It isn’t just Ferguson—polling shows that black Americans are wary of law enforcement across the nation, while whites are more likely to trust officers.

Source: www.theatlantic.com

"While the focus for the last two weeks has been on the specific racial tensions boiling over in the St. Louis suburbs, Gallup rounded up several years of polling data showing that these stories about black distrust of the police in Ferguson match with broader perceptions among African Americans nationwide."

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One reason for the racial divide over Michael Brown’s death is that white Americans tend to talk mostly to other white people.

Source: www.theatlantic.com

"Clearly white Americans see the broader significance of Michael Brown’s death through radically different lenses than black Americans. There are myriad reasons for this divergence, from political ideologies—which, for example, place different emphases on law and order versus citizens’ rights—to fears based in racist stereotypes of young black men. But the chief obstacle to having an intelligent, or even intelligible, conversation across the racial divide is that on average white Americans live in communities that face far fewer problems and talk mostly to other white people."

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Hail Captain Adama.

"There’s a reason you separate military and the police. One fights the enemies of the State, the other serves and protects the people.  When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the State tend to become the People." – William Adama

So Say We All

Tell Dept. Of Justice ‘End Racist And Militaristic Policing’

http://www.popularresistance.org/tell-dept-of-justice-end-racist-and-militaristic-policing/

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“I don’t advocate for male privilege. I advocate for men.” – Dr. T. Hasan Johnson Created by Dr. T. Hasan Johnson of CSU Fresno’s Africana Studies Program, the concept of Bl…

Source: newblackmasculinities.wordpress.com

Gaining from Institutionalized Hatred

This hatred doesn’t come out of nowhere. People profit from the institutionalized hatred of Black men, most particularly law enforcement, media, and the bourgeois intelligentsia. Police departments and private/public prisons benefit from the hatred of Black males. The militarization of the police since the 1960s has made it profitable to be in law enforcement. Private and public prisons not only benefit from grants and federal (taxpayer) dollars, they often trade on the stock market, meaning people literally invest in the warehousing and forced labor of Black males, many of whom have been provided such an atrocious education (with no viable job options) for so many decades that their imprisonment is damned-near inevitable.
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Guest post by Kobie Colemon.

Source: thestartingfive.net

This image will be an iconic reminder of  how the people of Ferguson, MO, responded to Mike Brown’s cold blooded killing. 

A few things I think I know about the police violence and Black protest in Ferguson, MO. First, when Black people are the victims of police brutality and murder, it is the murderers who are humanized and the Blacks who are dehumanized. There is a strange equivocation where the same rhetoric is used to exonerate one group of people (the police), while denigrating another (Black people).

http://thestartingfive.net/2014/08/17/the-mike-brown-killing-its-much-too-late-for-angry-words-by-kobie-colemon/

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America is not a post-racial society. Black people are reminded of that everyday. One black student at San Jose State University learned that lesson when he was allegedly attacked and tortured by t…

Source: watercoolerconvos.com

"All of these events happened in a suite shared by a total of eight occupants. Sadly, this young man had to endure the treatment from August 20th to October 13th of this school year.

What is interesting about this issue is that it took place on-campus in one of the most liberal states in the country. California residents often pride themselves (ourselves) on being particularly progressive. Each of these students is from central and northern California. But, this story sounds more like something one would hear about in the Civil Rights Era in the South."

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"Many African soldiers were killed on the way to POW camps, prior to that they were depicted as savages with German propaganda films." (Available pictures and film )

As an Israeli offensive against the Palestinian civilian population winds down due to a cease fire, many observers are revisiting the circumstances that loosed white Holocaust survivors onto the Arab world. What people rarely speak of, however, are the Afro-Germans and Africans who were also victims of Adolph Hitler’s Nazi campaigns.

In the books Hitler’s Black Victims and Hitler’s African Victims, the ways in which blacks suffered is detailed.

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The shooting death of 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., reopens a fresh wound just weeks after a police chokehold killed Eric Garner in New York City.

Source: www.theroot.com

There comes a time when silence is betrayal.

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“This stops today . . . I can’t breathe . . . I can’t breathe . . .”

“A Culture of White Violence and Privilege” l Police militarized, and raced-up.

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"A Culture of White Violence and Privilege"
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Before Eric Garner was killed by NY police officers,his last words before the fatal chokehold were, "THIS STOPS TODAY".

City and political leaders across the country have accepted one "police death" after another. Some of them many Black people supported enthusiastically. How do we hold them accountable and when for the culture of violence under which law enforcement operates? When do WE draw the line in the sand?

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