@wsbtv should have issued an apology immediately and contacted the family personally for their negligence. The family should sue them as well as the other outlets that put this erroneous information out there!
I suddenly can’t share anything from here to fb. So I share it to threads, then to fb from there🙄Thank you for your important work here! I imagine this is why the FoP just endorsed the criminal. So they can be immune to continue their killing and not be held accountable. We need police reform badly!
I’m biracial! When I was born in the 1960’s I was considered “illegal” below the Mason Dixon Line. I was born in Philadelphia, and raised in Delaware! I have NEVER noticed racism growing up as I do now. Yes, social media makes us much more aware of racism across America, but it’s become emboldened since trump came into the political arena!! Racist seems to think that they have the green light to show their ignorance now! It seems that racist seeks opportunities to act out against poc!! Racism has ALWAYS been embedded in America; unfortunately!
Guns and racism in the U.S. are so closely related because they have the same root cause: the enslaver economy that was the foundation of this country. I highly recommend reading the book "The Second" by Carol Anderson for an excellent historical primer on this.
An Excellent snapshot and evidence based analysis of racial injustice and bias. Who versus Whom is clear and then who is protected as well. This not only adds another flame to Gun Violence and the need to have Safety Gun Laws but also to have meaningful police reforms.
I have always asked a Question ..... How many Black People have been Killed by White Police for so called violation of laws or even deemed violations and how many White People have been killed by Black Police on the same counts. This does not even need any analysis ......... as I hardly find a Case where a Black Policeman killed a White Person and Got Away !!!
Of course. Like Trump, it’s always a person of color who’s at fault simply because we at the moment are the dominant force and we intend to remain that way. So by demonizing POC we are justifying our actions.
I am a former e911 dispatcher in SW Mississippi & to this day my first double homicide traumatizes me. I remember the exact address, the faces of the kids (they were always fine to me, & both now gone) & everyone that was as traumatized as me as to how it could have happened.
I drove past the home of the double homicide every week for nearly half a decade, delivering food to the underserved seeing their faces every week.
I listened for most of my e911 shift as our city came together to support their families. It was the ONE & ONLY time I ever stepped outside of my shift to have a moment & allow myself freedom to cry, as IMO, there can be a lot of hate filled mocking people in 911 service, similar to law enforcement.
On my last day as an e911 dispatcher after my boss refused to give me a single day off in 11 straight months of full time service & ridiculous overtime, to visit my doctor? Guess whose funeral I issued an escort for.
It gave me a deep sense of peace to be the dispatcher issuing the escort for that funeral. The county later tried to rob me of over $1500.00 in PTO pay, but I eventually got paid when she & her ilk realized just how many federal & state laws they had violated throughout my employment.
The oldest meme in the book says it all. Follow the money.
Legacy media even though it is overwhelmingly owned by rich white guys, has always followed the money by demonizing the marginalized people du jour. While it started and continues the 300 year old tradition of dehumanizing people of colour, throughout the New World's history of invading colonizers there has been no shortage of bogeymen, inconvenient indians, DP's from the pogroms and wars of Europe and economic refugees desperate for survival. All in their turn have been detested, shunned, and only most reluctantly admitted to the ranks of citizenry, but often never to the ranks of humanity.
It the most disheartening characteristic of humans to fear, loath and hate strangers. Granted many of those strangers were also bloody headhunters so the fear was justified. Even now, people who should know better pander to the most universal human nightmare to gain a shortcut route to power and exploitation of the fearful.
Follow the money - there is always money to be extorted from the fearful.
Negroes, black Americans, and Jews have been the most persistent targets of malice and calumny indulged in by White supremacists, and bigots of every stripe. Politicians have reveled in these easy targets with never a thought that the worms might morph into outspoken critics, and lawyers willing to challenge the doddering "old boys" trotting out their tattered and grimy lies.
And by the way, Huley Brown, I hate to break it to you but the Corporate Media ARE doing their job, following the money to enrich themselves and their crusty old shareholders by raising the never quite dead ancient fears and hatreds. Following the money has always been the fastest way to fame and riches.
I am not writing you about this post only. I've only been a subscriber for a few weeks, and I started reading your newsletters only a few weeks before that. But I want to thank you for all the work, the research, you do. For your clear, concise essays. For the data, the data, the data. You have helped me articulate to others concerns about which I feel passionately, backed with better facts. Thank you.
Your points are always good and I don’t disagree with anything you have said and I’m glad you are making the points. Seems like white men seem to be mass shooters and this is disconcerting for sure and needs to stop.
I use to be a prosecutor. Most of the murders in that county were what my boss called “ black on black crime” when I expressed how freaked out I was to move my small children to a county that had 60 murders the prior year as announced in my first staff meeting. I never lived anywhere like that before.
Interesting that no one who writes on these issues ever talks about the statistics of how many black men are killing black men and why cops might view them with more suspicion and caution than say white or black women. No way cops should shoot people who are not actively shooting or kill people like George Floyd. Or anyone else, in a traffic stop. Horrifying!
Let’s remember that we have problems the cops can’t solve- they just arrive on the scene and solve the whole done it issues - they do not prevent them or therapy people or help people find jobs or homes or get off of drugs or alcohol.
I worked on a case once where it was thought the cops let a guy bleed out on the porch for fear they would be shot by the murderer inside the house. Turned out the guy was already dead before the cops got there but the cops I interviewed were afraid they would be shot.
If I were a cop, I would be way more suspicious of males and probably of black males. I worked a case once where a black guy killed another black guy over $25 in front of people and no one would help the cops get the murderer. I was a civil prosecutor who got warrant duty so I was not hardened but was horrified at the value human life could be given.
So let’s ask and answer sometime how do we solve the excessive violence in any community and in some black communities? What can we do to help cops be more fair? To fear less, Knowing that a lot of their own fears and prejudgments are based on harsh experiences? It’s not just about training cops- it’s about helping communities so kids are not randomly shot in their house while angry men shoot each other- another real case with a real brown girl dead for no reason. I hope you can expand the discussion similar to when we talk about how many black men are incarcerated and we never see the statistics of what percent of crimes and violent crimes such men are responsible for to determine a real comparison to discuss fairness in sentencing.
I say this as a lawyer: I have seen black people treated more harshly in the system. I have. Yet no one ever has a reason why beyond claiming racism. It’s more complex even as fear might just be at the core of this racism in policing and unfair sentencing by judges who also see who is coming through with what accusations. Hope I don’t get hated in the comments but the issues need addressed more fully as this is not just a case of racist pigs harming brown people even as we know that happens and it’s horrible!
Great article. I am so tired of race being used as a cudgel against people of color, who are almost always forced to live in poverty-stricken areas in cities where they are more likely to become victims.
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2019/11/23/racism-and-the-black-hole-of-gun-control-in-the-us/
Your point has been dramatically demonstrated by the Fraternal Order of Police endorsing the white, racist, disgraced, convicted felon for president.
@wsbtv should have issued an apology immediately and contacted the family personally for their negligence. The family should sue them as well as the other outlets that put this erroneous information out there!
I suddenly can’t share anything from here to fb. So I share it to threads, then to fb from there🙄Thank you for your important work here! I imagine this is why the FoP just endorsed the criminal. So they can be immune to continue their killing and not be held accountable. We need police reform badly!
Corporate media is racist. Got it.
I’m biracial! When I was born in the 1960’s I was considered “illegal” below the Mason Dixon Line. I was born in Philadelphia, and raised in Delaware! I have NEVER noticed racism growing up as I do now. Yes, social media makes us much more aware of racism across America, but it’s become emboldened since trump came into the political arena!! Racist seems to think that they have the green light to show their ignorance now! It seems that racist seeks opportunities to act out against poc!! Racism has ALWAYS been embedded in America; unfortunately!
Guns and racism in the U.S. are so closely related because they have the same root cause: the enslaver economy that was the foundation of this country. I highly recommend reading the book "The Second" by Carol Anderson for an excellent historical primer on this.
An Excellent snapshot and evidence based analysis of racial injustice and bias. Who versus Whom is clear and then who is protected as well. This not only adds another flame to Gun Violence and the need to have Safety Gun Laws but also to have meaningful police reforms.
I have always asked a Question ..... How many Black People have been Killed by White Police for so called violation of laws or even deemed violations and how many White People have been killed by Black Police on the same counts. This does not even need any analysis ......... as I hardly find a Case where a Black Policeman killed a White Person and Got Away !!!
Of course. Like Trump, it’s always a person of color who’s at fault simply because we at the moment are the dominant force and we intend to remain that way. So by demonizing POC we are justifying our actions.
I cannot begin to imagine what the parents are going through. And then to have that tweet! WTAF?!
I am a former e911 dispatcher in SW Mississippi & to this day my first double homicide traumatizes me. I remember the exact address, the faces of the kids (they were always fine to me, & both now gone) & everyone that was as traumatized as me as to how it could have happened.
I drove past the home of the double homicide every week for nearly half a decade, delivering food to the underserved seeing their faces every week.
I listened for most of my e911 shift as our city came together to support their families. It was the ONE & ONLY time I ever stepped outside of my shift to have a moment & allow myself freedom to cry, as IMO, there can be a lot of hate filled mocking people in 911 service, similar to law enforcement.
On my last day as an e911 dispatcher after my boss refused to give me a single day off in 11 straight months of full time service & ridiculous overtime, to visit my doctor? Guess whose funeral I issued an escort for.
It gave me a deep sense of peace to be the dispatcher issuing the escort for that funeral. The county later tried to rob me of over $1500.00 in PTO pay, but I eventually got paid when she & her ilk realized just how many federal & state laws they had violated throughout my employment.
You need to write a far more specific article. What you wrote has been heard by us many times. What do we do about this problem?
The oldest meme in the book says it all. Follow the money.
Legacy media even though it is overwhelmingly owned by rich white guys, has always followed the money by demonizing the marginalized people du jour. While it started and continues the 300 year old tradition of dehumanizing people of colour, throughout the New World's history of invading colonizers there has been no shortage of bogeymen, inconvenient indians, DP's from the pogroms and wars of Europe and economic refugees desperate for survival. All in their turn have been detested, shunned, and only most reluctantly admitted to the ranks of citizenry, but often never to the ranks of humanity.
It the most disheartening characteristic of humans to fear, loath and hate strangers. Granted many of those strangers were also bloody headhunters so the fear was justified. Even now, people who should know better pander to the most universal human nightmare to gain a shortcut route to power and exploitation of the fearful.
Follow the money - there is always money to be extorted from the fearful.
Negroes, black Americans, and Jews have been the most persistent targets of malice and calumny indulged in by White supremacists, and bigots of every stripe. Politicians have reveled in these easy targets with never a thought that the worms might morph into outspoken critics, and lawyers willing to challenge the doddering "old boys" trotting out their tattered and grimy lies.
And by the way, Huley Brown, I hate to break it to you but the Corporate Media ARE doing their job, following the money to enrich themselves and their crusty old shareholders by raising the never quite dead ancient fears and hatreds. Following the money has always been the fastest way to fame and riches.
I am not writing you about this post only. I've only been a subscriber for a few weeks, and I started reading your newsletters only a few weeks before that. But I want to thank you for all the work, the research, you do. For your clear, concise essays. For the data, the data, the data. You have helped me articulate to others concerns about which I feel passionately, backed with better facts. Thank you.
I’m truly honored, Erin. Thank you for your trust and support.
Your points are always good and I don’t disagree with anything you have said and I’m glad you are making the points. Seems like white men seem to be mass shooters and this is disconcerting for sure and needs to stop.
I use to be a prosecutor. Most of the murders in that county were what my boss called “ black on black crime” when I expressed how freaked out I was to move my small children to a county that had 60 murders the prior year as announced in my first staff meeting. I never lived anywhere like that before.
Interesting that no one who writes on these issues ever talks about the statistics of how many black men are killing black men and why cops might view them with more suspicion and caution than say white or black women. No way cops should shoot people who are not actively shooting or kill people like George Floyd. Or anyone else, in a traffic stop. Horrifying!
Let’s remember that we have problems the cops can’t solve- they just arrive on the scene and solve the whole done it issues - they do not prevent them or therapy people or help people find jobs or homes or get off of drugs or alcohol.
I worked on a case once where it was thought the cops let a guy bleed out on the porch for fear they would be shot by the murderer inside the house. Turned out the guy was already dead before the cops got there but the cops I interviewed were afraid they would be shot.
If I were a cop, I would be way more suspicious of males and probably of black males. I worked a case once where a black guy killed another black guy over $25 in front of people and no one would help the cops get the murderer. I was a civil prosecutor who got warrant duty so I was not hardened but was horrified at the value human life could be given.
So let’s ask and answer sometime how do we solve the excessive violence in any community and in some black communities? What can we do to help cops be more fair? To fear less, Knowing that a lot of their own fears and prejudgments are based on harsh experiences? It’s not just about training cops- it’s about helping communities so kids are not randomly shot in their house while angry men shoot each other- another real case with a real brown girl dead for no reason. I hope you can expand the discussion similar to when we talk about how many black men are incarcerated and we never see the statistics of what percent of crimes and violent crimes such men are responsible for to determine a real comparison to discuss fairness in sentencing.
I say this as a lawyer: I have seen black people treated more harshly in the system. I have. Yet no one ever has a reason why beyond claiming racism. It’s more complex even as fear might just be at the core of this racism in policing and unfair sentencing by judges who also see who is coming through with what accusations. Hope I don’t get hated in the comments but the issues need addressed more fully as this is not just a case of racist pigs harming brown people even as we know that happens and it’s horrible!
The mental gymnastics you are putting yourself through to not admit it is racism is astounding!
Great article. I am so tired of race being used as a cudgel against people of color, who are almost always forced to live in poverty-stricken areas in cities where they are more likely to become victims.