Henry A. Giroux, author of America’s Addiction to Terrorism, comments on America’s latest onslaught of white supremacy, fueled by the war on terror and this country’s embedded, festering racism:
“The killing machine has become spectacularized, endlessly looped through the mainstream cultural apparatuses both as a way to increase ratings and as an unconscious testimony to the ruthlessness of the violence waged by a racist state. Once again, Americans and the rest of the world are witness to a brutal killing machine, a form of domestic terrorism, responsible for the deaths of Philando Castile and Alton Sterling who were shot point blank by white policemen who follow the script of a racist policy of disposability that suggests that black lives not only do not matter, but that black people can be killed with impunity since the police in the United States are rarely held accountable for such crimes….”
Read the entire article in CounterPunch (July 8, 2016)
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