We Charge Genocide – District of Columbia (WCG-DC) is an unfortunate renaissance, the next chapter of this traumatic American tradition. The WCG-DC Campaign exists because historically, Black people understand our lives to be under pervasive siege by our traditional enemies; the U.S. government and its allies (all forms, branches, institutions, enforcement agencies, ect.), in cooperation with individual citizens/uncivil groups who conduct random, terroristic, bias-based actions (often involving crimes against humanity & war crimes) against people of color.
The People of We Charge Genocide DC
WCG-DC exists in support of Black Lives & populates the Human Rights Defense sector of the larger Black Lives Matter movement, where we put our resources on the line for everyday people. Existential, political and theological (children of promise, household of God) issues are intrinsic to our programme. Because WCG-DC is opposed to the American empire’s assertion that property is more valuable than human life, actions taken engage in the possibility of a new normal, admittedly a Pascalian wager, where a home for everyone (not a jail cell) is the priority.
We argue that U.S. police are agents of institutionalized ethnic cleansing.
(US police have conclusively demonstrated oblique intent to maintain the state-sanctioned oppression of African & Indigenous Americans with inhumane acts of ethnic cleansing & intimidation, shielded by immunity from US law).
An institution/organization is held to intend a consequence (obliquely) when that consequence is a virtually certain consequence of their action, regardless of ‘stated’ intent.
In the continued struggle for Black liberation, Black Lives Matter has been trusted with the aspirations of the people to leverage their outrage, particularly into targeted action, until their demands are met. As such, WCG-DC actions are part of the “second wave” of protest. Our goal is to send a delegation to the United Nations to present evidence of police violence. The purpose of addressing the United Nations, in following with the WCG mission, is to increase visibility of DMV MPDs’ and police unions’ violence and call out the continued impunity of law enforcement who abuse, harass, and kill people of color in the U.S. every year.
Human Rights experts find racial discrimination in the US alive & thriving (3 February 2016)
“Despite substantial changes since the end of the enforcement of Jim Crow [former racial segregation laws in the Southern United States] in the 1960’s and the fight for civil rights, ideology ensuring the domination of one group over another continues to negatively impact the civil, political, economic, social, cultural and environmental rights of African Americans today,” stated the Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent
