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While I am in no way a dyed-in-the wool conservative, I am now a full supporter of Black people fully exercising their Second Amendment rights. It’s clear that the system will not serve and protect us.
Looking back, the Panthers were right about arming ourselves. Cops know for sure they will defend themselves. What else needs to happen before those of you who consider yourselves allies accept that this has always happened to Black people? The only thing that has changed is now everyone has a camera. But that still doesn’t guarantee a conviction of the perpetrators of racist violence in this country. Just look at the beating of Rodney King.
Understand this: Anytime a white person threatens to call the police on a Black person, they are effectively threatening their lives.
Isn’t it ironic that when a Black cop shot and killed a white woman who was charging at him in Minneapolis a few years, the officer was arrested within hours, charged with murder, convicted, and given 10 years? Yet when a white cop was filmed kneeling on the neck of a Black man for nearly nine minutes, it took four days to arrest him and national protests to increase the charges and charge his three co-workers who were on the scene.
Do not underestimate the power of racist police unions. For example, look at the white female cop who killed a brother in his own apartment thinking she was in hers and he was an intruder. She got 10 years, which for a cop means 4 to 5 and she’s out. The family members of the victim had the nerve to publicly forgive her at trial, no less.
Shouldn’t she have been the one publicly asking for their forgiveness? Why are Black people always willing to pray for and forgive the perpetrators of the heinous acts of violence against us while they are shown compassion. Dr. Frances Cress Welsing, author of the “Cress Theory on Color Confrontation,” used to say that religion in this country has given Black people a type of mental illness kinda like Stockholm syndrome.
