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Saturday, August 27, 2016

Football player refuses to stand for the National Anthem


Most of the time respecting national, religious, ethnic rituals just shows a degree of a little something called " emotional intelligence ". Institutionalized racism has been successfully outlawed in the United States. To deny this is to declare that the Civil Rights Movement of the 60s was a miserable failure.

It is " identity politics " that keeps up this false emphasis on race. Police brutality is best explained by class oppression. " Socialist " Democrat Bernie Sanders got that right , making his " political revolution " all about unacceptable economic inequality.
It is a phony patriotism that denies social injustice .


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