With a motto like "Protect and Serve" these days the question becomes: who is it that's being protected and served? Lately, it seems as though We The People need someone to protect us from many of our not so civil servants, and, as Ice Cube said, their "authority to kill a minority.” What we know is limited, as is what we see, particularly when we consider that ‘in 1983, 90 percent of US media was controlled by fifty companies; today, 90 percent is controlled by just six companies.’ It is becomingly more and more clear, that many of the Police are not our friends, particularly not if someone like Donald J. Trump were to succeed in becoming elected.
Dr. Seuss taught us that there's really no difference between the "star belly sneetches" and those "sneetches without stars upon tharz." Mr. Fred Rogers taught us that “Love isn't a state of perfect caring. It is an active noun like struggle. To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now.” Today we teach our kids to lock the door twice, to beware of anyone who looks or behaves differently from us, and to despise anyone who doesn't agree with us. Hatred has become a staple of the American diet, with a side of fear, and a heaping scoop of entitlement for dessert.
The following video depicts just one example of what really goes on the streets of the United States.
"What can men do against such reckless hate?" — King Theoden, Tolkien's Lord of the Rings. This is the question is it not? What can we really do in the face of such rampant and irate hatred? Individuals such as Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Ezell Ford, Tamir Rice, and Kelly Thomas will never had a chance to offer up their solutions, as their lives were taken as punishment for the 'crime of being Black.'
The Civil Rights Movement never ended, it still rages on today, as we find more and more that Racism is as alive as ever. With candidates like Donald Trump taking center stage via the propulsion of widespread bigotry and deep-seated racism, it appears that it doesn't take much to "make America hate again." People are not just being profiled by police based upon their skin color, so too are 'everyday' citizens turning on one another based upon propagated hate and the dangerously violent undertones of some of the policies a 'man' like Trump carries with him. The man will denounce Mexicans as being rapists, and all muslims as being terrorists deserving of a nation-wide ban, but he hesitates to denounce the KKK; papa Trump's favorite club.
Here Trump makes the argument that he could blatantly get away with murder on the street, the most troubling part is; he's not the only one. If our elected Commander in Chief publicly holds such a dangerously criminal mentality, whose to say that same mentality won't and hasn't already trickled down to many of the tip-of-the-spear officers we potentially encounter each day.
What's all the more unnerving is the notion that he's 'just' an opportunist, or as CNN's Van Jones puts it: "The truth is Trump himself is probably not a hardcore racist. Instead, he is something worse than a racist. He is a racial opportunist. He has attracted the support of white nationalists and he doesn't want to lose it. He is someone who deliberately plays to and manipulates the racial anxieties of others, for his own gain. In other words, he may not be a racist, but he has figured out a way to use racists to advance his quest for power. And in doing so, he is playing with the worst kind of fire. Some politically moderate Trump fans take false comfort in telling themselves: "Oh, Trump doesn't mean all those things he says. He is just saying that to get elected." But if a leader has to whip up racial fears to get elected, he will almost certainly take similar action to get re-elected. So this argument should offer no comfort to anyone who is considering elevating Trump to the presidency. After all, a man with matchless power and meager principles is a danger to all."
'They Feed They Lion'
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