Raymond Sturgis - Black Lives Matter: Is It Open Season on Killing and Mistreating Blacks in America

BLACK LIVES MATTER

( Is It Open Season on Killing and Mistreating Blacks In America )

RAYMOND STURGIS

BLACK LIVES MATTER Copyright 2015

All Rights Reserved. Printed In the United States of America. No Part of this Book may be used or reproduce in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

DEDICATION

F or my children, may you be part of a renewed generation of Americans that practice equality and character becomes more important than hate.

Table of Contents

PREFACE

DO WHITE PEOPLE SEE BLACK PEOPLE AS EQUALS?

HOW CAN WE SLEEP WHEN WE ARE IN A STORM?

MR. POLICE, WHO IS YOUR GOD?

WHAT ARE BLACK YOUTH CHOICES IN AMERICA?

A BLACK CHILD WILL BE MURDERED

MISDIRECTION

A MAN NAMED BLACK

EVERY NIGHT A BLACK CHILD IS SHOT

BLACK PEOPLE, YOU ARE ALSO KILLING YOURSELVES!

IF MY CHILD WAS HERE

W HAT IS BLACK AMERICAS LANGUAGE?

LOVE YOUR WOMAN, DO NOT HIT YOUR WOMAN

LETTERS FROM MURDERED BLACK CHILDREN

THERE IS STILL A CHANCE FOR LOVE

HEY BLACK MAN, I CAN HEAR YOUR FOOTSTEPS

PREFACE

A s Grand juries and Federal investigators in America render a decision on whether to indict white police officers for shooting unarmed black men. The question remains, where is the justice? Every day a black mother has to believe the impossible as her child lay dead due to the insensitivity and anger of another human being. It would be inconceivable as a parent, to process, burying a child whom you planned to bury you. People have been saying for years there are too many young black men dying from gun violence. Consequently, it is fair to say that many have thrown their hands up, and accede to negative opinions concerning violence impeding the young lives of people we love.

In addition to the violence that victimizes black people, psychoanalysis would have a hard time discovering why people murder to feel peaceful. In other words, they are saying through murder, or violence, ...that I need you to relinquish your life, your security to make me happy.... I understand no one is entitled to live out his or her days escaping a violent death. However, when the young people of your society have violent deaths or prison as their destination, drastic measures of changing their lives need to be considered. Death is death. Therefore, black people should riot and demonstrate for all the senseless violence that exists where they call home no matter the color of the assailant. The time has come for the future young black grave keepers, to protest against the very system and people that are destined to murder them. Black people future in America will consist of more turmoil if unnecessary funerals among the young are not resolved. Please understand the words that are written throughout this book, for invisible hands wrote them from parents with tears in their eyes for children they will see again in heaven. I cannot express the unlimited pain of the parents, but I can corroborate the message of peace to come to our communities and homes. We must start making white police officers, and officers of the judicial system understand we are no longer taking this type of violence against people without serious repercussions. We may be black; however, we know love, peace and respect. Now is the time we make insensitive white Americans respect black life, or they will continue murdering black people as if we have to tolerate their injustice due to our inability to unite. Martin Luther King Jr said, ...there comes a time when people get tired of the iron feet of oppression.... Death by violence among black men is the latest oppression, and it is6 time we break the injustices that are trampling our black people to their graves.

.... When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall....

Mahatma Gandhi

BLACK LIVES MATTER

DO WHITE PEOPLE SEE BLACK PEOPLE AS EQUALS?

H ere we are again America , with more incidents of rage and disrespect toward African Americans by white police officers. I understand that all incidents are different, and one should not categorize good police with those that violate human rights of black people. Today, Officer Ben Fields of South Carolina violently tossed a black female student sitting in her desk to the floor and later out of the classroom. The video has surfaced through social media and the outpouring for justice for the teen is loud and uninterrupted. America, I cannot understand why this great nation is still producing officials of the law and government that refuse to respect the lives of black Americans. There is no need for a history lesson on race and unfairness toward black people from white people, for their actions apparently needs more correction. Every incident should be a wakeup call for blacks in America; however, violence against black people has not changed neither have the living conditions. The South Carolina Police Department police department terminated Officer Ben Fields employment, and still, questions of ignored misconduct in this officers past need answering. Furthermore, many Americans question the behavior of the black female student, and wonder if she has always been a disruption in the class. During the incident, many people were concerned with the arrest of the female student who spoke out against the irrational behavior of Ben Fields arrested. There are still many whites in America that believe black people are animals and need restraint with chains or handcuffs to communicate with them sensibly. The protocol of majority white police officers is to secure an immediate position of control and intimidation; and when black people are fearless; the officers shoot them dead or restrain them in servitude positions. Now, police officers will disavow these facts; however, police officer's behavior is to establish position, because they become enraged to see any black person, wrong or right, showing any sign of strength.