BLACK BOYS TREATED AS PROBLEMS BEFORE BEING TREATED AS PEOPLE In a moving and powerful spoken word performance, Javon Johnson recounts riding in a car with his four year old nephew and the nephew tells him when seeing a cop car, uncle, we have to hide from 5-0: We both know too many black boys who disappeared. Names lost. Know too many Trayvon Martins, Oscar Grants and Abner Louimas, know too many Sean Bells, and Amadou Diallos. Know too well that we are the hard boiled sons of Emmett Till. Still we both know its not about whether or not the shooter is racist, its about how poor black boys are treated as problems well before we are treated as people.
Posted on: Sat, 29 Nov 2014 03:04:20 +0000