Living While Black: My personal struggle with the unending terrorism of police violence in America

The Huffington Post ^ | June 24, 2017 | Imani Michelle Scott, Ph.D.

[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.....

[jmacusa]

Bravo! Mind very much if I borrow this?

[wastoute]

Not at all.

[No_More_Harkin]

Living as anything but white hetero male.
“I AM VICTIMIZED EVERYDAY BY EVERYTHING!!”.

Don’t worry, their whining will last another year or two tops. But many youtubers will be out of good material to mock.

[No_More_Harkin]

You can hold a mirror to their faces, and they are so far gone it’s useless.

They simply cannot understand how their constant whining makes things worse for everyone.

[Gay State Conservative]

There's a guy on youtube named Tommy Sotomayor who might have a different opinion.His videos sometimes feature crude language but they're quite compelling nevertheless.