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News ID: 13281
Publish Date : 27 April 2015 - 21:47

America: Black Lives Don’t Matter

By: Kayhan Int’l Staff writer Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei is right to criticize police brutality against African-American community in the United States.
He is also right to say that Black Americans are subjected to "oppression and humiliation” by police officials, a behavior which has been behind the outbreak of ongoing social unrest in the country.
 
Ayatollah Khamenei couldn’t be more accurate. The United States is still grappling with the issue of race and police violence against Black people, as protesters around the country declare that "Black Lives Matter.”
 
The ongoing protests focus on a parallel pathology: that "Black-on-Black” crime is not only tolerated but is sanctioned by the state, as illustrated by many Hollywood movies. To fully grasp the sense of alienation and hostility that Black communities have toward the police, this aspect has to be understood.
 
Millions of Black people understand that police departments in the U.S. are not there to protect them or their communities. Their appalling experiences are continually denounced and ignored by law enforcement, government officials and the media. The racist policy shows how deep this pathological denial runs through American society.
 
While the civil rights movement has struggled and in some ways prevailed against such inequality in the political sphere, it has been a much more monumental challenge to show how these inequalities operate on the level of everyday life in Black communities.
 
Most people who reside outside of impoverished Black communities have no sense of what it’s like to live in a place where the law disregards, and is even hostile to, the needs of its residents. As such, the ongoing protests are an essential record for such systematic oppression. They show powerfully how the facts on the ground expose the lie of "liberty and justice for all” in the United States.
 
The Blacks shown on television and movies by Zionist run media and entertainment companies are not accurate representations of the average Black person either. It is an illusion created by Christian Zionists to convince Whites that Blacks are different and that the only solution to this problem is racial segregation. While it is true there are exceptions, the vast majority of Blacks are like the vast majority of Whites. This is a simple fact.
 
Perhaps this is no mere oversight: America refuses to look past its racial history and focus more on programs proven to reduce violence, fight against cuts in education for Black communities, or care about protecting the lives of young Black males - just as much as everyone else.