As a Boricua who lived in Cali for 7 years, I came to have a great fondness for my Chicano / Mexican brothers, sisters and culture. Through them, I learned much, including the long history of violent anti-Mexican racism in the West. Thus, what we see in recent events in El Paso, was just the latest episode of the long tradition of white supremacy expressing itself in the west.
Por ejemplo….
As a member of the left and a person of color, it amazes me that the democrats, the FBI and media say they don’t have the tools to handle domestic terrorism!!
The left and left of color of the 60’s and 70’s, as well as the left of the 40’s and 50’s, knew government surveillance, infiltration, violence and killing at the hands of the FBI and police!! Can you say COINTELPRO???? When it wants to, the Gov can totally go after what it deems is a domestic threat! I call BS on the milk toast critics of white supremacy!
What the problem is that going after this kind of white supremacy means going after white America in an unprecedented way. It would have to expose huge swaths of the population to the kind of treatment that its not supposed to have. These are the people next door!! A taste of this issue was in the title an article I saw today …. “FBI agents are reluctant to pursue white nationalist extremists because they don’t want to target Trump’s base, former counterterrorism official says”.
The issue is that the country is chronically unready to tackle the pervasiveness of white supremacy in the fabric of America. To paraphrase Malcolm X, its as American as apple pie!
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