Portrait of "Hater" who vandalized Islamic School

 

I agree with this point in your editorial  today ("A hateful Act", Feb.18) on the vandalism of the Islamic School of Rhode Island: any attempt to blame one billion Muslims for this is deeply unjust.

My image of this guy (it must be a guy!) is right out of Harper's Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird." He is not a professional terrorist. He is not a professional anything. He is a poorly educated, ignorant, unemployed drunk. He does not write letters-to-the-editor. He has his own graffiti skills. I give you our very own West Warwick version of Bob Ewell– "the white trash" of Harper Lee's novel.

This sort of EVIL has deep social roots. Bob Ewell was also a victim of hopeless poverty, unemployment, and ignorance. He found SOMEBODY to look down on from his own hellish pit. (just a guess, of course).

                                                                                                                                        

Submitted to: letters@providencejournal.com

WATCHING AMERICA - Race in America

As a citizen of the United States, I am all ears to even "part of the solution" to the tragedy of race relations in America.  But as a democratic Socialist I can only chuckle at "improving the faith in the black community in the country's institutions."

To be sure, the courts and the police are completely subservient to our ONE PERCENT plutocracy. The police– with all due RESPECT– are correctly perceived to be the human pit bulls of PRIVATE PROPERTY. Young blacks-invariably POOR BLACKS–involved in the most petty crimes against property- set themselves up for ON THE SPOT execution by armed cops "just doing our job."

Only greater social and economic equality can deliver better justice here-even for tens of millions of poor working class white Americans.

As the black firebrand revolutionary Malcolm X said long ago: "Show me a capitalist and I'll show you a bloodsucker!"

But I expect the Neo-Democrat Party to continue to racialize POVERTY IN AMERICA. Isn't a 21st century New Deal preferable to bloody disorder?

(post to WATCHING AMERICA , published in LeDevoir (Canada on Nov. 27, 2014 by Guy Taillefer)

This Society has a race problem ...... WATCHING AMERICA

I am a citizen of the United States and a registered Democrat (more a democratic Socialist) in the beautiful state of Rhode Island. Outraged by the Ferguson decision, many blacks here-with their white and latino supporters- on the day after, blocked interstate Route 95 for nearly an hour.

It was all rather foolish, I think. But it shows that alienation in American capitalist society is reaching a breaking point among the nation's have–nots. For too long Neo-Democrat inspired "political correctness" has racialized  POVERTY IN AMERICA. I can't imagine a million homeless white people identifying with our ONE PERCENT ruling class in common hostility to "lawless and rioting" black people.

The vast majority of white people are just unpretentious working class people who create the wealth and fight the foolish wars of our ruling class. They know that the MAJESTIC LAW swindles the common people.

I am by disposition a believer in non-violent social change. But I wonder if the assassinated black revolutionary firebrand Malcolm X is more relevant today to Afro-Americans than Martin Luther King. Malcolm's last year alive is very interesting to left-wing scholars. He was invited to speak before enthusiastic liberal audiences, mostly radicalized white students. "Show me a capitalist", Malcolm said passionately, "and I'll show you a bloodsucker!".

Will Washington D.C. soon look like Cairo, Egypt in 2011? PEACE!

POST under WATCHING AMERICA commentary published in Die Presse ( Austria ) on 26 November 2014 by Wieland Schneider : "A  Society in which Some Members Feel Locked Out Has a Problem."