IGNORE THE RACIAL CONCUBINES WHO SELL YOU OUT FOR WHITE ACCEPTANCE AND SOCIAL-MEDIA LIKES.
THEY BECOME RELEVANT IF YOU GIVE THEM OXYGEN.

“I could have accom­plished more against my ene­mies but I have had to use one hand fend­ing off my friends.”[Paraphrased].
As we expe­ri­ence the events that suc­ceed­ed the ghast­ly killing of George Floyd, we have seen peo­ple of all stripes stand up and pay their respects to the mem­o­ry & fam­i­ly of Mister Floyd.
Speaking for myself, I am still unable to look at the video or watch some of the emo­tion­al images with­out cry­ing uncontrollably.

I have no idea why I can­not stop cry­ing for a man I have nev­er met? I have no idea what made me close my busi­ness, pick up a video cam­era, and stand with pro­tes­tors in my city?
Neither do I know what prompt­ed me to brave a line of heav­i­ly armed police offi­cers, to tell them in no uncer­tain terms, tears in my eyes, that what they are doing across the coun­try is wrong?

In all of the events that occurred, with all of the shock­ing images we bear wit­ness to, of police act­ing out aggres­sive­ly & bar­bar­i­cal­ly against cit­i­zens, I saw hope. I saw hope for a bet­ter tomor­row.
I saw a pos­si­bil­i­ty for the man­i­fes­ta­tion of the dream as Dr. King saw it over [60]years ago. “I have a dream that my four lit­tle chil­dren will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the col­or of their skin but by the con­tent of their char­ac­ter.”
I saw it in the mil­lions of young and old white peo­ple who turned out to march, lit­er­al­ly plac­ing them­selves in har­m’s way, at extreme risk even at the per­il of death. In many cas­es, they out­num­bered black peo­ple by wide mar­gins.
Many have been bru­tal­ized and even killed by police. Let us nev­er fail to rec­og­nize the sac­ri­fices of our white broth­ers and sis­ters who stand, and have stood with us, and have suf­fered, even though they did­n’t have to.

Even as my heart swells with hope at the prospect of a white awak­en­ing, I am cau­tious and con­strained in my expec­ta­tions of what will come from this momen­tous event.
For far too long many in the black com­mu­ni­ty have used these events as oppor­tu­ni­ties to gain per­son­al recog­ni­tion for them­selves.
Let this not be anoth­er event for the self-absorbed to jock­ey for atten­tion. Let it be the defin­ing event that will char­ac­ter­ize the begin­ning of the end of white supremacy.

This is a moment that must be har­nessed for the greater good. It is an inflec­tion moment that has peeled away the thin veneer of nor­mal­cy that had for four hun­dred years plus, cov­ered the igno­ble and hor­rif­ic night­mare that is white American racism.
It is time to step away from those who would [“what about”] us to death. It is time to walk away from those who would side­track what we are about as a peo­ple, demand­ing equal­i­ty and jus­tice, fair-play on a lev­el play­ing field.
Yes, that includes those with black skin.
Those who have found a kind of sick and dement­ed com­fort in [“Massa’s house”], whether as his maid, but­ler, or as his [con­cu­bine].

There are some who have black skin but white hearts, they sold their souls to the dev­il, and have made the tac­ti­cal deci­sion to speak ill of black peo­ple as a vehi­cle to gain likes on social media.
Understand, that some would rather be sub­servient on their knees in def­er­en­tial servi­tude to their oppres­sors, than face the dan­gers of stand­ing on their own feet towards a path to true freedom.

It is for those rea­sons that Harriet Tubman report­ed­ly car­ried a gun, not for the white slave-catch­ers but for those negroes with white hearts who would run back to [Massa]. Those Israelites who berat­ed Moses because they did not have meat.
The events that we wit­nessed after the lynch­ing of George Floyd’s death have illu­mi­nat­ed the brutish & mur­der­ous pro­cliv­i­ty inher­ent in American police.
For all intents and pur­pos­es, they have demon­strat­ed that they are the oppo­si­tion, they are [the tip of the spear of black oppres­sion], (as if we did­n’t already know)?

The vast major­i­ty of white men in America’s police depart­ments have revealed them­selves as ene­mies of the black com­mu­ni­ty.
But for a few excep­tions, they have become a counter-move­ment to the strug­gles of black peo­ple’s fight for black auton­o­my, they are the counter-move­ment.
They have revealed them­selves as race-sol­diers against the black com­mu­ni­ty, some­thing African-Americans have been say­ing they are for gen­er­a­tions and generations.

The hard­est part of this bat­tle is deal­ing with those in black skin who would jock­ey for [pow­er & place] on the back of a tragedy. Worse yet, there are those who are quite will­ing to be sub­servient race con­cu­bines. Those we sim­ply must ignore and hope they will dry up and blow away.
They are rel­e­vant only when we give them oxy­gen. Like a tiny flick­er­ing flame, place a jar over it and it dies a nat­ur­al death.
They are rel­e­vant only to those they serve, they are not rel­e­vant to us.

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.

IMAGES THAT TUG AT THE HEART OF PEOPLE

Regardless of what white apol­o­gists say as they try to jus­ti­fy police geno­cide against Black peo­ple, the images tell an unde­ni­able truth.
At this point, we should engage with our white sis­ters and broth­ers who march and strug­gle with us, they are beat­en and bru­tal­ized and some of them are even killed by the rabid dogs oper­at­ing us police officers.

As far as those who would deny the over 500 years of oppres­sion of Black peo­ple, we should dis­en­gage them and not try to have a con­ver­sa­tion with them.

They care more about injured dogs than they do black babies. They care more about peo­ple break­ing glass than they care about cops mur­der­ing cit­i­zens in their name.
In fact, the killing of black peo­ple evokes a secret glee in them.

It is impor­tant to note that Mister Floyd was accused of pass­ing a ques­tion­able $20-dol­lar bill to a store clerk.…… Eight min­utes and forty six sec­onds it took for Chauvin and his thug col­leagues to squeeze the life out of a plead­ing George Floyd.

Eric Garner being mur­dered by NYPD thugDaniel Pantaleo and a bunch of oth­er thugs. Mister gar­ner’s sin? Selling untaxed cig­a­rettes, a minor violation.

The injus­tice and the dis­par­i­ty are not juts about the optics they are endem­ic and strate­gic.
According to the (MarshallProject​.com), Only 31 of the near­ly 800 white defen­dants exe­cut­ed since 1976 — when the Supreme Court rein­stat­ed the death penal­ty — had a black vic­tim, accord­ing to the Death Penalty Information Center. During the same time­frame, 234 of near­ly 500 exe­cut­ed black defen­dants had white vic­tims. The last time a white per­son was put to death for killing a black per­son in South Carolina, where Roof will be tried, was in 1991.

In Pennsylvania, it was in 1999. In Louisiana, 1752¹. In Texas, there were no such exe­cu­tions between 1854 and 2003, and in Alabama, there were none from 1913 to 1997 (there haven’t been any, since, either). In Florida, a white defen­dant has nev­er been put to death for mur­der­ing a black person.

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.

PICTURE MONTAGE, JUNE 2ND IN POUGHKEEPSIE, THOUSANDS TURNED OUT TO SEND A CLEAR MESSAGE THAT ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.

Amidst the peace­ful protest­ing over the killing of George Floyd, CBS News and Fox 9 have con­firmed that most of the riot­ers and vio­lent pro­test­ers in Minneapolis are linked to white suprema­cist groups.
According to the Department of Safety Commissioner John Harrington, most of the arrests are in fact linked to white nation­al­ist groups that encour­age mem­bers online to take advan­tage of the protests to make chaos. Attorney General William Barr made sim­i­lar remarks.
Melvin Carter, the may­or of St. Paul, said that many riot­ers who were arrest­ed were from out of the state. He agreed that “there’s a group of folks that are sad and mourn­ing.” However, he added, “There seems to be anoth­er group that is using Mr. Floyd’s death as a cov­er to cre­ate havoc.”

According to CourtHouseNews​.com, even Minnesota Governor Tim Walz sus­pects that white suprema­cist groups and drug car­tels are car­ry­ing out some of the vio­lence in Minneapolis. “Our great cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul are under assault by peo­ple who do not share our val­ues, who do not val­ue life and the work that went into this and are cer­tain­ly not here to hon­or George Floyd,” he said in a press con­fer­ence. “They need to see today that that line will stop and order needs to be restored.” Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey shared the same sen­ti­ments. He com­ment­ed, “The peo­ple that are doing this are not Minneapolis res­i­dents. They are com­ing large­ly from out­side the city out­side the region to prey on every­thing we have built.”

According to [Business Insider] A white suprema­cist chan­nel on the encrypt­ed mes­sag­ing app Telegram encour­aged its fol­low­ers to spark vio­lence to start a race war dur­ing nation­wide protests against police bru­tal­i­ty fol­low­ing the death of George Floyd, Politico report­ed, cit­ing an inter­nal Department of Homeland Security intel­li­gence note.
Citing the FBI, the note said that two days after Floyd’s death, the chan­nel “incit­ed fol­low­ers to engage in vio­lence and start the ‘booga­loo’ — a term used by some vio­lent extrem­ists to refer to the start of a sec­ond Civil War — by shoot­ing in a crowd.”

• One of the mes­sages in the chan­nel called for poten­tial shoot­ers to “frame the crowd around you” for the vio­lence, the note said, accord­ing to Politico.
• Other media out­lets have also report­ed on white suprema­cist groups weaponiz­ing protests against police bru­tal­i­ty to incite violence.
• Meanwhile, sev­er­al Republican offi­cials, includ­ing President Donald Trump, have blamed “Antifa” for the vio­lence and some have sug­gest­ed pro­test­ers should be hunt­ed down like terrorists.

Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas also advo­cat­ed for using mil­i­tary force against pro­test­ers and indi­cat­ed that they should be shown no mer­cy.
“We need to have zero tol­er­ance for this destruc­tion,” Cotton wrote, call­ing pro­test­ers “Antifa ter­ror­ists.” “And, if nec­es­sary, the 10^th Mountain, 82^nd Airborne, 1^st Cav, 3^rd Infantry — what­ev­er it takes to restore order,” he added. “No quar­ter for insur­rec­tion­ists, anar­chists, riot­ers, and loot­ers.” “No quar­ter” is a mil­i­tary term that means a com­man­der will not accept the law­ful sur­ren­der of an ene­my com­bat­ant and sug­gests the cap­tive will instead be killed. The prac­tice is a war crime under the Geneva Conventions.

White suprema­cists pose as Antifa online, call for vio­lencehttps://​www​.click​2​hous​ton​.com/​n​e​w​s​/​n​a​t​i​o​n​a​l​/​2​0​2​0​/​0​6​/​0​2​/​w​h​i​t​e​-​s​u​p​r​e​m​a​c​i​s​t​s​-​p​o​s​e​-​a​s​-​a​n​t​i​f​a​-​o​n​l​i​n​e​-​c​a​l​l​-​f​o​r​-​v​i​o​l​e​n​ce/

Let’s just face it, the endem­ic racism with­in America’s Government and par­tic­u­lar­ly in the jus­tice sys­tem is so severe that it is prob­a­bly impos­si­ble to fix the tox­ic rot.
If America’s jus­tice sys­tem was a pair of shoes the wear­er would be walk­ing with­out soles, just uppers giv­ing the impres­sion of pro­tect­ed feet.
If it was a house there would be no roof no walls
If you wear black skin that is…
The silence of white peo­ple, and in par­tic­u­lar white politi­cians, in the face of decades and decades of insti­tu­tion­al­ized racism, enforced by tat­toed, doped up on steroids klans­men dressed in police uni­forms, is no is tes­ta­ment to their com­plic­i­ty.
Every damn one of them is guilty. This is not just about the lynch­ings of George Floyd, or Ahmaud Arbery, it’s not about Freddy Grey, or Tamir Rice, it’s not about Philando Castile or Eric Graner, no it is not about Sandra Bland or Bryonna Taylor. God knows it isn’t just about Amadou Diallo or Sean Bell, not just about John Crawford or Trayvon Martin.

The rea­son it is not about any of these high pro­file lynch­ings is that they are too many.
It is about four hun­dred-plus years of white on black homi­cide.
Where does it stop?
Clearly, this is not about enforc­ing laws, police who arrive to deal with a case of some­one ten­der­ing a bad cur­ren­cy-note speak to the per­son respect­ful­ly and calm­ly.
There is a high prob­a­bil­i­ty that the per­son ten­der­ing a fake note has no idea it is fake. For all intents and pur­pos­es, that per­son may also be a vic­tim of fraud them­self.
Under no cir­cum­stances could the police have ascer­tained that mis­ter Floyd was a crim­i­nal sus­pect just by him ten­der­ing a fake note.
In fact, it requires spe­cial test­ing to deter­mine whether or not a note is fake or real, it is almost guar­an­teed that none of the offi­cers who arrived at the scene that day had the prop­er train­ing to defin­i­tive­ly tell whether a note was fake or real.
It is the busi­ness of the US Secret ser­vice to inves­ti­gate such mat­ters, so it seems to me that all the police could [legal­ly] do [in rela­tion to that par­tic­u­lar call] was to estab­lish the name and address of George Floyd for fur­ther inves­ti­ga­tions. As I said ear­li­er for all they knew, and based on how fake notes are cir­cu­lat­ed, mis­ter Floyd may have him­self been a vic­tim of fraud.

Whatever degree of racism you expect exists in the sys­tem, take that num­ber and mul­ti­ply it a thou­sand times and you may get clos­er to the truth of the degree of white racism that cor­rupts & dis­torts the American jus­tice sys­tem against black peo­ple.
It a tragedy to [invoke] the word jus­tice in the same sen­tence as it relates to the Amrican shit-stem against peo­ple of col­or, Blacks, Native Americans, and oth­ers.
A bet­ter def­i­n­i­tion of the American jus­tice sys­tem for black peo­ple would be the [injus­tice shit-stem].
It is tire­some, it is back-break­ing, it is beyond repair. They cre­at­ed a sys­tem of oppres­sion so com­plete that it caus­es some to throw up their hands and declare “only God can fix this”.

And so it leads to the per­ti­nent ques­tion of why?
Why did a race of peo­ple decide that they had to cre­ate such a con­vo­lut­ed sys­tem of deceit and lies, such a remark­ably duplic­i­tous sys­tem designed to dom­i­nate and destroy anoth­er race of peo­ple they had for hun­dreds of years pri­or, dom­i­nat­ed and destroyed.
What does this degree of hatred exist, what caused them to come up with such a hate­ful sys­tem, even though they already had the eco­nom­ic & numer­i­cal strength of majori­tar­i­an rule?
The very thing that America cre­at­ed for its use to sup­press its minor­i­ty com­mu­ni­ties, (police) is now caus­ing what I saw as the inevitable unrav­el­ing of American hege­mon­ic racism.

America’s Racism can­not be cured by America. America’s Racism must be cured by the rest of the world. It will have to be that the rest of the world stands up to Apartheid Amerikkka as it did against Apartheid South Africa.
This moment must be the defin­ing moment of truth, the defin­ing moment of account­abil­i­ty for America to atone for its sins of slav­ery and geno­cide.
pre­tend­ing that the sins it com­mit­ted and still com­mit each and every day are jus­ti­fied is no longer accept­able.
This has to stop. 

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.

Jacob Pederson, a police offi­cer of the St. Paul Police Department, has been iden­ti­fied by some sources as the man in a viral video who is seen van­dal­iz­ing and smash­ing store win­dows in Minneapolis. The police depart­ment, how­ev­er, is deny­ing that the man in the video is one of their own. 

They have released a state­ment to the media saying:

“We are aware of the social media post that erro­neous­ly iden­ti­fies one of our offi­cers as the per­son caught on video break­ing win­dows in Minneapolis. We want to be per­fect­ly clear about this”: “The per­son in the video is not our offi­cer. Our offi­cer has been work­ing hard, serv­ing his com­mu­ni­ty, keep­ing peo­ple and prop­er­ty safe, and pro­tect­ing the right to peace­ful­ly assem­ble. It’s unfor­tu­nate that peo­ple would post and share this untrue infor­ma­tion, adding more con­fu­sion to an already painful time in our com­mu­ni­ty.”

Social media, how­ev­er, has a dif­fer­ent take and many are con­vinced that the man in the video is indeed Officer Jacob Pederson. Some who were on the scene even rec­og­nized him, and many are ques­tion­ing if he was also involved in set­ting build­ings on fire in the city.
A woman claim­ing to be his ex-wife has even come for­ward say­ing that she is 90% sure that it’s him, and that she rec­og­nizes the gas mask and gloves he was wear­ing.
Mainstream media has shown most­ly African Americans loot­ing, van­dal­iz­ing, and vio­lent­ly protest­ing, but this footage paints a dif­fer­ent picture.(source,black new​.com)

NOW THE WORLD IS SEEING THE TRUTH ABOUT AMERICA

For years we have been writ­ing about America’s police prob­lem and to be hon­est many in the cor­po­rate media has been the biggest cheer­lead­ers for America’s police, regard­less of the crimes alleged against them.
In America there is a cult-like feal­ty giv­en to police and the mil­i­tary, it is noth­ing less than out & out idol­a­try, & trust me I love law enforce­ment I served as a law enforce­ment offi­cer for ten years.

If you thing what American police are doing is good and right, you are part of the prob­lem.
When jour­nal­ists are arrest­ed as they car­ry out their con­sti­tu­tion­al­ly pro­tect­ed man­dates by police in Minneapolis at a time when the Police should be doing every­thing in their pow­er to calm ten­sions, even after four of their own mur­dered a black man on cam­era, it tells the world that they do not give a damn.
CNN’s Omar Jimenez and his crew were arrest­ed and released hours lat­er while cov­er­ing protests over the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Minnesota State Patrol arrest­ed the team live on CNN air.
If you do not see that this coun­try is in cri­sis you are either dead or wil­ful­ly blind.
These are not police offi­cers, they are race sol­diers send­ing a mes­sage, their mes­sage is clear.

We have reached a stage in America where the mon­ster they cre­at­ed both in the White House, & in the thou­sands of police depart­ments across the nation, are lit­er­al­ly destroy­ing the coun­try.
There was noth­ing called police at the time that the US Constitution was draft­ed. It is remark­able where America has reached, the framers had the good sense even way back then to ensure that the US mil­i­tary could not turn its guns against the American peo­ple.
So what did politi­cians grad­u­al­ly do? They raised up their own army and called it police.
They out­fit­ted them much the same way that the mil­i­tary is, and [they].……have the author­i­ty to turn their guns on the peo­ple.
They have not been shy about turn­ing their guns on black cit­i­zens but soon enough it will be on all that is not a part of the one per­cent.
That will be the cul­mi­na­tion of 500-years of white supremacy.

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.

For over 500 hun­dred years, Black peo­ple have suf­fered and died. for many decades Black peo­ple have marched and sang, preached and beseeched, cried & died. None of that has worked to change the behav­ior of racist white peo­ple.
They con­tin­ue to teach this degen­er­a­tive men­tal retar­da­tion they pos­sess to their chil­dren. Dr. Martin Luther King once said, “a riot is the lan­guage of the unheard”.I say,” you can­not appeal to the bet­ter angels with­in a peo­ple in whom there are no bet­ter angels”.

Every time you hear them decry the lan­guage of the unheard, under­stand this; They care more about bro­ken glass than they do about bro­ken and destroyed black bod­ies.
So those of you who want to remain silent, pray­ing, and hop­ing to effect change through weak­ness and sub­servience, so that they can have their social order, while you get no jus­tice, pre­pare your­selves for anoth­er 500 years of being their door­mats to be used and dis­card­ed.
Enough is enough, we can­not go back to the way we were after wit­ness­ing the assas­si­na­tion of George Floyd. If you are not with us you are against us. Rise up thou might race.….…

I darn well expect­ed that Republicans would be silent on the killing of black peo­ple by their KKKOPS, we get that they hate us, so I don’t expect that Moscow- Mitch McConnell or any of his cronies in either the House or Senate will stand up.
Listen Black peo­ple do you hear the silence of the Republicans?
Yes, we knew they would be silent because the killings fit into their agenda.

But wait .….wait just a minute.….
Where are the white Democrats who sit on their ass­es across America and depend on black peo­ple, cycle after cycle to vote them into office?
Where is Andrew Cuomo and Bill de Blasio, whose Racist thugs in the NYPD con­tin­ue to bru­tal­ize peo­ple with no con­se­quence?
Do you hear any­thing from them?
Black peo­ple make sure all of these hea­thens hear from you come November.

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.

Associate Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s dis­sent­ing opin­ions on the US Supreme Court’s deci­sions on the police and the broad­er prob­lems of qual­i­fied immu­ni­ty, is prob­a­bly the best place to look for what America is doing at the high­est lev­els, to ensure the present sys­tem of white suprema­cy.
Justice Sotomayor has elo­quent­ly argued that the court by its rul­ings, has act­ed as a lit­er­al bar­ri­er against police account­abil­i­ty.
Make no mis­take about it, fish rots from the head, the US Supreme Court in 1967 cre­at­ed the doc­trine known as (qual­i­fied immu­ni­ty). That deci­sion result­ed in the rise of the war­rior cop, it effec­tive­ly ensured that the Government could stand up a dif­fer­ent army than the one pro­hib­it­ed by the con­sti­tu­tion from turn­ing their guns on the peo­ple.
That army is the com­bined new police depart­ment, replete with full mil­i­tary hardware.

Apart from pro­vid­ing a rock-sol­id ceil­ing which ensures that police and oth­er gov­ern­ment work­ers are insu­lat­ed from accountability(except in pret­ty extreme cir­cum­stances), it gave low­er courts cov­er to pro­tect police and by exten­sion allows police the lat­i­tude to act with absolute impuni­ty.
This is a deep­er, dark­er more sys­temic prob­lem than the black com­mu­ni­ty is under­stand­ing.
It was designed to ush­er in anoth­er era of white suprema­cy after the civ­il rights accom­plish­ments of the ear­ly 1960s.
The sell­ing of this doc­trine was that it is intend­ed to stop cit­i­zens from suing gov­ern­ment work­ers, of course, the courts have always been able to sort through friv­o­lous law­suits with­out a prob­lem and still are today.
This peri­od is ush­er­ing in anoth­er dark peri­od of white suprema­cy as whites in America become increas­ing­ly threat­ened as their num­bers begin to dwin­dle and the pop­u­la­tions begin to reflect a more racial­ly diverse soci­ety.….….……




WHEN WHITE PEOPLE DEMONSTRATE

So these mer­ce­nar­ies are heav­i­ly armed , they are wear­ing no masks, and they are defy­ing every order the Michigan Governor has issued.
In fact , they entered the capi­tol build­ing and cre­at­ed ter­ror in the Democratic law­mak­ers delib­er­at­ing there.
Do you see any police with tanks and guns? Do you see any police kneel­ing on any­one’s neck?
Of course not?

WHEN BLACK PEOPLE DEMONSTRATE

You get the pic­ture! A pic­ture speaks a thou­sand words of the two Americas.

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.

War is ugly. To many of us the sight of blood is not some­thing we rel­ish. Watching the life choked out of anoth­er human being is ghast­ly.
Seeing some­one kneel on the neck of anoth­er human being until the life leaves his body is some­thing that chal­lenges our con­cept of this thing we call human­i­ty.
Watching a kneel­ing man with his hands in the air end up with a bar­rage of bul­lets pumped into his body is beyond comprehension.

Seeing a man dri­ving along the road with his fam­i­ly stopped and mur­dered as he sat strapped in his car is far too much for some of us to take.
Seeing and unarmed man gunned down forty-one bul­lets fly­ing his way and all he had that caused him to die was his black skin is way too much.
African-Americans are in a state of war­fare, it is against a pow­er­ful force that has demon­strat­ed for hun­dreds of years that it has no com­punc­tion about killing us.

So when we say I can­not watch anoth­er video of these killings I do get that. However, I want you to under­stand that by doing so, you are doing the bid­ding of those who want to see our total demise.
The ghast­ly imagery is sup­posed to shock us and cause us to emerge from our slum­ber. If we con­tin­ue to turn our heads away we will nev­er be inspired to act.
It is exact­ly what those who hate us want us to do, [to treat each killing as an iso­lat­ed inci­dent], not as the sys­temic pat­tern of vio­lence aimed at us because they hate us and want us exter­mi­nat­ed.
All through­out slav­ery, our peo­ple were sub­ject­ed to con­di­tions that some can­not even imag­ine.
Those bar­bar­ic acts were inflict­ed on us by a degen­er­ate peo­ple who were European crim­i­nals. They were giv­en the choice between going to the colonies or face death.

The bar­bar­ic acts that have char­ac­ter­ized slav­ery, the peri­ods called recon­struc­tion, the Jim Crow era, to present-day have not been iso­lat­ed inci­dents of white peo­ple com­mit­ting acts of aggres­sion against us. They were and still, are gov­ern­ment poli­cies cod­i­fied into laws and enforced by what became [police] the thing that emerged out of slave patrols.
If you believe that peri­od of endem­ic gov­ern­ment sup­pres­sion of black peo­ple was a one-off event, then sad­ly we are in for anoth­er 500 years of this tyran­ny and muti­la­tion at their hands.

If you believe in turn­ing your oth­er cheek, if you believe turn­ing away is in your best inter­est, because you can­not bear to see the slaugh­ter of your sons and fathers, sis­ters and broth­ers, cousins and uncles, then pre­pare your­selves for this to con­tin­ue long after we are all gone, go ahead be my guest. Then it will our chil­dren and grand­chil­dren, yours and mine, bear­ing the lash­es at the hands of their chil­dren and grand­chil­dren, because they are not going to sur­ren­der white priv­i­lege with­out a fight.

The idea that a peo­ple who have been enslaved bru­tal­ized and mur­dered, who have suf­fered the indig­ni­ties of anoth­er race’s booth-heels on their necks, would appeal to some per­ceived bet­ter angels with­in those very same oppres­sors is a laugh­able absur­di­ty.
Refusing to face the real­i­ties of what is hap­pen­ing now & turn­ing away from the grue­some nature of it all, lit­er­al­ly guar­an­tees that it will con­tin­ue for gen­er­a­tions to come.

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.

n a recent inves­ti­ga­tion con­duct­ed by [Reuters], they exam­ined 500 cas­es to see if the Supreme Court proves Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s asser­tion that the court acts as “an absolute shield” against police account­abil­i­ty. 
The study found that “qual­i­fied immu­ni­ty” has act­ed as a bar­ri­er that pre­vents police from even being tried for exces­sive force. Qualified Immunity is a doc­trine that was intro­duced in 1967 by the Supreme Court to pro­tect gov­ern­ment offi­cials from unnec­es­sary litigation.

The killing of black peo­ple in America today and the tens of thou­sands who have died since the police was giv­en carte blanch rests square­ly on the United States Supreme Court that has allowed police to kill minori­ties with­out cause for care.

Michael J Klarman a Professor at law at Harvard University wrote in ref­er­ence to the US Supreme Court’s decisions.

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.