"White people, I'm talking to you. THIS. IS. YOUR. PROBLEM. TO. FIX. Here's some ways to start."

Another day another hashtag.

We can’t go to the grocery store. We can’t buy cigarillos. We can’t sell CDs. We can’t walk down the street in our own neighborhood. We can’t look too threatening. We can’t ask a cop why he stopped us. We cannot breathe too loud. We can’t play music too loud. We can’t need help with our broken down cars. We can’t sit in our cars and read. We just can’t BE. and it’s frustrating. Well, there’s frustrating and there’s this. This is beyond frustrating. This is appalling. This is disgusting. This is infuriating. This? This is traumatizing. We are being lynched.

White people, I’m talking to you. THIS. IS. YOUR. PROBLEM. TO. FIX. Y’all got some work to do, because this system that y’all keep on privileging from, you’ve got to help us dismantle it. Because those of us who are Black and Brown. We have tried. You created this robot, and it is yours to deactivate. My skinfolk don’t have the passcode. This is your monster to slay.

Trump did not make people racists and bigots. Trump just encouraged them to come out of the shadows and be proud about being one

— (((DeanObeidallah))) (@Deanofcomedy) September 21, 2016

Dear White Friends, "Not being racist is not enough"

My white friends, I beg of you, I plead with you, to be deliberately, unapologetically, and relentlessly anti-racist. Use the power in your privilege to shift the narrative. Stop relying on People of Color to lead and fight this fight on our own. We need you to feel urgency and responsibility around building anti-racist movements in your communities and in your networks. We need you be proactive and strategic, and willing to change your own realities to transform our country into one that works on behalf of everycitizen. We need you to step up to the plate, piss some people off, and rock the boat. If everyone around you is comfortable and at peace, and if no one around you thinks you’ve lost your mind, you aren’t there yet.

RedEye Over and Out...For Now 

EYE will not stand for the national anthem until ALL Lives Matter #TerenceCrutcher

There are no words to express how EYE feel about the latest video of the senseless murder by police of an unarmed black man/child without using profanity so EYE am going to let others speak for me today. 

 Terence Crutcher, Living and Dying While Black in America.

Terrence Crutcher, the narrative (Welcome to by Blogroll Egnima in Black)

Terrence Crutcher did not plant any bombs

Why aren't the people who criticized #ColinKaepernick7 speaking out about #TerenceCrutcher?

Will it ever end?

White America, it's time to take a knee

Since we are talking about #Thugs, #Criminals, #Rioters and #Looters in #Baltimore, let's talk about #BlackWallStreet and the Tulsa Race Riot

The Story Of The Tulsa Race Riots Will Disgust You Posted by Cenk Uygur on Friday, May 1, 2015

Ebony Magazine's Josie Pickens writes:  Greenwood, Oklahoma, a suburb of Tulsa, was the type of community that African Americans are still, today, attempting to reclaim and rebuild.  It was modern, majestic, sophisticated and apologetically Black. Tragically, it was also the site of one of the bloodiest and most horrendous race riots (and acts of terrorism) that the United States has ever experienced.

Good Morning Viet Nam, I mean, America!

Call me cynical, but I believe the rash of unarmed black men/women/children killed by police is black, I mean, the backlash against President Obama.  I mean, if it's not backlash, what is it?  What makes white people implode when talking about race?  I submit it's because of the white, male-dominated media-driven racial stereotypes.   Not only do African Americans fear the real police, now we have to worry about the pay to play police too.

Speaking of pay to play police, Tulsa, We Have a Problem...

Remember that 73 year old volunteer hobby sheriff who accidentally shot and killed an arrestee in Oklahoma when he thought he was pulling out his taser? Well, turns it the Sheriff's department seems to have falsified his training records. Ooops.

Eye don't blame Republicans for wanting to focus on foreign policy so they won't have to focus on what's happening right here in the land of the free and the home of the brave.  Snark  

The silence from white activists, elected officials, public figures, and citizens has been deafening.

RedEye, being the media Eye wish we had instead of the media we have.

Here we go again, another unarmed black man dead #EricHarris #Tulsa #ICantBreathe #BlackLivesMatter

But, but, Eric Harris has a criminal record....

Here we go again.

You know the drill.

Another unarmed black man killed by police, but this time is was a rent a cop.

The only reason we know about it is because it was caught on tape.

 Speculate if the rent cop will be convicted.

And they want us to sing God Bless America?

No.

No.

And Heck to the NO.

#Ferguson is everywhere.

How can we end this open season on black men?

Fear can protect us but it can also cause us to act irrationally and do things that we wouldn’t normally do.  Fear is the linchpin in the narrative that police officers use to justify their use of force, particularly deadly force.  If an officer of the law or any private citizen for that matter is in fear for their lives from a confrontation with another person then under the law, they have the right to use deadly force to protect themselves.

The question is why do the police fear black men/women/children?

Could it have something to do with the media driven  racial stereotypes?