Posted on 09/21/2014 4:00:47 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Rapper Snoop Dogg and the League of Young Voters came together to host a panel about police brutality and the chaotic events that unfolded in Ferguson, Missouri, after 18-year-old Michael Brown was fatally shot.
In addition to Snoop Dogg, the panel also welcomed Michael Brown’s father, Michael Brown Sr.; Jordan Davis’ mother, Lucia McBath; attorney Benjamin Crump and Chuck Creekmur of AllHipHop.
The panel, titled No Guns Allowed: Fallout From Ferguson, took place during the BET Hip-Hop Awards weekend in Atlanta.
The group of panelists discussed what the African-American community needs to do to help solve issues of racism and police brutality.
For many of the panelists, the key was to keep the conversation going.
“It’s important as a Black man to push this issue,” Creekmur said, according to Rolling Out. “There is a post-racial thing that wants you to believe that racism doesn’t exist. When people say they don’t see color, that’s just coded language. We have to keep pushing the envelope to make sure. Black media must play a role to push the conversation.”
Social media vehicles like Black Twitter, the online sub-community that has become the topic of major academic and societal discussions, have been adamant about making sure issues of racism and police brutality are no long swept under the rug.
Meanwhile, more media outlets are trying to pay closer attention to Black victims.
Of course, conversation won’t be enough to result in change.
McBath, the mother of the Black teen who was gunned down for playing loud music at a Florida gas station, said the African-American community has to make sure the lawmakers are fighting for change as well.
“There are people in this country who use the law for their own benefit,” McBath said. “If you do not push against the laws that restrain you as a human being, you can only blame yourself. I will continue to fight as much as I can.”
She went on to reveal that she has had a hard time getting people to take action.
“We have to camp out at the state capitol,” she said. “I’m having a hard time mobilizing the faith-based community to come with. We must be in the lawmakers’ faces to get things done.”
In the case of Jordan Davis, many people feel justice has not been served.
While the shooter, Michael Dunn, was found guilty on four counts of attempted second-degree murder, he was not found guilty of actually killing Davis.
Then there was the acquittal of George Zimmerman that sent the entire nation into shock.
Zimmerman was the volunteer neighborhood watchman who fatally shot 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in a Florida neighborhood in 2012.
Now the nation is watching anxiously as a grand jury has been formed to decide Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson’s fate. Wilson has yet to be arrested for fatally shooting Michael Brown several times even after the teen allegedly put his hands up to surrender.
The grand jury is allowed to wait until 2015 to make a decision about the case.
For rizzle, my nizzle.
Fo’ shizzle.
1) Zzzzz
2) How much was Mr. Dogg paid to attract attendees to this “event”?
Fixed.
yea i just joined “white twitter” ......oh wait
Mike
Still waiting to see the evidence of racism by the cop.
Oh how I wish I could've been there to insist this woman explain herself on these quotes. But like all left-wing-led stupid Democrats, she just mouthes phrases that she thinks make her sound philosophical and educated, with absolutely nothing of substance behind them. Just another bumper-sticker intellectual.
How about if the black community didn't fall out and drop out of an education and become successful citizens. How about if "the unarmed teen, Michael" hadn't been out creating his own chaotic event robbing a store and shoving the owner around. How about him not doing that arrogant shuffle down the middle of the street. How about him not fashing gang signs. How about him not going brutal on a policeman. How about him living with and being raised by both parents into a responsible adult. And how about not turning every low life black teen into another St. Skittles.
Wow, we’re talking a real pile of talent and IQ there.
/sarc
Because nothing brings a community together better in peace and understanding than a rapper that made millions promoting a ‘Fxck the Police” mindset, sold drugs and replaced the name of women across the world with “BitcheZ”.
I feel the love. If there was anymore PLUR here a rave would break out.
How about using racial profiling? It's a successful strategy and an effective way to allocate law enforcement resources to fight crime. Facts are facts and the evidence clearly shows that concentrating effort on the element most crime-prone yields positive results. It's simply good common sense.
How on Earth do you find some of these articles? And a mean that as a HUGE compliment.
Hahahaha! I get asked something like that all the time. I was an intelligence analyst.
wow, the world famous Scoop Doggie Poop huh VERY impressive lineup
did i say LINEUP
oh my
I feel the same way about affirmative action laws.
Gee, a (c)rap “artist” supports a thug. What a surprise!
Entire nation? Not me!
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