Why America Loves to Play Superman for Everybody Else Except Us

Summary

The article discusses the United States' selective intervention in global conflicts, contrasting it with its inaction and systemic violence against Black Americans domestically.

Abstract

The piece titled "Why America Loves to Play Superman for Everybody Else Except Us" critiques the U.S. for its history of interventionism in international conflicts while ignoring the ongoing "war" against Black people within its own borders. It points out the hypocrisy of U.S. foreign policy, which has involved fomenting revolutions abroad and turning a blind eye to the consequences, such as the deaths in Iraq due to sanctions and the second invasion. The author, Jaron Mays, emphasizes that the U.S. has a pattern of normalizing violence against Black people, as evidenced by the lack of justice in cases like Breonna Taylor's. The article suggests that Black Americans cannot rely on the government for justice and must take matters into their own hands to produce justice "by any means necessary." The piece also references other works by the author, available on Medium, and invites readers to follow him on social media and sign up for updates on his latest articles.

Opinions

The U.S. has a history of selective interventionism, choosing to engage in or support conflicts abroad while disregarding internal issues affecting Black Americans.
The author criticizes the U.S. for its role in causing suffering in other countries, such as the sanctions in Iraq, without facing significant repercussions or public outcry.
The article suggests that the U.S. justice system is complicit in violence against Black people, as seen in the handling of cases involving police brutality.
The author implies that the U.S. government supports a system that allows for the unchecked violence against Black communities, similar to the indiscriminate violence in war zones.
Jaron Mays advocates for Black Americans to seek justice independently, as waiting for the dominant society to provide it is ineffective and possibly detrimental.
The piece reflects a deep frustration with the status quo and calls for a proactive approach to achieving justice for Black Americans.

Hey Joe Biden, you do realize that you have a war going on in your own country, right?

Now the United States has sat on its hands for conflicts around the globe far worse than anything that’s going on in Ukraine.

This country has happily, gleefully, fomented revolutions and civil wars in other countries.

The bodies pilled in up in Iraq due to sanctions in the United States didn’t care.

More people died after the U.S. carried out its botched hideous second invasion of Iraq, but that wasn’t a real problem.

This country has made violent unpunished murders of Black people right here in the United States — the bedrock of American culture.

Do you want to talk about Russians firing mortars and bullets indiscriminately at children?

You just had a phony show trail for one of the murders of Breonna Taylor where the entire point was to prove that the government stands behind armed thugs indiscriminately into apartments with bullets flying everywhere, even into units with children in them and that’s not a problem.

The white supremacists believe in doing outrageous violence as a way to push the envelope and they succeed if there’s not a strong enough pushback.

Black people, particularly Foundational Black Americans, this is yet another reason why we cannot wait on these folks to do right by us.

We cannon afford to waste time by sitting down and twiddling our thumbs waiting for someone in the dominant society to put the cape on and provide us justice.

Justice is going to have to be produced by us by any means necessary.

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