A
Bridge To Far
By Paul
Edwards
July 02, 2020 "Information
Clearing House" -
The
murder of black people has been a constant
in American barbarity since Colonial times.
Persistent white murder has caused black
agony to erupt in spasms of despair that
have only altered its methods, not ended
it. White racism, officially supported, has
suppressed black outrage but not stifled
it. Whites continue to murder blacks but
cannot murder black spirit.
After a
long, grisly sequence of vicious and legally
inexcusable murders by various vile,
sociopathic, pseudo-military police forces,
the Floyd murder inflamed it again, this
time with complex differences. Unlike the
national fury after the murder of Dr. King
or the storm of rage over Rodney King’s
abuse, this explosion can not be described
as a “race riot”. Though the murder of a
black man triggered it, and though his
murder is the central theme around which the
phenomenon has coalesced, the great majority
of active participants have been white.
This is unprecedented.
The
question then is whether a small but not
negligible minority of white Americans has,
in a historically brief time, so developed
ethically that it now embraces the deeply
humanist creed of the moral giants, Einstein
and Schweizer, Eugene Debs and Desmond
Tutu. The answer is that it has.
Clearly,
many whites have made that ethical climb, or
they wouldn’t be in the streets in great
numbers over what has been traditionally a
black issue. This raises questions. Has
definition of a traditionally racist issue
morphed from what it historically has been?
And is there, in fact, any issue that is
strictly racial any more, at least among
relatively enlightened whites?
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If not,
then it follows that for them an existential
issue for one race is an issue for all
races. This is a huge stretch for the
propagandized, deformed American psyche even
to grasp, let alone fully to embrace.
Stuffed with the poisonous philosophical
styrofoam of American Exceptionalism, brains
and souls befouled and infused with the
shallowest, stupidest, cruelest, latter-day
Nazi Ubermensch tripe, Americans are
ill-equipped to understand and accept even
themselves, much less those we’re schooled
by The Empire to regard, around the world,
as our subhuman underlings.
Powerful
unanimity of purpose between elements of
historically alienated “races”--the term is
no longer validated by science, btw--not
only seriously threatens racism and white
dominion, it mortally menaces hegemonist
dogma across the board, which makes it
deeply terrifying to the American Capitalist
Tyranny, its .0001% owner class and its
purchased government. Passionate demand for
an end to police murder of blacks, for
defunding or eliminating these brutal,
dishonest gestapos of state-directed terror,
is just the most openly hideous crime our
diseased system inflicts on all of us.
General
awareness of this--taking nothing away from
enlightened white empathy with blacks over
serial murder-by-cop--is the far broader,
denser background reality--as dark matter in
the universe is the field and matrix of all
that is visible--that with its tremendous
gravity has drawn moral whites into genuine
brotherhood of purpose with violently
traumatized blacks in their frustrated and
unending quest for justice in America.
Tragically,
as acute observers see, though there is
broad and growing comprehension by Americans
of the deep falsity and brutal exploitation
the State inflicts on the great mass of
them, there is neither a committed cadre of
inspiring leaders, nor a coherently
formulated creed around which a potent
public uprising against injustice can
coalesce. In place of fused, mobilized,
revolutionary unity, we have chaotic,
unfocussed desperation.
This will
not win. Historically, it never has. The
long, sad unwinding of the beautifully,
humanely motivated Occupy adventure is the
latest case in point. Based on the widely
shared conviction of the deeply evil,
biocidal character of cheating, lying,
obscene, violent, tottering Capitalism,
having definite aims and goals, worthy
despite the anxious ridicule of the besieged
oligarchic state, it lacked the effectual
warhead of a committed, passionate
leadership with a defined program for
elimination and replacement of the
gangrenous piratical corpse it courageously
opposed. And so, rudderless and internally
confused, adrift, subject to attrition and
relentless abuse at the hands of the
System’s police, it broke, dissolved and
faded away.
The reason
no such cell of visionary leaders of a
potent revolutionary creed exists here is
neither single nor simple. Capitalist
America--the monstrous corporate combine
that owns and controls the State--has waged
ruthless war against any politics intended
to benefit the people, but repression alone
has never eliminated determined political
opposition anywhere. Decades of highly
sophisticated propaganda has debased and
lobotomized a victimized electorate but
cannot eradicate intelligences that rise
above it. A rebel group can be bought off
if traitors run it but never from principled
leaders and we’ve had public men who have
not sold out and given their all to oppose
our vicious system in years gone by, though
we have none now. The best of them were
undermined and sabotaged by the very organs
of law so falsely celebrated as
incorruptible and independent of
co-optation.
The fact is
that the combination of repression,
propaganda, and legal malfeasance, have so
thoroughly strangled truth in America that
coalescence of a core team of the best minds
and hearts is impossible. And even if it
were not, absolute control of all organs and
platforms of communication with American
citizens belongs to the criminal State.
Does the
lack of guiding hardcore cadre mean that
this broad, inspired effort will come to
nothing? Well, no, in the sense that Occupy
didn’t come to nothing, and its effects
outlived its endeavors, still reaching
hearts and opening minds. It has already,
in its main intent--demand for an end to
police murder, for defunding, dissolution,
and repurposing of the hideous Waffen SS
ethic it has come to embody--made waves of
progress that, regardless of success or
failure, will never completely subside.
That said,
the fantasy of a revolutionary
transformation of the Capitalist Tyranny is
just that. The movement, embodying in an
inchoate way so much that is profoundly just
and fervently desired by the most aware and
enlightened Americans, lacks the social
power it would need to break and replace our
dirty, dying Empire and its antibiotic
system.
A wise man
observed that human history is a race
between education and disaster. The great
hope of the moment is that sheer fear of the
people will bring to an end the sick
Nazification of American police systems, for
blacks above all, but in reality for all of
us.
Overthrow
of the Capitalist Tyranny depends, though,
on irresistible citizen action based on a
deeply informed conviction of its
irremediable evil, and unshakable resolve to
destroy it. The furious drive of the
Capitalist Tyranny toward ecocide and our
own extinction may not give us time to get
there.
Nature has
evidently had all the abuse she’s going to
take from Capitalism.
