“Collective fear
stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are
not regarded as members of the herd” (Bertrand Russell, 1872-1970). It is upon this premise that humanity
committed heinous acts against each other but it is Hitler and his Nazi party
as well as the former South African system of Apartheid that comes to mind in
the murders of African Americans/Blacks.
Yes, I know some of you are starting to seethe but that’s okay, I am
going to reveal what you choose not to see.
The Nazi party
and the Apartheid were allowed to flourish because of collective fear via the
insidious and malignant human bane called racism; even folks who mean well fall
into this category; because “the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil
is for good men to do nothing” (Edmund Burke, 1729-1797). From the days of slavery to now, there
continues to be a pattern of murders of African American males; young and old
alike by those masquerading as law enforcement [one cannot forget that many
Southern law enforcement were members of the KKK and don’t forget such members
being recently exposed in Florida]. From the deaths of Michael Brown, Eric
Garner, Trayvon Martin, Oscar Grant III (Fruitvale Station), Sean Bell, Jordan
Davis, Jonathan Ferrell and Ezell Ford; 8 of the 9 named [out of the countless of
thousands unnamed] were murdered by police officers but America you sit on your
asses choosing to believe the lies of law enforcement than to believe that
these things are actually happening in America; you would be very wrong and by
your silence America you aid and abet in the systemic murders of African
Americans. The
police in the U.S. are able to do what they do via lies; “sin has many tools
but a lie is the handle which fits them all” (Edmund Burke) and through
plausible deniability which is fed by the collective fear and deliberate
ignorance. Deliberate ignorance is the
active covert tool of a society when citizens choose to ignore a fact when they
have every reason to believe the existence of that fact. Just as the “good” people of Germany used
deliberate ignorance to deny the evil being perpetrated against former Jewish
friends and neighbors; America is doing the same in the systemic murders of
African American males by the police. During
Apartheid, South African citizens justified the evil being perpetrated against
the true natives of that land because of the very same thinking that many
citizens hold today and that is Blacks were not considered to be humans; only animals.
This was the mentality of slave owners that never dissipated and that same
mentality applies to the continued murders of unarmed African American males [and
females] in the United States of America by law enforcement around this
country. Here is how law enforcement and the Gestapo are alike:
·
The
Gestapo or secret state police played a key role in the terror and control of
German citizens (practiced by
police in every minority predominate community, including where I live);
·
"racially
inferior" peoples, such as Jews and Gypsies, would be eliminated from the
region (gentrification is an
“economic” avenue that validates what the police do so they can get rid of
racially inferior people in every locality);
·
These
units dealt with the murder and internment of numerous Jews (similar to the murders of African
Americans and the overrepresentation in the mockery of a justice system via
incarceration [internment]); and
·
The
Gestapo was charged with guarding and supervising the ghettos (while we do not call them ghettos
any more, this is another one of the responsibilities society has given to the
police in predominately African American communities: modern day overseers).
For those of you
who would have the audacity to say that I am going over the top; I would say au
contraire; the murders by law enforcement are over the top. Law enforcement should not be a “privileged”
position giving them the license to kill without fear of any valid and
justifiable repercussions. They are
citizens who are obligated to the law of the land but I forgot, justice is not
equal or fair. America, you would side with, fight for and
die for foreign nations over situations essentially not our business yet you
sit on your hands justifying such brutal and violent treatments and murders of
your fellow citizens. Do you remember
the Caucasian mother who drowned her sons and said Black males had carjacked
her? Turned out to be a lie but this is law
enforcement’s modus operandi. America, in
your silence you are not only proving that the Pledge of Allegiance of “one
nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all” is a lie; but
you are also proving exactly what you think about the race who were brought
here by force. America; your Red, White
and Blue are fading.
P.S. “Overall,
though, the portrait that Griffin paints of the South is gloomy. Everywhere he
went, "the criterion is nothing but the color of skin. My experience
proved that. [Whites] judged me by no other quality. My skin was dark. That was
sufficient reason for them to deny me those rights and freedoms without which
life loses its significance and becomes a matter of little more than animal
survival” (John Howard Griffin, 1920-1980).
John Howard Griffin was a Caucasian male who, like many of you; did not
believe what Blacks were saying about racism and discrimination, so he
transformed himself into a Black man and this was one of his observations via
Jonathan Yardley (2007).
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