Three Uppitys and You Are Dead.

[Fred Sanders]

Last edited Sat Jul 25, 2015, 11:19 PM - Edit history (7)

Imagine the Sandra Bland tragedy from the perspective of a racist white cop in a traditional and historically racist county in the American South.

The South all on edge over a black President being uppity for 7 years, all the gays being uppity, Chicago black liberals invading the South with uppity "civil rights" demands, the Feds invading Texas with Jade Helm....Obummercare is legal. WTF is going on?

Not to mention the Confederate flag coming down..WTF??

All the while the never ending angry voices on the radio and TV keep pounding, pounding into your hayseed brain that all that is true, it must be true and then even the Pope gets in on the act, and the voices, the voices they keep shouting "the end is near, buy gold".....and so it seems.

All being directed by that Muslim loving Kenyan/Anti-Christ in the White House who stole the place by getting all the uppity blacks and browns and yellows to vote for him in an illegal election.

So now, as seen by the racist white cop, you are on patrol in your little Dixie slice of Racist Whiteland heaven and you see a late model car in front of you driving just as fine and carefree as an uppity black woman with Illinois plates on her late model car can be.

This racist white cop does not know it yet but he is about to be uppitied 3 times in about 30 minutes!

First this black woman from Chicsgo is getting uppity by turning suddenly into the other lane, just because the white cop had been rapidly coming up behind her for half a mile, so she turned to the right lane of a four lane divided highway. The second uppity was no signal light - while allowing a police vehicle to pass, apparently worthy of a stop and warning. And the third uppity is the refusal to put out a cigarette even though the cop had asked ever so politely and kindly. For no legal reason mind you, just a polite and kind request from a man with a heritage of Southern hospitality and pride because......reasons.

And then what happens? With two uppity strikes against her already mind you, this uppity black woman from Chicago - probably stole the car - gets again third time uppity like at...what? What did the cop do to get such uppity disrespect for a third time??

"Get out of the car". "I am going to light you up".

"ENOUGH, already!!", thinks the racist white cop in this racist white county, this uppity black woman thug from Chicago, in the stolen car no doubt, needs a lesson in how we in Dixieland treat any uppity black person down here in this County in the South...smart or not. "Fuck the law" he thinks as he demands the woman get out of the car. Maybe secretly thinking "Jesus, I hope she is not a civil rights activist or something because I just trampled on big time on civil rights here"!

That is how it happened.

Three Uppities, and then the rest of the story, and then you are dead.

Sandra Bland and her sisters and brothers in America die every day for no other reason than one inferiority-complex afflicted racist white cop thought he could get away with it, thought it was necessary all just to soothe his own personal wounded racist pride. That Sandra Bland was in Texas to begin a new chapter of a life dedicated to what seems to blacks in America an endless journey - justice - just compounds the tragedy.

And not just a tragedy for Sandra Bland's family and for blacks, a tragedy for whites who fail to understand this and other blatant abuses of civil rights is also about them.

The Charelston mass murder moved a nation to take down a racist flag, maybe it just has to take another tragedy to take down more than just symbols of racism in America.

Because the revolution will not be televised.

[Gothmog]

1. Waller is a very racist county

[Betty Karlson]

3. Is Waller country in the very north of Texas?

Otherwise you cannot culturally include it in "the South"

[B2G]

4. You can't include Ferguson, Cleveland, New York or Baltimore either,

but don't rain on his south basing parade.

[cwydro]

31. Exactly.

Been at least a week since a good south-bashing thread.

[Trailrider1951]

28. Waller County is just northwest of Houston, in southeast Texas

If you are driving from Houston to Austin on 290, you travel through Waller County from Harris County where Houston is. I used to live near Cypress, TX, and rode my bicycle (with my bike club) out to Hempstead and Prairie View. It is mostly white, rural and conservative to the max.

[Gothmog]

29. No, Waller is near Houston and Fort Bend County

Waller is the home of Texas Prairie View A&M which is a HBC. Waller has been tring to keep Prairie View students from voting for a long time

There is a seminar this weekend where the Waller county chair should be at

[artislife]

40. The US is a very racist country. ....nt

[B2G]

2. This is not about the south

But thanks for trying.

[Capn Sunshine]

17. It's certainly about a type of racism that began in and is perpetuated by, the CSA

Texas was an enthusiastic slave trading state. They have the DNA. This is about a thought process that for many reasons is referred to as "Southern Pride" and many other catchphrases.

As an aside, Missouri is all wrapped up in this ( see"The Missouri Compromise&quot as there is a segment of their population whose forebears moved there as agents of the Confederacy intent on keeping slavery as an institution. The same is true of Arizona. Huge cultural racism dating back to the civil war.

[artislife]

41. Lots of PoC.. getting killed in Seattle by cop. nt

[Warpy]

30. No, pig cops like that one exist all over the country

I've had the misfortune to run into one or two of his brethren in Boston. The guys are on power trips and especially love to push women around. You make that black women and these uniformed trolls are in cop heaven.

Departments need to get better at weeding these guys out. This one should never have had a job in law enforcement, he had a history of being let go for racist behavior.

Waller County is going to get sued six ways from Sunday. I'll lay odds that lawyers who work on contingency are lined up at the doors of Ms. Bland's family and I sincerely hope that as the shock and grief become anger, they choose the most rabid one.

[gollygee]

43. Yeah it's in Michigan too.

And I've spent enough time in the rest of the industrial midwest to say it could happen all over here.

[Indydem]

5. Nice narrative.

No evidence to support one iota of any of that.

But hey, we hate cops around here, right?

[neohippie]

16. We don't hate cops around here

We just believe that anyone who takes a job in public service should do their job well, and when you violate your policies, by using choke holds on citizens that have been banned, and then kill someone or you use excessive force, or you spend an hour fishing for a reason to arrest someone that you claim that you were just going to issue a warning ticket to, or when you escalate a situation at a neighborhood pool instead of trying to calm people down and do an investigation to obtain the facts before you start acting wildly or you stop a person in the middle of the road and escalate that situation until it leads to another death and so on, you should be called out for your actions...

I am sure from one point of view that it may appear that the actions of LEOs everywhere are being viewed under a microscope and that all of these bad apples are just giving all good policeman a bad name, but perhaps just as many people in this country falsely claim that Muslims don't speak out enough against radicals and terrorists perhaps good cops don't speak out enough against their bad counterparts.

There are cops that should be celebrated and average cops and bad cops, the same could be said probably about any group, don't misinterpret people expecting public servants to handle their interactions with the public better as hatred.

[Ed Suspicious]

19. Is it difficult to miss the point so severely? It has to be

a willful ignorance. What are the personal/psycological costs of lying to oneself?

[irisblue]

26. Really, that's what you think?

why?

[Charles de Gaudless]

6. Expulsion

Texas, Kansas, Oklahoma, Kentucky, the Carolinas, Georgia. Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Tennessee, let's kick 'em out! They can have their fucking theocracy with Jesus as Eternal President, kind of like Kim Il Sung in North Korea. (We'd have to keep certain red states to retain contiguity, but most of them have very few electoral votes.)

[brer cat]

11. Well that will certainly solve all our problems

with racism and out-of-control cops. Very liberal and progressive viewpoint as well.

[Capn Sunshine]

21. It's posts like this that make me go "hmmmm"

If you wanted to create a narrative that "look how crazy these Democrats are, here's actual quotes from their web sites" this would be one way to go about it.

[Charles de Gaudless]

34. Dang, you got me!

I'm actually Karl Rove!

[Fred Sanders]

44. Sorry to be late to say so, but your observation of the poster is very astute..

[DustyJoe]

27. sooooooo

So the answer is to take these southern states and their very high minority population percentages and 'kick em out' ? How very convenient and probably could be described as a racist call to expel minorities.

[Charles de Gaudless]

35. Actually, no

All minorities would be able to move to the U.S.

[cwydro]

33. Omg!

[Botany]

7. Thom Hartman is reading this post right now

n/t

[90-percent]

37. Congrats on your Thom Hartmann mention

Although it's worrisome for all of us loyal DU'ers to be mere content providers for Thom's program. <extreme snark>

I love Thom and I'm proud he uses DU as a resource.

And your talent as a writer is what got Thom's attention. Keep it up and thanks for your contributions.


-90% Jimmy

[fasttense]

8. You were just called out on the Thom Hartmann show.

Way to go!! He's quoting your post right now.

Wow, Fred, you're a star.

[TammyMintonHaley]

12. the revolution is beginning...thank god...

...it's why i'm here!...👏...well done!

[Capn Sunshine]

23. Welcome to DU

please keep your hands and feet inside the car until the ride comes to a complete halt.

[jalan48]

9. After this and watching events at Fergusson and other cities I've come to the conclusion

that we are living in a police state.

[fasttense]

10. Yup,n/t

[dem in texas]

13. Tragedy of Sandra Bland

Being right is not always the best way to go. The cop was totally out of control, was a bully and was going to teach this "uppity black woman" a lesson and show her who's boss. Poor Sandra's mistake was confronting him while knowing well that she was in the right. You need to know when to ignore things and move on. Was a petty, nothing policeman in a hick town worth having an argument with? Wouldn't it have been better if she'd just agreed with him, got a warning and moved on with her life. She had more important things going on, what with moving to a new place and starting a new job. I am not excusing the cop's behavior and he should be fired and never allowed to be a policeman again. I am just saying that sometimes it is better to ignore bad things that make you use up negative energy and you need to learn not to get in these situations,

[JimDandy]

15. OMG

"...you need to learn not to get in this situation".

She did nothing wrong! Driving while not turn signaling is not on America's list of Death Sentence offenses.

[Cigar11]

20. The ONLY way to end this is to stand up and fight

The ONLY way to end this is to stand up, sadly people with die, but that's always been the down side. The Dinosaurs know their time in almost up, and they're not going down without a fight. But a fight is exactly what they will get.

This is 2015, not 1915

[SusanCalvin]

42. Up to the point

Where he began to lose it (I could almost hear his mind snap) and ordered her out of the car, she did nothing that would have set him off if she had been a white woman. No, of course I can't read his mind, but I am nevertheless certain.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

14. Bravo!!!

Well said!

[Cigar11]

18. Wow, you sure called it

My wife now knows whenever she is pulled of, to call someone on here hands free or turn her cell recording on.

[Horse with no Name]

22. Just an observation about one of the things that made me ill about that video

"I'm going to light you up".

That sounded an awful lot like something he said very easily and probably not for the first time.

It rolled right off his tongue....who thinks that way?

[RoccoR5955]

24. The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

You will not be able to stay home, brother
You will not be able to plug in, turn on and cop out
You will not be able to lose yourself on skag
And skip out for beer during commercials
Because the revolution will not be televised

The revolution will not be televised
The revolution will not be brought to you by Xerox
In 4 parts without commercial interruptions
The revolution will not show you pictures of Nixon
Blowing a bugle and leading a charge by John Mitchell
General Abrams and Spiro Agnew to eat hog maws
Confiscated from a Harlem sanctuary
The revolution will not be televised

The revolution will not be brought to you by the
Schaefer Award Theater and will not star Natalie Woods
And Steve McQueen or Bullwinkle and Julia
The revolution will not give your mouth sex appeal
The revolution will not get rid of the nubs
The revolution will not make you look five pounds thinner
Because the revolution will not be televised, Brother

There will be no pictures of you and Willie May
Pushing that shopping cart down the block on the dead run
Or trying to slide that color TV into a stolen ambulance
NBC will not be able predict the winner at 8:32
Or report from 29 districts
The revolution will not be televised

There will be no pictures of pigs shooting down
Brothers on the instant replay
There will be no pictures of pigs shooting down
Brothers on the instant replay

There will be no pictures of Whitney Young
Being run out of Harlem on a rail with a brand new process
There will be no slow motion or still life of Roy Wilkens
Strolling through Watts in a red, black and green
Liberation jumpsuit that he had been saving
For just the proper occasion

Green Acres, The Beverly Hillbillies and Hooter ville Junction
Will no longer be so damned relevant
And women will not care if Dick finally gets down with Jane
On search for tomorrow because black people
Will be in the street looking for a brighter day
The revolution will not be televised

There will be no highlights on the eleven o'clock news
And no pictures of hairy armed women liberationists
And Jackie Onassis blowing her nose
The theme song will not be written by Jim Webb
Francis Scott Key, nor sung by Glen Campbell, Tom Jones
Johnny Cash, Englebert Humperdink or the Rare Earth
The revolution will not be televised

The revolution will not be right back after a message
About a white tornado, white lightning, or white people
You will not have to worry about a dove in your bedroom
The tiger in your tank or the giant in your toilet bowl
The revolution will not go better with Coke
The revolution will not fight the germs that may cause bad breath
The revolution will put you in the driver's seat

The revolution will not be televised, will not be televised
Will not be televised, will not be televised
The revolution will be no re-run brothers
The revolution will be live

Thanks to Gil Scott-Heron. May he rest in peace.

[Whoopdedoo]

25. Truthfully said

That is just about the best summation of this horrible story I have read.
I don't know where the story ends as far as the supposed suicide goes.
But I do know that that cop was way out of bounds and exhibited the basic garden variety of racist shit ever.

[bettyellen]

32. It's a metaphor for Braveneck getting alert stalked- they'd have done it to BLM if they could.

Because no one puts Bernie in a corner.

[SusanCalvin]

38. Yep.

Sorry about the avatar - can't change it on the tablet.

Some of Bernie's "supporters" are not helping. At all, at all.

This (and the 1SBM affair) definitely reminds me of something.

7.

[malaise]

36. Great post

Rec

[xocet]

39. "...tailing her for miles [sic]..." If by 'miles' you mean about 1900 ft, then we agree. n/t