Stephen Lendman – America from inception was viciously racist – from chattel to wage slavery, Jim Crow to its modern-day version, freedom to mass incarceration, cops nationwide killing Blacks unaccountably more than ever, despite so-called reforms achieving nothing.
Obama expressing sorrow for Black lives lost and condolences to affected families belies his war on humanity at home and abroad, continuing since day one in office, responsible for millions of nameless, faceless deaths, horrific injustice and unspeakable human misery.
Saying he’s “encouraged (by) the (Justice Department) open(ing) civil rights investigations in Baton Rouge” and Minnesota belies its meaninglessness however they turn out.
Killer cops continue brutalizing and lethally shooting Black youths nationwide unaccountably – race and ethnicity key determinants of whether they’re treated civilly or inhumanely, live or die, stay free or become incarcerated.
No developed country, besides Israel, dispenses more double-standard injustice – societies based on separate and unequal from inception, current regimes more extreme in both countries under fascist rule.
Obama denigrates Black community suffering in America, saying “(l)et’s come together as a nation, and keep faith with one another, in order to ensure a future where all our children know that their lives matter.”