Warning
Negroes,
Sweet and docile,
Meek, humble and kind:
Beware the day
They change their mind!
Wind
In the cotton fields,
Gentle Breeze:
Beware the hour
It uproots trees!
By Langston Hughes-Poet
In America we have become desensitized to murder/killing
of the Negro!!!!
White/Black people, cops, criminals, doctors, and
citizenry murder Blacks that’s just the way it goes. We for a moment look up
from our dinner plates to catch the daily headline news and continue eating our
dinner returning to the normality of our lives.
Right up until the headline murder is replaced with a new and different name that is commonplace. The loss of life, if that life is Black, no longer warrants a remembering of who and what was lost. In my lifetime since Emmett Till, Rodney King, Amadou Diallo, Oscar Grant, Sean Bell, Trayvon Martin, Jordan Davis, Tamir Rice, Eric Garner, Freddie Grey, Philando Castille, George Floyd, Korryn Gaines, Elijah Cummings, Ahmaud Arbery, Walter Scott, LaQuan McDonald, Alton Sterling, Sandra Bland, Breonna Taylor, Bettie Jones, John Crawford III, Kendrick Johnson, Jamar Clark, Antwon Rose Jr., Akai Gurley, Aiyana Mo'Nay Stanley-Jones, Atatiana Jefferson, Botham Jean, Jordan Edwards, Natasha McKenna, Michael Brown, Kalief Browder, and God knows countless others. Literally hundreds more. I had to stop listing names because frankly there are just too many to continue naming.
You better know and believe I'm as the young people say, "in my feelings". How can you not be, at such senseless and countless loss of Black life? I AM IN MY FEELINGS!!!
Black men, women, children, teenagers, all gone many unarmed looking down the gun barrels with knees of White police officers strangling the life right out of them.
For every conviction, Derrick Chauvin, Kimberly Potter, Travis McMichael, George McMichael, and William "Roddie" Bryan. Many more egregious murderers as George Zimmerman, Kyle Rittenhouse and many others go unpunished.
That's right they return to their lives and are standing right next to and behind the rest of us in your neighborhood Walmart lines and dry cleaners. This should frankly make your hair stand on edge. I'm full and fed-up. Look at the one-sided volume of those killed by White police officers to those of conviction.
Why is this on my mind, because it is/has been normalized and expected that racist White America expects to continue murdering Black folks and think that we will remain docile and quiet in the face of brutality, mistreatment, and abuse.
I'm serving notice I am not that docile and quiet Negro. I changed my mind a long time ago about racist White folks and racism in America. No Kumbaya chorus for me. Malcolm X was correct with his statement by any means necessary. Despite the way it ended for him, he was correct.
The police are no friend to Black America. That is unequivocally clear. The stats don't lie. If you are Black and you are unfortunate enough to have an encounter with a White police officer, you are more than likely to not survive that interaction. Therefore, all the Ken and Karen's try to weaponize our Black skin color against us. In the hopes that they will call the police on Black people knowing the likely outcome for you and the police if they do so. You fill in the blank. Driving, shopping, walking, jogging, eating, sleeping, and living while Black could be a death sentence if racist White police officers show up to the scene if you are Black and usually unarmed.
Racism has explained much of White America's cruelty of Blacks. Blacks are just now seeing with cameras rolling Black life is valued by no one, most of all racist White police. Just consider most of these brutal police shootings have occurred 32 years since the notorious beating of Rodney King.
These daily killings of Black unarmed shootings bear witness. The number of daily arrests, Blacks placed in jail and the White police exonerated show all of us what is true.
Marching, protesting, quietly on bended knees, singing and chanting do not work. We have been singing about overcoming White brutality on American shores for 246 years. I no longer wish to chant, march or sing. I understand none of these methods will save me in the face of encountering a racist, White police officer. I may as well run for my life risking a bullet in my back dying on the concrete than letting a Klansmen in blue arrest me. Racist White police have no interest in serving and protecting Black life. We all know they don't.
The fact that they are called "Peace officers" is an offense and mockery. Kim Potter nor Derrick Chauvin served nor protected Daunte Wright and George Floyd. De-escalation is seldom if ever used or practiced. Had it been used just maybe if not all of the deceased just named above might still be living. Now really think about that.
The rage that we, Black people, feel is real. It is relevant and necessary. We are literally fighting for our lives. In the timeless words of James Brown: we'd rather die on our feet than keep living on our knees...
Newsflash racist White America Black people put away our docility when you stopped hiding behind your Klan hoods. We no longer have the tolerance to sing negro spirituals as you continue to hang us from trees and stand upon our necks.
The days of the docile, meek humble, and kind negro are long over. Racist White America we have changed our minds!!! In 2022 we are simply not that Negro.
Written by: Chyrel J. Jackson
