By West, I do not mean the populations but rather the governments, who are empowered to maximize any thing that brings profits to corporations. In fact, it's difficult to distinguish the government from the corporations. Just look at the current US president's Cabinet.
By White Race, I cannot mean White people, most of whom are working class and victims of this economic system. White Race is a clever guise by which corporations can justify its existence, can pit one set of workers against another.
But the West's actions to mitigate the threat of the colonials - a pre-cursor to the war on "Terror," in fact - could never come to a conclusion. History is literally against the West, and deep in the bowels of its banks, it knows this.
More and more of the US states are passing or contemplating racist laws purportedly to "control" colonials from the global South. This of course pre-supposes the White Race in the Americas is not illegal and is not the creature that should be controlled. Despite such maneuvers as NAFTA and the utter decimation of Mexico's rural life, the theft of water from Peru and India, etc., the criminal behavior of the West's governments is an exoticism left to college seminars and rogue radicals in black masks throwing bottles filled with inflammables. It is not to be discussed among serious people.
So the Tottenhams - site of the recent London "riots" - always, always come as a surprise to the gullible. But the serious people with any sense are scared. Good.
In the UK right now, signs that its government have never really assimilated its former colonials - West Indian and African Blacks and East Asians - are literally burning the streets down in London and reaching up to Liverpool.
While the US has made some pedestrian, window-dressed steps to assimilating its former slaves [see Richard Rodriguez' "Hunger for Memory"], the UK has maintained essentially a 50-year guest-worker program and kept its imports in Old World ghettos.
It isolated these "Black Britons" to bantustans in perpetuity, thrown in some vocational training for jobs that didn't exist, accessorized it with a royal charity [The Prince's Trust], and otherwise ignored these non-people while the "country" pretended it relived some medieval tribal fantasy.
So when the colonials get restless at a lack of a means to support themselves, the weight of the foot of royal police on their necks, or shooting of their children like they were foxes in the pastoral hunt, the hierarchy's press people pretend to wonder why, official community leaders condemn the violence, and the government threatens to bring out the water canons, etc., etc.
These governments - all over Europe - are scared shitless that this series of events might mark their inevitable twilight.
What began in Tottenham did not really begin there, but must be seen as a continuum that stretches to one side in Cairo, to Yemen, to Tunisia, to India. It also extends back to the burning cities of the 60's, Mexico and Paris in 1968, the Pink Tide spreading across Latin America, the riots after the Simi Valley verdict acquitting the LAPD of gross misconduct, the riots after the Oscar Grant slaughter in Oakland, which saw that young man's murderer walk free, and countless other agitations that keep getting explained away as peripheral.
These are not only riots. They are uprisings. The compromised Western media and the bought Western politician will of course condemn the burning, the looting, the trashing because in Britain they must really believe that ancient legal convention that "the Queen can do no wrong."
But whether they believe in Queen and Country or not, they know the score. These governments and their other halves, the corporations, are in a tough spot. Their very existence, their successes, their wealth, have been built directly on the backs of the colonials' labors and the colonials homelands. But the score card pretty clearly shows sooner or later, this specter will in fact overwhelm them.
They know they are a chilled shriveling corpse that must live on the blood, sweat, gold, oil, etc., etc., of persons that must - legally speaking - be deemed as their inferiors, which takes us back to those Slave Codes.
This legal convention can be seen in the racist nature of every single institution on both sides of the swamp.
There is nothing about the modern age that alters basic biology. Although we are in the the 21st century, this has not changed the need of the parasite for its host, any more than modernity makes tiny, inhospitable Europe a terrain fit for human life. It is not. It is cold, damp, and barren, and to sustain any vibrancy it must suck the life-force from the global South.
This is why - at bottom - these degenerate governments have swarmed like locusts into the Arab world, why it begs China, loots Libya, menaces Cuba, and, why, at any cost - believe me - they will put down these colonial upstarts wherever they raise their defiance: in London, in Cairo, in Caracas, in Oakland or in Bensonhurst.
It will not be enough for these uprisings to bring down the Coalition government between the Conservative and Liberal-Democrat Parties. Although that would be a small gain indeed.
Our systems of government, on both sides of the Atlantic and throughout the Western world are less an expression of popular voice and more like the crude, barbarism of the management class. We know our managers at our work places: part drones, part pre-historics, all brute force to keep the rabble in line. They are not coaches; they are coercive.
Coercion is the only way to keep humans from being human and to make them into machines to toil for one purpose and not agitate.
This is the essence of our Western democracies, and this is why we seemingly have no control over our public policies, foreign or domestic, why war crimes we are against continue to be perpetrated in our name, why we cannot get a decent community need met.
But bombs can be dropped on soft targets in the global South. Rogue leaders who do not follow the management directives can be run out or assassinated. And guest workers in the metropolises - London, New York, Los Angeles, Paris - can be set upon like sport.
This is why we must throw the managers to the dogs and burn not only the institutions to the ground but also our addled dependence on them.
The existence of this system obviously makes problematic any "justice" for the colonials from these governments - the Blacks, the Browns, the working-class Whites, the Southasians and East Asians, the Indigenous are not likely to find any reparation or revolution from this system.
Che Guevara's famous admonition was to give birth to 100's more Vietnams, 100's more "slave" rebellions against the global North. Who knows what will finally spark this mass uprising to burn the dead brush from the landscape: will we look back at Tottenham like we who know better look back at the Haymarket riots in Chicago?
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