What is going on here? Jacob Blake has his three children in his car and upon being non-compliant to an officers' orders, receives seven bullets (four landed) in the back rendering him a paraplegic for life (when he was no real threat). Just a month ago we had to deal with the murder of George Floyd. Who can forget the murder of Ahmaud Arbury just two months prior to Floyd. This is systematic of the racial profiling done by the authorities creating a two-tier system for policing. The 'White' treatment vs the 'Black' treatment. The Black Lives Matter movement has evolved into a Civil Rights Movement that can't and won't be shut down until the U.S. Government deals with their denial of reparation for African-Americans. Personally I believe that reparation should be a yearly 20% of the U.S.A's G.D.P (annually). Anything less would be ignorant to the fact that African-Americans make up 20% of the U.S population.
What would have happened in the time of Lansky, Luciano, and Siegal had the authorities operated this way (as they are acting towards 'Blacks' today) towards the U.S.A's Italian and Jewish population then?
A reparation is in order. Is retribution in order? or do we acknowledge that G-d himself works in mysterious ways. Personally, I'd laugh if the cop that shot Jacob Blake came down with a life threatening stroke or heart attack. That would be redemption from the highest level.
Just don't ask me to play G-d, as 'Black' men are profiled systematically by the authorities. My Grandfather was a quarter 'Black'. It's offensive for me to explain why I will never have the right to operate in vengeance for the killings of my people. If vigilante operations against the authorities exist as a result of these Murders, there will be nothing the authorities will be able to do about it.
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