5, December 2014 Black Rage
The multi-generational racism that blacks
have had to endure has recently bubbled to the surface. If white America had to
walk in their shoes and face the same daily humiliations there is little doubt white
folks would explode with the same seething rage. Blacks are disproportionately
arrested and indicted on the most minor infractions presumably to bolster crime
statistics.
There is a strong message that blacks are not
valued in society. A majority have no access to good schools and are condemned
to eking out a living often in low paid jobs with inadequate housing and no
access to affordable health care.
So many have been stripped of their manhood -
Randolph Evans, Patrick Dorismond, Abner Louim, Oscar Grant, Trayvon Martin,
and countless others brutalized by police officers who are largely immune from
accountability – insulated by a dysfunctional grand jury system. The public
prosecutor assigned in Mike Brown’s case went to extraordinary measures to
influence the Grand Jury to indict the victim instead of his killer. The
testimony of 18 witnesses who insisted that Brown’s hands was raised – were
ignored. His dead body was left 4.5 hours in a final gesture of extreme
callousness and insensitivity. The police officer who performed an illegal
chock hold on Eric Garner was guilty of murder and his 4 officers who jumped on
Garner’s back were guilty of accessories to murder. What makes this crime even
more egregious is the cavalier way police officers looked on as Garner was
gasping for life.
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