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My Friends,

There are few times when I have been more disgusted.  Even with my level of education, it is still difficult to articulate my feelings on this subject.

Friday I learned a lesson:  that for every action there is an equal but opposite loophole.  I would have thought that there was no legitimate way that any twelve individuals could find it in their hearts and souls to acquit four police officers that slaughter a black man in cold blood.  How twelve jurors can rationalize the execution-style murder of another human being -- the shooting of an unarmed man already on the ground.  Even a death by firing squad in the 17th century would have been more humane.

I rode the subway home Friday.  I must admit that I looked into the eye of every police officer with disgust; every white person with hatred.  I know that they each are not individually responsible for the murder or the verdict, but they represent their organization and race just as much as I do when I walk into a ritzy store here on Fifth Avenue.  I was livid because twelve jurors just made official something that I had suspected for years:  it is perfectly legal and acceptable to gun down an African American male in the street!  I have never felt more like and endangered species, the hunted, a target if you will, than I did on Friday evening.  Some readers of this email may disagree with me on this next statement, but I believe that every African American and Latino police officer who does not stand up against the injustices that transpire at the hand of their organization is part of the problem.  If you are not part of the solution, then you are part of the problem.  I agre!
e that any individual officer who stands up to the NYPD will be alienated, chastised, terminated, or even killed, but they can't kill half of the police force.

Amadu Diallo could have just as easily have been me.  I have been stopped by the police numerous times for no good reason.  Every time that I have been stopped, I have been met with aggression and hostility.  I am being conditioned to be afraid, but that only makes me want to rebel even more.  Consequently I am more likely to end up lying on the sidewalk because I "think I'm special."  Police hate to see me dressed better than them, more educated than them, making more money than them.  They resent that they put their lives on the line everyday and are poorly compensated for it, but a young black man can legitimately own a Mercedes Benz.

I have white co-workers whom I eat lunch with regularly.   Most of them live in the suburbs of NYC or Northern NJ.  Yet they see fit to pass comment that our mayor Rudolph Guliani has cleaned up NYC.; he has reduced the crime.  I find that outrageous because they are not the ones being assaulted by the police.  Even when they are stopped, the police officer's demeanor is completely different.  For they are whom the police are employed to protect and serve.  For those readers who do not live in NYC, we residents live in two very different worlds: one that is designed to protect and serve a particular race, and another that is a police-state designed to keep certain races "in check."

This is another reason why the white woman who wrote the letter to Sister 2 Sister magazine could not have been talking about me.  I could not date/marry a white woman because when things like this happen, I need a woman who can feel my pain.  A woman who can empathize NOT sympathize.

So my heart goes out to the families of every Amadu Diallo, Anthony Baez, and any other African American or Latino who has been murdered at the hands of the NYPD.  To my brothers, we need to watch our backs!


Sincerely Yours,

The Endangered Species.







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