"This is America" Warning it is bad and will probably make you cry

[OneBro]

25. Sometimes the comments I see on DU stun the absolute fuck out of me.

"old video, no value."

How recent must the killing be to add value to a discussion about police abuse? I still feel the rage from the murder of Philando Castile. Should I be over it already? What about the murder of Trayvon Martin? Not killed by a cop, so unrelated? If you or anyone else things the rage in the streets is solely about the murder of George Floyd, you are sorely mistaken.

I know I'm over-reacting because my emotions are straight twisted and I'm just on the edge of sanity; and I know I'm venting at you though you aren't the enemy because we can't always tell where the shrapnel is coming from, but I hope we can all agree that we are STILL fighting the fight we were fighting when Emmett Till and the Five Scottsboro Boys and the Groveland Boys and the many hundreds of black people who were abused and killed by police in our own country that our relatives fought and died for.

Personally, I think this video needs to run every few hours on every network. Stopped for a tail-light and nonchalantly shot in the back for foolishly attempting to flee. A death sentence for fleeing a citation for a broken taillight stop.

Each time we forget, they get more cruel and more emboldened.

One of my relatives asked why people were reacting NOW, "just" from the murder of George Floyd. After I took a moment for my irrational anger to die down, I explained to him that this isn't "just" about George Floyd. America has been feeding kindling to the rage for longer than my cousin has been alive, but the videos make it harder to simply forget. We play the scenes over and over in our minds as we try to go about our daily lives, even as we confuse the names of the various victims and places. Then one day we were watching George Floyd and Eric Garner and Philando Castile and trying to figure out who was who and when and what and why and then suddenly . . . there was a fire.