America is dreadful place to live if you’re not white: Black American community organizer

By Desmond Abrams

I honestly looking and seeing the demonstrations and the uprisings across Western Europe, London Berlin, Denmark and just seeing all the support and solidarity from like all over, you know, for the black community, black Americans here who have been dealing with so much oppression from the United States government for so long. This has been brewing. This has been happening, well before Trump, well before Twitter, well before he could be the president and call Americans thugs and say that he is basically calling paramilitary forces to say that it is okay to shoot us. So we saw that tweet from Donald Trump where he said the looting begets the shooting or something to that effect and that's just a long line of abuse that the United States President has basically put onto the backs of like black people and black Americans here and it's very similar to what happens throughout the globe. It is remarkably similar to what happens in countries that the United States invades and attacks and tries to abuse and dominate.

So, here in Buffalo, there was shootings, there was all types of incidents that happened last night, and every night since Saturday's protest here but there have been uprisings across America. And there have been shootings and viral videos of the National Guard behaving like complete animals, shooting people right on their front porches, shooting people in the street. We just saw a video out of Atlanta, where they bashed in the windows of these this young black couple and tasered this young teenager, almost unconscious. He was not moving. So, this is just boiling over. This is happening. And I just want to say thank you to the world that sees this, you know, thank you.

I saw what your foreign minister said about what the American government is doing to us here and I want to say thank you to him, I want to say thank you to the Iranian people that held that candlelight vigil for George Floyd. I want to say thank you to London, to Germany, to all the people that are standing up and saying no, what the US is doing to its black population is disgusting, it needs to stop. We know what the United States does when they go into places like Iraq and Afghanistan. When they fund these rightwing militias and coup attempts like what they try to do in Venezuela. What happens is, is that, unfortunately, they go into a place and they pick a bottom caste. They pick a cast of people that are going to be on the outside of democracy, on the outside of any type of economic prosperity, and they say that that group of people is going to hold up the Empire, you know, and the empire, of course, is Western Europe and America. So, what you see US soldiers doing, whether when they're stationed in places like the Philippines and Guam when they're stationed in South Korea, for instance, or what they've been doing since they've been stationed in like all over the world. There are 700 US military bases. They are the world's police. That is what they call themselves.

So, yeah, I mean, this is boiling over here in America because, like Martin Luther King said, “bombs abroad explode at home.” So, they've been basically just been pretending as if the black population and the brown people in the United States are not even American citizens, are not protected by any type of human rights, are not subject to any type of law. So, when the police can kick in the door and execute us like they did to Breonna Taylor. That is a human rights abuse. That is a state actor shooting its citizens in their home. That very much mirrors what they did in Iraq during the shock and awe campaign and during the entire occupation. They went into people's homes and they killed them. They massacred them. They are doing this here in places like Louisville, Kentucky. They are doing this on the streets of Minneapolis. They are doing this in Buffalo. Four men of color were killed by the Buffalo Police Department right here in this city where I am from, you know, Wardell Mitch Davis, Jr. Rafael “Pito” Rivera. And of course, India Cummings, who died in the holding Center and the other 30 people that died in the holding center. These are people awaiting trial, not guilty of any crime, yet you know they have not been seen by a judge, they have not been sentenced and they are dying. This is just a disgraceful place to live. If you are not white.

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Desmond Abrams is a Black American community organizer and anti-racist strategist. He is the founder and executive director of Brothers Doing Better, a US-based racial and social justice organization. He recorded this article for Press TV website.

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