Welcome to White History Month!
When it comes to killing Native Americans and Black people, the coronavirus ain't shit. For hundreds of years White people have used their blatant and perpetual indifference, contempt, and condescending attitude to oppress and kill millions and milliions of people of color. As usual, here's how mainsteam media reported and promoted racism, and the beating and killing of Black people in May 2020.
05-26-20
White Minneapolis police officer keeps his knee
on the neck of a motionless, moaning,
unarmed Black man (George Floyd).How George Floyd Was Killed
in Police Custody | Visual Investigations
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RAW: Released George Floyd
body cam footage from former
officers Thomas Lane and J. Alexander Kueng
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https://youtu.be/NjKjaCvXdf4How can you be expected
to respect authority
when authority
doesn't respect you?
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05-26-20
White Woman Who Called Cops on Black Man
in Central Park Issues ApologyHow can you be expected
to respect authority
when authority is
intentionally
used against you?
05-20-20
68-year-old Black woman and her son beaten
and arrested for legally returning a televisionHow can you be expected
to respect authority
when authority
doesn't respect you?
05-13-20
26-year-old Black woman killed by White police
officers during "botched" execution of warrantHow can you be expected
to respect authority
when authority
doesn't respect you?
05-07-20
Father, son charged with killing unarmed
Black jogger, Ahmaud Arbery, in GeorgiaHow can you be expected
to respect authority
when authority
doesn't respect you?
The above link provides robust examples, facts documenting that its always been "open season" to beat and kill innocent and/or unarmed Black people. For example, as validated by the video at right, on Saturday, April 4, 2015, North Charleston Police Officer Michael Slager repeatedly shot an unarmed, overweight, 50-year-old, Black man, Walter Scott, in the back.
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"They are lucky that
what Black people are looking for is equality
and not revenge."
Kimberly Jones
This is White History Month for May 2020!
White History Month is perpetual, so in keeping with past practices, the beating and killing of innocent and unarmed Black people will continue next month, and the next month, and next year, and the following years, and the following decades and, oh yeah, forever - because after the protests, after the rioting, after adopting even more laws that are never enforced or laws open to broad interpretation and appeals, no matter, the overwhelming majority of White people go back to doing what they always do.
Nothing has changed. Nothing will change. For example . . .
if the driver in the video below was a Black man who "interacted"
with police in a similar manner he would have been shot,
killed by the police. Such is the perpetual double-standard, the
hypocrisy of law enforcement and justice in the USA.
What? You disagree??
Let me be absolutely clear, not all White people are bad or racist and most are just good people, but as consistently validated by the EEO-1 (private sector employers, 2008) and EEO-4 (public sector employers, i.e., 2007, 2009, 2011, and thereafter) the hierarchy of who owns and governs every aspect of the United States of America has NEVER changed. So, march and protest all you want, pass all the laws you want, it won't matter. It's the perpetual "practice" of those in power to give "lip service" to change, to pick and chose what, how, when and if to do whatever, but to ultimately do nothing, and you know why.
Nothing has changed. Nothing will change.
08-24-20
The Wisconsin Department of Justice
is investigating after Kenosha police officers
shot a Black man several times in the back
as his children looked on.How can you be expected
to respect authority
when authority
doesn't respect you?
06-12-20
White Atlanta police officer shoots
unarmed Black man, Rayshard Brooks, in the back.
Keep in mind:
1. The police had already run his plates.
2. They knew where he lived.
3. They had his car, so the "alleged perpetrator" could not have gotten far.
4. The "stun gun" is categorized as a "non-lethal" device, it's not a weapon, which is why police use it on "civilians."
5. Rayshard Brooks was being chased by two-(2) armed White police officers, both with guns, both with communication devices to contact dispatch to summon additional police for ground support, and aerial support.
6. Nevertheless, Rayshard Brooks was shot in the back and killed, and for what:
(a) a DUI;
(b) a non-attempted assault of a police officer; or
(c) desparately attempting to flee the police, because as many, many, many Black men KNOW you just can't trust the police.
How
can
you
be
expected
to
respect
authority
when
authority
doesn't
respect
you?
It's really tacky to say,
"I told you so," butI told you so!
Again, as many, many, many Black men KNOW you just can't trust the police!
08-24-19 Here, yet again, is the murder of Elijah McClain, an unarmed, innocent, 24-year old Black man.
to respect authority
when authority
doesn't respect you?12-4-20 Here, yet again, is the murder of Casey Goodson, an innocent, 23-year old Black man, not engaged in any crime, and a legal concealed carry gun owner, shot in the back.
12-23-20 Here, yet again, is the murder of Andre Hill, a 47-year-old innocent Black man, emerging from a garage and holding up a cellphone in his left hand seconds before he is fatally shot by a Columbus police officer.
This is White History Month for May 2020 . . . June 2020 . . . yada, yada, yada . . .
When you examine the experience of Black people in the U.S., I'd dare you to prove me wrong; and you lack the "power" to do a damn thing.
QUESTION: Again, how can you be expected to respect authority when authority doesn't respect you?
Hint: It would really be helpful if police departments AND citizens
watched and learned from this classic episode of "Dragnet 1968."
"The Big Problem," originally broadcast March 28, 1968, Season 2, Episode 28
ANSWER: You don't respect authority, you fear* it.
I welcome your feedback.
Trip Reynolds
trip.reynolds@yahoo.com
* Until one day when you decide to fight back.
"It is one thing to terrorize a helpless few,
but the forces of race hate that brazenly whoop and holler when the odds are a thousand to one are infinitely less bold when the odds are otherwise. I am not suggesting, of course, that the Negro people should take law enforcement into their own hands. But we have the right and, above all, we have the duty, to bring the strength and support of our entire community to defend the lives and property of each individual family. Indeed, the law itself will move a hundred times quicker whenever it is apparent that the power of our numbers has been called forth."
Paul Robeson
Source: "Here I Stand" © 1958 by Paul Robeson
(Legendary Black American athlete, bass baritone concert artist,
stage and film actor, and political activist), page 93, second paragraph
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