Dead black ghost boy defends his Unalienable Rights

[Hollosoulja]

[QUOTE]Mike Brown is currently engaged in one of the most difficult, but common – for black men, anyway – forms of criminal defense in the American criminal justice system: he is engaged in The Ultimate Defense.
Granted, it’s rather hard for him to wield The Ultimate Defense effectively, as the unarmed teenager was killed over the weekend – shot dead by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri. But that’s the cruel irony of The Ultimate Defense: it’s always invoked posthumously, when the defendant can’t really defend himself because …well, because he’s dead.

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[QUOTE]I spent some time in St. Louis earlier this year reporting on [URL="http://www.buzzfeed.com/steventhrasher/how-college-wrestling-star-tiger-mandingo-became-an-hiv-scap"]a racially-charged story[/URL] and came away extremely depressed by how blighted huge swaths of the metro area are. Ferguson sits north of the city, not so far from where Pruitt-Igoe –the [URL="http://www.riverfronttimes.com/movies/the-pruitt-igoe-myth-an-urban-history-1251078/"]most notoriously disastrous housing project built during Urban Renewal[/URL] – once stood. It was abandoned and [URL="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opqn-w_4DgA"]blown up[/URL] less than 20 years after it broke ground. What remains nearby the now overgrown ruin, like what’s visible throughout much of metropolitan St Louis where black people live, is an “economy” based on fast-food restaurants, payday loan sharks, casinos and, inevitably, crime.In such quarters of our nation, where men seem as likely to have contact with the criminal justice system as with the public education system, citizens often find themselves on the defensive with police.
The Ultimate Defense is the final step in how black men (or, in the cases of Trayvon Martin, Jordan Davis, Mike Brown and many more, black[I]children[/I]) try to navigate this uneasy relationship with law enforcement in the United States, which collectively assumes our guilt before, during and after alleged crimes occur. This presumption doesn’t die – even when one of us is killed by law enforcement.
The first step in navigating this assumed guilt is “the talk”. My father, who was [URL="http://www.buzzfeed.com/steventhrasher/a-personal-and-political-history-of-the-afro"]routinely harassed by police[/URL] when he was driving to college at night, had “the talk” with me when I was six or seven, explaining how people would automatically assume that I was up to no good, and would often even presume I was about to commit (or had just committed) a crime
I’d never heard white people discuss “the talk” until George Zimmerman killed Trayvon Martin, when some conservatives started having strong ideas about [URL="http://takimag.com/article/the_talk_nonblack_version_john_derbyshire/print#axzz3A7M8Mddk"]how “the talk” could be altered for the benefit of white people[/URL]. But I’ve heard endless variations of “the talk” among black folks – perhaps the most alarmingly when I was investigating police profiling in New York City in 2011. That’s when I learned the term “stop and frisk virginity”: black and Latino boys, as young as 10, would brag about who’d lost theirs or who was still a virgin.

Having a police officer act out his presumption of your guilt, it seems, is so ubiquitous – even today – that it’s a rite of passage toward manhood for these black and brown boys.[/QUOTE]

[URL="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/aug/12/mike-brown-ferguson-shooting-police-black"]- TG[/URL]

This is pushed a bit far, not every cop and white man is a blood thirsty nigger slayer as they would like to portray after these incidents.

[Bradyns]

[QUOTE]My father, who was routinely harassed by police when he was driving to college at night, had “the talk” with me when I was six or seven, explaining how people would automatically assume that I was up to no good, and would often even presume I was about to commit (or had just committed) a crime.[/QUOTE]

Ain't that the truth..

So much for the presumption of innocence, and due process.

[hypern]

I think that it is a lot more complicated then when it's first looked at. I hope civil rights improve inside the USA.

[Sableye]

[QUOTE=hypern;45668828]I think that it is a lot more complicated then when it's first looked at. I hope civil rights improve inside the USA.[/QUOTE]

In places like the east side of st. Lewis where minorities have been historically forced into because of unfair housing practices and unaffordable real estate, the cops there are over worked and underfunded and these kind of events will only keep happening in these neighborhoods until the people either move out and go somewhere else or new wealth starts to flow in both solve the problem but dont really help the people living there