Perhaps the culture needs to change a bit.
Then again, I wouldn't blame the cops for deciding that one thug killing another is not worth spending time on.
Posted on 07/01/2018 9:45:13 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Ala Ochumare stood at the center of a candle-lit circle and read a two-page list of New Haveners who have been killed in the city since 2010.
That was part of the opening of a Wednesday evening vigil near the corner of Henry Street and Dixwell Avenue, close to where Trayvon Foster was murdered last Saturday.
Ochumare organized the event through Black Lives Matter New Haven to mourn and provide a “healing space” for those who have been affected by the loss of New Haven’s own.
“Black and brown lives matter. It’s unfortunate we have to say that,” Ochumare noted.
She led the vigil with opening remarks in which she thanked the crowd for attending and affirmed their right to be angry. Turning to police officers across the street, she asked, “Why aren’t you solving the crimes?”
“I’m tired of my oppressor winning,” said Ochumare.
Then she offered the megaphone to attendees to volunteer their opinions. By then, the rain had doused most candles, but not the sense of urgency held by the approximately 25 participants.
Niamke Daniels, a community activist, stepped forward and said that no outside source can save the community. Instead, he said the community would have to protect itself. He called on churches to do more to help neighborhoods as well as libraries to provide community support for children.
Daniels said “nothing” had changed throughout his 37 years in New Haven.
“The only thing that needs to be new is us,” said Daniels.
Justin Farmer, who represents the northern end of Newhallville on the Hamden City Council, heard of the vigil through his grandmother who lives in the neighborhood. Farmer is 23 years-old, the same age as Foster had been when he was killed.
He lamented the tendency to blame murders in New Haven on gang violence, an assessment he said distracts from underlying issues such as the lack of jobs and the closing of the Dixwell Community “Q” House (which is now being rebuilt).
“I think we as a community need to be more together to talk about those issues,” said Farmer.
Another elected official, Hill Alder Ron Hurt of Ward 3, came to the event with his son and called on attendees to hold Yale University accountable. He also encouraged the crowd to go to at an event hosted by the activist group New Haven Rising on Thursday at Conte West Hills Magnet School to discuss the job market and redlining.
“Black lives do matter. If you don’t think so, you’re in the wrong place. Wrong city,” said Hurt.
“You don’t want to walk up to a mother and ask, ‘How do you feel?’’” said Veronica Douglas-Givan, a family advocate at New Haven Adult Education Center and a mother. Having worked at WTNH, Channel 8, for 28 years, she frequently had to report the tales of murdered children and heartbroken parents, she recalled.
Activist Camelle Scott-Mujahid called the violence “predictable,” saying that solutions need to derive from the community itself as opposed to delegating the problems to police. She said a shortage of jobs created part of a substantial barrier to violence intervention.
“Our leaders consistently don’t prioritize our youths,” said Scott-Mujahid, specifically citing summer jobs cutbacks in Bridgeport.
““Black and brown lives matter. It’s unfortunate we have to say that,” Ochumare noted. “
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I agree-——then maybe not killing eachother would help.
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Why is it then that the only black lives that matter are the ones that are killed by whites. Why not cut to the chase and say Repatriations Matter?
Cause the greatest cause of black deaths is abortion.
How about the ghettos of chicago?
“Our leaders consistently don’t prioritize our youths,” said Scott-Mujahid, specifically citing summer jobs cutbacks in Bridgeport. <<
$15 an hour for Midnight basketball or the killings will continue......Mark my words!
A malicious racist entity having no credibility......
#2. “Oh MEARS. You’re so White. You think that a community should take responsibility for their own problems and not blame others for most of it. How silly you are. That’s so 50’s of you.
You think that a solid family, a work ethic, speaking out against crime, illegal guns, gangs, and drugs, and being a community that tries to solve its own problems (then asking others to help where they can’t) is the proper way to go thru life. Come on Flounder - that won’t float in Connecticut. The Dems will sink that boat before it leaves the dock.
Only a revival of the past Connecticut spirit of America can save a once great state as it sinks deeper into the cesspool of Democratic Destruction, and it will take all the people of that state to do it because its Marxist and PC leaders sure as hell don’t and won’t despite their flowery words and pretty press releases.
This is somewhat sarcasm and somewhat sadness at the truth.
MM
“Turning to police officers across the street, she asked, “Why aren’t you solving the crimes?”
How many people at this protest actually pay police officers?
Why blame Yale? Yale does a lot for New Haven.
Cause “Snitches Get Stitches” and not one of the 100 witnesses to the shooting cooperated with police?
My point is that cops work for taxpayers - not the criminal “takers” or welfarians.
I agree. Just adding my 2¢.
“Why aren’t you solving the crimes?”
I knew they would be blaming anyone but the murderers, blacks.
Sorry, biytch, but it’s your people who are murdering your people, not Whitey.
After seeing the DOJ/FBI bias against deplorables, I am more open to hearing complaints from BLM. We are seeing bias against a large group of people (1/2 the country).
And I don’t buy that the bias was only a few people at the top. If leaders are biased, and leaders will use unconstitutional methods to attack a group, that filters all the way down. Bias and questionable methods are ok for all, if/when leadership does it. If your boss will let you cut corners most people will do it. And I can certainly see the possibility of bias against other groups being allowed. If FISA applications can be faked, I bet lower level applications are also. I’d need to see a large-scale bottom-up revolt to believe this was isolated at the top. At the very least, insist new leaders come clean on what old leaders (and Rosenstein and Mueller) did and are still doing.
If BLM has any leaders who really care about the bias and methods rather than politicizing everything, they should break off and approach deplorables. It’s at least worth a conversation but I’m not sure many people on either side want a conversation. I’m skeptical of BLM, but at this point I’m even more skeptical about our judicial system. Manafort may have committed crimes but he is in prison today for the single purpose of attacking deplorables not because of his crimes. I can certainly see BLM having equally valid complaints but with less important/newsworthy people and I’d be just as offended.
BLACK LIVES MATTER:
more than whites
More than Hispanics
More than Asians
Only when killed by white cops
Not when killed by other blacks
Occassionally
Somewhat
Only during leap years
Once in a blue moon
Only on the sixth Friday in the month
On Sadie Hawkins day
Only in Timbuktu
Only if you save green stamps
Only to holders of left-handed flag pole keys
Never
Take you pick
Feel free to add to the list
Ala Ochumare. That must be either a new paint color at Sherwin-Williams or a feather on top a French hat.
Perhaps the culture needs to change a bit.
Then again, I wouldn't blame the cops for deciding that one thug killing another is not worth spending time on.
Cause in New Haven, snitches get stitches. This lady should ask those in the neighborhood why they don't cooperate with police investigating murders.
George Zimmerman is 1/4 black.
I understand. At some point we have to face the reality that there will rarely be cooperation with police because the perps are related to many in the ‘hood. If your son brings home the bacon by selling drugs, how likely is it that you or any of your friends are going to turn him in? Also, how could the cops protect someone who does?
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