Chapter 1338: Turmoil in the United States, Racial Turmoil
It is not a rumor that the United States is going to make a big mess. In fact, anyone who is in it, and those who follow current events, can feel the turbulent undercurrent lurking beneath the calm surface of the sea.
The cause of the situation is still from Nick. Fury's story. Although the U.S. government has already made a statement of attitude and even made sacrifices for this matter. But the matter did not settle as they had hoped. On the contrary, it began to grow more and more violently, until it completely caused turmoil throughout American society.
The capitalists used this as an excuse to promote the hegemony of the Stark government. They had so-called experts compile a large number of articles and analyses detailing the state in which the United States is no longer suitable for capital investment. Then these capitalists used this incident and the financial crisis in the United States as an excuse to gradually withdraw their investment projects from the United States.
A large number of projects were withdrawn, which naturally led to the unsustainability of some factories and enterprises. Although it is not to the point of closing the door directly, a large number of layoffs are inevitable.
And in these things of layoffs, these capitalists have also put a lot of thought into it. Some white capitalists are laying off people of color in their own companies. And some companies with other ethnic backgrounds have made whites their main targets for layoffs. The former can be said to be racism, while the latter can be said to be a kind of reverse racism, and either way, it has brought influence and threat to today's American society.
The people of color who had been laid off were certainly not reconciled, and they began to march en masse to protest against this apparent discrimination against them. And the same is true of the white people who have been laid off, who have always had a high opinion of themselves, and they must have been in the dark when they suddenly faced this special kind of racial discrimination. If they are unwilling, they must be unavoidable, and they want to get justice for themselves. In such a situation, demonstrations have naturally become their best choice.
It can be said that such a thing as a parade has become a feature of countries that flaunt democracy. Many people think that the march can solve any problems, but they don't know what problems the march can actually solve. Even if they get some concessions on something, it's not their credit. It's just that some of the people behind them have been reconciled in terms of certain interests. So in the end, they're just making noise.
Of course, not all marches are foolish. There are still quite a few of them, which can be regarded as deliberate actions organized by well-intentioned people. They use this way to express the so-called public opinion, and use this way to satisfy their ulterior motives. It would have been impossible to organize a huge anti-discrimination march in such a short period of time, as it is now, without the help of some well-intentioned people.
The purpose of these well-wishers is simple, that is, to amplify the storm of racial discrimination caused by the layoffs. And if you want to expand this turmoil, then the least is to turn this kind of protest into a riot, so that the situation can develop in an uncontrollable direction.
It's not easy, but it's not that hard. Because the United States itself has quite serious problems. This country of immigrants has always flaunted democracy, freedom and equality, but in fact, they have always been one of the most racist places in the world.
From the massacre of Indians before the founding of the country, to the black slaves before the Civil War. Every inch of this country bears the blood and souls of other races. Although the times have developed to this day, they have begun to talk about civilization and resist those so-called racist ideas. But that is in the case of no vital interests involved, once there are any vital interests involved, how many people will be willing to maintain this concept of non-discrimination, that is a very interesting question.
The capitalists knew the answer to this question very well, so they began to make a big deal about it. On the surface, they are laying off employees in their own companies, but secretly they are organizing these laid-off employees to start a large-scale demonstration. Fortunately at the beginning, in order to form a larger scale and cause a more long-term impact, these secret promoters have not done anything special. But as the time matured, they began to be a little unbearable.
Under the arrangement of some behind-the-scenes, the marching groups representing the two camps began to clash head-on. From the initial standoff to the later fight, many of the triggers can be said to be the result of these people's self-authored. And this result is not enough to satisfy them, in order to make this conflict more intense. Some people began to deliberately bring in some special groups to join.
Take the Ku Klux Klux Klan, for example. The Ku Klux Klan is a non-governmental xenophobic group in the United States that pursues a white supremacy and colored ethnicity movement. It is also the oldest and largest racist organization in the entire United States. The group began out as a group of veterans of Confederate armies who had been defeated in the Civil War. So congenitally, they are full of malice towards all colored races, especially blacks.
They are notorious and sinful at the same time. Over the years, they've done quite a few outrageous things. This was a frustration for them, but it never went away. Today, the organization has grown to a considerable extent. Its large number of people can definitely be called the most racist organization. When it comes to the weight of racial discrimination, they are definitely among the top of all organizations.
After a repression, destruction and rebirth, the Ku Klux Klan now has at least four million members in the United States. And most of these members' thoughts are very extreme. Some people even openly declared in the face of public opinion that if we could kill millions of Jews back then, we can kill more than 10 million people of color today.
If they can say such things in front of public opinion, they can definitely be called thugs. And to introduce such a thug into such a conflict will naturally lead to immeasurable consequences.
The consequences soon became apparent. As the confrontation between the two sides intensified day by day, the Ku Klux Klan seized the opportunity to drive a fuel tanker truck into the crowd of people of color who were demonstrating while the police officers in charge of management were not looking. They had no qualms about rampage through the crowd with tanker trucks, killing dozens of people on the spot in one fell swoop. In the end, they even frantically set fire to the fuel tanker, and used the gasoline in the tanker truck to explode, directly causing a serious accident in which hundreds of people were injured.
This trip, the whole of America was shaken. And such a crazy move also completely stimulated the nerves of those people of color, and made them start to become desperate.
As these people of color began to complain to the government, they began to forcibly tear down some of the most significant statues in the United States. For example, Robert. Edward. Lee's statue, the general who once represented the power of the Confederate forces, became a thorn in the side of the blacks. They're going to let this eye-bothering thing that represents white supremacy disappear in front of them anyway.
Of course, those white people certainly wouldn't let that happen. A large number of white supremacists gathered in the park to stop the atrocities of these black people. And that gives those black people a chance. You know, a lot of black backgrounds in the United States are unclean. Sometimes they can even do stupid things like armed robbery in broad daylight.
Impulsive and irritable, simple-minded, and most importantly, psychological weakness caused by low self-esteem. These are the people who are the most likely to make trouble. And now, they have made a very terrible scene.
When the white supremacists insisted on not allowing these blacks to remove the statue of General Lee, a large number of blacks took out a large number of guns and weapons, and shot at these white supremacists without any scruples. No one could have imagined that things would turn out like this, and neither the cops nor the habitually arrogant whites would expect things to turn out like this. So it led to a tragedy, and 100 people lost their lives in such a mass shooting.
After the incident, although all the blacks involved in the shooting were arrested. But they want to be punished by law. It's not that easy.
Because blacks don't allow it. In order to have a fair trial of the perpetrators of these shootings in the name of the law, then the vast majority of blacks must be silenced. And if you want to silence those black people, you must give an explanation for the previous tanker truck incident.
The two are all about cause and effect. If it weren't for the Ku Klux Klan madness that preceded it, there wouldn't be the horrific shootings like today. So the black delegates were very clear that if the government really wanted to try the perpetrators of these shootings, then it would have to arrest all the perpetrators of the tanker truck incident and try them together. And herein lies the problem.
The Ku Klux Klan has a long history, and some of its top state officials are behind it. After the tanker truck incident broke out, the Ku Klux Klan and some of the state governments that supported them began to shelter the perpetrators of the whole incident. Among them, there are some politicians in the state government who have spoken out and characterized this as an accident. There are even some subtle voices coming that as long as the Stark government forces against the Ku Klux Klan, then their state governments will directly demand independence.
Doing so could be said to be roasting the entire Stark government on fire. If the Stark administration does not reply, the turmoil in the whole United States will not be able to subside for a day. They will grow stronger and stronger until they completely shake the foundations of the entire United States. This is something that the entire Stark government absolutely cannot accept. So to settle this matter, Tony. Stark has made an important decision.