Friday, January 27, 2023

The Fire Next Time: Black racist Memphis cops

Amy Goodman (DemocracyNow.org, 1/27/23); Pfc. Sandoval, Sheldon S., Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly; CNN; James Baldwin (Wiki)

"Racism" is a funny thing. When our hearts/minds become colonized by the dominant group (Caucasians), we may start doing their bidding to survive or prosper in this system. Anti-Black racism is not limited to whites. Black police may be worse at times, as they attempt to prove themselves to their white comrades in blue. They become worse than their jailers. Slavery lives.



CNN obtains audio of traffic stop involving Tyre Nichols
(CNN) Jan. 26, 2023. #CNN #News CNN has obtained portions of the police scanner audio leading up to the arrest of Tyre Nichols, who was murdered by racist police, dying three days after he was pulled over for alleged "reckless driving" in Memphis, Tennessee. Police say confrontations ensued between their officers and Mr. Nichols during the stop, leading them to torture him, and his death must have been an "act of God" because it happened later after the severe and inhuman beating they delivered to release their aggression and hostility toward Black motorists, the clear result of internalized-racism, a byproduct of colonization by an outside group with animosity toward the colonized group. CNN’s John Miller and Shimon Prokupecz join Alisyn Camerota to discuss. #CNN #News

What riots might erupt in the South?
The Fire Next Time
is a 1963 non-fiction book by American author James Baldwin, containing two essays -- "My Dungeon Shook: Letter to my Nephew on the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Emancipation" and "Down at the Cross: Letter from a Region of My Mind."

The book's title comes from a couplet in "Mary Don't You Weep," an African-American spiritual [1, 2]:


God gave Noah the rainbow sign
No more water, the fire next time

The first essay, written in the form of a letter to Baldwin's 14-year-old nephew, discusses the central role of race in American history. The second essay, which takes up the majority of the book, deals with the relations between race and religion, focusing in particular on Baldwin's experiences with the Christian church as a youth... More

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