My HEAD explodes and It DOESN'T make the Nightly News
I read the first entry/watched the video on Huffington Post Headline about the US Correction system - Excuse me, could I PLEASE "correct" my journalistic mistatement
INCORRECT SYSTEM
If you watch the video ... with the spoiler alert ... prepare to be enraged/tearful/nauseous.
Cruel and All too Usual
I finished the first entry section of the article and
My head exploded with tears and strange barking sounds,
and I had to make a comment which turned into this Diary ---
I know that I am not the ONLY white woman that is enraged with the WHITE 1 per cent who love to point fingers at Black/Latino people primarily as the TRUE Criminals of this country! But it sure fucking feels this way! White people, even lovable liberal progressives like myself are magically, deliciously color-blind. And we can't even see the EXTREME injustice of us spending Bazillions of dollars locking up poor people and brutalizing in particular people of color .... ALL OF WHOM HAVE EARNED their RIGHT to be Angry - excuse me, thank you very much --- yet most of them magically, deliciously AREN'T mad enough to be incarcerated. Tip your hat to every minimum wage worker - the majority of the service people you will encounter everyday --- especially those SCARY EVIL BLACK people that the 1 per centers want us - everybody that ISN'T Black to watch over our backs for. But the Irony is ... we aren't watching over our backs or our wallets for the TRUE corrupt criminals ... Oh, let the 1 per centers have their way and their day with our paychecks and our society... Like boys will be boys -- 1 per centers will be 1 per centers!
Where are OUR National Priorities on Crime?
Priorities People! Who gets messed up in this country first - it is the Black and Latino Poor; Next is every other Poor Person. Right now, the majority of the people that are incarcerated are Black poor - and the WHOLE country is feeding their hard earn dollars into the program which is making some EVIL Motherfuckers rich! What we SHOULD be doing is hauling every Corrupt financier, politician, Wallstreet swindler, Stock-market crasher into the same AWFUL Conditions as these teens! And switching these teens into a system that works! And addressing the societal problems that are cranking out troubled teens. Like fixing social services for fuck sakes!
IF it is BROKEN fix it by FIXING it, not by Privatizing it!
If it IS BROKEN fix it the RIGHT way, that doesn't cost millions upon millions of dollars and only worsening the situation! The Privatatization of Security is EVIL - they have NO incentive Whatsoever to reduce their prison population. If the person wasn't crazy and hateful when they arrived, then they sure as hell will be when they get out. Seriously - I know I have a temper, as a little blonde woman - I surely would murder somebody in there, if given the chance. Just think about it white people, your temper? How long do you think you would live with that temper if you were black or latino and let it fly in the face of tax-paid authority?
Black and Out of LINE of the System = Dead or Wishing You Were Dead
We as a society have chosen to support a legal security system that is willing to traumatize a young black girl who was guilty for "allegedly" assaulting a neighbor (no wounds, people?) and breaking a glass window. I am sorry but I couldn't read any more through the rage and tears!
Isn't your asshole just a LITTLE achey from being screwed over by the 1 per centers?
Yet we do NOTHING, NOTHING, NOTHING when it comes to evil individuals, ruining people's financial lives and futures, wreck OUR ECONOMY AS A WHOLE - by OUT and OUT theft, which is more often than not SANCTIONED legally by our brought to you by Monsanto, Cock Bros, etc. government. And how convenient - they are WHITE as the just fallen snow! Never mind the White Bastards at the top! Just be AFFEARED for your lives from the poor people of color who are more likely than not serving the 1 per cent with daily care, working for them - opening their doors, cooking their food, caring for them in hospitals, driving their limos, caring for their children ..... (How ironic, really)
BUT GOD FOR FUCKING BID they should step out of line or even be presumed out of line ... or even dare to have a temper and struggle with their bodies with an ARMED officer --- well then they are LUCKY if they get into the hell-holes just defined. Because you know what - the 99 per cent of the people in this country are supposed to pretend that the REAL criminals are OUR HEROES - Like Donald Trump who stuck the countriies taxpayers with HOW MANY Bankruptcies? ( And thanks to our representatives - Healthcare Tragedies impoverishing Americans are no longer eligible for bankruptcy. By the government that CARES for the people, REALLY it does!)
We need to see as white Americans how we contribute to this color-blindness and start to fixing things ... the corrupt rich want us to believe the MYTH that the worst crimes are committed by people of color! I CALL MAJOR BULLSHIT!! The One per cent
the only ones that are gaining BIG TIME, sure they sold their souls to to their GOD the DOLLAR --- but let them rot in hell! I could give a good god Damn - I don't share their God. FYI.
I am getting UGLY about Racism -- Hold onto your Sensitivities White PEOPLE
To the rest of us Whities - or Non-blackies --- are we REALLY gaining by letting black people in the US be scapegoated for the MAJOR crimes in this country? Are we REALLY gaining by being ripped off because we can't see that OUR OWN PEOPLE can be VERY VERY malevolent, and would rape our granny's IRA fund if they could see a profit in it?
Are we REALLY as a country profiting by refusing to bring to justice the BIGTIME US Criminals?
Is this the price we pay for White priviledge ... thinking our WHITE SHIT doesn't stink?
The 1 percent is content to divide and conquer - and turn the 99 against itself!
Really? Are you watching the Switch the Shell game ... the Swindles that are occurring before our very eyes ... that is impoverishing America?
Do you SEE the FUCKING CONNECTION America?
No, because it is busy watching Fuxed UP news!
_ Just so yah know, I hate dealing with rude/violent people of any color, race, ethnic group - I do NOT have Favorites. I call injustice as I see it. And I happen to be white!
As I have been saying ALL ALL along AND I believe in personal responsibility ... so I am not giving ANY individual an entire pass because they are poor, black, latino whatevs....
The liberal position that the poor, or blacks commit crimes because of their "environment" or bad upbringing is equally racist ... as if black or poor people can't MANAGE to be decent human beings growing up with certain challenges ... As if most of the poor/people of color have some innate character deficiency, HUNH ... and we whities have to patronize people who are the most oppressed by our system.
So how do we explain all those 1 per centers who grew up in EXTREME wealth ... was it their environment that groomed them for their criminality? Perhaps it was ... perhaps they have, like the upperest classes have been throughout time to take full INHUMANE advantage of the peasants, plebes, etc
Disadvantaged people, whether by Race, religion, gender, etc, etc
None us need us need just our FUCKING respect in words ... We all need to CLEAN UP THE SYSTEM in PARTNERSHIP with each other ... We ARE AMERICANS ... ALL OF US together ... let's fix this Damn Country! Even the 1 per centers can't truly advantage by destroying the whole planet by climate change --- it is up to the 99 per cent to show them the error of their ways. Most likely by the tough love approach, I reckon.
Weeding out the Racism, Root by root
What you as a WHITIE can do
The article I posted was written by a bunch of white people. So ... people, getting all defensive and guilty is NOT an option. We weren't born on this earth choosing to be one color or another. And we certainly didn't have a hand in the MAJORITY of the history of our country... so it ain't our fault what happened way back when, or when we were kids, or before we were TRULY conscious of the creepiness of our System as a whole.
So if you are feeling guilty and defensive, this is a cop-out, and not helping you or anyone else, except the 1 per centers elaborate system of oppression. So you are part, of it, okay ... we all are in one way or another. Just make your steps to disentangle with the rest of us .... there are LOTS of us who want a country that works for the majority! Have faith ... we can do it together ... understanding HOW the UPPEREST classes fuel hatred and bigotry amongst us.
We as a progressive movement need to be DIVERSE in all areas ... and we need to recognize to prioritize our Battles, and they are constantly shifting. But we need to give credence and support to each other's battles ... because this web is interconnected ... and we need to scratch each other's backs to keep things going.
And with that said - I NEVER get people riled up Without a Call to Action -
Check out this petition that was just written on MoveOn and NEEDS support! Wouldn't it be NICE if we Knew WHO the TOP DONORS of EVERY candidate was? This IS HOW we start taking responsibility for the BIGTIME criminals in our Country - who, tragically and for the most part happen to be white!
http://petitions.moveon.org/...
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But whatever you have to say about my point of view ... it is NOT simpleminded pandering to Liberal knee-jerk politics ... I am MY OWN political
Thanks GAWD for Daily KOS
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