McKinney, Green Party and the Reconstruction Movement – Represent Our Resistance

Sen. Feinstein, Rep. Harman, and others, diligently working to pass Homegrown Terrorist legislation, receive a nod from House Speaker Pelosi who, in turn, winks at King George and Darth Vader. The people and their leaders know prosecution under Homeland Security is yet another indication that COINTELPRO continues for them, and no cameras will capture this state-sanctioned attacks against them. Long time community activist, Curtis Muhammad, recently wondered if “poor black people have been so vilified and criminalized that they are completely off the radar even of the so-called left?” (“Farewell Letter,” November 12, 2007). And it is not intended that the people or their leaders be seen or heard, for even their protest is interrogated and vilified. John Conroy, the reporter who told the story of the practice of torture against over 100 Black men by the Chicago Police Department in the 1980s, spoke of the initial “dead silence” from the mainstream media and the Chicago Police Department (Democracy Now, December 13, 2007). “Capitalism is the systemic terrorism against the poor,” writes Black Commentator Editorial Board Member and Columnist, Larry Pinkney (“Capitalism, COINTELPRO, and the Torture of Justice”).

It is not wonder, then, that the U.S. Human Rights Network, a coalition of 250 social justice and human rights groups across the nation, issued a report December 10, 2007, in which it cited that their “analysis reveals that the Bush Administration is utterly out of touch with the reality of racial discrimination in America,” according to Ajamu Baraka, the Executive Director of USHRN. In contrast to the USHRN report, filed with the United Nations, the U.S. State Department’s report on race “reads like a fantasy,” Baraka claims, “unfortunately a fantasy that is too often experienced as a nightmare for Americans of color.”

Most white voters vote to maintain the racial order from whence comes all their power and privilege. They vote their interests. They think, and this thinking is not under threat of criminalization by HR 1955 or S1959 Violent Radicalization and Homeland Terrorism Bill, they think — white America. With all due respect to the insightful work of Naomi Klein, most Black citizens in the U.S. have been accustomed to disaster capitalism for a long, long time. Life for many Blacks, for generations, has been one long experience of the disaster of capitalism, the vulture spirit always at their backs, represented by entrepreneurs who think the “American Dream” and speak the language of money, for as white America can, they profit, profit, profit!