Bodycams won't change a damn thing.
Eric Garner was targeted by police because his actions were
understood as a kind of threat to local business. The violence carried
out by these officers was to protect the local economy, not to serve the
people in the community. And the grand jury decision is further proof
that state violence is just another mechanism to maintain the economic
status quo.
For decades—centuries even—we’ve been discussing the intimate relationship between racism and capitalism in America, the ways that our economic system creates and maintains an underclass. Critics dismiss such an idea as some kind of conspiracy theory and continue touting the same tired American Dream narrative that has sustained us since the days of Horatio Alger.
For decades—centuries even—we’ve been discussing the intimate relationship between racism and capitalism in America, the ways that our economic system creates and maintains an underclass. Critics dismiss such an idea as some kind of conspiracy theory and continue touting the same tired American Dream narrative that has sustained us since the days of Horatio Alger.
Do you understand that such an assessment of our moment is not a conspiracy at all?
Do you have to look any further than the NYPD SOP execution of Eric Garner?
Those at the top know what kind of tumult this way comes, and desperately fear peasants with torches and pitchforks. The systematic inflammation of racial conflict and battles between
the white working class (including racist police officers) and the poor
(including minorities) is livestock management designed to deflect attention and growing understanding of
their modus operandi. Their corporations and transnational capital manipulations are ruining
the Earth, fomenting unheard of economic inequality. The use of corrupted government and the distorted rule of law to commit massive, systemic frauds on taxpayers has already been clearly demonstrated all across europe.
Perhaps you have a different explanation? Maybe
it's just racism?
Eric Garner, father of six, choked to death on the
street apparently for selling untaxed cigarettes.
Wall Street banks? No arrests.
Bailed out by taxpayers and deemed too big to fail by government "regulators", their corporate media handmaidens, and those who've forgotten the Occupy protests.
