US pursuing own racist origins: Activist
Press TV has interviewed Graylan Hagler, a pastor and justice advocate in Washington, and Lee Kaplan, an investigative journalist in San Francisco, to discuss police brutality and other racial tensions that have angered black communities inside the United States.
Hagler says that the protests against police brutality in the United States are a “watershed” for what is happening all over the country because there is deep anger on the ground in communities such as Baltimore and Ferguson.
“America was built as a racist nation and it continues to exist as a racist nation and the fact is that people who are demonstrating… continue to protest the paradigms of racism that continue to grip the country,” he maintains.
Law enforcement in the US is a structure put in place to “disempower” African Americans and keep them oppressed, the pastor says.
He argues that, as Americans, all black people have the right to protest for their dignity when it is challenged, and to protect their lives when it is threatened.
Lee Kaplan, for his part, says that Ferguson riots are not spontaneous and the rioters are all “paid provocateurs” and “black criminal gangs” recruited by “communist” organizations. He also accuses the protesters of taking part in a “sham” that is designed to portray the US as a racist country.
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