| The Clash – White Riot Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| Jesus! Rioting is not the answer! In all movement for positive social change people must join together even if it does not directly benefit them. How can this movement be a "White" movement to the exclusion of other peoples and be good? Ridiculous! If it's a good movement then it is neither black, white, or any other Crayola color. If I was to have been part of the civil rights movement in the sixties, for instance, as a white person I am fighting for the rights of fellow human beings, not "Black" people even though black people had the most to gain and white people had the most to loose by joining in the battle. What, then, can we say of a "White Riot" exclusive of other people. Oh, poor me, I am oppressed exclusively for being white in this society? No! The oppression that white people under a yolk of corporate/bureaucratic elitism experience is the same oppression that other people experience, ie. THEY DO NOT EXPERIENCE IT BECAUSE THEY ARE WHITE. On the flip side there are many racist oppressions that other people not white suffer BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT WHITE. Do you see the difference? I mean, common! | |
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