Thousands , maybe millions collectively, march hand in hand daily across America. They march in solidarity with the unarmed, killed by Agents of the states. The bodies are many, the ages diverse. Their color the only thing which binds them together.
I want to talk a little about the role states play in these deaths, but before I do I want to take a second to address a common disclaimer I hear from many who speak on this issue. Some black, some white , some cop, some not.
THEY ARGUE BLACKS DO NOT MAKE A BIG DEAL ABOUT BLACK-ON-BLACK VIOLENCE
Civil Rights groups, churches, NGO’s and a plethora of other interested parties have done much work in combating violence in the black community. Communities and individuals have done heavy lifting toward removing the scourge of drug-dealing, drug-addiction, and other vices which lead to violence. Activists and Organizations like the Urban league , National Action Network, NAACP, and others are heavily invested in combating crime in urban centers.
Much more is required in dealing with the problem of teenage pregnancy , mass-incarceration of black male, gang affiliation and violence.
With that said, black people committed to changing police aggression toward them do not need a lecture from anyone, black, white or
purple, cop, or not on black on black violence. Blacks have a duty to figure out their problems, whatever they are. What our community does not need is to pay police Officers to kill our children.
Police officers are employed and paid to investigate crimes. When black criminals commit crimes they are arrested and incarcerated. In more instances than I care to discuss, blacks are incarcerated and executed even when they are innocent of the crimes they are accused of committing. America’s prisons are brimming with black and brown men , over 65% of those locked up in America’s prisons are black and brown. Despite on a per-capita whites commit more crimes than they do.
It is this disparity that has people of conscience up in arms about the continued injustice in America. A special word of advise to the ignorant blacks who parrot the talking points of ignorant racist whites on this issue, go read a book, do some research before you open your stupid mouths or make moronic Youtube videos. You are stupid and you look stupid.
Go research what 400 years of Slavery, Chain-Gang, Jim-Crow,separate but equal, and existing institutionalized racism has done to people of African ancestry.
In a Bee colony the Queen lays eggs , millions of them, this ensures that the specie continue to exist.
Worker Bees gather pollen into the pollen baskets on their back legs, to carry back to the hive where it is used as food for the developing brood. Pollen carried on their bodies may be carried to another flower where a small portion can rub off onto thepistil, resulting in cross pollination. Almost all of civilization’s food supply (maize is a noteworthy exception) depends greatly on crop pollination by honey bees, whether directly eaten or used as forage crops for animals that produce milk and meat. Nectar is sucked up through the proboscis, mixed with enzymes in the stomach, and carried back to the hive, where it is stored in wax cells and evaporated into honey.
Drones, figurative sense of ‘idler’ or ‘lazy worker’, as male bees make no honey, which is sometimes given as a folk etymology of the word ‘drone’ itself.[Wikipedia]
In the great scheme of things there are those who do and there are those who don’t, at least the drones have the good sense to mate with the Queen. For you blacks who have no contribution to make, even as you benefit from the struggles and sacrifice of others, do everyone a favor and shut your stupid mouths.
Cops abuse and kill because States and municipalities want them to. Police are people, good people in many cases. Give the best guy/girl a gun, badge , and unfettered power and no need to account and you got a real problem on your hands, their attitudes change, all of a sudden the very people they are sworn to serve and protect becomes their enemy. Unworthy of respect, they become the big man, Gods even.
It’s not about the need for support and some leeway to do what we ask them to do . As we have seen over and over again states make extra effort to ensure when they kill they are not held accountable.
They kill as Agents of the state. They kill on behalf of the states. Eric Garner was murdered for what must have been the most infinitesimal white collar crime. Even if he was selling un-taxed cigarettes ‚(not proven) who was the victim? Who was hurt?
I’ll tell you who, the State of New York was hurt. They are so desperate for the few un-recovered pennies, it took several well paid Thugs to kill Garner over those pennies.
States Legislators, Governors and other officials are heavily beholden to Police Departments . Never mind what they say in public, cops know whose side they are on. Governors, Legislators and Mayors are largely white Caucasian male., The women they are more testosterone laden than their male counterparts. Police abuse is going nowhere fast.
Anthony Baez was choked to death by Francis Livoti a tough-guy cop with multiple complaints against him. Baez’s crime was a non-crime. His football struck a NYPD patrol car.
In sentencing Livoti Judge Scheindlin issued a broad attack on the department’s handling of Mr. Livoti’s case, and said that she had refrained from imposing an even greater sentence because the department shared some responsibility in Mr. Baez’s death. ”The Police
Department did Mr. Livoti and the people of this city a grave injustice when it permitted Mr. Livoti to remain on active patrol knowing of his propensity toward violence,” Judge Scheindlin said. ”There is no doubt in my mind that the department knew, or should have known, that Mr. Livoti was dangerous.” She said that nine earlier police brutality complaints against Mr. Livoti should have been enough ”to alert those in charge to the fact that Mr. Livoti should be off the streets, if not off the force.”
Francis Livoti was a protégée and one of the poster child of Rudolph Giuliani’s disdain and disrespect for black and brown residents of New York City. Anthony Baez and many others paid with their lives.
”The Police Department let him remain on the streets, knowing that one day a real tragedy would occur,” she said.
State procedures make it difficult for cops to face a court of law. If police officers do not have to face courts of law to account for their actions they become the law. They act that way, they say they are the law. Not enforcers of the law.
As black America and others take to the streets to protest , it is important to note that even as racism and disrespect drives many decisions police make to pull the trigger or otherwise abuse blacks, they also do the same to whites.
It is important that whites recognize that even though police may be somewhat less quick on the trigger on poor whites than they do people of color now. It is becoming more and more obvious that pretty soon drunk with unmitigated power they too will be killed with equal alacrity.
The people who draft legislation and those who sign them into laws are mere corporate tools. They are picked and placed by corporate oligarchs to carry out their dictates.
Those dictates do not line up with that of the 99%..
Prisons have to be filled, corporate puppeteers who run them are suing states because they are supposedly losing money from too many empty jail cells. Look around you , yes you , in your state they will be building more prisons, while they close schools.
We are all in this together, black, white, yellow brown, the sooner we recognize this the better.