This really has to be repeated more and more. So many people don’t realize this, and that the US prison population doubled from one milliion to two million under Clinton-Gore. And the name Al Gore should be included since it was the Clinton-Gore administration, and Gore has never once spoken up about it or done anything to indicate it bothers him. It’s so important that people grasp this and get beyond the idea that these people represent and stand for civil rights in some way. On the contrary. They represent the old south in all its glory, and the old Democratic party as well.

The reason this happened was because Clinton and Gore were both white southerners. This wasn’t any coincidence. Clinton-Gore was the first time since the Civil War that we had white southerners as both president and vp. And, wow, look what happened. It was a deliberate policy to use the war on drugs to disenfranchise people of color, hundreds of thousands a year, and it is still going on.

“You got innocent men in jail, your insane asylums are filled,
You got unrightous doctors dealing drugs that’ll never cure your ills.

When you gonna wake up?
When you gonna wake up?
When you gonna wake up?
And strengthen the things that remain?”

Oh, yeah. It’s a beautiful Saturday here in Northern California too.

lloydrowsey@hotmail.com

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Neither the democrats nor republicans go out looking for these cretins, they
are brought to the courts by their deeds, their own actions.

Many times the slime balls are protected by the very communities in which they thrive because neighbors won’t tell on them. Drive through any slum area and see the thugs on the corner. No one reports them for their deeds because the are a nephew, son or boyfriend of someone who will get upset if they are ratted on.

Meanwhile they keep fathering kids with girls who have the same morals as they, and the culture continues.

The only people who can keep blacks out of jail are themselves. What about getting some morals and accepting responsibility for ones actions. When that happens, the jail rate will decline.

To view the world as only an oppressed black person (no matter how valid) limits your ability to appeal to other people who may in fact be as oppressed black people. Are not Native Americans oppressed peoples? Mexican and Latin American undocumented workers? Are not some segments of so-called “white” people oppressed?

I think that a class analysis accurate in it’s analysis of WHY massive oppression has occurred throughout history. Slavery was not caused by racism but a barbaric economic greed. The genocide against Native Americans was not based on race but on greed for land. The Mexican-American War was not a race war as it was a war for land.

The Iraq war today is not a race war (or a “clash of civilizations” as some demagoges would like to frame the conflict) but a war for oil, for regional hegemony, a part of the Project for the New American Century. The PNAC
agenda, conceived after the fall of the Soviet Union, was rooted in the fact
of decline of U.S. capitalism for last 30 years.

All working people… including so-called “white” people… are experiencing the effects of this economic decline. Millions have no health insurance, public schools are being destroyed, typically are up to their ears in credit card debt, losing their homes in the latest capitalist scam, etc.etc.

Oppression and exploitation are becoming the common place experience of all working people, regardless of race.

Hopefully, true leaders will emerge from all racial and ethnic groups as well as from “white people” to unite us all as human beings. We humans, throughout history, have been “divided” along racial, ethnic, national, language lines, to be “and conquered” by ruling elites and ruling classes. Unless we can unite today in our common interest, we will forever be exploited and destroyed. Under today’s corporatist regime all peoples who are “unprofitable” to the corporations (regardless of any personal identity) will be destroyed.

The biggest first step to end exploitation of each group is to promote this consciousness of our mutual human condition.

The next step is to form a new party, to dump the Democrats, and unite and organize the millions of exploited people of all races, to end the unending wars and destruction of corporate capitalism.

DUMP THE DEMOCRATS!
UNITE INTO A NEW PARTY NOW!

We the people, opposed to the destruction of the planet and it’s peoples, now atomized and powerless in “grass roots” and “special interest” groups, must unite our efforts and resources into a new party to replace the corrupt Democratic Party! A new party that rejects corporate funding in order to end the corporate plunder of the federal government.

A new party explicitly opposed to the Project for the New American Century. Opposed to unending war for profit and power. Cut the military budget by 50%, shut down the 700 military bases around the world. Re-instate taxes cut by Bush gang.

A new party that commits the entire resources of the country to end global warming, end imperialist wars, implements true non-profit universal health care. promotes mass transportation, develops renewable energy, and produces the essentials for human survival.

A new party that promotes an economy that works towards fulfilling the economic needs of all the people, not just to profit a tiny minority of super wealthy. No more people living on the streets! No more hospitalized people being dumped into the streets when they have no money or health insurance! (See the film SICKO)

A new party to unite all of the oppressed people of this country. A new party that cuts across all the false social and cultural divisions that keep us forever powerless (racial, ethnic, age, language, etc.). A new party to unite us against the unending destruction of peoples and planet.

A SOCIALIST PARTY to promote the end of gangster capitalism, run-amok capitalism, which is supported by both Democratic and Republican parties.

A new party to support the labor movement and all working people. We urge the labor movement to stop supporting the Democratic Party (already besotted by corporate money), and to focus its precious resources to fund a new national radio and television network. By being on the air 24 hours a day the labor movement can provide the latest news, information, education and current affairs analysis desperately needed by all working people. This effort, combined with the formation of the new party, will be a bold step towards reviving the organized labor movement.

For years we have listened to radio programs like DEMOCRACY NOW! that has discussed with numerous “grass roots” groups desperately struggling to make a positive change in society. Anti-war protest groups, civil rights groups, union struggles, affordable housing groups, teachers unions, health care access, seniors about Social Security, have involved millions of people. Now is the time to unite the energy and resources of the people into a new party.

The new party provides a means of uniting the “special interest” agendas of each group into the platform of the new party. The new party candidates, selected from the various individuals and groups, would become the candidates representing their cause and the new party. The new party will contest for office at every level of government in order to take power. The new party will provide the new leadership and new programs this country desperately needs.

There is still time before November 2008 elections to start this process. Even the announcement and preparation for a founding convention of such a new party will shock both Democrats and Republican incumbents. They will know that their days are numbered!

The needs of all previous “minority” and “special interests” people now become the platform of the new party representing the vast majority of people. Can the existing activists of so-called “minority” and “special interest” groups overcome their existing powerlessness, and link up with each other to start this new party?

This all-inclusive struggle will attract millions of atomized working people, often non-voters and uninvolved people, who have been atomized, exploited, brain-washed by corporate media and ultimately destroyed by gangster capitalism.

The effective leadership needed today

You now have an admirer who intends to read — beginning with Dissident Voice’s archives and proceeding back — as much of your writings as I can find. And in contrast to another published writer (an academic), whom I complimented by internet post and who repaid my compliment by, basically, just emailing me flyers for his published works, please just feel free to email me flyers; you are the most obviously already-well-occupied, absolutely-relevant author I’ve ever read.

lloydrowsey@hotmail.com