Black Athletes' Revolt Could Change USian Revolutionary Dynamics
APART FROM THE ONGOING rebellion of African-American athletes, the influence of which is already spreading beyond the realm of sports, probably the most important story in the USian Homeland right now is the One Percent's escalation of its efforts to radically reduce Working Class and non-white populations, whether by abandoning Puerto Rico to the most immediately deadly aspects of terminal climate change or by making healthcare so expensive only the One Percenters and their Ruling Class vassals can afford it.
Both
tactics, denial of post-disaster aid and denial of healthcare, are
obvious expressions of Capitalism's strategy of exterminating unwanted
or surplus populations by boiled-frog methods of slow-motion genocide.
Meanwhile
the athletes' rebellion offers the hitherto-unexplored potential of
expanding revolutionary leadership to include a group of people who are
not only profoundly respected for their physical prowess but are
literally adored by a segment of the USian population that spans every
race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality and caste.
Whether
and to what extent that potential might explode into actuality depends
on how brutally the authorities suppress the athletes. The team owners'
verbal alliance with the dissidents is obviously an attempt at
nonviolent suppression, specifically by co-optation, but in such a white supremacist JesuNazi police state as the U.S.has become, literally anything is now possible.
That's
why, though the Mainstream Media pundits assure us the athletes'
protests are succeeding, also that there will be aid for Puerto Rico and
that the latest Trumpcare terror will never become law, we dare not
forget these pundits are the same Josef Goebbels types who assured us
Trump/Pence JesuNazism would never be headquartered in the White House –
the name of which has now been fully restored to its grotesque
antebellum appropriateness.
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