THOUGHTS ON KILLING COPS FOR KILLING BLACK PEOPLE

THOUGHTS ON KILLING COPS FOR KILLING BLACK PEOPLE – an untargeted drone vendetta For moral and practical reasons I’m against the indiscriminate killing of anyone: for moral reasons because indiscriminate killing corrupts the spiritual urge in most humans to protect each other; for practical reasons because we now have the weapons to kill us all. There are a couple myths about the behavior of white and black people toward each other I think may be feeding the increasing racial tension. One is the notion that white people are afraid of black people because we are black – I think this myth contains some truth. What feeds this fear, however, is not black skin but the awareness of past and present injustices done to black people and, more importantly, the expectation of retribution. Another myth is that the mission of police officers is to protect and serve. The mission to protect and serve is an ideal yet to be fully realized; it is an ideal still maturing. The legacy of racism still informs and influences the behavior of law enforcers; that legacy, when considering black and other nonwhite people, was and is, to some extent, not to protect and serve but to contain and control. Law enforcers have always used brutality to instill fear because that fear proved to be an effective means to contain and control. However, over the past two generations fear has lost its power to contain and control. In spite of the threatening armament of law enforcers and the menacing growl of drones, people now are more eager to confront injustice; people are no longer afraid to die. http://www.adolphusward.net http://www.amazon.com/Adolphus-A.-Ward/e/B00OSDSSRC