American politics is a competition between two groups, both of which fight to control White-male supremacy. Liberals and Conservatives are both for White male supremacy, however, the liberals appear morally superior because they exploit minority plight to compete with Conservatives. The Israel/Hamas war has shown me that the side I ally with, the Liberals, are capable of advocating the worst barbarity against women, children and innocent men. Seeing this in real time makes clear to me that I, as a Black man, can too be on the receiving end of unified White rage. Despite the appearance of competition, politics does not stop Liberal and Conservative from standing shoulder in an alliance for barbarity towards dark people just like during slavery, where the net result of White Americans, Conservative and liberal, abolitionists and slavers, patriotic and rebellious, was Black people’s agony. America’s approach to the Israel Palestine conflict will surely erode Black political support for Liberal candidates.
Conservatives
The two sides of American politics, Conservative and Liberal, fight over administrative control of White male power. The Conservatives are blatantly White-male supremacist and they put minimal effort into avoiding this realization. They permit the practice of racism so long as their members avoid candor, maintain a superficial, non-racist appearance and take measures to avoid the look of it. Many of these efforts fall short which engages the failsafe; a three-tiered Racism Realization Avoidance Method. These measures are,
Denial, Selective Scrutiny and finally Circumscription. White America first covers up racism by avoiding calling it out when they witness it, if no Black or Black-people-allies are around to see them witness it. If it the racism becomes known, they scrutinize the occurrence and selectively emphasize the non-racial aspects of the situation over the racial factors; this goes with the “I don’t see race” maxim, allowing them to demonstrate their obliviousness to the racial aspects of an occurrence. If the first two measures are unsuccessful at thwarting the realization that racism occurred, White America then circumscribes the deed to as few individuals involved as possible, then emphasize how the behavior is abnormal. I wrote these words a week before finishing this blog and just this morning CNN posted a headline of the racist killing of Elijah McClaine in Colorado. The headline doesn’t mention race; this is the circumscription method and it is ingrained in the American pysche. The Court ultimately circumscribed the racist murder to the paramedics that responded to an incident precipitated by White male police officers’ racism; in the Court’s eyes the only wrong that occurred was the paramedic negligently administering a dose of medicine, not the officers who, based on race, created the whole situation to begin with. The Elijah McClain case is an example of the American government using the Racism Realism Avoidance Method and it’s certainly White America’s social device to avoid realizing that this nation is inherently racist and that good-faith intent and hard work are the only way to raise it to morality.
Liberals
The second group, the Liberals, are too, White supremacists, however, this group has to exploit the plight of minorities to compete with Conservatives. They point out racism, not to stop it, but rather to exploit for political gain against their Conservative rivals. They often commandeer Black causes, pushing the Black people involved to the side so they stand at or near the forefront. White Liberals sidelining the affected Blacks then championing their causes is why racists feel Liberals, mainly Ashkenazi Jews, cause racial trouble in the US. Liberals throttle minority progress because if minorities were ever to gain enough power and successfully throw off the burdens of White-male supremacy, the whole Liberal cause becomes unnecessary and Liberals would have to find a new cause, which will likely involve their own, not Blacks’, wellbeing. Liberal trajectory can be seen with Bill Maher, a Liberal talk show hosts who has opted to cash in his White privilege and express views further to the Right than he did years ago. His show has become increasingly more critical of the Black Lives Matter movement and he spends much time in the “White vacuum,” meaning in all White settings, with all White people, propagating views disagreeable to Black people. His latest show featured CNN newscaster, Laura Coates, a Black woman and brilliant lawyer. It appears that her presence checked his tendency to trample over Black views in favor of conservative ones. In one segment, rather than declaring that racism has decreased, as he usually would, he asked Coates if it had in fact decreased. She then politely and eloquently informed Maher that only the appearance of racism has decreased. Thank you, Mrs. Coates,!
Bill Maher’s Mother is Jewish, which makes him Jewish according to their Matrilineal outlook. However, while hardly religious, his views do align with Jewish religious and political interests, which base their Zionist outlook on the Torah, or, the Bible’s Old Testament. When speaking on recent Israel/Hamas conflict, Bill Maher’s words are hardly objective and, like religious zealots, deem anything they perceive as threatening, “Anti-Semitic” without clearly defining for his audience the parameters of anti-Semitism and why those parameters exist. In his latest show, Maher certainly minimized his use of the conversation with his guests to promote Israel’s actions. But he immediately returned to these tacit endorsements when the conversation ended and he started his “New Rules” segment. He’s made little to no mention of the babies being killed by Israeli forces nor the number of innocent civilians slaughtered. This one-sided approach to telling the Hamas/Israel war story prevails with media at large. Media sources, Liberal and Conservative (with the exception of the Associated Press), made little-to-no mention of the Palestinian death toll for exactly one month. November 7th was the first time I saw the mainstream News outlets emphasize the Palestinian death toll. It is as if media covered America’s eyes, giving Israel a one-month genocide press exemption. However, media were sure to, without objectivity, call any statements White Jews deemed anti-Semitic, “anti-Semitic” with no counter-narrative. When the training wheels came off and media coverage became more balanced, mentioning Israel’s bombing of civilian women and children seeking safety in refugee camps and hospitals, media had already trained America to focus on the supposed “1400 Israelis killed” instead of the already surpassed and rapidly increasing number of innocent Palestinian women and children being killed by Israel. As of this writing Israel has killed over 22,000 humans with two-thirds being women and children who definitely are not Hamas. Media also trained the public that objectivity was anti-Semitic and thus, immoral. To that, I say “FANAS!” F.A.N.A.S means Facts Are Not Anti-Semitic and I urge anyone attempting to have a factual discussion about Israel’s approach to avenging the October 7thattacks but being thwarted by evasion labels, to simply say “FANAS” and force others in the discussion to explain why they feel you’re being anti-Semitic. Media’s one-sided storytelling shaped American complicity towards the genocide happening in Palestine right now. We hear about the 1400 Israelis killed over and over through media yet have to seek information
about the Palestinian women and children killed so far. The number of Israelis killed was actually false and revised down to less than 1200 yet this inaccuracy received little press and media didn’t pursue and answer to why Israel can’t distinguish Hamas militants from Israeli citizens. Israel said that it took them time to distinguish Israelis victims from dead Hamas fighters. I find this puzzling because Israel is very adept at distinguishing Hamas in real time war situations supposedly hiding amongst innocent women and children of their own culture yet had possession of Hamas soldiers’ bodies and couldn’t distinguish them from Israelis. I would imagine the difference between a Hamas soldiers and innocent Israeli citizens not of their culture is far greater than a Hamas soldier and innocent Palestinians of their own culture. Something stinks to high heaven here and all roads lead to intentional killing of innocent human beings, a.k.a. genocide. This is disingenuous at best and our media in America are just as disingenuous for not asking why Israel made such a blunder and why the realization of it doesn’t cause them to question if they’re constantly blundering in the field and indiscriminatly bombing innocent people. A moral country would immediately change its approach in Palestine.
We are Just Like 16th Century Spain
Liberals tend to exploit minority problems and their outlook on this latest Israel/Hamas conflict demonstrates that the minority issues they herald here domestically are merely tools for their advancement and not morally driven. They joined Civil Rights struggles then touted how they joined civil rights fights. When speaking to Jewish Liberals about Black/Jewish relations, they tout their participation in the Freedom Rides yet are either oblivious to or refuse to recognize that over one million Black people joined a White-on-White conflict, fought Adolph Hitler and ended the Holocaust. Liberals don’t tend to help minorities unless there’s something in it for them. While we appreciate the help even under exploitative conditions, this Israeli/Hamas conflict has shown me that America and Western society has not morally advanced itself beyond the barbaric mentality and outlook it had during 15th to 19th century colonialism. I see the same thing occurring today that took place when the Spanish began killing over 10 million Native Americans in the Americas. As Joe Biden uses Hamas’ terrorist deed to “stand behind Israel,” authorizing a blank check to Israel against Palestinian women and children’s lives, I see no difference between America today and Fernand, Isabella, King Charles and King Phillip in 16th and 17th century Spain. As those with the power to stop the barbarity contemplate their subordinates’ actions, real humans are experiencing agony and leaving this planet; their contribution to the human effort are ended by prejudiced, blood-thirsty soldiers. Our history books don’t emphasize this but Spain, beginning in the 15th century until the end of colonialism was a terrorist state, under the Spanish flag, perpetuating state sanctioned terror on Native Americans. The same holds with England, France as well as the Dutch, Portuguese and Belgians during those eras and beyond. The history books will make this a worldwide fact once the Western hegemony on knowledge ends.
We Americans allow our President, the Leader of the Free World, to use our tax dollars to continuously fund the massacre of women and children, not to mention the innocent adult males. Americans sit back in an intellectual vacuum discussing semantics surrounding Israel’s massacre of innocent Palestinians just like John Genez de Sepulveda did in 16th century Spain. This prolongs Palestinian agony by obscuring our permissiveness from ourselves with debates about military tactics. Biden occupies the same role as Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain in the early 1500s, who heard directly from Bartolomeu De Las Casas about the Spanish colonialists’ “repartimientos” system of slavery that terrorized and murdered Native Americans. Rather than be moral Christians, the Spanish royalty prolonged Native American genocide by listening to abstracted debates about Native Americans being naturally designed to be Europeans’ slaves. We are doing the same right now with debates about Israel’s right to take land in that region. Truly moral people would instantly react to wrong like White people today spring into action when accused of racism. White America sidelined Critical Race Theory in American education without debate or commission while human death continues to happen by the hundreds per day. While humans die we’re having prolonged debates about if Israel’s actions fit the technical definition of colonialism. When White people in early 20th century Pasadena, CA. felt it was wrong for Black people to swim in the Brookside Park pool, known as the “Brookside Plunge,” not only did they use their institutions to immediately say “no,” but even after the courts ruled the ban illegal, rather than allow Black people to swim, they let it fall into disrepair. Once repaired they closed it altogether until the NAACP filed an injunction to get it opened in 1947. White people in Pasadena fought both legally and extralegally from 1915-1947 when they truly felt something was wrong, which shows their potential to put a stop to wrongdoing. They did not exercise this potential during slavery during the 16th, 17th and 18th century and they’re not doing it today to stop children from dying. This means White people’s net feeling towards killing Palestinian women and children is that it is not as wrong as Black people swimming in “Whites only” pool. This is morally deplorable! Today’s White Americans, the powerholders of society, are the same as 16th century Spain. Media consciously hide details about Israel’s barbarity from the public just like Spanish royalty tried to hide Bartolomeu De Las Casas’ writings by not allowing them to be published in Spain. Writings about how Spanish men were stabbing pregnant mothers’ stomachs, ripping out unborn children, holding them by their feet, slamming their heads against rocks then feeding them to dogs were kept from public eyes so that Spanish Conquistadors could continue their barbarity and take land. Casas’ writings had to be published in France for the Spanish public to learn of Spanish atrocities against Native Americans; we have to look to Al Jazeera and Russia Today to find out about the atrocities Israel is doing to innocent Palestinians. Western society hasn’t changed at all.
So, Is it Colonialism?
Adolf Hitler’s plans to take lands East of Germany, including Russia and Poland, was no secret. In 1939 he claimed for months that Poland was attacking “Volksdeutschen” or, ethnic Germans, then he invaded and took their land. Clearly he just needed an excuse to do what he wanted to do long before he made this story up. He also took the Czech Republic after claiming Germans were being attacked in the Sudetenland. In truth, these Germans were in a different country and being objectionable to the locals. When those locals attempted to check this behavior, Germany claimed they were being attacked then used the German state’s military to take their land. Sound Familiar? When Christopher Columbus sailed three ships to the Americas, the Natives were the epitome of hospitable. They housed and fed his men and even helped retrieve and store cargo from one of his ships that sank. When Columbus sailed back to Spain, he left a small group of men in the Native Americans’ countries. When those men became objectionable as all European men eventually become to natives that try to help them, and the Native Americans attempted to check their behavior, the Europeans claimed they were being attacked, brought the full military might of Spain, and took their land. Vladimir Putin claimed that Russians in Crimea were being attacked and needed to be protected, then he took their land. When the British set up fort William, El Mina and Fort James on the West Coast of Africa, they eventually claimed they were being attacked by the Ashante and took Ashanteland. While media, and even disingenuous academics, play with the definition of “colonialism,” gerrymandering the term to intellectually distance it from Israel’s current actions, people who have read colonialists’ journals find it hard to make a distinction between what European men did around the World in the past and what European men in Israel are doing right now. For me, colonialism begins with White men arriving in foreign lands with a need to escape other White men in Europe. The darker natives then help them and agree to some degree of settlement, whether it be a trading post, fort or residency amongst the natives. The White men then offend the natives, who then attempt to check this behavior. The White men then complain that they’re being attacked to a far-more-militarily developed Europe, which eventually brings the might of its millennia-long warfare development and experience and state militaries down on the natives. The White men then use the military victory to expand its territory and create new settlements until it has dominant control over the darker people’s land. European Jews, mainly from Germany and Eastern Europe fled White-on-White violence in Europe and arrived at their religious homeland in Palestine with a need for separation and safety. The Palestinians gave them exactly what they needed. The economically depressed state that England kept “Mandatory Palestine” in enabled Jews, using a business they set up called the Palestine Office, to buy Palestinian land for pennies on the dollar. Eventually, like Europeans everywhere they’ve ever colonized, they became objectionable and when the Natives, just like Native Americans did to Columbus, attempted to check their behavior, the State stepped in, used its vast military to establish a state. That state, like the Americas, is expanding through settlements and will continue until the natives are completely displaced or eliminated, just like in the Americas. This was colonialism then and it’s the same thing occurring today in Israel/Palestine.
What’s going on in Israel right now is only different from previous European men’s colonial conquest in that it has, in secular political times, reverted to the religious theme. While America’s forefathers sought to distance the State itself from the religious fervor that caused the Crusades, less than two hundred years later their successors, America’s leadership in the late 19th and early 20th century, endorsed a religious theme for European settlers administrating the takeover of Darker people’s lands in Palestine, just as they were doing 200 years earlier. Adolph Hitler’s holocaust was the impetus for the final push and declaration of a state in 1947. Hitler killed Ashkenazi children at a rate of 25%. Israel today is killing children at a rate of approximately 40%. The same way Spain endorsed genocide in the Americas, and England, the genocide in Africa and the Americas, American citizens today are right now, in real time, supporting genocide in Palestine. Just like Ferdinand, Isabella, Charles and Philip II funded and supplied the tools of barbarity for killing off of countless Native Americans for White people to take their land and eliminate their people and culture, we today are standing behind and funding Israel’s killing off of Palestinian people for White people to take their land and eliminate their culture. The population is already around 50% children because Israel has killed off so many of the men in this overall war that oscillates between attrition and Total War. Israel has always been the aggressor and the West’s Euro-narcissistic outlook is what contorts the American psyche to only see Palestine’s reaction yet not see Israel’s actions. Israel has killed an average of 93 children per year for the last 20 years. This is in addition to the men they’ve demonstrated themselves incapable of distinguish from Hamas. It epitomizes lack of empathy for one not to understand why Palestinians feel they’re under incessant attack from Israel. Men are the front line of protection for the human family and Israel’s existence as a nation in that region has yielded the usual result of White authorities exercising power over dark people, destabilizing the family unit by eliminating Fathers. America has done the same thing domestically to us Black people, taking the Black man out of the family with its public policies and violence. White Americans campaigned to promote the notion of “absent Black fathers.” I write more about this subject here.
Morality Doesn’t Drive Liberalism.
Liberals, supposedly the pro-minority side of US politics, have revealed themselves to be what I’ve always said they were, exploiters of minority plight. However, I always thought there was some morality involved. I thought they truly felt empathy when police kill unarmed Black men. I thought they cared when they broadcasted stories of the little boy killed in the Chicago gang murder revenge plot. I thought some degree of morality drove them to show statistics about Black youth murders on primetime news. Now that I see them, with full knowledge of the ratio of children and women to militants Israel is killing, wholeheartedly endorsing Israel’s approach to “fighting Hamas.” I realize they, and we, are no better than Spain or England supporting murderous colonialists in the 16th, 17th 18th and 19th century. Not one White lawmaker voted against the resolution to back Israel and condemn Hamas. This resolution sent money to Israel to continue killing two-thirds women and children and, with this knowledge in mind, the only State Representatives who felt this behavior crossed moral boundaries, were dark ones. With the exception of Palestinian American lawmaker, Rashida Talib, Black and Latino lawmakers were the only ones willing to go against the barbaric grain to prevent what turned out to be genocidal massacre of women and children. We today are no better than White Americans during slavery as they stood by and allowed humanity’s greatest sin against humanity to occur. It is inescapable that Israel has no regard for the civilians they are killing. The rationale that “Hamas is hiding behind civilians” is only a tool to prolong the killing of women and children, aka genocide. Would Israel bomb so indiscriminately (as our President put it) if the civilians Hamas supposedly hid amongst were Ashkenazi Jews? They’ve bombed refugee camps and hospitals and we Americans allow them to simply declare that Hamas was hiding there. The only difference between concentrating innocent Palestinian women and children in a camp then bombing them and doing the same but instead gassing them is a matter of technique. Our permissiveness is appalling. Liberal permissiveness to the killing of children in Israel makes me realize that with the right rationalization, liberals will allow the worst barbarity possible to happen to Black people here in the US. Palestinian babies surely rank higher than Black men to American Liberals and I’m seeing Liberal Mothers endorse Israel’s actions by deferring to Hamas’ October 7th attack.
Given the right rationale, I can easily imagine the White Liberal in America endorsing genocide against Black men here in America.
We have never truly fought back. We realize that White men are the absolute best at barbarity and that White people, Liberal and Conservative, will label any attempt to defend ourselves as an attack against White people. This is why Conservative America uses the term “Riot” to characterize protests and “Race War” to characterize uprisings. It’s clear that Conservative Whites, at the first sign of conflict, as if its second nature, begin creating an intellectual framework to permit the West’s primary tool to advance its interests, barbarity. If Black people were ever to go on the offensive or preemptively take action against racists, the liberal would join the Conservative and a situation like Palestine will happen here in America with me on the receiving end. If this seems far-fetched, we need look no further than 1985 when the American government used a helicopter to drop C-4 and Tovex, a dynamite substitute, on Black Americans in the MOVE organization in West Philadelphia. Today, White America will characterize the MOVE organization as a bad organization but, just like they can’t see Israel as “having blood on their hands,” as Barack Obama said, they don’t see the complaints and warrant issued in aggression against the MOVE organization as state sanctioned aggression. White aggression often begins with agents of White interests in other people’s space, then claiming to be attacked. Law enforcement in Philadelphia was no different and the legal rationale intentionally created to permit racist aggression against the MOVE organization resulted in an officer being shot. An officer shot gave law enforcement license to accost MOVE members who, by being Black and at odds with law enforcement, America would never see them as defending themselves. White America, as usual, simply create opportunities to use violence then use the fact of defense to compel the rest of White America to endorse, permit and not obstruct the government extermination of Black people. The recent events in Israel show me that White America, the powerholders in the country, have not changed and this outlook can be likened to White America’s 15th-to-19th century attitude towards enslaving Black people. When a Black veteran in Texas killed multiple police officers, White America, Conservative and Liberal, gave law enforcement a blank check to cash in Black life without due process. Rather than attempt to capture the shooter and bring him to justice, White America gave law enforcement license to simply dispose of him; they used a robot to place a c4 bomb near the suspect then blew him up, no justice necessary. I guess Black people are less valuable as suspects than others.
Liberals in America have shown me that their cause is not moral, rather it’s opportunistic. They sit on the sideline exploiting minority plight then showcase their efforts in lieu of true morality-driven action. This gives them a pseudo-moral high ground over Conservatives. News stations are full of Liberal White people either telling their viewers what Black people think or thoroughly vetting the Black people they allow to express the “Black view” so as to not speak enough reality to hurt White people’s feelings or, perhaps, gain more power than Liberals are comfortable with. For the most part, they just shove Black people aside as they, the White Liberals, express the “Black view.” These are the actions of people who truly fear Black people and what we might say or do absent of their influence. Liberals are the safeguard to true Black empowerment and they serve to throttle Black progress, keeping it just strong enough for White usability yet not strong enough for Black people to decisively effect control over our own destiny. They use us as a bulwark protecting them from direct Conservative/Liberal conflict. We Black people are like the Khazar Empire of the 10th century, serving as a buffer preventing direct conflict between Muslim forces and the Byzantine Empire. White America has never done anything for Black people. They have, however, done things for themselves and allowed Blacks to benefit from their scraps. The same “trickle down” theory Conservatives tout when it comes to economics is the same method White America applies to freedom and prosperity. This can be seen in any legislation that benefitted Black people, such as Affirmative Action, which is not a law for Black people, but a law for all minorities that ended up helping White women more than anyone else. Civil Rights legislation was another legislative effort for Black people that when successful, America socialized for all minorities. Even when a movement called “Black Lives Matter” solidified to focus on Black plight, the American instinct to socialize anything benefitting Black people, including a mere phrase, kicked in, and a segment of America began chanting, “All Lives Matter.”
Blacks Should NOT Break the Alliance with Liberals
This blog post is not a case for Black people pulling support for the Liberal cause. Rather it’s to bring awareness that America’s core fabric hates us and we should never become comfortable until we truly liberate ourselves. As I said before, while many, including many of us, consider us Liberals, we’re not. We could never be of a party that permits such barbarity as what’s happening in Palestine. We do, however, ally with Liberals because their exploitation of our plight yields at least marginal gains. Conservatives merely offer us an attitude change. I wrote this Blog also for White people to look in the mirror and see that they are, knowing and unknowingly, practicing hate towards us and need to buck America’s norms if they ever want to achieve morality. They can begin by immediately stopping the killing of Palestinian women and children. If even possible, I’d love for this blog post to hold the mirror to White America’s face so they can honestly evaluate Westen culture and realize the whole of it is merely a White Power structure and the battle between its two factions is for control of White power and “freedom” from one another.
Black people are moral people not because of anything inherent, rather we are the least included in the immoral Western social model; we have absorbed the least amount of it, including the lack of morality seen in the Crusades, the Conquistadors, Transatlantic slave trade, Napoleonic wars on Black people in Haiti, Genocide of Black people in Australia and genocide in Africa including Belgium’s Leopold II’s holocaust that killed 10 Million Africans. In fact, America’s moral compass is so broken and guided by White Supremacy that the history books it uses to indoctrinate Western citizens into immorality prioritizes the 6 Million White people Hitler killed over the more than 10 Million Black people killed by Leopold II. While reminders of Adolph Hitler have been all but deleted from the European landscape, I’ve been to Leopold II’s beautiful grave, which sits unmolested in a church in Brussels. White lives are clearly more valuable than Black ones to Western culture, which extends all the way to the Liberal faction of American politics. This latest Israeli massacre of Palestinian lives will definitely erode President Joe Biden’s Black support. Our morality is less jaded by Western norms and we’ve had time to think about the the mindset of America’s two political factions that fought each other while both permitting the agony of slavery. We see through all the intellectual devices that cause the average White mind to permit such immoral behavior and know that, just as they permit it to happen to Palestinian women and children, they would also permit the same to happen to us Black people here in America.
The Response Overshadowed the Deed
Hamas’ attack on innocent Israeli citizens was pure evil. However, the response has overshadowed the deed so much that we can hardly morn fellow Westerners because our energy is not only going into saving women and children, but attempting to convince Americans of both sides of the political spectrum here at home, that Israel’s response is pure evil. Israel recently announced that it mistook three of its own citizens for Hamas militants and shot them dead. These Askenazi Jewish men were shirtless, waving white flags and yelling for help yet Israeli saw them as weapon wielding Hamas militants. Well, if they couldn’t make such an obvious distinction what does that say about their contention that Hamas hides among innocent women and children? What does this indicate about how indiscriminately Israel’s military is targeting Palestinian civilians? If the country can’t distinguish its own people and Hamas, how exactly are they distinguishing Hamas from innocent Palestinians? They’re not! They are “bombing them indiscriminately,” as President Biden put it. The ability for Liberals, the branch of White male Supremacy that we Black people ally with, to disregard the killing of babies shows that there is a path to getting liberals to permit the worst barbarities on human beings possible. Caring about Gay rights, Climate change, animal abuse, etc. fooled me into thinking Liberalism was a moral cause. It’s not! Like all Western causes, it’s opportunistic and lacks any moral underpinning. Given the right rationalization, like a violent response to a police killing or vigilant justice, I can easily envision both Liberal and Conservative standing shoulder to shoulder supporting law enforcement indiscriminately killing Black people. If Black people were to send a message to murderous cops and kill ones known to have unlawfully killed Black men, like Timothy Loehman, Jeronimo Yanez, Darren Wilson, Blane Salamoni, Derek Chauvin or Michael Slager, Liberals and Conservatives would have a candid White conversation about “stopping vigilante Justice,” law enforcement would see every Black man as a vigilante (like Israeli soldiers see every Palestinian man as Hamas), and a rationalized massacre would occur. The only difference between both factions’ endorsement of the violence would be if that endorsement is tacit or blatant. America permitted Whites to do this to Black Americans throughout the 19th and 20th century and the Israel/Hamas war happening right now shows that the 21st century is no different.