We knew that Darren Wilson would not even face a trial for his decision to kill the unarmed teenager Michael Brown.
To know a thing intellectually--that Wilson would not be indicted--is one thing.
To see such a thing come to pass--that Wilson has cashed in his bounty for the killing of a black person and is now enriched--is another thing all together.
In all, Darren Wilson did his job when he killed Michael Brown. The historic and contemporary role of police in America is to manage, control, kill, and intimidate black folks, brown folks, and the poor.
The grand jury's decision that there is no "probable cause" to indict Darren Wilson is an apt summation of how black life is cheap in America, and a white cop who kills a black person is acting in the grand and long tradition of white supremacy and white on black and brown police violence in the United States.
KKK members and Neo Nazis receive special awards and regalia for killing a non-white person. Wilson may not get extra lightning bolts tattooed on his neck or other part of the body from killing Michael Brown. He did benefit financially from killing Michael Brown; he is now a hero among those white folks, both overt white supremacists and conservatives, as a way of living their white on black dreams of homicidal ideation.
A prosecutor can get a jury to indict a ham sandwich if so inclined. Michael Brown, and by proxy the lives of black and brown folks, are apparently worth less than a sandwich.
It is a miracle that black Americans have any faith in the legitimacy of the United States government. I wonder if we are just noble and hopeful fools.
How are you feeling? What are your thoughts on Darren Wilson's acquittal for killing Michael Brown?
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Humiliated.
Hurt and hoping that fire and brimstone begins to rain on this country.
It's not a miracle, nor is it noble, it's years of socially engineering the myth of American Exceptionalism into everyone's hearts and minds. Goebbels would be proud.
I'm finding it hard to be angry or upset when this is exactly what I expected. This is what America is, what America has always been, and I'd wager it's what she'll always be.
Disappointed, angry and, in one sense, in a state of disbelief.
Wilson's statement was anything but sincere and apologetic. Pathetic.
On the real I feel like a savage and a sucker. You're right, I knew this was the plan back in the summer- just like I know it'll be the same script for the latest dead brown boy killed this fall. But it still hurts just the same every time. These are devils and I just don't see any hope here- but I know that being and feeling and becoming hope-less is their plan and I don't want to succumb to their plan, so I grit my teeth and work to clear my head. I know they don't mean us well. I know they want us dead and I know they'll never ever care about us dying unjustly. They look the other way when their own babies die at the hands of monsters so what kind of fool would I be to expect compassion from such cowards? I am also convinced of their insanity as I listen to them mourn for buildings after they've discarded humans. Who are these beasts?
Yes, I feel hurt by this and sadness when I read the media accounts as they use their incendiary language to keep stirring up "whitey." But strangely, I don't feel as bad as when I heard the Zimmerman verdict. Guess the propaganda is working on my despite my best intentions.
"I hate this country and everything that flag represents." - Monster Cody.
This decision means that if one resists arrest initially then tries to run away the cop can legally shot you in the back. That can't stand!
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The level of alienation is very alarming, that makes a hero of him.
I had the #ferguson hashtag up in one tab, and the St. Louis County Police radio scanner up in another. I just kept thinking that one simple dashcam in that police car could have averted all this. All that coolshit military surplus gear, but not a $109.99 camera?
Another negroid thug has been put down and you people show how violent you are by rioting. I feel great.
Contrary to what some witnesses reported, there were no shots in the back according to the autopsy report:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/18/us/michael-brown-autopsy-shows-he-was-shot-at-least-6-times.html
However, there are some very strange entry and exit wounds that, on their very merit, should have called for an indictment. imho.
This is how I felt a little while ago, I still feel this way: http://youtu.be/boHxi40ekgc
The process dictated the result. The entire power structure in Missouri--from the local Ferguson police, the St Louis District Attorneys office, and the Governor--all did a shadow dance to make sure the police officer was not indicted. It was a sham process. Remember when the Ferguson police released the officer's name and the strong arm robbery video? They said there was no connection between the two. The first explanation last night was that Officer Wilson essentially stopped Michael Brown because he fit the description of the police broadcast. That was a lie. The first thing Wilson told Brown was to "get out of the fucking street." That does not even suggest probable cause for a stop based on a possible robbery suspect. And then neither the prosecutor nor the Governor took the step of ensuring an objective process of examining the evidence. The prosecutor simply played Wilson's defense attorney and baffled the Grand Jury members with contradictory evidence. As someone said this morning on MSNBC, the system is not broken--it operated exactly as it is supposed to. We have a systemic problem in America--the police can kill Black and brown folks at will with impunity. This is a travesty and miscarriage of justice. But, and I emphasize again, the narrative that is playing out is the burning; not completely because MSNBC and Al Jazeera are trying hard to look at the real issues. But, my suspicion is that a large part of America is focused on the burning and not on the systemic failure of a system to bring the police under community control. The police are out of control--even killing a 12-year old with a toy gun that looked realistic. The police are in the mode of shooting to kill and then asking questions. Those are just some first thoughts. i know if I had some kind of dispute with a Black person, I would think about 20 times before calling the police--I would not want a simple dispute to carry a death sentence.
Thinking exactly what you said, Chauncey.
boycott black friday why dont we
Sad. But, I knew this would be the outcome. There is a script now that makes it okay to kill blacks. Fear. 'I was afraid of the potential damage.' I was afraid of a black person in the stairwell. I was afraid this kid might shoot me, even though he showed nor anger towards me. Fear is the noose of the current century, and the gun is the tree.
This needs to be advocated on every social media site in existence! We can do it! Let's hit this country where it hurts, it's wallet!
I agree. We need to start voting with or dollars.
Numb. I feel numb, like I've been living in a black and white Twilight Zone episode all of my life. After the verdict I saw racist and insensitive posts from nonblack friends that I've known for 10 to 20 years! I broke bread with some of these people, but today they are strangers to me...then there were the cargo cult blacks who started preaching about black on black crime, and sagging pants. It's just sad to see this kind of continuous miscarriage of justice that keeps happening, and this loss of life and the dehumanization black people that happens at with a stunning regularity and lack of empathy.
I am a Black woman working in California's Bible Belt in an office that is overwhelmingly Latina women. I went down the hall late this afternoon, and as I was walking back I overheard them wrapping up their conversation in which every single one of them was in agreement that the police officer did no wrong.They are as fully invested in the myth of the Black Monster as so many White people are, and it makes me sad beyond words.
Blacks and Hispanics are not natural allies. Hispanics also have deep issues with internalized white supremacy and colorism. Like Italians and others before them they are going to cross over to Whiteness in the next fears. Whiteness by definition always remains dominant.
Are you going to stay friends with them?
I've debated this in my head over and over, and I think it's best to put some distance between me and them. I no longer consider them friends...probably acquaintances on par with a colleague from work. I'll unfriend some on my social networks, and simply block others...
"They" should be embarrassed by the obvious cover up. That they're not is a measure of hubris.
Build on common plights.
My point exactly!
Most (if not all ) Brown (Yellow, and Red) cultures have internalized white supremacy and colorism. I am not ignorant about this, believe me. In fact it's the depth of my personal experience and awareness of this issue that makes it so sad for me.
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