Race Wars In Louisiana

I've got to say this because it is true: This incident is in no way outside of traditional and historical American social practise.  The more White society pretends that Eurocentrically-based racism is nothing more than an abberation, the greater the insult to those like myself who experience such indignities on a daily basis.  I personally have been caught up in similar situations, in America, and it is scary, you feel powerless and worse, the White folks around you expect you to keep a stiff upper lip and thank the European version of God and three other White men that you are in the United States.

 I become incredulous when Europeans express shock and awe when such activities are brought before the media as if they had no idea that the United States has been a racist society since it's beginning.  It is sheer willing ignorance to not know that this is a pro-European country with a deep-seated hatred for African people and African males in particular.  Any commentary that attempts to refute that statement also attempts to refute American history.  

Many here will be quick to label my assessment bigoted against White Americans and evidence of "reverse racism."  Bollocks.  White society as a whole is either apathetic or indifferent to the challenges non-Europeans face in the world and even less enthusiastic about how Africans are treated in the United States.  In more polite Europocentric circles, such attitudes are called what they are: revisionism.

We have bled for White America from the first shot that killed Crispus Attucks, through the cotton and tobacco fields to every battlefield the United States has ever entered and still, no respect from the general society that would not exist had it not been for the sacrifices Aboriginal and African people have made for this country.  We are regarded as nothing more than fodder for industry, entertainment, sexual release and fantasy and the bodies America needs to crush its opposition elsewhere.  All this for a country that we were never asked to be a part of but penalises us for trying to enjoy what is rightfully ours.  not more than anyone else, but what we deserve as human beings who willingly or not, built the United States from whole cloth for the benefit of others.  

I know that many Euroamericans will take offense to everything I just said and will scramble to explain it away.  White supremacy and the assumption of racial privilege in the U.S. is a given that has not been directly challenged since the combined efforts of the FBI and CIA crushed the American African community in the late 60's and finalised this assault in the early 70's.  The mainstream calls them radicals and terrorists, but the Black Panther Party for Self-Defence and the American Indian Movement were the victims of Cointelpro led by the xenophobic J.Edgar Hoover as was Malcolm X and Dr. Martin Luther King who America still likes to tell us was not a Black leader but an American leader.  

Some of us are not drinking the Kool-aid any longer.  I for one stopped years ago.  

  - The Angryindian