The Friend

The events in Charlottesville, Virginia were tragic as a domestic terrorist group sought to incite violence and instill fear into the hearts of all non-whites on August 12th, 2017. If 2017 has taught us anything, it is that many members of the white majority have displayed a learning deficiency in regards to the actual black experience, the actual historical degradation and the actual suppressive ideology of white supremacy (beyond the factions of 'white supremacists' who appear on our television screens). The reason I have labeled white ignorance as a 'learning deficiency' is because I have found that many whites are simply unable to empathize with the black experience and much of this is ignorance is because their realm of existence is so distinctively different than that of black Americans. When someone is diagnosed as having a learning deficiency it is sometimes due the inability of the brain to receive or process information. Many blacks have found that when exp

In other news, we have an issue.  Shaun King says, "More than 660 people have been killed by American police so far in 2017. This year is on pace to be the deadliest on record for people killed by American police since national databases began keeping track in 2013. No other developed nation in the world has 10% of that number." In a country that is continually set against itself we see another example of heinous police brutality.  Justine Damond, was shot and killed by those sworn to protect and serve after alerting the Minnesota Police Department of a possible disturbance behind her home.  I grieve for her, her fiancé, her family and the community of people who knew her.  I am sorry for the loss of of this woman who deserves to have the opportunity to decide what she wanted to do with her day today. I am grieved to know that there are those in her native country of Australia who are, perhaps for the first time, experiencing firsthand America's violent historical p