Slogan 'Black Lives Matter!' Not Intended to Include 'Black' Lives Taken by GI's Overseas

The education intending slogan Black Lives Matter! is presently heard throughout the United States via television. What an embarrassing indication of the depth of stupid white racism remaining in largely Anglo-Saxon led US society one hundred and sixty years after America freed its millions of slaves.

There is something equally if not more embarrassing and stupid in the American exceptionalism shown by leaders of the civil rights movement as they selectively and thus immorally call for justice and protection from death and brutality for African Americans, while tens thousands of African American GIs directly participate in or back up the taking of lives of men, women and children of darker than white complexion in Africa and the Middle East.

This writer believes that this particular effort of using the slogan 'Black Lives Matter' that pathetically calls for what should not have to be called for will go nowhere, for it is in open defiance and blatant disbelief of Martin Luther King's moral and entirely logical warning that 'there will be no progress on social justice issues at home while we go on denying the very right to live of the poor overseas at a such an enormous expenditure of social and financial resources that make such progress at home impossible.' "I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today -- my own government." [from King's sermon Beyond Vietnam]

King held all Americans, including himself, responsible for 'atrocity wars and covert violence on three continents meant to maintain unjust predatory investments.'

"Look across the seas and see individual capitalists of the West investing huge sums of money in Asia, Africa, and South America, only to take the profits out with no concern for the social betterment of the country. This is a role our nation has taken, " refusing to give up the privileges and the pleasures that comes from the immense profits of overseas investments." [see Beyond Vietnam -a Time to Break Silence and also Why I Am Against the War in Vietnam http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkatimetobreaksilence.htm]

We live in a world still economically plundered by the same nations, which for nearly two centuries proudly and arrogantly referred to themselves as 'The Colonial Powers.' They were amazingly racist, amazing, considering that the dominant empires of Northern Europe were 'Johnny come latelys' to reading and writing, science and the arts, which the high civilizations they savagely conquered had developed centuries before their underdeveloped conquerers. The instructive slogan for Americans, 'Black Lives Matter,' might be appropriate in a materialist and commercialized US society suffering from poverty of thought, but only if this slogan demonstratively included reference to the thousandfold more 'Black' lives being illegally and criminally taken by the military of the US and its allies.

Another example of the American exceptionalism that seems to be rampant among most American dissidents is Occupy Wall Street diverting attention from America's criminal wars overseas. Occupy Wall Street claims to represent 99% of Americans demanding a better cut from the 1% of Americans, who have been perennially investing in profitable but criminally illegal mass murderous use of USA's devastatingly powerful Armed Forces.