Our erasure continues apace.
In the last 72 hours American police have killed two more black men: Terence Crutcher, a 40 year-old college student in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Keith Lamont Scott, who was either sitting in a car reading a book waiting to pick up his son from school according to his daughter, or had a gun, got out of it and aimed at the police, who were trying to serve a warrant to another man. According to National Public Radio there is no available police body camera footage.
An observation from experience:
Trump will most likely continue this nonsense, however, these murders by the police are happening under Obama, and happened before him, and have happened under every US president the last 70 plus years. Flat out, US police seek out, encourage and recruit from the same pools as KKK and neo-nazi organizations, which really aren't that "neo" at all, rather, a continuation of the spawn the US brought to the country under Operation Paperclip and other programs.
Their descendants have applied their race hate to the country and it is visible in all the American social and economic disparities, police brutality and incarceration rates for minorities. Medical apartheid is spread throughout the healthcare system. Their descendants killed Terence Crutcher in Tulsa and Castile in St. Paul, Oscar Grant in Oakland and Sandra Bland in Texas; their descendants are the ones who poisoned the water in Flint with lead and laughed at the consequences; descendants, for all they may have done for NASA, are the ones dropping bombs and stoking war in the Asia and Africa and Latin America and points in between; their descendants are in human resources departments serving as gatekeepers limiting black aspirations; their descendants wear badges because there is no screening for current or prior racist affiliations or values; their descendants just attacked peaceful Native American in North Dakota with dogs and mercenaries; their descendants have, with American guidance, perfected "friendly fascism" and helped TV and other US media turn American minds to mush, incapable of recognizing that the horror is real; their descendants run all the way up the criminal justice system, and lurk as overzealous prosecutors, jail guards, judges and bailiffs. All one happy family; their descendants are ensconced in public schools managing the great dumbing down.
I have read many a chat on stormfront, a racist website, that included conversations between anonymous law enforcement employees begging the site's readers to join the police and county sheriff's departments for the sole fact that the job as practiced merges specifically with nazi values. They have criminalized blackness itself here.
John Loftus wrote about "America's Nazi Secret," Chris Simpson's "Blowback" Nazi Recruitment in the US and it's impact on Foreign and Domestic Policy," Operation Paperback," by Anne Jacobsen, "The Nazis Next Door," by Eric Lictblau, or "Ratline: Soviet Spies, Nazi Priests and the Disappearance of Adolf Hitler" by Peter Levenda are books by which to understand the last 70 years of US history: The Nazis did not lose World War II.
Rest in Peace Mr. Crutcher. You as well Mr. Scott.
AP photo: Keith Lamont Scott and wife Rakeyia
AP photo: Terry and Tiffany
To suggest the United States has not made huge strides toward equality would be simply foolishness. I myself being totally removed from the African America / White debate ( truly I AM an Alien ! ) (to explain ; overseas , immigration).
Remember America has separate school buses and drinking fountains only 75 years ago. The national guard had to protect school kids, crazies wearing bed sheets and such had to be forced underground ; you get the idea.
But still the racial killings continue, and I myself have no doubt that some of these killings are more manslaughter than appropriate police actions. It will take many more decades to start to bring in true equality between the races in America. Unfortunately there is to much fear and hate on both sides for integration and assimilation to occur anytime soon.
All those things being said ; I want to offer one small voice of opinion, one of these shooting cases was a small female police faced with a large seemingly out of control African American male. This situation must have been terrifying for her but unfortunately ended worse for the citizen ! ! !
Until police policies and procedures start to catch up this racial conflict will continue , make no mistake it is a racial conflict and it will take decades or longer to be reduced to insignificant proportions . . .
The loud mouth fool with the crazy hair wants racial profiling ; well America is already very very experienced at racial profiling , not that he would care much...
Interesting take.
The things we thought were forced underground appear not to have been buried to deep after all. And while it is notable to recognize "strides" made in a nations' history, those achievements are still against a backdrop of the genocide of Native Americans and the enslavement of Africans to build it. So nearly wiping a people out, and making chattel out of another, seems to make having a place at their lunch counters and stores insignificant in hindsight.
When you said "one of these shooting cases was a small female police(woman) faced with a large seemingly out of control African American male," what case were you referring to? Definitely not Tulsa, because Mr. Crutcher was hardly "out of control," he was in fact in a great position to be subdued without violence. The notion that this female was terrified is hollow, she was allegedly a trained cop, so she was no shrinking violet, and she was surrounded by several of her peers for back-up, including one who was her husband in the helicopter. So where in the video do you see "out-of-control? I understand how white perceptions of blacks through western media conditions how people abroad see us, so is it possible that he appears out of control just because he was big and black. So what case were you referring to?