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Political,civil awareness rise in Black community 

 

People, people, people, calm down. Why are we over reacting to the outcome of Officer Darren Wilson’s verdict? He was “just doing his job,” which is to protect and serve. Ironically, as a result of doing just that, he shot and killed an unarmed African-American 18-year-old boy. What’s the big deal? People die everyday, especially in the Black community right? How can we get mad at another race for killing us when we kill our own kind? People are tripping.

If you thought I was being serious and you didn’t sense the sarcasm in my words, then you are one of the numerous brainwashed and institutionalized minds that are contributing to the division of the Black race today. It’s bad enough that the leading cause of deaths for Black men is homicide by another Black man, but does that justify law enforcement agencies killing us?

Fox News’ journalist and political analyst Juan Martin states, "No. 1 cause of death, young black men 15 to 34 — murder. Who’s committing the murder? Not police. Other black men."

Yeah we are partially responsible for the demise of our race, but we surely had help. Marc Lamont Hill, a liberal African-American professor at Morehouse College stated on CNN that according to the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement study (MXGM) every 28 hours an unarmed African-American is a victim of fatal cop killings, police brutality, or vigilantes and security brutality.

After George Zimmerman sparked the rising of civil and political awareness in the Black community when he walked free from the killing of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin two years ago, several high profiled cases in which the unarmed teens were victimized.  Eric Garner, John Crawford, Ezell Ford and most recently, 12-year-old Tamir Rice, who was killed by Cleveland cops are just a few more cases.

I find it difficult to believe that unarmed teenagers pose as threats to the lives of police officers. I find it difficult to believe that Mike Brown's physical stature was similar to “Hulk Hogan’s,” and Trayvon Martin was beating Zimmerman to death.  

But what I do believe and what is evident is that the Blacks are used as an example for several civil, social, and racial injustices. Not saying we are the only race who faces these challenges, but we face them the most.

The only question we have for America is why? What did we do to deserve the prejudices and acts of bigotry demonstrated on us? Is it just because of our skin color, because we can’t control that?

Is it our image? So wearing baggy pants and a hoodie results in me being distinguished as a criminal? How fair is that when the people in suits and wearing badges are committing crimes too?

I do highly encourage the Black community to cease the hatred among one another, but I do understand the circumstances and challenges we face.

The infamous Willie Lynch letter is proof that America never wanted the Black race to unify or prosper. Even if Willie Lynch was a hoax, the psychological aspect of his letter was real and it lives today. The letter introduces the ideology of colorism, which trained us to perpetually discriminate our own kind not only based on our skin color, but any other difference America felt one Black had over another. 

The letter trained us to not trust or depend on each other, they wanted us to only depend on and trust them. And they wanted us to belittle each other and fear them willingly.

In order for us to take progressive steps forward in society, we must first break away from the mental enslavement lifestyle we were trained to live by.  And that adversity to overcome is easier said than done, especially when most of us are oblivious to the fact that we’re living that way. 

 It may create challenges to some when asked to deviate from the only life style we know how to live when history teaches Blacks to hate our own kind, and according to the letter, America wanted us to live this way for at least 300 to a thousand years.

Supposedly the letter was written in 1712. Now 302 years later, after being free from oppression for nearly 150 years, we continue to conform to the lifestyle they want us to live.

So Mr. Martin I have a question for you, since both, other Black men and police are murdering Black people, who’s getting away with them? I’ll give you a hint, it’s damn sure not us.