Candice Owens, the GOP dar­ling for the moment, has offi­cial­ly resigned as com­mu­ni­ca­tions direc­tor for Turning Point USA, the right-lean­ing orga­ni­za­tion aimed at edu­cat­ing col­lege stu­dents about “free mar­kets and lim­it­ed gov­ern­ment.
By Ny Magee ‑May 7, 2019 

Candace Owens, the GOP dar­ling for the moment, has offi­cial­ly resigned as com­mu­ni­ca­tions direc­tor for Turning Point USA, the right-lean­ing orga­ni­za­tion aimed at edu­cat­ing col­lege stu­dents about “free mar­kets and lim­it­ed gov­ern­ment,” accord­ing to its web­site.
Owens announced her exit plans in a lengthy Instagram post on May 1, and her depar­ture comes amid calls from sup­port­ers and mem­bers of the orga­ni­za­tion for her to step down fol­low­ing con­tro­ver­sial com­ments she made in February about Adolf Hitler. 

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• real­can­dace­owensI am both excit­ed and sad to announce that I will be offi­cial­ly mov­ing on from my role as Communications Director for Turning Point USA. 
  Charlie and I nev­er could have pre­dict­ed how big things would get since that day I was sprint­ing around a con­fer­ence in Palm Beach try­ing to get any­one to give me a chance. 
  We couldn’t have pre­dict­ed the Kanye tweet. We couldn’t have pre­dict­ed our break­fast with Antifa. And we def­i­nite­ly couldn’t have pre­dict­ed Ted Lieu. 
  And yet here we are. 
  Turning Point is an amaz­ing orga­ni­za­tion that is fight­ing a cul­tur­al war on col­lege cam­pus­es. Watching the way in which this orga­ni­za­tion has grown has been one of the great­est hon­ors of my life. 
  We love our free­dom-fight­ing stu­dents. We love our cam­pus clash­es. I have loved every sin­gle minute of trav­el­ing the coun­try and learn­ing the real spir­it of this amaz­ing nation. 
  But the sad truth is that the major­i­ty of black Americans don’t nev­er make it to col­lege. 
  My dream has always been sim­ple— to wake up black America — To turn the lights on with­in a com­mu­ni­ty that has been used and abused by the Democrat par­ty for decades. 
  No one believed my dream was pos­si­ble. Charlie always knew it was. 
  Can we move the black vote 20 point by 2020? That is my vision and I want to pour every sin­gle minute into mak­ing my dream a real­i­ty. 
  With the #BLEXIT move­ment, the Candace Owens pod­cast, and my upcom­ing book— I no longer feel I can be a ded­i­cat­ed com­mu­ni­ca­tions direc­tor to an orga­ni­za­tion that is right­ful­ly grow­ing rapid­ly. 
  In many ways, today feels like a grad­u­a­tion! I have learned so much and want to thank all of our stu­dents, and espe­cial­ly Tyler Bowyer and Charlie Kirk for giv­ing me this amaz­ing plat­form and oppor­tu­ni­ty to do what I love most. 
  All that aside— I will of course still be speak­ing at all Turning Point con­fer­ences and will con­tin­ue to chair the annu­al Black Leadership Summit in the fall. 
  So sign up peo­ple! 
  Fittingly — on this week’s episode of the Candace Owens Show, Charlie and I will take a trip down mem­o­ry lane. Be sure to tune in! We couldn’t be more excit­ed to share this con­ver­sa­tion with the world. 

While speak­ing at a London event to launch a U.K. chap­ter of TPUSA, she argued that Hitler was an “OK” leader until he tried to take his mes­sage of geno­cide glob­al. “If Hitler just want­ed to make Germany great and have things run well, OK fine,” she saidin response to a ques­tion about nation­al­ism. “The prob­lem is he had dreams out­side of Germany. He want­ed to glob­al­ize … he want­ed every­one to be German.”After that com­ment, sev­er­al Turning Point cam­pus chap­ters fired off a let­ter call­ing for her to resign, accord­ing to The Daily Beast.“Turning Point USA is above this thought­less and divi­sive rhetoric, and as Chapters, Presidents, and Leaders of Turning Point USA, we will no longer stand idly by as they con­tin­ue,” they wrote in a state­ment. “We don’t believe Candace Owens to be the most effec­tive rep­re­sen­ta­tion for Turning Point USA, as Communications Director or oth­er­wise. Meanwhile, in her farewell post on Instagram, Owens describes TPUSA as an “amaz­ing” group that’s fight­ing a so-called “cul­tur­al war on col­lege campuses.”She also notes both her excite­ment and sor­row over “offi­cial­ly mov­ing on from my role as Communications Director for Turning Point USA.” In many ways, today feels like a grad­u­a­tion!” Owens added.

The FOX News con­trib­u­tor said she still plans to appear at future con­fer­ences for the con­ser­v­a­tive non­prof­it orga­ni­za­tion and will con­tin­ue to chair the annu­al Black LeadershipSummit. But her focus will now be on push­ing her “Blexit” move­ment, a plat­form she uses to con­vince more Black vot­ers to join the Republican party.“My dream has always been sim­ple— to wake up black America — To turn the lights on with­in a com­mu­ni­ty that has been used and abused by the Democrat par­ty for decades,” she wrote in her Instagram post.
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Kevin Sneed of Prince George’s County, Maryland was pulled over for a bro­ken tail­light. He end­ed up with an attempt­ed mur­der charge. But after a two-year bat­tle, and with help from advo­ca­cy groups Life After Release, and Black Lives Matter DC, Mr. Sneed can con­tin­ue being a free man. Sometimes the jus­tice sys­tem gets it right.
According to NBC Washington 4 the offi­cer on duty wrote in his report that there was a “rob­bery in the imme­di­ate vicin­i­ty the pre­vi­ous night.” The offi­cer claimed Sneed accel­er­at­ed when the offi­cer tried to pull him over for the bro­ken tail­light and feared Sneed might’ve had a gun on him because black man + attempt­ed rob­bery the night before = this black man must be the rob­ber from last night, armed, and dan­ger­ous. Of course, Sneed was sim­ply Driving While Black. While full details haven’t yet been report­ed, we know that the offi­cer jumped into the driver’s side win­dow imme­di­ate­ly after Sneed stopped his car.

After search­ing the vehi­cle, no guns or drugs were found in Sneed’s pos­ses­sion. Sneed was left bruised; beat­en by the arrest­ing cop. Yet Sneed was charged with attempt­ed mur­der of an offi­cer. “They told me no bond and they told me what I was actu­al­ly charged with,” Sneed told NBC. “I said, ‘Just let me go to my cell.’” Understandably, the two-year bat­tle that ensued took an emo­tion­al and psy­cho­log­i­cal toll on Sneed, who main­tained his inno­cence through­out the mat­ter. “He felt like he didn’t even want to live,” said his moth­er, Kema Harris. Prince George’s County State’s Attorney Aisha Braveboy said she inher­it­ed the case from the pre­vi­ous state’s attor­ney. Her office deter­mined the case had mer­it, and decid­ed to pros­e­cute, but with the reduced charges of sec­ond-degree assault and dis­or­der­ly con­duct rather than attempt­ed mur­der. Sneed was offered a tempt­ing plea deal: no jail time if he’d admit guilt to these less­er charges.
“At the end of the day,” Sneed said, “I would be a fool to take it and then they play with my life.” Sneed knew the his­to­ry of cor­rupt jus­tice sys­tems that loom over both the inno­cent and the guilty. Many times peo­ple who can’t afford to mount a prop­er legal defense end up tak­ing plea deals for crimes they’re inno­cent of, then face reper­cus­sions that fol­low them for a life­time. Sneed and his moth­er even­tu­al­ly got help from the activist group Life After Release, which in turn involved Black Lives Matter DC to assist in retain­ing a new legal defense team.
“We were able to get a Black Lives Matter sup­port fund for Kevin’s defense and get him away from pub­lic defend­ers who didn’t have his best inter­est,” Black Lives Matter Core Organizer Née Née Taylor said to NBC. After a two-day tri­al, a jury found Sneed not guilty on all charges Wednesday, a vic­to­ry that Kevin Sneed does not take light­ly. “If you did not do any­thing wrong, fight for your life,” Mr. Sneed declared.

Correction: 5/​5/​19, 1:37 p.m. ET:

Following ini­tial reports, one of Mr. Sneed’s lawyers, Brandon Burrell, con­tact­ed The Root to dis­pute claims quot­ed by Prince George’s County State’s Attorney Aisha Braveboy to NBC Washington 4. Burrell also gave addi­tion­al infor­ma­tion prov­ing the cor­rup­tion of the case itself, as a gun was plant­ed by police in attempt to fur­ther frame Mr. Sneed. Burrell clarifies:

It is inac­cu­rate that the pros­e­cu­tor “reduced” any of the charges. The grand jury didn’t find prob­a­ble cause of attempt­ed first-degree mur­der, so after the indict­ment, his charges were first-degree assault, sec­ond-degree assault, resist­ing arrest, dis­or­der­ly con­duct, gun charges, and var­i­ous traf­fic cita­tions. The appear­ance of a gun a week after his arrest, and after he was searched was incred­i­bly sus­pi­cious. The gun was also found in the back­seat of the cruis­er, but Sneed was placed in the front seat of the cruis­er. The pros­e­cu­tor had no choice but to dis­miss the charges relat­ed to the gun the first day of tri­al, because of the indi­cia that it was plant­ed by the police. When the tri­al began Sneed was then tried on first-degree assault, sec­ond-degree assault, resist­ing arrest, and dis­or­der­ly con­duct. It was clear dur­ing the tes­ti­mo­ny of the ini­tial offi­cer that Sneed was racial­ly pro­filed. One of the rea­sons for the stop was because of a rob­bery the night before in that loca­tion, but there was absolute­ly no cor­re­la­tion to that and Mr. Sneed. The offi­cer wasn’t even involved in the rob­bery investigation.

This sto­ry orig­i­nat­ed @ the root​.com

Rape is a crime of deprav­i­ty which not only destroys the vic­tim’s body, it touch­es the soul. There should be no sup­port for those who know­ing­ly and will­ful­ly force them­selves sex­u­al­ly on anoth­er human being against that per­son­’s will.
At the same time, police, pros­e­cu­tors and the crim­i­nal jus­tice sys­tem should do the utmost in due dili­gence, to ensure that those arrest­ed, pros­e­cut­ed and jailed are indeed guilty of the crimes they are alleged to have com­mit­ted.
It does soci­ety no good, if men are sent to prison because of vin­dic­tive women who had hurt feel­ings and cry rape to pun­ish the man

I recent­ly wrote that Legislation will not fix the insti­tu­tion­al­ized racism in America because those who are enforc­ing the laws are hell-bent on main­tain­ing the insti­tu­tion of white suprema­cy and white priv­i­lege to ben­e­fit them­selves.
Legislation will not fix how police enforce laws, when the offi­cers have no respect for a cer­tain seg­ment of the soci­ety and see them as dis­pos­able.
Legislation will not fix the prob­lem of Prosecutors who refuse to hon­or their oaths and pros­e­cute killer cops who vicious­ly exter­mi­nate peo­ple they hate under the col­or of law.
The laws are
As impor­tant as it is to have good laws, is if judges dis­pro­por­tion­ate­ly send Black and Brown peo­ple to prison for long stretch­es then give whites tiny taps of the wrist for the very same offense how can there be respect for the rule of law or the admin­is­tra­tors of that system?

Bill Cosby an eighty-some­thing-year-old Black man is in prison for alleged sex­u­al assaults com­mit­ted years ago, out­side the stip­u­lat­ed statute of lim­i­ta­tions.
R&B singer Robert Kelly (R Kelly), is on a mil­lion dol­lar bond for sex­u­al assault, yet a white Shane Piche, 25, white male, was sen­tenced to 10 years pro­ba­tion and must reg­is­ter as a sex offend­er — but escaped time behind bars due to the fact that he had no pre­vi­ous arrests, accord­ing to the Watertown Daily Times.
Judge James P. McClusky said pro­ba­tion was an appro­pri­ate sen­tence because Piche had no pri­or arrests and only had one vic­tim.
Police said that Piche met the girl while on the job as a bus dri­ver and had sex with her at his apart­ment in Jefferson County.
So accord­ing to this retard­ed Judge rape and its atten­dant pun­ish­ment, is premised on the num­ber of vic­tims the rapist destroys, not on the das­tard­ly act itself.

This is in the sup­posed lib­er­al state of New York though upstate in the sticks of the Watertown region.
While these atro­cious dis­par­i­ties are hap­pen­ing in enforce­ment, pros­e­cu­tion, con­vic­tion and sen­tenc­ing, Black peo­ple are going to prison for a year for smok­ing mar­i­jua­na and or dri­ving under the influ­ence and hav­ing their dri­ving priv­i­leges yanked.
The bla­tant dis­re­gard for any sem­blance of pros­per­i­ty as it relates to how the nation’s laws are applied is evi­denced in plain sight.
The rich and pow­er­ful and even those who are not rich and pow­er­ful but have white skin, are exempt from the puni­tive com­po­nent of the laws and in some case aren’t even pros­e­cut­ed for their crimes. 

Wait just a minute here, Black peo­ple con­tin­ue to be in a stu­por even as these bla­tant dis­par­i­ties in the jus­tice sys­tem are hap­pen­ing in front their eyes and they are doing noth­ing about it.
A white cop who mur­ders a Black per­son can­not get con­vict­ed in any court in America.
A Hispanic cop who mur­ders a black per­son in America is very like­ly to get away with it. A Black cop who mur­ders a Black cit­i­zen should expect no pro­tec­tion from those who pro­tect cops, he will face the full force of the sys­tem and his con­vic­tion will be used to make the argu­ment that cops are not above the laws.
But if a Black cop kills a white per­son even under the best of cir­cum­stance he should ensure that he puts his house in order because he is going to prison. They won’t even allow you to go home to get ready for sen­tenc­ing you will be in cus­tody the very day of the ver­dict.
There is no pro­tec­tion for a black police offi­cer who takes the life of a white American.

A black for­mer Minneapolis police offi­cer who gunned down an unarmed white woman was con­vict­ed of third-degree mur­der Tuesday (April 30), spark­ing debate over racial injus­tice involv­ing police shoot­ings. Mohamed Noor became the first police offi­cer in Minnesota to be con­vict­ed of an on-duty mur­der.
According to the Associated Press, a diverse jury con­vict­ed Noor of third-degree mur­der and manslaugh­ter, but acquit­ted him of inten­tion­al sec­ond-degree mur­der, for the 2017 fatal shoot­ing of Justine Ruszczyk Damond.
Damond, a 40-year-old dual cit­i­zen of the U.S. and Australia, was shot to death after she called 911 to report a rape in the alley behind her house. Noor, a 33-year-old Muslim immi­grant from Somalia, was a two-year vet­er­an of the force at the time of the shoot­ing. He was fired from the Minneapolis Police Department after being charged for killing Damond.
Of the night in ques­tion, Noor tes­ti­fied that he and his part­ner, Matthew Harrity, were in their squad car when they heard a loud noise in the alley. Damond lat­er appeared and banged on Harrity’s win­dow. Noor alleged that he heard Harrity yell “Oh Jesus!” as he attempt­ed to pull out his firearm.
Noor went on to claim that he shot and killed Damond to “stop the threat and save my partner’s life.” Both offi­cers had their body cam­eras turned off dur­ing the shoot­ing but turned them on after the fact.
The jury ver­dict, hand­ed down after two days of delib­er­a­tions, rais­es ques­tions about Philando Castile’s mur­der dur­ing a 2016 traf­fic stop. Castile, a 32-year-old Minnesota school cafe­te­ria work­er, was shot and killed by St. Anthony police offi­cer, Jeronimo Yanez, while reach­ing for his license and reg­is­tra­tion as the offi­cer request­ed.
Castile was licensed to car­ry a weapon and informed the offi­cer that he had a firearm. Yanez then pulled out his gun and began shoot­ing Castile, as his girl­friend and her 4‑year-old daugh­ter sat in the car. Yanez claimed he feared for his life and was acquit­ted of two counts of sec­ond-degree manslaugh­ter. A dozen peo­ple were killed by Minnesota cops in 2018, per the Washington Post’s nation­al data­base. The state has also come under fire for its lack of trans­paren­cy in police-involved shoot­ings.
Noor was tak­en into cus­tody imme­di­ate­ly after the ver­dict, despite his attor­ney request­ing that he remain free until sen­tenc­ing on June 7. He could spend up to 16 years in prison for both con­vic­tions.
After express­ing con­do­lences to the vic­tim’s fam­i­ly, the Somali American Police Association released a state­ment not­ing that the “aggres­sive” pros­e­cu­tion proves under­ly­ing motives.
“The dev­as­tat­ing cir­cum­stances sur­round­ing this case have made a sub­stan­tial impact on both Ruszczyk’s and Officer Mohamed Noor’s fam­i­lies,” the state­ment reads.
“Officer Noor is the first police offi­cer in Minnesota’s his­to­ry to be con­vict­ed of mur­der while in the line of duty. SAPA believes the insti­tu­tion­al prej­u­dices against peo­ple of col­or, includ­ing offi­cers of col­or, have heav­i­ly influ­enced the ver­dict of this case. The aggres­sive man­ner in which the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office went after Officer Noor reveals that there were oth­er motives at play oth­er than serv­ing jus­tice.”
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“Jews, will not, replace us, Jews will not replace us.“
They chant­ed as they marched, what seemed like hun­dreds of them. To many, this seemed sur­re­al; where did they come from.
They chant­ed anti-Black invec­tive as well. They came to make a state­ment because of the removal of Confederate stat­ues, which remind­ed African-Americans and decent peo­ple of con­science of a peri­od the nation should soon want to for­get.
Before it was all over, a white suprema­cist rammed his car into a group of anti-hate demon­stra­tors, and Heather Heyer, a young white woman, was dead, and sev­er­al oth­ers were injured.

Where, you ask, do these hate­mon­gers come from? Their faces seemed fresh but con­tort­ed in hatred. They were young, and they seemed like the boy next door.
They are the boy next door. Most black peo­ple are not inner-city dwellers; in fact, most African Americans live above the pover­ty line and out­side of the inner cities.
So yes, they are the boys next door, and they are filled with the hate their par­ents taught them.
According to the Atlantic, Elizabeth Kneebone, a fel­low at the Metropolitan Policy Program at the Brookings Institution, looked at num­bers from the 2010 to 2014 American Community Survey and found that 39 per­cent of African Americans live in the sub­urbs, 36 per­cent live in cities, 15 per­cent live in small met­ro­pol­i­tan areas.

So for African-Americans, these hate­ful crea­tures are not from some­place far away; they live right next door. And so you won­der to your­self, “I thought we were past this?
The rise of Barack Obama to the pres­i­den­cy cre­at­ed a back­lash of epic pro­por­tion. We wit­nessed a dra­mat­ic increase in white right-wing mili­tias, and a steady rise in anti­semitism. We also wit­nessed an unprece­dent­ed increase in threats made against President Obama, the likes of which had nev­er been seen before for any oth­er pres­i­dent.
Police depart­ments have been infil­trat­ed by white suprema­cists groups as report­ed by the Federal Bureau of Investigations, and a gen­er­al across the board sense of hos­til­i­ty com­ing from the polit­i­cal right.
There has been a mad rush to pur­chase weapons in unprece­dent­ed amounts in addi­tion to all of that. Today there are more guns in the hands of Americans who love them than there are people.

According to CNN, there is no coun­try­wide data­base where peo­ple reg­is­ter whether they own guns (the law does­n’t allow it). High-qual­i­ty tele­phone polls from Gallup and the Pew Research Center in 2017 found that 42% of peo­ple in the US live in house­holds with guns. According to the General Social Survey, which has a much high­er response rate than tele­phone polls and inter­views peo­ple in per­son, a rel­a­tive­ly low­er 32% of Americans said in 2016 that they lived in a house­hold with guns.
The Washington Post said, dif­fer­ent nation­al polls tend to show slight­ly dif­fer­ent rates of gun own­er­ship. The lat­est house­hold gun own­er­ship rate in the General Social Survey, in 2014, was 32 per­cent. The October 2015 Gallup sur­vey showed a high­er rate of 43 per­cent, includ­ing guns kept on prop­er­ty out­side the home.
We can extrap­o­late from the report­ing of those two orga­ni­za­tions that gun own­er­ship seems to be cen­tered between a third to forty-three per­cent of the pop­u­la­tion.
This means, there are over (320, 000,000.00 ) guns in the hands of rough­ly one hun­dred and sev­en mil­lion peo­ple.
Those peo­ple are gen­er­al­ly white, and con­ser­v­a­tive, make no mis­take about it.

With all of the fore­gone, we haven’t even begun to scratch the sur­face of the threat while nation­al­ism pos­es to Americans of all col­or.
It is impor­tant to remem­ber that when they kill those opposed to them, they do not dis­tin­guish between black, brown, or white. Heather Heyer was a young white woman. The Jewish peo­ple who were attacked in their California place of wor­ship two days ago are white. The Jewish wor­shipers in Pennsylvania were white.
Most schools shoot­ing vic­tims are white, even as the per­pe­tra­tors are over­whelm­ing­ly white and influ­enced by white nation­al­ism.
Americans are not safe even in wor­ship places, be they Blacks as in Mother Emanuel Church in Charleston, South Carolina or Jews In California, and the threat can­not be ignored.
In recent weeks there Black Churches were burned with­in quick suc­ces­sion of each oth­er in Louisiana.
I wrote at the time, that as author­i­ties quib­ble over whether the cas­es were linked, those of us who are pay­ing atten­tion rec­og­nized that the rea­son hard­ly any­one is ever held account­able for these heinous crimes, is that some law enforce­ment offi­cers are either respon­si­ble, or they know who the cul­prits are.
In the fifties and six­ties, the kid­nap­pings and mur­der of blacks in the south were large­ly done with the full knowl­edge and coöper­a­tion of cops.
Two days lat­er, we learned that the son of a local Sheriff was arrest­ed for the crimes.

Authorities appre­hend­ed Holden Matthews, 21, in St. Landry Parrish, Louisiana, after they iden­ti­fied him as the sus­pect in alleged­ly set­ting the fires over a span of 10 days. 
Now, to deflect from the seri­ous­ness of the crimes and the hate­ful nature of his actions that pre­cip­i­tat­ed the fires, Matthews was quick­ly charged with sim­ple Arson, and they began cir­cu­lat­ing a nar­ra­tive that he was asso­ci­at­ed with Black met­al, a dis­tant genre of dev­il-wor­ship­ping death met­al music. Black met­al has roots in the Norwegian heavy met­al scene that report­ed­ly was the inspi­ra­tion for sev­er­al church burn­ings in the ear­ly 1990s.
A clever though trans­par­ent attempt to ensure that this mon­ster is not giv­en the full extent of the law as he should for a hate crime of this nature. 

In many cas­es, law enforce­ment and crim­i­nal arson­ists are indis­tin­guish­able.
None of the fore­gone begun on Donald Trump’s watch, but it has darn sure thrived and grown under his nur­tur­ing, except of course, if it is a case in which a Muslim per­son is a per­pe­tra­tor of a vio­lent, vio­lent act. Then every­one gets to talk­ing about ter­ror­ism.
Donald Trump’s wrath is reserved sole­ly for those who com­mit acts of vio­lence against white peo­ple, worse if they are immi­grants.
Otherwise, they are won­der­ful people.

The sleigh of hand which allows the con­tin­u­a­tion and growth of white suprema­cy in America are so insti­tu­tion­al­ized that leg­is­la­tion can­not remove it.
That is not to say that leg­is­la­tion and vig­i­lance will not reduce inci­dences of bla­tant racism, and increase the con­se­quences of it. There will have to be a com­plete and total uproot­ing of the sys­tem which feeds this can­cer­ous enig­ma, which keeps a seg­ment of the pop­u­la­tion in per­pet­u­al stress.

What do I mean?
Well, let us take the seat-belt law for exam­ple. A good law which saves lives in instances of auto crash­es. Or Cell-phone laws which makes it an offense to use a cell­phone while oper­at­ing an auto­mo­bile.
Seems rea­son­able that those laws would be enforced by police right?
If you have a dis­cus­sion with white peo­ple about this they would tell you “Oh, of course, the laws are there for a pur­pose, peo­ple must learn to obey the laws.“
Sure we know they are sanc­ti­mo­nious and hyp­o­crit­i­cal in their self-right­eous­ness, and they can afford to be, white priv­i­lege gives them that latitude. 

So if you take a clos­er look at the real aspect of it, which is the enforce­ment, you will walk away with a knot in your stom­ach from the anger you devel­op as a result of their hypocrisy.
If enforce­ment is con­cen­trat­ed in high-den­si­ty areas in which peo­ple of col­or, large­ly black peo­ple live, who do you think will be impact­ed by that enforce­ment?
Now, do you under­stand why white peo­ple are so arro­gant when it comes to law enforce­ment?
The fact is that by and large, enforce­ment is done in black neigh­bor­hoods by white police, while white men and women dri­ve around with­out seat­belt on and on their cell phones.
They sit at traf­fic lights tex­ting on their devices caus­ing our time spent at traf­fic lights to be on the increase.
Enforcement of American laws is done around American cities. American cities are heav­i­ly pop­u­lat­ed with Black and brown peo­ple.
So when they talk about mar­i­jua­na arrests the faces you see are going to be black faces.
When you talk about drunk dri­ving, you will see black faces. Not that blacks con­sume more alco­hol or pot than their white coun­ter­parts, in fact, they actu­al­ly con­sume less accord­ing to research after research.
Blacks have sim­ply borne the brunt of enforce­ment of all kinds in America since Reconstruction. These enforce­ment strate­gies are not acci­den­tal they are intentional.

Police pull over or even stop a black man in the streets and imme­di­ate­ly they go to the go-to ques­tion, “Do you have ID on you”?
In most cas­es, they have no author­i­ty to demand Identification from the per­son with whom they are inter­act­ing.
Some states do have laws which make it manda­to­ry to pro­duce Identification on demand to police. Other states, like New York and some oth­ers, make pro­duc­ing Identification to law enforce­ment manda­to­ry, only if one is oper­at­ing a motor vehi­cle.
Again, to the white pop­u­la­tion, this is noth­ing out of the ordi­nary, to them, it’s sim­ple, “if you have noth­ing to hide why not just show ID?
Never mind that the request may have come from law enforce­ment in a state in which they are not enti­tled to see ID on demand.
Or that they would make no such demand of a white male in those states.

In order to under­stand the per­spec­tive of the black expe­ri­ences in these sit­u­a­tions, one has to under­stand the gen­e­sis of polic­ing in America.
According to [www​.snopes​.com] In 1704, the colony of Carolina devel­oped the fledg­ling United States’ first slave patrol. The patrol con­sist­ed of rov­ing bands of armed white cit­i­zens who would stop, ques­tion, and pun­ish slaves caught with­out a per­mit to trav­el. They were civ­il orga­ni­za­tions, con­trolled and main­tained by coun­ty courts. The way the patrols were orga­nized and main­tained pro­vid­ed a lat­er frame­work for pre­ven­tive (rather than reac­tive) com­mu­ni­ty polic­ing, par­tic­u­lar­ly in the South: 
It is in that con­text that African-Americans con­tin­ue to see police today.
It is in the same con­text that police con­tin­ue to oper­ate and treat peo­ple of col­or today as if the slave patrol days are not over.
And so, that begs the ques­tion, “are the days of the slave patrols over in American law enforce­ment?
If so why have American police con­tin­ue to vio­late the rights of black and brown cit­i­zens with impuni­ty?
If the days of slave patrols are over why do munic­i­pal­i­ties still con­tin­ue to pass ordi­nances which empow­er police to fur­ther vio­late the rights of black cit­i­zens, know­ing full well that white cit­i­zens are not going to be sub­ject to the same enforce­ment tech­niques as blacks are?
Nevertheless, it gives white peo­ple the abil­i­ty to pompous­ly posit as if they are law-abid­ing cit­i­zens, when in fact they are large­ly exempt from many enforce­ment to which blacks are subjected. 

In the New York city in which my busi­ness-place is sit­u­at­ed, I am smack dab on the bor­der between the town in which I live and the city in which I do busi­ness.
The city cops are pret­ty laid back and get along with the cit­i­zens who are large­ly Black and Mexicans despite some com­plaints here and there.
On the oth­er hand, the town cops which are almost 100% white pret­ty much [uses the main Artery which runs through parts of the town into the heart of the city as birds view a feed­ing tree]..
Black and Brown’s peo­ple are tar­get­ed and pulled over by town cops as they tra­verse the lit­tle strip of road­way through the town into the city.
The Town’s traf­fic court is a ver­i­ta­ble mon­ey pit, filled with large­ly black peo­ple, even though the Town is large­ly white.
That kind of dis­pro­por­tion­ate and tar­get­ed enforce­ment lit­er­al­ly holds up and rob black cit­i­zens and give the pro­ceeds to white cops in the form of lucra­tive salaries and ben­e­fits.
White Americans are silent to these insti­tu­tion­al­ized trav­es­ties because it not only excludes them it empow­ers and enrich­es them.
They make the laws and even though you may think the laws are there for every­one if you aren’t pay­ing atten­tion, it real­ly isn’t about the laws them­selves.
It is always about the dis­pro­por­tion­ate enforce­ment and over-polic­ing of black cit­i­zens than it is about the laws them­selves.
That has been the way America does busi­ness from its incep­tion that is how it does busi­ness today. 

I had a long moment of reflec­tion at the per­va­sive hypocrisy entrenched in the American body politic at a report com­ing from our friends over at the (Huffington post​.com) today.
In an Article titled [Twitter’s Jack Dorsey Told Ilhan Omar He Won’t Take Down Trump’s Tweet Targeting Her], HuffPost report­ed that Jack Dorsey the prin­ci­pal own­er of Twitter told Muslim Congresswoman Ilhan Omar in a tele­phone con­ver­sa­tion that he would not be tak­ing down the tweets Donald Trump made tar­get­ing her, result­ing in a wave of death threats against her.
According to the report, the CEO called the con­gress­woman to say a Trump tweet mis­char­ac­ter­iz­ing her com­ments about ⁹⁄₁₁ doesn’t break Twitter rules. 

Now before we try to process this it is impor­tant to remem­ber that of all the social media plat­forms, Twitter prob­a­bly has the most strin­gent rules.
A large seg­ment of Twitter users has had their accounts sus­pend­ed for dubi­ous and ques­tion­able rea­sons.
I have had my Twitter sus­pend­ed twice. I can­not even recall what rea­son they gave for the first (7) day sus­pen­sion and the sec­ond one was because I referred to an African-American man I was upset with as (Negro).
By the time the sec­ond sus­pen­sion came around, I was so turned off from the hypocrisy that I can­not tell you how long it last­ed, but it was less than a month.
By the time I received a noti­fi­ca­tion (wel­come back) I was so turned off that I had already tak­en the deci­sion to delete my account which I did.

Now, remem­ber that it was only on Tuesday, April 23^rd that Donald Trump sum­moned Twitter’s Jack Dorsey to the White House.
According to the Washington Post, Trump sum­moned Dorsey to com­plain that social media plat­forms are work­ing to sti­fle con­ser­v­a­tive voic­es. A charge the com­pa­nies deny.
Trump accused Twitter of play­ing “polit­i­cal games” and tam­per­ing with his near­ly 60 mil­lion fol­low­ers.
Trump con­tin­ues to attack the tech indus­try, threat­en­ing to reg­u­late Facebook, Google, and Twitter out of con­cern that they cen­sor con­ser­v­a­tives online — an alle­ga­tion those com­pa­nies fierce­ly deny. 
In an effort to head off the dis­qui­et of some Twitter employ­ees, the Washinton Post reports Dorsey wrote a memo to them.
“Some of you will be very sup­port­ive of our meet­ing the pres­i­dent, and some of you might feel we shouldn’t take this meet­ing at all,” Dorsey said in an e‑mail obtained by the Post. “In the end, I believe it’s impor­tant to meet heads of state in order to lis­ten, share our prin­ci­ples and our ideas.” 
Dorsey nev­er denies that he applies a dif­fer­ent set of stan­dards for pub­lic offi­cials when chal­lenged with the hypocrisy of Twitter.

Twitter has long main­tained that it applies a dif­fer­ent stan­dard to promi­nent pub­lic fig­ures, giv­en that their com­ments — even offen­sive ones — remain in the pub­lic inter­est the Post reports.

There is no shock in the response of Dorsey to Congresswoman Omar. The mere fact that Dorsey was sum­moned to a meet­ing with Trump, must be seen as threat­en­ing and intim­i­dat­ing, to say the least.
After all the occu­pant of that house, a deranged crea­ture has the full pow­er of the American Government behind him and count­less mind­less min­ions who are will­ing to do any­thing, includ­ing com­mit mur­der.
Most impor­tant­ly though, we now under­stand that sep­a­rate but equal is still the law, from the response of Jack Dorsey. His prin­ci­ples apply only to the aver­age peo­ple of char­ac­ter, not the pow­er­ful deranged crim­i­nals in posi­tions of power. 

I want to you to imag­ine that a so-called President of the United States would call in the leader of a tech-com­pa­ny to bitch about the fluc­tu­a­tions in his Twitter fol­low­ing? Just con­tem­plate that for a sec­ond and then ask your­selves whether this per­son is fit for the office he holds?
Even as you con­tem­plate that it bears men­tion­ing that the fact that his tweets are endan­ger­ing the life of a sit­ting mem­ber of the United States Congress and has not been removed says all you need to know about Donald Trump and the wimp Jack Dorsey.

If pop­u­lar, rich and influ­en­tial peo­ple were exempt from the rule of law, only the poor­er peo­ple with no con­nec­tions to jus­tice and pow­er would be sub­ject to the rule of law.
I want you to think about that for a moment.
Why?
Because, to a large extent that is exact­ly where we are. Donald Trump com­mit­ted all kinds of crimes against his peo­ple who call him pres­i­dent, yet he will suf­fer no real con­se­quences for his role in solic­it­ing and con­spir­ing with Russian coun­ter­in­tel­li­gence in swing­ing the elec­tions his way.
It is not that Robert Muller the Republican Prosecutor has­n’t found evi­dence that Trump com­mit­ted crimes, not just in con­spir­a­cy but in obstruc­tion of jus­tice.
The fact remains, that counter to the American Constitution, the Justice Department’s Decision that a sit­ting President can­not be indict­ed, effec­tive­ly places Presidents above the law.
Donald Trump by virtue of the high office he holds, though ill-got­ten, will nev­er face justice.

But this isn’t about the hypocrisy of the American Justice sys­tem which tar­gets poor African-American peo­ple with dra­con­ian enforce­ment strate­gies while ignor­ing the crimes of the pow­er­ful, wealthy and well con­nect­ed.
It is about us Jamaicans, reg­u­lar peo­ple, who clam­or for and sup­port blind­ly, con­vict­ed drug deal­ers, mur­der­ers, and rapists.
Deep in those ten­den­cies, we con­vinced our­selves that we are jus­ti­fied, because those crim­i­nals we love have had their rights abro­gat­ed, our elites and our pol­i­cy­mak­ers believe it, and so the impres­sion­able peo­ple end up believ­ing it.
We have a his­to­ry of emu­lat­ing the wrong peo­ple, lion­iz­ing and can­on­iz­ing peo­ple who are pop­u­lar and peo­ple who have com­mit­ted seri­ous crimes, (not just some­one who was bust­ed with two sticks of weed), but those whose hands are drip­ping with the inno­cent blood of their coun­try­men.
I would like to see real­ly clear lines of demar­ca­tion in how we view these peo­ple.
Adijah Palmer is a con­vict­ed mur­der­er, [a con­vict­ed mur­der­er], let that sink in, yet he is one of the most pop­u­lar peo­ple in the coun­try.
What does that say about the peo­ple in our coun­try? What does that say about our moral com­pass?
What kind of coun­try are we cre­at­ing in which mur­der­ers are allowed to cre­ate music and enjoy the fruits of their labor after tak­ing the life of oth­ers?
What then do we expect the youth to emu­late, our decent hard work­ing pub­lic ser­vants or the mis­guid­ed gang­sters who are able to put some mur­der lyrics togeth­er?
On today, the day we are told was the day of Christ’s res­ur­rec­tion, the Jamaican peo­ple con­tin­ue to say “give us Barabas”.

Mark Myrie, (Buju Banton) a con­vict­ed felon returned to Jamaica to a wel­come befit­ting a nation­al hero.
No one both­ered to stop for a minute and think that this guy just walked out of Federal prison in the United States for deal­ing dope.
It mat­tered not that he was bust­ed mak­ing the deal.
If soci­eties are able to stop crimes before they are com­mit­ted, ain’t that good for stop­ping mur­ders rapes, and the addic­tion of our youth to dan­ger­ous drugs?
And now, Myrie cries foul that his hotel room was searched by Trinidadian author­i­ties after enter­ing that coun­try to per­form, hav­ing left an American Prison.
This writer can­not and will not con­done dis­crim­i­na­tion or abus­es of any­one’s human rights, but I am a firm believ­er in the rule of law.
Being allowed into a coun­try, (not your own) is a priv­i­lege, not a right, as some of our mis­in­formed are apt to believe.
No, being a CARICOM mem­ber state, does not give Jamaicans rights which super­sedes the Trinidadian con­sti­tu­tion, or any oth­er CARICOM mem­ber state for that mat­ter.
So when you enter their coun­try, you are sub­ject and dif­fer­en­tial to their laws, as they are to ours.
Mark Myrie can play the vic­tim if he choos­es to, and he is, because there are more than enough peo­ple will­ing to sac­ri­fice com­mon sense, decen­cy, and dig­ni­ty on the idol­a­trous altar of hero wor­ship.
The truth is that he is not the sec­ond com­ing of Jesus Christ, none of his shows are events designed to save human­i­ty.
They are events designed to make mon­ey for, and pro­mote his brand, noth­ing more noth­ing less.

Whether the search of Myrie’s hotel room is legit or not is not the issue.
If he believes that his rights were abridged he has rem­e­dy in the courts.
The fact of the mat­ter is that we con­tin­ue to delude our­selves into think­ing that oth­er peo­ple in the Caribbean hate us because we have mag­nif­i­cent track stars, reg­gae music, and some good Ganja.
Me, I am a lot more skep­ti­cal, I am old enough to remem­ber when every Caribbean nation­al would tell for­eign­ers they were from Jamaica.
They did so because they respect­ed us, they emu­lat­ed us, they looked up to us.
That hyper­bol­ic self-delud­ing non­sense that we feed our­selves, that they hate us because of our accom­plish­ments only fur­ther deep­ens the pit from which we will need to dig our­selves.
The truth is that they stop emu­lat­ing us when we stopped respect­ing our­selves. We can con­tin­ue with the delu­sion­al non­sense, or we can ask our­selves why is it that we are three times more like­ly to kill each oth­er as Jamaicans, than are the peo­ple in Latin America and the rest of the Caribbean, the most vio­lent region on plan­et earth?
They stopped want­i­ng to be us when we demon­strat­ed that we no longer val­ued the lives of our own.
They became afraid of us when we demon­strat­ed that we did not care who we slaugh­tered. Not only have we killed in our coun­try we have export­ed our degen­er­a­cy to their shores.
We will nev­er be respect­ed when we open­ly demon­strate that we do not respect our­selves.
This is not just a Jamaican prob­lem it is a black prob­lem which has had dev­as­tat­ing con­se­quences for black peo­ple also in America and across the globe.
When we deval­ue our own lives, we have no right demand­ing that oth­ers respect or val­ue our lives.

A ground­break­ing Netflix Documentary on the United States Federal Government’s war on Drugs, and the con­se­quences this war has had in the destruc­tion of mil­lions of lives. Disproportionately in the black com­mu­ni­ty.
Regardless of your feel­ings about law and order, regard­less of what you have been led to believe through the mas­sive indoc­tri­na­tion cam­paign waged by the American Government, this Documentary is bound to shock you into what’s wrong about what you may have believed.
The shock­ing real­i­ty is that tens of thou­sands of lives have been caught up in this igno­ble war, many have been utter­ly destroyed while count­less oth­ers (main­ly-black) have been robbed of the glo­ri­ous future they were des­tined for.
Through mass incar­cer­a­tion, mass depor­ta­tion, and mass den­i­gra­tion the American Government man­aged to wage war on a race of peo­ple under the guise that its war was a war on drugs.
In this race war, peo­ple were ille­gal­ly arrest­ed for being in the wrong place at the wrong time, count­less peo­ple had weed plant­ed on them while police were allowed to fab­ri­cate evi­dence all to beef up the incar­cer­a­tion rates and the depor­ta­tion of peo­ple they did not like.
Today not much has changed, police still con­tin­ue to arrest young black men for mere­ly hav­ing the smell of mar­i­jua­na com­ing from their cars.
Using the most bru­tal tac­tics police abuse and humil­i­ate them under the col­or of law, all for hav­ing a mar­i­jua­na cig­ar.
At the same time, the nar­ra­tive has shift­ed, because white men see the poten­tial for wealth in mar­i­jua­na.
And so while police ware lock­ing away young black men young and old­er white men are mak­ing hun­dreds of mil­lions from the very same weed in the very same country.

If you’re plan­ning to smoke and binge, kick off the holy smokin’ hol­i­day of ⁴⁄₂₀with Netflix‘s lat­est weed doc­u­men­tary, Grass Is Greener.
The film is hip-hop pio­neer and for­mer MTV VJ Fab 5 Freddy’s homage to Mary Jane. Freddy, bet­ter known as Fred Brathwaite, made his direc­to­r­i­al debut with the provoca­tive film. In it, he explores the deep ties between the crim­i­nal­iza­tion of reefer and racism in America.

Brathwaite uses his music con­nec­tions to speak with some of the music indus­tries most out­spo­ken advo­cates of mar­i­jua­na includ­ing Snoop Dogg, Cypress Hill’s B‑Real, and Damian Marley. A vari­ety of oth­er celebri­ties and mar­i­jua­na advo­cates fur­ther unrav­el the pop­u­lar drug’s influ­ence on music and pop cul­ture. The film also speaks to the dev­as­tat­ing impact that the crim­i­nal­iza­tion of the plant has had on both black and Latino com­mu­ni­ties.
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