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The Elimination

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The systematic elimination of a Race through modern day lynching’s:

Again done from behind the badge, perpetrated through and by the legal system without repercussion:

White sheets replaced by suits and ties and blue uniforms; Grand juries replace burnings, police revolvers replace the noose that choked the life out of our men…

Without hesitation;  They’re Killing the bearers of our next generation:

Death is instantaneous, increasingly questionable circumstances, unarmed black men and women continue deadly encounters with police that is a sure death sentence without a conviction.

A threat, inequality, death follows as history repeats itself: lynching’s of African Americans became increasingly common. no one  is ever prosecuted ; Legalization of routine police killings, practices now normal features of American life — morally no accountability, acceptable.

Before: a black person was killed in public every four days

Now: twice a week, or every three or four days, an African American has been killed by a white police officer:

A haunting symmetry of a death,  links the devaluation of black life in America. Confronted beyond the numbers, it is the banality of injustice:

Marlene Pinnock- beating of great-grandmother

17-year-old Victor Steen-tasered while riding his bicycle and then run over by the police officer

Daniel Shaver                                        Christian Taylor              Kendrec McDade, 19            Philando Castile

Jonathan Ferrell                                  Alton Sterling                  Reynaldo Cuevas, 20           Terence Crutcher

Aiyana Jones, 7                                    Akiel Denkins                  Kendra James                   Keith Lamont Scott

DeAunta Terrel Farrow, 12                Samuel DuBose               LaTanya Haggerty           Gregory Gunn

Tamir Rice, 12                                      Natasha McKenna           Margaret LaVerne Mitchell

Andy Lopez, 13                                    Freddie Gray                     Shereese Francis              Brendon Glenn

Amadou Diallo                                     Kiwane Carrington, 15    Yvette Smith                    Walter Scott

Manuel Loggins Jr.                              Kimani Gray, 16                Miriam Carey                   Ezell Ford

Stephon Clark                                      Deion Fludd, 17                 Shantel Davis                   Laquan McDonald

Ronald Madison                                  James Brisette, 17            Tarika Wilson                   Akai Gurley

Sean Bell                                               Ervin Jefferson, 18            Alberta Spruill                 Jamar Clark

Eric Garner                                          Rekia Boyd, 22                   Korryn Gaines              Ramarley Graham

Michael Brown, Jr.                             Ramarley Graham, 18      Sandra Bland         

                                        Plus 206…….More

                               The Elimination Continues

 

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