PLATFORM : An Unjust War

For George Bush to veto weak civil-rights legislation, then tell black soldiers to fight for our way of life, is the epitome of arrogance and hypocrisy. We shouldn’t let Bush decide for us who our allegiance should be to and who we should put our lives on the line for.

(Black soldiers) should refuse to serve. If they’re ordered to fight, they shouldn’t. If they are drafted, they shouldn’t go. Our thing is resistance, because the war is injustice and we’re not bound to support injustice.

Bush doesn’t talk about how he violated international law when we invaded Grenada and Panama. People don’t want to deal with the fact that this land was stolen from Native Americans. That the western part of this country was stolen from Mexicans in an unjust war. That this economy is based on slave labor, the blood, sweat and tears of my ancestors. This country is based on oppression and theft and destruction. I’m not talking about a country that has gone wrong. I’m talking about a country that has never been right.