Patrick Dorismond was gunned down in New York City by NYPD under­cov­er cops who approached him and his friend and asked where they could buy drugs. In response to pub­lic out­cry about the killing The City’s Mayor Rudolph Giuliani released the sealed juve­nile record of Patrick Dorismond’s arrest for rob­bery and assault when he was just 13. Rudolph Giuliani stat­ed then “People have the right to know the back­ground and record of a per­son involved in a crim­i­nal sit­u­a­tion,” he said, adding dark­ly, “He’s no altar boy.”

Giuliani did not men­tion that the charges against Dorismond was noth­ing more than a fight between two lit­tle boys over a quar­ter and that the case nev­er even made it to a Judge. In fact Dorismond had no crim­i­nal record. Regarding the no altar boy com­ment, the Napoleonic Giuliani was so eager to sul­ly the name of the dead Patrick Dorismond he did not both­er to engage his brain before he put his mouth in gear. Patrick Dorismond was indeed an altar boy at the Holy Cross Church in Brooklyn. Dorismond’s moth­er had actu­al­ly named her son after her favorite Priest. The hypocrisy of Giuliani was astound­ing, when his 20 year old daugh­ter was arrest­ed for shoplift­ing he stated,“It’s a pri­vate mat­ter and it will stay that way”.

Michael Brown, 18, due to be buried on Monday, was no angel, with pub­lic records and inter­views with friends and fam­i­ly reveal­ing both prob­lems and promise in his young life. Shortly before his encounter with Officer Wilson, the police say he was caught on a secu­ri­ty cam­era steal­ing a box of cig­ars, push­ing the clerk of a con­ve­nience store into a dis­play case. He lived in a com­mu­ni­ty that had rough patch­es, and he dab­bled in drugs and alco­hol. He had tak­en to rap­ping in recent months, pro­duc­ing lyrics that were by turns con­tem­pla­tive and vul­gar. He got into at least one scuf­fle with a neigh­bor. Times writer John Eligon.

There is a men­tal­i­ty sur­round­ing black life in America that makes any infrac­tion with Police wor­thy of death. I was stunned when I learned some­time ago that peo­ple who are placed on parole are cau­tioned not to come in con­tact with law enforce­ment. In fact com­ing in con­tact with law enforce­ment is grounds for being sent back to prison. Wonder what police do to peo­ple they do not like, do they will­ful­ly come in con­tact with parolees? You bet they do. As we look at events unfold we are remind­ed as to why many men of col­or can­not dis­en­tan­gle them­selves from the web which is the crim­i­nal jus­tice sys­tem. It is no won­der reac­tionary forces use crim­i­nal record to legit­i­ma­tize police unlaw­ful­ly killing black men.

The black com­mu­ni­ty has to nation­al­ize this issue. Ferguson is just one area, as peo­ple march and demand jus­tice in Ferguson, Police con­tin­ue to mur­der black men in St Louis County, In New York City, In California, In Ohio, and in cities and com­mu­ni­ties all across America. The black com­mu­ni­ty sim­ply can­not use the old meth­ods of putting out fires of racial injus­tice as they occur. What is need­ed is a flood of action which will sweep across this coun­try effec­tive­ly dous­ing all embers once and for all.

Finally the UN has mus­tered the courage to chal­lenge the United States of America to halt the police abuse and killing of African-American people.

The American Press has done a ter­ri­ble job of high­light­ing what is an epi­dem­ic of abuse, and mur­der of African-Americans by police all across the Country. For decades blacks have com­plained of inequities in the crim­i­nal jus­tice sys­tem. Today it is just as bad with stud­ies show­ing that even in grade schools African-American chil­dren are much more like­ly to be dis­ci­plined, sus­pend­ed and expelled from school. This con­tin­ues through­out the crim­i­nal jus­tice sys­tem. Police tar­get, pro­file, and sys­tem­at­i­cal­ly abuse and kill blacks as a mat­ter of course. For the most part, whites remain silent, and in many cas­es are sup­port­ive of the bru­tal­i­ty met­ed out to their black and brown neigh­bors. Many peo­ple of col­or argue it is much more dif­fi­cult to deal with the police than the Klux Klux Klan, how do you fight back against the law they bemoan?

The courts are not much bet­ter, in many cas­es Judges mete out longer sen­tences to black offend­ers than they do for white offend­ers for sim­i­lar offences. Even at the high­est lev­el, the Supreme Court, there is sys­tem­at­ic and insti­tu­tion­al­ized Racism. Just recent­ly that body stripped away key sec­tions of the vot­ing rights act, which pro­tect­ed the rights of minori­ties to vote.

It is not get­ting bet­ter, in fact it has arguably got­ten much worse since President Obama was elect­ed to office in 2008. It appears to be a white-lash[sic] against African-Americans being exe­cut­ed by the police. This page has con­sis­tent­ly called for Human Rights Agencies to stop play­ing favorites by ignor­ing the atroc­i­ties being car­ried out by police in the United States. We have demand­ed that these Agencies risk irrel­e­vance if the con­tin­ue to ignore what is hap­pen­ing in America while they trum­pet abuse in small­er less pow­er­ful nations.

American offi­cials will seek to min­i­mize and dis­cred­it the UN con­dem­na­tion, par­tic­u­lar­ly the reac­tionar­ies on the Political Right. They will do so as they did while they beat the drums of war against Iraq. This spot­light from the UN may not mean any­thing to many white Americans, but to the rest of the world it means a hell of a lot.

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Where are the Human Rights Agencies in America? http://chatt-a-box.com/​human-rights-agen­cies-amer­i­ca/​

There is a seri­ous and ever increas­ing threat to cit­i­zens rights as a result of Police aggres­sive­ness and dis­re­spect of the very cit­i­zen­ry they sup­pos­ed­ly serve. It is shock­ing that after serv­ing 10 years myself as a Police Officer I am now loathe to encour­age a young per­son to serve as a law enforce­ment officer.

Law Enforcement is no longer pub­lic safe­ty, it is now Government con­tain­ment of the mass­es through bru­tal and mur­der­ous police depart­ments. We are unable to divest our­selves of the Police as an enti­ty, after all the police are nec­es­sary in a civ­i­lized soci­ety. there is a huge prob­lem when the police can­not be trust­ed to act with civil­ity and are seen as an equal offend­er to peace and good order.

As the father of black sons, my great­est fear when my sons get in their cars to enter the streets, is not for reg­u­lar crim­i­nals but for some of the crim­i­nals now wear­ing badges and parad­ing as police offi­cers. There is a grow­ing trend by police in the United States to charge peo­ple they do not like with resist­ing arrest. Unwitting law mak­ers attach seri­ous penal­ties to the charge to encour­age cit­i­zens to sub­mit peace­ably to being arrested.

What police have done is use it to send cit­i­zens to prison unjust­ly, as well as to jus­tify using exces­sive force on those they want to admin­is­ter a beat­ing to. In New City alone the New York city Police Department filed over 55,000 resist­ing arrest charges against New Yorkers over a 10 year peri­od. Even though the first charge was for a minor offense. Thankfully some Judges are not blind­ed by police sup­port, most of these cas­es have been tossed out along with the under­ly­ing charge.

GENEVA, Aug 29 (Reuters) — The U.N. racism watch­dog urged the United States on Friday to halt the exces­sive use of force by police after the fatal shoot­ing of an unarmed black teenag­er by a white police­man touched off riots in Ferguson, Missouri.

Minorities, par­tic­u­lar­ly African Americans, are vic­tims of dis­par­i­ties, the U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) said after exam­in­ing the U.S. record.

“Racial and eth­nic dis­crim­i­na­tion remains a seri­ous and per­sis­tent prob­lem in all areas of life from de fac­to school seg­re­ga­tion, access to health care and hous­ing,” Noureddine Amir, CERD com­mit­tee vice chair­man, told a news briefing.

Teenager Michael Brown was shot dead by a white police offi­cer on Aug. 9, trig­ger­ing vio­lent protests that rocked Ferguson — a St. Louis sub­urb — and shone a glob­al spot­light on the state of race rela­tions in America.

“The exces­sive use of force by law enforce­ment offi­cials against racial and eth­nic minori­ties is an ongo­ing issue of con­cern and par­tic­u­lar­ly in light of the shoot­ing of Michael Brown,” said Amir, an expert from Algeria.

“This is not an iso­lat­ed event and illus­trates a big­ger prob­lem in the United States, such as racial bias among law enforce­ment offi­cials, the lack of prop­er imple­men­ta­tion of rules and reg­u­la­tions gov­ern­ing the use of force, and the inad­e­qua­cy of train­ing of law enforce­ment officials.”

The pan­el of 18 inde­pen­dent experts grilled a senior U.S. del­e­ga­tion on Aug. 13 about what they said was per­sis­tent racial dis­crim­i­na­tion against African-Americans and oth­er minori­ties, includ­ing with­in the crim­i­nal jus­tice system.

U.S. Ambassador Keith Harper told the pan­el that his nation had made “great strides toward elim­i­nat­ing racial dis­crim­i­na­tion” but con­ced­ed that “we have much left to do”.

Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson, who shot Brown, has been put on paid leave and is in hid­ing. A St. Louis County grand jury has begun hear­ing evi­dence and the U.S. Justice Department has opened its own investigation.

Police have said Brown strug­gled with Wilson when shot. But some wit­ness­es say Brown held up his hands and was sur­ren­der­ing when he was shot mul­ti­ple times in the head and chest.

“STAND YOUR GROUND” LAWS

In its con­clu­sions issued on Friday, the U.N. pan­el said “Stand Your Ground” Laws, a con­tro­ver­sial self-defense statute in 22 U.S. states, should be reviewed to “remove far-reach­ing immu­ni­ty and ensure strict adher­ence to prin­ci­ples of neces­si­ty and pro­por­tion­al­i­ty when dead­ly force is used for self-defense”.

Ron Davis, father of Jordan Davis, a 17-year-old shot dead in a car in Jacksonville, Florida dur­ing an argu­ment over loud rap music in November 2012, attend­ed the Geneva ses­sion. Sybrina Fulton, moth­er of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed black teen killed in Miami, Florida by a neigh­bor­hood watch vol­un­teer, testified.

The U.N. pan­el mon­i­tors com­pli­ance with a treaty rat­i­fied by 177 coun­tries includ­ing the United States.

“The Committee remains con­cerned at the prac­tice of racial pro­fil­ing of racial or eth­nic minori­ties by law enforce­ment offi­cials, includ­ing the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Transportation Security Administration, bor­der enforce­ment offi­cials and local police,” it said, urg­ing investigations.

The experts called for address­ing obsta­cles faced by minori­ties and indige­nous peo­ples to exer­cise their right to vote effec­tive­ly. This was due to restric­tive vot­er iden­ti­fi­ca­tion laws, dis­trict ger­ry­man­der­ing and state-lev­el laws that dis­en­fran­chise peo­ple con­vict­ed of felonies, it said.

Jamil Dakwar of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) said the U.N. rec­om­men­da­tions high­light­ed “short­com­ings on racial equal­i­ty that we are see­ing play out today on our streets, at our bor­ders and in the vot­ing booth.

“When it comes to human rights, the United States must prac­tice at home what it preach­es abroad,” he said.

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I had an incred­i­bly poignant con­ver­sa­tion with a young friend yes­ter­day. Our con­ver­sa­tion was cen­tered around the ongo­ing imbroglio sur­round­ing the Police killing of 18 year old Ferguson Missouri Resident Michael Brown. My friend was adamant that there is not enough out­cry when blacks kill blacks. He feels fun­da­men­tal­ly that the black com­mu­ni­ty has a high­er expec­ta­tion of police than we have of our­selves. So we had an inter­est­ing­ly cor­dial exchange. I agree with my long­time friend that this can­not be it. We sim­ply can­not be upset at police while giv­ing our own killers in our com­mu­ni­ty a pass.

However ‚Black on Black crimes are pun­ished by the sys­tem, as long as law enforce­ment find evi­dence these per­pe­tra­tors are brought to jus­tice. America’s Prisons are filled with over 2 mil­lion peo­ple. The vast major­i­ty of the incar­cer­at­ed are African-Americans. The issue for the black com­mu­ni­ty is that when­ev­er there are alleged police excess­es the com­mu­ni­ty has to take to the streets just to get an inves­ti­ga­tion start­ed . There must be equal pro­tec­tion under the law. We can­not have the same expec­ta­tion of Police that we have of Gangs. Police Officers are sworn to pro­tect and serve.That is why they are held to a high­er stan­dard of con­duct and account­abil­i­ty than crim­i­nal Gangs. The way some cops have been act­ing there seem to be lit­tle dis­tinc­tion between the two . Law abid­ing cit­i­zens have an absolute right and expec­ta­tion that the police will not abuse or kill them.

Unfortunately for the African-American com­mu­ni­ty, after the protests we go back to the way we were. We go back to accept­ing dis­re­spect from Police. The issue of Police abuse is now a seri­ous epi­dem­ic across America. It will not change , because white Americans do not see police in the same way Blacks do. Many in the black com­mu­ni­ty believe if there are more black cops the com­mu­ni­ty’s rela­tion­ship with police will be enhanced. I dis­agree, it’s a band-aid approach which will only fix the optics. How many times have we seen black cops abus­ing black peo­ple , or not doing any­thing about their white col­leagues who com­mit abuse in their pres­ence?

The issue for the black com­mu­ni­ty is one of respect. Police do not respect the com­mu­ni­ty, the com­mu­ni­ty do not trust the police. Crime is high­er in black com­mu­ni­ties because of the enmi­ty which exist between the two groups.I have had police offi­cers tell me they are encour­aged not to have a friend­ly rela­tion­ship with the com­mu­ni­ty they serve. In many cas­es these are top down deci­sions which have dire con­se­quences for minor­i­ty com­mu­ni­ties and offi­cers alike. When the com­mu­ni­ty is opposed to offi­cers it places offi­cers lives at risk. It puts res­i­dents lives at risk.

The atti­tudes of Police brass and unions will have to change if there is to be an improve­ment in the way police are viewed. A tox­ic rela­tion­ship between police and cit­i­zens serves no one.

Anyone liv­ing in or around New York City dur­ing the tenure of Rudolph Giuliani will recall the hor­rif­ic inci­dents of cal­lous­ness car­ried out on black and brown cit­i­zens by NYPD cops, attrib­ut­able large­ly to the rhetoric com­ing from Giuliani who clear­ly had a deep seat­ed dis­dain for peo­ple of col­or. ‚Patrick Dorismond, Amadou Diallo , Anthony Baez, Abner Louima,.

The list of those killed and abused is long and var­ied. Unfortunately this did not end when Giuliani left office, the killing of young African American men con­tin­ued under Bloomberg, and into the present Administration.

Perhaps the most pow­er­ful advo­cate for a pro­fes­sion­al police force was Sir Robert Peel, a Minister of Parliament who served as Home Secretary for the United Kingdom in the 1820’s. In 1829, Peel estab­lished the Metropolitan Police Services in London. With the found­ing of London’s police force, Peel became wide­ly regard­ed by crim­i­nol­o­gists and his­to­ri­ans alike as the father of mod­ern polic­ing. British police offi­cers are still known affec­tion­ate­ly as “Bobbies” in hon­or of his first name, Robert.

Public Opposition

The con­cept of a cen­tral­ized, pro­fes­sion­al police force was a tough sell ini­tial­ly, and was met with a tremen­dous amount of resis­tance. There was a fear that a police force would essen­tial­ly behave as anoth­er arm of the mil­i­tary. As result, there was an under­stand­able reluc­tance to agree to be con­trolled by what many assumed would be an occu­py­ing force. In order to over­come this oppo­si­tion, Peel is known for lay­ing the frame­work for what a police force should be com­prised of how a good police offi­cershould con­duct him­self. While there is debate as to whether he ever clear­ly enu­mer­at­ed his ideas in any sort of list for­mat, it is gen­er­al­ly agreed that he cre­at­ed what are to this day con­sid­ered to be the pri­ma­ry prin­ci­ples of policing.

• The pur­pose of the police force is to pre­vent crime and main­tain order.
• Police depend on the approval and trust of the pub­lic in order to effec­tive­ly do their jobs.
• The ulti­mate goal of polic­ing is to achieve vol­un­tary com­pli­ance with the law in the community.
• Police must be unwa­ver­ing in their duties and adher­ence to the law, main­tain­ing impar­tial­i­ty and avoid­ing the temp­ta­tion to be swayed by pub­lic opinion.
• The use of force and phys­i­cal con­trol is to be used as a last resort, only when oth­er forms of per­sua­sion have failed.
• Police offi­cers must remem­ber that they, too, are mem­bers of the pub­lic and that their pur­pose is to serve and pro­tect the public.
• The true mea­sure of the effec­tive­ness of any police force is not the num­ber of arrests or police actions tak­en, but the absence of crim­i­nal con­duct and vio­la­tions of the law.

I wish to pub­lish this for the ben­e­fit of cops today. These are the prin­ci­ples by which police offi­cers must be guid­ed. Consent of the cit­i­zens not cit­i­zen dom­i­na­tion. Unless of course American police offi­cers still do not see African Americans as citizens.

Mid-term Elections sched­uled for November is like­ly to see Republican gains in the House and Senate. Yup , I know it is incred­i­ble to fig­ure out . For those of you who have an inter­est in what hap­pens in and to your lives as far as Politics goes, it is almost incom­pre­hen­si­ble. One of the hot but­ton issues on the table is Immigration Reform. Republicans have done noth­ing to work with the Administration to fix the bro­ken sys­tem. Despite Record depor­ta­tions, President Obama still have no Partner in Republicans. For years Republicans demand­ed that secur­ing the Borders must first be addressed. The President has done that. The Southern Border of the United States now looks like the Former East , West Berlin Border, replete with vehic­u­lar checks and all. In addi­tion the Administration has deport­ed over 1.5 mil­lion peo­ple in 6 years . More than any oth­er Administration. Still Republicans have refused to act, claim­ing that act­ing on Immigration Reform is Amnesty. There is much to be said about their hypocrisy , con­sid­er­ing this is a nation of immi­grants. What’s more the hero of their phi­los­o­phy Ronald Reagan, under­stood the need to reg­u­lar­ize the sta­tus of undoc­u­ment­ed peo­ple and grant­ed Amnesty to peo­ple liv­ing in the shad­ows dur­ing his presidency.

If there is a swing in these upcom­ing elec­tions it should be to boot these intran­si­gent racist Republican bums from office. If cur­rent pre­dic­tions are true that Republicans will gain seats and like­ly take the Senate, it means vot­ers would have reward­ed them for bad behav­ior. Sabotaging the econ­o­my through lock-downs. Not act­ing on Immigration. Not pass­ing a jobs Bill which would put hun­dreds of thou­sands of work­ers back to work. Republicans argue Amnesty reward peo­ple who break American laws by com­ing to the coun­try ille­gal­ly. Why should they be reward­ed for sab­o­tag­ing the country?

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SPREADING HATE

There is a decid­ed strat­e­gy by Fox and Rupert Murdoch , to hire the most out­landish racist in an effort to pro­mote, and pro­mul­gate race bait­ing and race hate. In addi­tion to the raft of far right guests they fea­ture dai­ly all toward spread­ing hate. There are these two.

Bill O’ Reilly,and Sean Hannity, irre­spec­tive of the host, the bar­rage of mis­in­for­ma­tion and hatred is the same. The idea is to stir up hate in America. It is a tac­ti­cal deci­sion, they cal­cu­late, which will bring a loy­al and ded­i­cat­ed fol­low­ing to the net­work. It is based on the fun­da­men­tal under­stand­ing that to a large extent more than half of white Americans are out­right, or at best, har­bor clos­et­ed racial bias. It has worked thus far . The FOX radio net­work is also busy spread­ing the hate among the least edu­cat­ed most igno­rant of the white pop­u­la­tion. This is par­tic­u­lar­ly effec­tive among those who blame every­one but them­selves for their inabil­i­ty to crawl out of pover­ty despite white priv­i­leged. These are they who are still mired in pover­ty despite the mas­sive expan­sion of the American econ­o­my in the 1990’s dur­ing the Clinton Years. The ascen­dan­cy of Barack Obama to the pin­na­cle of white pow­er and minori­ties becom­ing a major­i­ty has dri­ven them nuts. It is a poi­soned well and it’s only going to get worse.

It is not unusu­al to see many of these peo­ple rail­ing against Government intru­sion in their lives , while many are lit­er­al­ly liv­ing off Government largess. Incredibly many of these peo­ple were rather upset at Obama when he sug­gest­ed rais­ing the tax rates on Americans mak­ing in excess of two hun­dred and fifty thou­sand dol­lars annu­al­ly. What makes it inter­est­ing is that among this crowd are lit­er­al­ly no top wage earners.

FOK has found fer­tile soil in this Xenophobic crowd who believe their prob­lems what­ev­er they are, are attrib­ut­able to immigrants.

Elections are sched­uled for November. In these upcom­ing elec­tions ‚Governorships Senate, House and oth­er posi­tions will be up for grabs. Coming out of what many see as an esca­la­tion of Police killings of African-Americans is the less than nov­el call for vot­er reg­is­tra­tion. African Americans went out in num­bers to twice elect Barack Obama to the Presidency, Obama was too busy play­ing Golf to both­er going to Ferguson Missouri. Obama went to Sandy hook to com­fort griev­ing fam­i­lies, why not Ferguson, whats dif­fer­ent?

Republicans hate blacks for the col­or of their skin, But they also hate blacks for con­sis­tent­ly vot­ing Democratic. Blacks are being told to go out and vote, but who should they vote for? Democrats and the Democratic Party Party, has con­ve­nient­ly remained silent.

But for Claire Mc Caskil the US Senator from Missouri, where are the voic­es of Democratic Leaders who always come, hat in hand beg­ging for votes ? What has Democrats done for it“s most loy­al block of vot­ers? Time and again the Democratic Party has tak­en the black vote for grant­ed. Bill Clinton did it, when he threw Sister Soulja under the bus to show Southern and so called con­ser­v­a­tive whites he can han­dle the-blacks. He also did when he sided with Newt Gingrich who impeached him when he signed wel­fare reform into law. That back­fired when they dis­cov­ered the largest per capi­ta block of wel­fare recip­i­ents were mid­dle age white women. Obama did it by not show­ing up in Ferguson Missouri. Eric Holder is not Barack Obama. Black People over­whelm­ing­ly vot­ed to elect and reelect Obama, he had a duty to show up and show sol­i­dar­i­ty with black peo­ple. What were they gonna do about it, he does­n’t face vot­ers ever again. He did not show balls, he showed cowardice.

Missouri’s Governor Jay Nixon is a Democrat with whom the black com­mu­ni­ty has no rela­tion­ship. Residents of Ferguson want Nixon to replace Bob McCullough the County Prosecutor. They make it clear they do not trust McCullough to do the right thing for them because of his rela­tion­ship with Police. Nixon out­right refused to acced­ed to the vot­ers demands to remove McCullough. That out­right refusal is a clear indi­ca­tion Nixon has no regard for African American vot­ers in Ferguson nor the broad­er Missouri.

Other than some Black Democrats there has large­ly been a deaf­en­ing blan­ket silence from white Democrats. How can a blacks con­tin­ue to vote for a par­ty which per­pet­u­al­ly dis­re­spects and dis­cards them, then embrace them when it is con­ve­nient to do so ?

Hillary Clinton is going around the Country sign­ing books , any­one who believes this is just a book tour is seri­ous­ly unin­formed. When Reporters shout­ed out ques­tions to Hillary Clinton, try­ing to get her take on the Ferguson inci­dent, she hus­tled away with­out answer­ing their questions.

Hillary Clinton will be run­ning for President in 2016, she is lay­ing the ground­work for that run , she does not want to be President because of any deep call­ing. She will be doing so out of raw ambi­tion. When the time comes for her to run she will cozy up to blacks who will be elat­ed to rec­i­p­ro­cate her con­di­tion­al affec­tion, as an abused Dog cozies up to an abu­sive master.

Democrats have tak­en the tac­ti­cal deci­sion that Blacks have nowhere to go. Clinton and oth­ers feel no oblig­a­tion to take a stand which may have neg­a­tive push-back from white Democrats who see the police as their protectors.

SO WHERE DOES IT LEAVE BLACK VOTERS ?

Black vot­ers Can do either of two things in my estimation.

♦ Vote Republican, .….….. I know, wait, wait , wait, I know they hate blacks, but maybe blacks will have to take a step toward that par­ty. This could poten­tial­ly have the effect of a change in atti­tude toward the com­mu­ni­ty. What I am advo­cat­ing is that Blacks hold their noses and vote Republican, as a means of ensur­ing Democrats do not take them for granted.

♦ Vote nei­ther Republican nor Democrat, form anoth­er Party. The T‑Party claim they are not Republicans, yet they have

Republicans lick­ing their boots. In fact Republicans who sur­vived the Rights’ ide­o­log­i­cal purge, jump at every oppor­tu­ni­ty to be in the good graces of the T‑party. What is pre­vent­ing African Americans from form­ing anoth­er Party There are more than enough black elect­ed lead­ers in the Congress with the know-how. This is an oppor­tu­ni­ty to show some back­bone. There are well over 40 mil­lion black peo­ple in the United States, if this new par­ty reach out to oth­ers it could be a force to be reck­oned with.

I wrote pre­vi­ous­ly that this should be a defin­ing moment for African-Americans, beyond the march­ing , the singing we shall over­come, the groan­ing , the cry­ing and the loot­ing, there are expo­nen­tial­ly much more we can do to change our lot.

There is no use look­ing to Obama or any­one else, this requires a col­lec­tive effort on the part of every­one. Obama is look­ing out for his lega­cy it’s up to blacks to look out for their future.

No words.

Michael Brown Sr.

Grief of unimag­in­able proportion .

A father’s grief at the prospect of bury­ing his son.

In the weeks approach­ing stu­dents all across America will walk out of class­es with hands up. They will be stand­ing against police tyran­ny, made pos­si­ble by the priv­i­leged minority.

The American con­sti­tu­tion guar­an­tees cit­i­zens the right to free speech , free asso­ci­a­tion and the right not to be ter­ror­ized by their own Government.

We salute our young peo­ple who have decide to stand with right , over what’s white. When we secure the dig­ni­ty and rights of oth­ers , we secure our own future.

Those who keep oth­ers incar­cer­at­ed are them­selves incar­cer­at­ed. We can­not live in a world where some are allowed to enjoy their God-giv­en rights to be free cit­i­zens, while simul­ta­ne­ous­ly and sys­tem­at­i­cal­ly tram­pling on that of others.

Sybrina Fulton, the moth­er of Trayvon Martin, and Valerie Bell, the moth­er of Sean Bell, Arrived in St Louis Missouri on Sunday August 24^th, they were there to lend sup­port to the par­ents of Michael Brown.. Irrespective of where you live , if you are tuned into events there is no ques­tion of who these women are.

Fulton and Bell were among a group of fam­i­ly and friends who showed up for a pri­vate view­ing of Brown’s body before his bur­ial on Monday. The list of fathers and moth­ers who have lost their chil­dren to vio­lence is nev­er-end­ing. Those los­ing their chil­dren to police and vig­i­lante killings is get­ting just as long.

On Monday the body of Michael Brown will be laid to rest. Just 18 years old, cut down, gone too soon. Like Trayvon Martin, Sean Bell and count­less name­less, face­less, oth­ers who met a sim­i­lar demise Michael Brown will become anoth­er statistic.

We don’t know if his death will change any­thing. Maybe it will ‚maybe it won’t. As a par­ent of young men, one of whom recent­ly went home to be with the Lord , I can only imag­ine the pain these par­ents feel. Nothing will ever be the same again , their whole out­look on life for­ev­er changed.

We cry with these par­ents, we feel their pain. No par­ent should have to bury their child, cer­tain­ly not this way. As we strug­gle to come to grips with this fam­i­ly’s grief , we are mind­ful of the many issues that sur­round his pass­ing. Race, black respon­si­bil­i­ty, Police vio­lence, Black on black vio­lence, and of course those who sup­port the killing of the Michael Browns of America, sim­ply because of the col­or of their skin. When we talk about young men being killed because of the col­or of their skin we do not deny they may have done some­thing wrong. We make no judge­ment about inno­cence or guilt. What we argue is some­one of a dif­fer­ent hue would not have received the death penal­ty, imposed and exe­cut­ed by those who appoint them­selves judge ‚jury and executioner.

America locked up Jeffery Dammer, con­vict­ed of mass mur­der and can­ni­bal­ism. She locked up Terrorists who kill thou­sands of our peo­ple in cow­ard­ly attacks. We do not need our peo­ple killed for sell­ing un-taxed cig­a­rettes, jay-walk­ing or for being men­tal­ly unsta­ble while hold­ing a knife.

The President said if he had a son he would be like Trayvon Martin. The Attorney General tells of being harassed in a Washington Suburb because he was deemed by police to have the wrong col­or to be in that neigh­bor­hood. At the time he was a Federal Prosecutor. Ben Ward New

York City’s first black Police Commissioner was harassed in Manhattan by men under his com­mand who did not even know their own Commissioner. Henry Lewis Gates Harvard Professor arrest­ed at his own home because of the col­or of his skin.

Some naïve­ly believe cars, homes and jobs insu­lates them from abuse. So they heap scorn and deri­sion on those so abused . Simply because their day has not yet come. We salute these brave women who have trav­eled hun­dreds of miles to show sup­port to the Brown fam­i­ly , to hug and cry with them, be com­fort­ed in the Lord God know­ing that he is the final judge.

Irrespective of our short­com­ings , our fail­ure to come togeth­er, our per­pet­u­al state of pover­ty, no one deserves to die, shot down like an ani­mal and left there for hours in the swel­ter­ing heat. That’s what’s at issue here. To those who talk from their lofty perch­es , look­ing down on these vic­tims , I ask where is your human­i­ty ? Where is the God in you? Do you think you and yours are exempt? You are delu­sion­al. It’s insult­ing to insin­u­ate that respect for laws will keep you safe. It’s arro­gant to assume those who died had no respect for the laws.

Pull up your pants. Don’t run when you see police. Don’t talk back to police. Why? None of these things have kept black men safe. Why should our chil­dren com­port to the fears and inse­cu­ri­ties of school-yard bul­lies whose only self worth is cen­tered in a gun and a badge? Why are they crim­i­nals because of the col­or of their skin? Too many have died who did noth­ing wrong. My chal­lenge to you elit­ists is get up to speed on your his­to­ry, maybe it will offer a lit­tle per­spec­tive. Perspective which hope­ful­ly will bring some mea­sure of humility.

We can talk about black on black crime, we can talk about any issue, just not now. This is about the killing of Michael Brown, and Eric Garner, and Sean Bell, And Amadou Diallo, and Kijiame Powell, and, count­less oth­ers, killed by those who should pro­tect and serve.

The New York Post said it sided with the NYPD in the killing of Eric Garner. It labeled every man woman and child who marched across the Verrazano Narrows Bridge into Staten Island Saturday last, Rabble . In that crowd were Doctors and Lawyers, Teachers, nurs­es, busi­ness pro­fes­sion­als. They did not care about the sta­tion of any­one in that crowd. To them it was a Rabble. That is their per­cep­tion of black life. We can no longer allow them to make deci­sions on our val­ue. We are infe­ri­or no no one.

In Ferguson Missouri white pro­test­ers gath­ered in sup­port of Darren Wilson, they cared noth­ing about the killing of Michael Brown. Their spokes­woman declared, Darren Wilson was jus­ti­fied in what he did. Case closed . Irrespective of the evi­dence or the cir­cum­stances of this killing ‚to them Wilson was jus­ti­fied. It does­n’t mat­ter whether Darren Wilson crossed the line from Cop to Criminal. Michael Brown had no right Darren Wilson was oblig­at­ed to respect. It was­n’t too long ago their law stat­ed blacks had no rights a white per­son had to respect, deja-vu.

On January 1, 1923 a mas­sacre was car­ried out in the small, pre­dom­i­nate­ly black town of Rosewood in Central Florida. The mas­sacre was insti­gat­ed by the rumor that a white woman, was raped by a black man. What did any­one expect from these protesters?

Those white pro­test­ers I don’t mind. Hate is what hate pro­duces . They are what they are. [sic] It was only after the Civil war that Europe’s mur­der­ers, Rapists and oth­er crim­i­nal garbage were no longer dumped here. The sins of the fathers vis­it the third and fourth generations.

What I find con­temptible are the self loathing house ser­vants who still shuck and jive to the tune of their slave mas­ters, will­ing to kill their own to please mas­sa, that’s offensive.

Today Saturday August 23^rd, there are protest Rallies in Ferguson Missouri, and Staten Island New York. African-Americans gath­ered in dis­gust over the con­tin­ued slaugh­ter of black and brown men by police in America.

These protest ral­lies are about the killing of 18-year-old Michael Brown of Ferguson Missouri and 43-year-old Eric Garner of Staten Island New York. These Rallies should also be about the killing of 26-year-old Kajieme Powell, who was bru­tal­ly slaugh­tered by St Louis coun­ty police, 23 sec­onds after arriv­ing at the scene where Powell was wan­der­ing around, obvi­ous­ly suf­fer­ing from men­tal issues.

Powell did have a knife but trained offi­cers could have adopt­ed any of a slew of options avail­able to them. They had batons, mace and taz­ers .Powell alleged­ly yelled, “Shoot me, kill me now!”  They opt­ed not to use any of those non-lethal options, choos­ing instead to pump sev­er­al bul­lets into the body of the dis­turbed Powell, killing him sec­onds after they arrived.

This total­ly uncalled for esca­la­tion by the two cops was demon­stra­bly the essence of what goes on in cities and Towns all across America. Those cops placed no val­ue on the lives of Kajieme Powell, as they did not on those of Garner and Brown. They had a cal­lous and bla­tant dis­re­gard for the life of those they killed

Some so-called black lead­ers, includ­ing an elect­ed rep­re­sen­ta­tive bragged that St Louis was not Ferguson, when Powell was killed. Yet he lacked the most basic under­stand­ing of how and when Police can legal­ly use lethal force.

Kajieme Powell was mur­dered. Yes he had a knife. There were oth­er ways to sub­due him with­out tak­ing his life.

Those who defend Eric Garner and Michael Brown must also defend the life of Kajieme Powell, who clear­ly need­ed help not bullets.

The Protest ral­lies for Brown were not the only show in town. Supporters of Ferguson Cop Darren Wilson, also held their own ral­ly, they have raised huge sums of mon­ey in sup­port of what they believe will be a Wilson crim­i­nal defense. These peo­ple have a right to do what they want­ed, it’s their right.

What I find nau­se­at­ing, is that like the Rabid racists who spew their racist bile on FOX and the oth­er bot­tom feed­ers on talk radio, these Wilson sup­port­ers show no recog­ni­tion of the issue being protest­ed , the killing of unarmed black and brown men by police across America.

Their actions are symp­to­matic of a time passed, when black men would be lynched while the crowds cheered on those doing the phys­i­cal lynch­ing. How dif­fer­ent are defend­ers of killer-cops from those who cheered these lynch­ings back in the 60’s , 50’s and beyond?

They stood and cheered while the bod­ies of black peo­ple were muti­lat­ed and burned for no oth­er rea­son than the col­or of their skin. They are doing it today under the guise of sup­port­ing police and a need for jus­tice.

Their idea of jus­tice is every­one else doing what they demand.

“If you are neu­tral in sit­u­a­tions of injus­tice, you have cho­sen the side of the oppres­sor. If an ele­phant has its foot on the tail of a mouse, and you say that you are neu­tral, the mouse will not appre­ci­ate your neu­tral­i­ty.” 
― Desmond Tutu

One of the prob­lem with our peo­ple is our propen­si­ty to want to move on . What are we mov­ing on from ? What has changed since the 60s when they stood and cheered while our peo­ple were lynched ? Have you heard any of them ref­er­ence the issue which is front and cen­ter here? No their signs call for peace, what they want is for blacks to shut up and go away. Peace for them is dom­i­na­tion of black and brown peo­ple by white police , the more bru­tal the better.

There are things which blacks will invari­ably have to come to terms with in America. Chief among them is an under­stand­ing that their stand­ing in America will depend on them. You sim­ply can­not depend on the chil­dren and grand­chil­dren of those who killed and bru­tal­ized you to have your inter­est at heart. In poll after poll there is a marked dis­con­nect between how whites view the prob­lems which are crit­i­cal­ly ger­mane to blacks. At best whites are pre­dis­posed to blam­ing blacks for what­ev­er injus­tice is met­ed out to them. At worse they sup­port those who abuse us. When you view the age make­up of those who sup­port Darren Wilson you real­ize white racism is not going away. Blacks will have to make it go so deep under­ground it can­not grow. White Racism will not be sup­pressed if we kill each oth­er. It embold­ens them to cheap­en our lives.

White racism will not be sup­pressed if we con­tin­ue to shirk the oppor­tu­ni­ties avail­able to be edu­cat­ed. They are edu­cat­ing their chil­dren. The President men­tioned the lack of job oppor­tu­ni­ties in many urban cen­ters , its impor­tant to have jobs, how­ev­er hav­ing a job does not insu­late a black man or woman from police abuse. Henry Louis Gates not­ed Harvard Professor was­n’t unemployed.

African Americans con­tin­ue to skirt around the real issues on the rare occa­sions they get the mega­phone. Lights , cam­era, action, they fail to make their own case for respect. They fall into the trap of adopt­ing the buzz terms their oppres­sors design to fit  peo­ple who come in to help them.

George Wallace and Bull O’Connor labeled Dr, King an out­side agi­ta­tor, Fox and oth­ers label peo­ple going into Ferguson to show their sol­i­dar­i­ty with demon­stra­tors out­side agi­ta­tors. Shockingly, some of the black demon­stra­tors have unwit­ting­ly gob­bled up this phys­i­o­log­i­cal term which has only one intent , that of mar­gin­al­iz­ing and weak­en­ing the protest action. Sure there were oppor­tunis­tic crim­i­nals there, they are every­where. Most crimes are crimes of opportunity.

Those who were loot­ing and com­mit­ting oth­er acts of crim­i­nal­i­ty were the respon­si­bil­i­ty of the Ferguson Police and oth­er Agencies brought in to sup­press the Rights of cit­i­zens who were exer­cis­ing their first amend­ment rights . Instead of pro­tect­ing the rights of cit­i­zens to express them­selves freely, those agen­cies resort­ed to gestapo tac­tics, bru­tal­iz­ing and dis­re­spect­ing them.

Despite the dis­gust­ing behav­ior, (words and deeds) of cops on the ground, the rep­re­hen­si­ble Facebook post of oth­ers ‚and the bru­tal­i­ty they admin­is­tered to pro­test­ers and jour­nal­ists alike, there are peo­ple out there sup­port­ing them.

If you are a black per­son who have white friends who are sup­port­ive of these lynch­ings they are not your friends. If you speak out and take action against these mur­der­ing cops and your friends shun you, bid them a hap­py good­bye ‚they were not your friends.

Secure the future of your chil­dren and grand­chil­dren before you wor­ry about what oth­ers think of you.