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Showing posts with label Eric Harris. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Eric Harris. Show all posts

Thursday, April 16, 2015

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 braveSnark  
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.

Sunday, April 12, 2015

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

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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?