Has left the room!
This is not Hemingway’s Hills Like White Elephants, but a tale of the obvious left in the room – the dark horse — ugly, blatant racism.
While listening to a radio commentary this morning on the autopsy of the eighteen year old Michael Brown, I was enraged as the report was read, with two shots in the head and one in the top of the young man’s head. I had to stop and ask why, why the excessive force to subdue a potential suspect for what was originally reported as a response by the officer for two black males jay walking? Where is the dispatch recording and when was the officer made aware, after he shot the youth six times?
Publicly reported were several eye witnesses that Michael brown turned and surrenders — so why the six shots and excessively executed by a cop, a cop where they majority out rank the portion of blacks hired. Something is wrong with this picture when you have a diverse community in protest and an uproar of the blatant murder of a black male child in the Ferguson community. I mean as the mother of three black male sons — this deeply concerns me.
When does this stop? How many more black, males do we have to bury as a nation: Trayvon Martin, Jordan Davis, Darius Simmons, Eric Garner, John Crawford, and now Michael Brown. But wait, our black females are victimized as well, the one known black female Renisha McBride shot in the face when seeking help for her auto. But then there’s Marissa Alexander is unjustly and unfairly imprisoned for the same Florida-stand-your-ground law that Zimmerman got off scott free for firing a warning shot and she get’s — this is a horse of a whole entirely different color…
But my point is RACISM is still alive today in America and we are all players in this game of pitting one against the other dipped and drenched in the Willie Lynch spirit. Yes that spirit is still alive, and until we recognize what is actually going on in this country with our black, white and people of all color — PEACE will never happen unless we come together and rise up and speak out demanding fair treatment for all regardless of the color of our skin.
I end by asking, when does frontal position and raised hands in surrender warrant excessive deadly force by tax paid police officer? When?
This doesn’t end in a train station in the barren valley of Spain at Ebro River in a bar drinking beer on a hot, dry day between an American man and “Jig,” his female companion. It ends the same way it started — blood stained history oozing from our dark skin people.
Yes the White Elephants has left the room.
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White Elephants…
18 Aug 2014 Leave a comment
by oils4mylamp in Commentary, Community, Rant Tags: African American, black males, Darren Wilson, Ferguson, Jordan Davis, Michael Brown, murder, protest, racism, Rant, riot, Trayvon Martin
Has left the room!
This is not Hemingway’s Hills Like White Elephants, but a tale of the obvious left in the room – the dark horse — ugly, blatant racism.
While listening to a radio commentary this morning on the autopsy of the eighteen year old Michael Brown, I was enraged as the report was read, with two shots in the head and one in the top of the young man’s head. I had to stop and ask why, why the excessive force to subdue a potential suspect for what was originally reported as a response by the officer for two black males jay walking? Where is the dispatch recording and when was the officer made aware, after he shot the youth six times? Publicly reported were several eye witnesses that Michael brown turned and surrenders — so why the six shots and excessively executed by a cop, a cop where they majority out rank the portion of blacks hired. Something is wrong with this picture when you have a diverse community in protest and an uproar of the blatant murder of a black male child in the Ferguson community. I mean as the mother of three black male sons — this deeply concerns me.
When does this stop? How many more black, males do we have to bury as a nation: Trayvon Martin, Jordan Davis, Darius Simmons, Eric Garner, John Crawford, and now Michael Brown. But wait, our black females are victimized as well, the one known black female Renisha McBride shot in the face when seeking help for her auto. But then there’s Marissa Alexander is unjustly and unfairly imprisoned for the same Florida-stand-your-ground law that Zimmerman got off scott free for firing a warning shot and she get’s — this is a horse of a whole entirely different color…
But my point is RACISM is still alive today in America and we are all players in this game of pitting one against the other dipped and drenched in the Willie Lynch spirit. Yes that spirit is still alive, and until we recognize what is actually going on in this country with our black, white and people of all color — PEACE will never happen unless we come together and rise up and speak out demanding fair treatment for all regardless of the color of our skin.
I end by asking, when does frontal position and raised hands in surrender warrant excessive deadly force by tax paid police officer? When?
This doesn’t end in a train station in the barren valley of Spain at Ebro River in a bar drinking beer on a hot, dry day between an American man and “Jig,” his female companion. It ends the same way it started — blood stained history oozing from our dark skin people.
Yes the White Elephants has left the room.
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