BREAKING NEWSDr. Sinclair Grey III: Saying ‘I’m Sorry’ After Disrespecting Black America Is Not EnoughApril V. Taylor: Was “Ferguson Hug” Photo Staged For False Racial Harmony? Kulture Kritic Amerikkkan Injustice: Eric Garner’s Death Was A Modern Lynching eric garner As the nation is still reeling from the grand jury decision to not indict Darren Wilson for the murder of Michael Brown, tensions are escalating as a grand jury in New York City has decided not to indict Officer Daniel Pantaleo for using an illegal chokehold on Eric Garner that eventually led to his death. The indisputable videotaped evidence of Pantaleo putting Garner in a chokehold, slamming his head into the pavement, piling on top of him as he gasped for air and pleaded that he could not breathe went viral online just weeks before Michael Brown was killed. The New York City Medical Examiner even ruled that Garner’s official cause of death was homicide due to “compression of neck, chest and positioning during restraint by police,” and still the Amerikkkan injustice system refuses to acknowledge that Black life is worthy of the dignity and respect of having someone held criminally responsible for violently snatching that life away. It must be pointed out that an indictment only rules that there is enough evidence to warrant a trial. What kind of justice exists if videotape of a police officer using an illegal chokehold that causes a person’s death is not enough evidence to even warrant a trial, much less a criminal conviction? The rate of people of color being murdered every 28 hours by cops is higher than the rate of of two lynchings per week during Jim Crow, and just as justice was evasive then, the blood of Black men, women and children still pours into Amerikkkan streets with no indication from the government or criminal justice system that the killing of Black people is a crime worthy of punishment. The fact the the country now has a Black president seems to only add insult to injury as Obama refuses to directly acknowledge the deeply ingrained racism of the Ammerikkkan injustice system. Thousands across the country have taken to the streets in the last week, and after this gut wrenching display of Amerikkkan injustice, protests will continue as people of all races, ages, and socioeconomic backgrounds stand up to demand that Black life matters. Ending police brutality and murder and the lingering systemic racial oppression that people of color in this country are subjected to is THE social justice movement of this generation! America cannot afford to be silent any longer. Whether people choose to take to the streets through direct actions such as marches, rallies, protests, or die-ins, or whether people choose to target policy and legislation, it is important to remember that the most important thing is that people stand up in the first place. It is time for America to acknowledge the brutal and pained existence that racial oppression has birthed through slavery, Jim Crow, mass incarceration, and police brutality for so many of its citizens.
Posted on: Thu, 04 Dec 2014 14:01:38 +0000
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