Knowledge is Power
EJI's New Lynching Report Documents an Era of Racial Terrorism | Equal Justice Initiative Disclaimer: I am not permitted to reprint the articcle but visit the EJI site for more information and current reports.
In December 2014 I posted an essay in support of #BLACKLIVESMATTER....... to protest the blatant denial in America how little value has been considered for the lives of Black Americans and the affects of the trauma, how it's evolved into bad policing.
This is the original Document as posted by EJI.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2RtxTh9Jf3uX0d2NmhsUElWQTg/view?usp=sharing
This is the original Document as posted by EJI.
If you really want to understand the History and scars which attributes to the black condition in America here's a great article.
It speaks to our history as Americans and the experience of both races and what was considered "socially acceptable" way of bringing justice from white race point of view, but it was terror and meant death to the black race utterly powerless in most cases this essay goes indepth to recall factual information and illustrations documenting this inhumane but legal practices here in our Nation. Maybe this won't change hearts and minds but at least you can't say you didn't know how awful life could be for people of color.
To this date no person in power in these United States has ever apologized and offered assistance to the decendants of these people, many "African Americans" who I refer to as Black Americans have been taught to accept and live with many of the generational maladjustments suffered by many families even mine who struggled to identify in a society that loved to "HATE" them and saw them as less than a human being. We've come a short distance but until we have real dialog such as this piece (just click on the title to the link above in red) for a frank and open conversation "just the facts" without embelishment, I hold a hope for real brotherhood and healing before the end of the 21st Century.
My grandson is Black, Hispanic, Native American, and White. I guess he's really an "ALL AMERICAN!!"
That being said I refuse to be afraid anymore
for him or my Black son whose mere existance to some in our country can be a reason to die...... It's time to heal scars are real.
So check out your mind read the article and you decide..
Show some empathy & be humble lets try that for a start.
