Rioting is an Irrational Response to an Irrational Justice System that Destroys the Lives of Black Males
What does rioting accomplish? Life would be so much more pleasant if poor people didn't burn down buildings. But then again, their irrationality is responding in kind to an American justice system that has fooled alot of white people into believing that it is rational and impartial. Well, actually it is for them.
However, as the mother of a black son, I know for an empirical fact, that our justice system is horribly flawed for my kind. In truth, it needs to be burned down to the ground. But what I'm referring to is an abstraction, a complex set of legal structures, not a bricks and mortar building that can be incinerated. So, while I don't condone rioting, I do understand it as an expression of powerless rage.
When it comes to black males, there is only one jury. It has a full schedule, traveling around the country acquitting armed white law enforcement agents or aspiring agents after they have murdered unarmed black teenagers. This year, the troupe played at being a Ferguson, Missouri grand jury, which just so happened to acquit a white police officer for killing an unarmed black teenager, Michael Brown. Last year, wearing a slightly different disguise they acquitted a white police-wanna-be, who murdered an unarmed black teenager, Trayvon Martin.
However, as the mother of a black son, I know for an empirical fact, that our justice system is horribly flawed for my kind. In truth, it needs to be burned down to the ground. But what I'm referring to is an abstraction, a complex set of legal structures, not a bricks and mortar building that can be incinerated. So, while I don't condone rioting, I do understand it as an expression of powerless rage.
When it comes to black males, there is only one jury. It has a full schedule, traveling around the country acquitting armed white law enforcement agents or aspiring agents after they have murdered unarmed black teenagers. This year, the troupe played at being a Ferguson, Missouri grand jury, which just so happened to acquit a white police officer for killing an unarmed black teenager, Michael Brown. Last year, wearing a slightly different disguise they acquitted a white police-wanna-be, who murdered an unarmed black teenager, Trayvon Martin.
If you're a black teenager, beware. They could be shopping around in the costume shop at this very moment, trying on their next set of disguises, getting ready for their next mock trial.
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