THOUGHTS ABOUT WHITE FEAR OF BLACK PEOPLE

THOUGHTS ABOUT WHITE FEAR OF BLACK PEOPLE – another view – PLEASE SHARE It is true that an idea repeated often enough will eventually be accepted as fact. It’s become almost fashionable to justify the killing of an unarmed black man out of a justifiable fear – that fear is assumed to be both rational and legal. I have found nothing remotely close to facts that support this assertion. I have another view of why unarmed blacks are killed by white law enforcers and those protecting their whiteness – the killings are driven not by fear but by impunity: nothing’s going to happen. There will be no fine or time in prison; a killer of black life is in fact rewarded with public commendation. Not too long ago the killing by torture and lynching of black people was a public event; a spectacle attended by jubilant crowds of white families – men women and children. Jubilation has not suddenly turned to fear in White American culture. I think that jubilation has been replaced by a conscious effort to put black life in harm’s way. There is a conscious regard for white life. That regard is intensified when a person is young or female. There is a conscious disregard for black life whether old or young or female. A white citizen’s call to police for suspected mischief by a black person is believed to be fact – it’s as if an order has been given by a senior officer who has eyes on a crime being committed. The same call to police for suspected mischief by a white person is first verified before any action is taken. Verification is a must before lethal force is used against a white suspect. Black life does not share the same conscious regard by white law enforcers nor adjudicators. Racism on the basis of color is still in White America’s (the world) blood. www.adolphusward.net