Posted on 05/15/2023 9:44:25 AM PDT by BraveMan
The brutal public judging and killing of Mr. Jordan Neely, a poor, homeless, mentally-ill Black man in New York City, offers again life-and-death evidence of the need to expand the discussion and solution concerning gun violence to include the American culture of violence itself. And the masses of Black people who are out demonstrating in defiance and demanding justice for him are to be praised and supported in their and our righteous and relentless struggle for an inclusive justice and public safety.
Indeed, it is yet another case of a Black man sacrificed on the insatiable altar of Whites’ violent perception and pursuit of public safety at the incalculable expense of Black people’s right to security and life, a public policy and social practice that must be condemned and resisted. Mr. Neely’s killing is a graphic and grossly savage example of a public spectacle of the sacrifice of a Black life in the midst of assisting, cheering and championing the “conquering” killer who choked Mr. Neely until he was dead and held him in the chokehold even after his body went limp. This, of course, recalls other similar human sacrifices of Black victims under the camouflage of law, order, fear, self-defense and public safety.
Tragically, this cold-blooded taking of Black life offers additional proof to already abundant evidence that the problem of and solution to gun violence is not only in the restriction and restraining of gun access, use and models for mass killing. Rather, it also requires rightful attentiveness to the problem and plague of systemic and social violence woven deep in the fabric of America’s founding and functioning, especially in matters of race and oppression.
In the context and practice of the pathology of racist oppression, there is a need to demonize and dehumanize Black people in order to undermine and obscure the ethical imperative to recognize and respect them as full human beings worthy of humane and equal treatment and as having the right to safety and life also. Indeed, so demonized and dehumanized, it is difficult to feel anything for them except fear, hatred and hostility and thus, they are not seen or imagined as victims even when they are violently and fatally victimized publicly or privately.
This is clear in a review of comments on the internet and in the public media, where Mr. Neely’s right to life, safety or sanctuary is dismissed or denied and he is characterized as unworthy of empathy, compassion or consideration. Indeed, in their minds, he has so many strikes against him before they even learn his history in the dignity-denying way they had already assumed, but did not know and which still does not justify his public murder. He is poor, homeless, mentally-ill and perhaps most indicting, he is a Black man and therefore, by racial definition and social default, a self-evident menace to society.
Thus, his public murder is deemed justified and therefore there is no need for arrest or accountability for the killer. Indeed, he is questioned and released and praised for his brutal and fatal intervention and the Mayor informs us that the issue is complicated and we need to wait on the process, a position he would undoubtedly not take with White ethnics of the city concerning one of them so vulnerable and fatefully victimized.
Clearly, the would-be-mighty former Marine, Daniel Penny, as his predatory prowess against his vulnerable victim demonstrated, was capable of subduing Mr. Neely, but by what strange moral reasoning or sense of public safety was there a need to then choke him to death? And what kind of persons or people are those who helped hold him down until he was dead, and those who cheered or silently watched as he was killed without uttering a word of concern, care or even questioning? It is this murder and merciless act of participatory and celebratory anti-Black violence that led some to remember and call it a public lynching. And then there is the corporate media, using what Min. Malcolm called the “science of image-making”, turning the victim into the criminal and the criminal into the victim. Again, it is the operation of a racist system that racialized crime, calling it Black, and then criminalized the targeted race, Black people. This means a perpetual indictment without possibility of exoneration or rehabilitation after the indictment.
But the massive killing of Black men, women and children in various venues has not made and will not make America safer, for the problem, as our people say, Lord knows, is not us. It is rather how White Americans who rule this country, in spite of performance DEI platitudes and promises, conceive of themselves and how they conceive and approach the world and all in it. Indeed, the problem of violence is systemic, a problem of the heart and mind and the structures and practices this produces and sustains. This includes: Whites imagining themselves the racial and religious lords and elect of the world; embracing the gun, drones, missiles and other weapons in worshipful ways; and engaging violence as the indispensable and essential means to solve problems, quell dissent, conquer, control, exploit, and crush different and vulnerable persons and peoples, deal best with designated enemies and ruthlessly pursue the interests of empire.
Thus, again, the problem is not simply gun culture violence evidenced in the continuous rash of mass shootings and killings, which certainly must be dealt with decisively, but rather the culture of violence, itself, and the will and commitment to injure and kill that come with it, whether the killing is state-sanctioned or vigilante, political or personal, and whether it’s with gun, knee or knife, chokehold, rope or rock.
This means America must not try to hide from its history and current policies and practices of violence, which caused Dr. Martin Luther King to describe it as “the greatest purveyor of violence in the world”, but rather confront and struggle to radically change them. And it also means that there must be a radical rethinking and realization, through struggle, of a public safety, inclusive of all and providing not only security of person but also security of rights, health, housing, income, education and other human goods for everyone and a deep and continuing commitment to the well-being of the world and all in it.
A white exhibiting the same behavior would probably be just as dead.
That article was almost certainly written by an AI. With emphasis on the word “artificial.”
I didn't know that POS was still stealing oxygen ...
Don’t need all these words to sum up what happened.
1) We no longer treat mental illness and let mentally ill wander the streets
2) Many mentally ill wandering the streets are very dangerous and many have rap sheets and many will continue to commit crimes but our judicial system continues to let them walk the streets.
3) When the mentally ill become violent, we will have circumstances when people protect themselves as no LEO’s are around.
4) If the mentally ill attackers are injured, given our bizarro state of affairs, they will become the victim, especially if they are Black and the real victims are White.
5) The Black persons family will hire lawyers, the usual race baiters like sharpton will stir up the community, and fir the first time they will actually supposedly care for this mentally ill person.
I had an incident with a “mentally ill” person once.
A neighbor of my brother; Brother would talk about crazy and unbalanced the guy was.
Everytime I would visit my brother, this guy would bum smokes off me. One day, I was leaving and was already in my truck, backing out to leave.
The neighbor had come outside, without me realizing it and approached my truck, still didn’t see him, and started banging on the side of the truck.
I ignored him and drove off.
The next time I visited, he comes out of his apartment and started talking sh1t and approaching me aggressively.
I was unarmed, as in no gun, but I did have a machete behind the seat.
After I pulled it out, he began backing off and became a lot calmer and apologetic.
Point is, I believe that some people feign mental illness and act crazy to intimidate others and just get away with being an asshole.
And when faced with the very real possibility of serious injury or death, the crazy takes a back seat to personal safety.
This Jordan Neely guy may have been mentally ill, but his life and safety are not more important than those around him.
And if his family cared so much about him when he was alive, they would have done anything, ANYTHING, to help him. Opportunists and vultures.
Thanks for posting this piece of malignant drivel. One of the great things about FR is that we are allowed to post articles with which most of us strongly disagree, this being an excellent example . Reading the article makes one think that it is some kind of evil white violence that is deliberately stalking poor, innocent, young black men on the streets of Chicago and that there are machine-gun equipped pickup trucks running around day and night, manned by uniformed Klansmen, who are randomly shooting innocent black males. Indeed, a monstrosity like this article needs to be read just so people could believe the that its author actually believes the absolute, vile falsehoods of which it is totally composed.
‘Let us have dominion over your lives’ is not that far from ‘let us take what we want’. The next logical step.
Ain’t playing.
Thank YOU for the post!
It is Sad and Scary that there are people who believe this tripe. It makes me wonder if we’ll ever get past this point in America . . .
Phony holiday created by a man with a phony name.
I’d be happy deporting that miscreant back to Africa!
Well said.
This reminds me...I should donate more to the criminal defense fund.
The system didn’t “fail” Mr. Neeley. There is no system in place in inner cities to deal with the mentally ill criminals such as him. He should have been locked away for the safety of himself and others. The cities leaders, Courts and law enforcement chose to let him walk the streets even after being repeatedly arrested for attacking others. It was just a matter of time before someone stopped him from harming another person.
Conservatives can’t be blamed for this and neither can the brave Marine who protected others. This is all on the liberal city leaders who black Americans vote for time and time again.
Far, far more blacks are killed by blacks than anything or anyone else. In the United States, a black is about 50 to 100 times more likely to kill a white person than vice-versa.
I’m using my inside voice to comment on this keyboard shat.
Ashli Babbit by contrast, could have been physically restrained but was not so lucky. She was instead shot in the neck while helpless and easy to apprehend at point blank range. Now THAT is an actual case of judging and killing.
Now, now. Bovine scat does have its uses. Not so much this douche nozzle.
I’m thinking education.
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