Obama: A Bloody Farewell

Published in El Nacional
(Dominican Republic) on 29 June 2015
by Chiqui Vicioso (link to originallink to original)
Translated from by Tristan Franz. Edited by Gillian Palmer.
We hadn't even gotten over the horror of Ferguson and Baltimore when a 19-year-old white man murdered nine black people during a bible study in South Carolina. Why this outburst of racist brutality against blacks, just months before Obama's presidency ends?

According to data from the Office of Judicial Statistics, 7,427 people of color were killed by police in the United States between 2003 and 2009, about 928 a year: a low number when compared to our country's record of 500 black youths killed yearly in "exchanges of fire," but scandalously high when compared to China, which with five times the population of the United States only sees 12 per year; England four, Germany zero.

When younger, working class blacks, a group with an unemployment rate of 11 percent — compared to 5 percent for whites — and a 55 percent poverty rate for children under five, decided to launch a campaign called "Black Lives Matter," Obama responded by creating a commission whose results where received by the police with the killing of 111 people of color, 33 more than in the month of February, or before the report [was published].

These murders are only the ones that get reported. Of the 18,000 police officers surveyed, only 1,000 reported deaths of victims; in New York it is unknown how many people, mainly blacks and Latinos, have been killed by police since 2007. Florida also fails to report its deaths [caused by police], as does Chicago, where the police department has had to pay $500 million in compensation for civil suits related to police brutality. In New York, it's $100 million annually.

What is the point of this police brutality? To keep the black youth from rising up against the racist, authoritarian police state, the last line of defense for a class of white men that lost power in South Africa and set up camp in Europe and the United States as the self-proclaimed kings of the world.

In the United States especially, the goal of these crimes is to serve as a reminder to the black community that while they may have a black president, the vast majority of them will continue to be modern slaves in a system that feeds on war and destroys the environment, and whose philosophy is to profit at humanity's expense.

A horrible reality in which Obama has been and is the only useful piece for a black elite.


No habíamos superado el horror de Ferguson, Missouri, Baltimore, cuando un joven blanco de 19 años, asesinó a once personas negras durante un estudio bíblico en Carolina. Por qué este despliegue de brutalidad racista contra los negros apenas a unos meses de la salida de Obama del gobierno?

Según los datos de la Oficina de Estadísticas Judiciales, entre 2003 y 2009 fueron asesinados por la policía de Estados Unidos 7,427 personas de color, unos 928 por año, cifra baja si se compara con la de nuestro país, con un record anual de 500 jóvenes negros asesinados en “intercambio de disparos”, y escandalosamente alta si se compara con la de China, que tiene cinco veces mas poblacion que la de Estados Unidos y solo doce personas por ano; Inglaterra: 4 y Alemania cero.

Cuando la juventud negra de la clase trabajadora, victima de un 11% de desempleo, versus un 5% para jóvenes blancos, y de un 55% de pobreza para sus niños menores de cinco años, decidió organizarse en una campaña que se llama “La vida de los negros importa”, Obama respondió creando una comisión, cuyos resultados fueron saludados por la policía con la matanza de 111 personas de color, 33 mas que el mes de febrero, o anterior al informe.

Estos asesinatos son apenas los que se reportan, ya que de 18,000 destacamentos de policía solo mil reportan sus muertos y en New York no se sabe desde 2007 cuántas personas, mayoritariamente negros y latinos, han sido asesinados por la policia. La Florida tampoco reporta sus ejecuciones ni Chicago, donde el Departamento de Policia ha tenido que pagar 500 millones de dolares en indemnizaciones a demandas civiles por brutalidad policial. Para New York la cifra es de 100 millones anuales.

Cuál es el objetivo del endurecimiento de esta brutalidad policial? Impedir que la juventud negra se levante y se organice para enfrentar a un Estado Policial autoritario y racista, último bastión de una clase de hombres blancos que perdió en Surafrica el poder y que se apertrecha en Europa y Estados Unidos como pretendida duena del mundo.

Específicamente en Estados Unidos, estos crímenes tienen como objetivo recordarle a la población negra que aunque hayan tenido un presidente negro seguiran siendo en su vasta mayoria esclavos modernos de un sistema que se alimenta de la guerra, que desvasta el medio ambiente y cuya filosofia es la ganancia a expensas de la humanidad.

Horrorosa realidad donde Obama ha sido y es solo la ficha util por una élite negra.
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