Just to be clear the original statement from Occupy the Hood that I posted urged Black people to support OWS ,unity of Black and White. No oneupmanship from Occupy the Hood, but unity of the Occupiers.
Joanna mentioned that the Hood statement made no mention of law enforcement and prisons which disproportionately impact Black people. Then a different statement from "Black People" compared the Occupations' mistreatment by police with the norm Joanna had mentioned.
I just want to be clear that Occupy the Hood is speaking unity among Occupiers, calling for all Black people to join the Occupation struggle. ,not doing victim one-up-man-ship
Charles
^^^^^^^^^
Doug Henwood
Well, yeah, but what's the point of this exactly? I'm guessing that most OWS participants are more aware of what cops are like than the average Joe. That aside, whites shouldn't complain because things could be worse, i.e., they could be black? Some sort of one-upmanship? Please enlighten.
Doug
On Dec 14, 2011, at 1:58 PM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote:
> Exactly.
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> Joanna
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> On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 6:00 PM, <123hop at comcast.net> wrote:
>> Kinda lame, and the elephant in the room: black people's experience with law enforcement and prisons is not even mentioned.
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> As a tweet put it:
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> "Oh? The NYPD are treating you badly? Violent for no reason?
> Weird." - Black People
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