Why do liberals love al jazeera

The results mark the fifth time in the last seven federal elections that Canada has elected a minority government, Toronto Star newspaper columnist Chantal Hebert also pointed out. The coronavirus pandemic exposed the gravity of what experts say is a serious housing crisis — and voters want action. Rights and priorities of First Nations, Inuit and Metis people have mostly taken a backseat during election campaign.

Leaders need to do more to combat Islamophobia, which has resulted in deadly attacks, Canadian Muslims say. By Jillian Kestler-D'Amours. Published On 21 Sep Police are allowed to police themselves, to suffer consequences imposed by fellow lawmen.

Of course bad apple police, the argument goes, will be dealt with because police, law and justice systems are fundamentally justice-seeking and will reprimand police fairly. Judges with an apparent pattern of racially discriminatory sentencing and police who have racked up numerous complaints accusing them of racism and brutality have inscrutable hearts. This is not so for a man like Qassem Soleimani who a chorus of pundits describes as a bad person who intended to do Americans harm.

The exonerating phrase is reserved only for those who prove through practice an intent to do Black people harm. For these people, politicians appear on television to argue that it is not possible to declare a person whose actions excite racists a racist because no one can claim to know their heart. Only accused racists are granted this privilege of inscrutability. It is never clear if the conservative policymaker who shuts down the one polling place in a majority Black neighbourhood has racist intentions.

Nor can we know the heart of the legislator who writes laws restricting voting who uses language lifted verbatim from Jim Crow law, nor conservative politicians who speak on stages with designs that call back Nazi symbols, nor the police officer who consumes far-right media and consistently draws his weapon at traffic stops.

There is to be no mention of systems, of a continuum, or the curious similarities in anti-Black settler-colonial culture in all times and everywhere. The past is a foreign country. One that continually but unsuccessfully invades our present.

History is imagined as strands and filaments blowing into the purity of the current day instead of the house that surrounds us, and from which none can escape. It is the present. We carry our history with us. We are our history. When history is not environment but mere traces of the past brushing against the present, every survival of anti-Black violence is bewildering, a surprising and unwelcome remnant from a past that is now disavowed.

No connections are made. Trump supporters decrying Antifa is not connected to the Klan decrying communists. Proud Boys attacking Black protesters are not new ex-Confederate generals attacking Black would-be voters after Reconstruction. Racism is always a yesterday one is emerging from — despite captive Black people breaking the windows of urban prisons protesting against murder by neglect today. The police killings of tomorrow is already in the past.

The founding era with its framers, revolutionaries and new ideas are said to define who America is. The founding documents, it is said, set American freedom up and defines who she is and who she will become.

America is always America. It is always what it always was but never what it used to be. Our journey towards the goal of not being killed is not peaceful. The peaceful protest, for them, is when out of their generosity we are allowed to express frustration at a flare-up of the centuries-long attack, quickly get it out of our system and return dutifully to anti-Black normalcy — perhaps with a new law clenched between our mandibles.

It offers body cams as a deterrent in a world where lynchings were photographed and put onto postcards, and a world where body cams are turned off. It denies the possibility and feasibility of a radically fair and new order, a revolutionary time, despite the fact that World History is periodised by nothing other than revolutionary changes. Calls for reform are made while blocking the ears to the centuries-long protest that the colony has never adjusted itself enough to be significantly different to its principal victims nor undid the racial hierarchy so the last would become first — or so that there would be no more lasts.

It is enough that a historically racist institution now advertises itself as an apolitical, non-racist and colour-blind service of protection for it to be believed. It says it is here to protect us and liberals parrot this and agree that this is its mission. No questioning whether that is actually the case ever arises no matter how many instances of deaths in custody, falsifying evidence or harassment and assault are discovered.

No matter how clear the revolving door is between police membership and membership in other Negrophobic institutions and political parties. No dots are connected no matter how many officers are found to have KKK applications at home, how many union leaders have white power badges on their motorcycle jackets, no matter how many police unions declare their support for a president beloved by the Klan.

No patterns are detected no matter how few are caught red-handed as members of hardline, radical Black feminist groups. Neither are interrogations. Colonialism, for liberals, should not be judged by what it does but by what it says it does — what it is supposed to do. The liberal is dedicated to claiming the institutions of historical anti-Black violence are innocent until proven constantly guilty. They are also dedicated to preventing the trial.

It elevates routine murder to Greek legend. This kind of cathartic identity politics will blind us to the real issues facing us globally. That threatens Republicans with widespread losses in well-educated, often racially diverse, suburbs in major metropolitan areas around the country. Good to know. What about the other side? The very epistemic foundation of this bifurcation, which is now very popular among pollster and public opinion pundits, assumes that the proclivity of those voting against Trump does not see anything beyond the Obama-Clinton axis which has an equally horrid history of militarism abroad and corporate corruption at home.

Millions upon millions of Americans gathered around the most progressive figure in recent US politics, Bernie Sanders, in the hope of liberating themselves from the shackles of this gridlock of corrupt corporate politics.

But the Democratic party machinery made sure Sanders did not have a chance to be the Democratic nominee for the presidential race. Right now, two years into the calamity called Trump, there are talks of Hillary Clinton running for the White House again in She and the entirety of the Democratic party establishment never heard of the word shame.

Unless and until much wider horizons of political possibilities are opened to the left of Bernie Sanders and beyond, the US will remain exactly in the combined image of Donald Trump at the White House, Mitch McConnell at the Senate, Nancy Pelosi at the House, and Brett Kavanaugh at the Supreme Court — and the mob of racist white supremacists that Steve Bannon and Steven Miller have mobilised for them. Hamid Dabashi. Published On 15 Nov