Monday, August 19, 2013

Black, Brown Skin In NYC- The New Armband

New Yorkers are being tormented by police supposedly because  they live in high crime areas.
All over the world, people in poverty-stricken areas have a greater tendency to live with high crime rates than their neighbors in more middle classed neighborhoods.
I suppose in NY authorities feel luckier than authorities in say, neighborhoods in Scotland afflicted with high poverty rates.
They can see us coming.
Now, this outgoing mayor wants to fingerprint poor people, again, before the person who is one of the poor has committed a crime.
In Bloomberg's lust to build scores of luxury office buildings and residences in the city as he exits
the active government power in the city, he now has businessmen asking for tax breaks if they build edifices with two entrances- one for the rich, and one for the poor. That is, New York City poor- studios for a bit over $900.
Is Bloomberg reissuing the torments inflicted on his fore bearers?
Decades ago, the "group" government officials decided were the biggest problem-causers were quite
often "rounded up" for reasons which did not matter, because no reason is reasonable for inflicting
that sort of commonplace assault on the bodies of any persons perceived vulnerable, in that their race, religion, or national origins seem recognizable.
The worst thing about Bloomberg's horrors are that he really ought to know better.
We all ought to know better.
We should have recognized the nightmare when the Armenians were stripped of civil rights, as a start
to the remainder of the terrors inflicted on them at the turn of the twentieth century.
Serbia has taught us in more recent history.
Rwanda has informed us.
The build-ups of mishandling people by governments can lead to even more crushing policies against those peoples, especially when people begin bitter complaints against the treatment.
Bloomberg and his cronies are mishandling people.
Another truly astounding thing is that now we tolerate these outrages not only from states, but by lesser municipalities targeting minorities for habitually degrading, debilitating treatment.

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