Read and contemplate the reality of this statement.

[CrusaderFrank]

By Chauncey DeVega....Indomitable | The online home of Chauncey DeVega: They Would be Killed if They Were Black: Race, White Privilege, and the Bundy Family "Militia" in Oregon

True words!
White privilege has many components. One of its most powerful aspects is the ability to twist reality, and by doing so, free white folks from personal responsibility (as well as group accountability) for their actions. There are many examples of this phenomenon in the United States. White men who commit mass shootings are “mentally ill” and not “terrorists.” Heavily armed white cops who kill unarmed and defenseless black people were acting “in reasonable fear of their lives.” White conservatives who gather by the dozens and hundreds and then point loaded guns at federal authorities are described by the right-wing news entertainment media as “patriots.”
And of course to be “white” is to be unmarked by “race.” Therefore, there will be little mention of the fact that these right-wing traitors are white men. Moreover, the connections between the Christian White Identity Movement will also go uncommented upon by the mainstream corporate news media.
The latter’s coverage of the events in Oregon has followed this script very closely.
The New York Times described the events in Oregon as “Armed Group Vows to Occupy Office in Oregon for ‘Years’.”
ABC News reported on a “Peaceful protest followed by Oregon wildlife refuge action.”
Surprisingly, Fox News, while still quite literally whitewashing their headline, came the closest to the truth with their, “Armed militia occupying Oregon government building.”
It does not take an amazing act of creativity to envision how the same actions—and much less—if taken by blacks, Hispanics, Muslims, or First Nations peoples would likely be described by the American corporate news media.
If Muslims took up arms, occupied a federal building, recorded martyrdom videos, and threatened to kill police and other authorities, they would be called “terrorists.”
Likewise, black Americans would be called “thugs,” “militants” or “anti-police.”
The White gaze is wonderful at focusing its distorted view outward on the Other. It fails miserably in terms of introspection. As such, there will be no discussion of the “religion,” “culture” and “values” of the white men who are the Bundy brothers’ rabble when such questions are obligatory for people of color and Muslims.


The armed white insurrectionists in Oregon will couch their behavior in the rhetoric of how they are fighting “tyranny” while waving around a Constitution they likely have not fully read (armed resistance to the federal government is a violation of Article 1) . In essence, the Bundy brother’s rabble are political cosplayers: they fly Revolutionary War era Gadsden flags, brandish “freedom muskets” (also known as AR-15 assault rifles), wrap themselves in the empty Americana kitsch symbolism of cowboys and the frontier, and show their bravery by occupying an empty federal building on a remote wildlife game preserve.

"word, motherfucker!!!' -- Eric Holder, seized ROTC building in 1970

 

[Dhara]

But did they seize the building with weapons or not?

 

[Dhara]

But did they seize the building with weapons or not?

Believe me if the black students had been armed with guns, they would have been prosecuted. This is a rumor that was NEVER substantiated.
This event is confused by another one that occured with Black Panthers where there were arrests.

 

[boilermaker55]

You think it is but it isn 't at all.
If they were of color , they would be thugs.
The Oregon goons can point guns and assault weapons at Federal agents and nothing is done.
But a 12 yr old black child has a fake pistol and the police are justified in shooting him in cold blood.
False comparison. You are a joke.

Another racist idiot who doesn't understand the difference between those who protest in the name of skin color and those who do the same except not in the name of skin color but who happen to be mostly or all white.
False comparison.

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

You think it is but it isn 't at all.
If they were of color , they would be thugs.
The Oregon goons can point guns and assault weapons at Federal agents and nothing is done.
But a 12 yr old black child has a fake pistol and the police are justified in shooting him in cold blood.
False comparison. You are a joke.

Another racist idiot who doesn't understand the difference between those who protest in the name of skin color and those who do the same except not in the name of skin color but who happen to be mostly or all white.
False comparison.

You completely missed the gist of my post. The oregon protesters are not protesting in the name of skin color which make any comparisons to black lives matter protesting moot.
The kid shot in Cleveland was not part of a protesting group so his actions were of a completely different dynamic making that comparison moot.
You need to stop reading Eugene Robinson propaganda.

 

[whitehall]

DeVega has a right to his opinion but it is just an opinion by a left winger who makes a living making outrageous claims. Didn't Black students ever occupy a college campus? Remember what the "O" stands for in the OWS gang? It stands for occupy. OWS has occupied parks and lawns and buildings and warehouses and streets and government buildings. The left wing anti-war movement occupied George Bush's property. So far, the record for atrocity happened during the Clinton administration and the 80 people incinerated by federal cops at Waco were predominately white.

 

[boilermaker55]

They are still using automatic weapons and pointing them at Federal agents and threatening to shoot them.
Did the 12 yr old shot by the police officer threaten him at this rate.
You have to stop listening to the fat headed russie fat ass limbaugh.

You think it is but it isn 't at all.
If they were of color , they would be thugs.
The Oregon goons can point guns and assault weapons at Federal agents and nothing is done.
But a 12 yr old black child has a fake pistol and the police are justified in shooting him in cold blood.
False comparison. You are a joke.

Another racist idiot who doesn't understand the difference between those who protest in the name of skin color and those who do the same except not in the name of skin color but who happen to be mostly or all white.
False comparison.

You completely missed the gist of my post. The oregon protesters are not protesting in the name of skin color which make any comparisons to black lives matter protesting moot.
The kid shot in Cleveland was not part of a protesting group so his actions were of a completely different dynamic making that comparison moot.
You need to stop reading Eugene Robinson propaganda.

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

They are still using automatic weapons and pointing them at Federal agents and threatening to shoot them.
Did the 12 yr old shot by the police officer threaten him at this rate.
You have to stop listening to the fat headed russie fat ass limbaugh.

You think it is but it isn 't at all.
If they were of color , they would be thugs.
The Oregon goons can point guns and assault weapons at Federal agents and nothing is done.
But a 12 yr old black child has a fake pistol and the police are justified in shooting him in cold blood.
False comparison. You are a joke.

Another racist idiot who doesn't understand the difference between those who protest in the name of skin color and those who do the same except not in the name of skin color but who happen to be mostly or all white.
False comparison.

You completely missed the gist of my post. The oregon protesters are not protesting in the name of skin color which make any comparisons to black lives matter protesting moot.
The kid shot in Cleveland was not part of a protesting group so his actions were of a completely different dynamic making that comparison moot.
You need to stop reading Eugene Robinson propaganda.

I don't 'listen' to anyone. I decipher. You should try it.
The situations are completely separate and devoid of racial components except to you brainwashed racialists.

 

[boilermaker55]

Live in your dream world and your bigotry all you want, they are so similar but you cannot comprehend it.

They are still using automatic weapons and pointing them at Federal agents and threatening to shoot them.
Did the 12 yr old shot by the police officer threaten him at this rate.
You have to stop listening to the fat headed russie fat ass limbaugh.

You think it is but it isn 't at all.
If they were of color , they would be thugs.
The Oregon goons can point guns and assault weapons at Federal agents and nothing is done.
But a 12 yr old black child has a fake pistol and the police are justified in shooting him in cold blood.
False comparison. You are a joke.

Another racist idiot who doesn't understand the difference between those who protest in the name of skin color and those who do the same except not in the name of skin color but who happen to be mostly or all white.
False comparison.

You completely missed the gist of my post. The oregon protesters are not protesting in the name of skin color which make any comparisons to black lives matter protesting moot.
The kid shot in Cleveland was not part of a protesting group so his actions were of a completely different dynamic making that comparison moot.
You need to stop reading Eugene Robinson propaganda.

I don't 'listen' to anyone. I decipher. You should try it.
The situations are completely separate and devoid of racial components except to you brainwashed racialists.

 

[boilermaker55]

How utterly stupid of you to even think the same is happening.
Let your white red-neck tardos point guns at anyone. Maybe and hopefully it will be you next.

By Chauncey DeVega....Indomitable | The online home of Chauncey DeVega: They Would be Killed if They Were Black: Race, White Privilege, and the Bundy Family "Militia" in Oregon

True words!
White privilege has many components. One of its most powerful aspects is the ability to twist reality, and by doing so, free white folks from personal responsibility (as well as group accountability) for their actions. There are many examples of this phenomenon in the United States. White men who commit mass shootings are “mentally ill” and not “terrorists.” Heavily armed white cops who kill unarmed and defenseless black people were acting “in reasonable fear of their lives.” White conservatives who gather by the dozens and hundreds and then point loaded guns at federal authorities are described by the right-wing news entertainment media as “patriots.”
And of course to be “white” is to be unmarked by “race.” Therefore, there will be little mention of the fact that these right-wing traitors are white men. Moreover, the connections between the Christian White Identity Movement will also go uncommented upon by the mainstream corporate news media.
The latter’s coverage of the events in Oregon has followed this script very closely.
The New York Times described the events in Oregon as “Armed Group Vows to Occupy Office in Oregon for ‘Years’.”
ABC News reported on a “Peaceful protest followed by Oregon wildlife refuge action.”
Surprisingly, Fox News, while still quite literally whitewashing their headline, came the closest to the truth with their, “Armed militia occupying Oregon government building.”
It does not take an amazing act of creativity to envision how the same actions—and much less—if taken by blacks, Hispanics, Muslims, or First Nations peoples would likely be described by the American corporate news media.
If Muslims took up arms, occupied a federal building, recorded martyrdom videos, and threatened to kill police and other authorities, they would be called “terrorists.”
Likewise, black Americans would be called “thugs,” “militants” or “anti-police.”
The White gaze is wonderful at focusing its distorted view outward on the Other. It fails miserably in terms of introspection. As such, there will be no discussion of the “religion,” “culture” and “values” of the white men who are the Bundy brothers’ rabble when such questions are obligatory for people of color and Muslims.


The armed white insurrectionists in Oregon will couch their behavior in the rhetoric of how they are fighting “tyranny” while waving around a Constitution they likely have not fully read (armed resistance to the federal government is a violation of Article 1) . In essence, the Bundy brother’s rabble are political cosplayers: they fly Revolutionary War era Gadsden flags, brandish “freedom muskets” (also known as AR-15 assault rifles), wrap themselves in the empty Americana kitsch symbolism of cowboys and the frontier, and show their bravery by occupying an empty federal building on a remote wildlife game preserve.

"word, motherfucker!!!' -- Eric Holder, seized ROTC building in 1970

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

Live in your dream world and your bigotry all you want, they are so similar but you cannot comprehend it.

They are still using automatic weapons and pointing them at Federal agents and threatening to shoot them.
Did the 12 yr old shot by the police officer threaten him at this rate.
You have to stop listening to the fat headed russie fat ass limbaugh.

You think it is but it isn 't at all.
If they were of color , they would be thugs.
The Oregon goons can point guns and assault weapons at Federal agents and nothing is done.
But a 12 yr old black child has a fake pistol and the police are justified in shooting him in cold blood.
False comparison. You are a joke.

Another racist idiot who doesn't understand the difference between those who protest in the name of skin color and those who do the same except not in the name of skin color but who happen to be mostly or all white.
False comparison.

You completely missed the gist of my post. The oregon protesters are not protesting in the name of skin color which make any comparisons to black lives matter protesting moot.
The kid shot in Cleveland was not part of a protesting group so his actions were of a completely different dynamic making that comparison moot.
You need to stop reading Eugene Robinson propaganda.

I don't 'listen' to anyone. I decipher. You should try it.
The situations are completely separate and devoid of racial components except to you brainwashed racialists.

Speak for yourself. You have yet to respond to my posts. Instead, you respond to your own misinterpretation.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

But did they seize the building with weapons or not?

The one fucking highlighted sentence said, "A group of armed....", lazy fuck

 

[Dana7360]

By Chauncey DeVega....Indomitable | The online home of Chauncey DeVega: They Would be Killed if They Were Black: Race, White Privilege, and the Bundy Family "Militia" in Oregon

True words!
White privilege has many components. One of its most powerful aspects is the ability to twist reality, and by doing so, free white folks from personal responsibility (as well as group accountability) for their actions. There are many examples of this phenomenon in the United States. White men who commit mass shootings are “mentally ill” and not “terrorists.” Heavily armed white cops who kill unarmed and defenseless black people were acting “in reasonable fear of their lives.” White conservatives who gather by the dozens and hundreds and then point loaded guns at federal authorities are described by the right-wing news entertainment media as “patriots.”
And of course to be “white” is to be unmarked by “race.” Therefore, there will be little mention of the fact that these right-wing traitors are white men. Moreover, the connections between the Christian White Identity Movement will also go uncommented upon by the mainstream corporate news media.
The latter’s coverage of the events in Oregon has followed this script very closely.
The New York Times described the events in Oregon as “Armed Group Vows to Occupy Office in Oregon for ‘Years’.”
ABC News reported on a “Peaceful protest followed by Oregon wildlife refuge action.”
Surprisingly, Fox News, while still quite literally whitewashing their headline, came the closest to the truth with their, “Armed militia occupying Oregon government building.”
It does not take an amazing act of creativity to envision how the same actions—and much less—if taken by blacks, Hispanics, Muslims, or First Nations peoples would likely be described by the American corporate news media.
If Muslims took up arms, occupied a federal building, recorded martyrdom videos, and threatened to kill police and other authorities, they would be called “terrorists.”
Likewise, black Americans would be called “thugs,” “militants” or “anti-police.”
The White gaze is wonderful at focusing its distorted view outward on the Other. It fails miserably in terms of introspection. As such, there will be no discussion of the “religion,” “culture” and “values” of the white men who are the Bundy brothers’ rabble when such questions are obligatory for people of color and Muslims.


The armed white insurrectionists in Oregon will couch their behavior in the rhetoric of how they are fighting “tyranny” while waving around a Constitution they likely have not fully read (armed resistance to the federal government is a violation of Article 1) . In essence, the Bundy brother’s rabble are political cosplayers: they fly Revolutionary War era Gadsden flags, brandish “freedom muskets” (also known as AR-15 assault rifles), wrap themselves in the empty Americana kitsch symbolism of cowboys and the frontier, and show their bravery by occupying an empty federal building on a remote wildlife game preserve.

"word, motherfucker!!!' -- Eric Holder, seized ROTC building in 1970

Now that's one of the most pathetic things I've seen today.

You have to reach back 46 years to find something about African Americans and it's not even the same thing. They didn't have weapons and they negotiated to a peaceful resolution. The building was later Malcolm X Lounge. The building was empty and had not been used in years.

And what does that have to do with what's going on in Oregon?

Do you actually think it excuses what's happening there and how differently things would be if the people were African American or any other race besides white?

You and those like you are behaving like little children who get caught doing something they're not supposed to do so they point fingers at someone else in hopes that you will be able to excuse your behavior.

You and those like you are just sad and pathetic.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

By Chauncey DeVega....Indomitable | The online home of Chauncey DeVega: They Would be Killed if They Were Black: Race, White Privilege, and the Bundy Family "Militia" in Oregon

True words!
White privilege has many components. One of its most powerful aspects is the ability to twist reality, and by doing so, free white folks from personal responsibility (as well as group accountability) for their actions. There are many examples of this phenomenon in the United States. White men who commit mass shootings are “mentally ill” and not “terrorists.” Heavily armed white cops who kill unarmed and defenseless black people were acting “in reasonable fear of their lives.” White conservatives who gather by the dozens and hundreds and then point loaded guns at federal authorities are described by the right-wing news entertainment media as “patriots.”
And of course to be “white” is to be unmarked by “race.” Therefore, there will be little mention of the fact that these right-wing traitors are white men. Moreover, the connections between the Christian White Identity Movement will also go uncommented upon by the mainstream corporate news media.
The latter’s coverage of the events in Oregon has followed this script very closely.
The New York Times described the events in Oregon as “Armed Group Vows to Occupy Office in Oregon for ‘Years’.”
ABC News reported on a “Peaceful protest followed by Oregon wildlife refuge action.”
Surprisingly, Fox News, while still quite literally whitewashing their headline, came the closest to the truth with their, “Armed militia occupying Oregon government building.”
It does not take an amazing act of creativity to envision how the same actions—and much less—if taken by blacks, Hispanics, Muslims, or First Nations peoples would likely be described by the American corporate news media.
If Muslims took up arms, occupied a federal building, recorded martyrdom videos, and threatened to kill police and other authorities, they would be called “terrorists.”
Likewise, black Americans would be called “thugs,” “militants” or “anti-police.”
The White gaze is wonderful at focusing its distorted view outward on the Other. It fails miserably in terms of introspection. As such, there will be no discussion of the “religion,” “culture” and “values” of the white men who are the Bundy brothers’ rabble when such questions are obligatory for people of color and Muslims.


The armed white insurrectionists in Oregon will couch their behavior in the rhetoric of how they are fighting “tyranny” while waving around a Constitution they likely have not fully read (armed resistance to the federal government is a violation of Article 1) . In essence, the Bundy brother’s rabble are political cosplayers: they fly Revolutionary War era Gadsden flags, brandish “freedom muskets” (also known as AR-15 assault rifles), wrap themselves in the empty Americana kitsch symbolism of cowboys and the frontier, and show their bravery by occupying an empty federal building on a remote wildlife game preserve.

"word, motherfucker!!!' -- Eric Holder, seized ROTC building in 1970

Now that's one of the most pathetic things I've seen today.

You have to reach back 46 years to find something about African Americans and it's not even the same thing. They didn't have weapons and they negotiated to a peaceful resolution. The building was later Malcolm X Lounge. The building was empty and had not been used in years.

And what does that have to do with what's going on in Oregon?

Do you actually think it excuses what's happening there and how differently things would be if the people were African American or any other race besides white?

You and those like you are behaving like little children who get caught doing something they're not supposed to do so they point fingers at someone else in hopes that you will be able to excuse your behavior.

You and those like you are just sad and pathetic.

Maybe Ammon Bundy will one day be Attorney General

 

[Dhara]

Ammon Bundy under Donald Trump. Yeah, that sounds about right.

 

[Dana7360]

By Chauncey DeVega....Indomitable | The online home of Chauncey DeVega: They Would be Killed if They Were Black: Race, White Privilege, and the Bundy Family "Militia" in Oregon

True words!
White privilege has many components. One of its most powerful aspects is the ability to twist reality, and by doing so, free white folks from personal responsibility (as well as group accountability) for their actions. There are many examples of this phenomenon in the United States. White men who commit mass shootings are “mentally ill” and not “terrorists.” Heavily armed white cops who kill unarmed and defenseless black people were acting “in reasonable fear of their lives.” White conservatives who gather by the dozens and hundreds and then point loaded guns at federal authorities are described by the right-wing news entertainment media as “patriots.”
And of course to be “white” is to be unmarked by “race.” Therefore, there will be little mention of the fact that these right-wing traitors are white men. Moreover, the connections between the Christian White Identity Movement will also go uncommented upon by the mainstream corporate news media.
The latter’s coverage of the events in Oregon has followed this script very closely.
The New York Times described the events in Oregon as “Armed Group Vows to Occupy Office in Oregon for ‘Years’.”
ABC News reported on a “Peaceful protest followed by Oregon wildlife refuge action.”
Surprisingly, Fox News, while still quite literally whitewashing their headline, came the closest to the truth with their, “Armed militia occupying Oregon government building.”
It does not take an amazing act of creativity to envision how the same actions—and much less—if taken by blacks, Hispanics, Muslims, or First Nations peoples would likely be described by the American corporate news media.
If Muslims took up arms, occupied a federal building, recorded martyrdom videos, and threatened to kill police and other authorities, they would be called “terrorists.”
Likewise, black Americans would be called “thugs,” “militants” or “anti-police.”
The White gaze is wonderful at focusing its distorted view outward on the Other. It fails miserably in terms of introspection. As such, there will be no discussion of the “religion,” “culture” and “values” of the white men who are the Bundy brothers’ rabble when such questions are obligatory for people of color and Muslims.


The armed white insurrectionists in Oregon will couch their behavior in the rhetoric of how they are fighting “tyranny” while waving around a Constitution they likely have not fully read (armed resistance to the federal government is a violation of Article 1) . In essence, the Bundy brother’s rabble are political cosplayers: they fly Revolutionary War era Gadsden flags, brandish “freedom muskets” (also known as AR-15 assault rifles), wrap themselves in the empty Americana kitsch symbolism of cowboys and the frontier, and show their bravery by occupying an empty federal building on a remote wildlife game preserve.

"word, motherfucker!!!' -- Eric Holder, seized ROTC building in 1970

Now that's one of the most pathetic things I've seen today.

You have to reach back 46 years to find something about African Americans and it's not even the same thing. They didn't have weapons and they negotiated to a peaceful resolution. The building was later Malcolm X Lounge. The building was empty and had not been used in years.

And what does that have to do with what's going on in Oregon?

Do you actually think it excuses what's happening there and how differently things would be if the people were African American or any other race besides white?

You and those like you are behaving like little children who get caught doing something they're not supposed to do so they point fingers at someone else in hopes that you will be able to excuse your behavior.

You and those like you are just sad and pathetic.

Maybe Ammon Bundy will one day be Attorney General

Highly impossible.

I looked up bundy's biography and there's not one word about him going to college much less graduating with a law degree. The man probably barely graduated from high school, if at all.

Holder was a negotiator 46 years ago and helped bring that standoff to a peaceful resolution.

But you're still pointing fingers in hopes that it absolves those terrorists in Oregon for their crimes. It won't work. No one cares what happened 46 years ago. We care what's happening now. Today. And today we have a group of terrorists who have taken over federal land and property, who have violated the law, who are violating Native American Indian land and who lied when they said they would leave if the locals asked them to. They were asked and they refused to go. So on top of everything they're nothing but cowardly liars.

You support, defend and make flimsily excuses for them.

Which makes you extremely pathetic.

 

[boilermaker55]

I have but you refuse to understand or acknowledge my point.
A typical teabagger tactic

Live in your dream world and your bigotry all you want, they are so similar but you cannot comprehend it.

They are still using automatic weapons and pointing them at Federal agents and threatening to shoot them.
Did the 12 yr old shot by the police officer threaten him at this rate.
You have to stop listening to the fat headed russie fat ass limbaugh.

You think it is but it isn 't at all.
If they were of color , they would be thugs.
The Oregon goons can point guns and assault weapons at Federal agents and nothing is done.
But a 12 yr old black child has a fake pistol and the police are justified in shooting him in cold blood.
False comparison. You are a joke.

You completely missed the gist of my post. The oregon protesters are not protesting in the name of skin color which make any comparisons to black lives matter protesting moot.
The kid shot in Cleveland was not part of a protesting group so his actions were of a completely different dynamic making that comparison moot.
You need to stop reading Eugene Robinson propaganda.

I don't 'listen' to anyone. I decipher. You should try it.
The situations are completely separate and devoid of racial components except to you brainwashed racialists.

Speak for yourself. You have yet to respond to my posts. Instead, you respond to your own misinterpretation.

 

[Moonglow]

I suppose they should have looted and burned down a city in Oregon instead of taking over that building. Makes much more sense.

Don't doubt that they are not burying their poop...

 

[Wry Catcher]

I suppose they should have looted and burned down a city in Oregon instead of taking over that building. Makes much more sense.

Doing so would be insane, though that may be the one characteristic they have which would make such an act (burning down a city) plausible.

Showing up with guns is foolish, if not insane. Yet doing so gives a coward the tool he (sometimes even she) needs, that is false courage; which creates the likely hood the possessor of the gun will act much more brazenly had S/He not been so armed, opening the door to real violence from which they may not survive or may spend the rest of their life in prison.

Their lack of command and control, faced by a city police augmented with mutual aid (National Guard, SWAT from other agencies, for example) is something even the insane / reality challenged understand, and that exposes their rhetoric and theatrics as little more than child's play - a dangerous game.

IMO the founders would have responded to this group as Washington and Hamilton responded to the Whiskey Rebellion in 1794. Maybe today's self defined, untrained Militia ought to read some history.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

By Chauncey DeVega....Indomitable | The online home of Chauncey DeVega: They Would be Killed if They Were Black: Race, White Privilege, and the Bundy Family "Militia" in Oregon

True words!
White privilege has many components. One of its most powerful aspects is the ability to twist reality, and by doing so, free white folks from personal responsibility (as well as group accountability) for their actions. There are many examples of this phenomenon in the United States. White men who commit mass shootings are “mentally ill” and not “terrorists.” Heavily armed white cops who kill unarmed and defenseless black people were acting “in reasonable fear of their lives.” White conservatives who gather by the dozens and hundreds and then point loaded guns at federal authorities are described by the right-wing news entertainment media as “patriots.”
And of course to be “white” is to be unmarked by “race.” Therefore, there will be little mention of the fact that these right-wing traitors are white men. Moreover, the connections between the Christian White Identity Movement will also go uncommented upon by the mainstream corporate news media.
The latter’s coverage of the events in Oregon has followed this script very closely.
The New York Times described the events in Oregon as “Armed Group Vows to Occupy Office in Oregon for ‘Years’.”
ABC News reported on a “Peaceful protest followed by Oregon wildlife refuge action.”
Surprisingly, Fox News, while still quite literally whitewashing their headline, came the closest to the truth with their, “Armed militia occupying Oregon government building.”
It does not take an amazing act of creativity to envision how the same actions—and much less—if taken by blacks, Hispanics, Muslims, or First Nations peoples would likely be described by the American corporate news media.
If Muslims took up arms, occupied a federal building, recorded martyrdom videos, and threatened to kill police and other authorities, they would be called “terrorists.”
Likewise, black Americans would be called “thugs,” “militants” or “anti-police.”
The White gaze is wonderful at focusing its distorted view outward on the Other. It fails miserably in terms of introspection. As such, there will be no discussion of the “religion,” “culture” and “values” of the white men who are the Bundy brothers’ rabble when such questions are obligatory for people of color and Muslims.


The armed white insurrectionists in Oregon will couch their behavior in the rhetoric of how they are fighting “tyranny” while waving around a Constitution they likely have not fully read (armed resistance to the federal government is a violation of Article 1) . In essence, the Bundy brother’s rabble are political cosplayers: they fly Revolutionary War era Gadsden flags, brandish “freedom muskets” (also known as AR-15 assault rifles), wrap themselves in the empty Americana kitsch symbolism of cowboys and the frontier, and show their bravery by occupying an empty federal building on a remote wildlife game preserve.

"word, motherfucker!!!' -- Eric Holder, seized ROTC building in 1970

Now that's one of the most pathetic things I've seen today.

You have to reach back 46 years to find something about African Americans and it's not even the same thing. They didn't have weapons and they negotiated to a peaceful resolution. The building was later Malcolm X Lounge. The building was empty and had not been used in years.

And what does that have to do with what's going on in Oregon?

Do you actually think it excuses what's happening there and how differently things would be if the people were African American or any other race besides white?

You and those like you are behaving like little children who get caught doing something they're not supposed to do so they point fingers at someone else in hopes that you will be able to excuse your behavior.

You and those like you are just sad and pathetic.

Maybe Ammon Bundy will one day be Attorney General

Highly impossible.

I looked up bundy's biography and there's not one word about him going to college much less graduating with a law degree. The man probably barely graduated from high school, if at all.

Holder was a negotiator 46 years ago and helped bring that standoff to a peaceful resolution.

But you're still pointing fingers in hopes that it absolves those terrorists in Oregon for their crimes. It won't work. No one cares what happened 46 years ago. We care what's happening now. Today. And today we have a group of terrorists who have taken over federal land and property, who have violated the law, who are violating Native American Indian land and who lied when they said they would leave if the locals asked them to. They were asked and they refused to go. So on top of everything they're nothing but cowardly liars.

You support, defend and make flimsily excuses for them.

Which makes you extremely pathetic.

You never know. Look at Obama, he never attended a single class at Law School and now he's President