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<H2 class=date-header><SPAN>Tuesday, July 16, 2013</SPAN></H2>
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<H3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name">Zimmerman murder. Capitalism
wipes its brow and launches counter offensive. </H3>
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itemprop="description articleBody"><FONT size=3><STRONG>Relieved that there were
no mass riots after the racist verdict in the murder of Trayvon Martin US
capitalism are wiping their brow and launching a new offensive to blame
black people. In the Wall Street Journal today there are 17 items of worldwide
news on the long column the regularly have down their front page. These cover
the news in the US also. Yesterday these included at the top the news of the
racist verdict. Today there is not a mention of it. The only mention of the case
in the entire paper is a single column inside the back page which blames black
people. Believe it or not this quotes Martin Luther King. Of course not where he
says that there is something wrong with capitalism in the US and the country
must move to democratic socialism.<BR><BR>This columnist who blames black people
makes a lot of use of figures on crime. Of course he does not mention the
criminality of the ruling class which keeps the system loaded against the
working class and the poor and the majority of the black and Hispanic
population. For this capitalist mouthpiece crime is okay as long as it is
carried out by the bankers, the corporate class and their bribed politicians.
For this capitalist mouthpiece it is okay to leave out how living in poverty and
coming out of a history of centuries of repression can and does affect all
of us. <BR><BR>But to go back to the arguments this mouthpiece makes about crime
in black neighborhoods. For over 300 years black people were forced to work for
no pay in this country. Their children were taken from them and sold. They were
whipped and murdered and raped and lynched and their bodies burnt. Then when
slavery was ended they were and still are forced to work for less wages than the
rest of the working class. They were kept out of the skilled trades. This is the
reality that exists for black people. The fact that the black revolt scared
the capitalist class and saw it promote and bribe a few black politicians to
hold down the black working class as a whole does not change this
fundamental reality. Obama in the White House does not change the fact that the
overwhelming majority of black people still live in poverty and at a lower
standard than other workers and under the vicious racist repression of this
racist state. Obama is a fraud for black workers and youth. He says of the
racist verdict on Trayvon Martin that "We are a nation of laws" and calls on all
to accept this racist verdict. I wonder when we became a nation of laws. Is the
firing of drones to kill children in other countries the actions of a nation of
laws. Is the torture in Guantanamo bay and the solitary confinement of thousands
of prisoners a sign of a nation of laws. <BR><BR>It is hard to think of a more
racist society in the advanced capitalist world than the US. It is hard to think
of a more censored mass media in the advanced capitalist world than the US. And
it is impossible to think of any society in the advanced capitalist world that
is more racist and sexist. The most important leaders of black America
in the past 50 years, Malcolm X, the Panthers, Martin Luther King all came to
the conclusion that US capitalism had to be overthrown and a socialist society
established. They were correct.
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