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#CrimingWhileWhite: Ammon Bundy's Oregon Terrorists and Weaponized White Privilege Prevails Again
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Ultimately, in the United States white people can point guns at police and federal authorities with relative impunity. Black and brown people who are unarmed do not have such latitude. They are dispatched with lethal force after being presumed a “threat” by police who are “in fear of their lives.” It would seem in America that melanin is death while whiteness is life.
Thursday’s acquittal of the Bundy militants, by an all-white jury, is a de facto endorsement of political violence by conservatives and other members of the American right-wing against the United States government. This decision comes at a very perilous moment in American life.
The FBI and other law enforcement agencies have categorized the so-called sovereign citizen and broader Christian right-wing militia movement (of which the Bundy militants are part of) as being a greater threat to America’s domestic security than Islamic terrorists.
The Guardian newspaper, as well as organizations such as the Southern Poverty Law Center, have also identified the right-wing militia and sovereign citizen movements as being a threat to local order and government in areas across the rural parts of the United States.
Donald Trump has told his supporters to intimidate and harass black and brown voters in America’s “inner cities” on Election Day. As reported by The Washington Post, white right-wing militia groups such as the Oath Keepers are planning to following through on his commands:
Thursday’s acquittal of the Bundy militants, by an all-white jury, is a de facto endorsement of political violence by conservatives and other members of the American right-wing against the United States government. This decision comes at a very perilous moment in American life.
The FBI and other law enforcement agencies have categorized the so-called sovereign citizen and broader Christian right-wing militia movement (of which the Bundy militants are part of) as being a greater threat to America’s domestic security than Islamic terrorists.
The Guardian newspaper, as well as organizations such as the Southern Poverty Law Center, have also identified the right-wing militia and sovereign citizen movements as being a threat to local order and government in areas across the rural parts of the United States.
Donald Trump has told his supporters to intimidate and harass black and brown voters in America’s “inner cities” on Election Day. As reported by The Washington Post, white right-wing militia groups such as the Oath Keepers are planning to following through on his commands:
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http://www.chaunceydevega.com/2016/11/crimingwhilewhite-ammon-bundys-oregon.html
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A storm is coming...
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and if these clowns aren't dealt with swiftly and firmly when they cause disruptions based on some white privilege right that they have made up that they feel is their privilege in their mind only they will continue as a cancer does, growing cell by cell. These people want a civil/class/race war to justify their pitiful, pathetic lives. Trump is just the latest catalyst to spur the white righters on. He won't be the last.
Perhaps Obamacare can help them. I have my doubts so many of them are incurable. No matter, we are taking this forward. I sure as hell am not going back. We are taking this forward together.
That is a fact. 