Posted on 06/24/2017 11:08:57 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
We share a strength of mind and spirit that defies centuries of efforts to break us.
So, I know: We are resilient.
But today, I am angry and troubled and, I am wanting to lash out.
• I am angry at a government that allows my people to be hunted and killed by rabid police officers.
• I am troubled by the structure that allows two white men who killed prison guards to live, but deems it justifiable to kill a black child playing with a toy gun.
• I lash out at a system that thinks it’s okay to let guilty officers go free because they speak the five magic, get out of jail free words: “I feared for my life.”
I am Trayvon Martin wondering why this strange man is following me.
I am Eric Garner gasping for air.
I am Sandra Bland proclaiming my rights.
I am Philando Castile sitting in the car with my 4 year-old daughter.
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We are the descendants of those who endured the middle passage, despite being caged like animals and treated in the most inhumane of ways by the most evil of people.
So, I know: We are survivors.
But today, I am incensed and agitated and, I am yearning to fight.
• I am incensed by the sadistic notion that our brown skin makes us less deserving and less vital, and less human even, than one with white skin.
• I am agitated by the pattern of contradictions in denying responsibility for killing, but subsequently offering monetary settlements to the families of those killed.
• I fight against a justice system which deems it acceptable to bring Burger King to a white man after he has killed nine black people in a church.....
(Excerpt) Read more at huffingtonpost.com ...
I wonder what are the psychological effects of growing up in a culture of violence and maltreatment of women?
Obvious that they now hand out Ph. Ds more for creative fiction than for rational thinking these days.
- Normal people see Trayvon Martinas a career criminal scoping out potential targets and then shot in self-defense while he attempted to murder a neighborhood watchman.
- Normal people know that Garner had been arrested by the NYPD more than thirty times on charges such as assault, resisting arrest, and grand larceny, and that the choke hold was milder than what most of us would have used on a man his size resisting arrest.
- Normal people know that Sandra Bland committed suicide in jail after resisting arrest.
I am Philando Castile sitting in the car with my 4 year-old daughter.
- Normal people do not know what happened in the Philando Castile shooting. I watched the dashcam video multiple times yesterday and watched the girlfriend’s video, and I don’t know whether the shooting was justified. I do know that I would have been MUCH more cooperative with the cop than Philando Castile was. Before telling the cop I had a gun, my hands would have been motionless on the dashboard, and I would not have moved after telling him except in the exact manner that he directed. Any movements would have been VERY slow.
- Normal people do not run toward police officers even after being told to stop, although that is what Jonathan Ferrell did after a homeowner called the police because Ferrell was pounding on his door. Normal people know that, while Ferrell’s judgement may have been impaired by the car accident (and the alcohol), a man that size behaving erratically is dangerous.
- Normal people know that Alton Sterling was resisting arrest and (apparently) reaching for the gun in his pocket when he was shot.
- Normal people know Michael Brown had just committed a strong-arm robbery and was charging the officer who shot him, as proven by forensic evidence.
I am Walter L. Scott being stopped for a broken brake light.
- I’m shocked! The writer chose one where the police were actually in the wrong! This cop was prosecuted and entered a plea of guilty, which is what happens when the police are in the wrong.
- Normal people know Laquan McDonald was holding a knife ten feet from the police and behaving erratically while refusing to drop the knife, and that within twenty-one feet the knife is as dangerous as a gun.
- I don’t know what happened to Freddie Gray, but I did not see evidence beyond a reasonable doubt tying any particular police officer to his death. Just like the thugs this writer loves, police are entitled to a fair trial and a high standard of proof.
- Normal people know Keith Lamont Scott was an ex-con who had been convicted of resisting arrest and of shooting a man ten times (non-fatal). Normal people know the police say Keith Lamont Scott was again resisting arrest when he was shot.
- Normal people know that Edward Lamont Hunt was evading arrest when he was shot. The police officer who shot him said he reached for a gun after resisting arrest and then running, which is impossible to prove or disprove, but normal people avoid that situation by not running from the police.
I am Jordan Edwards riding in a car after a party.
- The police officer is awaiting trial. We will see what the complete facts are when the trial takes place.
I am Samuel DuBose driving with a missing front license plate.
- The police officer was tried twice, both with a hung jury. My impression is that the police officer’s testimony was not accurate.
- Normal people know that the cop was told Tamir Rice had a gun and that Tamir Rice was behaving in an aggressive manner scaring other people in the park before the police arrived. Normal people know the police made mistakes in their approach to Tamir Rice, but also that Rice reached for the “toy” gun (I could not tell it apart from a real gun) when the police arrived.
I am Akai Gurley walking in a stairwell.
- Normal people know the police officer was convicted in this shooting.
Most but not all of the shootings in this rant were completely justified. The ones that were not justified led to trials and (usually) convictions. The biggest problem black Americans face is the attitude that articles like this stoke.
And ancesrtry.com will tell them exactly where that is. Actually, it can tell everybody that, according to the advertising.
We watch Live PD on A&E.
It’s amazing how many Black drivers& passengers simply refuse to obey the officer during a traffic stop.
From both hands on the wheel to getting out of the car to answering ID info.
Many claim they think the officer is going to execute them
They act as if it’s their obligation to resist. Then they complain about rough treatment.
The number of White Union soldiers who died in the civil war was closer to 330,000,about one third of them KIA and mortally wounded; balance deaths due to disease and other.
There should be a game show centered around how long a sane person could stay in the same room with this woman.
• I am angry at a government that allows my people to be hunted and killed by rabid police officers.
If you truly believe this nonsense, then you are the very reason that “your” people end up being killed by police officers! Think about it a while. It may eventually come to you!
The skin deep rage is born in tribalism.
What it is, is people with dads arresting people without dads.
The writer needs to look inward first at his own social order.
Of course, that would mean taking responsibility.
I admire the man greatly. For a treat and your own edification read his book THE MAN FARTHEST DOWN. Booker T. toured Europe in 1910 in order to find ways to help advance the Blacks from slavery. Very insightful in many respects.
Apparently the book is not required reading in Black Studies.
One source is:
https://archive.org/details/manfarthestdownr00wash
Brown skin makes us less deserving.How did Obama get elected by white people twice?
Crooks blame cops story again with a massive dose of self pity.
Mein Kampf?
Well said.
L
As if whites weren’t slaves.
White people are evil and should be sent a large reservation, we will call this reservation America and it will be a penal colony for white devils.
God bless you virtue signaling conservatives and your white guilt, maybe you deserve a rich vibrant diverse country of tolerance, but a regular cracker deplorable such as me and my family without white guilt only deserve the penal colony known as America.
In Chicago just so far this year 294 people have been shot and killed out of a total of 1,686 total shootings.
Not one single assailant has been white. Not one.
Source: www.heyjackass.com
And the weekend ain’t over yet.
L
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