Akeh kita progresif spiritual nandhang susah banget amarga tiwas Heather Heyer, wanita sing dipateni dening fanatik Nazi sing uga tatu 19 aktivis anti-rasis liyane. Kita uga sedhih babagan cara rasisme terus berkembang ing pirang-pirang tingkat ing AS, ekonomi lan urip politik. Nalika sedhih, kita uga bisa ngalihake perhatian menyang strategi kanggo nantang jerone rasisme, lan ora mung ing antarane para ekstremis sing entuk perhatian media sing dikarepake dening tumindak kasar ing Charlottesville.
Sanadyan fokus rapat umum sayap tengen ing Charlottesville dina Sabtu kepungkur iki kanggo protes keputusan dewan kutha lokal kanggo mbusak patung sing ngurmati jenderal Konfederasi Lee, simbol saka wong-wong sing berjuang kanggo njaga perbudakan Afrika Amerika, poster rekrutmen dening siji. saka kelompok utama sing nyeponsori rapat umum ora nyebutake. Pesen kasebut: "Gabung Azzmador lan Daily Stormer kanggo mungkasi pengaruh Yahudi ing Amerika." Rasisme anti-Ireng lan anti-Semitisme ora ana ing lemari ing Amerika Trump, sanajan media meh ora nyebutake anti-Semitisme lan trauma sing bisa dingerteni maneh ing akeh wong Yahudi sing ndeleng swastika utawa maca laporan para demonstran sayap tengen sing bengok-bengok. ing wong-wong sing diarani "kikes" pesen sing ujar "sampeyan bakal cepet kobong ing oven."
Untunge fasis durung ngrebut dalan-dalan ing Amerika lan muga-muga ora bakal. Wong-wong Yahudi lan komunitas-komunitas iman liyane ana ing demonstrasi kontra-fasis Charlottesville lan bakal nantang upaya-upaya ekstremis sayap tengen kanggo mbentuk agenda kasebut utawa ngaku minangka wakil nyata saka wong-wong kelas pekerja kulit putih sing nandhang lara. Nanging ing vigil kanggo ngurmati korban Charolttesville, aku nekani bengi ing Berkeley ing ngendi para fasis janji bakal nganakake rapat umum sabanjure 27 Agustus.th Aku nemoni ora mung sedhih, nanging wedi lan kebingungan amarga akeh sing pengin strategi koheren sing dibutuhake dening Kiri Amerika.
Racism has already been a powerful force in the U.S. for at least the past hundred years, its impact worsened by the dismantling of welfare support and the mass incarceration policies of the Bill Clinton Administration which exacerbated the vast economic inequalities in the U.S. which have disproportionately fallen onto the backs of people of color. The Obama Administrationโs failure to implement any serious anti-racist strategy, e.g. requiring publicly funded schools to teach an anti-racist curriculum, coupled with a response to the economic crisis that tilted heavily toward the interests of Wall Street and the American corporate elite without comparable concern for the millions of poor and middle income victims of corporate malfeasance left many working people feeling that the promises of the Democrats could not be trusted.
The staying power of racism can be attributed in part to the effectiveness of corporate America that benefits from the divisions it promotes among working people, including, in part, the false notion that liberal governments advanced the interests of Blacks at the expense of white people when in fact much of the legislation and policies of the New Deal and post WWII legislation disproportionately benefited white working people by providing them with cheap home mortgages and college educations while largely failing to cover most African Americans โand the subsequent attempts to benefit people of color did not substantially change these disparities. As Ira Katznelson reports in the August 13, 2017 N.Y. Times, the median wealth for white families, which consists primarily of equity in housing, is today at $134,230, according to the Economic Policy Institute, while for African-Americans families, it just $11,030.
Keamanan kerja sing mudhun ing papan kerja, angel mbangun hubungan lan bebrayan sing langgeng, lan perasaan kesepian sing umum sanajan ing kulawarga dhewe minangka asil sing bisa ditebak saka masyarakat adhedhasar pasar sing menehi hak istimewa lan muji egois lan materialisme lan ngurmati wong sugih lan kuwat. prakara carane unethically dalan sing kanggo jenis iki sukses. Sawise ngentekake sedina muput ing jagad kerja sing ngajari kita kanggo ndeleng wong liya minangka regane mung nganti bisa nggayuh kapentingan kita dhewe, mula angel banget kanggo umume wong tiba-tiba ngalih menyang cara sing beda kanggo ndeleng wong liya sajrone tangi. jam kita duwe njaba donya karya saben dina. Internalisasi tampilan instrumental iki kanggo wong liya nggawe krisis psikologis lan spiritual sing gedhe ing masyarakat-jarang diakoni dening wong ing sisih Kiwa. Minangka kekawin lan kekancan aran kurang aman lan wong aran sepi lan ora yakin yen ana wong tenan bakal ana kanggo wong-wong mau nalika padha mbutuhake support emosional utawa materi, tengen nggunakake insecurity asil lan wedi kanggo ngapusi eling massa, ngakoni kasangsaran ing akeh wong kerja putih. urip, nanging banjur nyemangati wong percaya yen dinamika iki minangka produk saka manipulasi "wong liya" sing mentingake awake dhewe - wong warna, feminis, lgbtq, wong miskin, pengungsi, imigran sing ora duwe dokumen, lan, ya, wong Yahudi lan liberal ( asring katon minangka siji ing padha). Perjuangan kelompok-kelompok kasebut kanggo ngatasi diskriminasi sing kepungkur diinterpretasikake dening Kanan minangka ngenalake egois sing ngrusak kabeh masyarakat, lan mulane kudu kelangan apa wae keuntungan pemerintah sing dimenangake sajrone wolung puluh taun kepungkur wiwit New Deal.
All this is likely to grow worse.
Administrasi Trump lan Republik ing Kongres kerja sama kanggo mbuwang luwih akeh wong sing ora duwe warna saka dhaptar pemilih, njaluk polisi supaya luwih ora kasar, nambah penahanan sing ana gandhengane karo obat-obatan lan deportasi imigran, nyuda perawatan kesehatan jutaan, nyuda pajak. sugih, lan pungkasanipun ngupaya kanggo ngilangke Medicare lan sosial keamanan-kabeh bakal nambah mlarat lan desperation lan tiba disproportionately ing wong saka werna. Lan Departemen Kehakiman Sesi Jaksa Agung ujar manawa bakal nggawe "diskriminasi marang wong kulit putih" dadi prioritas sanajan Mahkamah Agung ngilangi bagean penting saka Undhang-undhang Hak Voting lan ngilangi kabeh watesan babagan dhuwit ing politik.
Sayange, bagean vokal saka aktivis anti-rasis ing Kiri terus nyalahake rasisme ing kabeh wong kulit putih, negesake manawa wong kulit putih sing paling miskin lan paling ditindhes duwe "hak istimewa kulit putih." Kanggo bagean pinunjul saka Amรฉrika miskin lan kelas menengah, biaya iki nuduhake carane sethitik liberal lan progresif ngerti kasangsaran ekonomi lan emosi ing gesang. Nalika sampeyan pasangan referensi Hillary Clinton kanggo bagean penting saka panyengkuyung Trump minangka "bundel saka deplorables" karo Kiri sing musuhan marang agama, mung panggonan akeh wong kerja ing AS bisa nemokake piyambak rego ora kanggo pinten dhuwit padha nggawe utawa kekuwatan sing diduweni, sampeyan entuk kahanan sing sampurna kanggo para demagogue sayap tengen kanggo nggambarake Kiri minangka elitist sing ngremehake wong sing kerja ing AS.
Pasukan liberal lan progresif sing pengin menang mayoritas veto-bukti ing 2018 lan presiden ing 2020 kudu ngresiki awake dhewe saka isin lan nyalahke Amerika, religiophobia, lan kapercayan internal sing ana ing pesawat sing luwih dhuwur tinimbang liyane. saka umum Amรฉrika, lan pindhah ngluwihi Fantasi ekonomi sing kabeh bakal bisa metu yen mung padha program ekonomi luwih maju. Iki perlu, nanging ora bakal bisa ngatasi kekurangan psiko-spiritual sing nyebabake wong ngrasakake awake dhewe lan urip. Tinimbang mung fokus ing apa sing dilawan, Kiri sing diuripake maneh kudu menehi visi positif babagan apa sing kudu ditindakake: "Masyarakat Peduli: Ngrawat Saben Liyane lan Ngrawat Bumi." Nalika Kiri wiwit ngomong bab donya adhedhasar katresnan lan kaadilan, lan nuduhake karep asli kanggo wong-wong sing durung ing rangking sing, iku bakal duwe kasempatan nyata kanggo ngalahake rasisme, sexism lan distorsi liyane sing tengen peddles. Network of Spiritual Progressives nawakake pelatihan online kanggo wong kiwa kanggo mbantu dheweke ngembangake katrampilan sing dibutuhake kanggo ngowahi Kiri supaya bisa luwih efektif kanggo ngomongake konstituensi kelas pekerja alami sing bisa dipisahake.
Meanwhile, we should not let Sessions and Congressional Republicans seemingly prove their anti-racist credentials by decrying the violence of the Nazis and their alt-right alliesโthus providing themselves with more legitimacy to pursue and strengthen the real arenas in which structural racism is intensifying in the Trump years. And all of us should both be in the streets confronting these haters and also building the kind of movement that we at Tikkun have been advocating, and for which we are offering an online training (info at www.spiritualprogressives.org/
Rabi Michael Lerner yaiku editor saka Tikkun, co-chair with Indian environmental activist Vandana Shiva of the Network of Spiritual Progressives, and rabbi of Beyt Tikkun Synagogue-Without-Walls in San Francisco and Berkeley, California. He is the author of eleven books, including two national bestsellersโTangan Kiwa Gusti lan Jewish Renewal: A Path to Healing and Transformation. Bukune sing paling anyar, Ngrangkul Israel/Palestina, kasedhiya ing Kindle saka Amazon.com lan ing hard copy saka tikkun.org/eip. Dheweke nampani tanggapan sampeyan lan ngajak sampeyan gabung karo dheweke kanthi gabung karo Jaringan Progresif Spiritual (keanggotaan dilengkapi karo langganan majalah Tikkun). Sampeyan bisa hubungi dheweke ing [email dilindhungi].
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