Black liberation in Spokane
The struggle for black liberation has officially been manifested in Spokane. Dec. 9, at 12:05 p.m. in the Crosby Center at Gonzaga, I attended a die-in hosted by the Black Student Union. As many as 150 people attended, according to the Facebook event they had posted (I have a very bad eye at guessing quantity).
The black struggle will grow larger, and eventually Native Americans will realize the systematic oppression of blacks is oppression of Native Americans. Fast-food strikers and union leaders will soon understand that systematic oppression of blacks is union oppression. But what is it they need to do? The law has failed to protect them time after time, yet they still think the law will protect them if they are loud enough. The eradication of abortion clinics erected due to the women’s liberation movement proves this abstraction wrong.
We should not declare a decree “Let it be!” and expect that it “will become.” We are not French businessmen fighting kings. What the people need now is not a law that will be enforced on others, but a social program of action: Working class-rooted organizations that will hold police brutality and government corruption accountable.
Max Roberts
Spokane Valley