The assassination of another black man troubles my soul deeply. In my own city, young black men are murdered by other young black men.
This is very troubling, however it becomes more troubling when black men are murdered by the police.
For centuries the police have had an acrimonious relationship with black folks. Trust was not there. We look at them with the side eye. Even when the police leadership is of color. .we don't trust them.
Recent events seem to support that we should not trust them. But what should we do? How do we gain trust back? How can they earn trust from the community of color? We can't even come to the table..we are hurt..
We March and then we riot. We seemly show the police we can't act right. .but we can and the you incite with tear gas and dogs and battle gear.
Is this iraq..Iran. .China
.or the good old usa
Racism is here folks and it ain't never left. Our children's blood are coloring our streets. We have got to do something. .we got to change the police culture. We got to change the mindset of shoot first...we got to stop. Blood in our streets.
We got to reiterate Hands Up..is surrender. .don't shoot to kill.
Rip Mike Brown
Hands Up
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