(ThyBlackMan.com) This morning (Thursday, March 12, 2015), two police officers in Ferguson, Missouri were shot. The police chief has resigned. The Municipal Court Judge has resigned. The City Manager has resigned and the Missouri Supreme Court has taken away all the municipal court cases, handing them to a higher court. Darren Wilson is out of a job and this matter continues to ignite. But is this justice? Not for Michael Brown. Every one of the people I just mentioned has the opportunity to walk around, find another job and live out their lives, but not Michael Brown. The Ferguson Police Department and the city of Ferguson has Darren Wilson to thank for all that is happening. The businesses losing money and having to contend with damage or hostilities can thank Darren Wilson.
You cannot just shoot an African-American down in the street and think it won’t matter – not any more you can’t. In the book of Daniel he became very dismayed at what he saw for the future. But the angel told him these things would have to come to pass. And I must say if people do not want to reap what they have sown, they need to stop sowing the wrong thing. Is this an ambivalent statement? No, it’s just a fact – a painful one.
Bullets are replacing ropes, guns are replacing trees and badges are replacing lynch mobs. This has to stop!
If Ferguson officials do not understand karma and reaping what you sow, they are getting a crash course in it now. Violence is not the answer and police officers being shot in fact makes it harder on law abiding citizens who are being profiled anyway, but you have to wonder if Ferguson officials have brought this on themselves. If we tell citizens violence is not the answer and police officers work for the public, we need police chiefs telling police officers the same thing. Departmental racism, targeting African-Americans and shooting us down in the streets is causing a backlash – a backlash we never wanted and a backlash we did not start. And it’s not just happening in Ferguson, it’s happening in Georgia, Chicago, New York, Florida and several other states.
The more we try to forgive, the more we turn on the news and see it happen all over again. Human forgiveness has boundaries. The more we try go on with life, the more the war is brought to the front doors of our community. And while we are told to forgive, I do not hear “white America” saying they are forgiving when a police officer is shot or a business is burned to the ground. I see many of them retaliating, criticizing and letting the real perpetrators off the hook. Forgiveness, at the very least, should be a two way street. And if “white” America is not doing it, then “white America is in no position to judge African-Americans.
“The more we try to forgive, the more we turn on the news only to see it happen all over again. Human forgiveness has boundaries.”
Ferguson police and Ferguson officials have started a two-sided chain reaction with a huge ripple effect co0ming right behind it. Apparently an unofficial covert war has been declared on African-Americans because of the color of our skin. And as in every war, there are casualties and there is collateral damage. You may not think this war involves you, but with ideologies and strategies like the master race theory, the King Alfred Plan and Rex 84, you have
been enrolled in a war and nobody told you that you were – like it or not. This is a war that most of us never wanted but now is the time to reflect on where you stand – especially if you are law enforcement or military.
On one side of the coin of chain reaction started by Ferguson, some police officers everywhere are thinking they can get away with “murder” and unarmed African-Americans are being shot almost every month. It would be a big mistake to think like that but some officers are just that stupid and actions speak louder than words. On the other side of the chain reaction coin, Ferguson has sparked a nationwide test of African-American’s resolve. Maybe they wanted to know if we could still organize, unify, rally, protest, boycott and even riot. Maybe they wanted to know if the divisions and slave mindsets they imparted into our communities were still working. Maybe they wanted to see if Willie Lynche was alive and well.
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Well wake up America and know that you cannot keep doing African-Americans like you have done. Again I am not advocating violence and there are strong sociological and political solutions in the pen, politics and economics. But there is a new wind blowing, a wind that ushers in people who want change by any means necessary. Do you hear the wind blowing? And before the wind brings the thunder, the lightning and the full blown storm, police departments everywhere need to really look hard at policies, officers, training and accountability. When police officers were attacking peaceful protesters on Bloody Sunday in Alabama, they were planting even deeper bad seeds on bad ground with a bad foundation. Today it appears not to be much different. It’s still happening and any African-American could be a target ay any time – no matter where you live, what you drive or what education you have.
Are all Caucasian people racist? No. Are all African-Americans law abiding citizens? No. But do either of these truths mean that we should be shot down like dogs in the street? Hell no! And if you think your Mercedes, your college degrees or your neighborhood exempts you from being a potential target, you are sadly mistaken. I drive a nice car, live in a paid for house, went to college, carried a badge, I am well read, very intelligent, over 40, middle class, articulate, a white collar professional, not a thug and I have more friends in law enforcement than I can count – but I can still be a target and so can you. All it takes to make you a victim is one racist police officer, one poorly trained police officer, one overzealous police officer or one police officer who does not care at all. Just one!
The African American church needs to wake the bleep up.
So take a stand, pick a side and prepare yourself because there is rough weather ahead. I wish it was not so, but it is what it is. You have to think preventive, not curative after something happens to you or someone you love. We are running out of cheeks to turn because they are getting shot off. And with a bazillion churches and mosques in this country, I have to wonder why they are not making the most noise to combat the unrighteousness that is being consistently perpetrated against us. The salt should never keep it’s savor by simply staying in the salt shaker. The Messiah of the Bible went head to head with the unrighteous and so did his Apostles. So I ask each African-American church today, are you a lamb, a lion, asleep or a coward? Faith without works is just like Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Jordan, Davis and Trayvon Martin. WAKE UP! DO SOMETHING!
Staff Writer; Marque-Anthony