We caught up w/ dead prez at SXSW in Austin, Tx and got their take on the 4 cops being killed in Oakland just hours before.
They speak on that as well as Oscar Grant and the upcoming trial
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Dead prez Speaks Out About Cop Killings in Oakland & Oscar Grant |
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We caught up w/ dead prez at SXSW in Austin, Tx and got their take on the 4 cops being killed in Oakland just hours before. They speak on that as well as Oscar Grant and the upcoming trial |
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Joseph from Berkeley |
KARMIC JUSTICE -- 4 KILLED COPS | #1 | ||
It's KARMIC JUSTICE that, just as many Blacks in America have been murdered by the police -- the historical street enforcement arm of white racism in AmeriKKKa -- during a "routine" traffic stop, 4 Oakland, California, cops were killed during a "routine" traffic stop. Ha-Ha. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ KARMIC JUSTICE -- 4 KILLED COPS Most people of color know that the cops, and police departments as an institution, *historically* represent the street enforcement arm of white American racism. Indeed, the police were born out of the white slave patrols. People of color and conscious white people have seen how the cops have brutalized, especially, many members of the Black and Brown community -- just the latest, in a longgg series of notorious cases in the Bay Area and all over the country, being the police murder of Oscar Grant -- and sometimes (which doesn't get as much notice) even members of the Asian community -- and now (even just recently in San Francisco) peaceful protesters and members of the Arab community (specifically women and children). And just relatively recently, in Oakland, 11 cops were fired for falsifying a whole series of search warrants, and the head of OPD Internal Affairs was put on leave, pending the investigation of his having effectively beaten, in his custody, a Black suspect to death years ago. How soon we forget the Oakland Riders case, and the damage control performed there to politically limit the corruption investigation and exposure to those corrupt street cops, but not the department in whose culture and corruption they were spawned. I've heard that Oakland alone pays out (at least averaged over time) about 2 million dollars a year in police brutality cases. U.S. flags were flown at half-mast for these dead cops -- tried, sentenced and executed in the streets just like they do with people of color -- but no flags were flown at half-mast over city hall by the Black mayor of Oakland for Oscar Grant. Ron Dellums took a week to say anything about Grant, and then only spoked in carefully indirect and tepid terms, and only after finally being confronted by the people in front of city hall. (See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWZa2Vioae0 and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUC_ZVbI4sM.) But Dellums, of course, immediately, personally and vociferously condemned the killings of the cops right away. So, much for some of those docilized middle-&-above-class negroes (male and female above the intersection of race and class) who condemn the cop deaths (on TV, radio, even one Black female on KPFA's Hard Knock Radio) by saying that "all life is equal". Since when, right from its founding and upon who's lives it was established (Red, Black, Yellow and Brown), has all life ever "been equal" in the history of AmeriKKKa? At least a couple of the TV local news stations have shown a servile Rev. Philip Ellinberg, some neegro (probably what we Blacks call "a jackleg / bootleg preacher", since I tried to look him up online, and in the phone book, and with telephone directory assistance, and found nothing) who's supposed to sing for Massa at the dead cops funeral, but he didn't sing at Oscar Grant's funeral and I haven't seen him anywhere at the Oscar Grant Movement meetings almost every Saturday in Oakland at Olivet Missionary Baptist Church. Where were the flags at half-mast, and the state and mass media coverage funeral, for Oscar Grant and other unarmed, innocent victims of killer cops vigilantism and street executions? All the Bay Area cities have to do is to look at the names on the boards of the Stolen Lives project and portable mural. Do you think that any of the Bay Area cities would even just fly their flags at half-mast just one day, collectively for ALL of those victims of the police? And we forget (or don't know) that one of the cops who was only wounded, but should have been killed, was Sgt. Pat Gonzales, who shot a young Gary King Jr. (Black) in the back and killed him. Cops up in (or north of) Napa/Sonoma valley even went and gratuitously killed the Black adopted son of an affluent white married couple who made the mistake of calling the cops to help calm down their emotionally distraught son. You know the old saying, "When The White Man is hurt evvveryone must cry." But LOTS of people AREN'T CRYING over 4 killed cops -- including even a lot of politically conscious white people -- and AREN'T MOURNING in this state mass propaganda funeral. While the cops and the media even come up with suspiciously last-minute stories to try to tell us just "how bad" Lovelle Mixon was (how about research into those dead cops background to see how abusive and dirty they were?), many of us realize that _IT'S KARMIC JUSTICE_ whoever killed the 4 cops all in an afternoon's work. And it's KARMIC JUSTICE that, just as many Blacks in America have been murdered by cops during a "routine" traffic stop, these cops were killed during a "routine" traffic stop. Ha-Ha. The cops called Lovelle Mixon, "A cold-hearted individual who doesn't have any regard for human life." Well, the cops should know: they behave exactly the same way. Cops 2; Oakland residents 4. ----------------------------------- Joseph Anderson Berkeley, California March 27, 2009 (Written as the Oakland cops funerals are occuring.) -------------------------------------------------------------------- Also, for an EXCELLENT COMMENTARY see: "Police 2, Oakland residents 4" San Francisco Bay View (African American) Newspaper March 24, 2009 http://www.sfbayview.com/2009/police-2-oakland-residents-4/comment-page-2/#comment-1700 To hear the excellent audio version of JR's commentary, please go to KPFA's Flashpoints, March 25, 2009 http://kpfa.org/archive/id/49472 , and go to 35:35-40:80 into the program, or go to Flashpoints.net .
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Joseph from Berkeley |
HERE'S THE VERY LATEST NEWS IN HOW COPS BEHAVE AGAINST BLACK MEN: | #2 | ||
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032619/#29921738 NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams Friday, March 27, 2009 "Police chief expresses regret over traffic stop gone wrong" A traffic stop that detained NFL player Ryan Moats of the Houston Texans in a hospital parking lot that, despite his pleas that his mother-in-law was imminently dying, has touched off a firestorn in Texas. NBC's Pete Williams reports. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Black guy was lucky he wasn't shot and killed trying to rush into the hospital. Had it been a white man, the cop would have been like, "Oh you just go ahead, Mr. Throckmorton!! Here, let me get the door for you! Jeesh, I hope you make it in time! Everyone get out the way!! His mother-in-law is dying!!" . |
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Joseph from Berkeley |
DOES CONGRESSWOMAN BARBARA LEE SPEAK FOR US? | #3 | ||
Does Barbara Lee Still Speak for You and Me?
By Henry Norr
Wednesday March 25, 2009
Berkeley Daily Planet newspaper Berkeley, CA [exceprt] When four Oakland police officers were killed last weekend, Rep. Barbara Lee wasted no time before speaking out. The very next day -- on a Sunday, no less -- she issued not one but two press releases expressing condolences to the victims' families and support for their colleagues. The following day she took to the floor of the House and for more than six minutes paid tribute to these "fallen heroes," as she put it. The press statements promptly appeared on her official website, and a video clip of her remarks to the House was posted to her YouTube channel. Unfortunately, she wasn't nearly as quick to respond to some other recent incidents of violence that have concerned many of her constituents: • Oscar Grant. After the BART police murdered Oscar Grant III at the Fruitvale station, Lee made no public statement about the incident for more than a week. Only after hundreds of her constituents had taken to the streets to express their outrage -- not only at the killing, but also at the establishment's demonstrable indifference to it -- did she issue a statement declaring that her "thoughts and prayers are with the family of Oscar Grant as they grieve the loss of their loved one." Even then, she and her staff don't seem to have made much of an effort to get her statement out. They didn't even bother to post it on her website -- as of March 25, it's still not there -- and the only place Google finds the text is in a Bay Area News Group blog, not even in the Oakland Tribune or other East Bay papers. (On Jan. 14 Lee issued another statement saying she was "pleased" at the arrest of former officer Johannes Mehserle. That one did make it to her website.) http://berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2009-03-26/article/32553?headline=Does-Barbara-Lee-Still-Speak-for-You-and-Me- ______________________________________________________ Henry Norr is a former journalist for the San Francisco Chronicle
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