PEACEFUL PROTEST PLANNED TUESDAY EVENING IN BRENHAM
A Facebook group organizing peaceful gatherings in the area to protest the killing of George Floyd has planned an event this (Tuesday) evening in Brenham.
The group, called “Friends Against Racism”, has scheduled a peaceful protest from 6 to 8 p.m. on North Park Street, between Henderson and Fireman’s Parks.
The group hosted a gathering of about 30 people Sunday evening in front of the Washington County Courthouse, as well as a larger protest consisting of roughly 100 participants today at Levine Park in Sealy.
After tonight’s protest, the group is planning another gathering Saturday from 9 to 11 a.m. in front of the Austin County Courthouse in Bellville.
Yes, all lives do matter, but there is a big breakdown in the justice system. There is a great lack of good and just police work. An innocent person can be accused of a crime just from a person saying another person’s name. Then they are questioned or worse arrested and charged before any detective work is even done. A person can agree and DO everything possible to prove their innocence and it doesn’t even matter. It’s usable or useful when it benefits the State’s case, but when it points the other way, then it doesn’t mean anything. Instead of being honest and saying the ball was dropped somewhere during the course of the investigation, the state will take the case and run with it. Example:Anthony Graves. There is no justice in our justice system.
I completely disagree with the last sentence, but understand and agree with your general point.
There need to be two or more tracks of courts. If you are seen shooting someone and they catch you right there, you should be dead in a week. If someone sketchy says they saw you shoot them, much more investigation needs to happen and the prosecutor needs to ask for what they think you deserve, not the most they think they can get.
In 2017, a total of 987 people were killed by the police in the US. Approximately 1/4th of those were black. The majority of the black people killed by police were killed by black police. In any given year, 90 to 95% of those killed by police were an active threat to the police or civilians when they were killed. The odds of anyone of any color being killed by the police in the US while not in the act of committing a violent crime are astronomical. You are more likely to win the lottery.
On the other hand, in a typical year, 3000 black people are murdered by civilians. 90% of those are murdered by other black people. That is a far more serious problem than the so-called “systemic racism” that is currently being protested. There is no evidence of systemic racism if you look at the data. What happened to George Floyd should have never happened. There are other examples of people being killed by police that shouldn’t have happened. Those examples, even if caught on film, do not justify a narrative of systemic racism. In some cases, it could be individual racism, it could be lack of training, it could be hate in a person’s heart for whatever reason, or it could be the wrong split-second decision made in the heat of the moment.
If you step back, take a breath, and look at the big picture, you will start to see there are many other problems affecting the black community than “police brutality” and these never get mentioned or protested. Black on black violence will affect exponentially more black people than police brutality will. 73% of African-Americans are now born out of wedlock. In 1965, it was only 24%. Being born out of wedlock increases the chances of being born into poverty by 500%. This also increases greatly increases the chances of becoming a violent criminal.
Blaming everything on a vague idea of “systemic racism” despite facts that say otherwise is intellectually lazy. Statistics aren’t racist. They are facts. And facts don’t point to a system of racism. There are racists in all walks of life, but our policing system is not proven to be racist. We don’t know the motive behind the officer that killed George Floyd. We do know it should not have happened. We also know that the media loves to take the most extreme examples and run with them because they are masters at creating division and chaos. They ignore the examples that don’t fit their narrative. Don’t be manipulated by the media. Don’t let them sow division.
JD
So we asked for over 400 years of slavery? When we were arriving and had our own district in the Black Wall Street 1921 we asked to be bombed and bienes down? You called it justice (later to find out it was a little white lie) but fast forward the same thing is called rioting by things. Funny. So Emmit Till 1955 asked to be killed? Funny how you can’t see the issue. We fight in wars in a foreign country for your rights only to come back to so called home and be treated less than the so called enemy we fight on foreign soil. Accountability goes along way. Make right on your wrongs is a SMALL step. But when you are privileged you can’t see beyond your own and faults. But the GOD I serve sits high and looks low. Take a look at The Book of Obadiah just as a reference? There is a new day each you wake up. #BEPARTOFCHANGE
The following says everything you need to know about this protest, its worth the time:
“Suspect- Black/ Male, Victim-Black /Male.
I remember the countless times I canvassed the area afterwards, and asked everyone “did you see who did it”, and the popular response from the very same family members was always, “f___ the Police, I aint no snitch, I’m gonna take care of this myself. This happened every single time, every single homicide, black on black, and then my realization became clearer.
I woke up every morning, put my freshly pressed uniform on, shined my badge, functioned checked my weapon, kissed my wife and kid, and waited for my wife to say the same thing she always does before I leave, “Make sure you come back home to us”. I always replied, “I will”, but the truth was I was never sure if I would. I almost lost my life on this job, and every call, every stop, every moment that I had this uniform on, was another possibility for me to almost lose my life again. I was a target in the very community I swore to protect, the very community I wanted to help. As a matter of fact, they hated my very presence. They called me “Uncle Tom”, and “wanna be white boy”, and I couldn’t understand why. My own fellow black men and women attacking me, wishing for my death, wishing for the death of my family. I was so confused, so torn, I couldn’t understand why my own black people would turn against me, when every time they called …I was there. Every time someone died….I was there. Every time they were going through one of the worst moments in their lives…I was there. So why was I the enemy? I dove deep into that question…Why was I the enemy? Then my realization became clearer.
Complaint: Police always targeting us, they always messing with the black man.
Fact: A city where the majority of citizens are black (Baltimore for example) …will ALWAYS have a higher rate of black people getting arrested, it will ALWAYS have a higher rate of blacks getting stopped, and will ALWAYS have a higher rate of blacks getting killed, and the reason why is because a city with those characteristics will ALWAYS have a higher rate of blacks committing crime. The statistics will follow the same trend for Asians if you go to China, for Hispanics if you go to Puerto Rico, for whites if you go to Russia, and the list goes on. It’s called Demographics
Complaint: More black people get arrested than white boys.
Fact: Black People commit a grossly disproportionate amount of crime. Data from the FBI shows that Nationwide, Blacks committed 5,173 homicides in 2014, whites committed 4,367. Chicago’s death toll is almost equal to that of both wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, combined. Chicago’s death toll from 2001–November, 26 2015 stands at 7,401. The combined total deaths during Operation Iraqi Freedom (2003-2015: 4,815) and Operation Enduring Freedom/Afghanistan (2001-2015: 3,506), total 8,321.
Complaint: Blacks are the only ones getting killed by police, or they are killed more.
Fact: As of July 2016, the breakdown of the number of US Citizens killed by Police this year is, 238 White people killed, 123 Black people killed, 79 Hispanics, 69 other/or unknown race.
Fact: Black people kill more other blacks than Police do, and there are only protest and outrage when a cop kills a black man. University of Toledo criminologist Dr. Richard R. Johnson examined the latest crime data from the FBI’s Supplementary Homicide Reports and Centers for Disease Control and found that an average of 4,472 black men were killed by other black men annually between Jan. 1, 2009, and Dec. 31, 2012. Professor Johnson’s research further concluded that 112 black men died from both justified and unjustified police-involved killings annually during this same period.
Complaint: Well we already doing a good job of killing ourselves, we don’t need the Police to do it. Besides they should know better.
The more I listened, the more I realized. The more I researched, the more I realized. I would ask questions, and would only get emotional responses & inferences based on no facts at all. The more killing I saw, the more tragedy, the more savagery, the more violence, the more loss of life of a black man at the hands of another black man….the more I realized.
I haven’t slept well in the past few nights. Heartbreak weighs me down, rage flows through my veins, and tears fills my eyes. I watched my fellow officers assassinated on live television, and the images of them laying on the ground are seared into my brain forever. I couldn’t help but wonder if it had been me, a black man, a black cop, on TV, assassinated, laying on the ground dead,..would my friends and family still think black lives mattered? Would my life have mattered? Would they make t-shirts in remembrance of me? Would they go on tv and protest violence? Would they even make a Facebook post, or share a post in reference to my death?
I realized that they refuse to believe that most cops acknowledge that there are Bad cops who should have never been given a badge & gun, who are chicken xxxx and will shoot a cockroach if it crawls at them too fast, who never worked in the hood and may be intimidated. That most cops dread the thought of having to shoot someone, and never see the turmoil and mental anguish that a cop goes through after having to kill someone to save his own life. Instead they believe that we are all blood thirsty killers, because the media says so, even though the numbers prove otherwise. I realize that they truly feel as if the death of cops will help people realize the false narrative that Black Lives Matter, when all it will do is take their movement two steps backwards and label them domestic terrorist. I realized that some of these people, who say Black Lives Matter, are full of hate and racism. Hate for cops, because of the false narrative that more black people are targeted and killed. Racism against white people, for a tragedy that began 100’s of years ago, when most of the white people today weren’t even born yet. I realized that some in the African-American community’s idea of “Justice” is the prosecution of ANY and EVERY cop or white man that kills or is believed to have killed a black man, no matter what the circumstances are. I realized the African American community refuses to look within to solve its major issues, and instead makes excuses and looks outside for solutions. I realized that a lot of people in the African American lead with hate, instead of love. Division instead of Unity. Turmoil and rioting, instead of Peace. I realized that they have become the very entity that they claim they are fighting against.
I realized that the very reasons I became a cop, are the very reasons my own people hate me, and now in this toxic hateful racially charged political climate, I am now more likely to die,… and it is still hard for me to understand…. to this day.”
by Jay Stalien
the original can be found in bizpacreveiw.com
Thank you for writing and sharing this for us all to read. I greatly respect what you have written.
Thank you for doing what you do for our freedom, animals will be animals and will capitalize on the innocent. The rioters are opportunistic thugs that contribute nothing to our society. I have never… EVER been pulled out of my car by the police, I follow the rules , don’t back talk, and accept the consequences of my crime, if I disagree I will follow the rules through the courts.
69% of arrests are white folks
27% of arrests are black folks
52% of people killed by officers are white
32% of people killed by officers are black
Mr. Floyd should not have died that day. The 4 police officers should have been able to get him in the back seat or restrained his feet and hands and waited for him to settle down. But Mr. Floyd (who was a convicted felon) should not have been drugged up, passing counterfeit money and should have complied with the officers instructions to get in the vehicle.
I tell my son: obey the rules, don’t hang around with people that don’t obey the rules, don’t get ‘faced’, do what the police man tells you. If he’s in the wrong, you’ll be alive tomorrow and we will get a GOOD lawyer.
“Mr. Floyd should not have died that day…” If you have to say “but” after that then you have highlighted the problem. First off, at no point on any video did the man resist arrest and even if he had put up some resistance the police should be able to handle it without choking someone out of camera.
Also, how does anyone explain the fact that white people can march to the state house or walk around on the street with long rifles and handguns and live through it? I’ve seen videos of white people armed and screaming at police officers as they officers stood there and calmly stared at the person.
Daily in this country black people do things that end up getting them killed like suspected passing of a counterfeit $20 bill or running a stop sign. There was a black man around Austin in March killed by the police after the officer pulled him over for not dimming his lights to the oncoming officer, so don’t hand me that about following the rules. And your fancy percentages don’t take into account important context such as proportion of the particular population. African Americans are about 13.4% of the population. How does your 32% look now?
If your going to go by statistics be smart about it!! Come on now!!! White people out number blacks period!! Of course the statistics will be higher!!! How many of those whites killed were murdered because of the color of their skin, or because the police felt intimidated!! It’s a fight for justice and equality in all areas , this is America Right???
racism goes both ways and all races are equal according to the law the minorities seem like they think that they are getting the short end of the stick where as I see it they have more government agencies helping them.I just can’t understand what they want they say they are afraid to walk through a white neighborhood at night well I will not ever walk through a black neighborhood at night and the police are not your enemy respect them and cooperate just be civil. Help build our nation and stop tearing it down. This will probably not be printed
If you don’t know what black people want then why not listen instead of instructing them how to function in the world. It’s condescending and is tantamount to saying your complaints aren’t justified, they are your fault, so I’m gonna tell you how to avoid future problems.
Think about how you feel when someone refuses to listen to your concerns. What if you called customer service and explain a grievance, only to have the person on the other end say “sir I don’t know what you are asking for but I suggest you don’t really need to worry if you just accept this list of appropriate conduct.” It would leave you feeling demoralized.
Just listen without accusation or judgement to what our fellow citizens are saying.
Government agencies aren’t designed for a particular ethnic group so that there shows where you stand. But let me teach you something. The FHA when the FHA was designed for 30 Years who did they cater to? I will tell you 98% white. When the so called unemployment was created it did not provide for agriculture workers and so called in home providers. Oh that meant blacks weren’t ENTITLED. Let me me make it plain for you. For centuries we have been ENTITLED to help build this country and fight for this country only to not be ENTITLED. I welcome a open forum to the public to express your sentiments one on one. #FIGHTINGFOREQUALITY
There is a great book out right now called “When Affirmative Action was White” about just this subject. Everything from the New Deal of the 1930s to the Fair Deal of the 40s and 50s excluded African Americans. For our part, white people need to come to terms with this which means realizing that whether you are 20 years old or 60 years old, if you are white you have benefitted from opportunities that were specifically kept away from African Americans, and not by accident. It was all on purpose.
I wish we could stop dividing things between the black race or the white race or Mexican race or Chinese race…. We should be classified as the human race… This country will be a great place if that could ever happen…. It’s time for a change….
And that is my fault how?
I treat everyone equally.
There have veen many different discriminations against other people in America, not just “Black” people.
Native American, Chinese, Italian, Irish, Mexican, Jewish, and many others over the years.
It seems to me that “Black” people are the only one’s that the media, politicians, and professional race baiters want you to care about.
America is not perfect, but it is continually getting better, and as close to a free and fair society that has ever existed.
I think all people, of all backgrounds, have a personal responsibility to be a good person and hard worker.
Those that do that, will succeed regardless of their skin color.
Those that don’t, will fail and likely blame someone or something else for the failure.
All lives matter.
All lives matter.
Black, white, brown, yellow, red, green and purple.
To claim that one color of people matter more than another is racist, yes, racist.
Most people in the country believe this, but, if you watch the news you would think that most think differently.
It is time for everyone to stop the madness of this ridiculous race baiting and come together as Americans, period.
Nothing is perfect, but things are always getting better, especially in America.
Generally speaking, the people who claim that everyone is “racist”, themselves have personal issues, including hating people that are different than them in looks and beliefs.
I still think my point is being missed. I am not saying that any of this is your fault, nor do I deny that a person can treat people equally. I am talking about systems, not individuals. For example, if a person is a white baby boomer his or her parents (if the father was a veteran) probably had access to things like the GI Bill, which would have allowed for things like low interest home loans, free college, etc, in other words, the 1940s and 1950s middle class quintessential, advertised American life. This was something that was not available to black veterans, who could not even move out of the suburbs because of discriminatory housing practices such as “red lining.”
I am not saying that any of that is anyone’s fault. What I am saying is that white people today need to recognize that they were and have been raised in a country that benefitted them in ways that it did not benefit another race. Your personal responsibility philosophy might sound great to you, but you need to understand what that sounds like to a black person who might have a much different perspective than you. Not to mention, it is the height of privilege to stand on a podium and scream “personal responsibility” to people that you do not know and whose experiences you can’t know.
It is also extremely condescending to scream “All lives matter” to people who are arguing that theirs matters. Black people know “all lives matter.” They are saying that theirs also matters because this country has never acted as if theirs mattered near as much, if at all. Saying “Black Lives Matter” is not saying that theirs matters more. I don’t know what is so hard to understand about this. You seem to think that you have the authority, because I have watched you do it in your comments now, to lecture African Americans on responsibility, how they should state their grievances, how they should view the country, etc. Before white people scream personal responsibility to black and brown people, we might need to take some of it and look long and hard through our own history and try to come to terms with some uncomfortable truths. I to hate that racial tags exist, but wishing they didn’t doesn’t change the past, make them go away, or solve the problem.
Black Lives Matter. Yes, all lives matter, but the systemic racism the blacks face on a daily basis must end. Time is up for those that stand on the wrong side of history.
It is a known fact that their is inequality in America. Now don’t be narrow minded and tell us to go somewhere else. We were born here and should have the same rights. We have contributed in every way for the good and growth of this nation. I repeat we are hard working, productive citizens. The fact that your opinion generalized and stereotyped my ethnic group says you are not willing to to help with a solution. As long as you think like that you are most likely contributing to the problem. There’s still time for you to treat others the way you want to be treated. Many of my people wouldn’t be on these government programs if you and others that think like you would get your knee off our necks.
I am retired to:
Personal responsibility goes a long way.
Life is about the choices you make.
No one can choose their parents or their social economic status.
You can choose what you do, and who you associate with.
To blame the system for anyone not achieving in 2020 in America is beyond absurd.
America is not perfect.
Nothing is.
Life is not fair.
Enjoy it while you can.
Be kind and helpful, that is all.
ND
Your first four statements are true but if you are
consistently pushed to the back of the line, that is inequality. Not everyone gets a chance to move to the front of the line. Such behaviors and beliefs exists: preferred based on good old boy tactics, white over black or other minorities, nepotism, what college you went, stereotypes enforced, what will my friends think, are all exampes of obstacles keeps many from moving ahead. These few examples nullified the rest of your reply. It is only absurd to those yard privileged.