(August 17, 2016 at 4:30 pm)RobertE Wrote: In the meantime, a few days ago, 14 year old Jesse James Romero was killed by police and no-one says anything, and I have looked everywhere on this forum and others besides. It seems that if, you are hispanic, Chinese, Korean, Japanese, French, English or Aboriginal, your life doesn't matter unless you are of African origin and got shot by a specifically WHITE police officer. (black officers don't count it seems.)
Jesse James Romero was black or at least looked it (albeit mixed/lighter skinned), "speaking Spanish" isn't a race. He's also far from the first black victim of police brutality to not get a lot of coverage. If every victim did, we'd literally never stop talking about it.
But non-black Hispanic, Chinese, Korean, Japanese, French etc etc lives can all matter when they're routinely being gunned down by the police every day. You've missed the memo that your life already matters in America so it doesn't need stating that your life matters. That's the entire fucking point.
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"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
