Everyone sees that if you want to trigger Black people into doing anything make a linkage between the thing that you want us to focus upon to "Slavery", "The Civil Rights Movement", "The Republican Party" or some other commonly understood index of RACISM.
Its just that simple folks.
As a person who is all for killers receiving their just due - I am not opposed to the "Civil Rights Cold Case" files because of the group of killers that it focused upon. I have a problem with the fact that the initiative's legislative sponsors don't have the same passion in going after those people who are KILLING US TODAY.
In our conditioning we are made to believe that the White man who killed a Black person back in 1952 is a greater threat to our community than the Street Pirate who murdered two people last month and is still on the loose. The key difference is that only the first scenario would draw a mass protest in front of the state capital by Black people.
If indeed we are gunning toward "FULL EQUALITY" then the entire scope of equality must be explored.
- Our activism tends to focus upon having society prove to us that we are equal by having it distribute justice and civic resources to us in equal measure.
- The more underdeveloped notion of justice has to do with the EQUAL EXPECTATIONS that our people will hold a Black person equally accountable for upholding certain societal standards that all other citizens are expected to operate according to.

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Consider that any culprits from the 50's and 60's are likely dead.
This merely shows that some Black people are inclined to have their nostalgia about "Civil Rights Cold Cases" than they are willing to protest, demanding that they focus instead on the "Killing Fields" of today.
If the leadership did focus on the present - they risk being booted out of office for incompetence. I don't blame them. It is the Rank and File that must stop them from this foolishness.
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