This makes me fucking sick. It makes me feel unsafe. It makes me hate police and not trust them. I was one of those people who couldn’t understand my friends from Philly,New York, or other urban areas had such disdain for police. I grew up in a largely white suburban community. I didn’t know things like this. Hell, for sometime I almost defended police. Blame it on being young and thinking that the world was a better place.
When its open season on all black men, there is no justice, when we can be gunned down execution style, in a public train station, we are not equals. We are nothing but cattle. Target practice for police men who have this deep seeded hatred for black men that they can’t even understand.
If something is not done about this, I might seriously move to Canada. There needs to be a change. There needs to be a greater value placed on the life of black men. We are not disposable nothings. We are son, brothers, and father. We have every right to be here and breath and make mistakes with out wondering what speeding ticket will equal our death. I should be scared to go to the mall with 5 or 6 of my friends and be considered a gang.
I shouldn’t hold resentment for my white friends because they will never understand what this means. This is more than just some sad 6 o’clock news story. This could have been me. This could have been any random brown face boy out celebrating the joys of seeing a new year. It didn’t have to end like this. There probably wasn’t a need for it in the first place.
Black life is not sacred here and it’s a shame. It’s a damn shame. In a country where Barack Obama can happen, he could still be shot down for no other reason than being a black man.
Rest In Peace…Mr. Oscar Grant
No more words,
KD
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