by D.Large
The hauntings of authoritarian repressive rule by police in this country pales over us like a death shadow.
Our constitutional liberties are ignored. We live under the rigid bonds of profiling and control. We are a caged enemy subject to wanton random police violence like unarmed teenager Remarley Graham who was shot and killed in his own bathroom and Ayianna Stanley Jones killed while sleeping on a sofa. Kenneth Chamberlain knew death was at his door when the police shouted, "Fuck you nigga open up the door", within moments Chamberlain was shot and killed by police.
Our lives are not safe even within the confines of our own home.
There is whole scale war being waged in this country by police against black and brown people of color in their communities. This war is not televised nor discussed by pundits in the media. No embedded reporters only the "shock and awe" that grief stricken families experiece when hearing another unarmed loved one has been shot and killed by police or vigilante.
While the causualties of this war silently continue the gaiety of life drowns out the carnage.
We act and want to be treated like civilians and law abiding citizens but what we fail to understand is that we are viewed as the enemy. Our communities are war zones patrolled by police who recgonize that demarcation line of race which fuels the police attitude of,"us versus them" on the streets.
We are the resident, "publically undeclared terrorist", a status that is reflected in the public executions of unarmed individuals by police.
War breeds contempt for the enemy and if you are black or brown in this country then you are a potential target. There is no respect for the value of life only the violent submission to the desires of those racially bias police who are protected by the state from any criminal culpability for their murderous acts.
What we learned from the Rodney King video back in 1992 is still prevalent today. White racially bias police officers across this nation have no reservations inflicting severe beatings or pulling the trigger to inflict death on a person of color. This is no more evident than in the increasing number of unarmed victims that have been shot and killed by police in the last ten years.
If Rodney King represented the brutal police treatment in his beating then the death of Oscar Grant ushered in an era where shooting a unarmed black or Hispanic individual is the new law and order and acceptable rule of law in this society.
In war there are no, "Can we all get along" peace offerings which Rodney King desired. There is no neutrality in war especially when you have already been deemed an enemy and criminal by state.
We have a right to defend our families to the death in war.
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