doc_loliday wrote:No wonder Youth thinks Smitty got this on lock. It's a regular Canadian social justice jerk circle. Let's see.
Black people have no agency.
The individual doesn't matter.
America is fundamentally racist place.
Government/Redneck conspiratorial fantasies.
Cops can drag innocent black men out into the street and can kill them.
Waleis was right.
Blacks have agency, but not to the extent of being a cohesive organized resistance to an entrenched American power structure, to wit, they don't have White Anglo-Saxon Protestant landed gentry levels of agency like a Continental Army defeating Cornwallis at Yorktown.
The individual is easily crushed by the power structure, so in the case of offering resistance to, yes, the individual doesn't matter, hence the whole program to willfully and deliberately atomize the black community for the purposes of divide and conquer.
Government redneck conspiracies are in plain sight, COINTELPRO is widely documented by the government itself, so confident in its position of absolute supremacy, that it doesn't even bother to hide it, nor even deny it, to wit, "COINTELPRO, yeah, so, what of it?"
Cops do not kill innocent black men in the street anymore? Yeah, OK sure.
Waleis often made some great points, particularly the one about what is imposed on the fringes of empire coming home to roost in the center in the end.