They Dared Me to Post This...

[JustAnotherGen]

276. I didn't see ignoring the situation for the less fortunate by op

Stand back from it - because you are absolutely correct -


We cannot legislate away racial prejudice. If that had happened in the 1960's - we wouldn't be having this discussion today. I mean - we have a lot of well meaning folks who like to quote MLK and speak down to us. They try to gaslight us into believing he wasn't an angry black man with his letter from a Birmingham jail - and he just wanted economic justice for all . . . It wasn't about race, lynching, people paying taxes and getting nothing etc etc

If I lift every black and Hispanic little boy out of poverty on Monday morning - if I give him access to the best neighborhoods - he's still going to be in a racist hell. That Latino/Hispanic little boy - heck 15 years old - with his same ethnic background friend would be sat down on the edge of route 31 by a State Policeman dressed to go to war with a gun pointed at him - because they were looking for two in that demographic - albeit in their late teens early 20's. This happened in my borough of 4500 last month.

Thank God one of the men on our little Barney Fife squad saw that - stepped in - and got those two home. See -- our little force of 9 know "us". They understand our diversity - though the majority is still white. We have a heroin problem in our high school - and they know OUR children because they are visible there.

The two boys come from affluent families. Were it not for a good and hooked into his community police officer stepping in and one of those two had been defiant - god forbid if one of Our Children been shot. That Police Officer - white in his late 20's - is the exact opposite of Wilson. He protected two children in our community.


I'd like to make our little Fife squad the gold standard in America.

In the poorest black communities, the working class white community, etc etc.

Racial justice - saying "America you are sick and cruel to us" - is imperative at a time when the racial demographic is changing rapidly. And the cruelty is based on skin color . .

I've posted enough about my "stop gap" efforts regarding hunger. Unfortunately we have ass wipes in Washington who think are poor aren't poor enough and shouldn't own a refrigerator - let alone a microwave. No American should ever go to bed hungry - black child or elderly white woman. It's unconsciable and cruel and we are better than that.

But that elderly woman will starve to death without community intervention - that black child can get shot and killed at a playground and have people make excuses for the cop that did it.


Both are sick. I can send everyone to bed with a full belly. I can't prevent the death of a black child based on the color of his skin.

I need white folks to change internally for that to happen.

And that hasn't happened - much as even Republicans worship at the altar of MLK - too many want to pretend he was NOT an angry black man these days - for that to happen.

I intend to be defiant towards that silly belief.