Mr Uncle Leroy
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They'd be killed if they were black: Is it true? Maybe blacks need to employ some of the militia techniques,because clearly its working for militia. While racism was rampant in the 60s, the Black Panthers openly marched with weapons into city hall in California, without problems, and the Black Panthers has some correspondence with the good of Legal enforcements, back in the day.
The blacks panthers show of power did lead to law changes. Today, now, no hostages are in Oregon, it is a wilderness town, cloud blacks pull it off? Or is FBI and local police trying to buy time. Is the slight, really, if blacks dont try it and animosity exist towards blacks. It cannot be done? It seems whites getaway scott free experience creates, a giver up scenario, where, if you want to do something you cant? because, white boy got away with it?
Where the black comparisons?
Really?
Who wants to start a militia?
Where the black comparisons? The white man is not better. Where are and how can blacks flex some muscle? Or is we just being naive!
They’d be killed if they were black: The racial double standard at the heart of the new Bundy family standoff
Armed white men seize a federal building. The government stands down carefully. But a 12-year-old with a toy gun?
(Credit: Reuters/Jim Urquhart)
At least 150 armed white men have seized control of a federal building outside of Burns, Oregon. They are led by a cadre which includes Ammon and Ryan Bundy. They are the sons of Cliven Bundy, the rancher who led a successful armed rebellion against federal law enforcement officers in Nevada last year. Since that event, Ammon and Ryan Bundy have been traveling the United States, meeting with other white “militia” groups, and inciting violence against the federal government.
The Washington Post reports:
“Those who want to go take hard stand, get in your trucks and follow me!” Ammon Bundy declared to rally-goers at the conclusion of Saturday’s event, according to several people who were in attendance. Not long afterward, the group had taken over the federal wildlife preserve.
Harney County Sheriff David M. Ward said authorities from several law enforcement organizations were monitoring the ongoing incident.
“These men came to Harney County claiming to be part of militia groups supporting local ranchers,” Ward said in a statement Sunday. “When in reality these men had alternative motives, to attempt to overthrow the county and federal government in hopes to spark a movement across the United States.”
Several of the men occupying a federal wildlife preserve in Oregon have even recorded “goodbye” videos to their relatives in anticipation of being killed in battle with the United States government. Others have threatened to use deadly force if local police or other government forces attempt to remove the protesters from the land and building they have occupied.
The actions taken by Ammon Bundy, Ryan Bundy, and their supporters in Oregon are the very definition of terrorism and armed insurrection.
It would seem that the year 2016 has begun with a strident example of unapologetic white privilege in action.
[Oregon is a perfect place for such a gesture, as it was admitted to the Union in 1859 with a constitution that explicitly banned blacks from the state. Black Americans were barred from moving to Oregon until 1926. The Ku Klux Klan and other white terrorist organizations used violence and other forms of intimidation in their (failed) efforts to prevent black Americans from settling in the area. At present, white nationalist organizations continue to claim the area as a foothold and primary base of operations.]
White privilege has many components. One of its most powerful aspects is the ability to twist reality, and by doing so, free white folks from personal responsibility (as well as group accountability) for their actions. There are many examples of this phenomenon in the United States. White men who commit mass shootings are “mentally ill” and not “terrorists.” Heavily armed white cops who kill unarmed and defenseless black people were acting “in reasonable fear of their lives.” White conservatives who gather by the dozens and hundreds and then point loaded guns at federal authorities are described by the right-wing news entertainment media as “patriots.”
And of course to be “white” is to be unmarked by “race.” Therefore, there will be little mention of the fact that these right-wing traitors are white men. Moreover, the connections between the Christian White Identity Movement will also go uncommented upon by the mainstream corporate news media.
The latter’s coverage of the events in Oregon has followed this script very closely.
The New York Times described the events in Oregon as “Armed Group Vows to Occupy Office in Oregon for ‘Years’.”
ABC News reported on a “Peaceful protest followed by Oregon wildlife refuge action.”
Surprisingly, Fox News, while still quite literally whitewashing their headline, came the closest to the truth with their, “Armed militia occupying Oregon government building.”
It does not take an amazing act of creativity to envision how the same actions—and much less—if taken by blacks, Hispanics, Muslims, or First Nations peoples would likely be described by the American corporate news media.
If Muslims took up arms, occupied a federal building, recorded martyrdom videos, and threatened to kill police and other authorities, they would be called “terrorists.”
Is it true? they will be killed if they were black?
They’d be killed if they were black: The racial double standard at the heart of the new Bundy family standoff
They’d be killed if they were black: true or not?
The blacks panthers show of power did lead to law changes. Today, now, no hostages are in Oregon, it is a wilderness town, cloud blacks pull it off? Or is FBI and local police trying to buy time. Is the slight, really, if blacks dont try it and animosity exist towards blacks. It cannot be done? It seems whites getaway scott free experience creates, a giver up scenario, where, if you want to do something you cant? because, white boy got away with it?
Where the black comparisons?
Really?
Who wants to start a militia?
Where the black comparisons? The white man is not better. Where are and how can blacks flex some muscle? Or is we just being naive!
They’d be killed if they were black: The racial double standard at the heart of the new Bundy family standoff
Armed white men seize a federal building. The government stands down carefully. But a 12-year-old with a toy gun?
(Credit: Reuters/Jim Urquhart)At least 150 armed white men have seized control of a federal building outside of Burns, Oregon. They are led by a cadre which includes Ammon and Ryan Bundy. They are the sons of Cliven Bundy, the rancher who led a successful armed rebellion against federal law enforcement officers in Nevada last year. Since that event, Ammon and Ryan Bundy have been traveling the United States, meeting with other white “militia” groups, and inciting violence against the federal government.
The Washington Post reports:
“Those who want to go take hard stand, get in your trucks and follow me!” Ammon Bundy declared to rally-goers at the conclusion of Saturday’s event, according to several people who were in attendance. Not long afterward, the group had taken over the federal wildlife preserve.
Harney County Sheriff David M. Ward said authorities from several law enforcement organizations were monitoring the ongoing incident.
“These men came to Harney County claiming to be part of militia groups supporting local ranchers,” Ward said in a statement Sunday. “When in reality these men had alternative motives, to attempt to overthrow the county and federal government in hopes to spark a movement across the United States.”
Several of the men occupying a federal wildlife preserve in Oregon have even recorded “goodbye” videos to their relatives in anticipation of being killed in battle with the United States government. Others have threatened to use deadly force if local police or other government forces attempt to remove the protesters from the land and building they have occupied.
The actions taken by Ammon Bundy, Ryan Bundy, and their supporters in Oregon are the very definition of terrorism and armed insurrection.
It would seem that the year 2016 has begun with a strident example of unapologetic white privilege in action.
[Oregon is a perfect place for such a gesture, as it was admitted to the Union in 1859 with a constitution that explicitly banned blacks from the state. Black Americans were barred from moving to Oregon until 1926. The Ku Klux Klan and other white terrorist organizations used violence and other forms of intimidation in their (failed) efforts to prevent black Americans from settling in the area. At present, white nationalist organizations continue to claim the area as a foothold and primary base of operations.]
White privilege has many components. One of its most powerful aspects is the ability to twist reality, and by doing so, free white folks from personal responsibility (as well as group accountability) for their actions. There are many examples of this phenomenon in the United States. White men who commit mass shootings are “mentally ill” and not “terrorists.” Heavily armed white cops who kill unarmed and defenseless black people were acting “in reasonable fear of their lives.” White conservatives who gather by the dozens and hundreds and then point loaded guns at federal authorities are described by the right-wing news entertainment media as “patriots.”
And of course to be “white” is to be unmarked by “race.” Therefore, there will be little mention of the fact that these right-wing traitors are white men. Moreover, the connections between the Christian White Identity Movement will also go uncommented upon by the mainstream corporate news media.
The latter’s coverage of the events in Oregon has followed this script very closely.
The New York Times described the events in Oregon as “Armed Group Vows to Occupy Office in Oregon for ‘Years’.”
ABC News reported on a “Peaceful protest followed by Oregon wildlife refuge action.”
Surprisingly, Fox News, while still quite literally whitewashing their headline, came the closest to the truth with their, “Armed militia occupying Oregon government building.”
It does not take an amazing act of creativity to envision how the same actions—and much less—if taken by blacks, Hispanics, Muslims, or First Nations peoples would likely be described by the American corporate news media.
If Muslims took up arms, occupied a federal building, recorded martyrdom videos, and threatened to kill police and other authorities, they would be called “terrorists.”
Is it true? they will be killed if they were black?
They’d be killed if they were black: The racial double standard at the heart of the new Bundy family standoff
They’d be killed if they were black: true or not?
