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Cop Cancer: The Malignant Tumor of the African-American Community

By Jay Arrington, The “J” Spot

And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. Matthew 13:42

According to the CDC, cancer ranks as the second highest cause of death among African-Americans, natural deaths that is. But what about unnatural causes like death by what I like to call ‘Cop Cancer’ that old hide-in-plain-sight epidemic that has plagued African-Americans since reconstruction. For the record, where does that rank among cause of death for African-Americans? What are the symptoms? What are some of the preventive measures to avoid becoming a victim and what treatment is available?

Well, the first question is a bit difficult to answer because within the archives of denial there are no records to research. And besides do we really expect the fox to admit to the number of chickens he killed; do we really. The second question regarding symptoms while still difficult is somewhat less difficult depending on the when and the where. For example,

being harassed for no other reason that being African-American

beaten on the side of the highway by a state trooper

being called out of your name

taunted about your IQ

slammed on the hood of a car or on concrete

shot while standing on your front porch

shot when officers raid the wrong home

fired upon over 100 times as officers stand on the hood of your car

shot and killed as you flee

shot in the back as you lay on the ground

killed in Walmart while a holding toy gun that the store sells

being choked to death for selling loose cigarettes

dying after having your spinal cord severed in the back of a police van

dying in a jail cell after being arrested for failing to signal a lane change

being shot in the head after being pulled over for lacking a front license plate

Shall I continue?

 These types of things are nothing new or surprising to African-Americans and really to the majority of whites. Yeah, you all can feign shock and outrage all you want but you’ve known all along. And you know how we know you’ve known? Because instead of stopping the cancer it has spread like the malignant tumor that it is. You’ve cultivated and nurtured this cancer in your homes, in your schools, in policy and in the media. The difference now is that technology has created citizen journalists who for reasons of want of viral fame or whatever, record, posts and blast this cancer on social media for all the world to see.  Even so, video provides no guarantee that justice will prevail –read Eric Garner and Rodney King.   

As for questions three and four, “What are some of the preventive measures to avoid becoming a victim and what treatment is available,” unless we can figure out a way to stop being African-American I don’t see a viable solution other than prayer.

And pray we must.

If this were paper upon which I write my tears would wet the page and so alas I stain my keyboard. I cry, no I weep, not so much because I hurt but more so because I despair of the fact that we digress and remove ourselves ever so farther away from the love and the unity we claim we seek. I weep for the first African drawn and quartered in America; made an example to break the resistance of other slaves. I weep for the countless lives lost in the name of misplaced delusions of grandeur. I weep for Emmet Till. I weep for the four little girls. I weep for those hanged as strange fruit. I weep for those that weep in solitude abandoned and alone in their jail cells. I weep for the IRP6 and the Newburgh Four. I weep for the orphaned families. I weep for those who have yet to know weeping. But mostly I weep for those whose weeping will be accompanied by the gnashing of teeth.

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Rachel Dolezal: The Real Imitation of Life

By Jay Arrington

“I am—yet what I am, none cares or knows;  My friends forsake me like a memory lost: I am the self-consumer of my woes; They rise and vanish in oblivion’s host, Like shadows in love’s frenzied stifled throes: And yet I am, and live—like vapours tost.”From the John Clare poem “I Am”

So now everyone wants a piece of Rachel Dolezal’s hide, some want to tan (pardon the pun) the white part and others want to tar and feather the other. Personally, I could care less. It is even being reported that Dolezal admits that her hair is a weave, duh! Really, what self-respecting black woman doesn’t have a weave of some type in her hair? I am at a lost as to why this is a story anyway. Don’t get me wrong I do understand the shock and the outrage to a degree but what I don’t understand is the surprise everyone seems to be experiencing.

Consider this if you will. White folks have been imitating blacks for years, our music, our style of dress, our dance, our art, our walk, and our talk. Hell, the first time a white person laid out in the sun in an attempt to secure a tan we should have known something was up. Now-a-days, the only things that blacks can say we took from whites culturally speaking is disrespect for parents, promiscuity, lack of morals and tattoos (stolen from the Aryan Brotherhood in prison) and we screwed all of these things up by going overboard. And here is where things get people’s panties and boxers all in a bunch.

You see folks, America is accustomed to whites imitating blacks for entertainment purposes, (can anyone say blackface, Eminem, or Vanilla Ice) because there is no inherent danger of overkill. Blacks on the other hand consistently go overboard when imitating whites. Unfortunately, we blacks have yet to figure out the dangers such as societal regression reaped upon us (blacks) by blazing that obstacle laden trail. Enter Rachel, Dolezal, and suddenly that tabooed glass ceiling has been shattered. Rachel dared to go where no white man or woman that we know of had gone before. Instead of imitating or instead of pretending to be blackish Rachel decided to be black and some of us are insulted.

Remember the weave I mentioned earlier, why do you think weaves exist? Because white folks have brainwashed black women (some) into thinking that unless they have long flowing hair like white women they (black women) are unacceptable and unattractive. Why the hell would anyone be mad about a white woman wearing a weave and subjecting herself to the aforementioned mental psychosis? Hell, if anything take it as a compliment.

And besides if society accepts whatever Bruce Jenner’s name is claim that although he was born a man he is really a woman trapped in a man’s body, why not accept Rachel as being a black woman trapped in a white woman’s body however ridiculous the argument is or the speculation might be. Oh, but then again we are discussing race and race is not afforded the same “oh you poor thing you deserve to be happy” BS as whatever it takes or whatever someone does to achieve orgasm, can we talk.

In the movie “Watermelon Man,” Jeff Gerger, a middle-class white bigot awakens one day to find he is no longer white but black. Needless to say Gerger’s world is turned upside down. For one thing, Gerger, played by Godfrey Cambridge, is accused of robbery for running after a bus that as a white man he chased for years for exercise. Yet, chasing the bus as a black man, the police assume he is fleeing a crime scene, classic situation relevant even to this day.

In the film “Imitation of Life,” a young fair-skinned black girl named Sarah Jane played by Susan Kohner decides to pass as white to escape the oppressive policies of the era only to discover that passing is not a pass. When her white boyfriend discovers her deception, he beats Sarah Jane mercilessly. My point is that relatively speaking there is no fairytale happy ending for being black, pretending to be white and now we see also for pretending to be black, so what’s the big deal?    

Take a read of that excerpt from the poem at the beginning of the article and marinate on its meaning. What does it say about how you feel about who you are, where you are, versus what you want to be and where you want to be.

There is one thing if nothing else this entire affair begs me to contemplate, how much this girl’s parents hate her to have outed her, and why. 

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Baltimore: What It Really Tells Us

“It’s not about the stem. It’s about the root and the fruit.” Poetry Emotion By Jay

Last week on Real World News Radio I along with my partners Reggie Kearney (Editor-In-Chief & Publisher of Maryland Daily Examiner) and Chara Ann Tappin discussed “The Deadly Force: When Murder Becomes an Epidemic” with special guest Cheryl Ford Dorsey. Ms Dorsey who served for twenty-years with the LAPD and retired as a Sergeant, appeared as a guest to offer insight into the mentality of police officers and suggest ways in which blacks and the nation as a whole might combat this epidemic of murders of unarmed black men by police officers.

A few days prior to the show, shortly after his arrest by Baltimore City Police Freddie Gray according to unconfirmed reports suffered a crushed larynx and a severed spinal cord. Unconfirmed injuries notwithstanding however, the bottom line is this, Freddie Gray died from injuries sustained approximately 45 minutes after his arrest. Subsequent events that testify to the frustrations of a city long mired in the shackles of chain-free captivity provide ‘I told you so’ fodder for some and ‘It’s about time’ idiocy for others. Either way, enough is enough.

Toni Breedlove, CEO of Hot Topics Talk Radio Network and producer of Real World News Radio commented on the show that she holds her breath, afraid that each time her son leaves his home he might encounter some gung-ho trigger-happy police officer. Unfortunately, there are scores of mothers and fathers too that are holding their collective breaths for the very same reason. However, the truth is, even the fathers have reason to worry for their own safety because in present day America no black man is safe…not one.

Anyway, let’s take a few minutes and discuss the title of this article, “Baltimore: What it Really Tells Us.” Here are some interesting facts about Baltimore as reported in the April 28th edition of the Baltimore Sun (Mark Puente & Doug Donovan). Puente and Donovan wrote, “the city of Baltimore has paid roughly $6.3 million since 2011 to settle police-misconduct claims, according to a Baltimore Sun review of city and court records.”  The Sun’s investigation also revealed that, “the city spent $5.7 million in 102 court judgments and settlements for alleged police misconduct since 2011; since then, there has been an additional $587,250 in payouts.”

In addition, “the investigation showed that city residents — including a pregnant woman and an 87-year-old grandmother — received battered faces, broken bones and other injuries during questionable arrests.”

I mention these statistics because despite the rioting and the looting, which as usual appear to warrant more coverage than what triggered (pardon the pun) these events, statistics such as these do not represent outlier dynamics. No, to the contrary, what Baltimore tells us is this, “you can get away with something only for so long but sooner or later it catches up with you.” The aforementioned stats clearly say that Baltimore police have engaged in decades of abuse of authority, power and process not unlike many Law Enforcement Agencies throughout the United States, the judicial system (courts) included.

Here’s another stat for you, “through a Maryland Public Information Act request, The Sun requested details on lawsuits filed in 2013 and 2014. The city provided records for 156 cases.” That’s right folks, your eyes do not deceive you, the city provided 156 cases, which indicates there exists many, many more that the city did not provide. When we consider the breadth of irresponsible and reprehensible conduct of Baltimore City Police we now are forced to reconsider the argument that what we are witnessing is the result of a ‘few bad apples’ and that the ‘majority of police officers are decent.’

BS is what I say to both of these imaginary and unconscionable defenses. That said, I must admit that I too mouthed those words unaware that I, as others was parroting the very lines engrained into our psyche by Law Enforcement. They (Law Enforcement) want us to espouse this ‘stinkin thinkin’. They want us to believe this crap because we then act as defenders of the very policy we say we abhor.

Check this out, if you owned an apple orchard and this one particular tree consistently produced bad apples, what would you do? Perhaps you would think that you were doing something wrong, and tolerate the few bad apples. However, what if the problem never corrected itself but instead begin to manifest throughout the orchard? Would you not then begin to consider the root? The more prudent course of action would be to consider that which you do not see, the root or in the case of Law Enforcement the system itself?

Furthermore, where it concerns this notion that the majority of police officers are decent that’s another pile of rubbish. Yeah, I said it. Sure, there are many decent police officers but they are not in the majority. Allow me to explain. Well it’s quite simple really because where I come from majority rules. You see, a majority of decent police officers would not tolerate a few bad apples that misrepresent the tree/system. A majority of decent police officers would not attempt to cover up the misguided, racist, and hate-filled ideologies of rogue police officers. No, that is not what a majority of decent police officers would do, the thin blue line be damned. This is what Baltimore tells us. You now have my permission to exhale.

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