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Teamster Jeff

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Sun Aug 24, 2014, 03:17 PM Aug 2014

In Defense of Looting [View all]

http://thenewinquiry.com/essays/in-defense-of-looting/

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For most of America’s history, one of the most righteous anti-white supremacist tactics available was looting.
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In the 400 years of barbaric, white supremacist, colonial and genocidal history known as the United States, the civil rights movement stands out as a bright, beautiful, all-too-brief moment of hope and struggle. We still live in the shadow of the leaders, theory, and images that emerged from those years, and any struggle in America that overlooks the work (both philosophical and organizational) produced in those decades does so at its own peril. However, why is it drilled into our heads, from grade school onward, in every single venue, by presidents, professors and police chiefs alike, that the civil rights movement was victorious because it was non-violent? Surely we should be suspicious of any narrative that the entire white establishment agrees is of the utmost importance.
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