Its all coming out in the open now. This is wrong. I said it once and Ill say it again--we never stood a chance. To all those people who want to play both sides: sit down. I find it really hard to relate to people who can still argue in favor of all of this. People are on the streets asking to not just be valued, but just to simply be heard--and so many people still dont get that. We say black lives matter, but what about black voices? When its their word against ours, its clear who wins. If this case tells us anything, its that our word carries no value. If we are going to say we know how the law works, then we ought to know the system is incredibly flawed and unequal, and favors people on power/privilege dynamics. A lot of people claim they know how real racism is and still can favor the non indictment decision. To understand racism means to know how powerful it is. To know racism is to know how it has been able to so easily manipulate facts in its favor, and how the inconvenient facts can be–and often are–omitted. In Ferguson, its clear there is no law to protect young black men who are confronted alone by the police in the dead of night. There is no law that will take their word into account–and grant them the same weight of Darren Wilson–when eyewitness testimonies are to be questioned.
Posted on: Sat, 20 Dec 2014 18:07:11 +0000
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