There's Nothing inexplicable about it: live like a thieving thug, die like a thieving thug.
Posted on 08/16/2014 3:12:04 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
ENCINITAS, California — Ferguson, Missouri, and the inexplicable shooting of teenager Michael Brown, represents not only the latest episode of America’s urban war against black men—it will be far from the last.
Still unresolved is another horrifying racial incident in Miami Beach, Florida. Police there have still failed, ignominiously, to clear the air about the street slaying of motorist Raymond Herisse. Herisee, 22, was killed on a South Beach street in his vehicle in a barrage of firepower that entailed more than 100 rounds of ammunition.
Herisse was taken out, reports the Miami Herald, “in a frightening war-like moment that his family likens to being executed by a police firing squad.” [May 25, 2013]. No less than twelve officers were involved in an assault that left the young man with sixteen bullet wounds, slumped in his seat. Four bystanders were seriously wounded.
Again, the Miami Herald: “Two years and multiple lawsuits later, Miami Beach police have yet to produce evidence that Herisse did anything to deserve a death sentence.” Police have claimed that the man was speeding recklessly and hit an officer on bike patrol. No substantiation, including any witness or video footage, has been produced.
Let’s skip past the clichés as in, “If it had been a white victim,” etc. The reality is more repetitive than any cliché. From Mississippi to Los Angeles to St. Louis to Miami, white officers beating or killing black men, in displays of force and brutality that are inconsistent with any forms of social or legal codes, has been—and remains—rampant.
From the odious gang-murder of 14 year-old Emmitt Till in 1955 (he smiled at a white woman) to the shooting of Trayvon Martin (as if we don’t know the real story here) to a million unknown victims of this American slaughter, the life of a black male has never really amounted to much. We white folks fear black men so we acquiesce to a cycle that is infinitely more gruesome than the worst notions of them that we have carried.
What of the mass carnage ongoing in Chicago and so many other urban centers, not to mention the preeminence of black-on-black crimes that plague us? Unforgivable and intolerable—these are the only answers. And shame on the African American community and its many gratuitous “leaders” who offer nothing but steam and publicity stunts while their—and our—children are perishing in our streets and prisons.
But that doesn’t obscure the reality that our police squadrons, armed with military-level arsenals, and our vigilantes, driven by hate and police-like fantasies, remain free to reduce the humanity of any given black male into road kill. You could have just asked the late Rodney King, beaten senseless by LA police in 1991. The media kept on labeling him as “motorist Rodney King.” But he—and Raymond Herisse and Michael Brown were not motorists. They were men.
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Rabbi Kamin is a freelance writer based in the San Diego suburb of Encinitas, California. He may be contacted via ben.kamin@sdjewishworld.com
Emmitt Smith? Say it ain’t so.
Waiting for the commemorative plates.
It’s not a war on black males - it is a cultural suicide.
More like Tawanna,OJ, Duke LacrosseTrayvon, and now Mike Brown. When will the BS end.
*snort*
The left paying homage to a criminal..can they include OJ Simpson to the list too he would be so proud
The murder of Emmitt Till was a stain on history. Trayvon and Michael were simply stains on society.
I didn’t phrase that correctly. Trayvon and Michael were the stains, not their deaths.
“It’s not a war on black males - it is a cultural suicide.”
If that isn’t the truth! Nicely put.
There's Nothing inexplicable about it: live like a thieving thug, die like a thieving thug.
“........inexplicable shooting........” Huh?
I don’t suppose that anyone has pointed out to the staff at the San Diego Jewish World, that the arguments they are using to defend often violent black men who get their comeuppance are pretty much the same arguments used by the defenders of Hamas.
Let me paraphrase what they wrote:
“From North to South and East to West Gaza, Jewish soldiers beating or killing Palestinian men, in displays of force and brutality that are inconsistent with any forms of social or legal codes, has been—and remains—rampant.”
But seriously, in both cases, the agents of civilization and order are trying to protect society from the barbaric and criminal. Fretting about the rights of the barbaric and criminal means nothing *until* they change their behavior.
that needs to be kept out there. Amazing how f’d up peoples perceptions are regarding the painfully obvious.
I wonder how these people make it through the day but they do. And they prosper. Life’s great mysteries.
Inexplicable?
John Doe#1 through 5 million, Jane Doe#1 through 5 million murdered by liberal abortionists
John Doe#1 through 5 million, Jane Doe#1 through 5 million murdered by liberals banning DDT
On and on....Liberal murders.
Hogwash and hyperbole. It happens, sure. But to hear this assclown and The Revs talk, a black man don't dare stick his head outta the welfare apartment for fear of being sniped by some drunken, trigger-happy POleesman.
Far more likely is that some innocent white woman will get mugged and slugged by some two-bit banger with his jeans around his knees.
I’m kinda thinking the black velvet paintings in lighted frames would be nice.
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