Killers On Trial

John Wayne Gacey went to trial.
Gary Ridgeway had a trial.
Ted Bundy got a trial.
The mass murderer at the Colorado movie theater went on trial.
Dzokhar Tsarnaev has a trial.
Oh...they were white.
Mike Brown Jr. couldn't live to get to trial in this country.
He was a kid.
And he was unarmed.
He was African-American.
Of course he had to be gunned down in the streets by some cowardly badge.
That's the way we do it in America these days.
Mike Brown Jr. didn't do enough to go to trial.
Badges are the ones who do that these days.
As black people, we had better think of a way to begin to protect our younger generations.
We cannot be quiet and polite all the time while demanding our children stop getting
murdered in cold blood.
The police forces these days do the work of the KKK.
Why in the world did Mr. Ford get gunned down in St. Louis several days ago?
Is it a crime to be mentally compromised?
I thought even Sarah Palin felt it was a joke to bring a knife to a gun fight.
We are losing the fight for our future generations.
These policemen are no better than brown shirts. So far, they are worse because there
isn't even the pretense of a complaint or grudge.
Their responses are nonsensical for a loss of life struggle.
In Oscar Grant's death: "Oops."
In Sean Bell's death: "I thought I saw a gun."
In Amadou Diallo's death: "He was reaching for a lethal I.D."
In Trayvon's death: "I thought I was a policeman and 'they always get away' ".
In Mike Brown's case- well, he recognized a freak stopped him- and he made the mistake of
letting the guy know he knew a freak when he saw one.
But don't worry, Mike, some of us will always love you, and know you may save the lives of many
young men to come.
You were right that the whole world knows your name, though I know you wouldn't have wanted it
to be for the life you did not live.