and here is the cartoon she posted with it.
Posted on 09/04/2014 10:29:58 AM PDT by ThomasMore
We all must build a common understanding of race, become aware of the role we play in upholding systems of oppression, and get comfortable with vulnerability.
By Camisha Jones
Michael Brown. Jordan Davis. Sean Bell. Trayvon Martin. The list of African-American boys and men gunned down at the hands of police officers and vigilantes just gets longer and longer. It makes me numb.
I don’t want to feel the full weight of grief and turmoil from knowing the lives of people I love, who look like me, are often not safe in this country. My hope for moving past this immobility comes from my experience facilitating anti-bias retreats and workshops for over seven years and my creative work as a poet. I’ve witnessed the numerous ways our lives are compromised when racism isn’t confronted. I’ve seen what can happen when we commit to the difficult work of undoing oppression.
Here’s what those experiences have taught me:
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and here is the cartoon she posted with it.
Camisha: I read your article and it made me numb, too, mainly because of its "I'm-a-victim" bull crap. Then I figured it out: You're numb, too, but yours is between the ears. Writing like yours is an unnecessary denuding of the nation's forests.
Easy. Just ask Chris Rock:
I like where she mentions in the article that women should keep their legs closed. Fathers should stick around and raise the kids. The lids should stay in school. And stop blaming whitey for your problems.
But she doesn’t mention all the killings in shitcago.
How to Save the Life of the Next Michael Brown
Tell your kids not to be involved in gangs, not to rob convenience stores, not to assault police officers, and not to charge an armed police officer.
Easy: the parentS raise their child to not attack police officers and storekeepers.
What about the thousands of young black men slaughtered in Chicago and Detroit? Guess their lives don’t count... I wonder why?
Michael Brown was just about exactly the size of Detroit defensive lineman Ndamukong Suh. Dr. Baden said Brown was heavily muscled, not obese.
If Ndamukong Suh punched you in the face and tried to take your gun, is the first word you would think of to describe him, “unarmed”?
Now here we have a sucessful black female who would rather be down with the hood then uplft some young people to follow in her footsteps of success. Which leads us all to believe this success can only be seen as an affirmative action I got my job not only because im a women but because I am a black women, sad
What do we have to do to save the next Michael Brown? Let me guess ...
1) Mo money
2) Mo freebies
3) Mo white guilt
4) Mo black denial
5) Mo uv da same ...
She’s a really deep thinker. A poet and so forth. Leads “anti-bias retreats” and whatnot. Brilliant.
I have come to the conclusion that how I have been thinking of the Michael Brown misses a few key points. It starts with the missing cigars. Where did they go?
Then, I wonder about Dorian Johnson, who appears to have run away. See the discussion at The Conservative Treehouse on this. I think his back was turned to the shooting as he kept running to the woods.
Based on all I have read, and my own suppositions, I think Dorian Johnson is the prime mover in all of this. He needed the money from rolling blunts (obviously having the MJ at his place somehow) to pay rent and child support, especially given that he was going to be evicted. He convinced Brown to help him rob the store, with Michael being a sucker about getting caught, when Dorian needed them for his own purposes.
Brown wanted to distract Wilson and so made wild gestures and tried to jam Wilson in the car, as a distraction to give Johnson the time to run away or, if Johnson had a gun, to flank Wilson at Wilson’s six (see the stray gunshot). It is just as likely that Brown came rushing at Wilson to give Johnson time to run out of sight of the cars and around the apartments toward the trees.
There’s a picture of what appears to be a man in the trees, away from the shooting area but in its line of sight. This may turn out to be Johnson. At the very least, Johnson showed up later and, to cover for his own complicity and fearing his arrest, fabricated a story, with the help from one Anthony Shahid, who knows Farrakhan and Sharpton. This story started the riots, and Johnson got off scot free; he was willing to use Johnson for the robbery and for the sake of saving his skin—to such a point of participating in actions that resulted in Johnson’s death.
And that makes Johnson the true culprit here.
It makes the story one of cowardice and manipulation of others for personal profit.
The chick’s soul is full of hate. What a racist.
And lay off the dope too
"Don't try a beat-down a cop or neighborhood watch member"?
I bet not...
Interesting.
When I was little my dad told me to do what cops told me. I’ve never been shot.
hmmm...good points made. I can see this coming out in the defense case of Officer Wilson.
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