there's something about how we've been acting and it's bothering me. A lot.
So I'm going to be brutally honest with you. In all my sparkling whiteness to your incandescent, glowing whiteness. Every time you say, "The system worked", in regards to the events in Ferguson or any other police shooting you're being an ignorant, racist asshole.
Let me state that again, so there is no confusion. When the police kill someone and the killers don't go to jail or even have a real trial and you offer up the claim "The system worked" you are a racist. And an ignorant one as well. Even if they killed a white person. Even if it was in "self defense". Because it's not about any one, single incident. It's about that system you're so desperate to protect, a system that uses racism to justify its existence.
And why do I say that? It's because the system is designed to make white America feel safe from "the Negro" and "the Immigrant" and a hundred other scary inventions of those with power to make you feel like you're being protected. But it's not you they want to protect. What they really want is to have a system in place that protects them from you. Why do you think middle class, white America only feels the weight of the police state when they protest against Wall Street or against the military industrial complex? Because they're upsetting the owners and the owners don't like it.
And if you think for one minute your whiteness is going to save your ass when times get tough look at what happened in 2007/08's meltdown. How many white middle class jobs were wiped out? How many white family's lost their homes? Hell, some even lost their lives. And what did the oligarchs do for you when that happened? They fought as hard as possible to preserve their banks and financial institutions and sent the cops to foreclose on your homes and handed them over to the very same criminals who ruined your lives.
You got fucked over big time and the color of your skin didn't matter, the only thing that mattered was the size of your bank account and the power you had because of that. If you want proof the system doesn't work for white America just ask a poor white guy how well the system works for them some time. Ask the homeless person if they really feel safer with cops around. Your belief that the system protects you is a fantasy created by those with power to make you complicit in the continuation of that system's existence. You're sold racist excuses to justify the system and you happily accept the terms and conditions of that racism even though that system doesn't serve you.
So please stop telling me or anyone else how the "system worked" and expect us to be happy about it. I damn well know it worked, it works all too well. Rather be honest and tell me you feel safer because a black man was shot in the street. Or that you're OK with the oligarchs stealing everything that isn't nailed down. Because at least then I'll know you're not ignorant. I'll know you're a racist, a sycophant, or perhaps both but not an ignorant one.