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Enough is enough.
The people are in the streets protesting for a better and brighter day. To become equal. To finally be looked upon and treated as human beings. They are exhausted spiritually, mentally, physically and morally. Why? A police dog has more rights than a black person in this country. Enslaved men and women of African descent built this nation, and to this day America hides their past and present achievements and contributions.
Will there ever be a better day where only the content of a person's soul will be looked at and not the color of their skin? No one is actually black or white. Our differences in skin color come from human adaption to the sun. We need Vitamin D from sunlight to stay healthy and how our skin absorbs it changes depending on where our ancestors have lived on the planet.
Color is based on geography—not race. Racial categories were developed to justify slavery. They were reinforced by the slave patrols that considered people of African descent 3/5 of a human being.
This is the early history of the P.O.L.I.C.E:
P-essimistic
O-ppressive
L -eary
I- ndecent
C-ruel
E-vil
Force.
In the 1857 Dred Scott decision, Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger Taney wrote the majority opinion that: 4. A free negro of the African race, whose ancestors were brought to this country and sold as slaves, is not a "citizen" within the meaning of the Constitution of the United States. 5. When the Constitution was adopted, they were not regarded in any of the States as members of the community which constituted the State, and were out numbered among its "people or citizen."
Consequently, the special rights and immunities guaranteed to citizens do not apply to them. And not being "citizens" within the meaning of the Constitution, they are not entitled to sue in that character in a court of the United States, and the Circuit Court has not jurisdiction in such a suit.
Black folk could not be a citizen!
The Dred Scott decision ushered in a new era of the P.O.L.I.C.E: people who escaped slavery were no longer free in the North. Slave hunters made a living hunting people down.
The following year, in a presidential debate on September 18, 1858, Abraham Lincoln explained his own views on the negro “raceâ€: I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races, [applause]—that I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality.
Lincoln’s mindset went into the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863. Abolishing slavery was not truly committed to actually freeing black people from their oppression, terrible condition, torture and brutality.
Many times, black people were sent away to jail for life for not having a job as a way of forcing them to stay on the plantations where they used to be enslaved. If they didn’t want to stay, they were sent to jail. For more forced labor.
Look at the prison system of today and observe the percentage of black people that are currently incarcerated, especially for nonviolent crimes as compared to others.
It's no secret that Louisiana the state in which I'm from is the prison capital of the entire world by a wide and large margin—five times the incarceration rate of Iran and 13 times the incarceration rate of China.
According to an article in the The Times Picayune: The hidden engine behind the state's well-oiled prison machine is cold, hard cash. A majority of Louisiana inmates are housed in for- profit facilities, which must be supplied with a constant influx of human beings or a $182 million dollar industry will go bankrupt.
We must have a global and human conversation about America's long overdue demonstrations of human rights violations against the very people who built this nation. The only way that America will move forward and evolve is for hatred to be replaced with honesty and lawlessness replaced with love.
If we can’t treat everyone with respect and dignity, maybe America needs to be the next and latest great empire who fate ends in ruin, fire and rubble.
The P.O.L.I.C.E. need to reinvent their image and identity and do what is right and necessary by all means. Kneeling alone will not do that. We need a real P.O.L.I.C.E. force:
The
P- ositive
O- utstanding
L- oyal
I- nspiring
C- aring
E-ntity
That this country desperately needs.
This is the only Police force that I'll back. This is the only way to make America great—for the first time.
Peace.
~King Qadar Dwon'
https://www.neighborhoodstoryproject.org/so/73NAAF8yJ#/main
Resources Chang, Cindy. 2012. “Louisiana is the World’s Prison Capital†in The Times Picayune. May 12: https://www.nola.com/news/crime_police/article_8feef59a-1196-5988-9128-1e8e7c9aefda.html
Lincoln, Abraham. 1858. “Fourth Debate with Stephen A. Douglas in Charleston, Illinois†in The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, Vol. 3: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/l/lincoln/lincoln3/1:20.1?rgn=div2;view=fulltext
Taney, Roger. 1857. Dred Scott versus John F. A. Stanford. U.S. Supreme Court: https://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=false&doc=29&page=transcript Understanding Race: https://www.understandingrace.org/OnlySkinDeep
