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Tue Dec 16, 2014, 11:20 AM Dec 2014

Racism And War In America And Beyond | Ramzy Baroud



"I Can’t Breath"

Ramzy Baroud
-- World News Trust

Dec. 10, 2014

America’s ruling elites are blatant in their intentions of maintaining “white privilege” at home and economic dominance by military means abroad.

Their “democracy” in both of these regions is a ruse, and it is yet to deliver any degree of social justice and equality to the millions of disadvantaged Americans who are comprised mostly of black and Latino communities. The unequal distribution of wealth in the United States is simply staggering. In fact, 75.4 percent of all wealth in the United States is owned by the richest 10 percent, according to the authoritative Credit Suisse Global Wealth Databook (2013).

This influx of wealth comes at the heels of a major economic recession, of which rich bankers were mostly to blame, but were never held accountable. Instead, millions of lower-middle class and poor Americans became even poorer. And since America’s political and economic classes largely overlap and feed upon the privileges of one another, millions of American lost their homes and savings, while the rich got richer.

Good branding aside, the “land of opportunity” has always been overrated, as has American democracy, which has been rigged for generations to produce more or less similar results. The media -- with overt and covert racial supremacy displayed by the likes of Fox News -- is there to ensure that consent is manufactured in such a clever way, so that ordinary Americans constantly feel trapped between a ruling class of two strands, Republicans and Democrats, all vying for votes with the ultimate goal of maintaining their privilege.

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Racism And War In America And Beyond | Ramzy Baroud (Original Post) Tace Dec 2014 OP
.... Dont call me Shirley Dec 2014 #1

Dont call me Shirley

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Tue Dec 16, 2014, 11:28 AM
Dec 2014

This group of economic royalists exist to produce hate, that is all they produce is hate. They are not job creators, they are hate creators. The engineer hate so they have self-justififixation to commit their acts of outrageous criminality.

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