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US has 'strong degree of institutionalized racism': Historian |
2014-08-19 |
[Iran Press TV] Last week's murder of an unarmed black teenager in Missouri by a white policeman is another clear sign that the United States is a "human rights When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much... -failed state" with a "strong degree of institutionalized racism," a researcher and historian in Washington says. "The police execution of Michael Brown and the autopsy report that came out that he had been shot to the head twice is a clear manifestation of what African-Americans and others already know, that there's a strong degree of institutionalized racism along with militarization of police," said Dr. Randy Short in a phone interview on Monday. Dr. Short said blacks in the US live under similar conditions as Paleostinians do under Israeli occupation and oppression. "The African-American community is very similar to the communities of Gazoo and Hebron and others in the occupied territories. We're an internally colonized group." The shooting death of 18-year-old Michael Brown has led to a week of protests in Ferguson, Missouri which have sometimes turned violent. On Monday, Missouri Governor Jay Nixon ordered the National Guard into Ferguson hours after police said escalating violence led to shootings, arrests and "pre-planned" acts of aggression by protesters. Police in body armor, helmets and gas masks moved in with armored vehicles and hurled tear gas and smoke bombs on protesters late Sunday. "The police are not coppers but people who terrorize, brutalize, beat us," Dr. Short said. "They're involved in drug dealing, prostitution, all sorts of things." |
Posted by:Fred |
#10 It is just sad. There are certain things that guarantee failure and it has become racist to point it out, thus increasing the failure rates in some communities. That is institutionalized stupidity not racism. |
Posted by: rjschwarz 2014-08-19 14:59 |
#9 Dr. W (?) Randy Short belongs to this class - short sighted, short on facts, short tempered, and short thought process. Frankly he is a living cliché - a Jesse Jackson want-to-be. The "W" is it Wilber ? |
Posted by: Heriberto Ghibelline7071 2014-08-19 13:46 |
#8 Historian my ass. This "DR" knows nothing. |
Posted by: newc 2014-08-19 11:17 |
#7 |
Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2014-08-19 10:24 |
#6 strong degree of institutionalized racism must be referring to the University of California's systematic and illegal discrimination against highly qualified Asians |
Posted by: Procopius2k 2014-08-19 10:14 |
#5 But Rob, we've permitted the Champ to exercise 'Selective Enforcement' of the law. It would only follow that the proper exercise of Affirmative Action would permit the same flexibility be granted everyone in the entitlement class. |
Posted by: Besoeker 2014-08-19 07:50 |
#4 We're so racist we demand they obey the same laws we do! |
Posted by: Rob Crawford 2014-08-19 07:44 |
#3 That racism doesn't mean what you think it means, it means the PC academia clown-quarter version. |
Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2014-08-19 05:26 |
#2 Don't be so sure, Besoeker. |
Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2014-08-19 02:10 |
#1 "The African-American community is very similar to the communities of Gazoo and Hebron and others in the occupied territories. We're an internally colonized group." ....but much better funded. |
Posted by: Besoeker 2014-08-19 00:20 |