RENEEGEDE

We live in a society that has never failed to fail miserably when it comes to protecting its black and colored citizens, including those who have never harmed a flea in their entire lives. It is no wonder that the latest Oakland murders of three police officers and one black man who couldn’t find a job because he had a prior record have the nation in such an uproar.

On the black side of town, we’re looking at a set of people who have been harrassed, racially profiled and “targeted” since nearly the beginning of this nation’s history; a people who are getting more and more fed up with it daily. We also face a massive influx of crooked cops who deal drugs, commit criminal acts and break laws themselves, and/or are bona fide members of the Ku Klux Klan; yet are taken out of harm’s way for committing crimes against even the most innocent amongst us, the guilty be triple- and quadruple-damned.

This is a nation that does not bother to do complete background and psychological checks and tests on police officers, judges or lawyers. These people infiltrate the criminal justice systems and make a mockery of it by using those who can no longer legally take blacks to the woods and lynch them and giving them badges, guns and Glock-9s. They get to use them randomly, at will and with malice aforethought, knowing that the court system will protect them no matter what.

Then in the strangest case yet seen, the tables are turned and the black man who would have been just another Oscar Grant ended up getting the better of not one, not two, but three police officers; and all anyone can say is that God never allows anything to happen without a reason.

On the white side of town, there is still a need to portray certain persons as “pristine clean”to the al–seeing all-knowing public. There could not have been anything wrong with them because they were white and because they were law-abiding members of the Oakland police force: They could do no wrong. And Lovelle Mixon, someone’s baby born into a world that he did not ask to be born into? He’s, of course, just a black animal. As usual. It goes along with the status quo of more than 350 years of criminally unjustifiable behavior in America against blacks and is certainly par for the course.

But what will a closer look find?

That maybe Lovelle Mixon was simply protecting himself from the true criminals who were going to take his life? Or that Lovelle Mixon was simply tired of an America that makes his life, and that of other black men,  a living nightmare in the way that they are treated and shunned and shut out of society almost from the day they are born? Or will we learn that Lovelle Mixon simply bought into the lies that have been told about black people in general and turned his life over to a justice system that has made him and others like him the target of consistent and daily killings and jailings and cyclical imprisonment.

Maybe we’re all just sick and tired of it, period.

I know how hard it is for a black man in this nation, let alone one who has put himself into the hands of a murderous police force by virtue of buying into a lie about who he is and what is his fate in life. I’ve seen one black man after another buy into the lie and call it reality and no matter how many times I tell them they’ve turned the lie IN-TO a reality, they call me crazy for believing so.

Maybe Lovell Mixon and the murdered police officers wish they could come back here and tell the rest of us what God is trying to tell us by making an example of them. Making sense of it is going to reveal a too-long hidden story that some people will not want to deal with, but they will have no choice because…

Maybe God is sick and tired of it, too.

Maybe America needs to take a closer look at who is being hired on our police forces and for what reason; and more complete and comprehensive background checks need to be done on the officers, judges and lawyers before they are allowed to practice law in this country. It may take some of the mystery out of why black men really behave as they do.

If the judicially endowed are going to be given statutory immunity and portrayed as squeaky clean, they should BE squeaky clean. This day and age and the lackadaisical maltreatment within the system makes it almost impossible to feel sympathy when policemen are killed under these circumstances. Almost as impossible as it is when the Kenneth Walkers, Sean Bells, Amadou Diallo’s, Eleanor Bumpuses, and Oscar Grants are murdered for no reason and there is no pain or waves of shock felt for them; except in Mixon’s case, he appeared to have decided he’d rather be dead than locked up in prison again.

If we feel hopeless and lost right now, I can only wonder how hopeless he must have felt when he finally said f–k it and decided to go out in a blaze.

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