Today, Yvette M. Alex-Assensoh is spot on!
Way back circa 1972 when I could read and did read,
it was We Can't Breathe by Ronald L. Fair – and that was not just about rats & cockroaches and growing up poor or just about Whitey on the Moon...
Re – "a silent President" – could it be that it's especially during Brother Obama's watch that there is this deliberate acceleration and escalation of racially motivated police brutality to establish in the consciousness, conscience and the consciensciousness of Black and White America that OK, so "Change has come to America" but when it comes to Bigger Thomas, no matter which buck is sitting in the White House, matters still remain the same? Here are some other views : Open Season on Cops Shooting Blacks in Missouri
Man's inhumanity to man. And when it's not happening in Missouri there's always some trigger happy police aiming at an Amadou Diallo in the New York and no criminal killer cop hanging like a fruit in the tree for doin it.
There's this joke by Ali G: the army's on recruitment campaign and this guy drops in to the recruitment office and is asked, "What are your qualifications?"
"Does it help that I've killed somebody? He asks in return
No joke: Some drunken Rambo looking bloke came up to me at this pub in Putney where I was hanging out with two of my three brothers. The universal question: he wanted to know where I was from and when I told him he got very excited, identified himself as a mercenary member of Executive Outcomes and with a leer on his face told me that he was just back from Sierra Leone where he had been killing a few niggers and demonstrated how he had been shooting "at them" from his helicopter. My youngest and strongest brother, Michael, Flamenco dancer and martial arts specialist was about to terminate him, and so I wound up saving the life of Mr Executive Outcomes....
Kudos to Yvette M. Alex- Assensoh the professor of diversity management for hammering the nail squarely on its head!
In her refrain "I can't breathe" I hear the spoken word voice of The Last Poets refrain "I sang the blues" in their True Blue 1970s
Now words alone do not lead to "affirmative action" – so when is this affirmative action going to come?
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