Our country (click here) is waking up to the pervasiveness and brutality of policing in black communities. At the same time, we are engaged in the most important surveillance debate in a generation. Conversations about these trends rarely intersect.
On April 8, 2016, Georgetown Law and the Center on Privacy & Technology will hold a landmark conference to begin bridging that gap. Entitled The Color of Surveillance: Government Monitoring of the African American Community, the conference will explore the role of law enforcement and national security surveillance in the relationship between African Americans and their government – beginning with the colonial era and continuing to the present day....
Everyone interested in ending the violence of our black neighborhoods should watch this CPAN2 event in it's entirety.
How do we deprogram a young black person who has been told in a wide variety of ways they were unworthy of their presence in society. There exists Police Books that include innocent people IN CASE they commit a crime. When do we, in the USA, stop telling young black people they are nothing but trouble?
There is an entire culture in black communities that reinforce oppression and the message they aren't worth it. What is worth is the spending of billion and billion of US dollars over decades of time to create and reinforce that very culture. "The White Man" has caused that community suffering in ways no other people in the USA experience life.
Ferguson is all part of it. I know Ferguson is repeated across the USA. I know it for a fact. Sandra Bland was going to happen. That was her destiny.
There are separate cultures in this country based in racial bias and hatred and ENFORCED by control.
Sandra was told over and over in many ways she was not worth it. That travesty of a policeman was self-righteous for a reason.
There is an entire culture in black communities that reinforce oppression and the message they aren't worth it. What is worth is the spending of billion and billion of US dollars over decades of time to create and reinforce that very culture. "The White Man" has caused that community suffering in ways no other people in the USA experience life.
Ferguson is all part of it. I know Ferguson is repeated across the USA. I know it for a fact. Sandra Bland was going to happen. That was her destiny.
There are separate cultures in this country based in racial bias and hatred and ENFORCED by control.
Sandra was told over and over in many ways she was not worth it. That travesty of a policeman was self-righteous for a reason.
