Posted on 08/17/2014 2:57:27 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
As rightfully incensed residents of Ferguson, Missouri continue to protest a police shooting that left an unarmed black teenager, Michael Brown, dead, Ron Davis–father of Jordan Davis, another slain black teen in Jacksonville, Florida–is appearing before the United Nations, aiming to shame the United States for the recent murders of young black men, and the gross miscarriages of justice that allowed their killers to walk free.
Davis attended the 85th meeting of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination in Geneva, Switzerland this past Wednesday and Thursday, in hopes of pressuring Washington to amp up efforts to stop the disturbing epidemic of what he and the United States Human Rights Network (USHRN), the NGO backing him, call “the criminalization of race” in America.
The U.S. was forced to answer questions from Davis and the international community in what the American Civil Liberties Union told press was “a singular opportunity to hold Washington accountable.”
Davis is outraged over what he (and many others) say is a rash of unpunished murders of young black men across the country.
Just six months after George Zimmerman was acquitted in killing unarmed black teen Trayvon Martin, Davis’ son Jordan was gunned down at a gas station after he and his friends refused to lower their music. The case against Jordan’s killer, Michael Dunn, resulted in a mistrial.
After their murders, the character of both Trayvon Martin and Jordan Davis was called into question, with the defense attorneys for the killers attempting to paint the boys as young thugs–mere criminals, who were deserving of their death sentences at the hands of men who acted as the judge, jury, and executioner–much like what Ferguson PD is attempting to do with the slain Mike Brown, by stating he was a suspect in a strong armed robbery prior to being shot down.
“These things eat at you that shouldn’t have happened, and the people doing these transgressions are getting away with it,” Davis told Al Jazeera.
Ron Davis was joined in Geneva by Trayvon Martin’s mother, Sybrina Fulton.
He hopes to channel his anger over the death of his son into a solution for black fathers who have come to teach their children to accept police brutality as a fact of life in the United States. Davis and USHRN director Ejim Dike hope that taking America’s race issues to the international community will create political leverage–and a climate for change–in Washington.
Said Dike, ”We have a lot of people directly impacted by the violence. We have exhausted our domestic remedies. We have to take this to the United Nations. We have to see if we can leverage that pressure to see if we can get people to act on this issue. Talking about any issue as a human rights violation gets the attention of the U.S. government. It’s embarrassing for the government that champions itself as a beacon of human rights in the world.”
Come to Texas, Blue Helmets. Us Texans dare you!
Thank you LBJ.
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“rightfully incensed”? Is this an editorial or news report? A lot of people are going to look like crap when this is over, but do they care? No, move on to the next lie.
These families are insane grifters.
““As rightfully incensed residents of Ferguson, Missouri continue to protest a police shooting that left an unarmed black teenager, Michael Brown, dead, “
No bias there.”
None whatsoever!!! And I stopped reading it before I finished the sentence!
“He hopes to channel his anger over the death of his son into a solution for black fathers who have come to teach their children to accept police brutality as a fact of life in the United States.”
Isn’t the real problem that most blacks don’t have fathers and grow up feral?
The big, bigger, biggest government that African-hyphen-Americans vote for as a 95% political collective isn’t big and brutal enough ... now they want to appeal to the world government ...
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The UN? haaaaaaaaaaaaa, hoooooooooo, haaaaaaaaa.
Full employment rake off hustlers.... trying to get money from white and other guilt. Social just-us money.
The melanin content of your skin doesn’t entitle you to scream racism when you attack someone and lose.
Only a racist claims the melanin content of their skin allows them to attack with impunity.
The stupidity is staggering. Had any of these idiot gone to school they may have learned that the UN doesn’t mean squat in this country. If they want UN nannies move to Africa.
On second thought let the UN patrol their hoods and their soldiers can rape their woman like they did in Bosnia.
They should be EXTREMELY careful what they’re wishing for...if the powers that would be one day decide you’re an underclass...
They are getting their new protected class in place as we speak. Then what.
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