I just feel like some of the sys­tem could, you know, look at us as indi­vid­u­als,” Brooks said, “We do have lives, you know, was just a mis­take we made, you know, and, you know, not, not just do us, as if we are ani­mals. You know lock us away.”

We talk about the KKK, white suprema­cists, and all kinds of white iden­ti­ty extrem­ists that are in law enforce­ment across America in our writ­ings on this site and on our youtube chan­nel @ chart-a-box.
The cen­tral issue of white iden­ti­ty extrem­ists in American law enforce­ment is one that has not received the focusEd spot­light it needs, and is one of the casu­al­ties of the move­ment against police vio­lence ignit­ed anew by the police lynch­ing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
Politicians on both sides have failed and refused to acknowl­edge that there are seri­ous issues in American law enforce­ment as a result of white suprema­cists that have infil­trat­ed depart­ments, some­thing the Federal Bureau of Investigations warned about well over a decade ago.


Even after the death of George Floyd and oth­ers lynched by men wear­ing police depart­ments uni­forms and oper­at­ing under the col­or of law. Two black half broth­ers lost their lives, one was found hang­ing from a tree whose death was ruled a sui­cide by police, and the oth­er shot to death in Orange County California by police under the murki­est of cir­cum­stances.
We know that the police was always against the black com­mu­ni­ty, we also know that the FBI warned that this was hap­pen­ing because we have seen their com­ments in chat rooms…we have seen the way they allow armed white mili­tia mem­bers to walk over the rights of peace­able demon­stra­tors opposed to police vio­lence.…. And we have seen how they vio­lent­ly assault those who dare stand up for jus­tice.
It comes as no sur­prise that they would wear their gang patch­es at a time when the streets are in chaos and the coun­try is look­ing more and more like a pow­der keg.
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A video sur­faced on social media tak­en dur­ing a George Floyd protest in Costa Mesa on Monday.Friday, June 5, 2020

The Orange County Sheriff’s Department has received calls and com­plaints about a deputy seen wear­ing sym­bols asso­ci­at­ed with far-right, anti-gov­ern­ment extrem­ist groups. ORANGE COUNTY, Calif. (KABC) — The Orange County Sheriff’s Department has received calls and com­plaints about a deputy seen wear­ing sym­bols asso­ci­at­ed with far-right, anti-gov­ern­ment extrem­ist groups.
Video sur­faced on social media tak­en dur­ing a George Floyd protest in Costa Mesa on Monday. The deputy was wear­ing sewn on patch­es for “OathKeepers” and “Three Percenters.”

Internal Affairs is inves­ti­gat­ing and the deputy is on paid admin­is­tra­tive leave. Orange County Sheriff Don Barnes says such patch­es are pro­hib­it­ed and the tim­ing could­n’t be worse. “The pub­lic sees that as a sym­bol or sym­bol­ic of oppres­sion or racism or extrem­ist views. That is not okay with me. I do not tol­er­ate that behav­ior. My hope is that the pub­lic real­izes that act of this one indi­vid­ual is not rep­re­sen­ta­tive of not only the rest of the sher­if­f’s depart­ment, but it’s not rep­re­sen­ta­tive of law enforce­ment,” Barnes said.
The name of the sher­if­f’s deputy seen in the video has not been made public.

Michael Henkel, a 61-year old man who worked as a Family Court super­vi­sor in Philadelphia, has been fired from his job after being caught on cam­era caus­ing a dis­tur­bance dur­ing a peace­ful Black Lives Matter protest. He was seen destroy­ing posters and even curs­ing and shout­ing that he doesn’t care about Black lives.
Last Friday, posters with Black Lives Matter mes­sages were put up on a fence in the park as part of a child-friend­ly protest march orga­nized by com­mu­ni­ty leaders.

Henkel, who had worked for Philadelphia’s First Judicial District, report­ed­ly went and took down the signs. A 34-sec­ond video clip showed Henkel doing so while a woman was heard telling him that the signs are not his prop­er­ty. “I know. It’s the city. I pay for this… Yeah, my tax­es pay for this place, yep,” Henkel respond­ed. “So I can do what­ev­er I want… I’m always around here, too.” The woman respond­ed say­ing, “Great. I live right here. Black Lives Matter!” to which Henkel replied, “Not to me, they don’t.” The woman post­ed the video on Facebook on Sunday, imme­di­ate­ly spark­ing out­rage against Henkel. It was blocked from pub­lic view the next day but was post­ed by anoth­er per­son on Instagram.

Moreover, local activist Leslie Chapman expressed dis­ap­point­ment on Henkel, say­ing, “For that adult to take that away from chil­dren, it’s just real­ly awful. The kids prob­a­bly had a lot of fun mak­ing those signs,” accord­ing to The Philadelphia Inquirer. Meanwhile, it has been con­firmed that Henkel “is no longer an employ­ee,” said Family Court spokesper­son Marty O’Rourke since he made mul­ti­ple vio­la­tions of the state court system’s Code of Conduct. “The Court takes the inci­dent very seri­ous­ly and believes Mr. Henkel’s behav­ior as shown in the video is egre­gious and total­ly unac­cept­able for an employ­ee of the Courts,” he said.

Six pub­lic safe­ty employ­ees were placed on leave after a Michigan woman was found unre­spon­sive in a hold­ing cell less than 12 hours after her arrest.
Priscilla Slater was found unre­spon­sive at 12:45 p.m. by a Harper Woods pub­lic safe­ty staffer on June 10, accord­ing to The Detroit Metro Times. She was rushed to a hos­pi­tal and pro­nounced dead at a local hos­pi­tal. She had been arrest­ed at 1 a.m. in con­nec­tion with a shoot­ing at a hotel in Harper Woods, a sub­urb of Detroit. Six Harper Woods pub­lic safe­ty employ­ees were placed on leave while the death is being inves­ti­gat­ed by the Michigan State Police. Harper Woods Public Safety Director Vincent Smith sent well-wish­es to Slater’s fam­i­ly and promised to get answers.

“I offer my con­do­lences to Ms. Slater’s fam­i­ly. MSP inves­ti­ga­tors, mem­bers of com­mand and myself noti­fied Ms. Slater’s fam­i­ly of the inci­dent in an effort to pro­vide what­ev­er infor­ma­tion that may have been avail­able at the time,” Smith said in a state­ment. “MSP inves­ti­ga­tors are dili­gent­ly inves­ti­gat­ing this inci­dent with the com­plete coöper­a­tion of the Department. The cause of death will not be known until the results of the autop­sy and tox­i­col­o­gy report are com­plet­ed.” In an inter­view with Local 4 Defender, Smith said the sus­pen­sions were pro­to­col and not an admis­sion of guilt. The employ­ees in ques­tion includ­ed four civil­ian aides and two supervisors.

“It is pro­ce­dur­al right now,” Smith said. “The inves­ti­ga­tion is going on with state police. These six were on duty when Ms. Slater was found unre­spon­sive. It is pro­ce­dur­al to coöper­ate with the MSP inves­ti­ga­tion.”
Slater’s death sparked a tense protest in front of the Harper Woods City Hall. Demonstrators con­front­ed Mayor Kenneth Poynter and his wife as they walked into the build­ing on Friday, June 12, two days after Slater’s death. Poynter’s wife man­aged to snatch a sign and rip it. Slater’s fam­i­ly is also hold­ing the city account­able and has retained attor­ney Geoffrey Fieger.
“There is no way the police wouldn’t see that some­body was in a seri­ous med­ical need,” Fieger said, accord­ing to Fox 2 Detroit.

Fieger is launch­ing an inde­pen­dent inves­ti­ga­tion into Slater’s death. “The indif­fer­ence to Black lives by the pow­ers that be is astound­ing,” Fieger said. “It doesn’t hap­pen to rich white peo­ple.
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It took me many years to begin pay­ing atten­tion to American foot­ball.
I thought it was arro­gant, that as it is with base­ball a coun­try could play a game against itself and then declare itself world cham­pi­ons.
As a Jamaican through and through, I took umbrage with a coun­try that did not real­ly give respect to the uni­fy­ing game of soc­cer, a game that is played uni­ver­sal­ly.
In addi­tion to that, the United States nev­er both­ered with crick­et. My beloved cricket!.….….…yea, I have a prob­lem with that.
Cricket is played all across the globe, the West Indies, which dom­i­nat­ed dur­ing the time I was com­ing of age. Many Nations field­ed a nation­al crick­et team and today even more nations are field­ing nation­al crick­et teams. 

The West Indies, England, Australia, New Zealand, Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, South Africa, Zimbabwe, now even Ireland and Afghanistan have International crick­et teams.
The United States does not. I thought there was a cer­tain degree of snooti­ness and arro­gance in the United States’ deci­sion, not to both­er play­ing a pop­u­lar game played by the rest of the world, but to cre­ate a com­pet­ing game, play among itself, and then declare itself world cham­pi­on. choos­ing to play base­ball over crick­et and to invent its own foot­ball game that no one else played rather than join­ing the rest of the world in soc­cer.
Since then it is impor­tant to note that the United States has field­ed a nation­al soc­cer team, still, no nation­al crick­et team.

But that is hard­ly my point, after much urg­ing from friends I reluc­tant­ly willed myself to begin under­stand­ing American foot­ball.
The more I watched and learned the more fas­ci­nat­ed I became with it, even though I will admit, I still do not believe that it requires any social skills perse.
Sure, it helps to be big, fast, and to pos­sess the abil­i­ty to jump high, throw a foot­ball far, or be built lion a tank to block a run­ner from the oth­er team or to stop a mad rush against your own quar­ter­back, etc.
But I still believe that a tal­ent­ed crick­eter, ten­nis play­er, or golfer, or a soc­cer play­er is a far dif­fer­ent tal­ent than that which is required to play in the (NFL). The National Football League.

Despite my ini­tial dis­dain for foot­ball, I grew to love the game, and became a big fan. I watched every down that I could, even though I real­ly did not cheer for any par­tic­u­lar team, out­side of my cur­so­ry inter­est in the New York Giants and Jets, both of which are based in New Jersey. And of course, I hat­ed the New England Patriots.
After a few years, I could not wait for the new sea­son to begin, and then Colin Kaepernick kneeled against police vio­lence and racism in the soci­ety, and all hell broke loose.
The igno­rant racist & divider- in-chief saw an open­ing and he stirred up the oth­er igno­ra­mus­es.
The divider-in-chief found in the event, a means to [diss the sons-of bitch­es](sic) [oth­er­wise called black men], and so he ran with it.
As dumb as he is, he is not too dumb to rec­og­nize that white America hates black men, and that by diss­ing them, he was solid­i­fy­ing his hold on them.

The reac­tion by the NFL not to stand up with Trump’s racist assault, not to men­tion his mass of deplorable racial­ists was too much for me. How could the NFL not stand with its play­ers?
What is the NFL with­out its 70% of black play­ers? How could a com­pa­ny not stand by its prod­uct?
Yes.…..dammit, I said [prod­uct] that is what the black play­ers are on that plan­ta­tion.
The Home Depot founder has decid­ed to keep sup­port­ing Donald Trump from what I read, but the com­pa­ny itself is try­ing to dis­tance itself from its own founder. They know black peo­ple buy from Home Depot too.
So they are mov­ing away from their big­ot­ed founder, they want to con­tin­ue sell­ing lum­ber, paints, and every­thing they sell, but the NFL refused to stand up with its prod­ucts, its black play­ers.
For me, that was a bridge too far.

The black­list­ing of Kap, and the resul­tant dis­trac­tion about not respect­ing the flag or the anthem, was a diver­sion from what police are doing.
For my part, it was enough for me to take a stand. My deci­sion nev­er to watch anoth­er pass thrown unless Kap was rehired or com­pen­sat­ed, may not have reg­is­tered on the (NFL-o-meter), but it gave me a sense of pow­er, and an adren­a­line rush to know that in my own lit­tle way I was stand­ing with Kap and the oth­er play­ers who were putting their careers in jeop­ardy on the NFL plantation.

Now Drew Breeze, Roger Goodell, and oth­ers are pre­tend­ing that they are final­ly under­stand­ing what Colin Kaepernick and his col­leagues were say­ing after the protests the George Floyd lynch­ing ignit­ed across the globe.
What I found remark­able was that so many of my broth­ers, who are vic­tims them­selves of American racism, had indi­cat­ed to me that giv­ing up watch­ing NFL games was too much.…“I have to watch my games”… they tell me!
I thought it sad, that so many of my broth­ers and sis­ters are unwill­ing to sac­ri­fice any­thing toward their own eman­ci­pa­tion. Even after so many who have gone on before us have sac­ri­ficed so much and have enjoyed none of the ben­e­fits we are enjoy­ing today all things con­sid­ered.
Every damn one of those racists bas­tards who con­tin­ued to insist that kneel­ing when the nation­al anthem was being played was some kind of dis­re­spect to the flag, and coun­try, knew ful­ly well that it had noth­ing to do with either.
And even if it was dis­re­spect toward one or the oth­er, why would black peo­ple bow down to a coun­try that has nev­er respect­ed their right to exist as full human beings, much less an anthem that cel­e­brates their degradation?

When Black peo­ple stand up for their rights their oppres­sors have no choice but to back up and take notice. Will this upris­ing open the eyes of black peo­ple in America enough for them to real­ize they have their future in their own hands? I have no way of know­ing. Nevertheless, I see statutes of an ugly past tum­bling. I see new leg­is­la­tion being pro­posed, I see old safe­guards against account­abil­i­ty being torn away and I see those who enjoyed blan­ket immu­ni­ty from pros­e­cu­tion lash­ing out.
More than all, I see NASCAR ban­ning the Confederate flag from its events.
That is huge.……Will I ever watch anoth­er NFL game?
Maybe.….….It all depends on what the league does going for­ward.
The moral of the sto­ry is that as the most abused peo­ple across the globe, we must change some things about our­selves.
That means, we must be will­ing to sac­ri­fice a lit­tle, no mat­ter how small.
Yes, black folks, if you are not watch­ing foot­ball on your tele­vi­sion it [does]make a dif­fer­ence. Neilsen report­ing on who is watch­ing what, is one way deter­mine that when we chose not to watch we are mak­ing a dif­fer­ence.
When we turn the tele­vi­sion off all togeth­er we make an even big­ger dif­fer­ence because the cable com­pa­nies also do not stand with us.

The oth­er thing is the impor­tance of buy­ing from black busi­ness­es, and ensur­ing that if you expe­ri­ence poor ser­vice not to argue that you were cor­rect in not sup­port­ing black busi­ness­es because of an iso­lat­ed inci­dent. Tell the man­age­ment of your expe­ri­ence and ask that it be cor­rect­ed.
After all, you are spend­ing your mon­ey with peo­ple who hate you. They treat us with dis­dain and con­tempt, yet you spend your mon­ey with them any­way.
A sim­ple google search will tell you the mega-cor­po­ra­tions that are sup­port­ing white suprema­cy. In many cas­es, they give huge sums of mon­ey to right-wing caus­es and sup­port Republican can­di­dates.
It is time that we real­ize that free­dom is nev­er free, that every gen­er­a­tion has to fight for it, or lose it.

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. 
He’s also a con­trib­u­tor to sev­er­al web­sites.
You may sub­scribe to his blogs free of charge, or sub­scribe to his Youtube chan­nel @chatt-a-box, for the lat­est pod­cast all free to you of course.

I met him at my bar­ber­shop one of the two small busi­ness­es I own and oper­ate in the city of Poughkeepsie. Jamaican to the bone, he came in to get a hair­cut and we became cool after he found out that we were both Jamaicans.
He was a young man who wears the same hair­style as my boys, but he was kin­da dif­fer­ent he talked to me about how I felt he should wear his hair.
I told him that ulti­mate­ly how he wore the hair on his head and face should not be a barom­e­ter of his char­ac­ter, but that ulti­mate­ly, in the world in which we live peo­ple are judged by appear­ance.
I told him that as a young black man he would be judged even more harsh­ly, so I sug­gest­ed that he get a nice tai­lored look.

After a while, he got him­self a job at the Dominoes piaz­za store mak­ing deliv­er­ies. I had no choice but to be hap­py for him, I had nev­er seen any­one so hap­py get­ting a job deliv­er­ing piaz­za, so his con­ta­gious joy was trans­ferred to me.
He became a reg­u­lar and every time that he came in he would recount where he was in his life, includ­ing the fact that he had start­ed class­es at our local com­mu­ni­ty college.

Maurice Gordon was only 28-years old but he was a hope­ful and ambi­tious young man who did not let cir­cum­stance dic­tate his joy.
He was unmatched in his opti­mism for life. Nothing more so than when he enrolled in col­lege.
Yesterday I was scrolling through some news arti­cle and one caught my eye. In a weird way I may have seen it in a pass­ing glance pre­vi­ous­ly but with all that’s hap­pen­ing I may have just scrolled on by.


Grieving mom demands answers after unarmed black motorist is shot 4 times and killed by New Jersey troop­er on Garden State Parkway

I scrolled back and the image that greet­ed me hit me like a ton of bricks.
No, no, no way, I yelled out to my wife, this must be a mis­take, it can­not be.
My heart pound­ing, I speed-read the arti­cle, unable to come to grips with the fact that a real­ly nice guy could meet his death at the hands of police.
According to (insid​ernj​.com) The case of the troop­er shoot­ing of Maurice S. Gordon of Poughkeepsie, back on May 23, only real­ly resur­faced this week­end thanks to Mr. Gordon’s family’s attor­ney press­ing for more infor­ma­tion from Attorney General Gurbir Grewal. On May 23 the Burlington Times ran a 234-word report that mere­ly stat­ed there was an inves­ti­ga­tion of “a fatal offi­cer-involved shoot­ing that occurred along the Garden State Parkway” that hap­pened on a stretch “of the Garden State Parkway in the town­ship [Bass River]. One male civil­ian is dead.” There was no ref­er­ence to the col­or of Mr. Gordon’s race, nor the iden­ti­ty of the police agency involved, nor the name of the offi­cer who shot Mr. Gordon.

According to the same report­ing the fam­i­ly’s attor­ney William O. Wagstaff III, has been unable to get even the most basic infor­ma­tion from the inves­ti­gat­ing author­i­ties in the New Jersey Attorney General’s office.
Mr. Wagstaff con­firmed to jour­nal­ists that he was trou­bled that it took him nine days “of bad­ger­ing” New Jersey’s Attorney General to see even the lim­it­ed por­tion of the video the state pro­vid­ed to the fam­i­ly. He said that he was at a loss to under­stand why the fam­i­ly had been denied access to the full video and the basic details like where Mr. Gordon actu­al­ly died.
The Gordon fam­i­ly lawyer said he was also con­cerned that despite the 2019 direc­tive by Attorney General com­mit­ting to con­duct inde­pen­dent and trans­par­ent probes of police-involved shoot­ings, [the fact this case involved a state troop­er meant that “what we have here is a state lawyer inves­ti­gat­ing the state police].”

It is no secret that the New Jersey state police have been accused of being one of the most racist police agen­cies in the United States.
And so, ques­tions about whether this is yet anoth­er coverup of the unlaw­ful killing in the state of New Jersey which will result in the state inves­ti­gat­ing itself and arriv­ing at the con­clu­sion that it did noth­ing wrong abounds?
These prac­tices of pulling motorists over at all times of the night, leave peo­ple, and in par­tic­u­lar black peo­ple, at the com­plete mer­cy of racist crim­i­nal cops.
States have giv­en the pow­er to police to con­duct traf­fic stops on motorists, argu­ing that traf­fic stops have yield­ed large finds in illic­it drugs and oth­er con­tra­band. What they do not tell you is that these stops are cash cows that are used to fund police depart­ments and in many cas­es used to fund budgets.

When the racism in American police depart­ments is fac­tored into the mix, a black man trav­el­ing on America’s road­ways, is in extreme per­il of being mur­dered by police who most assured­ly will nev­er be held account­able for their crimes.
There are no words to express the anger I feel at the tak­ing of this young man’s life, par­tic­u­lar­ly because he was so hope­ful and excit­ed about his future.
Regardless of the sto­ry that NJ author­i­ties con­coct and present to the fam­i­ly of Maurice Gordon, for me, it will have zero cred­i­bil­i­ty. The fact that they refused to release infor­ma­tion to the fam­i­ly’s attor­ney who has a right to know how mis­ter Gordon was killed and by what cop is lit­er­al­ly some­thing one would expect from a back­wa­ter total­i­tar­i­an state.
This was not a young man who was engag­ing in crim­i­nal activ­i­ties. His killing is an abom­i­na­tion to every­thing that is right­eous and decent. Those that took his life are abhor­rent crea­tures who deserve no def­er­ence or recog­ni­tion afford­ed human beings.

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From: FROM DUTCHESS COMMUNITY COLLEGE

We are sad­dened to share this mes­sage from DCC President Pamela Edington on the death of stu­dent Maurice Gordon:

As the trag­ic events of the past few weeks con­tin­ue to weigh heav­i­ly on our hearts and minds, we have just learned that one of our own, 28-year-old Dutchess Community College stu­dent Maurice Gordon, was killed on May 23 by a state troop­er after a rou­tine traf­fic stop on the Garden State Parkway in New Jersey. Full details of the inci­dent have not yet been released to the fam­i­ly or their attor­ney, but accord­ing to ini­tial news cov­er­age of the inci­dent, Maurice was unarmed.

A native of Jamaica who moved to the U.S. when he was 19, Maurice was study­ing sci­ence and part of our CSTEP pro­gram. He had been iden­ti­fied as a stand­out who could take advan­tage of research oppor­tu­ni­ties, and was look­ing for­ward to begin­ning this work next semes­ter. By all accounts, Maurice was a smart, involved, affa­ble young man – a lov­ing son and broth­er – who was des­tined for great things. We under­stand his moth­er has trav­eled here from Great Britain to make arrange­ments and to fol­low the inves­ti­ga­tion into her son’s death. Should we become aware of a way in which the DCC cam­pus com­mu­ni­ty can help Maurice’s fam­i­ly, we will let you know.

As we mourn the death of Maurice Gordon, I am ask­ing each mem­ber of our cam­pus com­mu­ni­ty to recom­mit to the goals and val­ues sur­round­ing diver­si­ty that we iden­ti­fied in our five-year strate­gic plan in 2015. Dutchess Community College must be a place where all stu­dents, fac­ul­ty and staff are wel­come and free to thrive, a safe space in which diver­si­ty, equi­ty and inclu­sion are fos­tered and embraced, and a mod­el com­mu­ni­ty that val­ues every life.

I am sor­ry to have to share this very sad news with you today. Please do some­thing kind in Maurice’s memory.

PLEASE SHARE THIS ARTICLE IN THE INTEREST OF TRANSPARENCY, CALL THE NJ ATTORNEY GENERAL’S OFFICE AND DEMAND ANSWERS.

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. 
He’s also a con­trib­u­tor to sev­er­al web­sites.
You may sub­scribe to his blogs free of charge, or sub­scribe to his Youtube chan­nel @chatt-a-box, for the lat­est pod­cast all free to you of course.

If you ever lost focus on what is real­ly hap­pen­ing in America with race, or if you were nev­er edu­cat­ed on it, this is where you need to begin open­ing your eyes to the ghast­ly vio­lence that was unleashed on black peo­ple, not just by white cit­i­zens, but by the state & Federal Governments.
Today, as peo­ple march for jus­tice in the name of the mul­ti­ple black men, women & chil­dren who have been mur­dered by both police and vig­i­lantes, it is impor­tant to under­stand the gen­e­sis of this hatred.
The last thing we black peo­ple need is to have white peo­ple tell us what we need to do, what we want from white peo­ple is for them to lis­ten to what we are say­ing and for them to ask us to help them to under­stand what we are feeling.

If we under­stand that this [hatred] is (endem­ic to white Anglo Saxons) then we begin the process of under­stand­ing that wait­ing and march­ing will not change hearts and minds of a peo­ple who are by def­i­n­i­tion the per­son­i­fi­ca­tion of hatred.
It did not change hearts and minds 57 years ago before they assas­si­nat­ed Dr. King, it will not do so now.
It is for those rea­sons that Dr. King was against it and Malcolm X demand­ed change by what­ev­er means necessary.

Fifty-sev­en (57) years ago Dr. Martin Luther King warned African-Americans about accept­ing grad­u­al­ism, in his August 1963 speech he spoke of what he char­ac­ter­ized as [the fierce urgency of now].
“We have also come to this hal­lowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of now. This is no time to engage in the lux­u­ry of cool­ing off or to take the tran­quil­iz­ing drug of grad­u­al­ism. Now is the time to make real the promis­es of democ­ra­cy.” – Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., I have a dream speech, August 28,1963.

Someone said if white police were kneel­ing on the necks of dogs or shoot­ing them as they are doing to black peo­ple every sin­gle police depart­ment would have been dis­band­ed.
If they val­ue the lives of dogs (no offense to my dog Bud), more than they do the lives of black human beings, what makes you think that any­thing you do oth­er than force them to respect you will impact their hearts.

In the first place, I am offend­ed sole­ly on the basis of any con­cept by which my exis­tence should be based on any­one else’s sense of com­fort­a­bil­i­ty or acqui­es­cence.
So the very premise of grad­u­al­ism as a con­cept ought to be tossed out the win­dow. If you are not com­fort­able with me in the space that I occu­py you are free to find some­where that you are more com­fort­able. What is not going to hap­pen is that I am not going to adjust my life just so that you can be com­fort­able liv­ing your life the way that you want to live it.

If the police which is sup­posed to keep com­mu­ni­ties safe, has got­ten to the point that those com­mu­ni­ties are worse off because of them , then it is time to get rid of the police.
Sure we need crimes inves­ti­gat­ed and we have some won­der­ful & proffes­sion­al offi­cers who do that every day. The prob­lem is not with those unbi­ased pro­fes­sion­als who go and do their jobs as pros.
The prob­lem comes from the poor­ly-edu­cat­ed, poor­ly-trained racial­ists that are sent out into the com­mu­ni­ties to gen­er­ate income for the states and munic­i­pal­i­ties.
They are lit­tle more than tax-col­lec­tors with a racial agen­da. That is where the prob­lem lies.

(1)So we are call­ing for qual­i­fied immu­ni­ty.
(2) Stop send­ing police to the Apartheid state of Israel to train to kill black peo­ple.
(3) Make police get mal­prac­tice insur­ance.
(4) Stop police unions from stand­ing in the way of police account­abil­i­ty.
(5) Stop hid­ing police offi­cers’ per­son­nel records from the pub­lic when police com­mit crimes against the com­mu­ni­ty.
(6) Once an offi­cer is fired from a police depart­ment for mis­con­duct he/​she should not be able to work in law enforce­ment again.
(7) End the prac­tice of keep­ing police in their depart­ments, even after mul­ti­ple mis­con­duct alle­ga­tions of use of force excess­es.
(8) Remove the police from schools.
(9) Begin dis­man­tling the indis­crim­i­nate stop­ping of motorists for minor traf­fic infrac­tions.
(10) Begin dis­man­tling laws like the stop and frisk laws in New York, and the mar­i­jua­na laws that police have used to abuse peo­ple of col­or.
We can begin with these changes with­out abol­ish­ing the police altogether. 

Mike Beckles is a for­mer Jamaican police Detective cor­po­ral, busi­ness­man, researcher, and blog­ger. 
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A California may­or has resigned his office after com­ing under fire for send­ing out a racial­ly insen­si­tive email regard­ing police vio­lence.
James Stewart, who was elect­ed may­or of Temecula, California in November 2016, resigned the seat Thursday after he was called out for a reply email to a Temecula res­i­dent, who asked what was being done about police vio­lence, accord­ing to Too Fab.
“I don’t believe there’s ever been a good per­son of col­or killed by a police offi­cer,” Stewart said in the mes­sage that went viral.

People flood­ed the inter­net with crit­i­cisms and accu­sa­tions of racism on the south­ern California city’s offi­cial Facebook page. Stewart, who led the con­ser­v­a­tive-lean­ing city of about 115,000, post­ed an ini­tial apol­o­gy the day before issu­ing his res­ig­na­tion, stat­ing that he uses “voice text” due to his dyslex­ia, and didn’t proof-read­ing before send­ing.
“I absolute­ly did not say that,” he wrote in the post. “What I said is and I don’t believe there has ever been a per­son of col­or mur­dered by police, on con­text to Temecula or Riverside coun­ty. I absolute­ly did not say ‘good’ I have no idea how that popped up. Please for­give me for this egre­gious error.”

However, the back­lash con­tin­ued, prompt­ing him to make a fol­low-up state­ment to insist those aren’t his beliefs. “My typos and off-the-cuff response to an email on a seri­ous top­ic added pain at a time where our com­mu­ni­ty, and our coun­try, is suf­fer­ing,” he said. “I may not be the best writer and I some­times mis­s­peak, but I am not racist. I deeply regret this mis­take and I own it, entire­ly. I am tru­ly sorry.”Stewart addressed the bad tim­ing and tur­moil the email took on the com­mu­ni­ty and elect­ed to resign, anyway. 

“I under­stand that even my sin­cer­est apolo­gies can­not rem­e­dy this sit­u­a­tion. Because actions speak loud­er than words, I will step down as your Mayor and City Council Member effec­tive imme­di­ate­ly,” he wrote. The news comes as nation­wide protests against racism and police bru­tal­i­ty con­tin­ue in the wake of the police killing of George Floyd, an unarmed Black Minneapolis man whose last words were “I can’t breath” as four offi­cers held him in cus­tody in pub­lic. One offi­cer, who was seen pin­ning Floyd down by press­ing his knee into his kneck for almost 9 min­utes, has been charged with sec­ond-degree mur­der. The oth­er three offi­cers assist­ing in the arrest have been charged with aid­ing and abet­ting in the alleged murder.

EDITOR’S NOTE: They are such repug­nant liars, even when caught they still make them­selves seem even more pathet­ic and igno­rant by the sil­ly lies they tell in order to try and save face. I can under­stand the mag­gots who share racists ideals and admit it. What I absolute­ly abhor are those who are deep-seat­ed racists but try to pre­tend to be some­thing else when called out.
On a more point­ed note, the actions of this pathet­ic crea­ture ref­er­ence in the above sto­ry and the one ref­er­ence in the sto­ry below is exact­ly what I addressed in the video mono­logue above.

AND THEN THERE IS THIS.……



TENNESSEE SHERIFF PLANS APOLOGY AFTER ADMITTING HE USED THE N‑WORD IN A RECORDING

Lauderdale County, Tenn., Sheriff Steve Sanders has admit­ted to using the n‑word after a tape record­ing of him using the racist slur sur­faced when a local record­ing artist played the tape dur­ing an Instagram live ses­sion.
“I did. I won’t tell you no lie about it,” Sanders told News Channel 3 Memphis on Wednesday. Despite his use of the n‑word, Sanders said he isn’t a racist, and the word, “just slipped out.”
The sher­iff also said he doesn’t remem­ber when the con­ver­sa­tion took place and that he was unaware he was being recorded.

“I got a lot of Black friends, I got a lot of ene­mies, as any sher­iff would, but I apol­o­gize to all of them,” Sanders said in the inter­view. “I’m going to apol­o­gize Friday to all the cit­i­zens in the coun­ty because they’re good peo­ple.”
Sanders has been sher­iff of Lauderdale County for 16 years, and is the area’s longest-tenured sher­iff.
The audio was also post­ed on Facebook and has prompt­ed some cit­i­zens to demand his res­ig­na­tion. One Lauderdale Country res­i­dent, Tiffany Driver, told New Channel 3 Memphis that it was “heart­break­ing” and “a slap in the face” after the coun­try is still deal­ing with the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic.
White peo­ple using the n‑word is a phe­nom­e­non that con­tin­ues to make head­lines. On Thursday, Oregon State fresh­man tight end Rocco Carley was dis­missed from his foot­ball team after an audio record­ing where he used racist lan­guage recent­ly surfaced. 

The record­ing was made when Carley was in high school. In the video, which was post­ed to Twitter, the fresh­man foot­ball play­er can be heard say­ing hor­rif­ic, racist state­ments against Blacks, homo­sex­u­als, and Muslims.
“I’d like to get all the Blacks in a cham­ber, and burn the sh*t out of them,” Carley says. In the video, Carley sounds as if he is using a south­ern accent. In an apol­o­gy post on Instagram, he said that the video was “satire.”


In the video below, I speak to the fact that the igno­rance of racism in many of these peo­ple stems from a lack of expo­sure, in addi­tion to being taught to hate. It is real­ly a marked diver­gence between the way many blacks are raised against their white coun­ter­parts.
Some peo­ple are taught to love oth­ers are taught how to hate. It is not impos­si­ble to root hate from the heart of some­one who was raised to do so, but it is incred­i­bly dif­fi­cult.
Exposure to oth­er cul­tures is edu­ca­tion­al, it opens the eyes to the beau­ty of God’s plan. Living in mono­lith­ic com­mu­ni­ties does noth­ing to help that process.