A Rainy Day in Sacramento

I am sitting here ruminating again during a rainy day in Sacramento.

The Washington Post as did the Sacramento Bee; carried a story of a young man who was gunned down in South Sacramento, an African American community, for pointing a cell phone at officers.   He was shot over 20 times in his own backyard.  The officers yelled “show me your hands” a couple times, with no wait time and shot 20 times....then they yelled, “show me your hands again and waited”..

Isn’t his a little out of order?  Of course, of course the officers were white and the victim was black.

The young man had two children and was engaged...He had spent time in jail for something, but was NOT a violent criminal.

So on it goes.  In the most liberal state in union’s capital....a white on black shoot...Black lives matter once again?

Every damned time this happens....every time.  And we just appointed an African American as Police Chief, the first one in Sacramento history.

And so it goes.  America’s original sin just goes on and on and on.

I am beginning to work on my class for CSU Sacramento’s Renaissance program (for next fall).  I am watching YouTube videos, what a great teaching tool, of the genocide that reduced America’s indigenous population from 20,000,000 to 200,000 in three hundred years (and they didn’t all die of disease either).  The genocide was planned and executed mostly by the most democratic nation on earth, one with a Bill of Rights, one who fought a Civil War to end slavery, one who is trying to “get great again”.  And it won’t...

It won’t because of what happened in an all black neighborhood to a 20 year old kid, who did not evaporate into space fast enough to avoid a hail of bullets.

He was showing the officers that all he had was a damned cell phone for Christ’s sake...and without a hesitation one of them yelled gun (in a second) and shot 20 bullets into his body.

And they were in a “tough” black neighborhood and they were white...and relatively inexperienced.

And they panted like dogs, the adrenaline was so high in them...and after shooting the guy 20 times THEN they suddenly slowed down the “show us your hands” mantra.

Watch the video if you doubt me.  Watch it....

We elected a white supremacist as a damned President in direct obvious backlash to the African American President who we elected in 2008.  There is no doubt that white supremacy elected Donald Trump.

It killed over 19 million indigenous people, it enslaved millions and 600,000 died in the Civil War, then Jim Crowe took over and over 2000 a year were lynched in the south, segregation in the North and the South, still gives us cities like Sacramento (and every other one in America) that have white zones and black zones (maybe they aren’t official like apartheid, but the cops in south Sacramento knew exactly where they were and behaved exactly as we would expect);  fire from fear and fire quick.

And of course I could troop out the statistics that actually show people of color are not as gun violent as the white supremacist majority.  I could show you all that..

I don’t want to anymore!   I am too sick and tired of this hateful country!