In other news, the blatant murders & attempted cover ups of #MichaelBrown & #ErikGardner by police officers are showing us clear evidence of an overt racism, especially towards black men, that still exists in the United States. The cavalier & carefree attitude that the police departments AND the local and federal government has regarding these deaths shows a heartless disregard for human life IF that life happens to be African American. This is our wake up call moment. No longer can we claim that Trayvon was an isolated case or an exception. Rather he was another in a long line of unfortunate victims of this deep seated bigotry that exists still in some people. Had he or Gardner or Brown have been a cute little white girl...shot in cold blood on a city street... What then? We need a clean sweep of this system. [And though I totally get that Obama saying anything extra about this would smell of a kind of reverse racism due to his being half-black, and I get that, but at this point ANY American president would and should speak out, for this seems larger than just taking care of our own; it seems like a well hidden but deep seated national epidemic of a problem that needs to be addressed. It needs national representation and leadership. And frankly who better than a sitting US president who just happens to be half black, especially right now as we celebrate the 50 year anniversary of Freedom Summer and the civil rights act et al.?] Michael Brown Shooting Has Long, Racial History
Posted on: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 01:52:39 +0000
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