Posted on 09/04/2014 7:10:13 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
They are not insurgents. They are not enemy combatants. They are not hostile enemy forces. They are not terrorists. They are our Black sons. And I beg you America to stop killing them in their own backyards, in the streets outside of nightclubs, on the phone talking to their girlfriend, and a few blocks from convenience stores from which they may or may not have stolen cigars. They do not deserve to die for such trivial incidents.
America, the young Black men you kill are our future and potential scientists and doctors, lawyers and entrepreneurs; they are our future bus drivers, train conductors, teachers, garbage men, mechanics, cable TV guys, the clerk at the neighborhood grocery stores. Whatever their roles in the future, large or small, they do not deserve to die.
It is true. Some of our Black sons are misdirected and misguided, to be sure. But doesn’t every society have those disaffected youth who may follow the path to crime and violence? A few of them may deserve to be labelled thugs and hoodlums, but this is not every Black male child born, and our country says they are innocent until proven guilty. Even the “bad apples” don’t deserve to be gunned down and die like animals in the streets.
Do we condemn every White young disaffected 21-year-old male because of Columbine; Aurora, Tucson, Fort Hood, and most recently Newtown? No. In their article, “White Men have much to discuss about mass shootings, Charlotte and Harriet Childress point out that White boys and men are often given a pass and attention turned to mental health issues, rather than the fact that disproportionately, White men have been involved in mass shooting sprees. Yet, they are not racially profiled.
You would never know it from the images of Ferguson, but this is not Iraq. We are not living in Afghanistan. This is not the Gaza Strip. This is the United States of America and Ferguson, Mo. So who gave ipso facto permission? In other words, what powers that be authorized today’s policemen, living in small town America in the heartland, to function like trained military and to treat our young Black sons as if they were terrorists and the enemy without justification or evidence?
Today’s policemen are under tremendous stress complicated by the individual backgrounds of those in uniform. The proliferation of racial profiling, the ongoing killing of young Black men point to an epidemic of violence in which White police officers (and some troubled men of color) use their uniform and their role as police officers not to protect society and its citizens but to mete out discipline to those Black male bodies they have come to associate with violence. Who turned society’s peacekeepers into judge, jury and executioners that can shoot the unarmed in the back and use petty crimes to justify their horrendous actions?
America has failed Black men because it has not lived up to its promise of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for all its citizens. America has decided that Black men’s lives are disposable, and so it has built a prison industrial complex that privately profits from mass incarceration instead of spending that money on better public schools, on salaries for teachers who believe in their students, on job training and a youth service corps for unemployed urban and rural youth, and on inner city youth programs that encourage success and courage and instill pride, loyalty and respect.
Throughout our history Black men in America have been enslaved, lynched, used as strike breakers, incarcerated for petty crimes, discouraged from having big dreams, unemployed at three times the rate of White men, hired last and laid off first, paid lower wages for the same work as White men, incarcerated longer and receiving harsher sentences for the same crimes as white men, ten times more likely to be stopped by the police for bogus reasons, stopped repeatedly and harassed for minor traffic violations, and now they are routine target practice for police who take out their own white supremacy rage, their racism and sense of vigilante justice under the guise of protecting the public.
Law enforcement or the police have never been viewed by the Black community as a source of protection. In truth, Black communities have felt the need to be protected from the very forces sworn to uphold justice. Police don’t respond to violence in Black communities with the same degree of commitment as they do to their own White communities. Too often White policemen have terrorized Black men whom they considered “uppity” through lynching and other means of regulating Black male bodies.
Lest you forget, not too far in the past it was policemen who upheld and reinforced segregation and sanctioned lynching. Lest you forget, it was policemen who occupied the highest ranks of the Ku Klux Klan and it was policemen who turned fire hoses and unleashed dogs on peaceful Black civil rights demonstrators. Why should Black America trust the police?
Even recently with Black and Latino policemen among their ranks, there is no equal justice for our Black sons. Stepping into the police uniform renders these policemen of color senseless and they adopt the crowd mentality that all Black men are suspect, suspicious, thugs, druggies, anti-authoritarian hip hoppers, and in need of police control – translation: they need to be beat down like beasts. And so they kill our Black sons.
Black men are thrown in jail for carrying small amounts of recreational drugs while White men in suburbia are sent to rehab. Police follow Black men around the streets without probable cause because they assume that all Black men are up to no good. Policemen even kill their own (a Black policeman) for firing a weapon when out of uniform because there is no such thing as a Black man with a legitimate reason for having a gun. Police routinely racially profile Black men as a group, yet have not developed a profile of the type of young White men most likely to commit mass murder at their schools.
Doing this kind of profiling might require that they look in the mirror and acknowledge that there are a lot of angry White men wearing badges who resent the legislation and changes in the country that they believe have reduced their White privilege and sense of entitlement. Many of these angry White men wear badges and may have been socialized from childhood to believe that the only good Black man is a dead one. No amount of Police Academy training can erase years of pent-up racism, White supremacy thinking, a sense of entitlement to White privilege and uncontrollable rage that it is a Black man who now holds the highest office in the country.
Today is a day of mourning. Unfortunately, Michael Brown is not the first, and he will not be the last Black son of America who dies. Michael Brown of Ferguson, Mo. has become an iconic symbol for the injustices that Black boys and men face, just as Emmett Till became almost 60 years ago. As the mother of a Black son, I weep not only for the mother of Michael Brown, I also weep for Trayvon Martin’s mother, and the mothers of all those young Black men who unjustly have fallen at the hands of America’s police. When will it stop? When will America regain its sanity as a society, and stop? Until there are answers, I will let my tears fall and mingle with those of the many Black mothers here and all over the world who have but one request: Stop killing our Black sons. Stop it. Now!
George Zimmerman’s Black Ancestry is Revealed
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2876811/posts
George Zimmerman: the black, Hispanic, Peruvian, kind-hearted non-white, not-racist poster boy
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2876692/posts
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“The orientals and those from India do not make excuses”
They also do not make violence and destruction, or screw around without marriage.
That is the crux of the matter. Start behaving civilly and you might make progress.
And your point is........................?
I’ll consider this when your culture stops raising murderous thugs with little to no social redeeming value as anything other than bullet catchers for righteous self defense actions. Now get off your high horse before you get a nosebleed.
Feed that persecution complex baby. It won’t do a thing to stop black men from killing black men, and black men from acting violent and getting themselves killed, but it will get you published, and maybe make you a leftist pop star.
Convince black men to marry black women, and raise black children, instead of breeding them and making fatherless black babies.
Encourage black children to study hard in school, and prepare themselves to do something useful in this world, bettering themselves and society.
Teach black children to forget and forgive the past, so they can make a future worth living in.
Instill a work ethic, manners and values that will make black children appreciate life and the property of others.
Teach black children to get off of the Democrat plantation, and learn how to be free of poverty pimps, rabble rousers and big government.
Do all the above, and you will save black men. Start now.
“need to be sitting in the pews every Sunday, learning how to live”
Oh, they’re VERY good at that! They even dress much better and more respectfully than whites who have gone all “comfort” hippie trash style no matter where they are.
Problem is these people seem to like “show”. Make a show of it - I quote the Bible all the time and dress nicely to church every week, but don’t really apply that anywhere else.
Maybe their church is too Calvinist - I am saved no matter what garbage I do....so why not do it? Why not do that fun stuff? As long as I say Jesus is my Savior, I can screw and steal and shoot as much as I want!
Why doesn’t she stop her Black thug sons from murdering people of other races by a huge margin. Something like 700% more than the reverse.
Yes your Black thug Sons are murdering our White Children at a tremendous rate and it gets no mention at all.
It’s a black thang-you wouldn’t understand/
He wasn’t “killed” Irma. He just had his beeber stuned.
Six times, four to get his attention, twice in the melon.
Then why aren't they fleeing there now,
I mean if white hetrosexual Christians were being slaughtered the way they claim blacks are here by police, I'd be thinking of leaving.
It cant be worse there then genocide.
Why don't they want their own homeland? (if Liberia's too far away they have Detroit as a closer homeland, we gave that to them decades ago. )
I agree with you about the toxic effect that father-less homes have had in the Black community. But, I am some old white woman in the suburbs, so I have no voice for advising them. However, it really isn't a secret that children do much better, in every category, when they are raised in a home with their own parents, who are married. But you are not allowed to say this, or anything about marriage being beneficial to all involved.
As for "rewarding" these young women for each out of wedlock child that they have; that is actually a thing of the past. I don't think they are given aid for each additional child, it is up to a certain number. I may be wrong, but I think that changed some time back. Now, you (and I) would think that it would change the behavior, and it has. Black females have far more abortions than their percentage of the population would indicate. So, they just abort the child instead of having the "state" pay for each additional child.
It really is a very sad situation; but, I have no idea how it can be fixed. Political correctness stops any honest discussion of the matter.
I don’t know anyone that’s ever been shot or robbed by a White guy. Want to talk about how many I know that can’t say that about your poor unarmed college bound black sons? I bet not huh?
I am thinking of leaving. Others here already have.
No 'white leaders' cried for Adam Lanza... or asked for 'justice' FOR Lanza. Most of us we're thrilled he was dead. There was no looting in his name. No flowers on his grave no tears shed... White people were disgusted with Lanza. And disgusted with all the other white killers. Even our MSM didn't run pictures of him when he was in high school looking innocent. No reporter looked for a cute childlike candy, book, or toy that belonged to Lanza.
These black boys would be alive today if their victims had taken their beating and not fought back. Those who make these claims are the voices of monsters who demand the right to steal, rape and beat whosomever they choose because their great grandparents were slaves.
Millions of white boys died terrible deaths to insure the freedom of slaves. Among them were my great grandparents and their sons.
It is long past time for the black community to clean itself up and get on with being responsible citizens.
This prima donna needs to get out of her ivory tower and live with the terror faced by those trying to survive in the midst of rampant crime. If she truly cared she would be changing the lives of lost childen, not guilt tripping weak minded liberals.
Paragraph 3 is even better.
Black (or any color) fathers, teach your sons the right values, man up and lead your family, and become an authority figure in their lives. Sons (and daughters) listen up and honor your parents and elders. And take personal responsibility for your lives instead of blaming others.
That’s how it was before all the hope and change of big government and it’s bureaucrats replaced the family unit in so many lives.
I would hate to see you leave here.
You really post lots of great threads here, I love the wacky lib ones.
I doubt you will find a better site to post than this one. I know the grass always seems better....
Hahahaha! You know what I meant.
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