Peace to all of you. As I write this, my mind is
all over the place. I sat in a brief meditation this morning, reflecting on the
murders of our people by police and the cycle of repeated events and the
results sickened me. In the majority of high profile deaths of Afrikan people
in Amerikkka at the hands of law enforcement, the cycle is :
1. Outrage by the community
2. An investigation of the events
3. The vilification of the victim by mainstream
media, conversations on police and
community relationships
4. Either the police officer is charged or found to
be innocent by way of lack of substantial evidence or assumed guilt by the
victim (He went for my gun and so on), but
never any conviction or even admission of guilt by them
5. The family of the victim receives huge amounts
of money from the city the victim lived in, often before the criminal case is
tried, but certainly after. The latest settlement is in the case of Walter
Scott who was murdered by an officer in North Charleston.
6. The officer often is paid by either their own
departments , as in the case of Kerrick or by GoFundMe accounts established by
their supporters.
7. Rinse and repeat.
In the latest case of Randall Kerrick, he is being
rewarded, in my opinion, for shooting an unarmed Jonathan Ferrell in 2013. I
watched as a representative of the Fraternal Order of Police Officers express
his feeling that Kerrick deserved "more" than his settlement of over
$100,000. More of what? Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department
"negotiated" with him for a resignation and paid him. It makes zero
sense at all but this is white supremacy at its finest. What has he suffered
that he deserves to have his resignation negotiated in the first place and then
paid severance as if he actually served
in any capacity for those who are the hunted. In the KRS-One song
"Black Cop", he calls the officer -- overseer and that is exactly
what they are. Overseers were paid to inflict pain, power, and dominance over
our ancestors and to keep the “nigras” in line and these "officers"
are doing the same; they injure, they intimidate, they abuse their power, and
if they kill, they are smiled upon, paid for the collection of black bodies. In
our communities, the sight of a police car is a constant reminder that we could
be the next hashtag on Twitter, the next one with our name in lights, one of
the ones whose life could be stolen, with justice never to be had, our families
paid hush money, and our names added to the seemingly neverending list of people
murdered unarmed by the police. The actions of these men and women in blue is
at best atrocious and has caused for the community to view them as a constant
threat and a menace. There has not been any reform for these police
departments, no true action taken against any who have unjustly murdered our
people, and no true blueprint for what should be done when it happens again.
Our communities are in dire need for
transformation. At this time, we find ourselves at the bottom of the totem pole
in most areas—economically, educationally, and otherwise. The remedy is not to
be found in Washington or any other legislative or judicial body within the
stolen nation named Amerikkka. The movement should be to establish independence
and unification amongst ourselves. We need to police our own neighborhoods. Our
people are dying at the hands of each other and it is high time that we seize
our circumstances from those who devalue their own people. We need to establish
economic initiatives from every state within this nation in which we shop with
our own, create our own, and only support our own. I know some may feel the
things I speak about may be a bit lofty but our very existence depends on our
unity and collective action. No one is coming to save us. We all we got!
Hetepu!
Andre’a
