One young man dead; the police to blame; Baltimore erupted
into flame; such has been a common affair in the black communities in the great
United States of America - Florida, New York, Missouri, New Jersey, California,
South Carolina, and on and on. Some children are in peril. A nation remains
divided. What is going on? Who is to blame? I recall one day I was picking up
some food at a tiny café in Little Havana Miami. I overheard some White
Hispanic officers, a half dozen or so, talking about how they despised young black
males. I was terrified. They had one familiar argument. The young black men had
an attitude. I went my way. They went their ways. Yet, I felt that young Afro
men in America were facing an uphill battle.
It is about 20 years later that I am writing this blogpost.
In the white house, there is a half-black-half-white president of
the big white men’s country. People should mistake that the relationship
between Black and White in the United States must have highly improved. It in
contrast, appears to have deteriorated. During the last few months, or at best
the last couple of years, a rash of cold murdering of young black men by the
police all about the country has proven that the issue of race in the United
States is still to be reconciled.
This murdering of young black men by police should not be
taken for anything new in this country. In fact, the mistreatment of poor Blacks here has ever remained a common affair. In general, black people in the United
State have been kept a degenerated and deprived mass. No wealth, no suitable
education, no well organized structure to serve the Negro interest, people of
African origin here are left in a conundrum of societal inefficiencies that have
held them captives of their white Caucasian compatriots, as destined from their
backdrop of slavery. It is not a surprise that the young black men have developed
attitudes, and the police the keeper of the dungeon have brutalized them.
However, the new age of social media has brought to light what used to customarily be done in darkness.
Young black men in America have always been more exposed to
the injustice of racism. Ever since slavery, where such young men were lynched
for the mere fact of looking at a white female; or when they were condemned for
crimes committed by other people; and, the actual brutality of the law
enforcement on them simply for the fact that they are Negroes. Black people here
in general have suffered most often silently under the racist system that has marginalized
their race. No one wants to condone any illegal actions of the young black folks. Yet, it as criminal for the white police to go about massacring them mercilessly.
Everything was done in the dark until cameras started to
branch out on all standing structures, and individuals with smart phones and tablets were ready to snap a picture of any action at every joint, every angle. I remember
Rodney King, with his face all bulged up, and all the protests in Los Angeles
and all across the country. Then, there was no more, as if the police had stopped
brutalizing black men. This was 1992, the age of camcorders. Today, is the age
of social media. Not only that a camera is posted at every angle of our
activities, the network of people are up and ready to transmit with the tapping
of a finger to every corner of the globe and even up into the heavens. Nothing is
hidden; no place is too far.
Hence, the peril of the young black men in the United States
is exposed. Not only that, this society incarcerated the Blacks in slavery for
centuries; not only that these Blacks were abandoned to failure by the exploiting and
racist society at liberty; now the young black men have been revealed to have
been suffering extreme discrimination, brutalization, and even extermination by
the judicial institutions of the country that not only render false judgments
to imprison the young black men, but also allow the brutal racist police forces
to exterminate the young men. It is no longer a secret. The electronic and
social media society must have clearly acknowledged.
E.C. Granmoun is the author of "The Social Worker" ebook on amazon.com
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