Injustice: Ferguson, Missouri; Sanford, Florida; Cleveland, Ohio
My heart is broken.
There is no justice.
There’s racism and privilege and hate and violence.
There are some rich, white people who really don’t get it.
There are those who laugh at pain.
There are whose who get off on the death of black youths.
And there are others, who, wanting to seem rational, say, “Well, we don’t have all the facts.”
There are others, who, wanting to seem on the right side of “the law” say, “Well, did you see the video of Michael Brown robbing a store?” or, “Well, Trayvon threatened George Zimmerman, or smoked dope,” or, “The kid Tamir Rice was waving a gun. How could police know that it wasn’t real?”
I say to all of them about the first two questions: That has nothing to do with this!
I say to them, all of them, about the first two questions: Haven’t you ever done wrong? Would you think it is fair to be killed for it?
I say to all of them: Don’t obfuscate with irrelevant facts!
I say to all of them about all three: Does anyone have to die? What happened to the police tackling someone, disabling someone whom they see as a “threat” — without killing?
I say to all of them: Stop justifying that secret racism in your own hearts.
I say to all of them:
There are five facts about what happened in Ferguson, Missouri:
One: A teenager died in the US.
Two: A black teenager died in the US.
Three: A police officer shot him from several, perhaps, hundred or more feet away.
Four: The teenager was unarmed.
Five: He was killed in cold blood.
Go and search your own conscience, I say.
AND SHAME ON YOU, if you think he deserved it.
AND SHAME ON YOU, if you think his killer deserved to go free.
AND SHAME ON YOU FOR NOT CRYING FOR ALL THOSE YOUNG BLACK TEENAGERS AND CHILDREN WHO DIED.
http://The Death of Emmett Till