What is this the 1000th time? Is anyone tired of this , like I am ? another black man was brutally beaten by the police, this time all the officers who committed this terrible act were black, although they just fired a 6th person , he was white.
Now correct me if I’m wrong , but the usual will happen. First there is the protest, then the family will put up a gofundme, Ben Crump will move swiftly to settle the case. The president will call the family and even invite them to the white house, and here comes Ben Crump’s favorite part, The City/State will pay out a lump sum usually in the millions. Then everyone will go about their daily lives like nothing happened. Does this sound familiar?
Its almost as if we want these things to happen so we get a big pay out. These settlements are tax payers money. I don’t know who we think we are punishing by taking this money? the white man ? white supremacy? the Police ? the state ? we have to learn that you cannot punish an entity or an institution, you can punish individuals though, sure a few individuals will go to jail but the system remains the same. let us remember this is not money from wall street, not money from big pharma, not money from big tech , not money from corporations, basically its not money from institution that systematically oppressed black people. I will say it again , it is tax payers money.
This simply means money from some resource will have to be diverted to pay for this, some family will be become very rich . These states are usually impoverished and yet somehow we will squeeze out millions just to give to one family as if to say it will bring their family back. lets take a look at some numbers shall we
- Tamir Rice $6 Million
- Freddie Gray $6.4 Million
- Laquan Mcdonald $5 Million
- Eric Garner-$5.9 Million
- Sandra Bland-$1.9 Million
- Mike Brown-$1.5 Million
- Trayvon Martin $1 Million ( undisclosed)
- Philando Castile $3Million
- Sean Bell-$7 million
- Koryn Gaines (was supposed to $32 Million but a settlement was reached for $3 million)
- Alton Sterling $3 million
- Oscar Grant $1.5 million
- George Floyd $27 Million
- Breonna Taylor $12 Million
Yes brothers and sisters , $88 Million and counting , let us not forget, black lives matter founder Patrice Cullors became a millionaire by starting an organization for activism. Black lives matter got more than $90 million. Yes they got more money than the sum total of what the Victims got. Let us not forget Rodney King who was awarded $3.8 Million who died of a drug overdose
Brothers and sisters, it is getting to a point where the difficult question has to be asked
Do We really want Justice ? Or a Pay out ????
