Just Another dead Nigger


“…Death is no stranger to Black folks. We've been dying ever since we got here…” *

The story had a familiar ring to it. A young Blackman has been killed by the Police in New York. Sean Bell who was just 23 was out on his stag night when the car he was travelling in was shot over 50 TIMES by some animals in human skin dressed as New York Police officers. And to think we thought the Met Police officers who shot Jean Charles De Menezes, seven times, were trigger happy.


What in Gods name will make supposedly trained Police Officers fire over 50 shots at a car whose occupants were not armed? If there was an exchange of fire then perhaps there could be some argument for their excessive firing. But there was none, they three occupants of the car were not even carrying a knife. So what caused the Policemen (animals not policemen) to want to kill all three men? I will tell you what made them open fire; because they were Black.


This will not be the first time that an innocent Black person will be killed by the Police in America. In 2001, Timothy Thomas an UNARMED Black teenager was shot by a White Police officer. In 2000, Patrick Dorismond another UNARMED Black man was killed by the police. In 1999, in an incident that shocked all decent people, four white police officers shot an UNARMED African immigrant Amadou Diallo over 40 times.


It will seem that the mantra of the Police in the United States is “when you shoot at a Black man, make sure you kill him”. There is nothing like shooting to incapacitate. It is “shoot to kill” simple. After all it will be one less Nigger on the street. It is when things like this happen that I thank God that at the very least, I live in a society where there is the rule of Law and where the Police will not pump 50 odd bullets in you simply because of the colour of your skin.
I have always believed that there is something sinister and evil in the heart of middle white America as far as Black people are concerned. You only need to scratch the surface to reveal the bigotry and rabid hatred of Black people by the Law Enforcement agencies in America. Should this be a surprise? No I will say. Why? because these agencies are populated by KKK loving Cops.


Not too long in the violent history of the United States, it was common practise to hang Black men. This was a period during which Black people were hung from the nearest trees just for the fun of it. Then such hangings were public events, hundreds and sometimes thousands, including men and women turned up to enjoy the spectacle

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4316715.stm
http://withoutsanctuary.org/main.html
http://www.liu.edu/cwis/cwp/library/african/2000/lynching.htm

The killing of Sean Bell is simply a carry over of the bad old days when groups of white people in America killed black people for recreation. If Sean Bell were white he will be alive today. This is the sad reality of life in the US.


*Taken from Die Nigger Die: A Political Autobiography by H. Rap Brown