Call me stupid, but I always thought that if someone shoots and kills someone for no justifiable reason that person should go to jail for a period of time, no matter who that person is. Well I guess I am a bit crazy because the police that shot fifty times at Sean Bell and his friends as they were leaving a strip club got found not guilty by the judge. How can you find three police officers not guilty for using excessive force and shooting at someone fifty times, right before Sean Bell's wedding no less?
I for one am tired of the police thinking that they are above the law all the time, then always getting off from crimes they have committed. Sean Bell did not do anything wrong, and once again the police screws over someone who is of African-American ethnicity. The police need to know that we as African-Americans are not going to put up with their crooked ways and the screwing over of our race time and time again. We need to put our foot down and say enough is enough. Unfortunately, it is a shame that we lost yet another human-being, someone that could have really been productive in society, to brings us to this understanding. Now Sean Bell will never be able to grow old with his future wife, or watch his children grow up.
I too have been harassed by the police countless times. I have almost been thrown in jail for something I had no idea about, and when it was proven it was not me there was no apology or explanation by the white police officer, he just sat in his car and pulled off. It is not just the white police officers, however, it is also our own race, African-American. I was walking back home from the library and got pulled over by two black police officers searching for a guy that stole clothes and valuables from people. I knew I did not fit the description and they knew it too, but they still wanted to arrest me, just because I am a young, black kid with braids in my hair.
The police have been crooked and screwing our race over for years. Now they have our own people doing the same thing to us. I can't even walk down the street going to my college courses without the police following my every move and checking me out to fit a description. The person that they are looking for might look nothing like me, but as long as I am young man black I fit the description. Unfortunatley, I know now why people take things in their own hands, because the majority of the police are not going to do anything about things that happen to us, just call it another black statistic. We as a race are fed up with the police brutality and are not going to tolerate it for much longer. I am sorry for the mother of Sean Bell's children, and that justice again has not been served. And it all came at Sean Bell's expense.
Saturday, April 26, 2008
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Why Oh Why!
This is kind of a sensitive topic for me, but a confusing one as well. Me being an African American male, I have recently seen some terrible things my race has done to our beautiful black women. I was standing at a bus stop one day, matter fact just last week, when a guy told his girlfriend to bring her stupid a** here. I was looking like I know she is not going to just come once homey told her that, but she did! I was in shock and wondering why would she ever put up with someone like that?
Another experience happened just a few days ago, when a black man called his girlfriend a h** and a told her that he lets b****** and h*** pay his way. I was once again in shock, and saying to myself what has happened to my men, and my beautiful women. I'll be the very first person to stand up for anybody from my race, but this is too much even for me, and I'm still a teenager! Once I see these guys from my own race call black women these horrible names, I'm hurt and feeling for the women, because I know personally women who have been called these names and were left crying and wondering why.
I can't ever give them the answer why. I know some people are going to say rap music, but at some point in your life you have to know right from wrong, and if you are forty years old listening to a twenty year old, arguing you got the words from that twenty year old, then you are just pathetic. How can you let someone twenty years younger then you dictate how you approach women?
At the same time, I wish that my black women realize that they have more to offer to the world, then to just be talked about by every race. I really don't know what the problem is. If you are in love with that person, love should conquer all, but there has to be a limit. I love my black women, and would do anything for them, no matter size, or height. Black women are smart, independent, and are the first ones who would root the majority of us black males on when we are doing something positive. I just want the horrible names to stop, and for black women to realize what type of special gift they are to the world.
We as black men are much better then that, and I know deep down inside we love our black women, we just have to show it a little bit better.
If you are showing love to the black women, more power to you. If you are not and you know you have done one horribly wrong, I don't know what to say to ya homey! I got much love for both black males, and black females. If we don't look out for each other,who is going to?
Another experience happened just a few days ago, when a black man called his girlfriend a h** and a told her that he lets b****** and h*** pay his way. I was once again in shock, and saying to myself what has happened to my men, and my beautiful women. I'll be the very first person to stand up for anybody from my race, but this is too much even for me, and I'm still a teenager! Once I see these guys from my own race call black women these horrible names, I'm hurt and feeling for the women, because I know personally women who have been called these names and were left crying and wondering why.
I can't ever give them the answer why. I know some people are going to say rap music, but at some point in your life you have to know right from wrong, and if you are forty years old listening to a twenty year old, arguing you got the words from that twenty year old, then you are just pathetic. How can you let someone twenty years younger then you dictate how you approach women?
At the same time, I wish that my black women realize that they have more to offer to the world, then to just be talked about by every race. I really don't know what the problem is. If you are in love with that person, love should conquer all, but there has to be a limit. I love my black women, and would do anything for them, no matter size, or height. Black women are smart, independent, and are the first ones who would root the majority of us black males on when we are doing something positive. I just want the horrible names to stop, and for black women to realize what type of special gift they are to the world.
We as black men are much better then that, and I know deep down inside we love our black women, we just have to show it a little bit better.
If you are showing love to the black women, more power to you. If you are not and you know you have done one horribly wrong, I don't know what to say to ya homey! I got much love for both black males, and black females. If we don't look out for each other,who is going to?
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