CNN wants to “finally get back to normal”.
What is normal in the USA?
Sadly, racism is normal and the killing of black people by police has long been normalised.
It was nice having a black man in the White House but nothing changed apart from the personnel.
Real comes up from the street. After the election, the struggle continues.
No illusions in Biden and Harris!
“When Obama was President, I was marching for Trayvon Martin fresh out of college”
Trump has lost the US election but he wants to go down in flames and take the rest of the USA with him.
In a typically dishonest statement yesterday, in which he claimed ‘corruption’ in Detroit and Atlanta was endemic, his thinly disguised racism was again on display for all to see.
The postal vote is overwhelmingly Democratic and the metro areas being counted are heavily African-American, given the racist residential segregation which is still such a major feature of American life.
On that basis, with Biden now in the lead in Georgia and expected to overtake Trump in Pennsylvania, Trump is finished.
We appreciate that Trump doesn’t want to lose because he knows he will also lose his presidential immunity and could be looking at a prison cell given his clear and present corruption.
But there is a bigger story about the US election, which was the refusal of the Democrat leadership to focus on harnessing the anger and enthusiasm of the BLM movement, or to articulate and advance policies that will attract working-class people, black and white.
Trump is now planning to unleash his fascist friends against American democracy, such as it is.
The right has been calling for insurrection and violence to stop the count.
Mad man Glen Beck has called for the overthrow of the US government.
Buy peole are taking to the streets again – and again the police are showing whose side they are on. In New York City 25 people were arrested on a peaceful protest and an advocate observer was roughed-up by the forces of racism and disorder.
We send our solidarity to our sisters and brothers in the BLM movement in the US and progressive forces beyond that as the y prepare to meet the threat from the deranged christian and fascist right and others among the delusional (and disappointed) MAGA hordes.
But to date, the protests by Trump supporters have been small and violence more at the level of threats and talk than actual action.
But make no mistake, Trump is pushing to block democracy by any means. necessary, and that unfortunately is not confined to unfounded law suits.
Finally, how dare Trump and his racist supportes try to stop black peoples’ votes being counted in Detroit and Georgia.
For those black people who were foolish enough to vote for the enemy, hopefully things are a little clearer, although we suspect there’s no telling stupid – yes we are talking about you 50 Cent, Ice Cube and the other rich backers of white supremacist Trump. They let the myth and cult of the entrepreneur cloud their judgement – it is working people, black and white, who make the world go round.
Rappers are not essential workers – especially the ones who have turned their back on the community to assist the architects of the new Jim Crow.
The murder of Walter Wallace is the latest brutal outburst of racism from American police.
Wallace had a history of mental health issues but instead of getting the help he needed, he ended up dead at the hands of cops who don’t know how to shoot to injury – they always shoot to kill.
The murder of 27-year-old Wallace led to two days of mass protests in Philadelphia as black and white protesters demanded justice for the slain man.
In last week’s protests, at least five police cars were torched and some 91 people arrested.
The Pennsylvania national guard were shipped in at the end of last week to put down the revolt, but the temperature is expected to rise again when the body cam footage is released on Wednesday – the day after the presidential election.
A 9pm curfew has been imposed across Philadelphia.
As usual the white supremacists in the White House were quick to condemn ‘mobs’ and said nothing at all about yet another killing by racist cops.
At a campaign rally in Arizona on Wednesday last week, the thug in chief Donald Trump said: “Last night, the city of Philadelphia was ransacked by violent mobs and Biden-supported people.
“These were all Biden-supported people, and he wouldn’t even call them out.”
The police did have plenty to say though.
Someone called John McNesby from the the police union (lodge) said the police involved in the murder “are traumatised by being involved in a fatal shooting”.
Yeah right!
Derek Chauvin – the cop who killed George Floyd is out of prison and wandering around as a free man as he waits for a trial at which he will no doubt walk free.
As 400 years of history attests, to get racial justice in America requires struggle.
No Justice No Peace, no racist police.
Kyle Rittenhouse shot three protesters, killing two in Kenosha Wisconsin.
If the teenager had had a Muslim name what just happened may very well have been treated as a terrorist attack, but not in America.
Instead Trump and Republicans have the audacity and gall to talk of ‘law and order’ while police departments are at war against the communities they are meant to serve.
Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul said that Rusten Sheskey was the name of the police officer responsible for shooting Blake.
Neither Sheskey or any other officers at the scene have been disciplined.
Shockingly, there has still not been a word from Trump directly on the murder of Jacob Blake by police, or even an attempt to reach out to the family. But protesters are determined to fight for justice whatever repression the police throw at their movement .
Meanwhile, white militia and racist groups colluded with police according to reports.
The latest outrage by racist cops has sparked rebellion across pro-sports in the US and world tennis, with fixtures being postponed.
After his murdering spree Rittenhouse is filmed walking down the road towards police with his hands up and an automatic weapon slung by his side. The police do nothing, they just roll on by. The killer went home only giving himself the following day.
Also below see a moment when the police openly fraternise with the far right militia:
And much of the organising by the white militia types and vigilantes has been on Facebook, as this disturbing report from the Guardian shows:
Hours before a 17-year-old white man allegedly killed two people and injured a third at protests over a police shooting in Kenosha, Wisconsin, a local militia group posted a call on Facebook: “Any patriots willing to take up arms and defend our city tonight from evil thugs?”
It’s not yet clear if Kyle Rittenhouse, the Illinois teenager arrested on suspicion of murder after last night’s shootings in Kenosha, was among the people who responded to the call the militia group had posted, which was later featured on the conspiracy theory site InfoWars.
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Facebook on Wednesday removed the page of the Kenosha Guard.
