This so so real and so powerful, one of the greatest speeches I've ever heard. If you watch only one VDO today, it has to be this (only few mins long).
It's from Kimberley Jones, who uses playing Monopoly as an analogy to understanding the heinous economic injustice imposed on black people in USA.
(Kimberly Jones, author of I'm Not Dying Here With You Tonight)
Yes, she puts it very well.
I can't help but feel there are going to be an awful lot of us getting some understanding of how it feels, even if it is only some small measure because we have another storm brewing when the banks start repossessing homes, when tenants can't pay the rent. That's when we find out who the Police are there to protect and serve. Whatever happened to protect and serve? Unfortunately the Police certainly in the UK became a tool of the Government against the people in my memory by Margaret Thatcher. I saw then that the people they were meant to be serving became the enemy of the police when they went into colliery towns and villages and used tactics to wind up the miners and then fought them using all the numbers they could call on and the equipment and when those battles were won the Government neutered working people by not allowing them to gather in large groups when striking.
So we know that the Police aren't there to protect and serve anymore if it doesn't suit the Government of the day. If you want anymore examples then watch some repossession videos. The Police will attend ostensibly to prevent or arrest over any breach of the peace however some will assist the bailiffs in gaining entry to a property forgetting who they are there to serve. So, there's the Police who get a bit confused from time to time about Protect and Serve, but property isn't people and as we always say when there's an accident, property can be re-built or re-bought, people's lives are what is important.
But meanwhile how did the Police become so brutal in their activities because I seriously believe it isn't exactly the same situation in the UK and other Western countries? The lady in the video is exactly right when she talks about not being allowed to win the game, first of all the police in the US has always been populated or run largely by racists from the early days of enforcement, I have absolutely no doubt that there have been and always are some police officers who join because they want to help people. They were directly employed by slave owners and then business and were there to protect those interests and there has always been a big interest in keeping those people where they were most easily controlled. Big business have our Government's ear at all times, they fund the campaigns, they lobby those governments to remind them who they owe allegiance to and they fund the most successful media to keep telling the middle classes that they never had it so good. And every day now we see a gradual drain from the middle classes into the 'lower classes' because of the gap increasing between the multi-billionaires and the poor, but the people from the middle classes like to believe they are still middle class so keep supporting their betters. In the UK, the Mail and Telegraph continue to reassure them that capitalism still works. For them. But Capitalism does not work for us, not when we lose our jobs or never had jobs. A lot of us are going to be finding out what it is like to have no support from our governments and what it is like not to have a job contract. I don't mean to give all Police Officers a bad rep but until they remember when it comes down to it who they are there to really protect and serve, and don't jump to their governments bark it is business and their property and interests who they will really serve.
In the UK I believe that it is a case of the odd bad apple, frustration etc but it will get worse especially if and when the Government tell them what to do and when but in the US I'm afraid it has gone too far and for too long. The three types of people at the protests each have their own agendas and the demonstrators need society to change from the top down to really win the game.
There's nothing wrong with running a business so long as you don't seek any special favour. Contributing to party campaigns will need to become illegal, lobbying will need to be strictly regulated. Businesses should be paying their taxes fairly and also their employees. But if you drill down into Brexit (funded by big business) we'll be finding out that all of the protections employees had and that were protected under European Regulation and Law will disappear and that is what Brexit for the Conservatives has been all about. Big business will also be finding it easier to pay less taxes and there will oddly be even less oversight of share bonuses and personal taxation for company officers. For those of us who want to continue to emulate the wealthy perhaps we'll step through a broken plate glass window too.
