This is a Blog response I ran across addressing what happened in 2 Oakland area (I believe West Oakland) LIQ stores. There were Black men dressed in suits and bowties that went in and smashed all the liquor in the store and what not, do you all remember that? Anyways, this is what was said by this anonymous blogger:
"I can’t explain it, but I used to think that we blacks were seen as different from America in the eyes of the rest of the world. Naïve. I think the majority of the non-European world (Black, non-Muslim Africans may be the only one that is different) sees America as the great satan, or the evil-doers, etc, etc… and they see Blacks as Satan’s dog. When the Black Muslim defendant had a press conference he said that Arabs would be killed for selling that stuff in their homeland, but they come to America and go straight to the community that has the most problems, greatest challenges, and least resistence to their products. I thought that was well said. Anyway, these guys are now locked up . About 11 of them I think. They are not Farrakahn’s NOI, but a splinter group btw. The charge was vandalism, hate crimes, false imprisonment and, get this…TERRORISM!!!! Man, what has this world come to.
Do you know what they sell in “those” liquor stores? Not just liquor. As a kid, I used to wonder how it was legal. I was in third grade (the year Reagan was shot) when I tried to get my brother to help me burn the liquor store down that was close to our house. He told my mom. Bastard. She explained to me that I was right, but that I’d get in trouble… so she punished me by confiscating the gasoline (we used to get gas to mow lawns) and taking away the Atari (her embargo on Air-Sea Battle, Space Invaders, basketball, Missle Command, Pac-Man, and Combat effectively ended my revolution). To this day I still don’t understand how it’s legal to for one store to sell zig-zags, crack pipes, plastic baggies, hard liquor, the latest gang-related clothing, and smut.
As a kid who had a parent addicted to drugs and alcohol I was very conscience of what was going on. I couldn't believe the store was selling these things one and a half small blocks fom our elementary school.
These defendants are being reported as terrorists, linked to anti-semites, and terrorists. Yet, I’ve been bombarded the last few years with words like Insurgents, loyalists, radicals, and rebels to describe the Iraqis whoa re fighting against our the american military - the choice of jargon/nomenclature/wording is bullshit. "
"I can’t explain it, but I used to think that we blacks were seen as different from America in the eyes of the rest of the world. Naïve. I think the majority of the non-European world (Black, non-Muslim Africans may be the only one that is different) sees America as the great satan, or the evil-doers, etc, etc… and they see Blacks as Satan’s dog. When the Black Muslim defendant had a press conference he said that Arabs would be killed for selling that stuff in their homeland, but they come to America and go straight to the community that has the most problems, greatest challenges, and least resistence to their products. I thought that was well said. Anyway, these guys are now locked up . About 11 of them I think. They are not Farrakahn’s NOI, but a splinter group btw. The charge was vandalism, hate crimes, false imprisonment and, get this…TERRORISM!!!! Man, what has this world come to.
Do you know what they sell in “those” liquor stores? Not just liquor. As a kid, I used to wonder how it was legal. I was in third grade (the year Reagan was shot) when I tried to get my brother to help me burn the liquor store down that was close to our house. He told my mom. Bastard. She explained to me that I was right, but that I’d get in trouble… so she punished me by confiscating the gasoline (we used to get gas to mow lawns) and taking away the Atari (her embargo on Air-Sea Battle, Space Invaders, basketball, Missle Command, Pac-Man, and Combat effectively ended my revolution). To this day I still don’t understand how it’s legal to for one store to sell zig-zags, crack pipes, plastic baggies, hard liquor, the latest gang-related clothing, and smut.
As a kid who had a parent addicted to drugs and alcohol I was very conscience of what was going on. I couldn't believe the store was selling these things one and a half small blocks fom our elementary school.
These defendants are being reported as terrorists, linked to anti-semites, and terrorists. Yet, I’ve been bombarded the last few years with words like Insurgents, loyalists, radicals, and rebels to describe the Iraqis whoa re fighting against our the american military - the choice of jargon/nomenclature/wording is bullshit. "
