Heaven Helps When The Volcano Blows

Another American city erupts in violence.
This time it’s Baltimore Maryland over the death of Freddy Grey who died from a sev­ered spine while in Police custody.
It is the same as usu­al Grey was a crim­i­nal with an expan­sive rap-sheet.
Police effect a vio­lent arrest took him into cus­tody and now he is dead.

For some in the White com­mu­ni­ty it’s no big deal it’s just anoth­er nig­ger dead.
For the black com­mu­ni­ty it is one more exam­ple of police act­ing as judge jury and executioner.
Many in the Black com­mu­ni­ty believe racial diver­si­ty in police depart­ments is the answer to the epi­dem­ic of police bru­tal­i­ty in America.
I dis­agree it has any­thing to do with the way police behave.

Lost in the noise as always, is the nev­er end­ing litany or periph­er­al issues affect­ing the African-American com­mu­ni­ty, it makes good talk­ing points until the winds died down and it’s back to the status-quo.
The fact of the mat­ter is that police depart­ments have to take respon­si­bil­i­ty for the actions of the peo­ple they put into the com­mu­ni­ties to act as police officers. 

During Martin O’Malley’s admin­is­tra­tion as may­or, the depart­ment had become 43% African American.^[25] While progress has been made to improve the depart­men­t’s rela­tion­ship with Baltimore’s now major­i­ty African American com­mu­ni­ty, improve­ments are still being made to the depart­ment which for sev­er­al years has been sub­ject to crit­i­cism for its treat­ment of African American cit­i­zens. Police com­mu­ni­ty rela­tions have remained strained with the war on drugs that has plagued sev­er­al African American neigh­bor­hoods in East and West Baltimore and coin­ci­den­tal­ly enough, many of the most despised offi­cers in sev­er­al of Baltimore’s African American neigh­bor­hoods are also African American.wikipedia.

How long do they think they will be able to sus­tain the sim­mer­ing caul­dron of anger and resent­ment that is threat­en­ing to engulf us all?
When Dr.King marched and fought over 50 years ago the num­ber one issue fac­ing black Americans was police brutality.
Today the prob­lem is the same.
States in America have demon­strat­ed a mad­den­ing tone-deaf­ness in deal­ing with the issues of police bru­tal­i­ty and murder.
Governors elect­ed by the peo­ple stand with police abuse of black citizens.
American Governors reac­tion to police abuse with­ing their states have the pre­dictable default posi­tion of mobi­liz­ing the nation­al guard.

The truth is some are afraid to tack­le police unions and oth­ers do not care to do any­thing about the problem.
The police should take no com­fort in the silence or tac­it acqui­es­cence of some with­in the white com­mu­ni­ty who sup­port them when they engage in crim­i­nal conduct.
They are the ones who will face the music when the pal­pa­ble anger becomes too much to be kept under a lid.
They can talk about loot­ing and destruc­tion of prop­er­ty all they want, rather than con­demn they bet­ter learn the per­ti­nent lessons real fast.
We shall over­come will not appease this generation .…