From my friend Charlie Kent: You might not agree with what I am posting tonight, but I see things at an impasse, and I am disappointed, that once more another young life was cut short for whatever misguided reason someone in authority saw fit to convey. Tonight, I was called nigger lover for showing my support of Michael Browns family in this time of loss. We will never know what happened, and sadly I think a lot of evidence was scrubbed, omitted, and re-arranged. While I was initially hurt at being slurred with that name, I proudly own it. If being a nigger lover means standing up for what I feel is right and just, I will do it, because if I dont no one else will. If we dont stand in support of the Micheal Browns and Trayvon Martins of the world, who will? How long before one of us is on the delivery end of a gun for doing something innocuous that becomes misconstrued. Whether you feel Mr. Wilson -and I am no longer referring to him as officer as that is a term that denotes a modicum of respect, was in his right to do what he did is immaterial to me. While I agree that being in Law Enforcement is stressful, there are some that perhaps are too over zealous with the trigger, and their supporters are even worse. While, Mr Wilson will have to resign he will go on to some other super stardom as a D list celebrity that all the other knuckle-dragging mongrel troglodytes will go onto fervently support. He will have book deals, he will have guest spots he will be portrayed as yet another inbred white-trash Confederate Hero, while Michael Browns parents are left holding the shattered memories of a son, wondering what could have been while being slapped in the face of cold hard truth. I am not black. I am a white man watching a tragedy unfold. I am seeing a community torn apart, a family without justice or closure, and whitey hopping around like he just won a lottery. I see a Prosecuting Attorney giving a convoluted and contrived speech delivered in a tone and timber of smug satisfaction, like the Cheshire Cat with a saucer of cream. Its wrong. I will never be a black man, being followed in a store, being followed by a police car, being suspect by looking all the same like everyone else, or by being the wrong color. I am not ashamed of my feelings on this. I will never be that black mother, watching her son walk out the door and wondering if he will come home alive. I am lucky I will never know any of this. I am also saddened that so many others wont see the privilege they have everyday by just winning a role of the genetic dice and being born in a country where color can determine how far you can go, and how much you can earn in life, as they say membership has its privileges, and its a club I feel ashamed to be included in tonight. It might be easy to dismiss my feelings, my shame, my rage, my anger -my disappointment, and chalk it up to dramatics or a rant, its more than that. Something has profoundly affected me, and for what its worth, I dont like it. As the saying goes, the more things change, the more they stay the same. Yes its harsh, and yes its bitter, but its true no matter how much we are ready to admit it. Though I am not black, I could very easily be Michael Brown, I could easily be Anne Frank, I could easily be Martin Luther King, I could easily be Aung San Suu Kyi, I could be Ghandi -we all could. We need to realize at some point, that this is the only home we have, and we had better damned well find a way to get along and work together before its too late and we regret what we did while we see whats arriving. So tonight, I proudly wear nigger lover, I proudly wear fag/fag-lover, I proudly wear chink-lover, I proudly wear towel head lover -because for all the difference in this amazing 80-plus year journey we spend on this ball of earth at 67,000 miles an hour in a galaxy travelling at almost 600,000 miles an hour that we are underneath -all the same, so in signing off for the night, celebrate what makes us different but hold what makes us the same. c.
Posted on: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 04:33:59 +0000
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