What Everyone Should Know About Trayvon Martin (1995-2012)

There are many issues within the African-American community that really disturbs my peace, and raises concern about our future as a nation of people. I am an expert in my history, my heart, and my experiences in life, so I will bring that to the table of discussion, without censorship and explore the issues that have grossly affected who I am in the world. And I hope you will do the same.

The African-American Experience

There are many evils that exist in our society. Evils that are far more exposed now, than they would have been if not for the information highway called the Internet. One evil that keeps tears in my eyes, is the willful, deliberate murder of black men.  Taking the life of another human being, except for absolute self-defense, or times of war, is wrong. The scenario of taking a black man’s life and then covering up the truth, falsifying police reports, and allowing the guilty to go free is an absolute tragedy. I think of my brothers, and nephews, and all black men in and out of the womb, whose lives have been taken by another man simply because of their race. And in all of this, the media will portray black men as the “criminals of society.”  I shed tears, yes, but I also pray for the spiritual life of America. I am asking God to keep my heart filled with his love, and to help me to be an instrument of good, in this country and world. I find that posting, helps me to mourn and recover in a healthy and love filled way.

On February 26, 2012, a 17-year-old African-American named Trayvon Martin was shot and killed in Sanford, Florida. The shooter was George Zimmerman, a 28-year-old white man. (Zimmerman was described by the police as white. According to his family he is also Hispanic.) Zimmerman admits killing Martin, but claims he was acting in self-defense…By Judd Legum

via What Everyone Should Know About Trayvon Martin (1995-2012).

Here is what everyone should know about the case:

1. Zimmerman called the police to report Martin’s “suspicious” behavior, which he described as “just walking around looking about.” Zimmerman was in his car when he saw Martin walking on the street. He called the police and said: “There’s a real suspicious guy. This guy looks like he’s up to no good, on drugs or something. It’s raining and he’s just walking around looking about… These a**holes always get away” [Orlando Sentinel]

2. Zimmerman pursued Martin against the explicit instructions of the police dispatcher:

Dispatcher: “Are you following him?”
Zimmerman: “Yeah”
Dispatcher: “OK, we don’t need you to do that.”

[Orlando Sentinel]

3. Prior to the release of the 911 tapes, Zimmerman’s father released a statement claiming “[a]t no time did George follow or confront Mr. Martin.” [Sun Sentinel]

4. Zimmerman was carrying a 9 millimeter handgun. Martin was carrying a bag of Skittles and a can of iced tea. [ABC News]

5. Martin weighed 140 pounds. Zimmerman weighs well over 200 pounds. [Orlando Sentinel; WDBO]

6. Martin’s English teacher described him “as an A and B student who majored in cheerfulness.” [Orlando Sentinel]

7. Martin had no criminal record. [New York Times]

8. Zimmerman “was charged in July 2005 with resisting arrest with violence and battery on an officer. The charges appear to have been dropped.” [Huffington Post]

9. Zimmerman called the police 46 times since 2004. [Daily Beast]

10. According to neighbors, Zimmerman was “fixated on crime and focused on young, black males.” [Miami Herald]

11. Zimmerman “had been the subject of complaints by neighbors in his gated community for aggressive tactics” [Huffington Post]

12. A police officer “corrected” a key witness. “The officer told the witness, a long-time teacher, it was Zimmerman who cried for help, said the witness. ABC News has spoken to the teacher and she confirmed that the officer corrected her when she said she heard the teenager shout for help.” [ABC News]

13. Three witnesses say they heard a boy cry for help before a shot was fired. “Three witnesses contacted by The Miami Herald say they saw or heard the moments before and after the Miami Gardens teenager’s killing. All three said they heard the last howl for help from a despondent boy.” [Miami Herald]

14. The officer in charge of the crime scene also received criticism in 2010 when he initially failed to arrest a lieutenant’s son who was videotaped attacking a homeless black man. [New York Times]

15. The police did not test Zimmerman for drugs or alcohol. A law enforcement expert told ABC that Zimmerman sounds intoxicated on the 911 tapes. Drug and alcohol testing is “standard procedure in most homicide investigations.” [ABC News]

16. In a cell phone call moments before his death, Martin told a teenage girl that he was “hounded by a strange man on a cellphone who ran after him, cornered him and confronted him.” “‘He said this man was watching him, so he put his hoodie on. He said he lost the man,’ Martin’s friend said. ‘I asked Trayvon to run, and he said he was going to walk fast. I told him to run but he said he was not going to run.’ Eventually he would run, said the girl, thinking that he’d managed to escape. But suddenly the strange man was back, cornering Martin. ‘Trayvon said, ‘What, are you following me for,’ and the man said, ‘What are you doing here.’” [ABC News]     

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via What Everyone Should Know About Trayvon Martin (1995-2012).

THE ROOTS OF GOOD HAIR

There are many issues within the African-American community that really disturbs my peace, and raises concern about our future as a nation of people. I am an expert in my history, my heart, and my experiences in life, so I will bring that to the table of discussion, without censorship and explore the issues that have grossly affected who I am in the world. And I hope you will do the same.

The African-American Experience

I came across this article on one website that referenced an article on another website about the global war between light skinned and dark skinned black people. The article is entitled, On Being A Dark Skinned Black Woman, by Sara Bivigou, of Clutch Magazine. In it the author writes:

I’m crushed by caring. Because they perpetuate an understanding that to be a dark skinned woman is to be less. These ideas build themselves into assumptions and ways of treating women with as much melanin as me. I care because I already know dark skinned women are likely to receive longer prison sentences and less likely to get jobs when qualifications are equal. I care because too often our bodies are used as backdrops or props (i.e. Bella Padilla on the cover of FHM, ‘emerging from the shadows’). Think of how often you see women the same colour as me as surly, head rolling, loud-talking, finger-snapping comic relief (think Pam from Martin). I care because grotesque representations like Makode Aj Linde’s cake/performance art seem to be the only consistent representations of dark skinned black women. I also care about light skinned black women, who are women of colour too, and I do not want to continually feel set against them.

Do the youngins realize that this debate, debacle, and source of discord between light and dark skin, nappy and good hair, house and field negro, goes back to the days of slavery? It began when white raped black and produced what was termed mulatto children, or in a more modern vernacular, bi-racial. White slave owners introduced preference, think about it they were producing people who looked more like themselves, and the mulatto slave stayed in the Big house, and received preferential treatment, much to the chagrin of the mistress of the house.

It lead to a group of people [Creole culture] caught in the middle – the offspring resulting from slave owners interfering with their female slaves. Some of these children just became more slaves, and others were free…but free and coloured, which back then meant anything but, relative to the lot of their sires. A class formed around these offspring – the gens de couleur libre or free people of colour – and that class was able, to a certain extent, to own property, raise themselves from downtrodden to educated, and to attain a comparative dignity. That is to say, they weren’t slaves, but they were still exploited to a certain extent. Often, the women lived as mistresses to the white plantation masters and men of wealth, set up in their own houses, with allowances, schooling paid for their children, and a kind of gentility, dependent on the respectability they chose to impose on their families. In essence, they were prostituting themselves to ensure their own prosperity, and relative independence from labour – an arrangement called plaçage. Source

This preference deepened, and many of the mulatto community became slave owners and separated themselves from the masses of black people and tried to established a caste system based on color, wealth, and free status. The assumption of the superiority of white blood and a brown skin complexion is still alive in 2012. First white society imposed that preference, then African-Americans have done it on their own for generations, with the help of white media. Slavery is an evil spirit and the slaves internalized much of its fall out and passed it on. All of the fallout from physical, psychological, emotional, economical, and societal abuse, is still being felt by slavery’s descendants.  Source

If African-Americans want to hate themselves, the rest of the world will accommodate that frame of mind. But why let someone else define your value? Life is a powerful force, and so is Love. Allow the Love of God to elevate your thoughts and your perceptions and lift you high above, into your place of value and self-love and acceptance.

The Woman in the Photo:

I would give almost anything for her hair. I really like her even-toned complexion, and the symmetrical flow of her eyes, nose, and mouth. In fact, the only part of the picture I don’t like is the hat. Black is truly beautiful…

What Sparked The London Riots? Something Painfully Familiar.

The shooting death of a 29-year-old Black man named Mark Duggan last Thursday is the reason why various cities in London are under attack by angry protestors. His shooting at the hands of police while he was riding in a cab is when this story began. Operation Trident, which is a unit of the London Police Department that monitors the city’s Black neighborhoods, stopped the cab Duggan was in to arrest him and soon after, shots were fired. Duggan, who is a father of three, was fatally wounded and died. What happened next is what hasn’t ended to this day — continuous rioting. Various reports have an exchange of gunfire between police and Duggan that eventually ended in his death. Other reports have police shooting Duggan repeatedly in the head while he was face down execution style. Forensic and ballistic reports have yet to be released.  The protests began early Saturday morning when his family and over 100 protesters went to the Tottenham Police Department demanding answers. Two hours later, several youths began looting, rioting, and vandalizing public property in Tottenham.  The rioting has spread to other parts including Brixton and Enfield. [READ FULL STORY]

It is extremely possible that police officers shot this man while he was face down on the ground because an American police officer did the same thing in 2009 to Oscar Grant. Oscar was handcuffed and faced down on a subway platform.  It was also alleged that Oscar did not receive adequate treatment after the incident. And the white cop that shot Oscar, only got two-years in prison for this murder. Black men have experienced this kind of treatment all throughout America’s history, up to present day. Did you know that President Barack Obama receives 215 death threats a day, and that is more than any other president in American history. 

Racism, can only be perpetrated by those who are economically, politically, and socially dominant. It is the dominant class that can refuse to hire, refuse to rent property, refuse to loan money for businesses and homes, refuse to give urban children a quality education, and publicly call for the Murder of Black People without repercussions. Racists use name calling and anti-racial propaganda, and profiling etc., to demoralize their victims, fuel fear, hate and anger, while justifying the discrimination, oppression, segregation, and even murder to maintain positions of privilege, dominance and control. Racism in the end becomes the fault of the victim. Racism in a word, is WRONG and it cannot end well. Will America be the next place of Civil unrest like Egypt or Jordan, I sure pray that America will wake up. The last Civil War took more than half a million lives.

Here are some recent headlines in American news:

Joan Rivers calls Michelle Obama ‘Blackie O’: Comedienne Joan Rivers revealed she once ditched a joke about First Lady Michelle Obama from her stand-up routine — because she feared she’d be accused of racism. Recalling the wisecrack to shock Jock Howard Stern, the comedy legend said: “We used to have Jackie O now we have Blackie O!” [SOURCE]

Racism, Riots and Police Brutality: A Never Ending Cycle: I wrote this article in January of 2009, but felt it was relevant again due to the riots in London and other cities in the U.K. As we can see in the article, the riots in the U.K. should be of no surprise, as history shows us that poverty, discrimination, unemployment and police brutality often result in riots and mass uprisings. [SOURCE]

Black Student Sues White School Over Racist “Wigger Day”: Quera Pruitt, who attends Red Wing High School, claims that the school was indifferent to the harm this day did to their Black student base. “Wigger is a pejorative slang term for a white person who emulates the mannerisms, language and fashions associated with African-American culture,” the complaint states. “The students who participated in Wigger or Wangsta day wore clothes that, from their perspective, mimicked Black culture. These costumes included oversize sports jerseys, low-slung pants, baseball hats cocked to the side and ‘doo rags’ on their heads. Some of the students displayed gang signs. [SOURCE]

Shocking! Mississippi Hate Crime Killing Caught On Video: Video has been released of the killing of James Craig Anderson, a 49-year-old auto plant worker, who was killed by a group of white men. One of the teens involved said “let’s go f**k with some n****,” before the incident began, according to police. [SOURCE]

What Provoked A Black Mob To Attack Whites At A Wisconsin State Fair?!: Despite what may have started things, this sort of mob violence is not an isolated incident. Reports of these “flash-mobs” have appeared in various cities around the nation, leaving parents, community leaders and law enforcement officials searching  for sensible ways to explain and contain the violence. [SOURCE]

Is “Planet Of The Apes” Really About Black People?!: Combine the discrimination the apes face in the movie with the long-held stereotype that likens Black people to apes themselves, and the Rise of the Planet of the Apes appears to be the latest popular culture portrayal of  race relations in America. [SOURCE]

GOP lawmaker’s ‘TAR BABY’ remark sparks reaction in metro-east: The fallout from U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn likening President Barack Obama to a “tar baby” continues to anger, disturb and spark plenty of conversation in the metro-east. [SOURCE]  Tar Baby is a term that was used by whites against black slaves.

Glenn Beck’s Twisted Racial Fantasies: For every Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity, there are dozens of would-be pundits waiting in the wings to take their place. Legions more are producing Internet radio shows from their basement studios, all spewing the same distasteful, hate-filled litany of conspiracy theories you can hear on The Glenn Beck Program on any given day. [SOURCE]

It’s a Great Time to Be Racist: Racists have officially lost their minds. In recent weeks, the venom spewed at President Barack Obama would leave one to believe that we are in the midst of a racist renaissance. “A dick,” “jackass,” “tar baby, “your boy” — you name it and the president has been called it. For some reason, some people are so enraged by how this country is purportedly being run that they cannot separate a real critique of the president’s decisions from mean-spirited name-calling related to his race. Yes, the country that likes to pretend that it is far removed from its racist past has engaged in the verbal equivalent of a throwback jersey. Some people have reached far back into that Reconstruction-era closet, pulled out that dingy jersey adorned with racial slurs, shaken it out and put it on proudly. Elected officials have reduced themselves to behaving like petulant children, storming in and out of meetings and running to the media to lob personal attacks at the president, then offering lame apologies shortly afterward. [SOURCE]

This human being is calling for the MURDER OF BLACK PEOPLE. And then you hear stories about the murder of James C. Anderson who was recently beaten by a group of white males and then run over with a truck driven by John A. Rice. The only reason we know about this incident is because it was caught on tape.

John A. Rice, 18, was originally charged with the murder of James C. Anderson, but a judge in Hinds County, William Barnett, dropped the charges to simple assault. The case is headed this month for a grand jury, where prosecutors will argue that it was both a hate crime and a murder and that both men should be indicted. [SOURCE] John’s charge has been dropped to “simple assault,” after purposely driving his truck over a black man and killing him. These black women broke the law, but didn’t take any human life, and look at there sentence.

Black Woman Faces 15 Years In Prison For Cutting Line At Wal-Mart. {SOURCE]

Jamie & Gladys Scott (black female sisters) Got Life for an $11 Robbery. [SOURCE]

A Rock Hill black woman will spend the next 18 years behind bars, with no chance at parole, after she robbed a convenience store last August of $94. [SOURCE]

What Is The Number One Killer of Black People? Answer: Black People

According to the history of Planned Parenthood, Margaret Sangor did have a plan to exterminate the African-American people. And yes, her plan had been and still is endorsed by those financial “elitist” that really run this country. The reason being that after slavery, the slaves, mistreated and screwed sexually and financially, began to increase in influence, the once subservient were growing as leaders. The desire to send the slaves back to Africa, was not realized, so they had to be contained and exterminated. The KKK could not accomplish extermination, but Margret Sangor and her Negro Project received much financial encouragement. When abortion was legalized and offices were placed in predominately black neighborhoods, the abortion rate for black people took off. I can fault Margaret for being a racist, for her Negro Project, and for her hatred. But, I cannot fault Margaret Sangor for getting any of the black women who have had an abortion, pregnant. When 13 to 14 million black babies are aborted each year, a black mother’s womb is the most dangerous place for a black child to be. Wake Up Brothers and Sisters, wake up.

In the past two years alone, Planned Parenthood has received more than half a billion dollars from the federal government to execute their horrific policies and facilitate the national scourge of abortion on demand. Abortion is a crime against humanity. It is horrible enough that this tragedy is legal in the United States … but to sponsor it with our tax dollars — yours and mine — is unconscionable. [SOURCE]

“Several years ago, when 17,000 aborted babies were found in a dumpster outside a pathology laboratory in Los Angeles, California, some 12-15,000 were observed to be black.”

–Erma Clardy Craven (deceased)
Social Worker and Civil Rights Leader  [SOURCE]

On average, 1,876 black babies are aborted every day in the United States.

This incidence of abortion has resulted in a tremendous loss of life. It has been estimated that since 1973 Black women have had about 16 million abortions. Michael Novak had calculated “Since the number of current living Blacks (in the U.S.) is 36 million, the missing 16 million represents an enormous loss, for without abortion, America’s Black community would now number 52 million persons. It would be 36 percent larger than it is. Abortion has swept through the Black community like a scythe, cutting down every fourth member.” [SOURCE]

The founder of Planned Parenthood said, “Colored people are like human weeds and are to be exterminated.” Is her vision being fulfilled today? [SOURCE]

Aborted Fetus @ 24 Weeks

The Negro Project - Margaret Sanger‘s Eugenic Plan for Black America

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The Righteouschoice to Ask, Black People, do we blog?

Of course, I am being somewhat facetious, but the inquiry is genuine. It seems to me that we are drawn to hosting sites that cater to black people and social networking. We either want to hook up, or promote our businesses, or we dialog concerning some cultural or current event. And there is nothing wrong with that, but, within this vast sea of diverse blogs, where the author is pictured, they are usually not African American. Do we feel that multicultural blogging communities won’t understand our  form of expression, or our issues? Or, do we think the larger community won’t care? I would really like to know why we seem to have to be segregated even in cyberspace.

I personally like the idea of being in a diverse community of thought and expression. It is like sitting on my porch, watching all kinds of people walk by, and getting the chance to chit-chat. Chit-chat, I haven’t used that term in a minute, and sharing commonality with people I normally wouldn’t talk to because they’re not in my circle of friends, Or, they live  worlds away.  

Emotionally, I feel that blogging is a real freeing experience. I’ve seen blogs where the authors really bear their souls  to find self-acceptance. Or, flaunt their passions to ignite the passion in others. In short, it is a curative experience. Not to mention the fact that African-Americans have such a rich history of novelists, playwrights, poets, essayists, past and present. Men and women like, Langston Hughes, Ralph Waldo Ellison, W.E.B Dubois, Lorraine Hansberry, Toni Morrison, Terri Mcmillian and the list could continue. So I know that we are a people of literary expression. Is it that we’d rather have instant gratification through text messaging, IMs, webcams, or videologs? Until now, I just didn’t have the time, but, now it is something that I thoroughly enjoy. I guess I just love the power of the written word. Let me know what you think…