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Racial Equality Has Never Been a Match For The American Military Industrial Complex
But what are we going to do about this?
Emmett Till.
Thousands of African-American victims of lynching.
The Four little girls in Alabama.
Martin Luther King.
Malcolm X.
John F. Kennedy.
Robert F. Kennedy.
Hundreds of thousand of Vietnamese.
Iraqi babies and millions of displaced and killed Iraqis.
And now, hundreds of Palestinian children.
Racial equality has always been a nuisance, especially to the gate keepers of the American military-industrial complex.
And it is precisely why none of the prominent advocates for racial equality emerged unscathed from the most turbulent decade in American history.
African-Americans, given their unique history, have always known this and why they never could get behind supporting the Vietnam war, which was being waged against people of colour, thousands of miles away from their shores.
The military-industrial complex represented the very worst of capitalism and racism in the 1960s and this remains powerfully true today in 2023.