Wed Sep 10, 2014 at 01:40 PM PDT
Young Black Man at Ferguson Town Hall: "We got the Power, You Don't"
by Frank Vyan Walton
Following a long rambling, condescending speech by a older white gentleman who pretty much explained that "After 16 years as a committe man, I supported African-American candidates..." [You want a cookie to go with that?] and "They come to my home, they come to my Christmas parties" [He wants Mega-Bonus points for letting the Darkies in his house!] and that he too, was - in effect - raised a "poor black child" [yes, just like in "The Jerk"] by a single mother, on food stamps, who wasn't from the country and he truly understood the challenges that others faced. And so on and so forth.
Because, y'know, ain't all Black people on food stamps? And growing up in fatherless broken homes?
In response a young man took the Mic, proclaiming his name was "Mike Brown from Ground Zero" he said, wearing a black "Peacekeeper" t-shirt and proceeded to drop some knowledge and true science.
“It is time for us to get suited and booted and kick their you-know-whats out of office,” he said. “We’ve got the power — they don’t. We’re trying to figure out how this man, that man, the old man — the Man, the Man, the Man up there on his iPad who don’t care what we have to say. How do we get him out? We vote him out! We recall him out!”
“A month ago, a young man was shot down several times, and that’s a fact,” the man said, alluding to a comment by an older, white male who earlier had yelled, “You want facts? I’ll give you facts!”
“His body laid on that pavement for hours, and that’s a fact,” the young man continued. “All the videos, all the nonsense they try to put out there, but the facts are out there — and they’re still hiding behind one white officer. They are letting all this go on for one white officer.”
“But do you know what? We ought to thank them,” he said, “because it’s time for us to kick them out. They don’t care about us, that’s been proven. And they won’t care until we show them that we have the power to vote them out.”
The young man added that the white community has “been thinking for too long, that black people don’t love each other — that me and this brother,” he said, pointing to a fellow attendee, “can’t go out there and peacefully protest for our rights. But guess what? It happened, and it’s not going to stop. If we don’t get justice, young people are going to continue to stand up.”
“We’re not fighting each other anymore, that stuff is dead,” he said. “We’re fighting them, because they’ve been fighting us. And we won’t take it. We’re fired up! We’re fed up! We’re young! We’re strong!”
“So mayor,” he concluded, “you better enjoy that seat, because November is coming up, and you are out!”
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/09/...te-establishment-weve-got-the-power-you-dont/
