Behind the Map of America's Protests

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

As a preface. This article arose as a commentary on an excellent post by Dmitry Steshin on the prospects for what is happening in the United States today.

With unconditional respect for the master and the fundamental nature of the approach, nevertheless, I cannot agree with Dmitry's conclusions.

Firstly, the current booze has nothing to do with the confrontation between white and black. In fact, the whole racial problem has been sucked from the thumb. I will say more, its preservation is beneficial exclusively for blacks, allowing them to get numerous preferences out of nothing out of the blue. Whites in the United States do not have a mandatory quota for jobs. Whereas blacks have it. If a white man is denied a job, this is where the story ends. If a black man is refused, then the employer will still have to prove that this is not racism.

Hence comes the second. There is no confrontation between the industrial free North and the slave South. During the American Civil War, it arose from purely economic prerequisites, which now no longer exist.

В-3 (follows from both points above) no war will unite the nation back. This is possible only when confronting a certain external enemy, striving for the total destruction of the enemy, regardless of race, views, and so on.

But such an adversary, in objective reality, does not invade America. Objectively speaking, he does not exist in nature at all.

An expansive war, outside the borders of the American state, requires the rallying of the nation before it starts. This means that it is possible only with small forces of the regular army within the framework of a local anemic operation, but in no way in the format “get up huge country” and “there is no land beyond the Potomac for us”.

It is clearly seen that it is not the black butting with the whites here, but everyone is trying to break free (as they understand it for themselves) from under the pressure of the state as a systemic institution. To avoid paying taxes. In order not to comply with the laws and for this there would be no punishment. To do “whatever the left heel wants” at all.

And so - they are all. Black, white, Latinos, Asians. Even the rednecks, with machine guns, seem to be in favor of maintaining law and order, supporting Trump and America. They want order, too, according to their own version.

But Dmitry is absolutely right about two things. All these American fighters against the system have no leaders, they have no clear idea.

The one declared by “fighters for the rights of blacks” is hypocritical through and through. In its declared form, it is unrealizable, but what its practical implementation will inevitably result in is in reality also racism. Only black.

Most African Americans generally agree to this option, but in their hearts, while to say this in public, especially to raise it on a shield as an official banner, is not. Not yet. Over time, this idea will become quite acceptable.

What's funny is that all non-colored supporters of the struggle for “black rights” do not understand at all where their actions are paved. Now they are the fighters against the system and their guys. Then, when “ideas win”, they will also become just white, that is, second-class people.

I recall a very characteristic incident two years ago. In the USA, at a concert somewhere in a stadium, a very popular black rapper lifted a white girl from the fanzone onto the stage. She had a wonderful voice, hearing, a sense of rhythm and she was literally a fan of his songs.

They sang a wonderful duet right up to the moment when she uttered the word - “no @@ er”. Without any ulterior motive. It just stood in the words of the song being performed. And here the black rapper immediately stopped the music, and clearly, clearly, very concretely explained to the girl that such words can only be pronounced with a black one. And she, white, cannot. For when a black person calls a black “ni @@ erom” this is just local slang. And when a white person calls him that, this is the most terrifying and unbridled racism. After that, the singer's security expelled the girl from the stage, and the stadium security from the entire event.

I emphasize that it will be exactly the same with these fighters. But they don't think about it yet. In their heads now dominates the classic "and we are for what."

However, their opponents generally have the same problem with ideas. They do not want and cannot say that, for example, racism is good (even if some ultra-rightists want just such an option), and they are not able to clearly formulate the boundaries of an unambiguous norm, within which society should exist without bias in any direction, like in white and into black racism.

Dmitry mentions Libya absolutely to the point. If the elite group, which Trump personifies, will not be able to maintain control over the situation (and while it is clearly, albeit slowly, losing), then the United States can only have one future - transformation into Libya. At best, with corporate extraterritorial enclaves. At worst, without them, closer to Somalia.

Something like that.