People can be really difficult to deal with and we have seen some really silly actions from people as they decide to violate stay at home orders.
If we are to be fair, however, it has been a long time that people have been asked to stay locked up in their homes, unless they are going out to shop for food or other necessities like getting medications.
On the other hand, restaurants are allowed to stay open as long as they deliver curbside or to customers’ homes. Autoparts stores are allowed to remain open and so are convenience stores, laundromats (I guess the virus doesn’t get transmitted in laundromats) [dripping with sarcasm].
Other businesses like banks, liquor stores, and literally everything else is allowed to stay open, albeit that owners of those establishments may decide on what kinds of physical-distancing methodologies to employ.
A small business owner in New York State myself, I too was forced to close my electronics business, as well as my barbering establishment.
Other small business-people with similar type businesses, including nail salons, hairdressing parlors, & small retail establishments, and even churches have also been ordered close.
In this regard, the government seems to be picking winners and losers. Some types of businesses are allowed to keep operating while others are forced to close without any help from either the state or federal government.
At the same time, neither the state nor the federal government is providing any relief for the loss of revenue for the period that we have been ordered to close in order to avoid spreading or facilitating the spread of COVID19.
So while the media & other elites gab about the need to stay at home there are people who cannot afford to stay at home simply because they are not able to work from home.
HERE IS A CLIP OF AN INCIDENT ON A NEW YORK CITY STREET INVOLVING AFRICAN-AMERICAN CITIZENS & NYPD COPS. REMEMBER THIS IS ALL ABOUT DISTANCING.
HERE’S IS ANOTHER..
The scenes we see playing out across the country tell a sordid tale of the two Americas that persist despite the rhetoric you hear to the contrary.
On the one hand, there are the Black people being dealt with by police in the most ham-fisted fashion for daring to be on the streets, and on the other we see white people picking up their guns and demonstrating raw power of dissent. In those instances, there are either no police around or they dare not intervene.
This is the second in a two-part series that have written in as many days. They are designed to wake the authorities up to the reality that the nation is fast becoming a ticking time bomb.
The blatant disregard that uneducated racist police are exhibiting for people of color will have disastrous consequences for the country.
Even amidst the insidious racial divide, there are people of different races who are just about seen all that they will take from the police.
WHAT SOCIAL DISTANCING?
OBSERVE THE DIFFERENCE.
OH, THIS IS EVEN BETTER, THSE ARE PRIVILEGED CAUCASIANS, SEE ANY COPS MUCH LESS ANY COPS EVEN DARING TO TOUCH ANYONE? ME NEITHER
THIS ONE IS NOT EVEN ON THE STREETS, THIS IS INSIDE THE MICHIGAN STATEHOUSE: WHERE ARE THE RAMBO COPS NOW?
There is a defiance brewing in the black community because they see the continued disparities in law enforcement. Some are quick to ask why don’t they just follow the law?
The answer to that is rather simple, enforce the laws fairly, justly and equitably and with respect and people will oblige.
The continuation of physical and verbal abuse of citizens by police who are paid with their tax dollars should not and will not continue into perpetuity.
Individually and collectively those police departments must know that they will not be able to murder forty-five million black people.
The police are for all intents and purposes the most dangerous enemy to the African-American community.
So in states like New York they tell people to stay in, and well,.…… don’t worry about paying your mortgage, just let them take your damn house, or don’t pay any rent, homelessness is not so bad.[sarcasm] The tragedy is that the people in the media really have no idea what that feels like, many of them are able to work from home. I really do not bother responding to the politicians they are such liars I don’t expect anything from them. For the people who really needs to get back to work like myself.…..nah not the heavily armed militias that are defying orders just for political point scoring, the present standoff that is brewing with authorities is real.
The problem like always in America, the government wades in to black and brown communities with heavy-hamfisted police tactics while standing down in white and Jewish communities.
The undeniable fact is that this pandemic like literally every other topical issues play out with police departments demonstrating why black and brown communities are probably better off with police services.
America long became a police state, the truth is that the government used the black and brown community as guinea pigs to means-test its warrior cops.
White people did not care because it was only those other people who were dying. Only those other (lesser) people who were getting assaulted and abused.
Now it’s everybody, but guess what they already militarized the police departments, passed the [patriot act] and have the stooges on the Supreme Court rubber stamp what they did.
By the time the white people wake up to the reality that their freedoms are all gone and stop the foolish Republican, Democrat, left, right nonsense, it will be too late. In fact, it may already be too late.
Just like they split indentured whites from enslaved blacks during slavery they are still using color and politics to divide us and we fall for it every time.
Mike Beckles is a former Jamaican police Detective corporal, businessman, researcher, and blogger.
He is a black achiever honoree, and publisher of the blog chatt-a-box.com.
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