Thread by @BonicMichael

Chapter 9
OPPRESSION AND POWER
press.rebus.community/introductionto…

“Healing begins where the wound was made.” 

-Alice Walker (The Way Forward is With a Broken Heart)

2/“After studying the concept of oppression, you might be asking- what is the reason for oppression? Typically, a government or political organization that is in power places these restrictions formally or covertly on groups so that the distribution of resources is unfairly

3/“allocated—and this means power stays in the hands of those who already have it (a discussion on power follows this section). We understand that oppression occurs when individuals are systematically subjected to political, economic, cultural, or social degradation because they

4/“belong to a certain social group—this results from structures of domination and subordination and, correspondingly, ideologies of superiority and inferiority.”

5/The Democrats, now in power, are “systematically subject[ing] to political, economic, cultural, or social degradation” the 74 million Americans who voted for Trump. They want to “dominate and subordinate” based on the belief in their ideological “superiority”.

6/The Nature and Origins of Oppression
beyondintractability.org/essay/nature-o…
“Indeed, just as Deustch says, the "unconscious assumptions and reactions of well-meaning people in ordinary situations which are supported by the media and cultural stereotypes as well as by the structural features

7/“of bureaucratic hierarchies and market mechanisms" has led to Blacks' widespread inability to join the middle class.”

Angela Davis describes how this “institutionalized racism” is pushed by the University establishment and the K-12 education system.

https://twitter.com/BonicMichael/status/1360135463072272391?s=20

8/What color is the skin of the oppressor?

https://twitter.com/BonicMichael/status/1360479647230644224?s=20

“The “western world” is a production of coloniality and modernity. The latter two terms refer to the socio-cultural norms developed after the 18th century and the chapter in European history known as the

9/“Enlightenment. It is defined loosely by industrialization, science, division of labor, capitalism, secularism, education, and liberalism. Further western modernity created and constructed the idea of ‘race’ as a biological function, as part of a narrative to indicate the

10/“superiority of the white race and the inferiority of all other races (peoples). Western modernity and the colonial matrix of power have constructed a particular place: the West.”

We also see this in the US’s oppression of the Socialist people of North Korea.

11/Now how is it that you find in the liberal Democratic blue states a complete failure to graduate Black and Brown University-ready high school students and astronomical illiteracy rates? As minorities fight “civilized oppression” in the spirit of Jimmy Cliff’s The Harder They

12/Come:

“And I keep on fighting for the things I want
Though I know that when you're dead you can't
But I'd rather be a free man in my grave
Than living as a puppet or a slave”

the liberal Democrats, instead of eliminating institutional racism and improving K-12 education for

13/Black & Brown & other minority students so that achieving academic excellence at the University level becomes equal-opportunity for all, they instead reinforce the existing ideological status quo of the White Liberal, whom Malcom X called “the most dangerous thing in the

14/“Western hemisphere”?

“That White person you see calling himself a liberal is the most dangerous thing in the entire Western hemisphere. He’s the most deceitful. He’s like a fox.”
Malcom X on Liberals

15/How is it that many in the Black Community today, to wit the Black Lives Matter movement, are in bed w/ the White Liberal political power establishment that simply perpetuates institutionalized racism by valuing teachers’ unions over Black & Brown K-12 education?

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https://twitter.com/BonicMichael/status/1360514994735960064?s=20

17/‘A political football’: When Malcolm X, American Muslim minister and human rights activist, warned African Americans about ‘liberals’
opindia.com/2020/06/malcol…

18/“Project Baltimore analyzed 2017 state testing data and found one-third of High Schools in Baltimore, last year, had zero students proficient in math…
foxbaltimore.com/news/project-b…
“Nine out of ten black boys in Baltimore City are not reading at grade level,” added Pannell.”"

19/The Democrats didn't like Malcom X saying:

“The Democrats are playing you for a political chump and if you vote for them, not only are you a chump, you are a traitor to your race.”

Joe Biden, the embodiment of the White Liberal Democratic establishment, is now President

20/and w/ Kamala Harris as VP, the Left and Black Lives Matter on board you'd think he was the "Great White Hope" for the Black Community. He is anything but. He's exactly what Malcom X warned against. What are the Liberal Dems doing for Black and Brown K-12 education? NOTHING.

21/I personally think Joe Biden & the Liberal Dems are closer to the “Great and Powerful Wizard of Oz” than they are true friends to the Black Community. They value teachers' unions over students.

Pay No Attention To That Man Behind The Curtain...

22/They don't seem to want to improve the K-12 education system b/c one tactic the oppressor uses is preventing The People from getting smart enough to understand what's going on. "Dumbing down" America has to be reversed. We have to value equal educational opportunity for all.

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