BlackCommentor.com: The Chickens Have Come Home to Roost!

I cannot end this article without commenting on Chris Hedges� article, �The Cancer in Occupy,� (Truthdig, February 6, 2012). I do not agree with all of its points or with Hedges� uncompromising stand on non-violence as a strategy for confronting the criminals of Wall Street, but I do agree – there is a �cancer� in the Occupy Wall Street Movement, but this was bound to be. This is America!

There is no excuse for the behavior of any group who uses violence for violence sake, but we have seen this tactic / strategy before, covered in white sheets. They were the lynching picnics held after church services on Sundays, the photographed participants, dressed in their finery, with children sitting on the shoulders of hypermasculine fellows of �happier� days in the ole� South. They were the �brave� Calvary fighters, clearing the land, �honorably,� of Indigenous men, women, and children. They were the dog trainers and the water hose users during the marches of fellow citizens and civil rights activists. They are, as we know, still around, as the shooters of Amadou Diabllo, Sean Bell, and Oscar Grant, and the executors of Troy Davis. How different are their acts of violence from those who removed the history of Chicano Americans from the Tucson classroom?