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suchfriends, much of what you talk about happened here.
replace blacks with catholics and whites with protestants in the following sentences - blacks can't get jobs and are denied housing by discriminating bodies of whites. blacks live in squalor yet white councillors take government money and spend it only on their own communities. whites make it very difficult for blacks to vote. whites try and rig the system in any way they can.
blacks can't stand this anymore and start to demand rights (directly copying the examples of martin luther king etc.). whites get jumpy about these blacks and their strength. whites claim (rightfully) that some of their communities are also in squalor. blacks realize whites are not listening and end up becoming militant. some whites get killed. the whites get militant themselves and call in the british army (national guard in your terms). shit hits the fan and there's lots of boom boom, only everyone has the same skin colour so its more difficult to know whose on whose side.
whites continue to discriminate and claim blacks are evil/directly controlled by satan/communist/terrorist/whining/violent savages etc.
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but as all this shit is going on, the BOTH white and black paramilitaries are buying drugs using the same suppliers (while beating up anyone else selling drugs and taking away their market share, then claiming they are protecting communities from the drugs scourge). they both end up murdering many of their own side. they both terrorize the decent non violent people. they both are up to their necks in crime, extortion etc.
they control their communities by ENDLESSLY reducing everything to tribalism - white vs. black. they whip up fear to keep the communities divided and voting for them - the extremist parties with links to the paramilitaries. they restart the parliament but only because its in their interest. they slowly, slowly start to talk about introducing the changes that will take away the tribalism, yet at the first sign of trouble they start riling up the divisions again, in spite of the cost to the economy.
the ENTIRE THING is a way of avoiding the fact that BOTH whites and blacks are FUCKED OVER by the same economic system. and its usually the POOREST blacks and whites that fall for, or deliberately embrace this stupid shit.
the ONLY WAY we will ever get out of this cycle of a few years of calm then the resumption of tribal warfare is if the poorest are united - if the communities mix, if they share schools, if they live side by side instead of in tribal painted housing estates (projects).
you can talk endlessly about the injustices suffered and perpetuated by BOTH sides but the fact is this doesn't get us anywhere.
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i know what my ancestors did when they came here and looted and murdered. they trotted on their horses past heaps of corpses of the natives with green mouths from eating grass and nettles due to starvation. we burnt all their fields and stole their grain stores and deliberately starved them.
i also walk over the bridge where, one fine day in the 16th century, THEY rounded US up, marched us to the bridge then THREW US IN THE WATER and stabbed us if we tried to swim to shore, because they realized there was a bad winter on the way, thus a bad harvest, and they wanted to strike first before we looted them again! lol!
i also walk past the street were my family used to own a business, a business which took considerable risk by hiring black workers. the black terrorist group (ira) went on to blow it up a few years later.
so as appealing as it is to do identity politics, its often playing into your enemies hands.
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