Killings and Cop Killings in The Black Community

To fight racism, united is needed… In Chicago alone these 700+ deaths are the highest since 1998… But that doesn’t mean we should forget about slave patrols aka cops who kill. Check the article, the video if you wanna hear my thoughts and get involved… Every person matters…And nothing lasts forever, we can stop this. 

Article follows video but first, the words my friend and bro, Bashir Akinyele, wrote about it..

DO BLACK LIVES REALLY MATTER? I DO NOT THINK SO!

I am outrage to hear this heart breaking news! Chicago, Illinois is in a state of emergency! There have been over 701 murders in the city! Almost all the victims are people of color! If these victims were white, the entire country would stop to find a solution in Chicago right now! But the victims are black, no one seems to care!

Real talk, the Black and brown community is in bad shape! We must find a solution to this problem fast. Our people are dying a fast death to genocide!

Stop the shooting! Stop the Killing! Stop the Violence! Black Power! All Power to the People! Hotep! Peace in the Streets!

Bashir Akinyele
-Community Activist ( Member of the Newark Anti-Violence Coalition/the NAVC)
-Educator
-Co-Producer and Co-Host of the All Politics Are Local Radio show
-Committee member for the State of the Black World Conference IV

Murders here surpassed the 700 mark Thursday, a somber tally not seen since the drug wars of the 1990s as the police department continues reforms aimed at regaining public trust.

Article.

CHICAGO—Murders here surpassed the 700 mark Thursday, a somber tally not seen since the drug wars of the 1990s as the police department continues reforms aimed at regaining public trust.

Police say that 77 were killed in the month of November alone, which saw 316 shooting incidents and 389 victims. As of Dec. 1, 701 people had been murdered across Chicago, making this year the most violent since 1998.

Amid the spike, police…

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Cop “Accidentally” Shoots Black Behavioral Therapist & You Ask, Do I Mourn Murdered Cops?

Let me ask YOU why I should. Read all of this before sending your hate so you at least are semi educated in why you write.  

No words… I am at a loss I’ve been writing horror news for around 14 years (racism and police brutality)… This MUST FU*KING END!!!! Until it does, don’t ask me about how I feel regarding police deaths. 

“Police union says officer misfired and accidentally struck Charles Kinsey.”

If you believe that, you are living way too deep in white privilege; you don’t even acknowledge the sick “privilege” and you take it for granted…You remain ignorant, racist (admit it or not) and clueless to what the real world is because it doesn’t impact your world.

Why bother learning the truth and history? Why would it matter that this is NOT a single, one time incident? I mean police have a “tough job” and for the most part they “serve and protect”! 

– Yes. If you are white. 

A Black behavioral therapist working with his patient is shot, “accidentally”. Guess they couldn’t find anything to call a “gun” like a wallet or some skittles. 

And to whites who are feeling left out: Yes, I know, white people get shot, too. But whites aren’t targeted nor does their murder usually go unpunished. I digress, I’m not going into that now. If you aren’t aware of this fact by now your on the wrong page. 

So yes. Whites may get shot as well, but not at the horrendous rate or in the horrific numbers of the people within the Black community. When was the last time a white therapist was shot? What happened to the cops when a white child was shot & what happens to the cops when a Black child is shot? …. 

What do you think will happen to Mr. Kinsey’s  attempted murderer? 

And if you really don’t think it’s murder and truly think the cop couldn’t handle his gun (wait WHY was his gun out? Why was it pointed? …)  

Even if you really believe it was an accident, I ask you this; 

Can you not see why that sort of person is not fit to use a gun let alone work in this field? 

You cannot say, “opps made a mistake, took a life; almost took a life; the ol’ gun slipped out of my grasp and got away again!” NO!

People are DYING! Because we have racist cops, and/or cops who racially profile and abuse power because it is expected. That is what it takes to be accepted. You will walk no matter what- wait no; if it’s a white person your walking in damn thin ice so try to only kill or abuse the poor ones no one cares about! Otherwise… You’re gonna have to take some time, and take one for the team.

To be a good cop you’d have to 1) not be engaged in above behaviors, 2) and you’d have to be speaking out against those who are. (And mind you this is a brief summary I write; this does not even touch the tip of the issue!) 

Silence is just as bad. So no, there are no good cops I see right now. 

(Yes who ever made this quote misspelled buried- get over it.) 

And again; as I said in a recent comment regarding kids raising money for the families of the Dallas cops who died recently: 

And to Mr. Charles Kinsey..   May your beautiful soul find blessings, love and joy on your next journey … You will NOT be forgotten…

A Powerful Poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar

I was reading through Paul Laurence Dunbar’s poetry book and wanted to post a poem from him. Finally I decided on this one, though it’s very tragic and very heartbreaking, it also is sadly true. He is a poet that needs be remember more often, and this poem is so powerful because of the content; the content of the poem should make one cry. It did me.

The content is heartbreaking and though now a days there are new methods doing the same tragic thing to innocent men and women…

Truth hurts. And so below is the poem that hit me so hard tonight… It is called ‘The Haunted Oak’ by Mr. Paul Laurence Dunbar: Never Forget!!!

The Haunted Oak

Pray why are you so bare, so bare,
Oh, bough of the old oak-tree;
And why, when I go through the
shade you throw,
Runs a shudder over me?

My leaves were green as the best,
I trow,
And sap ran free in my veins,
But I saw in the moonlight dim and weird
A guiltless victim’s pain.

I bent me down to hear his sigh;
I shook with his gurgling moan,
And I trembled sore when they
rode away,
And left him here alone.

They’d charged him with the old,
old crime,
And set him fast in jail;
Oh why does the dog howl all night long,
And why does the night wind wail?

He prayed his prayer and he swore
his oath,
And he raised his hand to the sky;
But the beat of hoofs smote on his
ear,
And the stead tread drew nigh.

Who is it rides by night, by night,
Over the moonlit road?
And what is the spur that keeps
the pace,
What is the galling goad?

And now they beat at the prison door,
“Ho, keeper, do not stay!
We are friends of him whom you
hold within,
And we fain would take him
away

“From those who ride fast on our
heels
With mind to do him wrong;
They have no care for his innocence,
And the rope they bear is long.”

They have fooled the jailer with
lying words,
They have fooled the man with
lies;
The bolts unbar, the locks are
drawn,
And the great door open flies.

Now they have taken him from the jail,
And hard and fast they ride,
And the leader laughs low down
in his throat,
As they halt my trunk beside.

Oh, the judge he wore a mask of black,
And the doctor one of white,
And the minister, with his oldest
son,
Was curiously bedight.

Oh, foolish man, why weep you
now?
‘T is but a little space,
And the time will come when these
shall dread
The mem’ry of your face.

I feel the rope against my bark,
And the weight of him in my grain,
I feel in the throe of his final woe
The touch of my own last pain.

And never more shall leaves come
forth
On a bough that bears the ban;
I am burned with dread, I am
dried and dead,
From the curse of a guiltless man.

And ever the judge rides by, rides by
And goes to hunt the deer,
And ever another rides his soul,In the guise of a mortal fear.

And ever the man he rides me
hard,
And never a night stays he;
For I feel his curse as a haunted
bough,
On the trunk of a haunted tree.

Paul Childs, Black Male, 15 year old, Murdered

This is in memory of a 15 year old male named Paul Childs who admired the police, and because of his illnesses, at 15, he was murdered by the police…for no reason other than he had a knife on his own face, in front of his family…

Let this enrage you!!!

Book 1 Must Reading, ‘Without Sanctuary’ My Thoughts

I’ve decided I’m going to start randomly suggesting books I’ve read or am reading that I think others may be interested in or books, like this one, which I feel should be mandatory reading. As horrific as this book is, this book is real, and not only do these souls need to be remembered and respected, we also need to acknowledge that this never stopped; sadly…. To this day, I am sad to say, it still goes on just in a new way. And then white people have the audacity to say others are savages?? What a joke!
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Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America by James Allen

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

This is one of the hardest books I’ve ever read. It’s hard giving it 5 stars, but that is simply because of what we see happened…the book itself, to have compiled all of this, is a must read. While there are amazing things within the African & Black community to focus on, of course this also needs to be focused on not only by non-whites, but if anything, especially by non-whites in hopes they will open their eyes and understand, even a little bit, of the WHY. I have light skin, it doesn’t matter that I’m Spanish, because I look white. It does shame me, and I don’t want white privilege….Yet there are too many whom flaunt their white privilege while denying it. I don’t see how anyone can do that or deny it after reading this book; after seeing what is still going on today, just in a new way.

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