Working class white American have been conned! the Greatest con job in the history of the country . Centuries going against their best self interest ,because of white pride. Amazing how long you can brainwash people.

Katie, that’s what i was thinking too while reading it (yes, i clicked on the link and read the WHOLE thing) – i need to send this to my parents. but you know, i don’t think they’d bother to read it… my dad considers himself a Libertarian, but he hates anarchists so the site alone would be a turn off to him. Then too, my parents are those lovely special racists who really believe that they aren’t racist even as they say very racist things… sigh. but i hope that it does get through to some people who see it. i really really hope so, because it is very good.

and oh yeah, i loved the suggestions. i think those are suggestions that a lot of POC already do, but then also some suggestions that a lot of us don’t do or haven’t yet fully embraced. For example the idea of not joining and discouraging family from joining the military, police, etc. Well, i’ve pretty much always been anti-military and anti-police and my life has reinforced that to me over and over again. But most people i know (in real life) think i’m crazy, paranoid, unamerican, etc. for feeling that way. And A LOT of POC have decided that the best way to prove their American-ness, their right to be here, their right to utilize resources here, etc. is by joining up and “fighting for the country”. This is an issue that my brother and i run into at every pow wow we attend, for example. i do not stand and recite the Pledge of Allegiance. i haven’t done so since i was a child (i was routinely thrown out of pep rallies in high school for this refusal). But doing so is part of the opening of pow wows. i cannot in good conscience do so, however, both as a Native whose life and the life of my ancestors have been trampled by that flag, and as a Muslim who does not believe in nationalism and “bowing” in any form to anyone by Allah. i DO honor the Native veterans, and any veteran really, for what they have given for this country. i respect them, i stand etc. for the veteran honor dance, and i stand for the other flag plantings that are part of opening ceremonies (including the POW flag). POC have ALWAYS been in the military in disproportionate numbers, for one because we are considered more expendable so we are heavily recruited, but also because so many of us believe that is what legitimizes us here. Since the first Desert Storm, Arab Americans have begun to join up in record numbers to “prove” that they aren’t like “those” Arabs over there. i think this is wrong. and i think we are exploited, that we are told we have to do this to be recognized as not the enemy (and even then, we know that those soldiers still take a lot of crap), that for many young poc it seems like the only way out of the ghetto, the best way to get college paid for, the best way to get away from problems, etc. But it’s all a big lie that just causes more POC to die fighting against their brethren & sistren around the world than anything else.

So i think the suggestions in the article are awesome, and if nothing else comes of it, i hope POC take those suggestions to heart too.

http://anthro.pophago.us/post/170764454/the-blunt-reality-is-that-for-the-last-five
http://anthro.pophago.us/post/171306442/lets-be-honest-i-dont-want-the-government-to

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We’ve been kept blind to the true nature of what is afoot here, as to what’s really going on. Look around us. Who fills the trailer parks with us? Who works in the factories or fast food restaurants with us? Who is beside us working in the fields, picking produce that we’ll never really be able to afford? Is it rich people, especially rich white people? Hell no, it isn’t. It’s brown people, black people, yellow people. It’s people who have different shades of skin than us. They are the people that are in similar situations to us, living paycheck to paycheck, suffering like we do.

My mind jumped to interracial relationship frequency & class in the world I see when I read this–but I don’t know what to make of that mental leap, so…nothing to say, really.

The author credit on Illvox is to Dave Strano, a member of Kansas Mutual Aid.