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Our lack of value as blacks is so ingrained in our heads that it dictates our every move in this racist society. The fact that we have a Negress Chief of Police that don't understand these basic concepts are troubling.
My dear brutha Conquero……………your extensive post addressed to Nomenclature, the last two sentences of which are excerpted here, was quite powerful. I have been trying to understand the absolute DEPRAVITY exhibited by the five black officers as depicted in the now released video, and its meaning simply eludes me. The RAGE with which they, literally, beat that boy to death was simply breathtaking.
There is alot going through my head tonite. I am VERY familiar with the city of Memphis, having routinely done business in the city over the last 14 years or so. I also have relatives in the city. And while I’ve never had an “encounter” with Memphis PD over this time period, what chills me to my BONES is the thought of how fraught such an encounter might have been.
I watched the sista Memphis PD’s police chief as Don Lemon was interviewing her live this morning. Like you, Nomenclature and others, I was taken aback when the police chief said that because the five black officers now fired, indicted and charged were black, it takes race off the table in this incident. I was deeply disappointed in her posture, and all Don had to ask at that point was whether she thought these
NUCCAS would have treated a white person similarly. And, of course, we all know the answer is HELL NO!!
I thought after George Floyd, the “consensus” in this country was that Black Lives Matter. Sadly, we are now HORRIFICALLY reminded that, in the main, our lives even in 2023 America really DO NOT matter.
God help us all.