September 11, 2010

• PUBLIC EXECUTIONS BY POLICE - REMEMBER TYISHA MILLER AND COUNTLESS OTHER CORPSES...

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  (This column is dedicated to all of my friends who think it is so funny that I get nervous whenever a police car is near. They know I have never smoked anything and never abused any drugs. They know that I never let anyone that I do not know ride in my car, I rarely drink, and I never drink and drive. ...What I know is that my being a model citizen will never insure me from becoming a black corpse…)

   

   

  I am disgusted by the droves of people killing other people everywhere, everyday. I can accept that everyday people are murderers. But, I will never accept that officers of the law are being allowed to act as state sanctioned murderers.

   

  Increasingly, officers of the law are lawless. Though they claim to be hired to protect and serve, they are clearly being paid to torture and slay. Far too many police officers are fascist gangsters. They are bluer and bigger than The Crips. Far too many police officers are public executioners with attitudes. Unlike gang bangers who lurk under the cover of night to commit drive-bys, killer cops flaunt the luxury of daylight drive-bys before audiences.

  Countless innocent, law abiding citizens have been gunned down by police officers. Most of these corpses are black and poor. None of them have been avenged.

  When everyday murderers are prosecuted, they are usually imprisoned for life. When murderers who happen to be cops are exposed, they are rarely ever prosecuted. In fact, they are usually rewarded with paid vacations, strategically granted during bogus investigations.

  Nationwide, the evidence of this evil is documented daily. The latest corpse to win a national audience is that of a 19 year old sister named Tyisha Miller. Recently, in Riverside, California, while reclined in a locked, parked car, killer cops ambushed Miller. They shot her 27 times. Four bullets burst her skull, one shattered her chest, and the others sprayed her entire corpse. Are you wondering what great crime she committed to warrant such an execution? This is it: She had a flat tire and awaited road service from police while Black!!!

  The executioners are lying as you read this. They have changed their original lies many times. There has been no valid explanation for this senseless murder. There has been no revenge by street soldiers with rebel missions. Who will avenge the spirits of the countless Tyisha Millers of America? Who will kill these killers in uniforms? Who will protect the prey from the predators?

  From the legendary COINTELPRO slaughters of Black Panthers to the frequently fatal beatings of black motorists, killer cops are rabidly engaged in a one-sided war against African-Americans. In a superior book titled Two Nations: Black & White, Separate, Hostile, & Unequal, author Andrew Hacker examines just how “Officer Friendly” (in white areas) morphs into Captain Deadly (in black areas):

  “Black Americans have a three times greater chance than whites of dying from a policeman’s bullet...By no means is every black person slain by the police a criminal...Quite enough incidents have made the news to suggest that blacks are more likely than whites to be killed in error. Indeed, in many cases no weapon was found on the subject’s body...Most Blacks can recite a litany of names to be memorialized as victims of official white force. Here are just a few from the New York City area: Arthur Miller, Marian Johnson, Elizabeth Mangum, Peter Funches, Jay Parker, Michael Stewart, Eleanor Bumpurs, Nicholas Bartlett, Yvonne Smallwood, Stephen Kelly, Kevin Thorpe, Phillip Parnell. White New Yorkers would be hard pressed to cite even a single police victim of their own race...And, even if the police do not draw their guns, most Black Americans can recall encounters where they were treated with discourtesy, hostility, or worse...At issue is a proclivity of police personnel to judge individuals first by their color...” 

  Everyday murders are committed successfully. No one is ever caught or seen. Everyday I pray that millions of Black murderers will learn to kill their real enemies as quickly and quietly as they do their spouses, lovers, neighbors, associates, gays, and kin. The day that prayer is answered is the very same day that the Revolution will be reality.

  Until that day, I await the payment of karmic debts which killer cops continue to rapidly incur, for the slaughters of persons like Tyisha Miller. It is a debt they MUST pay to the universe. It is one they WILL pay across oceans of time...

   

  Tyisha Miller: Rest in peace my sista…We are still being slain. We will remember you eternally…

   

   

  “Poem about Police Violence”

  by June Jordan

   

  Tell me something 
  what you think would happen if 
  everytime they kill a black boy 
  then we kill a cop 
  everytime they kill a black man 
  then we kill a cop

   

  you think the accident rate would lower subsequently? 
  sometimes the feeling like amaze me baby 
  comes back to my mouth and I am quiet 
  like Olympian pools from the running 
  mountainous snows under the sun

   

  sometimes thinking about the 12th House of the Cosmos 
  or the way your ear ensnares the tip 
  of my tongue or signs that I have never seen 
  like DANGER WOMEN WORKING

   

  I lose consciousness of ugly bestial rapid 
  and repetitive affront as when they tell me 
  18 cops in order to subdue one man 
  18 strangled him to death in the ensuing scuffle 
  (don't you idolize the diction of the powerful: subdue 
  and scuffle my oh my) and that the murder 
  that the killing of Arthur Miller on a Brooklyn 
  street was just a "justifiable accident" again 
  (Again)

   

  People been having accidents all over the globe 
  so long like that I reckon that the only 
  suitable insurance is a gun 
  I'm saying war is not to understand or rerun 
  war is to be fought and won

   

  sometimes the feeling like amaze me baby 
  blots it out/the bestial but 
  not too often tell me something 
  what you think would happen if 
  everytime they kill a black boy 
  then we kill a cop 
  everytime they kill a black man 
  then we kill a cop

   

  you think the accident rate would lower subsequently

   

   

   

  

   

    
  

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