Are America’s prosecutors standing in justice’s way, should we fire them all?

Good morning y’all and thanks for stopping by! Hope these few words inspire your walk through the coming week!

This is not the precise question posed by UnitedBlack Fund; he was speaking of a specific case and prosecutor when he suggested mass termination. But his response caused me to consider the habits African American has assimilated from the colonialist culture and inspired the rant, which follows. Thanks and blessings to UnitedBlack Fund and Brother Khalid Raheem whose post started this conversation. Once again, I’m driven to ask…

Who are we and what have we become?

Me thinks a stance of fighting against, as exemplified by your suggestion, is ill considered and even counterproductive. By my calculation, we've been fighting against this system for nearly four decades ~ prior to that we were fighting for a myriad of things that can all be summed up in the word us ~ and it AIN'T working.


Throwing out the baby with the bath water is dangerously reactionary and cannot it the long run stabilize either our efforts or our communities. What about Dallas District Attorney Craig Watkins who has risked his career and likely his life in the relentless effort to expose and overturn wrongful convictions? What about Superior Court Judge David S. Cunningham who used his personal experience of terroristic racial profiling to change policies at UCLA and provide educational opportunities for African American students? There are many others who live the principles of infiltrate and overtake, who have sacrificed much including, in many cases, the love of their own people; do we simply dispose of them too?

I know y'all gotta be tired of me asking, but I just don't get it. Who, what have we become? I remember the time when the police, pimps, judges, doctors, drug dealers, 'hos, activists, journalists and clergy all gathered at the neighborhood bar to watch the game, talk about the state of the community and solidify the coming week's plan. Now we don't have a plan, our communities are fragmented and decaying, the activists are at war with police/judges, 'hos are arguing about how the tone of their skin affects their earning capacity and the clergy and pimps have merged to devour the naive and needy.

Now, in assimilation of the mediocrity of the oppressor societal structure, we seem to have forgotten that every person and circumstance both deserves and requires individual evaluation and we've adopted the lazy practice of identifying any/all differences, in perspective, approach, education, skin tone etc., as "other" and rejecting them as having no value. We seem to have lost our abilities of discernment; we look at proverbial book covers and rush to judgments. Somehow, we routinely fail to consider whether the brother in blue chose to don that uniform to help ensure some other brother doesn't get his head beat in or worse by some rabid police state robot. We never even ask if the pretty yellow sister who busted her butt and smiled her way into the executive offices spent lunches with her rapists to gain the power to ensure opportunities for other brothers and sisters.

We have these amazing social media platforms that give us the power to demonstrate the principles of unity, rational thought, civility as well unconditional love and respect for one another especially in the midst of disagreement and I think it is the responsibility of all of us who have taken the red pill to be wary of rash blanket statements and reactionary responses. Many, many of us have been absorbed into the sheeple and respond to simple statements of frustration and disgust with an irrational fervor that almost always adds fuel to fratricidal fires.
 

Old school, I’m talking to you/us! Can we, will we make a commitment to contribute to the restoration of our communities by being living demonstrations of what it means to fight for? Will we take a stand for civility, mutual respect and unconditional love of self/us? Can we by our actions and interactions teach our children the legacy of excellence, unity and pride that was/is the birthright of any and all born African in America? Will we?