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In reply to the discussion: America [View all]bravenak
(34,648 posts)The economic injustices are tied to race in the case of the black american. There has been no time in history that being black was not a burden.
What I see in my generation is this- we have a generation growing up without fathers, angry, and hopeless. And it was by design. If 1/4 of our men spend time in prison based off of the racist ass drug war, we will be left behind regardless as a people. This is by design.
Once you have been to prison, you are not employable and your wages do not rise with everyone else. You cannot vote. Your children are grown and doing what you did to get in prison. It is by design. There will be no economic equality for US until we fix the racial element. Period. Nobody cares if felons get jobs or have good pay, and look who the felons are. Black men. Another generation wasted in the drug war designed to keep us poor, just as share cropping was designed to keep us poor.
Our poverty is tied to the fact that we are treated differently. We will never receive our fair share that we deserve unless we demand our fair share. And we will never get that until this racist system is destroyed and rebuilt properly.
As far as the TPP is concerned... The TPP has done nothing to oppress me. It doesn't even exist yet. I do not borrow trouble. There is enough here.
I watch the people who scream TPP and yell that racism will be solved by economic equality. Bullcrap. They never show up in support of black people or even say they care about the fear we have for our sons. They just pretend that them being poor mean white privilege is not real. Because its really is all about them. Should I trust those folks who don't give a crap now, to be fair in the end after they get what they want? Hell no. America has NEVER kept a promise to the black man or the red man fully. We get the left overs and excuses. Our black men won't get shit. They'll get what they been getting. Prison.
So. They can TPP away from me. This is just like Chained CPI to me. Gnashing of teeth and wailing about their own pocketbooks.