(ThyBlackMan.com) Ok… Let me start by saying ” I’m sorry I left. With all that’s been going on I didn’t think my writing was a help so In had to hit the trenches.”
Now since we last had a chance to speak we have seen police in Texas brutalize Black Children, in support of white supremacist, because a child had a pool party. We have seen police officers sit next to white biker gangs who murdered people in the streets, with no coverage from the media and no cerfew from the Governor, no President calling them thugs and it being chalked up as another case of white privilege. We saw a bowl cut having, aparthaid loving, flag burning, cracker kill 9 people in a church that had historical value to the black community. More importantly its leader was a powerful strong proud Black Man who held political office. He was arrested without incident and even given a trip to Burger King on the way to jail and strangely enough the word terrorist was never used. While in Georgia a black man protests the Confederate flag and is charged with terrorism and gun possession when he was not arrested with the gun?!?!
Now we have Sandra Bland, an Illinois resident who was visiting her alma mater in hopes of gaining a job. As of now we all should know the story of how a cop busts a u-turn ,did 50 in a 25 to pull her over, because she supposedly did an improper lane change. When first approached by the officer our sister seemed to have a normal interaction but when questioned by the cop “what was the matter?” she simply answered honestly and sparked up a cigarette she then became a target for a white supremacist,out of control,control freak Klansman cop who was hell-bent on getting this uppity Negro in line.
And operating under the rules of comply or die he proceeded to violate our sisters rights which ended up in her subsequent death which I truly believe is a murder. When I think this Sandra Bland is the same age as my sister it bothers me to think that my sister could be in such a helpless position with no one around to aid her or come to her defense. Which is why I decided to write today because when I woke up this morning I noticed a post from this website where someone with actually blaming Sandra Bland. Immediately my temper flared because this Coon has violated before but now in the ultimate act of yellow belly cowardice he blames the victim for answering the question of her killer!!!!
Prominent buckdancer’s like Stephen a Smith, Charles Barkley, Jesse Lee Peterson, Don Lemon and Steve Harvey among others have made lucrative careers all shamefully pandering to the white supremacist bloodlust and victim blaming of melanated people. Just recently Stephen A Smith came on national television and tried to blame black athletes for domestic violence with out actually giving all sides of the facts, such as the number false reports filed against black athletes which have ended their careers (see Brian Banks), or the fact that there are more black athletes and then any other race so the numbers would be skewed just like there are more white murderers in America then there are Black. Most of them on the police force have exchanged their white hood for a blue suit and a badge, as reported by national news sources like CNN and The Washington Post, police precincts in Baltimore and California have been infiltrated by white supremacist and they have Clansman in high ranking positions in the police force as well as your local race soldier. Despite all this evidence he wants to point his finger at the black man despite all this evidence but he didn’t say anything about white supremacy kicking his ass off of television for a week for making a statement of fact. All it took was for goat faced Michelle Beadle to get mad an old Stevie boy was apologizing to his master.
Kind of how this Mark Ass Anthony is using the stereotype of black women having a attitude to justify what happened to Sandra Bland and taking the time out not to challenge white supremacy but to tell Us tocower down and bow down to master. As if forgiving and being passive has been helping us, the last time I checked Trayvon Martin’s mother forgave and we got Mike Brown. Jordan Davis’ mother forgave, we got Tamir Rice, Eric Garner’s family forgave we got Walter Scott,Walter Scott’s family forgave now we have Charleston, all of the families in Charleston forgave and now we have Sandra Bland. And when it’s clear from looking at the video and giving the cop the benefit of the doubt he still least was over aggressive and caused a situation instead of de escalating the situation. And wow I know that there are white supremacists who will support the police no matter what I don’t expect to see some clown ass black man writing on THYBLACKMAN.com negatively about our sisters who have been violated and murdered. Nor can I just sit around and not call that idiot out I don’t recommend you read that garbage because it will only piss you off.
Clowns like him have done damage to our community it is made us so soft and weak that when we get shot up we pray when our open enemy kills us and blame ourselves for talking back instead of telling ourselves to fight back and how to fight back. But unlike that coward I have had my run ins with the law and I’m still fighting the system so black people here are a few things to keep you safe while we’re at war with white supremacy:
1.) Travel in groups…. It may sound messed up but one thing we learned from the Jordan Davis case if he can’t kill you all he will probably go to jail.
2.) do not affiliate with white sympathizers or black Republicans/Conservatives
3.) make sure your cell phone is fully charged and powered up and ready to record whenever you are pulled over by a police officer.
4.) stay out of Texas, South Carolina, Florida, or any other state that has made the news recently for racial injustice (see Ferguson Missouri)
5.) if you have to travel check the historical racial history and background of any and all surrounding towns and towns you will pass through. (THE apple don’t fall far from the tree.)
6.) stop moving to and going through neighborhoods filled with people who hate you.Just this morning I saw a video of a man who was tazed in Denton Texas for trying to come to the defense of a woman who was being brutalized by white police officers the police report falsified the whole incident claiming that the man tried to force his way through one of the officers to aid the woman when video showed he was standing 10 feet away screaming “Stop!!!! THIS IS WRONG!”
Right after that I saw a video of a white woman who basically went ham on the cops and nothing happened to her.
I guess this clown will probably write about the black man having an attitude and having so much anger in his heart because we know white people don’t yell at the cops..(FOH)
This culture of cowardice have infested our community and made of sitting ducks and then to allow voices to cowards like this will only serve is at the My please if you have any guts whatsoever you will Wake Up!!!! And to that a****** who wrote that b******* ass piece I only got three words for you….
F*CK OUTTA HERE
In Response to; The “Black” Woman’s Mouth and Sandra Bland. (——
Staff Writer; LeVar Smith
Marque Anthony
I am not a cop and I don’t need to be one to understand that the cop was out of line and violated the rights of Sandra Bland. Based on your argument as long as you find enough people to agree with you then your point is valid. I think your article is ridiculous, inaccurate, and irrational and since this article has over 120 likes and taking into account the negative comments on your article, I would say more people agree with my view of your article. How is expressing my opinion evidence of an out of control mouth? I have been nothing but respectful, cordial, and have not used any profane language? What in your opinion, have I said so bad that you would wish the same tragedy upon me that befell Sandra Bland?
Marque Anthony you already have your mind made up hope it never happens to one of your love ones
To Marque Anthony
Please do not flatter yourself into thinking that your circus tricks got my attention because it did not. The article written in response got my attention, but that article could have been written without yours. The only people you are going to attract with your brand of “journalism” is racists, unconscious ignorant people, law enforcement and your family members. Your message and voice has an audience I just don’t fit the criteria. If your success rate is so high, then why are you so defensive? What have you been so successful in by the way? I am not sure if your biggest flaw is your arrogance, ignorance or your ego. Only a fool would assume that they can’t learn something from someone without seeing what they have to offer. I for one can recognize that while you may be misguided you could still have knowledge that could benefit our people. You need to open your mind and step out of sheltered box and try to understand another person’s view or opinion. It is much easier to say I am in denial than to look within yourself.
To Marque Anthony
I am sorry that my opinion of your article offends you but what you said is not based on facts. It is based on fear, self-hate, and the socialization and brain washing that takes place in this country. Your article is like a person writing about how what a rape victim was wearing or how she was behaving got her raped instead of the personal responsibility and accountability of the rapist. You want to relieve the guilt of the rapist or in your case the white man, more specifically the police by blaming the victim and that is cowardly ignorance. The black woman’s mouth is not a fact it is a stereotype manifested by our oppressor and perpetuated and validated by people like you. The myth of the black woman’s mouth was created to divide the black man and woman to create the idea that black women are angry or difficult. When you are black everything good about someone else is bad when it is done by you. If you are black and voice your opinion you are angry, if you ask questions you are resisting arrest, if you go to college it is because of affirmative action. You need a reality check because black people are being killed because of the fear of blackness not a lack of understanding of arbitrary laws they can change at will. You need to look in the mirror and realize what is really going on in the world. I can accept truth when I see it presented or validated but just because you believe something doesn’t make it true. Your truth is biased,skewed and based on you having a closed mind and a fragile mentality.
ATTENTION ANGRY PEOPLE IN DENIAL:
Let me show you how effective strategy can be and why you should use it in police encounters. Are you ready for your lesson for today?
My objective was to reach even the people who disagree with me – not to persuade you to think differently. It is likely most of you can’t or wont because denial and anger block the use of intellect. I knew that ahead of time. But here you are engaging me, responding to me and reading what I wrote. WHO IS THUS IN CONTROL OF THIS ENCOUNTER? Not you. Objective met.
Levar took the time to write an entire article attacking me, yet with no evidence to refute the facts, the law or anything else I cited. That means I got his attention and that was the objective. Objective met.
My objective was also to get you readers to open up as to what you believe so we can deal with it after bringing it to the surface. And you wonder if I am an effective family and relationship counselor, mediator and life coach? Yes, I am. The technique worked on you. Objective met.
Many of you criticized my approach but it was strategic as well and for every minute you spend thinking about what I said or trying to attack it, my objective to get your attention has been met. Objective met!
This was an exercise and a lesson in the effectiveness of having a strategy to control an encounter – just as I teach others to do and just as Sandra needed to know. For the last few days, I have literally ignited you, just as I expected to, and controlled the fact that you keep responding. Objective met!
I suggest you learn how to battle and thank you for unknowingly helping me meet my objective while you participate in proving my point.
AM I GOOD AT WHAT I DO? YES, I AM!!! And you did not even see it coming.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/jail-releases-more-footage-of-sandra-bland-before-her-death/ar-AAdBwHi?ocid=iehp
To Levar, Reality Check, Aila, Barnard and jDean,
What research have you done? Did you even read Texas law?
What real solutions have you offered to our people?
Where did you receive your legal or law enforcement training?
How are your insulting comments helping our people with the police?
What facts and evidence are you presenting?
What do you have that refutes what I have shown under Texas law?
Why do you think disagreeing with the law gives you the right to violate it?
Why do you think presenting the facts and evidence and law is coonery?
Why are you so much in denial about personal responsibility?
Why don’t you understand that profane language is a crime?
To Aila One More Time,
You must not have seen my comment where I explain that I interviewed 7 BBLACK FEMAL POLICE OFFICERS who also agree with my assessment. How long have you been a cop? How many stops have you made? Who taught you the law? And apparently you did not watch the 52 minute unedited dashcam video where the same trooper has just pulled over a WHITE STUDENT FOR THE SAME THING.
You sound like Sandra Bland and your mouth probably would have landed you in jail just like hers did.
Too Aila Again,
I have a very high success rate. What have you done? Thus you are in no position to teach me about approach. I got your attention didn’t I? You assume my objective has not been met because YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT MY OBJECTIVES ARE.
YOU ARE WRONG ON THAT. And if you do not get the point, that does not mean others did not. I have received dozens of emails and likes which thank me for being bold enough to tackle a topic that people like you simply ignore. I have also spoken with dozens of people who are mature enough to know that medicine sometimes tastes bad.
Finally, how many people have you counseled? How many families have you saved? How many couples have you reunited? Then you are in no position to evaluate my methods just because you don’t like them.
You would do better spending your time looking in the mirror instead of ignoring the point. I could give you a ton of research done by BLACK WOMEN about the vile and profane mouth of many black women, but you would just argue against that too. Grow up, wake up and deal with the truth
ARGUE WITH THIS:
According to the laws of Texas, when Sandra Bland failed to use her signal, she broke the law Texas Transportation Code Title 7, subChapter C, Chapter 545.104:
TRANSPORTATION CODE TITLE 7. VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC
SUBTITLE C. RULES OF THE ROAD
CHAPTER 545. OPERATION AND MOVEMENT OF VEHICLES
SIGNALING TURNS; USE OF TURN SIGNALS.
(a) An operator shall use the signal authorized by Section 545.106 to indicate an intention to turn, change lanes, or start from a parked position.
(b) An operator intending to turn a vehicle right or left shall signal continuously for not less than the last 100 feet of movement of the vehicle before the turn.
(c) An operator may not light the signals on only one side of the vehicle on a parked or disabled vehicle or use the signals as a courtesy or “do pass” signal to the operator of another vehicle approaching from the rear.
Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1995. http://www.statutes.legis.state.tx.us/Docs/TN/htm/TN.545.htm
An officer who pulls you over has the option to do nothing, give you a warning, give you a ticket or arrest you. Yes for something as minor as failure to use your signal. And being that this happens quite often in Texas, it is not likely an issue of racism.
AND THEN INSULT AND ARGUE WITH THIS:
When Sandra started using profane and obscene language, according to Texas law, she broke the law again and could be arrested for disorderly conduct under the Texas Penal Code. Or she could be charged with Simple Assault under Texas penal code. That is the law in Texas, like it or not.
TEXAS PENAL CODE
TITLE 9. OFFENSES AGAINST PUBLIC ORDER AND DECENCY
CHAPTER 42. DISORDERLY CONDUCT AND RELATED OFFENSES
Sec. 42.01. DISORDERLY CONDUCT.
(a) A person commits an offense if he intentionally or knowingly:
(1) uses abusive, indecent, profane, or vulgar language in a public place, and the language by its very utterance tends to incite an immediate breach of the peace;
AND THEN FINALLY ARGUE WWITH THIS
In Texas you cannot resist arrest, search or transportation if the officer has probable cause. She had broken the Texas state law by making an improper lane change so the Trooper used that as grounds to remove her from the car. See the Texas law below and read carefully. Like it or not.
TEX PE. CODE ANN. § 38.03 : Texas Statutes – Section 38.03: RESISTING ARREST,SEARCH, OR TRANSPORTATION
(a) A person commits an offense if he intentionally prevents or obstructs a person he knows is a peace officer or a person acting in a peace officer’s presence and at his direction from effecting an arrest, search, or transportation of the actor or another by using force against the peace officer or another.
(b) It is no defense to prosecution under this section that the arrest or search was unlawful.(c) Except as provided in Subsection (d), an offense under this section is a Class A misdemeanor.(d) An offense under this section is a felony of the third degree if the actor uses a deadly weapon to resist the arrest or search.
See more at: http://codes.lp.findlaw.com/txstatutes/PE/8/38/38.03#sthash.tIUDyv1d.dpuf
To Barnard,
I have conducted youth forums with hundreds of youth (for FREE by the way). I am a family and relationship counselor and I know ,how they think. I have worked with city and county youth programs, the Boys and Girls Club and even designed programs for the YMCA.
The honest black youth know what I say is true. Yesterday I met with 57 youth to teach them their rights – unalienable, constitutional, legal etc. I WONDER WHAT ALL MY CRITICS ON THIS SITE DO TO MAKEE A DIFFERENCE.
The people on this site who walk in denial do black people a disservice because we cannot fix problems until we admit them then tackle them. You mentioned Oprah and I know someone who works for her. They said she is hard but fair and knows how not to be profane, obscene or abusive with her mouth.
To the clueless people attacking me, you miss the whole point. VIOLATE THE LAW LIKE SANDRA DID AND YOU WILL END UP IN JAIL IN YOUR STATE. If you don’t believe me, copy the laws I cited and share them with any trained police officer you like – black or white, male or female.
WAKE UP
To Marques Anthony.
The first mistake you made if you really want to help our people is your approach. You come across as ignorant, abrasive, hostile, arrogant and cowardly. You want to talk about personal responsibility, I agree with you and advocate for people doing so. When it comes to racism in America the only people responsible for that is white people. They created the problem, perpetuate the problem, and benefit from the problem. Systemic racism is also a problem created by white people so only they have a personal responsibility in that as well. The officers needs to take personal responsibility for the fact that the only reason she was pulled over was because she was black, the only reason she was pulled out of her car was because his white privilege overrides her black life. Since you are so much smarter than the rest of us please tell me what laws Tamir Rice, Jonathan Ferrell, Trayvon Martin, Aiyana Jones violated to deserve and justify their death.
To Aila Jenkins,
Are you blind or just not too bright? The article has a lot of likes because it looked at our faults honestly and maturely – something you seem not to be able to do. I am not about denial of personal responsibility for our behaviors but you seem to be by your comments.
The article, as many people recognize, offered solutions, real solutions that are based on wisdom and that help people walk away from a police encounter without being arrested. But you don’t think that is beneficial? What planet are you from?
My article, unlike this BS article of denial, also cited the laws in Texas so people can be aware of them. My article explained what laws Sandra Bland broke. She didn’t get that and you don’t seem to either. READ.
My article was based on the facts and hard evidence. This BS article did not refute the facts, the evidence nor the laws.
My article took a hard look at the mouths of many black women and what needs to change. You do not disagree with me because I am incorrect. You disagree with me because you cannot handle the truth.
WE CAN NOT GO THROUGH LIFE BLAAMING EVERYBODY ELSE
Look in the mirror if you dare
And a lot of honest black women and men know what I say is true.
Stop walking in denial.
As a reader of ThyBlackMan I was deeply concerned by your choice to post the article The “Black” Woman’s Mouth and Sandra Bland by Marques Anthony. The article was in no shape or form informative, educational, or beneficial. This article served no purpose, but to blame the victim and black people for the sins of the white man. To hear this “writer” quote laws like the KKK quotes bible scriptures to justify the violence, injustice, and murder of our people is appalling and not what our people need or deserve. I am glad that you have real and insightful writers like LeVar Smith because without his article I was not going to continue reading if Marques Anthony represents your voice. The article written by LeVar Smith offers the knowledge, consciousness, strength, and power that we all need right now.
what does our youth have to say?…The state Senator and many others have already stated that the officer was in the wrong and violated her rights
Now its even more apparent why our YOUTH have called us failures..listen to ” Out of the mouth of babes” discussing Sandra Bland, Patricia Allen’s kids drowning, the racism in Irving Texas, blames adults, black church’s and why youths run to gangs…https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrkWizbHF5Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gr22K34tXkw what happen to our fight? Only a few remaining who truly see behind the hidden mask of what remains…..Learned a long time ago, our elders are set in their ways. Concentrate our efforts and time on developing our youths otherwise the time wasted is another life wasted.
Talk is cheap without a plan, it continues to separate us and make us angry at each other. Why not concentrate our efforts on FACTS we do agree on vs our OPINIONS that continues to divide us. Its a trap; quicksand due to our emotional many experiences. #sti740 has a PLAN and its starting with our youth. This plan can be done in any state.
We have our own media network…lets use it together!!! ITS FREE (if interested in not just talk please email me at axoncode@yahoo.com) or just continue to fight against each other based upon our own opinions. I’m sure Mark Anthony would assist in seeing a youth media movement, educating the mass as well as assisting our youth in this endeavor…right mark?
I learned the hard way to agree to disagree and move on w/o the emotions cause our hurts and pain are causing us to separate as adults, as our youth continue to watch in disbelief only to repeat the process. We may need Steve, we may need Mark and the many others to assist our youth but not if we burn the bridge before crossing it not walking through their shoes or seeing their story. I am reminded that we all are different with different experiences and those experiences are why we think the way we do. So who am I to judge?
They said the same thing about Oprah Winfrey when she first started.. Christians and black community called her every name in the book but we did’t know until she reach the top how difficult the road travel and how much she had to sacrifice for the greater good in order to help more of our people.
All I am saying, is lets just concentrate on the youths cause we haven’t walked in each other shoes, lets sit and talk around coffee or a bi-weekly conference call discussing the plan and once we show this plan working, then we invite others that we call uncle toms. There is enough smart adults remaining to do this despite our disagreements. Our time is running out!!!
My wish is for all the writers and those working for change to one day meet and talk about what sparked this movement ( Sandra Bland ) and we all laugh with the youths now adults thanking us for showing them how as adults, as long as we concentrate on the PLAN, it doesn’t matter rather we agree on personal matters with the MAN.
My email is awaiting those who want to discuss the PLAN!!! time to be the example!! Who Knows, Maybe this is Gods way to bring those in disagreement together to be the foundation for CHANGE across AMERICA. So let me thank the writer and Mark for your views. Now, lets discuss remedies and hold each other accountable and call out those who aren’t. Let this be the way we dismiss ….
ARGUE WITH THIS:
According to the laws of Texas, when Sandra Bland failed to use her signal, she broke the law Texas Transportation Code Title 7, subChapter C, Chapter 545.104:
TRANSPORTATION CODE TITLE 7. VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC
SUBTITLE C. RULES OF THE ROAD
CHAPTER 545. OPERATION AND MOVEMENT OF VEHICLES
SIGNALING TURNS; USE OF TURN SIGNALS.
(a) An operator shall use the signal authorized by Section 545.106 to indicate an intention to turn, change lanes, or start from a parked position.
(b) An operator intending to turn a vehicle right or left shall signal continuously for not less than the last 100 feet of movement of the vehicle before the turn.
(c) An operator may not light the signals on only one side of the vehicle on a parked or disabled vehicle or use the signals as a courtesy or “do pass” signal to the operator of another vehicle approaching from the rear.
Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1995. http://www.statutes.legis.state.tx.us/Docs/TN/htm/TN.545.htm
An officer who pulls you over has the option to do nothing, give you a warning, give you a ticket or arrest you. Yes for something as minor as failure to use your signal. And being that this happens quite often in Texas, it is not likely an issue of racism.
AND THEN INSULT AND ARGUE WITH THIS:
When Sandra started using profane and obscene language, according to Texas law, she broke the law again and could be arrested for disorderly conduct under the Texas Penal Code. Or she could be charged with Simple Assault under Texas penal code. That is the law in Texas, like it or not.
TEXAS PENAL CODE
TITLE 9. OFFENSES AGAINST PUBLIC ORDER AND DECENCY
CHAPTER 42. DISORDERLY CONDUCT AND RELATED OFFENSES
Sec. 42.01. DISORDERLY CONDUCT.
(a) A person commits an offense if he intentionally or knowingly:
(1) uses abusive, indecent, profane, or vulgar language in a public place, and the language by its very utterance tends to incite an immediate breach of the peace;
AND THEN FINALLY ARGUE WWITH THIS
In Texas you cannot resist arrest, search or transportation if the officer has probable cause. She had broken the Texas state law by making an improper lane change so the Trooper used that as grounds to remove her from the car. See the Texas law below and read carefully. Like it or not.
TEX PE. CODE ANN. § 38.03 : Texas Statutes – Section 38.03: RESISTING ARREST,SEARCH, OR TRANSPORTATION
(a) A person commits an offense if he intentionally prevents or obstructs a person he knows is a peace officer or a person acting in a peace officer’s presence and at his direction from effecting an arrest, search, or transportation of the actor or another by using force against the peace officer or another.
(b) It is no defense to prosecution under this section that the arrest or search was unlawful.(c) Except as provided in Subsection (d), an offense under this section is a Class A misdemeanor.(d) An offense under this section is a felony of the third degree if the actor uses a deadly weapon to resist the arrest or search.
See more at: http://codes.lp.findlaw.com/txstatutes/PE/8/38/38.03#sthash.tIUDyv1d.dpuf
Many of you want to fight but your anger is misdirected and you don’t want to hear the whole truth. Instead you want to find someone to blame and to shoot your anger towards. You want to fight the power but you only know how to fight with ignorance. And if you do, you will lose and end up in jail unnecessarily.
I have marched, protested, taught classes, written about and challenged unfair laws, racism and discrimination but I can face the whole truth. You guys do black people the biggest disservice because until we face our issues as a race, we will never fix them. YOUR DENIAL OF THESE FACTS ONLY HURTS THE AFRICAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY.
You want to ignore the law because you don’t like it. You want to violate the law if you feel like it. And you want to blame others instead of maturely taking personal responsibility for your own actions. Then, instead of doing the research, looking at the evidence and finding out the facts, you would rather stay in the dark, thinking you know what the Hell you are talking about. But you don’t.So grow up.
I say all black people who praise this joke of an article which has no evidence, no real solutions and no facts to dispute the Texas law are clueless, in denial and just wanting to blame somebody instead of being man or woman enough to accept personal responsibility for your actions.
Your anger is misdirected. You, like Sandra Bland, seem to want to fight for who you are but you don’t know how to do it in a way that gets results. So you fight by showing your ignorance. And in doing so, you place right into the hands of the racists.
I have always marched, protested and taught our people how to fight the power without ending up in jail unnecessarily. If you love and care about black people, you would do the same instead of blaming those of us who are mature enough to look at all sides.
Let’s talk maturity for a minute. If she simply put out the cigarette (even if he should not have asked her to) then signed the freakin WARNING, she would not have gone to jail. She made it bad for herself and this time, militant behavior with no wisdom blew up in her face.
You dare to call the presentation and objective analysis of the facts coonery? Did you come up with that all by yourself? Apparently you did not see, did not understand or chose to ignore the comments below that I made in my article.
“In my professional opinion, the jail should be held responsible.
And get this, what about the current Sheriff Royce Glen Smith was allegedly fired as Hempstead Chief of Police in 2007 after several accusations of RACISM.
Based on evidence THUS FAR, I can conclude that Sandra Bland went over the edge after the traffic incident. That coupled with the testimony of her cell mate, the increased thoughts of suicide as a result of Kepra medication and the fact that the jail fails to watch inmates as they should – all led to Sandra taking her own life. And remember, according to the toxicology report, she also had weed in her system. Marijuana (especially street weed laced and not pure) can push depression or the withdrawal from not having it can do the same, if not worse.
But let’s see what other evidence comes out.
I do believe something illegal happened in that jail.
SANDRA BLAND fell right into the trap that white racists hope our people will fall into and she lost. We have to be smarter than that people.
We have to choose our battles wisely and fight in ways we are likely to win. I pray for her family and I pray our people know there is a better way that what she did.
DO NOT PUT YOURSELF IN THE LION’S MOUTH AND EXPECT TO WIN!”
The statements above also look at the faults of the jail and say they should be held responsible for Sandra’s death. But you apparently want to speak about this as if all I did was take up for them. WRONG AGAIN.
The only cowards Levar and others are those of you like Levar who dodge the issue, who refuse to take personally responsibility for their actions and who think they should follow the law only when they feel like it. Then the biggest act of cowardice is to attack me instead of providing real solutions to our people, telling them how to use maturity and wisdom or admitting the truth. YOU ARE THE COWARDS who blame everybody else but yourself.
AND THEN FINALLY ARGUE WWITH THIS
In Texas you cannot resist arrest, search or transportation if the officer has probable cause. She had broken the Texas state law by making an improper lane change so the Trooper used that as grounds to remove her from the car. See the Texas law below and read carefully. Like it or not.
TEX PE. CODE ANN. § 38.03 : Texas Statutes – Section 38.03: RESISTING ARREST,SEARCH, OR TRANSPORTATION
(a) A person commits an offense if he intentionally prevents or obstructs a person he knows is a peace officer or a person acting in a peace officer’s presence and at his direction from effecting an arrest, search, or transportation of the actor or another by using force against the peace officer or another.(
b) It is no defense to prosecution under this section that the arrest or search was unlawful.(c) Except as provided in Subsection (d), an offense under this section is a Class A misdemeanor.(d) An offense under this section is a felony of the third degree if the actor uses a deadly weapon to resist the arrest or search. –
See more at: http://codes.lp.findlaw.com/txstatutes/PE/8/38/38.03#sthash.tIUDyv1d.dpuf
AND THEN ARGUE WITH THIS:
When Sandra started using profane and obscene language, according to Texas law, she broke the law again and could be arrested for disorderly conduct under the Texas Penal Code. Or she could be charged with Simple Assault under Texas penal code. That is the law in Texas, like it or not.
TEXAS PENAL CODE
TITLE 9. OFFENSES AGAINST PUBLIC ORDER AND DECENCY
CHAPTER 42. DISORDERLY CONDUCT AND RELATED OFFENSES
Sec. 42.01. DISORDERLY CONDUCT. (a) A person commits an offense if he intentionally or knowingly:
(1) uses abusive, indecent, profane, or vulgar language in a public place, and the language by its very utterance tends to incite an immediate breach of the peace;
ARGUE WITH THIS:
According to the laws of Texas, when Sandra Bland failed to use her signal, she broke the law Texas Transportation Code Title 7, subChapter C, Chapter 545.104:
TRANSPORTATION CODE
TITLE 7. VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC
SUBTITLE C. RULES OF THE ROAD
CHAPTER 545. OPERATION AND MOVEMENT OF VEHICLES
SIGNALING TURNS; USE OF TURN SIGNALS. (a) An operator shall use the signal authorized by Section 545.106 to indicate an intention to turn, change lanes, or start from a parked position.
(b) An operator intending to turn a vehicle right or left shall signal continuously for not less than the last 100 feet of movement of the vehicle before the turn.
(c) An operator may not light the signals on only one side of the vehicle on a parked or disabled vehicle or use the signals as a courtesy or “do pass” signal to the operator of another vehicle approaching from the rear.
Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1995. http://www.statutes.legis.state.tx.us/Docs/TN/htm/TN.545.htm
An officer who pulls you over has the option to do nothing, give you a warning, give you a ticket or arrest you. Yes for something as minor as failure to use your signal. And being that this happens quite often in Texas, it is not likely an issue of racism.
NICE TRICK LOST GUYS AND WOMEN:
The issue is not a bout me. The issue is about the facts, the law and the evidence. Sandra Bland broke the law 3 times during the traffic stop. Because many of you want to ignore that or do not know the law, you are only saying what you think. But THE FACT IS THAT SHE BROKE THE LAW. For those of you who are slow, let me show you Texas law again.
And if you are foolish enough to support the writings of Levar who wrote this article to defame me, you miss the point. He offered dumb solutions like not traveling to some states. Are you kidding me? Really? He said stay out off Texas, South Carolina and Florida. Is he insane? What about those black people who live, work and vacation there all the time but don’t have run ins with the cops? Levar has no credibility with anybody of any level of intelligence.
Erica,
If you read my article instead of this BS hate article with no solutions, you will see that I gave real solutions. I never bow down to any person, including a white cop, a black cop or a judge. Nor do I say anyone else should. You assumed that and acted like I said do that. Point to one single comment that I made on that. What I said was that we should be wise and smart, doing only those things that will not put our safety at risk or at any further risk.
For all of the critics of me, my record in helping the black community stands strong for itself. What have you done?
To Tequila and Erica,
The color of my skin does not change the law. READ the law in Texas. Did I create that law? No. Both of you ZOMBIES acct like I did. And your mouths have made my point for me.
Female police officers, including BLACK ones like the one who searched Sandra Blands car and who can be seen with Sandra Bland in the jail agree with my assessment. WHERE DID EITHER OF YOU GET YOUR TRAINING?
That’s what I thought. Speaking out of ignorance and wanting to ignore the law. If you don’t like the laws, go run for office. Until then, THE LAW IS THE LAW – LIKE IT OR NOT.
Get out of denial land.
To Melinda,
What sounds crazy is you denying the facts, the evidence and the law in Texas. There is nothing crazy about me quoting the law. Did I say I like it? No. Did I say it was fair or just? No. Wow we can cure ignorance but we can not fix stupidity.
Go to Texas with that funky attitude, get pulled over and you will end up in jail just like she did.
Marque Anthony first off you sound crazy for sitting here trying to justify this bullshit and making her look like the bad person when she’s the victims first off she does have rights you are a coon because that’s what coons do is try to justify this bullshit white people do to black people it’s coons like you that make me sick when he asked her what was wrong and she answered honestly he didn’t like what she said so now he wanted to show her he was in charge by trying to make her put her cigarette out and now you show me Where that was against the law to smoke a cigarette in your car and everything your trying to show us as facts is bull and we all know it from the paper work to this new video of her is bull first off she’s very outspoken on her page about her life and trying to help people and do you really think that she would share that information with strangers and not with her family gtfoh with that maybe you should go check out her page and see how she was as a person and maybe you would understand where we all are coming from this shit is happening to much
Marque Anthony do you not realize the color of your skin? Do you actually think you’ll get special treatment cause you know THEIR laws, kiss their backsides, and remain silent? NOT!! They’ll hang, shoot, kill you’re dumb self just as quick as the rest of our INNOCENT sistas and brothas!
Marque Anthony, What’s wrong with you? Oh I get it, you’re a police, or are you in an interracial relationship? Haven’t you had enough… I am tired of bowing down to White people. If they can exercise their rights then so can we!
My question, especially to Marque Anthony,…
Why was Sandra Bland being arrested for anyways? For resisting arrest??
But again, what was she being arrested for anyways?
For All The Clueless People In Denial Of The Law
and those few who would rather blame the white man or the police instead of accepting personal responsibility for your actions. And to those who think I am one-sided, read this but know that Sandra Bland broke 3 laws in Texas on that day.
What mistakes or poor decisions did the State Trooper make?
1. He could have just changed thee warning to a ticket, given it to her and went on his way.
2. He could have waited for another officer to arrive (maybe a female officer) then requested she assist him in removing Sandra Bland.
But by law in Texas, he did not have to do either of these things.
Every white cop is not racist and sometimes what we do as citizens determines the outcome or makes it harder on ourselves unnecessarily.
And wow Levar, a whole 5 or 6 people like your BS article of denial
To Levar,
You are really that clueless? Wow. I have done more to strengthen our community than you ever have, I guarantee it. How many crime prevention classes have you taught? How many police officer have you reported? How many searches for missing black kids have you taken part in? How many articles and Ebooks on police brutality have you written? How many youth groups have you spoken to about knowing their constitutional, unalienable, civil and legal rights?
I have done all of the above plus over a hundred mediations to keep the decisions in the black families instead of in the courts. How many black families have you saved or men and women have you counseled? I have counseled THOUUSANDS.
So when you say that bs about me being weak or weakening a community, you have no idea what you are talking about. NONE. You are a noisemaker with no facts, no evidence, no understanding of the law and no real solutions.
ANY SMART READER WILL SEE THAT AND KNOW YOU ARE JUST AN ANGER-MONGER who wants to blame someone else instead of looking at personal responsibility.
In Texas you cannot resist arrest, search or transportation. She had broken the Texas state law by making an improper lane change so the Trooper used that as grounds to remove her from the car. See the Texas law below and read carefully. Like it or not.
TEX PE. CODE ANN. § 38.03 : Texas Statutes – Section 38.03: RESISTING ARREST, SEARCH, OR TRANSPORTATION Note: underlined sections are by me
(a) A person commits an offense if he intentionally prevents or obstructs a person he knows is a peace officer or a person acting in a peace officer’s presence and at his direction from effecting an arrest, search, or transportation of the actor or another by using force against the peace officer or another.(
b) It is no defense to prosecution under this section that the arrest or search was unlawful.
(c) Except as provided in Subsection (d), an offense under this section is a Class A misdemeanor.(d) An offense under this section is a felony of the third degree if the actor uses a deadly weapon to resist the arrest or search. –
See more at: http://codes.lp.findlaw.com/txstatutes/PE/8/38/38.03#sthash.tIUDyv1d.dpuf
When Sandra started using profane and obscene language, according to Texas law, she broke the law again and could be arrested for disorderly conduct under the Texas Penal Code. Or she could be charged with Simple Assault under Texas penal code. That is the law in Texas, like it or not.
TEXAS PENAL CODE
TITLE 9. OFFENSES AGAINST PUBLIC ORDER AND DECENCY
CHAPTER 42. DISORDERLY CONDUCT AND RELATED OFFENSES
Sec. 42.01. DISORDERLY CONDUCT. (a) A person commits an offense if he intentionally or knowingly:
(1) uses abusive, indecent, profane, or vulgar language in a public place, and the language by its very utterance tends to incite an immediate breach of the peace;
According to the laws of Texas, when Sandra Bland failed to use her signal, she broke the law Texas Transportation Code Title 7, subChapter C, Chapter 545.104:
TRANSPORTATION CODE
TITLE 7. VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC
SUBTITLE C. RULES OF THE ROAD
CHAPTER 545. OPERATION AND MOVEMENT OF VEHICLES
SIGNALING TURNS; USE OF TURN SIGNALS. (a) An operator shall use the signal authorized by Section 545.106 to indicate an intention to turn, change lanes, or start from a parked position.
(b) An operator intending to turn a vehicle right or left shall signal continuously for not less than the last 100 feet of movement of the vehicle before the turn.
(c) An operator may not light the signals on only one side of the vehicle on a parked or disabled vehicle or use the signals as a courtesy or “do pass” signal to the operator of another vehicle approaching from the rear.
Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1995. http://www.statutes.legis.state.tx.us/Docs/TN/htm/TN.545.htm
An officer who pulls you over has the option to do nothing, give you a warning, give you a ticket or arrest you. Yes for something as minor as failure to use your signal. And being that this happens quite often in Texas, it is not likely an issue of racism.
To Levar, Reality Check and jDean,
What research have you done?
What real solutions have you offered to our people?
Where did you receive your legal or law enforcement training?
How are your insulting comments helping our people with the police?
What facts and evidence are you presenting?
What do you have that refutes what I have shown under Texas law?
Why do you think disagreeing with the law gives you the right to violate it?
Why do you think presenting the facts and evidence and law is coonery?
Why are you so much in denial about personal responsibility?
Why don’t you understand that profane language is a crime?
To jDean,
Nobody as ignorant of the law as you can be my brother. It is not being a coon to state all of thee facts, the evidence and the reality of it all. You are more like Brother Denial. You and your cronies need to learn that you cannot just disobey the law because you feel like it was not right. She learned that the hard way. And if you think you and lost Levar are so right, then explain away what Texas law says.
If you and Levar think you are so right, then get pulled over, argue with a cop, fail to do what you are asked to do and see where you end up.
FACTS ARE NOT COONERY – YOU JUST ARE NOT WISE ENOUGH TO ACCEPT THEM
To Reality Check,
You are just as clueless as Levar Smith who wrote this article. And new VIDEO evidence of Sandra Bland alive in jail has been released. It shows her being attended to by a BLACK FEMALE OFFICER, the same officer who saw her assault the Texas State Trooper. The same black female officer who searched her car. Your theories are falling apart and Levar does not know what he is talking about.
STOP BEING IN DENIAL
BRAVO brother Smith!!
I can say that this website has gone to the pigs since you’ve stopped regularly contributing here. They have given that ass clown you named open access to the site and the content has deteriorated. This person is NOT a friend to blacks, and is clearly working against us. Thyblackman.com had better see this plant for what it is cuz they are *this close* to losing my readership- seriously.
I agree 100% with everything you said. Calling for black people to live on our knees will not improve our situations one bit. If anything, it begats MORE brutality because we are seen as easy targets who REFUSE to fight back. That diatribe about what we should and shouldn’t do is disingenuous. Just call it what it is- black cowardice hiding behind “the law”
If it were up to soft azz negroes like this, we’d all still be on the plantation taking massas d*ck because they’d want us to “respect the law” GTFOH
btw- you see how fast things deteriorate when REAL black men step aside and let the cowards run amok.
Brother-Coon you have your mind made up no matter what somebody says. You keep bringing up these vague laws that have nothing to do with the facts. So you win. You win the Coon of the Year Award. Nobody is laughing at this response. Where are your supporters? Congrats You are an Uncle Tom. Admit it.
Call the Texas law coonery and try to use that as a defense in court. I DID NOT MAKE THOSE LAWS. Wake up. You have proven nothing but that you miss the entire point of what we can learn from this.
You also have not disproven anything I showed as FACT so your article has no weight but to spew anger and pseudo-solutions
TEXAS PENAL CODE
TITLE 9. OFFENSES AGAINST PUBLIC ORDER AND DECENCY
CHAPTER 42. DISORDERLY CONDUCT AND RELATED OFFENSES
Sec. 42.01. DISORDERLY CONDUCT. (a) A person commits an offense if he intentionally or knowingly:
(1) uses abusive, indecent, profane, or vulgar language in a public place, and the language by its very utterance tends to incite an immediate breach of the peace;
In Texas you cannot resist arrest, search or transportation if the officer has probable cause. She had broken the Texas state law by making an improper lane change so the Trooper used that as grounds to remove her from the car. See the Texas law below and read carefully. Like it or not.
TEX PE. CODE ANN. § 38.03 : Texas Statutes – Section 38.03: RESISTING ARREST,SEARCH, OR TRANSPORTATION Note: underlined sections are by me
(a) A person commits an offense if he intentionally prevents or obstructs a person he knows is a peace officer or a person acting in a peace officer’s presence and at his direction from effecting an arrest, search, or transportation of the actor or another by using force against the peace officer or another.(b) It is no defense to prosecution under this section that the arrest or search was unlawful.(c) Except as provided in Subsection (d), an offense under this section is a Class A misdemeanor.(d) An offense under this section is a felony of the third degree if the actor uses a deadly weapon to resist the arrest or search. – See more at: http://codes.lp.findlaw.com/txstatutes/PE/8/38/38.03#sthash.tIUDyv1d.dpuf
According to the laws of Texas, when Sandra Bland failed to use her signal, she broke the law Texas Transportation Code Title 7, subChapter C, Chapter 545.104:
TRANSPORTATION CODE
TITLE 7. VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC
SUBTITLE C. RULES OF THE ROAD
CHAPTER 545. OPERATION AND MOVEMENT OF VEHICLES
SIGNALING TURNS; USE OF TURN SIGNALS. (a) An operator shall use the signal authorized by Section 545.106 to indicate an intention to turn, change lanes, or start from a parked position.
(b) An operator intending to turn a vehicle right or left shall signal continuously for not less than the last 100 feet of movement of the vehicle before the turn.
(c) An operator may not light the signals on only one side of the vehicle on a parked or disabled vehicle or use the signals as a courtesy or “do pass” signal to the operator of another vehicle approaching from the rear.
Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1995. http://www.statutes.legis.state.tx.us/Docs/TN/htm/TN.545.htm
An officer who pulls you over has the option to do nothing, give you a warning, give you a ticket or arrest you. Yes for something as minor as failure to use your signal. And being that this happens quite often in Texas, it is not likely an issue of racism.
You dare to call the presentation and objective analysis of the facts coonery? Did you come up with that all by yourself? Apparently you did not see, did not understand or chose to ignore the comments below that I made in my article.
“In my professional opinion, the jail should be held responsible.
And get this, what about the current Sheriff Royce Glen Smith was allegedly fired as Hempstead Chief of Police in 2007 after several accusations of RACISM.
Based on evidence THUS FAR, I can conclude that Sandra Bland went over the edge after the traffic incident. That coupled with the testimony of her cell mate, the increased thoughts of suicide as a result of Kepra medication and the fact that the jail fails to watch inmates as they should – all led to Sandra taking her own life. And remember, according to the toxicology report, she also had weed in her system. Marijuana (especially street weed laced and not pure) can push depression or the withdrawal from not having it can do the same, if not worse.
But let’s see what other evidence comes out.
I do believe something illegal happened in that jail.
SANDRA BLAND fell right into the trap that white racists hope our people will fall into and she lost. We have to be smarter than that people.
We have to choose our battles wisely and fight in ways we are likely to win. I pray for her family and I pray our people know there is a better way that what she did.
DO NOT PUT YOURSELF IN THE LION’S MOUTH AND EXPECT TO WIN!”
The statements above also look at the faults of the jail and say they should be held responsible for Sandra’s death. But you apparently want to speak about this as if all I did was take up for them. WRONG AGAIN.
REAL FACTS, LIKE THEM OR NOT
And Facts are not coonery
1. Sandra Bland’s intake form showed she said she had been SUICIDAL THIS YEAR using pills because of the lose of a child (I have that form info).
2. Sandra Bland allegedly said in the jail she felt depressed. Her cell mate (Alexandria Pyle) also attested to that and that she hear Sandra crying.
3. Sandra Bland was reportedly on a drug called Kepra. See link below.
http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/full-toxicology-report-sandra-blands-death
Also, according to the FDA, Kepra “may increase thee risk of suicidal thoughts and behavior”.
4. In a phone call to family, Sandra claimed her shoulder may have been broken so many have said she could not have hung herself. But I found that she signed the jail forms legibly.
5. In 2012 the same jail brought in an inmate (white male) for the same charge Sandra Bland received. He mysteriously hung himself with a bed sheet. The jail was sighted for not checking on inmates visually as they should have. It appears they messed up again in Sandra’s case.
6. Based on the forms and jail documents as well as the warning by the FDA, Sandra should have been placed in suicide watch and watched closely. It appears the jail screwed up. The FDA warning specifically states “Be alert for the emergence or worsening of symptoms of depression.
7. Jail forms state Sandra Bland said she had Epilepsy. She can also be heard saying this in the traffic stop video.
8. The autopsy did not find any defensive injuries. But it did find lacerations from the handcuffs AND several cuts on Sandra’s arms which were not recent and already healing or healed. Hmmmm.
9. It has been reported that months earlier Sandra Bland said on her Facebook page that she was depressed and suffered from PTSD. This concurs with what she appears to have told the jail in July 2015. Note that her jail forms show she stated that she had tried to commit suicide with pills ALSO IN 2015.
10. An African American female police officer said on the dashcam video that she saw Sandra Bland assault the Texas State Trooper. It was this female officer who searched Bland’s vehicle.
11. The Texas Trooper made a similar stop before he stopped Sandra. He essentially took the same approach. In both cases, he seemed to be of sound mind and in both cases he was going to issue just a warning. But the other person he stopped did not respond the way Sandra did at all.
Are your solutions really to stay out of certain states? Really? What about the people who have to go through there like truck drivers and coach bus drivers? That is no solution. Why didn’t you tell people DON’T BREAK THE LAW? Why didn’t you tell people to comply with a legal or lawful order as many of these states say you must do?
You say do not connect with white sympathizers and black conservatives or republicans as a solution? Really? So blacks who have friends or family with balanced thinking who see both sides should shun them? Is that your solution? Won’t happen.
Do your homework. Martin Luther King Jr was a Republican. The democrats in the south had the slaves. Frederick Douglass was a Republican. But I guess we should not have listened to them either, according to you. You are wrong yet again.
Your problem Author of this article is that you just want to ignore the law. That means you are an anarchist, not an activist. People are already laughing at your article and your solutions. You feed the flames of ignorance by telling black people to go on back to the barn – or at least to avoid certain states and territories in this country. That is sad, unrealistic and just plain bad advice.
If you don’t like the laws, run for office, contact your representative, rally a group or seek to have them changed. But with your separatist attitude, it will catch up with you and cause others to go astray.
You should not give advice to others if you cannot or will not see ALL sides. You are going to get people in trouble who follow your advice.
PEOPLE READING THIS ARTICLE, DO NOT LISTEN TO THIS WRITER’S SOLUTIONS
Are you really that ignorant of Texas law and so much in denial of Sandra Blands personal accountability that you would write an article like this with no real facts?
Apparently you cannot read and comprehend because you say I stereotype black women even though I say the mouth does not apply to all black women. You want to ignore the facts and shun any accountability. Sandra Bland’s mouth got her in trouble and we all know it. She didn’t know her rights, though she said she did.
Look at Texas law. Facts and hard evidence are NOT coonery. Where are your solutions to getting stopped by the police? Where is your experience?
You are a small person to try tackling me when the law in Texas still stands. This article has done nothing but prove you are in denial and that you do not understand the law.