Everyday I wake up, rub the sleep out of my eyes and read the news I am confronted with more racist and vile shit from whites directed to Blacks. If it's not the ignorant right wing tea partiers denigrating the President, it's some frat having the temerity of celebrating MLK day with a "Black" party and then having the stupidity to document it with pics on social media outlets.
If it's not one thing, it's always something else. It's open season for Black people in this country it seems. Either it's happening more or I'm just hyper sensitive to it, whatever the case is, it's simply not safe to be a Black man today no matter what age you may be.
Case in point, a 62 year old West Virginia man shot and killed a 61 year old Black man and his 60 year old brother because, and this cracks me up (not to mention pisses me off), he thought they were breaking into a shed he thought he still owned. Now the men who were killed were again 61 and 60, they were fathers and grandfathers, husbands, friends, and brothers. The men, 60 yr old Garrick Hopkins just purchased and was inspecting a building with his brother, 61 yr old Carl Hopkins Jr. They were checking it out not sometime during the evening, in the shadows, no. These men were inspecting the new purchase at 2 pm on a Saturday afternoon.
I don't know about other 60+ yr old Black men out there but the ones I know can't break into a damn thing without some assistance by someone far younger than them. Yet 62 year old Rodney Bruce Black (funny last name here) thought that was exactly what these golden aged men were doing, breaking in. Read the article here...
Shooting in West Virginia.
Now I can't help but think if Garrick and Carl were white, Rodney would have approached wondering if they needed any help and if he could be of assistance. Had they been white, more than likely they brothers would be alive and well today.
May they rest in peace!
You are in no way hyper-sensitive. The facts are the facts. Innocent Black Men are being slaughtered for simply going about their day. How many times must this happen? How many innocent victims must there be? How long does this have to go on before we stand up in this country and end this madness?!? ~shaking my head~ This one truly left me stunned and very angry. Two brothers? Old harmless men? In the middle of the day? On their own property? With nothing of fucking value in the shed??? I can not find words for my rage and disgust. My only hope is that maybe...just maybe...some small difference will come to change this senselessness destruction.
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