Her Name is Shakara
While some students chose to cooperate with oppression by protesting in support of a brutal white police officer–one who used his authority to beat a defenseless Black girl, other students—Shakara, Niya Kenny and Tony Robinson, Jr., chose to protest in the face of injustice, with threats of physical harm and punishment to themselves. As Martin Luther King said in Letter From Birmingham Jail, “One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. I would agree with St. Augustine that ‘an unjust law is no law at all.’”
EYE believe the Children are our HOPE for the future of our republic. "Teach them well and let them lead the way."
Unfortunately, rhetoric DOES NOT save us, nor does it give confidence to black voters that we can trust Hillary to prioritize the necessity of ensuring our safety,” the group said. “We’ve been waiting for weeks to see the platform that addresses these issues from Hillary Clinton’s campaign. We will wait no more.”
havealittletalk said...
Honestly Redeye, if I were black I don't think I'd have the courage to have children in this country.
Don't expect the media to tell the truth about "Officer Slam's" Assault on a teen age girl.
Not many news agencies have reported, or even wondered why she was asked to leave in the first place. As it turns out she had momentarily looked at her phone during class, and apologized for it at the time. Nor have they wondered why the phone issue, which she had already put away, escalated to an administrator and then the now fired school resource officer who had a reputation around the campus as "Officer Slam" for his tendency to throw students to the ground, assaulted her in the first place. They say she was "disruptive and disrespectful" but witnesses state that she was arguing that she'd done nothing wrong, which actually she hadn't. Before Slamster even approached the student he had another student move his desk and clear a path, then removed the Chromebook that was on her desk - so he planned from the moment he entered the room to assault her regardless of anything she did or didn't do.
It's the white male dominated media.
Lacking these voices, the ability of the media to serve the public interest is itself compromised. “The news media is not only failing to serve the communities but the country at large when they fail to reflect what’s going on in communities of color,” said the late Dori J. Maynard, former President of the Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education, in a piece for The Atlantic regarding the failure of newsrooms to diversify. The type of coverage that gets chosen by editorial staffs then reinforces stereotypes rather than clarifying the news. This is apparent in the different ways white subjects and Black subjects are portrayed, such as Black victim Michael Brown, who “struggled with police before shooting,” versus white Aurora shooter James Eagan Holmes, remembered as a “brilliant science student.”
EYE report.
YOU decide.
“The way that the students and the teacher were so lackadaisical about the whole thing. Nobody screamed, nobody stood up,” she said. “It looks like something that’s been going on in that school for a long time.”~Jill Scott
You think?
“We’ve been in dialogue with the school district, the superintendent and anyone that will hear us concerning many issues,” said the Rev. Hugh Harmon, the chairman of the group, the Richland Two Black Parents Association (RTBPA). “The issue with a lot of parents is the disproportionate way in which expulsions and suspensions were being doled out to young men that look like myself.”
The group, consisting of nearly 6,000 parents, was formed about three years ago in response to parents’ concerns about punishments targeting black students. Monday’s arrest, according to the RTBPA, was simply the latest example.
“The unfortunate actions of this police officer has revealed what many African-American parents have experienced in this district for a very long time,” the group said in a statement Monday.
EYE don't care if you are black, white, male, female, rich, poor, young, old, republican or democrat, if you defend the actions of Spring Valley High School SRO #BenFields , you are the problem
If you blame the victims for their assault/arrest at Spring Valley High School, you are the problem.
If you are a classroom teacher who can't manage your classroom without calling the SRO, you are the problem.
If you are a member school of the school board that hired officer #BenFields, you are the problem.
If you are the police officer who arrested the only person with the courage to stand up to police brutality and oppression, you are the problem.
If you believe #BlackLivesMatter activist create the call to kill cops , you are the problem.
If you would rather investigate than legislate, you are the problem.
If you believe restraint by cops in the wake of criticism is at least partly to blame for a surge in violent crime in some cities, you are the problem.
If you sit back, say or do nothing, while unarmed black men/women/children are being brutalized and killed in the United States of America, you are the problem.
