Imagining Breonna Taylor; Say Her Name

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Can you just imagine, you are a hard working, law abiding woman. You go to bed in the comforts of your home and in the protection and warmth of your man's arms. Hoodlums dressed in blue kick open your door, break into your home with guns drawn forever disturbing your peace and that of your community and your loved ones. Imagine that...

These thugs, all dressed in blue, shoot and murder you. You never saw it coming. You died not knowing that it was your tax dollars that paid the salary of the hoodlums who murdered you and falsely arrested your man. Drama and trauma all rolled into one and all you were trying to do was get a good night sleep.The thugs in blue, were in fact cops on the local municipal payroll. You were an EMT and might have even worked with them or someday saved their lives. Now they have murdered you. Imagine that...

The cover up begins. Your man is arrested for doing what men are supposed to do, defend his woman and protect his household. You are now in a black body bag. He is now in an orange body suit. How in the hell did that happen when all you did was go to bed in the comforts of your own home? Self defense in one's home is not a crime but now your man, who rightfully shot in self defense, is being paraded like a criminal before the media by the criminals who killed you. One can only imagine what is going through his mind. Thank God for Judge Olu Stevens who brought justice to this matter and released Mr. Walker with no bail pending trial for commission of no crime. A Black Judge committed to justice did that! Imagining Justice for ALL in America...

You were aware of the endless incidents of Black lives ended by poorly trained, fearful and/or violent police. Never could you have imagined when you put your head on your pillow on that fateful night in March that your name would be added to a long list of infamous Black folks murdered for no reason other than simply Living While Black. Against your will, you are now part of an ever growing list of innocent Black Americans who die victims in infamy at the hands of murderous cops. And all you ever wanted was a good night sleep in the comfort of your man's arms. Instead, in a flash and without notice, your life, your dreams, your future and that of your man is over. Your light and his have been extinguished. You are forever gone. He is forever changed... It hurts to imagine that...

And to think that all the cops had to do was knock and respect you and your man in your home as they would have done given another zip code. Across town, there is no presumption of guilt nor fear of retaliation for all the harm they have inflicted upon the community. Across town, never would they have violated you or the sanctity of your home in the wee hours of the morning murdering you and arresting your man. Across town, they would have done their homework and realized before kicking in your door while you slept in you man's arms that yours was the wrong address and that already they had in custody the man they were seeking. Across town I imagine that still you would be alive nursing and tending to wounded cops, their friends, their families or others of innocent victims of their crimes such as yourself. Across town, there would be justice and accountability for what happened to you and your man. I would like to imagine the same for your community and your loved ones. Instead, I imagine their pain...

Imagining Breonna Taylor, Say Her Name!

Justice For Kenneth Walker!!! Say His Name Too!

Breonna & Kenneth

There Is Trouble A Brewin' in America...

This morning they are telling us that 86,904 Americans are dead from COVID-19 in America, which means that there are more. Still trump is doing nothing to rise to the occasion of leadership. Why not? Because on top of being icy cold, inhumane, racist and xenophobic, donald trump is grossly incompetent and as should be expected, is rising to the only standard or level of performance he has even known; failure! America knows this but still America continues to tolerate the presence, embarrassment and absolute humiliation of him for the world to see. America has lost her standing and her might on the world stage for a very long time to come...

donald trump is the epitome of that imbecile supervisor we have all had who was utterly stupid but who spoke with such confidence and belief in him or herself and in what s/he was saying that you looked on and listened in total disbelief and wondered whose relative must s/he be. Some joke that trump is that 'crazy old uncle'. But this crazy old uncle occupies the White House, has his finger near the button to kill us all and is evil, corrupt and immoral as hell. There is nothing funny about this crazy old uncle. Conversely he is quite dangerous; globally...

At this point however, America MUST ask herself what is so very wrong with this country that at the highest level of authority, when lives are being lost, when our very existence and certainly our credibility are at stake, why, as a nation, is there any willingness to tolerate such representation of us? This man, as a good friend put it, is an embarrassment not only to the US, but to the world. Other countries are no longer looking at America with admiration or envy but instead with horror and disbelief if not pity and shame and some, certainly with absolute glee and delight in anticipation of America's inevitable fall because karma, as we know, is a bitch! All for what America? Tolerance of a psychologically challenged, morally deprived, con man because he is white?, because he is male?, because he is racist? Really America?

Like the wealth given him by his crooked daddy and every company he has run into the sewer, donald trump has destroyed America. No longer is America the "go to" country to lead or show other nations the way. No longer is America the "come to" country successfully marketed since being built for free on the backs of the enslaved, as a nation where anything is possible, opportunities are unlimited and the streets are paved in gold. I am willing to bet that many who risked their lives abandoning country and family to get here are now wanting to return as American borders now have them locked in and the borders they fled have them locked out as American continues to ignore the reality of a very real pandemic. No longer are Americans welcome. No longer is that blue passport the ticket to have that opened most doors. Hell, even I feel trapped!.

The writing is on the wall. We are far less safe in America than in most other nations. Not only are we being annihilated by a virus that is being allowed to run rampant while trump and his clueless, complicit cohorts ignore or downplay the very existence of Corona all the while trying to convince us that it will miraculously dissipate in this "great" nation they are building, it is also clear that we are on the verge of civil unrest fueled by racism and an eventual resistance to the coup of our democracy, our way of life and/or the fall of our government when/if donald trump steals or is handed yet another election or when/if he refuses to relinquish the throne which will ignite military intervention. At some point, as the indifferent and greedy rich get richer while the poor, the middle class and unhealthy continue to die or are forced back to work in unsafe and unhealthy conditions to maintain wealth of the rich, there will be mass resistance in the streets and it ain't gonna' be pretty...

Trouble is a brewin' in America. Things are guaranteed to get far worse before they get better and still we sit by, seemingly defenseless, idly waiting for the tsunami that we see heading our way. It's all so especially incredible because this is not a new page in a very old playbook of political manipulation. We have read this book before. We know the ending. There is nothing new on the pages that we are refusing to read... And still, we do nothing. Now that's Incredible Folks!


America the victim. Since when?