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The Death of Anthony Hill: Something Is Rotten in the State of America
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-david-jaffee/the-death-of-anthony-hill_b_6844588.html?utm_hp_ref=black-voicesAnthony Hill, like Africa, Ezell Ford, Miriam Carey, Tanisha Anderson and Eleanor Bumpurs before him, was also undoubtedly scared. He needed someone to reassure him too...
...If we did not know this already, we all know by now from statistics that young black men are far more likely to be arrested, ticketed, jailed and killed than white or Latino men. And that is true throughout our country, not just in Ferguson, Mo., or Atlanta, Ga.
Yes, something is and always has been rotten not only in the state of Denmark, but also in the state of America. When Hamlet contemplated the disgusting spectacle of his mother's marriage so shortly after his father's death, he quipped, "the funeral baked meats did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables."
One might add that the recent confluence of racially charged incidents in our country stinks like left-over, baked meats at a funeral. There have been too many funerals of late, too many funerals for people of color and people with mental illness.
Until law enforcement learns how to de-escalate situations with young black men and those with mental illness, our justice system will continue to corrode and rot from within.
...If we did not know this already, we all know by now from statistics that young black men are far more likely to be arrested, ticketed, jailed and killed than white or Latino men. And that is true throughout our country, not just in Ferguson, Mo., or Atlanta, Ga.
Yes, something is and always has been rotten not only in the state of Denmark, but also in the state of America. When Hamlet contemplated the disgusting spectacle of his mother's marriage so shortly after his father's death, he quipped, "the funeral baked meats did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables."
One might add that the recent confluence of racially charged incidents in our country stinks like left-over, baked meats at a funeral. There have been too many funerals of late, too many funerals for people of color and people with mental illness.
Until law enforcement learns how to de-escalate situations with young black men and those with mental illness, our justice system will continue to corrode and rot from within.
