In the United States, the flywheel of racial violence spins. Since May 26, thousands of demonstrations have been held in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Supporters of the Black Lives Matter movement (“Black Lives Are Important”) took to the streets, the protests grew into riots with pogroms, robberies, shooting, arson. On May 30, Governor Tim Walls announced that for the first time in the 164-year history of the state, the National Guard had been fully mobilized. Armored vehicles were introduced into the city, and curfews are in effect. President Trump promised Minnesota Governor Walsa “full support from the army” (the Democratic Governor rejected the offer).
May 27-29, protests were held in New York, Los Angeles, Memphis, Denver, Louisville, St. Paul; dozens of people were detained, several people received gunshot wounds. By May 30, protests swept Washington, Dallas, Houston, Albuquerque, San Jose, Las Vegas and many other cities. In Washington, thousands of demonstrators tried to break through to the White House; dozens of people were arrested. One and a half thousand fighters of the US National Guard were brought to Atlanta, where CNN’s headquarters were defeated. In New York, police are forbidden to conduct solo street patrols.
Videos from Minneapolis appeared on the Web in which hundreds of people are robbing and taking out goods from the supermarket. In total, the state of Minnesota, according to the Star Tribune newspaper, has already robbed more than 30 establishments (pharmacies, grocery stores, cafes). The police, trying to restrain the spread of unrest, use tear gas and rubber bullets. By May 30, about 1,400 people were detained in 17 cities in America for participating in the riots.
On the night of May 31 in Los Angeles, a number of other cities in California, as well as in Atlanta,
Chicago, Philadelphia, the authorities announced a curfew.
What blew up America?
The reason for the outburst of indignation was the death in Minneapolis on May 25 of black George Floyd, after a white policeman, who detained Floyd on charges of paying for purchases with fake banknotes, knocked the detainee to the ground, pressed his neck with his knee and held it for several minutes. Floyd wheezed: “I can’t breathe,” then he died.
The four policemen present at the same time were fired the next day. The policeman guilty of Floyd’s death was arrested and charged with manslaughter related to the use of force. President Donald Trump instructed the Department of Justice and the FBI to expedite the investigation into Floyd’s death, but nothing could stop the outrage.
All any significant social events in America are automatically placed today in the context of a fierce struggle between Trump supporters and opponents on the eve of the presidential election. At the same time, the United States has been and remains a society of racial controversy.
“White people are the reason we have institutional racism. Racism has always existed in America, ”Joe Biden once said. In these words, Trump’s most likely rival in the upcoming elections is half the truth and half a lie.
Racism of white immigrants from Europe has always existed in America. The importation of black slaves from Africa infiltrated American society even more with racist ideology. A characteristic reaction to white racism was the phenomenon of the ethnic character of crime in the United States.
According to 2010 data, blacks made up about 13% of the United States population and over 40% of the contingent of American prisons; they committed 52% of murders, 62% of robberies, they accounted for the lion’s share of rape, theft, robbery.
However, to talk about white racism, as Biden does, and to keep silent about black racism in the hope that black voters will help defeat Trump in the elections, means pushing America to the second Civil War – the racial war.
Black racism arose in America in the 1920s and escalated in the 1960s. He is the socio-psychological constant of American society. Black racists advocate discrimination against whites, romanticize a gangster lifestyle, and attack police officers. The radical wing of black racists in America advocates the complete destruction of the white race.
White America would love to forget how powerless blacks were sold in the market, like things, how they were killed with impunity, how they were forced to work for white masters from an early age to death. In the twentieth century, racial segregation officially existed in the USA: blacks were forbidden to travel in public transport with whites, go with whites to the same educational institutions, even drink water from one tap. Black Americans cannot forget all this. And do not let white forget it.
Class differences in the USA are also largely racial differences. Blacks and whites live mostly separately; whites try to prevent blacks from entering their areas of residence, and if this fails and there are a lot of blacks, they leave for other places. The level of poverty and unemployment among African Americans is two times higher than among whites. The median assets of black households (2009) are 20 times lower than whites. The level of knowledge of a 17-year-old black teenager corresponds to the level of knowledge of a 13-year-old white child. Schools in poor “black” areas are poorer than schools in areas where white populations are concentrated. So in everything and everywhere.
The solution to these problems that America has accumulated is a long story, but the United States does not look like a country that can solve them. Before the November elections, the “backstage” is ready to unwind the flywheel of violence, the spark of which, breaking out in Minnesota, turned into an All-American fire. Scary stories about coronavirus have already been forgotten. The main thing – using racial estrangement, which again declared itself in full force, to win votes for the elections. The main thing is to confirm “your own” in the Oval Office of the White House.