Tuesday, April 20, 2021

Derek Chauvin the Murderer - by Moses

       The case of Derek Chauvin will be finalized shortly.  He is a murderer plain and simple.  Any soul that didn't see this case to be just that is just plain ignorant.  Conviction of 2nd degree murder is imperative to the U.S to avert an ugly scene of protesters met by the National Guard.  This could in fact snowball out of control until African Americans receive reparations for the sins against their people.  The Chauvin case is a disgusting display of Dutch Africana submission and choke holds that were employed for 100 years (until the end of Apartheid).  These are choke holds to the death that Dutch Africana police were authorized to use against 'Blacks' in South Africa under Apartheid (for about 100 years).  I say 'An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth' for a murderer like Chauvin.  This disgusting practice of teaching choke holds to the death exist in police training across America today and is in fact a reality .  In fact this has spurred the U.S into a quagmire that it may have trouble rendering from; the fact that in a couple of years it will probably be illegal in North America to use N-bombs, C-bombs, or any other attack of someones ethnicity without criminal prosecution.  This is hard to comprehend with Freedom of Speech in our constitution, but the criminal code could have provisions similar to that of being able to make an arrest if a person yells fire in a movie theater as a purposeful false alarm.  This should however be quantified.  Should we appease racism and support Freedom of Speech with zero provisions in our criminal code, or do we accept that it is too harmful to the psyche of a Canadian or American kid to hear ethnic slights of derogatory nature of their ethnicity, and implement discretionary policing when there is blatant racism in the verbal attack.  Where do we draw the line for our children as to what is right and wrong?  What would academics like James Baldwin say on this matter?    

  In the turn of the century in the lower east side in New York City it was common place to hear ethnic slights of all kinds.  It is now 2021 and we still have ethnic slights employed on the streets of every big city in Canada and the U.S.A.  It can no longer be acceptable for a man to rage on another man based on ethnicity.  The problem we will have as a collective society is how to enforce blatant verbal racism in the near future - when to draw the line.  It has cropped up in Quebec, Canada that 'Black' Hockey players in little league have been name-called over the last number of years, and with a zero tolerance policy in the NHL towards verbal racism, a player in the NHL faces suspension by the League should it come up.  Therefore Canada really can't afford to have it both ways.  Personally I'm in favor of criminal prosecution and provisions in the criminal code to deal with excessive use of verbal racism.  I would imagine that this issue will be dealt with as per our current situation with the Chauvin case, as well as reparations for the U.S African American population for their suffering.  It can no longer be acceptable to have police brutality employed in the name of Dutch Africana submission holds, and it can no longer be acceptable to be scapegoated based on race, color, or creed.  

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Hi Moses,
I appreciate your comments. I did npt know about the africana choke hold being taught to police in South Africa.
The police's use of life threatening forms of agression towards anyone, especially
people of colour, or another ethnicity, is not acceptable.
It is essential that the government set consequences for this behaviour. These consequences must be in place, and routinely enforced in order to properly control this despicable behaviour.