I Am Not a Radical
My name is Amaso nib Nedal.
This is my manifesto – on behalf of all the victims of American oppression and nationalism.
I never considered myself a radical and I don’t see myself as one now, but there are some who erroneously say that’s what I am.
A proponent of social justice is what I am.
I didn’t grow up with any sense of a particular bias and went through elementary and high school as the average student.
Until I went to college, I just wasn’t aware of all the injustices that are part of United States legal and cultural system – and its history. There I learned the Founding Fathers wrote a constitution that justified and protected slavery and was based on white supremacy. For example, the country as we know it now was not founded in 1776. It was established in 1619 when the first black slaves arrived in the then Virginia Colony.
I also learned that the U.S. culture was, and is, not only discriminatory but geared to provide for the rich. Contrary to time-honored convention, I learned that the ideal society is one where it’s from each according to their ability and to each according to their needs.
I now know that requiring a picture ID to vote and other intimidating requirements disenfranchises the rights to the poor.
Other things I learned were:
Israel has no right to exist. The Jews illegally took Palestine by force and subjected the peaceful Palestinians to mass deportation, ultimately allowing some of them to live on worthless land called the Gaza Strip. The Islamic Resistance Movement, now called Hamas, is justified in every way to kill Jews and remove them from the righteous homeland of the Palestinians.
I learned that law enforcement is biased against minorities, especially blacks. Black officers, where they exist, are indoctrinated, along with white police, to arrest blacks disproportionately based on erroneous assumptions about them.
Protests against law enforcement bias are necessary. Violence and arson are justified in those public protests when it helps make the public aware of the injustices.
I learned that diversity is something to celebrate. That, and inclusion, are important – and to not acknowledge them as such is a tragedy of American society. In addition, I know now that equity is the only way to get to equality. The students at every school and college, and members of every workforce should mirror the diversity of races and gender and include them proportionately.
I learned that America and Europe bear the brunt of responsibility for the climate crisis the world is facing.
We need to make more people aware of the threat of climate change. Anything that’s disruptive enough, or considered outrageous enough, to make the nightly news, newspaper headlines, and will go viral on social media is required. Throwing tomato soup on priceless paintings and blocking traffic/bridges at rush hour are just some examples of bringing attention to saving planet earth and eliminating the use of climate destroying fossil fuels.
The facts are that in a rich, white supremacist-run and dominated society everyone else is a victim of the oppression exhibited by the overseers. The poor, the homeless, minorities, women, transgenders, and undocumented immigrants are all people stuck in place and not allowed to speak freely – or advance in knowledge or economic level or social status.
The history of American imperialism and tyranny is well documented, starting with the native Indians and through to this day.
The only way to change the country to a more understanding, compassionate, peace-loving and accepting society is to make it difficult and uncomfortable for those who would bully and dominate the rest of us.
In many cases, starting with college if not before, enlightened people need safe places to convene and share experience and knowledge. In those places plans can be made and strategies devised for the execution of the needed and growing revolution.
America should know, we’re coming for the mega corporations, the billionaires, the (s)elected governmental oppressors, the segregationists and the planet killers – all aligned for so long against the proletariat.
We’ve come a long way since the 1970’s and ‘80’s when Greenpeace made headlines with its “save the whales” techniques.
Those in charge and those supporting and loving them will soon feel and recognize the fate of anger and resentment from the masses.
They will soon realize and experience the prolonged stress and anxiety they have perpetrated on the majority in the country who are/were not in their club.
Power to the People!
(Just for fun, spell my name above backwards)
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Have a great and Prosperous week,
Hug somebody.
References:
https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/oceans/save-the-whales/
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