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>On Fri, 22 Jan 2021 14:46:53 -0500, David Crossley
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d.cro...@yohoo.net> wrote:
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>>In article <
29am0gh54pdghtfj2...@4ax.com>,
penm...@aol.com says...
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>>> On Sat, 23 Jan 2021 06:14:40 +1100, Master Bruce
>>> <maste...@null.null> wrote:
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>>> >On Fri, 22 Jan 2021 11:11:34 -0800 (PST), dsi1
>>> ><
dsi...@hawaiiantel.net> wrote:
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>>> >>On Friday, January 22, 2021 at 6:57:21 AM UTC-10, Graham wrote:
>>> >>> On Fri, 22 Jan 2021 08:36:56 -0800 (PST), GS wrote:
>>> >>>
>>> >>> > Graham, I do not support the crooked narcissist Joe Biden...
>>> >>
>>> TRUMP.
>>>
>>> Biden wishes he was Trump... Biden is a nothing. Biden is a brain
>>> dead POS. Biden has been a do nothing ass kisser for 50 years... same
>>> as yoose.
>>>
>>Biden is a puppet,and things will only be worse once he gives up
>>the ghost and Cameltoe takes his place.
>
>When Camel Toe has the power is when we really need to worry... what
>an ugli POS.
KAMALA HARRIS HAS BEEN TOUGH ON BLACK PEOPLE, NOT CRIME
A couple months ago, I was chillin’ at my potna house watching
football. During a commercial break, we started talking about Kamala
Harris — and my potna’s older cousin shouted, “Kamala Harris! She been
lockin’ niggas up at Renee (referring to the Oakland courthouse) since
way back in the day and was doin’ it with a smile on her face.” He
wasn’t wrong. Kamala Harris has spent her career as the district
attorney of Alameda County, San Francisco, and as the Attorney General
aka The Top Cop of California.
As someone from the Bay Area and living in Oakland, I am constantly
reminded of her history of locking up Black people in the Bay Area.
Her track record consists of terrorizing Black communities through the
prison industrial complex and she has consistently shown herself to be
an enemy to the masses of Black people.
While I admit the symbol of having a Black woman as president sounds
nice, it doesn’t exclude Kamala from being critiqued. I operate under
the political belief that there are no good presidents. Presidents are
just figureheads for the white supremacist settler colonial state. I
aim to have a principled critique of her record that advances Black
political thought, yet Twitter has been full of misogynist critiques
of Kamala. It is important we critique her while avoiding misogynoir,
as there is no place for misogynoir in the Black liberation movement.
Whether it was declining to advocate for legalization of marijuana in
California, in which Black people are arrested at the highest rate. Or
her failure to support body cameras for the police while
simultaneously opposing legislation that would require her office to
independently investigate police shootings. Kamala is not for the
people. She even defended the 3 strikes law, in which Black people are
incarcerated at a rate 12 times higher than whites. Kamala Harris has
demonstrated through her actions that she does not value Black lives,
but rather supports our death via the carceral state.
Kamala’s support of the death penalty, which is a modern day form of
lynching that has executed hundreds of innocent people, and also
disproportionately affects Black people proves that she doesn’t value
Black lives. Kamala even advocated that an innocent Black man named
Kevin Cooper, who was a death row inmate and had a trial that was
rooted in overt racism and corruption, be executed. She advocated for
this even though Kevin had DNA evidence that proved his innocence yet
Kamala Harris opposed it until the New York Times exposed the case.
Furthermore, America has no moral ability to be able to decide who
lives and who dies. The death penalty is fundamentally racist, yet
Kamala supports it — furthering her record as a tough on crime
politician.
Not only has she failed to support policies that might improve the
lives of Black people, she has defended the need for prison slavery.
What’s dangerous about Kamala is that she weaponizes “civil rights”
language however her actions prove otherwise. For instance, she said
“the idea that we incarcerate people to have indentured servitude is
one of the worst possible perceptions…I feel very strongly about that.
It evokes images of chain gangs.” Despite making the connection
between prison labor and chain gangs —she “pushed back against a
federal order to expand an early parole program, arguing that it would
deplete their stock of prison labor, especially inmates who fight
wildfires”. These inmates make a dollar an hour, which is a form of
slavery. Kamala is not only a super cop, but an adamant defender of
the institution of policing that is rooted in slave patrols.
Kamala Harris evokes the language of being a civil rights leader for
Black people. In her video announcement for president, she weaponized
words like “truth, justice, and equality” and her campaign slogan is
“for the people”. This is propaganda, and this campaign strategy isn’t
something new, rather it follows what I refer to as the Obama Plan.
The Obama Plan is a campaign strategy that will center a civil rights
type narrative such as “hope” and will also use all the elements of
Blackness we like in order to get a Black person elected. This
campaign uses the popular aesthetics of Blackness despite the actions
of Harris being fundamentally anti-Black.
Kamala used this plan by announcing her run for presidency on Martin
Luther King Jr. Day, a day that celebrates the radical legacy of a
Black man who stood for the liberation of Black lives with both an
anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist politic. Kamala Harris announcing
her run for presidency on MLK Day is disrespectful to King’s legacy
and is a spit in the face to the Black radical tradition. Her
announcing on MLK day is propaganda. It’s meant to fool Black people
that she’s actually for us, despite her actions terrorizing the Black
community through her role as a prosecutor. It shows us how Black
liberals will weaponize the aesthetics of a freedom fighter in order
to strengthen the united states colonial empire.
It is important that we understand that the “criminal justice system”
is built upon the legacy of chattel slavery, and that it’s primary
role is to lock up Black, Brown, and poor people to maintain a
workforce (re: slaves) that supplies America an endless amount of free
labor. This being said, Kamala has been the slave auctioneer and
sending Black people to prison in order to maintain this endless
supply of free labor. Yet some claim that she was a “progressive
prosecutor”. How can there be a progressive prosecutor if the
foundation of the criminal justice system is rooted in slavery and the
genocide of the indigenous? If she truly was a “progressive prosecutor
or a good prosecutor,” she would make sure that prosecutors do not
exist. There were no good slave owners, or slave auctioneers, just as
there are no good prosecutors.
Kamala Harris is what the Black radical tradition calls a
neo-colonialist. Neo-colonialism is the integration of a colonized
person into the colonized system in order to enact the policies of the
colonizer. That being said, Kamala is a Black face doing the job of a
white supremacist system. Neo-colonialism is white supremacist
colonial propaganda, and it is meant to fool the masses of oppressed
people that becoming the oppressor leads to freedom. Don’t be fooled
by symbolism. As Obama’s presidency showed us, symbolism does not mean
progress for the masses of Black people.
It is clear that Kamala Harris is not for the people. She is for the
American empire. Don’t let her identity as a Black woman, or her
identity as an AKA, or her status as an alumna from Howard University
fool you into thinking she is actually for us: Kamala don’t give a
fuck about you niggas.
https://afropunk.com/2019/01/kamala-harris-has-been-tough-on-black-people-not-crime/