This was a very interesting episode. Though this episode was made in 1968, it is very relevant in 2022, more than 50 years later.
After so-called Emancipation of enslaved Afrikans, the rich and elites saw that workers across so-called racial lines were organizing and resisting oppressive, exploitative work practices. So, they devised a plan to separate, divide, and weaken them. Business owners gave certain groups benefits and privileges while they oppressed, demonized, vilified, and criminalized other groups.
The rich and elites placed themselves at the top of the racial hierarchy, created by them, to manipulate non racialized workers into thinking racialized workers were dangerous and posed a threat; also giving non racialized workers false hope that one day they too could be rich.
The same is going on today, where those who have more privilege than others see those fighting for the same rights and privileges as dangerous, suspect, and criminal.
As with this episode, the Klingons and humans were being manipulated by an unseen and unknown alien which was making them fight against one another, while the alien watched entertained and absorbed their violent energy. Just like today where the non racialized are working in concert with the rich and elites to oppress the racialized, less privileged, and vilified classes to the detriment to us all.
It was not until the Klingons and humans worked together that they were able to drive out the evil alien force. Here on earth, the working classes need to work together to drive rich, alien beings, posing as humans into exile or we will be fighting until our extinction.
After so-called Emancipation of enslaved Afrikans, the rich and elites saw that workers across so-called racial lines were organizing and resisting oppressive, exploitative work practices. So, they devised a plan to separate, divide, and weaken them. Business owners gave certain groups benefits and privileges while they oppressed, demonized, vilified, and criminalized other groups.
The rich and elites placed themselves at the top of the racial hierarchy, created by them, to manipulate non racialized workers into thinking racialized workers were dangerous and posed a threat; also giving non racialized workers false hope that one day they too could be rich.
The same is going on today, where those who have more privilege than others see those fighting for the same rights and privileges as dangerous, suspect, and criminal.
As with this episode, the Klingons and humans were being manipulated by an unseen and unknown alien which was making them fight against one another, while the alien watched entertained and absorbed their violent energy. Just like today where the non racialized are working in concert with the rich and elites to oppress the racialized, less privileged, and vilified classes to the detriment to us all.
It was not until the Klingons and humans worked together that they were able to drive out the evil alien force. Here on earth, the working classes need to work together to drive rich, alien beings, posing as humans into exile or we will be fighting until our extinction.