The following is strictly the opinion of a young black woman, who is sitting back watching her race crumble... Me ... (My disclaimer) and I am angry, sad, and tired of black people only uniting when tragedy strikes us.
FUCK THE POLICE !!
I scream this doing my best Tupac impression. Actions like this prove that the value of our lives, our being the black community, is NOT held at any value. The orange haired pale faced Caucasian who walked into a packed movie theater and opened fire, he was not shot to death. A movie theater with babies (children) ... He was portrayed as a disheveled, mentally ill product of his environment. Yet Michael Brown, an 18 year old college enrolled, high school graduate, with NO CRIMINAL (let me repeat this key information) NO FUCKING CRIMINAL background was shot in the street like an RABBID ANIMAL!!
Photos released by the media of Michael Brown kickin' it tried to paint a mural of him as a troubled teen. Saying he was possibly gang related because of the way he held his hands in a photo or two ... WRONG AGAIN !! Every person that has stepped up in behalf of the slain young man had nothing but good things to say, praising him for his good manners, cool demeanor, and bright future. I'm just completely disgusted with how they tried to infect the minds of America with bullshit before we really knew him, knew his background, knew his story.
There is NO excuse for how Mike Brown was treated. No excuse for a mother not being able to identify that that was her child, for a mother to have to hear through the grapevine that the son that she nurtured into a young man with plans to better himself was brutally murdered in the streets by an officer put in his position to PROTECT. What further ads to the pain is that the officer was so careless to do it in the middle of a community. Now this woman has to live with seeing her son on every social media outlet, every news station, laying in the middle of the street with his blood creeping down the pavement (before the white sheet was covering him).
I'm saddened, I'm deeply afraid, and I'm enraged. All of the above because I feel like although so much attention is being directed toward this case, not enough will be done to fix a broken community. They've started rioting, looting, and coming together as a unit but for what? I pray every night that the work these citizens are putting in in MO is not in vein. The police have decided to keep the officer in question's identity a secret ... Why? When he was on duty to PROTECT and to SERVE us, he used the authority and power against us. If your not in the streets to do as your supposed to do, which is to PROTECT AND SERVE the citizens of whatever city... Then what the fuck do you get up everyday and put that uniform on for.
I'm waiting to hear more about this officer. Like does he have a history of violent arrests, was he a newbie maybe a little 'gun ho', or if he was 'scared' of the unarmed black man with his hands raised in the air begging for his fucking life. I'm sure he'll be releasing a statement similar to the latter of the three. That's a white man's (or woman's) favorite line in this country.
As a black woman, I am not profiled by police, but I am profiled by citizens. Most people see my tattoos and chronic bitch face and assume the worst about me, then they get to know me or a scare the shit out if them with a simple BOO in there direction. Would that constitute some one to shoot me? Because of the way that I look? Because of what I post on my Instagram page?
WAKE THE FUCK UP PEOPLE !! No one is goin to value our lives if we don't stop killing each other. I moved away from Pittsburgh PA in May ... And every week I'm seeing RIP SO AND SO or RWG SO AND SO ... It has to stop !! At some point it has to stop !! The police brutality, the black on black crime, the racism, the police department cover ups, it all has to stop. We are losing too many of our brothers !! Cousins!! Uncles!! Sons !! And fathers !! I'm screaming at you please hold your loved ones close to you !! Remind them that you love them and you need them around in this life time. There's too many forces working against us for our community to be so bitter and hateful towards each other !! It makes no sense !!
I'm afraid for my nephews to grow up. I'm afraid for them to face society. I'm afraid to have to explain to my daughter how cruel our world is. One day she's going to ask how cases like Trayvon Martin even took place in a post civil rights movement era. How am I supposed to tell my daughter that the very people she should go to (the police) for help if I'm not around, are the very people who are killing our people in the streets of America like they're at war in Gaza.
#HandsUp #DontShoot #JusticeForMikeBrown #JusticeForMikeBrown #JusticeForMikeBrown
I am your voice young King and I will not go unheard ...
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