COLORED JUSTICE

I was reading an article on BET.com as my work day was winding down. Since my first week of blogging I have become uninspired to write anything else. I have read different things on the web since Friday searching for that next thing to write about...finally I found it!

"COLORED JUSTICE"

The BET article I read outlined a MAJOR problem that I have personally beared witness to, as recent as yesterday. Before I go into the article I would like to tell you about my experience yesterday morning. While out on my morning stroll, the sun was shining bright so to keep the son out of my eye I had my fitted on pulled really low. As I walked AGAINST traffic, out the corner of my eye (looking @ the ground as I walked), I noticed a white car pull up right next to me. I looked up and....thats right it was them BOYZ (slang for police lol). They were in an umarked vehicle and didn't hesitate to hop out on me. Naturally this is a shock but as many times as I have had to deal with the police, in my life, it was more so standard procedure in my neighborhood I guess (being a black man of course). Long story short, the D-tec's let me go after checking my ID.

This is a perfect example of the quote on quote "racial profiling" that is a part of the "black experience" (blog for another day). Three white guys hop out on a young black professional, such as myself, in a minority filled neighborhood due to me dressing down to go to work...In other words if I had on my khakis/shoes/button up with no fitted then maybe I could have gotten away but I didn't, so I didn't lol!

Anyhow, now back to the article...did you know that the United States of America leads the world with people being incarcerated? Thats right, according to BET.com the USA has 2.3 million people in prison! However, the USA doesn't incarcerate PEOPLE like they do BLACK PEOPLE! According to the Justice Department, there is a major racial imbalance with the U.S. prison population (go figure). "African-American's" (aka black folks I'm uncomfortable associating myself as African-American) outnumber whites in jail 6 to 1. Black men out number white males 10 to 1.

According to Human Rights Watch, blacks in the USA are 12 times more likely to be sent to jail for drug related crimes than their white counterparts. The wild part about this FACT is that whites are the majority of drug abusers/users but BLACK people make up 54% of all people entering prison with NEW drug offense convictions!

For YEARS I have LITERALLY watched EACH AND EVERY SINGLE ONE OF MY CLOSE FRIENDS get arrested (MOST FOR DRUG OFFENSES). I am the ONLY one that hasn't, technically I am a minority amongst minorities...

Most black kids don't realize how the system is setup to get them. It isn't a sytem that seeks justice, moreso a system that seeks COLORED JUSTICE. What makes me say that? FACTS!

FACTS:
- In MOST states half a gram of Crack Cocaine (minority drug) carries a minimum STANDARD sentence of 2 years in jail.
- To get the STANDARD sentence of Cocaine (which is a luxury drug) you would have to get caught with 14 times that amount or 14 grams worth of cocaine.
- Due to this lopsided imbalance minorities blacks/hispanics have been jailed at record numbers even though it is well known that white people make up the majority of drug abusers/users.

If thats the case, how is that possible you ask? Simple, put all the black people in over crowded areas, The Willie Lynch speech (look it up!), keep em supressed, provide them with drugs and guns (which we don't manufacture, yet we lead when it comes to incarceration!?)

This is a MAJOR...MAJOR problem. More and more kids are getting arrested, coming home, on probation and going back to do the same stupid thing....I guess ignorance truly is bliss...but gosh is ignorance blind as well?

Is there no real justice? What are the odds that the D-Tec's/Narcs hop out on a black man and not arrest, search him? Shit, I'm one of the only ones and thats b/c I am a VERY good chameleon.

There really is no end to this particular blog, more so me getting back on the good foot. So I will leave you with this..."FTP -- FUCK THE POLICE!"

PS: We may say black people need to do better, or that we can do better. But how is that possible when the devil keeps finding work for our idle hands as my mother would say...of course the devil being the quote on quote "white man?"