I Weep For My Country
I Weep For My Country
"An injustice anywhere, is a threat to justice everywhere." Dr. Martin Luther King
John Crawford
Michael Brown
Tamir Rice
Eric Garner
These are just some of the faces of the black males killed by police officers. This is not a new or rare occurrence, anyone living in America will tell you this. If (and that's a big if) they're being honest.
America's got a race problem, and a police problem, and this needs to change. Every single one of us, all ethnicities and creeds, needs to stand up and hold people accountable for the callous taking of black lives. For the callous taking of ALL life.
Tamir Rice was only 12 years old, playing in a park. He probably didn't even have time to be scared before police pulled up and killed him in 1.8 seconds. He was doing something I let my OWN son do many times, playing with a BB gun.
Can black children never play cops and robbers? Or get BB guns for Christmas? Play with nerf guns?
John Crawford was killed in a Walmart in Beavercreek, Ohio. He was walking around, talking on the phone. His crime? He picked up an air rifle, lying out in the open on a shelf.
The real crime for both John Crawford and Tamir Rice? Ohio is an OPEN CARRY STATE. If they had been Caucasian there's no doubt in my mind and in many other American minds, that the outcome would have been different.
Today they let the police officer who put the illegal choke hold on Eric Garner go free. Eric Garner's crime was allegedly selling untaxed, loose, cigarettes.
Despite the fact that the ME signed off Eric Garner's death as a homicide, and that the neck and chest compression did, indeed, cause his death, and the fact that the officer had been cited SEVERAL TIMES and WRITTEN UP for using this technique before, the Grand Jury decided to NOT bring any charges against the officer.
Do the police get a free pass on killing people? Or just black and brown people?
Those who protest that there is no such thing as white privilege in America... I bet they're white. Americans need to change their attitudes and mind sets of thinking that people of color are worth less, are other than, and not deserving of humanity.
Do Caucasian Americans even realize they've been conditioned to think this way?
We need to stand with ALL our brothers and sisters and say enough! There are three hundred million of us... if even only a third, one third, of us raise our voices, the roar would be heard around the world.
Black Lives Do Matter...
"An injustice anywhere, is a threat to justice everywhere." Dr. Martin Luther King
John Crawford
Michael Brown
Tamir Rice
Eric Garner
These are just some of the faces of the black males killed by police officers. This is not a new or rare occurrence, anyone living in America will tell you this. If (and that's a big if) they're being honest.
America's got a race problem, and a police problem, and this needs to change. Every single one of us, all ethnicities and creeds, needs to stand up and hold people accountable for the callous taking of black lives. For the callous taking of ALL life.
Tamir Rice was only 12 years old, playing in a park. He probably didn't even have time to be scared before police pulled up and killed him in 1.8 seconds. He was doing something I let my OWN son do many times, playing with a BB gun.
Can black children never play cops and robbers? Or get BB guns for Christmas? Play with nerf guns?
John Crawford was killed in a Walmart in Beavercreek, Ohio. He was walking around, talking on the phone. His crime? He picked up an air rifle, lying out in the open on a shelf.
The real crime for both John Crawford and Tamir Rice? Ohio is an OPEN CARRY STATE. If they had been Caucasian there's no doubt in my mind and in many other American minds, that the outcome would have been different.
Today they let the police officer who put the illegal choke hold on Eric Garner go free. Eric Garner's crime was allegedly selling untaxed, loose, cigarettes.
Despite the fact that the ME signed off Eric Garner's death as a homicide, and that the neck and chest compression did, indeed, cause his death, and the fact that the officer had been cited SEVERAL TIMES and WRITTEN UP for using this technique before, the Grand Jury decided to NOT bring any charges against the officer.
Do the police get a free pass on killing people? Or just black and brown people?
Those who protest that there is no such thing as white privilege in America... I bet they're white. Americans need to change their attitudes and mind sets of thinking that people of color are worth less, are other than, and not deserving of humanity.
Do Caucasian Americans even realize they've been conditioned to think this way?
We need to stand with ALL our brothers and sisters and say enough! There are three hundred million of us... if even only a third, one third, of us raise our voices, the roar would be heard around the world.
Black Lives Do Matter...