The Ferguson Intifada, or Why African-Americans are America’s Palestinians

... Defusing Structural Violence Is the Key to Defusing Physical Violence So Palestinians were not brought over in chains like African-Americans and have not been subject to slavery. But on a day-to-day basis, Palestinians do occupy the bottom rung in the ... ... jobs, facing all sorts of discrimination (including housing), brutality from security forces, neglect in resources, and general racism in ways a black American would find very familiar or at least somewhat similar. The structures oppressing Palestinians ...