this stupid nigga here
please tell me you are trolling. White people been calling us nigga for hundreds of years, now suddenly our problems are not caused by racism, but our own use of the word? You cooning it up in here
Police just executed an unarmed 17 yr old brotha (shot 10 times)
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this stupid nigga here
please tell me you are trolling. White people been calling us nigga for hundreds of years, now suddenly our problems are not caused by racism, but our own use of the word? You cooning it up in here
The reason why some of the Toms are so quick to bring up that "we are our own worst enemy rhetoric" is that they are on the master's side, not ours.
stop entertaining game theory. he feels the same about african americans as the dude with the confederate flag.
just stop.
focus on what needs to be focused on.
justice for the slain
changes in the practices of the police.
and policy changes across the board.
however we need to do it we need to do it. force, voting, money all of the above.
just stop.
focus on what needs to be focused on.
justice for the slain
changes in the practices of the police.
and policy changes across the board.
however we need to do it we need to do it. force, voting, money all of the above.
Yet we are not talking about all Americans. We are talking about black folk. We are the ones that lack power and the knowledge to gain such powers in this country and in our own communities.
Meanwhile the black on black crime shit is all bullshit if you're not using the whole stat. White people commit crimes against white people. Latinos vs Latinos. N rives vs Natives. You commit crimes against the people you're near. Anyone who perpetuates the "but black on black crime..." Whit is either uneducated, stupid or is pushing an agenda.
I think the overly strong focus on national and international politics is largely a waste of time as it's hard for small groups of individuals to have control over it.
The biggest problem is that we are not taking part in our local government. Blacks often live in cities with high black concentrations. That we can have cities where we can basically end the career of those in charge yet they don't even respect us is showing our mental disconnect in recognizing that we have to become engaged with the power structure.
President Obama calls Michael Brown’s death ‘heartbreaking’
08/12/14 04:48 PM—UPDATED 08/12/14 05:07 PM
By Adam Howard
President Barack Obama weighed in on the controversial police shooting death of Michael Brown, an unarmed teen from Ferguson, Missouri, in a brief official statement on Tuesday.
“The death of Michael Brown is heartbreaking, and Michelle and I send our deepest condolences to his family and his community at this very difficult time,” Obama said.
“As Attorney General Holder has indicated, the Department of Justice is investigating the situation along with local officials, and they will continue to direct resources to the case as needed. I know the events of the past few days have prompted strong passions, but as details unfold, I urge everyone in Ferguson, Missouri, and across the country, to remember this young man through reflection and understanding. We should comfort each other and talk with one another in a way that heals, not in a way that wounds. Along with our prayers, that’s what Michael and his family, and our broader American community, deserve,” he added.
The president’s statement recalls his remarks on the death of Trayvon Martin in March 2012, another unarmed African-American teen whose shooting death stirred racial tensions and national debate. Obama was both lauded and criticized for empathizing with Martin’s family.
Following the verdict in the trial of his shooter (George Zimmerman was acquitted in Martin’s death), the president said that Trayvon Martin, “could have been me 35 years ago.”
Brown was killed Saturday after an altercation with local police. While his family and witnesses claim that he was shot while he had his arms raised, local police say he was killed because he attempted to take an officer’s gun from within a squad car. Following Brown’s death there have been both peaceful and violent protests in the Ferguson community.
The death of Brown comes in the wake of a series of polarizing incidents involving the alleged use of excessive police force.
“He was a good boy who didn’t deserve any of this,” Michael Brown Sr., the teen’s father, told reporters on Monday.
http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/president-obama-calls-michael-brown-death-heartbreaking
08/12/14 04:48 PM—UPDATED 08/12/14 05:07 PM
By Adam Howard
President Barack Obama weighed in on the controversial police shooting death of Michael Brown, an unarmed teen from Ferguson, Missouri, in a brief official statement on Tuesday.
“The death of Michael Brown is heartbreaking, and Michelle and I send our deepest condolences to his family and his community at this very difficult time,” Obama said.
“As Attorney General Holder has indicated, the Department of Justice is investigating the situation along with local officials, and they will continue to direct resources to the case as needed. I know the events of the past few days have prompted strong passions, but as details unfold, I urge everyone in Ferguson, Missouri, and across the country, to remember this young man through reflection and understanding. We should comfort each other and talk with one another in a way that heals, not in a way that wounds. Along with our prayers, that’s what Michael and his family, and our broader American community, deserve,” he added.
The president’s statement recalls his remarks on the death of Trayvon Martin in March 2012, another unarmed African-American teen whose shooting death stirred racial tensions and national debate. Obama was both lauded and criticized for empathizing with Martin’s family.
Following the verdict in the trial of his shooter (George Zimmerman was acquitted in Martin’s death), the president said that Trayvon Martin, “could have been me 35 years ago.”
Brown was killed Saturday after an altercation with local police. While his family and witnesses claim that he was shot while he had his arms raised, local police say he was killed because he attempted to take an officer’s gun from within a squad car. Following Brown’s death there have been both peaceful and violent protests in the Ferguson community.
The death of Brown comes in the wake of a series of polarizing incidents involving the alleged use of excessive police force.
“He was a good boy who didn’t deserve any of this,” Michael Brown Sr., the teen’s father, told reporters on Monday.
http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/president-obama-calls-michael-brown-death-heartbreaking
I see this was already answered for you.
Agreed.
I don't recall if it was originally posted by anonymous or not. I saw it for the first time last night.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>"Feral." - Allegedly racist FB post from wife of police chief. MT <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Ferguson?src=hash">#Ferguson</a> <a href="http://t.co/uMURiOJfql">pic.twitter.com/uMURiOJfql</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/darius_roberti">@darius_roberti</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/_Physicism">@_Physicism</a></p>— David M. Perry (@Lollardfish) <a href="https://twitter.com/Lollardfish/statuses/499207265400799233">August 12, 2014</a></blockquote>
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This is so true. One of the reasons NYC got Mayor DeBlasio is because Black people turned out to vote for him cause of his stance with reforming the NYPD. He knows that we can just as easily vote his ass out as well.
man absolutely no way that shit is real..i refuse to believe anyone in such a position could be THAT stupid.
REEEEEEEEAAAALLY hoping it's real.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>This is NOT the wife of <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Ferguson?src=hash">#Ferguson</a> Chief of police. Stop spreading that foolish rumor. Honor <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MikeBrown?src=hash">#MikeBrown</a>, peacefully. <a href="http://t.co/7wlbXh0wg8">pic.twitter.com/7wlbXh0wg8</a></p>— _N (@blowticious) <a href="https://twitter.com/blowticious/statuses/499219103677431808">August 12, 2014</a></blockquote>
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I feel you.
But, bro' ... I'm going to have to bow out.
I spent a significant portion of my late teens up to my mid-20s going HAM in political and economic discussions with my people...
...and I just got burnt out.
Either we will, or we won't. It's really that simple.
I've mentioned voting a couple of times on twitter. One of the people going to Ferguson favorited a tweet, so hopefully that will come up as part of the response. Although Ferguson is 2/3 black, the entire state is only about 10%. I think the state leans republican.
Was this one posted yet?
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Hi Colin..nice confederate flag you got there. Is that your dad's. Jon, you call yourself chief of police? <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Ferguson?src=hash">#Ferguson</a> <a href="http://t.co/bLz0FdmC61">pic.twitter.com/bLz0FdmC61</a></p>— TheAnonMessage (@TheAnonMessage) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheAnonMessage/statuses/499242032360349696">August 12, 2014</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Hi Colin..nice confederate flag you got there. Is that your dad's. Jon, you call yourself chief of police? <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Ferguson?src=hash">#Ferguson</a> <a href="http://t.co/bLz0FdmC61">pic.twitter.com/bLz0FdmC61</a></p>— TheAnonMessage (@TheAnonMessage) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheAnonMessage/statuses/499242032360349696">August 12, 2014</a></blockquote>
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Dude fuck a civil rights advocate, these cops are a military force inflicting genocide on our young men. Protect my people from murder, I'll worry about the other shit later. Obama controls the military, if Americans are under seige he is sworn to protect them.
When another person can murder your kid, wipe evidence, arrest you for being angry about, them stand back and say fuck you pay my salary and pension, something is wrong with that.
Stop letting politicians off the hook for their responsibilities to All Americans, unless YOU look in the mirror and EXPECT less from America than everyone else.
OK, different racist then. Like I said I didn't think it was from the anon page, I just saw it being circulated. I'm pretty sure they posted a pic of his wife, daughter and son.
Check their timelines because it's all starting to become a blur for me.
https://twitter.com/opferguson
https://twitter.com/anon
After Trayvon the only riots that happened were the white people in Huntington Beach. To this day racists are pissed the only riots were a bunch of white kids.
Ok. The N word isn't used at all from blk people anymore starting NOW.
How does that stop brothers from being killed by police unjustly?
maaaaaaaaaannnnn
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>BREAKING PHOTO: Protest in <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Clayton?src=hash">#Clayton</a>, here we go... <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/KKK?src=hash">#KKK</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Ferguson?src=hash">#Ferguson</a> <a href="http://t.co/SHSGoxm4ar">pic.twitter.com/SHSGoxm4ar</a></p>— TheAnonMessage (@TheAnonMessage) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheAnonMessage/statuses/499310538997129216">August 12, 2014</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>BREAKING PHOTO: Protest in <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Clayton?src=hash">#Clayton</a>, here we go... <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/KKK?src=hash">#KKK</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Ferguson?src=hash">#Ferguson</a> <a href="http://t.co/SHSGoxm4ar">pic.twitter.com/SHSGoxm4ar</a></p>— TheAnonMessage (@TheAnonMessage) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheAnonMessage/statuses/499310538997129216">August 12, 2014</a></blockquote>
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im begning to think someone, 4chan or annon is trolling the internet, and turning this subject into a game now.
Here is a petition that can be used as a starting point for ideas:
https://www.change.org/petitions/pr...-citizens-from-police-violence-and-misconduct
I love good police officers. I have them in my immediate family. Like all civil servants they are underpaid and under-resourced for a difficult job.
However, a long and completely avoidable history of violence by police officers has killed too many innocent civilians, caused a destructive level of mistrust in the community, and is causing a rising tide of anger, frustration, and despair among millions of good people.
This petition is for Amadou Diallo - shot at 41 times. An innocent, hardworking man simply reaching for his wallet, Diallo should be alive today.
This petition is for Sean Bell - shot at over 50 times and killed on his wedding day.
This petition is for Oscar Grant - handcuffed with his hands behind his back for breaking a fight on the subway - Oscar was shot in the back and killed by a police officer while sitting down.
This petition is for Chavis Carter - arrested for marijuana, searched, handcuffed with his hands behind his back, and put into the back of a police car. Chavis is then said to have somehow killed himself with a gun.
This petition is for Wendell Allen - just 20 years old - police busted into a house and shot him in the heart - killing him. He wasn't who they were looking for.
This petition is for Eric Garner - choked to death on YouTube for the entire world to see. While the coroner has deemed his death a homicide, we must change the laws to prevent this from ever happening again.
This petition is for these men, and for many other unarmed men and women who have been killed by the police. It is unacceptable for the police to serve as JUDGE, JURY, and EXECUTIONER. The recent murders of Eric Garner, Michael Brown and John Crawford this past month at the hands of police have so inflamed communities across the country that we believe we are reaching a tipping point of anger.
It is our hope to channel this collective anger into effective policy solutions that will not only make life safer for citizens, but will restore confidence in police, and bring hope to hopeless families and communities devastated by these egregious acts of violence.
Our 5 Policy Solutions Are As Follows:
1. The shooting and killing of an unarmed citizen who does not have an outstanding warrant for a violent crime should be a federal offense.
2. Choke holds and chest compressions by police (what the coroner lists as the official cause of death for Eric Garner) should be federally banned.
3. All police officers must wear forward-facing body cameras while on duty. They cost just $99 and are having a signficant, positive impact in several cities around the United States and the world.
4. Suspensions for violations of any of the above offenses should be UNPAID.
5. Convictions for the above offenses should have their own set of mandatory minimum penalties. The men who killed Diallo, Bell, Grant, Carter, Garner, and others all walk free while over 1,000,000 non violent offenders are currently incarcerated in American prisons.
These federal actions are in the best interest of our country. We will direct our anger, our dollars, our votes, and our voice to seeing them happen all across the country.
when the chief has a confederate flag in his living room you know that area is populated with klan members
Peace to ya'll.
That was not what I saw in Clayton today.
Camille, congress and the senate are not passing any federal laws on that issue. No state house wouldnt dear pass such a bill. You can go with against the police union but you have to catch them when they are renegotiating with city hall. What cities are up for contract negotiations?
so the klan rally is real? and u saw it with your own eyes?
(if so, i stand correced)
In the photoshop age, the Internet is harder to trust than a video hoe that says she would be a faithful wife
Folx on twitter are reporting that was from an event in NC earlier in the year. Now you just have folx trying to rile people up and keep shit going. The Mike Brown's death has merit on it's own without all that extra.
Yeah, that rally was actually last week around the time Brown was killed down here in Troy, NC and it was a rally against illegal immigration. Although, nothing about immigration was ever mention. Turned out to be a shouting match.
Kkk rallies in NC are more often than people think.
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-James Baldwin <a href="http://t.co/E7abeAI2nd">pic.twitter.com/E7abeAI2nd</a></p>— Thoughtful_BlaCkman (@wizdom4you) <a href="https://twitter.com/wizdom4you/statuses/498679477442854912">August 11, 2014</a></blockquote>
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Sorry Colin. Embedded links within article @ source link.
In defense of black rage: Michael Brown, police and the American dream
http://www.salon.com/2014/08/12/in_..._michael_brown_police_and_the_american_dream/
On Saturday a Ferguson, Missouri, police officer shot and killed Michael Brown, an unarmed teenager on his way to college this week. Brown was shot multiple times, though his hands were in the air. His uncovered body was left in the street for hours, as a crowd from his neighborhood gathered to stand vigil. Then they marched down to the police station. On Sunday evening, some folks in the crowd looted a couple of stores and threw bottles at the police. Monday morning was marked by peaceful protests.
The people of Ferguson are angry. Outraged. The officer’s story is dubious. Any black kid with sense knows it is futile to reach into an officer’s vehicle and take his gun. That story is only plausible to people who believe that black people are animals, that black men go looking for cops to pick fights with. Absurdity. Eyewitness accounts like these make far more sense.
It seems far easier to focus on the few looters who have reacted unproductively to this tragedy than to focus on the killing of Michael Brown. Perhaps looting seems like a thing we can control. I refuse. I refuse to condemn the folks engaged in these acts, because I respect black rage. I respect black people’s right to cry out, shout and be mad as hell that another one of our kids is dead at the hands of the police. Moreover I refuse the lie that the opportunism of a few in any way justifies or excuses the murderous opportunism undertaken by this as yet anonymous officer.
The police mantra is “to serve and to protect.” But with black folks, we know that’s not the mantra. The mantra for many, many officers when dealing with black people is apparently “kill or be killed.”
It is that deep irrational fear of young black men that continues to sit with me. Here’s the thing: I do not believe that most white people see black people and say, “I hate black people.” Racism is not that tangible, that explicit. I do not believe most white people hate most black people. I do not believe that most police officers seek to do harm or consciously hate black people. At least I hope they don’t.
I believe that racism exists in the inexplicable sense of fear, unsafety and gnawing anxiety that white people, be they officers with guns or just general folks moving about their lives, have when they encounter black people. I believe racism exists in that sense of mistrust, the extra precautions white people take when they encounter black people. I believe all these emotions have emerged from a lifetime of media consumption subtly communicating that black people are criminal, a lifetime of seeing most people in power look just like you, a lifetime of being the majority population. And I believe this subconscious sense of having lost control (of the universe) exists for white people, at a heightened level since the election of Barack Obama and the continued explosion of the non-white population.
The irony is that black people understand this heightened anxiety. We feel it, too. We study white people. We are taught this as a tool of survival. We know when there is unrest in the souls of white folks. We know that unrest, if not assuaged quickly, will lead to black death. Our suspicions, unlike those of white people, are proven right time and time again.
I speak to this deep psychology of race, not because I am trying to engage in pop psychology but because we live in a country that is so deeply emotionally dishonest about both race and racism. When will we be honest enough to acknowledge that the police have more power than the ordinary citizen? They are supposed to. And with more power comes more responsibility.
Why are police calling the people of Ferguson animals and yelling at them to “bring it”? Because those officers in their riot gear, with their tear gas and dogs, want a justification for slaughter. But inexplicably in that moment we turn our attention to the rioters, the people with less power, but justifiable anger, and say, “You are the problem.” No. A cop killing an unarmed teenager who had his hands in the air is the problem. Anger is a perfectly reasonable response. So is rage.
We are talking about justifiable outrage. Outrage over the unjust taking of the lives of people who look like us. How dare people preach and condescend to these people and tell them not to loot, not to riot? Yes, those are destructive forms of anger, but frankly I would rather these people take their anger out on property and products rather than on other people.
No, I don’t support looting. But I question a society that always sees the product of the provocation and never the provocation itself. I question a society that values property over black life. But I know that our particular system of law was conceived on the founding premise that black lives are white property. “Possession,” the old adage goes, “is nine-tenths of the law.”
But we are the dispossessed. We cannot count on the law to protect us. We cannot count on police not to shoot us down in cold blood. We cannot count on politics to be a productive outlet for our rage. We cannot count on prayer to soothe our raging, ragged souls.
This is what I mean when I say that we live in a society that is deeply emotionally dishonest about racism. We hear a story each and every week now about how some overzealous officer has killed another black man, or punched or beaten or choked a black woman. This week we heard two stories – Mike Brown in Missouri and John Crawford in Ohio. These are not isolated incidents. How many cops in how many cities have to murder how many black men — assault how many black women — before we recognize that this shit is not isolated? It is systemic from the top to the bottom.
Every week we are having what my friend Dr. Regina Bradley called #anotherhashtagmemorial. Every week. We are weak. We are tired. Of being punching bags and shooting targets for the police. We are tired of well-meaning white citizens and respectable black ones foreclosing all outlets for rage. We are tired of these people telling us what isn’t the answer.
The answer isn’t looting, no. The answer isn’t rioting, no. But the answer also isn’t preaching to black people about “black-on-black” crime without full acknowledgment that most crime is intraracial. The answer is not having a higher standard for the people than for the police. The answer is not demanding that black people get mad about and solve the problem of crime in Chicago before we get mad about the slaughter of a teen boy just outside St. Louis.
We can be, and have been, and are mad about both. Violence is the effect, not the cause of the concentrated poverty that locks that many poor people up together with no conceivable way out and no productive way to channel their rage at having an existence that is adjacent to the American dream. This kind of social mendacity about the way that racism traumatizes black people individually and collectively is a festering sore, an undiagnosed cancer, a raging infection threatening to overtake every organ in our body politic.
We are tired of these people preaching a one-sided gospel of peace. “Turn the other cheek” now means “here are our collective asses to kiss.” We are tired of forgiving people because they most assuredly do know what they do.
Mike Brown is dead. He is dead for no reason. He is dead because a police officer saw a 6-foot-4, 300-plus-pound black kid, and miscalculated the level of threat. To be black in this country is to be subject to routine forms of miscalculated risk each and every day. Black people have every right to be angry as hell about being mistaken for predators when really we are prey. The idea that we would show no rage as we accrete body upon body – Eric Garner, John Crawford, Mike Brown (and those are just our summer season casualties) — is the height of delusion. It betrays a stunning lack of empathy, a stunning refusal of people to grant the fact of black humanity, and in granting our humanity, granting us the right to the full range of emotions that come with being human. Rage must be expressed. If not it will tear you up from the inside out or make you tear other people up. Usually the targets are those in closest proximity. The disproportionate amount of heart disease, cancers, hypertension, obesity, violence and other maladies that plague black people is as much a product of internalized, unrecognized, unaddressed rage as it is anything else.
Nothing makes white people more uncomfortable than black anger. But nothing is more threatening to black people on a systemic level than white anger. It won’t show up in mass killings. It will show up in overpolicing, mass incarceration, the gutting of the social safety net, and the occasional dead black kid. Of late, though, these killings have been far more than occasional. We should sit up and pay attention to where this trail of black bodies leads us. They are a compass pointing us to a raging fire just beneath the surface of our national consciousness. We feel it. We hear it. Our nostrils flare with the smell of it.
James Baldwin called it “the fire next time.” A fire shut up in our bones. A sentient knowledge, a kind of black epistemology, honed for just such a time as this. And with this knowledge, a clarity that says if “we live by the sword, we will die by it.”
Then, black rage emerges prophetic from across the decades in the words of Harlem Renaissance poet Claude McKay who penned these words 95 years ago in response to the Red Summer of 1919.
If we must die, let it not be like hogs
Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot,
While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs
Making their mock at our accursèd lot.
If we must die, O let us nobly die,
So that our precious blood may not be shed
In vain; then even the monsters we defy
Shall be constrained to honor us though dead!
O kinsmen! we must meet the common foe!
Though far outnumbered let us show us brave,
And for their thousand blows deal one death-blow!
What though before us lies the open grave?
Like men we’ll face the murderous, cowardly pack,
Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back!
I offer no answers. I offer only grief and rage and hope.
