Tag: police brutality

This Time is Just One Time

Posted on April 21, 2021 by

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Where there’s smoke, there’s fire. Where there is one police brutality case that hits the news, there are 10,000 others that no one hears about. We’d be fools to think otherwise. Everything went right to convict Derek Chauvin. Had Darnella Frazier run out of… Continue Reading “This Time is Just One Time”

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What was True All Along But I Just Understood Now

Posted on April 13, 2021 by

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I’ve written probably ten essays about police fatally harming unarmed Black men and women. So, that makes one a year for the ten years, going on eleven, that I’ve published this blog. In all of them, my foundation is that the brutality was exceptional,… Continue Reading “What was True All Along But I Just Understood Now”

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Day After Day, Time After Time

Posted on April 12, 2021 by

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It’s like Grandma said The more things change, the more they Stay the same, police _______________________ Photo credit: Photo by Martin Delaby on Unsplash

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The Sandra Bland Video Tells Us More Than What Happened

Posted on July 24, 2015 by

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Once I saw Sandra Bland’s smiling face in the news reports, I didn’t want to watch the video of her arrest. It was going to be a level of wrongdoing and injustice that would be intolerable to watch, burn my eyes. What had to… Continue Reading “The Sandra Bland Video Tells Us More Than What Happened”

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I Get Toya Graham

Posted on April 29, 2015 by

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Do I think Toya Graham is a hero? No. I think she’s a mom who went completely off her nut when she caught her son throwing rocks at the police in Baltimore. And I get that. I really do. She saw him in a… Continue Reading “I Get Toya Graham”

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Mothers of Sons, Hear Me Out

Posted on September 29, 2012 by

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Mothers of sons, hear me out.  All mothers of sons, please listen.  I want to say what I have to say to all of you – the mothers of sons pulling straight A’s in college, the mothers of sons  who are struggling, the mothers… Continue Reading “Mothers of Sons, Hear Me Out”

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