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by Richard Mellor
Afscme Local 444 retired
Well, after the drug busts, arrest of the gang of “high end
“ thieves, 16 of them who stole some $250,000 worth of stuff from fancy stores
maybe netting $10,000 apiece on the street had they got away with it, and the
numerous child pornography rings that have been busted, the actors, I mean
newscasters, get to what they call the “viral” story that’s gone national and
international. Has it though? Are they hearing about it in Syria? Chechnya? For the overseas reader, "international" in the US is often limited to Puerto Rico, Canada, maybe Mexico.
A 19 year old black man who had a four hour commute from
Vallejo to his job in Benicia, walking two hours there, two hours back every
day, was seen by a friendly cop who was very moved by the young guy’s trek. He
brought it up to the police officers association and, in an “act of kindness”
they bought the youth a bike.
The story has been on Facebook, the Ellen Degeneres Show and
many other news outlets the report says.
I think it said that Ellen is looking in to setting up a go-fund me site
to get the young guy a college scholarship. He wants to get in to the CHP
Academy the newscaster said. (Highway
Patrol). “You know, not
all officers are bad.” One report quotes the youngster as saying.
Now I respect the young guy for his discipline and his
conscious choice to earn money and not fall prey to crime or drugs like so many
young, low waged people can. But watching
these paid pimps on Fox news here with their, I hate to cuss in print, shit
eating grins, talking about what a wonderful story it is and the best story so
far etc. is nauseating. It is a propaganda piece. And it just shows how their
news stations, their favored celebrities and other propaganda outlets work to
fashion public opinion. They're spreading it far and wide.
Through their control of the media, the US capitalist class
is trying to counter what is a potential major crisis for them, the ongoing response
to police murders and state violence against black people. The whole Kaepernick
thing is getting out of hand and they want to head it off at the pass. They
have high school kids kneeling at games, they can’t put the Black Lives Matter
genie back in the bottle, they’re gassing folks at the Standing Rock protest in
the hopes that this will deter them and more white people are supporting these
protests which is not a good thing.
That’s what this story is about. Then there’s the global mess that US
imperialism played such a huge role in creating that it cannot extricate itself
from.
I agree that all cops are not bad as individuals. Then the
rest of them should speak out if that’s the case, shouldn’t they, not just buy
one kid a bike. They should speak out against the others that are assassinating
black men in particular and condemn them unconditionally otherwise they’re as
much to blame. And it is good that more and more white people are supporting
the protests against police violence but they need to be more vocal. Silence is
not good when people are being assassinated daily by state security forces.
Who’s next? It’s plain self-interest at the very least.
As for the young man.
You are being used. You are being used to cover up the horrific assault
on young men that look like you, by armed representatives of the state.
Practically killing them on a daily basis. The most recent was a homeless man
cops tried to run over then shot, firing 18 bullets hitting him 14 times. They hunted
him down, there’s no other explanation when you watch this video.
He was
hunted down and murdered not by roving illegal racist gangs, but by armed state
militia who are backed the courts and the government.
This whole story was a propaganda piece. Whatever you do
young man if you want to help people, workers, the poor, other young black men,
don’t join the CHP. And you could have gotten a bike from somewhere else I know
it. And you wouldn’t have been used to undermine the brutality. But then it
wouldn’t have got the coverage either.
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