In light of Michael Brown’s funeral today, here is a post on Jonathan Walton’s blog that I thought was great. I encourage you to read it and an excerpt is below:
I heard about Michael Brown on Facebook. I went to CNN.com and began to read. Then I went to Twitter to get the latest and I went from vacation to anger in LTE speed on my iPhone. My mind immediately went to Eric Garner, Trayvon, Amadou and my own experiences as a black male in Southern, Virginia now living in a land of stop and frisk. As I started to pen my, “this is how we should respond”, it hit me.
I am sad.
I am sad that Eric Garner, Michael Brown, Ezell Ford, and John Crawford III are all dead. I am sad that they were killed.
It breaks something inside me that an average of 2 unarmed black males are killed by local police departments in our country since 2005. And, that’s with only 17% (750 out of 17,000) of all law enforcement agencies reporting their statistics. Conservative estimates could be 3 black males per day die at the hands of police.
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