About Eric Garner

This is a postscript, that is now an introduction of a recent blog post that I hoped I did not have to write. I am feeling stupid for thinking that the justice system (which many people are now saying is not broken) would look at the evidence and reach an indictment. The messages I discuss below are just as loud and clear in the ( Read more... )

Hello all,

First off, I am angry and heartbroken. I am frustrated by what I know about the justice system. I disturbed by the message that is ultimately sent by the continual lack of indictment (in reference to Michael Brown and John Crawford, but this trend extends back to the Oscar Grant shooting and the massacre of Amadou Diallo and Sean Bell's ( Read more... )

This past week has been one of the toughest to wrap my head around (starting with the gutting of the Voting Rights Act). Mostly because of the verdict in the George Zimmerman trial and the emotional distress that came out from that. I have waited to respond specifically to this and responded only through other people's thoughts because I needed the ( Read more... )

So, I am going to make some preliminary points that will color my comments:

1. These comments are not objective in the racial sense.
2. But, I am going to make a sincere effort to make my comments as objective possible.
3. Finally, I have not read the full text of the speech, nor watched the video (as a voter I did not see the need, I am not undecided).

My ( Read more... )

Hello again,

It's been a long time since I posted to my LiveJournal and its not because of having a lack of things to say; more because I have focused on not always spilling and pouring out my heart and soul so quickly.  Mind you it was incredibly helpful in the early days in college to just write out my frustrations and I appreciate this as a ( Read more... )

I think it's finally time that I, Ernest Lewis, Jr. finally weigh in on the mess with race around President Obama and race.  Let me make this clear that this is clearly opinion and perspective not a overwhelmingly researched treatise.  When I think back on election day in November...I legitimately could not grasp fully what I was experiencing ( Read more... )