You will not hear anything from them.
Police just executed an unarmed 17 yr old brotha (shot 10 times)
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You will not hear anything from them.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>We actually have 33 vigils organized around the country.
WOW! Find yours here or create on in your city!! <a href="https://t.co/80BzesGIRC">https://t.co/80BzesGIRC</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NMOS14?src=hash">#NMOS14</a></p>— #NMOS14 (@FeministaJones) <a href="https://twitter.com/FeministaJones/statuses/498937563022106624">August 11, 2014</a></blockquote>
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WOW! Find yours here or create on in your city!! <a href="https://t.co/80BzesGIRC">https://t.co/80BzesGIRC</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NMOS14?src=hash">#NMOS14</a></p>— #NMOS14 (@FeministaJones) <a href="https://twitter.com/FeministaJones/statuses/498937563022106624">August 11, 2014</a></blockquote>
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Real talk. All those non-black groups that like the use our platorm to further their own cause, they need to be called the fuck out.
Where are the bluntbit writers?
We are too fucking comfortable......this shit is happening every year.....
Trayvon...
Renisha...
Jordan.....
Michael....
We are too comfortable....
Trayvon...
Renisha...
Jordan.....
Michael....
We are too comfortable....
Anonymous' opFerguson twitter page is back up. Twitter had suspended it for a while without explanation.
https://twitter.com/opferguson
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Anonymous Op Ferguson | Video (NEW) - <a href="http://t.co/KACkVa08gZ">http://t.co/KACkVa08gZ</a> | Web Site - <a href="http://t.co/seKW0w0UJV">http://t.co/seKW0w0UJV</a> | <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/OpFerguson?src=hash">#OpFerguson</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Anonymous?src=hash">#Anonymous</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MikeBrown?src=hash">#MikeBrown</a></p>— Operation Ferguson (@OpFerguson) <a href="https://twitter.com/OpFerguson/statuses/498946548458205184">August 11, 2014</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Anonymous Op Ferguson | Video (NEW) - <a href="http://t.co/KACkVa08gZ">http://t.co/KACkVa08gZ</a> | Web Site - <a href="http://t.co/seKW0w0UJV">http://t.co/seKW0w0UJV</a> | <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/OpFerguson?src=hash">#OpFerguson</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Anonymous?src=hash">#Anonymous</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MikeBrown?src=hash">#MikeBrown</a></p>— Operation Ferguson (@OpFerguson) <a href="https://twitter.com/OpFerguson/statuses/498946548458205184">August 11, 2014</a></blockquote>
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Powerful pic...
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>RT <a href="https://twitter.com/MrMilitantNegro">@MrMilitantNegro</a>: THIS is what Malcom was talking about!!!! I AM PROUD OF <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Ferguson?src=hash">#Ferguson</a>
<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MikeBrown?src=hash">#MikeBrown</a> <a href="http://t.co/KZ8XXqSJYV">pic.twitter.com/KZ8XXqSJYV</a></p>— GenetiK Nupe (@budLightVillain) <a href="https://twitter.com/budLightVillain/statuses/498927564954804225">August 11, 2014</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>RT <a href="https://twitter.com/MrMilitantNegro">@MrMilitantNegro</a>: THIS is what Malcom was talking about!!!! I AM PROUD OF <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Ferguson?src=hash">#Ferguson</a>
<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MikeBrown?src=hash">#MikeBrown</a> <a href="http://t.co/KZ8XXqSJYV">pic.twitter.com/KZ8XXqSJYV</a></p>— GenetiK Nupe (@budLightVillain) <a href="https://twitter.com/budLightVillain/statuses/498927564954804225">August 11, 2014</a></blockquote>
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That's a great ass point about those other groups who want to piggy back of blacks for "civil rights"
Where the fuck they at????
And to be clear I don't care about the looting just saying how the crackas will try and flip it
Is prefer bloodshed over looting though honestly
This is what should've happened in Florida when the Zimmerman verdict went down
Instead mufuckas sat around looking sad and zimmerman running around free with his guns rubbing it in people faces
Where the fuck they at????
And to be clear I don't care about the looting just saying how the crackas will try and flip it
Is prefer bloodshed over looting though honestly
This is what should've happened in Florida when the Zimmerman verdict went down
Instead mufuckas sat around looking sad and zimmerman running around free with his guns rubbing it in people faces
OK I feel u then.... Because at first I had that same thought then I talked to someone a little smarter than me (older sister) and that's the point she made. She used to be real militant back in the day but she toned it down since getting married, having a family, etc etc. But every now and again that fight will come out of her or she'll say something to me that'll just have me like DAMN... I FORGOT ALL ABOUT THAT PERSON
I’m just out here working hard every single day, just trying to be the best poster I can be....
BEYOND powerful
Than u for posting this
I’m just out here working hard every single day, just trying to be the best poster I can be....
definitely...where was this rally @? was this the morning meeting that they were planning where the mayor said police was arresting those who showed up?
Never will I die, I'll be back
Reincarnated as a motherfuckin mack
I love it cause in heaven there's no shortage on G's
I'm tellin you now, you motherfuckers don't know me
"Only fear of death.."
"You ghetto niggaz"
"Only fear of death is comin back reincarnated"
[repeats continously w/ variations]
Hahaha, I ain't scared to die
I ain't scared to die
To my homies in heaven
I ain't scared to die
Do you wanna live forever?
Are you scared, to die?
Or will you scream, when you fry?
I don't fear death
My only fear of death is comin back, reincarnated
This is dedicated to Mental, R.I.P.
And Big Kill, R.I.P.
And all you other O.G.'s, who go down
I don't fear death
Reincarnated as a motherfuckin mack
I love it cause in heaven there's no shortage on G's
I'm tellin you now, you motherfuckers don't know me
"Only fear of death.."
"You ghetto niggaz"
"Only fear of death is comin back reincarnated"
[repeats continously w/ variations]
Hahaha, I ain't scared to die
I ain't scared to die
To my homies in heaven
I ain't scared to die
Do you wanna live forever?
Are you scared, to die?
Or will you scream, when you fry?
I don't fear death
My only fear of death is comin back, reincarnated
This is dedicated to Mental, R.I.P.
And Big Kill, R.I.P.
And all you other O.G.'s, who go down
I don't fear death
http://jezebel.com/this-is-why-were-mad-about-the-shooting-of-mike-brown-1619522935
This is a really good piece. I would embed and format it properly, but I have a migraine right now.
This is a really good piece. I would embed and format it properly, but I have a migraine right now.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>I'll be damned if someone brings up black on black violence in response to me being killed senselessly by police.</p>— Savage Gentleman. (@Top5DOA) <a href="https://twitter.com/Top5DOA/statuses/498948910262779904">August 11, 2014</a></blockquote>
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that was a good read
This is the thing people keep bringing up....and yet just totally ignore what happened to this kid....And then these people will say black people don't protest the crime in the community when that's a dayum lie....
Why are people keep saying he's 18 when he was 17 years old....
Another good read, this one is pretty long (sorry Colin) but it doesn't have any embedded links or pictures other than whath as already been posted, so I'll cut and paste it.
Home is Where the Hatred Is.
http://contracritic.com/2014/08/11/home-is-where-the-hatred-is/
In the aftermath of Michael Brown’s public execution by Ferguson, Missouri police, I hear the familiar calls by well-meaning but fearful blacks advising their community to remain calm and swallow their rage against institutional racism.
A prayer vigil was organized Sunday afternoon outside the Ferguson police department where Protestant ministers and members of the Nation of Islam repeated similar refrains to an angry crowd: “Stay respectful, don’t antagonize police, this is the only way the Brown family will have a shot at justice.”
The philosophy of black respectability has been preached by the cowardly and frightened for too long. From President Obama’s calls for blacks to demonstrate restraint and calm in the wake of Trayvon Martin’s murder to CNN news anchor Don Lemon instructing black teenagers to stop littering in Harlem if they wanted to avoid being harassed and beaten by NYPD, this passive, self-serving message, delivered by those who pretend to love black people, is harmful because it distracts attention away from the systems most responsible for black vulnerability.
Telling an outraged black community, who’s just witnessed another innocent teenager murdered by police, not to loot white businesses in their neighborhoods, when these parasitic businesses represent the white power structure that excludes blacks (white business owners who refuse to employ, live, work, worship and partner with black entrepreneurs to improve the conditions of the neighborhood) while simultaneously exploiting them for economic enrichment, doesn’t pass the sniff test. Destroying a system of exploitation can only be viewed as positive unless you’ve been thoroughly convinced being a slave has personal benefit.
Instructing the black community to treat a racist police system with utmost respect, at all times, in order to stay alive, and/or be treated as a citizen, when we’ve witnessed seemingly never-ending incidents like Trayvon Martin, like Jordan Davis, like Renisha McBride, like Eric Gardner, like Michael Brown (as if blacks are incapable of understanding that respecting police doesn’t guarantee their children’s survival) is both bad advice and a strategy for continued victimization.
It’s a foolish game of blaming the victim rather than the victimizer. It’s rebuking the raped for wearing a short skirt rather than jailing the raper for sexual assault.
On the other hand, sound instruction worthy of the black community’s justified outrage must be a message which organizes blacks around, while educating blacks to, the reality that the only way racist institutions, like law enforcement in America, is going to stop murdering black men in the street for selling loose cigarettes; the only solution to solve the epidemic of racist white men murdering black teenage boys for loud music, or for carrying water guns, or for choosing to wear hoodies in the rain; the only measure which can be taken to ensure black women who knock on doors at night, in white neighborhoods, don’t get shotguns shoved in their faces, and heads blown off, is to make crystal clear to racist white institutions and racist white people that black citizens will use deadly force against ANYONE, including the police, who infringe upon their rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
All other talk begins and ends right there.
Any other advice is supplemental to this.
We, the black community, can no longer live in fear of white oppression and white disapproval, believing that if we just “act right” we’ll survive in America.
This has proven far too often not to be the case.
Continuing to instruct blacks to behave in a manner that doesn’t work to solve any of our problems is a waste of time, and strengthens and sustains white supremacy.
If black life in America is to be valued the same as white life, than it must be defended in a similar fashion, by any means necessary.
If indeed Michael Brown did not commit any crime, and was still harassed and provoked into a physical altercation by Ferguson police, which resulted in the police officer brandishing his gun and shooting at Michael Brown, I assert to anyone who claims to love freedom and justice for all, that Justice says if Michael Brown did have a gun during such an incident he would’ve been within his moral rights to shoot that racist Ferguson cop dead right there on the spot. Leaving the officer bleeding in the street for all to see, just as Brown was left dead and alone Saturday afternoon.
If Michael Brown’s moral right to live free from oppression conflicts with man-made laws, those laws are unjust. Blacks must choose virtue over injustice.
Some will say such words incite violence against law enforcement, I disagree. Such a message empowers black people to love themselves enough not to allow individuals filled with hatred to make mourners of those who love them.
The notion that blacks should bear arms against racist police in order to protect themselves from unjustified police power is not a radical stance, it’s a common sense survival strategy. It’s an American ideal.
Those who would say this is radical, I say Patrick Henry was radical, Thomas Paine was radical, the Founding Fathers were radical, and any other white person who refused to be annihilated willingly by forces whom opposed their right to live free were radical.
Why then can’t black citizens be radical in defending their civil rights and when exercising equal protections under the law? This is only right. This is justice.
Furthermore, this is the only way the black community is ever going to place a check on the out-of-control use of deadly force being instituted against them daily by racist white citizens and police.
There must be a legitimate concern of righteous retribution for anyone who dares to threaten the life of an innocent black citizen in this country. Otherwise these racially-motivated killings will continue unabated.
These principles of righteous retribution, these checks on law enforcement are already operating now, but not for blacks, for whites. These checks ensure we don’t view on the evening news white teenage boys being gunned down by police officers. It’s this threat of righteous and violent retribution by the white community which protects their children from vigilantes and corrupt cops. The courts have recognized this agreement and stand ready to prosecute anyone who violates it, officer or citizen alike.
These same cops know they’d have to answer for their misdeeds if they choked a white woman to death on a sidewalk like they did Eric Gardner.
Black citizens occupy a completely different world altogether. Black life is cheap in America, it can be snuffed out on most days without as much as a mention in the newspaper or on television. Our lives are so devalued and disrespected even so-called black leaders routinely declare, in the aftermath of racially-motivated killings of loved ones, to remain calm and swallow anger; to let the police do their jobs – the same police who killed our children.
This nonsensical rhetoric passes for leadership in the black community today. Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, and those of their ilk, convince blacks that lying down to their oppressor; their killer; their exploiter, signifies respect for self, and the family of the victimized. All while racist whites plot their next public lynching of another black mother, father, son, daughter or friend.
Surrendering oneself to one’s oppressor isn’t respecting oneself, it’s the worse form of self-disrespect one can do.
Respect for self and love for community says, “If I’ve done nothing wrong, and someone tries to take my life or the life of anyone I love, that person has to die. No matter who they are; police officer, teacher, politician, priest, preacher, or peasant it doesn’t matter! I will defend myself and the lives of those I love no matter what comes after.”
This is what respect looks like.
This is how love of self and community operates to defend both from an oppressive system of violence and exploitation.
But most blacks are scared of whites. They fear whites more than they love themselves. Too many black people still want whites to accept them. They yet yearn for white approval and recognition. Sambo niggas, still operating under meritorious manumission, like a damn slave.
Black man, black woman, whites will never accept, recognize nor respect you until you demonstrate just how much love you have for yourself by standing up and refusing to accept being exploited and systematically murdered and destroyed by their racist institutions.
Power only recognizes power.
This is what love looks like in practice.
This is justice and fairness.
This is what it looks like to be free.
Will we do it?
Or will we wait wondering whether the next Michael Brown is us?
Home is Where the Hatred Is.
http://contracritic.com/2014/08/11/home-is-where-the-hatred-is/
In the aftermath of Michael Brown’s public execution by Ferguson, Missouri police, I hear the familiar calls by well-meaning but fearful blacks advising their community to remain calm and swallow their rage against institutional racism.
A prayer vigil was organized Sunday afternoon outside the Ferguson police department where Protestant ministers and members of the Nation of Islam repeated similar refrains to an angry crowd: “Stay respectful, don’t antagonize police, this is the only way the Brown family will have a shot at justice.”
The philosophy of black respectability has been preached by the cowardly and frightened for too long. From President Obama’s calls for blacks to demonstrate restraint and calm in the wake of Trayvon Martin’s murder to CNN news anchor Don Lemon instructing black teenagers to stop littering in Harlem if they wanted to avoid being harassed and beaten by NYPD, this passive, self-serving message, delivered by those who pretend to love black people, is harmful because it distracts attention away from the systems most responsible for black vulnerability.
Telling an outraged black community, who’s just witnessed another innocent teenager murdered by police, not to loot white businesses in their neighborhoods, when these parasitic businesses represent the white power structure that excludes blacks (white business owners who refuse to employ, live, work, worship and partner with black entrepreneurs to improve the conditions of the neighborhood) while simultaneously exploiting them for economic enrichment, doesn’t pass the sniff test. Destroying a system of exploitation can only be viewed as positive unless you’ve been thoroughly convinced being a slave has personal benefit.
Instructing the black community to treat a racist police system with utmost respect, at all times, in order to stay alive, and/or be treated as a citizen, when we’ve witnessed seemingly never-ending incidents like Trayvon Martin, like Jordan Davis, like Renisha McBride, like Eric Gardner, like Michael Brown (as if blacks are incapable of understanding that respecting police doesn’t guarantee their children’s survival) is both bad advice and a strategy for continued victimization.
It’s a foolish game of blaming the victim rather than the victimizer. It’s rebuking the raped for wearing a short skirt rather than jailing the raper for sexual assault.
On the other hand, sound instruction worthy of the black community’s justified outrage must be a message which organizes blacks around, while educating blacks to, the reality that the only way racist institutions, like law enforcement in America, is going to stop murdering black men in the street for selling loose cigarettes; the only solution to solve the epidemic of racist white men murdering black teenage boys for loud music, or for carrying water guns, or for choosing to wear hoodies in the rain; the only measure which can be taken to ensure black women who knock on doors at night, in white neighborhoods, don’t get shotguns shoved in their faces, and heads blown off, is to make crystal clear to racist white institutions and racist white people that black citizens will use deadly force against ANYONE, including the police, who infringe upon their rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
All other talk begins and ends right there.
Any other advice is supplemental to this.
We, the black community, can no longer live in fear of white oppression and white disapproval, believing that if we just “act right” we’ll survive in America.
This has proven far too often not to be the case.
Continuing to instruct blacks to behave in a manner that doesn’t work to solve any of our problems is a waste of time, and strengthens and sustains white supremacy.
If black life in America is to be valued the same as white life, than it must be defended in a similar fashion, by any means necessary.
If indeed Michael Brown did not commit any crime, and was still harassed and provoked into a physical altercation by Ferguson police, which resulted in the police officer brandishing his gun and shooting at Michael Brown, I assert to anyone who claims to love freedom and justice for all, that Justice says if Michael Brown did have a gun during such an incident he would’ve been within his moral rights to shoot that racist Ferguson cop dead right there on the spot. Leaving the officer bleeding in the street for all to see, just as Brown was left dead and alone Saturday afternoon.
If Michael Brown’s moral right to live free from oppression conflicts with man-made laws, those laws are unjust. Blacks must choose virtue over injustice.
Some will say such words incite violence against law enforcement, I disagree. Such a message empowers black people to love themselves enough not to allow individuals filled with hatred to make mourners of those who love them.
The notion that blacks should bear arms against racist police in order to protect themselves from unjustified police power is not a radical stance, it’s a common sense survival strategy. It’s an American ideal.
Those who would say this is radical, I say Patrick Henry was radical, Thomas Paine was radical, the Founding Fathers were radical, and any other white person who refused to be annihilated willingly by forces whom opposed their right to live free were radical.
Why then can’t black citizens be radical in defending their civil rights and when exercising equal protections under the law? This is only right. This is justice.
Furthermore, this is the only way the black community is ever going to place a check on the out-of-control use of deadly force being instituted against them daily by racist white citizens and police.
There must be a legitimate concern of righteous retribution for anyone who dares to threaten the life of an innocent black citizen in this country. Otherwise these racially-motivated killings will continue unabated.
These principles of righteous retribution, these checks on law enforcement are already operating now, but not for blacks, for whites. These checks ensure we don’t view on the evening news white teenage boys being gunned down by police officers. It’s this threat of righteous and violent retribution by the white community which protects their children from vigilantes and corrupt cops. The courts have recognized this agreement and stand ready to prosecute anyone who violates it, officer or citizen alike.
These same cops know they’d have to answer for their misdeeds if they choked a white woman to death on a sidewalk like they did Eric Gardner.
Black citizens occupy a completely different world altogether. Black life is cheap in America, it can be snuffed out on most days without as much as a mention in the newspaper or on television. Our lives are so devalued and disrespected even so-called black leaders routinely declare, in the aftermath of racially-motivated killings of loved ones, to remain calm and swallow anger; to let the police do their jobs – the same police who killed our children.
This nonsensical rhetoric passes for leadership in the black community today. Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, and those of their ilk, convince blacks that lying down to their oppressor; their killer; their exploiter, signifies respect for self, and the family of the victimized. All while racist whites plot their next public lynching of another black mother, father, son, daughter or friend.
Surrendering oneself to one’s oppressor isn’t respecting oneself, it’s the worse form of self-disrespect one can do.
Respect for self and love for community says, “If I’ve done nothing wrong, and someone tries to take my life or the life of anyone I love, that person has to die. No matter who they are; police officer, teacher, politician, priest, preacher, or peasant it doesn’t matter! I will defend myself and the lives of those I love no matter what comes after.”
This is what respect looks like.
This is how love of self and community operates to defend both from an oppressive system of violence and exploitation.
But most blacks are scared of whites. They fear whites more than they love themselves. Too many black people still want whites to accept them. They yet yearn for white approval and recognition. Sambo niggas, still operating under meritorious manumission, like a damn slave.
Black man, black woman, whites will never accept, recognize nor respect you until you demonstrate just how much love you have for yourself by standing up and refusing to accept being exploited and systematically murdered and destroyed by their racist institutions.
Power only recognizes power.
This is what love looks like in practice.
This is justice and fairness.
This is what it looks like to be free.
Will we do it?
Or will we wait wondering whether the next Michael Brown is us?
Parents need to train their kids about dealing with police. That is the same thing as the ordeal in New York where a guy was murdered with a chokehold. Yes you can say the tactics used by the police were bad but the guy approached the police in a bad manner.
You can't bring that hood shit to the police or you will get shot.
You can't bring that hood shit to the police or you will get shot.
I'm sure Don Lemon will get on CNN and pontificate how hard his life was being black, rich, and gay.
I just hope all the black supporters of homosexuality will remember where their rainbow friends were now.
There is supposed to be a rally Tuesday in Clayton, the county seat. Even though there have been white Americans protesting, I suspect there will be more present if that comes to fruition.
Your willing to accept second class citenzship, fuck that. The man in NYC got choked out by three fucking cowards. He said leave me alone, he broke a fight trying to help other people out, because he had a prior for fucking cigarettes and he was large, a fucking coward crept up behind him and killed him.
The guy in Colorado shot multiple people in public, and yet they took him into custody. The fucking Russian blew people legs off in Boston, yet he is still alive.
Your as bad as right people blaming the victim.
Don't entertain that dude, bruh. Just another (probably white) troll.
First off Eric Garner wasn't no damn kid. He was a grown ass man that hadn't done SHIT that warranted him being arrested. I can go to tha corner store in the hood n buy some gotdamn loosies right fuckin now with no problems. And if that store get caught they get a ticket and a fine and maybe a license revoked but they NEVER get fuckin killed!
Secondly fuck u and fuck this post. I've seen white people go slap the fuck off on cops to no repercussions whatsoever. I mean literally I stood there like YOU ABOUT TO GET YO ASS KICKED! only to see nothing happen. What happened a year or two ago in Arizona when the university of Arizona lost a FUCKING basketball game? Them white folks rioted like crazy. Guess how many people were arrested? 16! Guess how many were released? 12! Same thing when them hillbillies in Louisville or Kentucky or wherever the hell it was won their chip. Or when Boston won theirs. These mufuccas act a damn fool and get little to no repercussions. You think white folks have a "dealing with police for dummies" book stashed away in their personal library? Fuck no! But we have to teach our kids how to talk to police? Our kids currently can't run in public places, ask for directions, ask for help, knock on a door, listen to music too loud, reach for a wallet, hang out in groups, wear hoodies, throw up PEACE signs, and all kinds of other foolishness without being shot killed arrested or fined. FOH with that BULLSHIT line of thinking
I’m just out here working hard every single day, just trying to be the best poster I can be....
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I have posted videos and case law for people to read up on. I saw the video and would have approached the police in a different manner.
Nobody is posting videos again or discussing case law so that people can be informed.
There is no excuse since we had the Internet. People like that endangers us all.
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Michael Brown case: Black shooting victims face trial by social media
Shortly after Michael Brown was gunned down by police in Ferguson, Missouri on Saturday, an image of him wearing a red tank top, a serious face and throwing up two fingers, began circulating in the press. Social media users wondered whether the image had been selected to make Brown look intimidating, as a way of justifying the use of lethal force on an unarmed teen.
A competing image of Brown, looking shy and self-deprecating inside what appears to be some kind of arcade, began circulating as well. Black Twitter users began posting their own contrasting images of themselves under the hashtag #iftheygunnedmedown, exposing the shortcomings of reducing a human being to a single out of context picture.
The dual images posted by twitter users are provocations, challenging observers to wonder if they could spot the Marine or college graduate if they first saw them clad in a hoodie or enjoying a drink. Core to the meme is resisting the concept of “respectability politics,” the idea that defying superficial racial expectations can shield minorities from discrimination. The pictures remind us that no one can – or should have to be –“respectable” all of the time. Several striking contributions were collected by the Root’s Yesha Callahan:
The circumstances surrounding Brown’s death remain murky. Local police claim he tried to steal an officer’s gun. Witnesses have told the press that Brown had his hands in the air when he was shot. Ferguson residents have been protesting over the shooting since Saturday, by Sunday night some protesters had turned to looting and vandalism.
Even after their deaths, black victims of shootings face trial by social media. Shortly after Trayvon Martin was killed in 2012, supporters of George Zimmerman, who was later acquitted of murder charges in connection with shooting Martin, began circulating tweets and photographs that they believed “proved” Martin was not the sweet innocent teenager being portrayed in the media. A popular chain email featured a photograph of rapper The Game as the “true” Martin, tattooed and muscular, a delusional retroactive justification of his death. Accounts describing Renisha McBride, who was shot to death on a Michigan porch for the crime of seeking help after a car accident, seemed to emphasize her blood alcohol level even after her shooter was convicted of murder.
It’s as if lethal force is justified not by the objective circumstances, but by whether or not ancient racial fears have made the use of such force seem reasonable. Victims are not only put on trial, but pronounced guilty based not on their actions but on whether or not they fit a stereotype.
The victim being convicted in the court of public opinion may foreshadow an exoneration of their shooter. Sometimes the two bleed together: The defense attorney for the Florida man who killed Jordan Davis, another unarmed black boy, described the trial as being about a “subculture thug issue,” rather than about someone opening fire on a car full of unarmed teens.
The question has broader implications beyond the individual shootings. A recent study showed that white Americans are more likely to favor harsh criminal justice policies when they know such policies disproportionately affect black Americans. Self-defense laws like Florida’s introduce a level of subjectivity into the issue of self-defense where racialized fears can shape jury outcomes. One analysis of states with stand your ground laws found cases “with a white perpetrator and a black victim are 281% more likely to be ruled justified than cases with a white perpetrator and white victim.”
This ritual predates the age of social media. Reality TV star Donald Trump took out a newspaper ad in 1989 suggesting the so-called Central Park Five should be put to death. After they were exonerated years later, Trump called the city’s settlement with the men it had falsely convicted of rape a “disgrace” and offered, “these young men do not exactly have the pasts of angels.”
Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani famously proclaimed that Patrick Dorismond, a Haitian immigrant shot by the NYPD in 2000, was not an “altar boy” (Dorismond had in fact, been an altar boy) after releasing the man’s juvenile arrest record.
Marie Dorismond, Patrick’s mother, described the phenomenon best in an interview with New York 1. “They kill, and after that, they kill him the other way — with the mouth.”
http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/black-shooting-victims-face-trial-social-media
Shortly after Michael Brown was gunned down by police in Ferguson, Missouri on Saturday, an image of him wearing a red tank top, a serious face and throwing up two fingers, began circulating in the press. Social media users wondered whether the image had been selected to make Brown look intimidating, as a way of justifying the use of lethal force on an unarmed teen.
A competing image of Brown, looking shy and self-deprecating inside what appears to be some kind of arcade, began circulating as well. Black Twitter users began posting their own contrasting images of themselves under the hashtag #iftheygunnedmedown, exposing the shortcomings of reducing a human being to a single out of context picture.
The dual images posted by twitter users are provocations, challenging observers to wonder if they could spot the Marine or college graduate if they first saw them clad in a hoodie or enjoying a drink. Core to the meme is resisting the concept of “respectability politics,” the idea that defying superficial racial expectations can shield minorities from discrimination. The pictures remind us that no one can – or should have to be –“respectable” all of the time. Several striking contributions were collected by the Root’s Yesha Callahan:
The circumstances surrounding Brown’s death remain murky. Local police claim he tried to steal an officer’s gun. Witnesses have told the press that Brown had his hands in the air when he was shot. Ferguson residents have been protesting over the shooting since Saturday, by Sunday night some protesters had turned to looting and vandalism.
Even after their deaths, black victims of shootings face trial by social media. Shortly after Trayvon Martin was killed in 2012, supporters of George Zimmerman, who was later acquitted of murder charges in connection with shooting Martin, began circulating tweets and photographs that they believed “proved” Martin was not the sweet innocent teenager being portrayed in the media. A popular chain email featured a photograph of rapper The Game as the “true” Martin, tattooed and muscular, a delusional retroactive justification of his death. Accounts describing Renisha McBride, who was shot to death on a Michigan porch for the crime of seeking help after a car accident, seemed to emphasize her blood alcohol level even after her shooter was convicted of murder.
It’s as if lethal force is justified not by the objective circumstances, but by whether or not ancient racial fears have made the use of such force seem reasonable. Victims are not only put on trial, but pronounced guilty based not on their actions but on whether or not they fit a stereotype.
The victim being convicted in the court of public opinion may foreshadow an exoneration of their shooter. Sometimes the two bleed together: The defense attorney for the Florida man who killed Jordan Davis, another unarmed black boy, described the trial as being about a “subculture thug issue,” rather than about someone opening fire on a car full of unarmed teens.
The question has broader implications beyond the individual shootings. A recent study showed that white Americans are more likely to favor harsh criminal justice policies when they know such policies disproportionately affect black Americans. Self-defense laws like Florida’s introduce a level of subjectivity into the issue of self-defense where racialized fears can shape jury outcomes. One analysis of states with stand your ground laws found cases “with a white perpetrator and a black victim are 281% more likely to be ruled justified than cases with a white perpetrator and white victim.”
This ritual predates the age of social media. Reality TV star Donald Trump took out a newspaper ad in 1989 suggesting the so-called Central Park Five should be put to death. After they were exonerated years later, Trump called the city’s settlement with the men it had falsely convicted of rape a “disgrace” and offered, “these young men do not exactly have the pasts of angels.”
Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani famously proclaimed that Patrick Dorismond, a Haitian immigrant shot by the NYPD in 2000, was not an “altar boy” (Dorismond had in fact, been an altar boy) after releasing the man’s juvenile arrest record.
Marie Dorismond, Patrick’s mother, described the phenomenon best in an interview with New York 1. “They kill, and after that, they kill him the other way — with the mouth.”
http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/black-shooting-victims-face-trial-social-media
Whatever, man.
What was the proper method for black babies dealing with CACs when they fed them to gators?
What was the proper method of dealing with them when they threw us on firewood and set us ablaze, THEN took a picture of it?
Maybe Rodney King should've had sense enough to stay home?
Maybe those four little black girls shouldn't have been so weak to let a bomb blast rip through them and take their lives?
When a motherfucker WANTS to kill you, your mere existence is reason enough for that to happen!
FOH!!
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Basically you can be as passive as Drake in prison with a cop and depending on what they feel like that day...you can still be killed without provocation.
The underlying issue is white men have deep seated hatred of black men, even the ones they're friends with.
