Racial injustice of American police
Many of you know what happened in Ferguson,Missouri right ? In case you didn't an 18 year old black teen named Micheal Brown was shot down and killed by a white police officer. Many have said it was a hate crime others say the police had reason to soot him to death. But there has been many a history of American police making mistakes like this one including all the way back during segregation. Racial injustice is the unjust actions taken upon a certain race by another race this even dated back to the 1800's in slave times but their form of police were in fact slave patrols and their jobs were to hunt down any escaped slaves and bring them back to the plantation for punishment and to work they would also hunt any black who spoke out against slavery or were rebelling against their master's rule. After slavery ended we still had Jim Crow laws which was basically another word for segregation. Cops would mostly crack down on African-Americans for any reason at all whether it made sense or not they would always find a way to nail blacks and put them in jail. Now in modern times we have people who are complaining about a president not because of what he's doing but because of the color of his skin.
On my last note as far as I am concerned, the broken bones, bruises, spilled blood, paralysis and death we suffer in addition to the tear gas, pepper spray, stomping, choke holds, bullets and billy clubs unleashed on Black bodies throughout contemporary America are nothing but modern-day manifestations of racist slave patrols. Acknowledging this fact brings us to the logical conclusions that 1. Black people are to a large degree, perceived and treated by state agents as neo-slaves, people whose labor, mobility, and freedom is subject to control. 2. We are therefore seen as physical and political threats by the established order, which both explains why we continue to be unfairly criminalized and subject to physical attack by law enforcement agents (and even white vigilantes) on any given day. 3. While decent and fair-minded police officers of all racial and ethnic origins do exist, the police department is an institution that “serves and protects” certain class and race interests, and their repeated acts of brutality against us are not incidental or arbitrary, but constitute a mandated, deliberate and organic part of the American social order. The sooner we all understand this , the the more educated we'll all be on this subject.
Tyehimba, Agyei. Racist Police Brutality Part I: History of the American Police State. My True
Sense Blog, Scoop It. August 17, 2014. <http://mytruesense.org/2014/08/17/police-brutality-part-
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