09-09-2016, 10:01 PM
(09-09-2016, 07:19 PM)X_4AD_84 Wrote: I had a dream. This is not a speech. The dream I had was last night. I've mentioned on other threads I have Melungeon ancestors therefore according the one drop rule I'm Black. But I totally pass for White, in terms of appearance. Funny thing though, when I hang out with Blacks, I'm treated Black. Strange world we live in. I digress. About the dream ...
In this dream, me and some other Black guys are at work are watching some events on a screen - similar to BLM protests but much more serious. The scenes include BLM groups and other groups - the White Nationalist / National Bolshevik groups. There is tension all around. There are also police but vastly outnumbered by both groups. There is a sense the police will do nothing and will let the groups fight it out.
All of a sudden, right out in our own parking lot, similar groups appear. I find myself with 3 other black guys, out in front of the building. A White guy in a sort of self created brown uniform suddenly walks up right next to us. A flat bed truck with several grey haired but still relatively vital White guys drives up and parks right next to us. The police are doing nothing, and like the scenes we saw on the screen, are vastly outnumbered.
The dream ends.
What a horrid dream! Those fascists seem to be spoiling for a fight. Whether you are seem as black (racists will are swift to detect a black person even at the no-drop level; I have been called a word that rhymes with Roy Rogers' horse on the web) or as the most horrible thin possible, a 'race traitor'... yes, white privilege deserves betrayal...
I say go toward the police, and make sure that you are not the first to throw a punch. If you are backing away and the fight finds you, then you may be arrested for your safety and the fascists will be arrested for assault and battery. Better a trip to jail than to the E/R. You may get to identify your assailants who themselves will be arrested. There are worse things to be in a court of law than a prosecution witness.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.