Above all, the Obama administration has sought to divert popular anger over the police killings into the blind alley of racial politics, depicting the root problem to be racial prejudice, particularly among individual policemen, to be overcome by better training and the recruitment of more African-American cops. Obama led this effort, giving an interview to Black Entertainment Television, to be aired Monday, during which he said that racism is “something that’s deeply rooted in our society, it’s deeply rooted in our history.” He urged patience, particularly on young people who have been in the forefront of the recent protests, saying, “When you’re dealing with something as deeply rooted as racism or bias in any society, you’ve got to have vigilance, but you have to recognize that it is going to take some time and you just have to be steady.” This argument conceals the essential source of police violence against the working class, which is rooted, not in a centuries-old slave system, but in today’s capitalist oppression of the vast majority of the population by a corporate-financial elite. It is the enormous and growing gulf between the super-rich oligarchy and the working class that accounts for the increasingly violent methods employed by the police against the working class as a whole.Above all, the Obama administration has sought to divert popular anger over the police killings into the blind alley of racial politics, depicting the root problem to be racial prejudice, particularly among individual policemen, to be overcome by better training and the recruitment of more African-American cops. Obama led this effort, giving an interview to Black Entertainment Television, to be aired Monday, during which he said that racism is “something that’s deeply rooted in our society, it’s deeply rooted in our history.” He urged patience, particularly on young people who have been in the forefront of the recent protests, saying, “When you’re dealing with something as deeply rooted as racism or bias in any society, you’ve got to have vigilance, but you have to recognize that it is going to take some time and you just have to be steady.” This argument conceals the essential source of police violence against the working class, which is rooted, not in a centuries-old slave system, but in today’s capitalist oppression of the vast majority of the population by a corporate-financial elite. It is the enormous and growing gulf between the super-rich oligarchy and the working class that accounts for the increasingly violent methods employed by the police against the working class as a whole.
Posted on: Mon, 08 Dec 2014 14:00:01 +0000
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