[FONT="] Warning! This post contains some shocking political incorrectness-isms that might be offensive to certain conventional-minded and conservative members of the reading audience. To begin with, political and Islamist “terrorism” is a safety concern and obsession mainly of middle-class white folks. In neighborhoods of color, neighborhoods stricken by the inequality, disenfranchisement, and permanent pauperism of their residents, the real, daily threat and terror comes from poverty and its symptoms; from homicidal gangs such as the Crips and MS-13; from deadly drugs such as crack cocaine and crystal meth; and from “law enforcement”, which functions like modern-day slave catchers nabbing and incarcerating the inner city’s menacing Mandingos and other melanin-rich inhabitants, so that the privileged pasty populace of Middle America can feel safe and shielded from the anger and anomie that the ghettoized lumpenproletariat have been systematically reduced to.
[FONT="] Ironically and hypocritically, the people who are really made nervous by “terrorism” as such, are those in the blanched business and political establishment who create the socioeconomic conditions conducive to domestic street terrorism (aka gangbanging and crime) in the good ole USA, as well as creating the injustices and ills in Third World countries that give rise to political terrorism.
[FONT="] Well, naturally enough, this caucasoid capitalist ruling class is highly concerned about the dangers presented by the Hispanic and black communities that it's consigned to a chronically marginalized and disaffected place in society's power structure; and on high alert regarding the violently anguished masses of the LDCs (less developed countries) that it keeps economically downtrodden and despoiled. And, naturally enough, geopolitically and monetarily mighty whitey doesn’t actually seek solutions per se for the disadvantages and unfair disparities experienced by our society’s and our world’s dark-skinned demos. For doing so would mean altering the current politico-economic and racial status quo, something the Euro-American corporatocracy is exceedingly loathe to do.
[FONT="] Instead, what the moneyed albocracy does is it illegitimates certain reactions to the economic, political, and racial domination it exercises by employing labels and categories such as “terrorist”, “lawbreaker”, “juvenile delinquent”, etc. It then proceeds to launch a “war on crime”, and a “war on terror”. That is, it’s response is always to assert more control, never to look for real remedies for underlying sociological diseases.
[FONT="] The mostly pale-faced plutocracy is predictably reactionary because its real priority is merely the preservation of its power and predominance in the national and global scheme of things. It’s not about to acknowledge culpability for much of the material suffering, political injustice, and human wretchedness rampant in the world today – no, it’s not about to honestly acknowledge its major part in manufacturing the circumstances producing so much crime, hate, and violence. Rather, our attention and fear is focused upon various “bad guys”, upon the foreign “terrorist”, the brown barbarians at our gate (or border fences), and the scary predatory black man. In other words, scare tactics and blaming the victim are the preferred forms of damage control.
[FONT="] Meanwhile, the real apex predators at the top of the sociopolitical food chain, i.e. the honky high chiefs of big business and government continue exacerbating the true factors behind the growth of “terrorist” movements and crime cartels. Again, these factors are gross economic inequality and poverty, the political peonage of most of the planet’s population, and a distinct racial imbalance in the distribution of status, privilege, clout, and leadership.
[FONT="] Well, you can bet that when empowerment is only for the fair-of-hue and flush favored few, that the resulting ressentiment and rage will foment civil disorder, revolutionary resistance, and guerrilla warfare. And yes, sometimes these responses of the maltreated, largely dusky lower classes will manifest as the T-word, “terrorism”. To paraphrase Malcolm X, what we call terrorism is merely the chickens of our own capitalist, classist, colonialist, and racist modus operandi coming home to roost – with bombs and suicidal ardor.
[FONT="] Alas no, I’m not just rhetorically playing the ole race card, the T-word is causally interlinked with the R-word, with our WASP elite’s global reign of greed, with the ruthlessly self-serving way it exercises the rich North’s hegemony over the poor South, with the way it grinds the nigrescent faces of fellaheen and campesinos in subservience to us, i.e with all the inhumane ways it expresses the “white power” our technological, military, and economic muscle grants us.
[FONT="] Does it still seem out-of-line and sensationalistic to drag racism into the discussion of “terrorism”? Well, let me do what I should have done to begin with, let me digress for a brief moment to undertake what Confucius called the “rectification of terms”, let me clarify what the R-word really means, sociocritically speaking. To gnomically nutshell it, if we define racism as the members of a race unjustly asserting their interests and advantage over another race or races; if we reckon it to be a structural sin, the sin of a system and a society in which most of the economic and political power-possessors belong to a certain racial identity-group and build that group’s supremacy and sway into the system, then we have a deep grasp of what racism really denotes for its victims, and we begin to grasp how our society and the current world order is most certainly and thoroughly racist.
[FONT="] Racism, you see, is not just an ugly attitude in the mind of the beholder, it’s an asymmetrical and discriminatory power dynamic that falls along racial lines in a society. Racism is not just the prejudiced thinking of bigots, it’s the racially dichotomous nature of the social pecking order. Racism is not just Archie Bunker ethnocentrically preferring to live in a lily-white neighborhood, it’s a real estate company redlining minorities out of middle-class communities; it’s businesses denying gainful employment to excessively tanned people; it’s society denying equal educational and quality-of-life opportunities to people from the wrong side of the racial tracks; it’s a Western nation, such as ours, coercively imposing the will of its Anglo-Saxon aristocracy upon Latin Americans, Africans, Asians, and Muslims.
[FONT="] The classism, unfettered capitalism, and imperialism that interblend with bigotry to produce racism are all working in unison to give us a racist world system in which most poor and deprived people are several shades darker than most affluent and “blessed” global citizens; a planetary hierarchy in which the Third World is run down into being the ghetto of the more upscale white countries; a Third World full of disrespected and consequently disgruntled victims of First World racism – some of whom are prepared to take action, and take up arms, aka “terrorists”.
[FONT="] The phenomenon of “terrorism” then, in large measure, is the creation of our Third World-raping, racist ruling class’s criminal tendencies and trespasses. And the media bogeyman of “terrorism” is merely the way the corporatocracy spin doctors the violent wrath its own ungentle and unjust ways have brought down upon us all.
[FONT="] More than that, “terrorism” serves the diversionary purposes of the media’s owners as well. It can be and is used to distract our minds away from the painful state of the economy, away from the disillusioning reality of politics, and away from our own disgruntlement. Our fear of and anger for foreign-born bad guys, for those evildoing “terrorists” eclipses and refocuses our discontent about the unrighteousness and dysfunctionality of the system we too live and suffer under. Instead of concentrating our attention and anger on the nefarious doings of our own plutocratic power elite, we dwell on the danger from without. We even come to see our masters as our protectors, rather than the remote and true cause of the “terrorist” threat.
[FONT="] As if this all isn’t bad enough, the use of mostly olive-brown “terrorists” as alien bogeymen, as the new swarthy savages that we civilized Western folk need to be preoccupied with feeds into people’s race-based ignorance, hostility, and hate. That is, it fortifies the bigotry component in racism. Thus “terrorism”, the way our media and leaders generate and use it, turns out to be a most vicious circle in connection with racism. Until we all summon the moral integrity and courage to face this, “terrorism” will continue to be a facet of modern life.
[FONT="] Ironically and hypocritically, the people who are really made nervous by “terrorism” as such, are those in the blanched business and political establishment who create the socioeconomic conditions conducive to domestic street terrorism (aka gangbanging and crime) in the good ole USA, as well as creating the injustices and ills in Third World countries that give rise to political terrorism.
[FONT="] Well, naturally enough, this caucasoid capitalist ruling class is highly concerned about the dangers presented by the Hispanic and black communities that it's consigned to a chronically marginalized and disaffected place in society's power structure; and on high alert regarding the violently anguished masses of the LDCs (less developed countries) that it keeps economically downtrodden and despoiled. And, naturally enough, geopolitically and monetarily mighty whitey doesn’t actually seek solutions per se for the disadvantages and unfair disparities experienced by our society’s and our world’s dark-skinned demos. For doing so would mean altering the current politico-economic and racial status quo, something the Euro-American corporatocracy is exceedingly loathe to do.
[FONT="] Instead, what the moneyed albocracy does is it illegitimates certain reactions to the economic, political, and racial domination it exercises by employing labels and categories such as “terrorist”, “lawbreaker”, “juvenile delinquent”, etc. It then proceeds to launch a “war on crime”, and a “war on terror”. That is, it’s response is always to assert more control, never to look for real remedies for underlying sociological diseases.
[FONT="] The mostly pale-faced plutocracy is predictably reactionary because its real priority is merely the preservation of its power and predominance in the national and global scheme of things. It’s not about to acknowledge culpability for much of the material suffering, political injustice, and human wretchedness rampant in the world today – no, it’s not about to honestly acknowledge its major part in manufacturing the circumstances producing so much crime, hate, and violence. Rather, our attention and fear is focused upon various “bad guys”, upon the foreign “terrorist”, the brown barbarians at our gate (or border fences), and the scary predatory black man. In other words, scare tactics and blaming the victim are the preferred forms of damage control.
[FONT="] Meanwhile, the real apex predators at the top of the sociopolitical food chain, i.e. the honky high chiefs of big business and government continue exacerbating the true factors behind the growth of “terrorist” movements and crime cartels. Again, these factors are gross economic inequality and poverty, the political peonage of most of the planet’s population, and a distinct racial imbalance in the distribution of status, privilege, clout, and leadership.
[FONT="] Well, you can bet that when empowerment is only for the fair-of-hue and flush favored few, that the resulting ressentiment and rage will foment civil disorder, revolutionary resistance, and guerrilla warfare. And yes, sometimes these responses of the maltreated, largely dusky lower classes will manifest as the T-word, “terrorism”. To paraphrase Malcolm X, what we call terrorism is merely the chickens of our own capitalist, classist, colonialist, and racist modus operandi coming home to roost – with bombs and suicidal ardor.
[FONT="] Alas no, I’m not just rhetorically playing the ole race card, the T-word is causally interlinked with the R-word, with our WASP elite’s global reign of greed, with the ruthlessly self-serving way it exercises the rich North’s hegemony over the poor South, with the way it grinds the nigrescent faces of fellaheen and campesinos in subservience to us, i.e with all the inhumane ways it expresses the “white power” our technological, military, and economic muscle grants us.
[FONT="] Does it still seem out-of-line and sensationalistic to drag racism into the discussion of “terrorism”? Well, let me do what I should have done to begin with, let me digress for a brief moment to undertake what Confucius called the “rectification of terms”, let me clarify what the R-word really means, sociocritically speaking. To gnomically nutshell it, if we define racism as the members of a race unjustly asserting their interests and advantage over another race or races; if we reckon it to be a structural sin, the sin of a system and a society in which most of the economic and political power-possessors belong to a certain racial identity-group and build that group’s supremacy and sway into the system, then we have a deep grasp of what racism really denotes for its victims, and we begin to grasp how our society and the current world order is most certainly and thoroughly racist.
[FONT="] Racism, you see, is not just an ugly attitude in the mind of the beholder, it’s an asymmetrical and discriminatory power dynamic that falls along racial lines in a society. Racism is not just the prejudiced thinking of bigots, it’s the racially dichotomous nature of the social pecking order. Racism is not just Archie Bunker ethnocentrically preferring to live in a lily-white neighborhood, it’s a real estate company redlining minorities out of middle-class communities; it’s businesses denying gainful employment to excessively tanned people; it’s society denying equal educational and quality-of-life opportunities to people from the wrong side of the racial tracks; it’s a Western nation, such as ours, coercively imposing the will of its Anglo-Saxon aristocracy upon Latin Americans, Africans, Asians, and Muslims.
[FONT="] The classism, unfettered capitalism, and imperialism that interblend with bigotry to produce racism are all working in unison to give us a racist world system in which most poor and deprived people are several shades darker than most affluent and “blessed” global citizens; a planetary hierarchy in which the Third World is run down into being the ghetto of the more upscale white countries; a Third World full of disrespected and consequently disgruntled victims of First World racism – some of whom are prepared to take action, and take up arms, aka “terrorists”.
[FONT="] The phenomenon of “terrorism” then, in large measure, is the creation of our Third World-raping, racist ruling class’s criminal tendencies and trespasses. And the media bogeyman of “terrorism” is merely the way the corporatocracy spin doctors the violent wrath its own ungentle and unjust ways have brought down upon us all.
[FONT="] More than that, “terrorism” serves the diversionary purposes of the media’s owners as well. It can be and is used to distract our minds away from the painful state of the economy, away from the disillusioning reality of politics, and away from our own disgruntlement. Our fear of and anger for foreign-born bad guys, for those evildoing “terrorists” eclipses and refocuses our discontent about the unrighteousness and dysfunctionality of the system we too live and suffer under. Instead of concentrating our attention and anger on the nefarious doings of our own plutocratic power elite, we dwell on the danger from without. We even come to see our masters as our protectors, rather than the remote and true cause of the “terrorist” threat.
[FONT="] As if this all isn’t bad enough, the use of mostly olive-brown “terrorists” as alien bogeymen, as the new swarthy savages that we civilized Western folk need to be preoccupied with feeds into people’s race-based ignorance, hostility, and hate. That is, it fortifies the bigotry component in racism. Thus “terrorism”, the way our media and leaders generate and use it, turns out to be a most vicious circle in connection with racism. Until we all summon the moral integrity and courage to face this, “terrorism” will continue to be a facet of modern life.
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