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It’s one of the depressing ironies of black life that in the Obama era, black mothers and fathers must continue giving their teenage sons “the talk.” I’m not talking about the birds and the bees. I’m talking about the “how to act when the police stop you” talk. Rule 1. Don’t talk back to the officer. Rule 2. It doesn’t matter if you weren’t doing anything wrong. Rule 3. And this is critical, don’t reach for your wallet without asking the officer first. Supplemental rule. Carry a pink cell phone if you can. A black cell phone may look like a gun to a nervous cop.
Such is the ongoing reality of the tense and too often violent encounters between black men and white police officers. Of course, the vast majority of interactions between black men and white cops don’t turn violent. But the cases in which they inexplicably do are disturbing and frequent enough that learning how to deal with the cops is a rite of passage for young black men, from the ’hood to the suburbs. The recent case involving the cell phone video of a drunk, white, off-duty police officer in Erie, Pa., making crude jokes about a black murder victim and ridiculing the victim’s grieving mother, illustrates part of the problem. The insensitivity of the officer reveals how some white officers—most of whom often reside far from the black communities they patrol—devalue the lives of black men and their families. In the case of the officer in Erie, he joked that he and his partners regarded the murdered black man as just “one less drug dealer”—even though there’s no evidence that the murder victim was involved with drugs at all. The NAACP has called for the dismissal of the officer and for a more direct and comprehensive apology than the tepid one offered by the Erie Police Department.
But of even greater concern than one officer’s drunken tirade is a spate of deaths of black men at the hands of police over the past few months, in locations as diverse as Oakland, Calif., and Winnfield, La.
In Oakland, cell phone camera videotapes seemed to confirm eyewitness accounts of the shooting of Oscar Grant III, an unarmed and apparently unresistant 22-year-old black man, in the early hours of New Year’s Day. Lying on his stomach on the platform of a BART subway station platform, Grant reportedly pleaded for his life, telling the officer, “I got a 4-year-old daughter.” Grant was shot in the back and died on the scene. The incident led to weeks of unrest in Oakland.
Louisiana has turned up a pair of disturbing police killings, including that of Bernard Monroe, a 73-year-old man who was shot and killed in his front yard by police as his family looked on in horror. The local NAACP branch vice president contends that the police in Homer, La., routinely harass black residents. “People here are afraid of the police,” she concluded. In response, the Homer police chief reportedly stated that he wants young black men walking down the street “to be afraid [that] every time they see the police . . . they might get arrested.” Presumably elderly black men walking in their front yard should be similarly intimidated.
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Matua, brother, believe me, I understand your anger at the evil injustice that we often suffer at the hands of those who are sworn to "Serve And Protect", but violence isn't the answer and here's why. If there were a "revolution" in which we took up arms (which only a small fraction of us own firearms legally), then we would suffer massive casualties at the hands of those who are trained in dealing with riots. If for some reason we were able to overcome the officers, then you will have the government of the state declare an state emergency, and then the National Guard will come in, people who are trained for urban combat armed with automatic weapons. The nightmare scenario that you describe would come to pass. Taking the life of a police officer will not incur sympathy for us who speak out against injustice, it will in fact squelch any voice we have. "Do not repay evil for evil, but overcome evil with good." Romans 12: 17-21. When the police do evil, those who have the ability to get out the information to the general public should do so, let the light shine on those who balk at there oath to serve and protect. The camera phone video of the Oscar Grant III murder shows the power of those who know how to get the story out and shine light on the evil.
They say violence only begets violence. If so why are niggas the only ones dying at the hands of the ones meant to "Protect and Serve" them?
1. There can be no reconcilliation with any local, state, or national Law Enforcement Agency, so long as all blacks are only considered 2/5ths of a person. Until we are fully entitled by Constitutional Law to the remaining 3/5ths of one "Whole" White person, then there can be no equality. We still are not full First Class citizens still. We aren't Second Class citizens either. Barack Obama included.
2. This continues to be a long-withstanding problem in the community. If this gets worse, then you can only teach your children to flee, or fight and kill cops. There is no other way around it. If you break the law, prepare to inccur whatever methods the Cops deem suitable for apprehending you. If you are unarmed/or legally armed, know your rights. Be prepared to defend yourself and take a Cops life if they seek to perpetuate, unlawful , excessive force.
How many more innocent blacks have to die before the people en masse' do something to make them understand? We can not, will not, put up with that anymore.
I'm forewarning you all now, while I have a notion to do so. This next great war in this country will be a Class War. The Haves vs. The Have-Nots. And most have-nots are people of color. They will try to throw you in jail for simply, "not-having", and not adhering to the "New Order." And in this order, the powers that be will make way for this to become a "Police State." In order to remain free, you may have to kill cops who will suffer to make you a Slave again. Not I. When the Law is higher than the Law and can be twisted for all intensive puropses against the people, then it is Tyranny. Tyranny at the hands of the people put in place supposedly to protect you. Revolution at that point in time, then does not become a choice.
Y'all are way out of touch with everyday black folks. We are running out of patience with y'all.
Of course black folks give black boys "the talk"; the hood is dangerous!
You forgot some of the most important rules: Don't wear Oakland Raiders jackets. Don't wear Chicago Bulls jackets. Don't have a do-rag hanging out of your pocket. And above all, do not have a red or blue rag. As a matter of fact, don't wear red or blue at all.
What's that you say? You don't worry about red and blue? That's because y'all run off to live with the white folks where it's safe. But we can't, you know?
We live in the hood where the cops are not the problem, the bruthas are. And this foolish sympathy from hi-yella college folks who don't live it every day just chaps our @ss.
Wake up. Go read www.whataboutourdaughters.com . Read up on Brother Sharpton, NAN and the NAACP and how they parachuted in and tried to spring a crew of black gang rapists back into our neighborhood because "de white folks was discriminating on them".
We live the life every day, The last thing we want to read is a speech (obviously for the white folks benefit!) about cops that shows y'all don't know nothing about real black folks lives and who is threatening us.