suggests Aboriginal people are facing enormous pressure to lose their traditional culture in order to be successful in Australia.

Source: Aboriginal people feel pressured to lose values, culture to be successful, study says – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Default Racism, Internalised Racism, Racism USA

Woman Says She Endured 8 Days In Psych Ward Because Cops Didn’t Believe BMW Was Hers

NEW YORK — Kamilah Brock says the New York City police sent her to a mental hospital for a hellish eight days, where she was forcefully injected with powerful drugs, essentially because they couldn’t

Source: Woman Says She Endured 8 Days In Psych Ward Because Cops Didn’t Believe BMW Was Hers

Default Racism

Big game hunters are easy targets for our anger. It’s harder to recognize the evil we’re all complicit in every day

Lion: Our problem isn’t too much outrage — it’s that we can’t summon enough