Posted on 08/20/2014 8:21:17 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
To be black is to be a victim – and then get blamed for it. To focus on the people’s resistance more than police repression devalues black life.
We’ve had enough of the police brutality, of the colorblind mythologies and post-racial rhetoric, of the sweet-talk, of the calls for non-violence; of mass incarceration and systemic poverty, of trigger happy cops and crying black mothers, of the Eric Garners and Renisha McBrides, the Michael Browns and Tarika Wilsons; of black tears and white terror. Dr Martin Luther King Jr said in 1968: “A riot is the language of the unheard”. Today, nearly 50 years later, black America demands to not only be heard but heeded – by any means necessary.
This week in Ferguson, Missouri, there has been more backlash over the resistance of a few black (and some white) protestors than the violence of white police. Meanwhile, according to organizers on the ground, it has mainly been (white) outsiders inciting violence to promote their own agenda. As the writer Sarah Kendzior tweeted: “White people coming to STL to provoke police violence against black residents and get them blamed”. More than blamed: black people are left to bear the brunt of the political mess white infiltration leaves behind, be it by the National Guard or outside organizers.
As Sean Beale, a 27-year-old local, told the Guardian: “If you don’t live here you don’t worry about the burning and looting. You don’t worry about stores closing, or losing your job, or walking for miles to buy food.”(continued)
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
White Power baby :^)
Tell it to the store clerk that was assaulted by a 300 pound thug in the commission of a robbery.
Fine, let’s have a civil war and be done with it. I’m sick of this sh!t.
I'm just glad the liberals don't have any guns
How many dang victim cards are in that deck?
How much is enough? It’s NEVER enough.
At what point do you say....I WILL be responsible for myself...and I’ll stop trusting in/depending on Government to be my salvation.
What, exactly, has Government done to even anyone’s playing field?
A picture really IS worth a thousand words.
Now, see, here I was going to make a long post about the absurdity of the bolded statement... but now I can’t stop laughing, thanks.
Why we need black journalists to cover Ferguson
http://qz.com/251989/why-we-need-black-journalists-to-cover-ferguson/
Your graphic is perfect...while I didn’t construct that in my own sick little mind it certainly states what ran through my neurons
Wat??? is correct. This is not a new approach ... people's resistance implies rioting followed by looting in reality. Police repression, am interpreting to be those stopping rioting followed by looting should not be reality per author. Devalues black life because rioting and looting never devalued a black life in the eyes of a writer since supporting criminals is this writer's way the world should be.
Would take all night to pick the article apart. Guess that was the writer of the article's objective. Be baffling with complete ignorance. Author succeeded.
Nyle Fort is a Master’s of Divinity candidate at Princeton Theological Seminary, a youth pastor, freelance writer, and grassroots community organizer based in Newark, New Jersey.
Seems like all the community organizers have one goal.......being a good commie. And of course Princeton is some cheap little school that anyone can go to
For a change, the REAL facts on who are the perpetrators and who the victims of the “race war”.
http://www.truthrevolt.org/videos/bill-whittle-ferguson-and-real-race-war
Like global warming, the idea that Michael Brown was murdered becomes the ‘conventional wisdom’. No one will dare challenge it in a month.
What I find so bizarre about this is that the author’s premise is so 180 degrees out of whack, yet he does state what is happening - that outside “revolutionaries” are going in and trying to instigate trouble.
Yet the reason cited for it is totally out of whack - wacko in fact.
These outsiders are actually on the same team as this writer.
The graphic is perfect.
I guess for some folks being a victim is a life time occupation
It’s really Black Supremacy, the “I’m still a victim” mentality. Few besides the a fraction of blacks are buying it.
You are not alone in your thoughts. As much as I don't want to see the country explode, I am becoming convinced that there is no way for the polarization of America to end peacefully. Unfortunately, I think there is no way to vote ourselves out of this, but I think the rats want to duke it out anyway, so I know it will happen sooner or later.
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