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The systematic elimination of a Race through modern day lynching’s:
Again done from behind the badge, perpetrated through and by the legal system without repercussion:
White sheets replaced by suits and ties and blue uniforms; Grand juries replace burnings, police revolvers replace the noose …
Without hesitation; they’re killing the bearers and planters of our next generation:
Death is instantaneous, increasingly questionable circumstances, unarmed black men and women continue deadly encounters with police that is a sure death sentence without a conviction.
A threat, inequality, death follows as history repeats itself: lynching’s of African Americans became increasingly common. no one is ever prosecuted ; Legalization of routine police killings, practices now normal features of American life –
morally no accountability, acceptable.
Before: a black person was killed in public every four days
Now: twice a week, or every three or four days, an African American has been killed by a white police officer:
A haunting symmetry of a death, links the devaluation of black life in America. Confronted beyond the numbers, it is the banality of injustice:
Marlene Pinnock- beating of great-grandmother
17-year-old Victor Steen-tasered while riding his bicycle and then run over by
the police officer
Daniel Shaver Christian Taylor Kendrec McDade, 19 Philando Castile
Jonathan Ferrell Alton Sterling Reynaldo Cuevas, 20 Terence Crutcher
Aiyana Jones, 7 Akiel Denkins Kendra James Keith Lamont Scott
DeAunta Terrel Farrow, 12 Samuel DuBose LaTanya Haggerty Gregory Gunn
Tamir Rice,12-Natasha McKenna-Margaret LaVerne Mitchell-Andy Lopez, 13
Freddie Gray-Shereese Francis-Brendon Glenn-Amadou Diallo
Kiwane Carrington,15-Yvette Smith, Walter Scott-Manuel Loggins Jr.
Kimani Gray,16-Miriam Carey, Ezell Ford- Stephon Clark- Deion Fludd, 17
Shantel Davis-Laquan McDonald-Ronald Madison -James Brisette, 17- Tarika Wilson-
Akai Gurley Sean Bell-Ervin Jefferson,18- Alberta Spruill-Jamar Clark-Eric Garner-
Rekia Boyd, 22-Korryn Gaines-Ramarley Graham-Michael Brown, Jr.
Ramarley Graham, 18- Sandra Bland
Plus 206 more…….and Climbing
