https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOTZ7dn_gsg
History repeated…Newark, 1967. And I need everyone to check this out. #Ferguson
Initiating act? An act of police brutality against a cab driver beaten in broad daylight.
Quotes from Gov. Hughes, the then-gov of the state who later served jail time.
“I differ with the mayor in the civil rights concept of this; this is a criminal rebellion, it’s an anarchy against the gov’t and society in which we live. We’re going to make sure that society wins.”
Draw your own conclusions, but this rhetoric continues with the bullshxt that is being spewed by news outlets today, 47 years later. FORTY SEVEN YEARS LATER. White America (and some of the rest of America, as well) DOES NOT (either refuses to or chooses to) not see the civil rights and racism concept of this…the people continue to be portrayed as PATHOLOGICALLY CRIMINAL, and there is no place for us in “society.”
Carry on…
I’ve cried, I’ve pondered, I’ve read, I’ve posted, but I feel the need to get out and DO something. I have to miss a march downtown Newark tomorrow in support of Ferguson because of work commitment…but if anyone in the tri-state area knows of something or somewhere I can DO something, please let me know. Protests, organizing, getting involved at more than just planned rallies…I want to stick my feet all in.
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