It is the over-privileged Eurocentric-American class who thinks it's OK to settle a score with a bullet.
The Michael Dunn trial ended in a most bizarre manner. Dunn was convicted for shooting at kids he did not kill and is temporarily “walking” for the kid he did kill, Jordan Davis. Dunn will do 60 years for not being able to control himself.
A White Guy with a gun who was afraid of African-American kids. It isn’t the first time, it won’t be the last. But we get the Zimmerman cycle to start up again – white guy in fear gets to pull a trigger – let’s rip the dead kid.
The problem is not African-American kids being kids anymore. It is my race; the over-privileged Eurocentric-American class who thinks it is still OK to settle a score with a bullet.
Hey, our race can call all the other groups – THEM – not US. It is time we really look into the mirror. What are we afraid of? Letting THEM win? Why, are we looking at the world in that much of a zero sum game; if someone else gets ahead, is it coming out of what “my” team can achieve? At what point do we become Americans?
Seriously, my family did not show up in the USA until the late 1800’s. After the Civil War. After the African American slave population built the economic infrastructure of the South for free. After much of the country was made great on a cut rate wage. If any group should be in line ahead of those with the Ellis Island experience – it needs to be the African-American Community.
Given the abuse heaped on African-Americans in just the last 60 years – that look in the mirror is pretty ugly. Sure we have President Obama, but we also have a group of Eurocentric-Americans who would destroy this country because he is Black.
Enough of the sane members of the GOP are leaving. Those GOP left in my state (PA) took an equal amount of money out of the Philly School System and dumped it into building the prison systems. More institutionalized fear.
Flip it around for a moment. Could you imagine Eurocentric-American groups taking the abuse meted out to the African-American Group without a fight? Wanna watch the Godfather tonight? I am truly amazed at the ability of the African-American Community to absorb blow after blow from this society.
It is not enough to sit here and rant on a problem without a solution – that’s irresponsible. Until, as the graphic on the right points out, every white person in this country can sit in a room comfortably as the only white person in a room of African-Americans, we are not going to get anywhere.
Given the ratio of Eurocentric-Americans to African-Americans in this country, I would imagine having groups of black folk sit around until the white folk get comfortable, would make the black community pretty put upon. It almost feels like something from Catch-22, but I think my race is that out of whack.
It is our (read:my) Eurocentric-American race that is the problem. We are the ones who have to change. Do not mistake this for “white guilt”. This is common sense. Unless we want to live in a modified apartheid society, we have to come to terms with the fact the guys killing the black kids with legal impunity are white. And we have to do something about it.
The NRA is the biggest domestic terrorist group in the United States, maybe the world. They love their guns more than people. With politicians in their pockets all we can do is brace ourselves for the next NRA sponsored slaughter.
The policies and laws created by The NRA killed the kids in Newtown and allowed the vigilante George Zimmerman to murder Trayvon Martin. Back ground checks, that the NRA strongly oppose, would help keep guns out of the hands of unstable people preventing many deaths.
STAND YOUR GROUND is nothing more than a license to legally hunt and kill innocent people PERIOD~
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