Dear Susan Estrich – Why I find the petty crime of black and brown (and poor white) people acceptable and the hidden backroom CEO crime of white people not
By David VanThournout
October 24th 2010
This is a letter for Susan Estrich and all the other racist hate mongers out there defending Juan Williams for a racist remark, and a fire-able offense.
The other day she said;
I wish I didn't get nervous seeing black men behind me on the street. I wish there was no correlation between race and crime.
I wish 100 percent of the terrorists who attacked us on 9/11 had not been members of one religion. I wish we didn't hear diatribes on a daily basis threatening our children and us in the name of Allah. I wish I didn't get nervous seeing Muslims on a plane.
Read her whole disgusting article on here blog at newsmax.com; NPR Does a Disservice by Firing Juan Williams
I’d like to point out that these same people will in the next breath defend that very Corporations person-hood, their right to lie to the people, and the right to fire any employee anytime they want. Capitalism rules remember?
First off, the thieves that recently destroyed the world’s economy are responsible not only for the theft of everything Americans have worked for in the last 40 or 50 years, they’re also responsible for ripping off everyones equity around the world. Think about how that is playing out in living rooms around the planet. America ripped us off? No shit!
So I’m thinking that it would take (these aren’t real numbers but who cares!) petty thieves something like half a million years to steal the equivalent wealth that was transferred from the middle class and from poor people’s pockets into the richest pockets in just 2008 alone.
So when the brown and black (and poor white) people through sheer lack of the economics to feed their children become desperate, I know that is just what it is. When white-collar crimes take place they happen with cold, cunning, greed. That’s premeditated and unnecessary greed. These people are already filthy rich and they are gaming the system so that these black and brown people have little choice but to turn to drugs, petty crime, etc. to just make it through the day or the week. Most of the black and brown crime is borne out of desperation. You can’t say the same thing about the bastards like David Koch. They know better.
These “non-violent” white-collar criminals are responsible for things like African-American women being four times more likely to die because of pregnancy related complications than white women. The CEO’s are the predators in our midst, glorified by a system that rewards their basest instincts as decisive and bold. Reckless and careless is what they truly are. Playing with our lives as if they mean absolutely nothing is just what they do.
I know, I know, the whole conservative narrative is that they’re lazy, good for nothing, blah blah blah. But they like to buy us by the dozen or more so it pays to create a little desperation now and then to keep people hopping you know and cheap.
Don’t believe there’s a connection? The media, owned by a handful of wealthy individuals are the gatekeepers of what we as a nation know. They have been nothing short of criminal in their handling of that virtually sacred duty. This abrogation of duty among journalists has enabled the the bastards on wall street to make off with everything, and then they got a bonus. With every slice they take off the turkey that they see the American public as, they guarantee somehow, somewhere, someone falls behind and goes without a meal, without a job, without a house, without a future. Just because we’ve glorified the wall street executive. We’ve allowed the love of money to corrupt everything. Till we’ve become mere products ourselves. And our politicians are bought and sold at auction and in bulk. Karl Rove is their broker.
The way we have all accepted the disparity, no defended to the death this disparity, between the wealthy and the poor is just doing the bidding of your masters. The more disparate the wages of the people in society the more inequality, the more crime and sickness. This doesn’t have to be the way it is. There is plenty to go around if we were only able to live as civilized beings. I know, that’s just too much to ask. But I continue to hope regardless. Probably because it annoys them. And also because I’m right. We little people pay dearly with our broken lives, our lost years, our daily sacrifices for the wealth and power of the few.
So Susan, I walk through life afraid of what the bastards are doing to our democracy in their backroom deals on wall street an now my worst fears are being made real. Corporate person-hood has mugged our democracy and may be as we speak ushering in a new decade of control by the money mongers. War anyone? Sure, I’ll take two, they’re so small…
