Perusing Facebook, I happened upon a thread concerning the tragic death of Major Barney, a Metro-Atlanta Police Officer who was slain in the line of duty. A Facebook user, Debbie Duncan, fueled a hate-filled discussion by asking... [Where's Al Sharpton and Beyoncé now... I guess Black Lives matter only when they're not blue...]
Regardless of the community or group one primarily affiliates with, most of us can say we abhor crime. We don't celebrate the criminal pariahs that exist in all communities. We are all incensed when injustice supersedes justice. When criminality eclipses lawfulness, regardless of which side the criminality occurs, we all suffer.
Whether it's an innocent child walking home then murdered by a thug with a firearm and no authority or an unarmed man holding up his wallet to identify himself is gunned down by more than forty bullets or a police officer slain in the line of duty, it is all reprehensible.
People who poke the public with thinly veneered, race-baited sarcasm and dog whistles unnerve me.
Moreso disdainful is when injustice is served exponentially, perpetuated and upheld by those sworn to exact fairness regardless of one's personal biases. Case and point: a criminal, thug walks into a church of unarmed praying parishioners, proceeds to execute them and the judge has the unmitigated gall to admonish the victims and families to not only think of their hurt but emphasizes to have sympathy for the thug and his family. To twist the knife further lawmakers and blowhards blame the victims for not being armed. I ask Where's Debbie Duncan?
When innocent children attending school are murdered by thugged-out criminals legally obtaining lethal assault weapons and the lobbyist for gun control maintain the ease of accessing these weapons... When a woman is pulled out of her car for a minor traffic offense, arrested for resisting arrest and is now dead... Where's Debbie Duncan?
How about when a sitting president is unabashedly disrespected, elected officials criminally refuse to work for the betterment of its constituents, our country, because of bigotry? When a mentally ill woman driving erratically in a car outside of the White House is gunned down while her baby is in the back seat, but a man jumps the White House fence and makes it through the front door and is still alive... Is Debbie Duncan speaking out against these atrocities?
What is Debbie saying when an officer executes a fleeing man, attempts to frame the unarmed man with a weapon and falsifies his police report. The officer is jailed only because his irrefutable actions are caught on camera, not that that helped Rodney King--I digress. Then said officer is quietly released on bail to await trial. Is Debbie Duncan protesting the officer's release on bail? Again I ask Where is Debbie Duncan?
Dear Debbie,
We see you...
Regardless of the community or group one primarily affiliates with, most of us can say we abhor crime. We don't celebrate the criminal pariahs that exist in all communities. We are all incensed when injustice supersedes justice. When criminality eclipses lawfulness, regardless of which side the criminality occurs, we all suffer.
Whether it's an innocent child walking home then murdered by a thug with a firearm and no authority or an unarmed man holding up his wallet to identify himself is gunned down by more than forty bullets or a police officer slain in the line of duty, it is all reprehensible.
Moreso disdainful is when injustice is served exponentially, perpetuated and upheld by those sworn to exact fairness regardless of one's personal biases. Case and point: a criminal, thug walks into a church of unarmed praying parishioners, proceeds to execute them and the judge has the unmitigated gall to admonish the victims and families to not only think of their hurt but emphasizes to have sympathy for the thug and his family. To twist the knife further lawmakers and blowhards blame the victims for not being armed. I ask Where's Debbie Duncan?
When innocent children attending school are murdered by thugged-out criminals legally obtaining lethal assault weapons and the lobbyist for gun control maintain the ease of accessing these weapons... When a woman is pulled out of her car for a minor traffic offense, arrested for resisting arrest and is now dead... Where's Debbie Duncan?
How about when a sitting president is unabashedly disrespected, elected officials criminally refuse to work for the betterment of its constituents, our country, because of bigotry? When a mentally ill woman driving erratically in a car outside of the White House is gunned down while her baby is in the back seat, but a man jumps the White House fence and makes it through the front door and is still alive... Is Debbie Duncan speaking out against these atrocities?
What is Debbie saying when an officer executes a fleeing man, attempts to frame the unarmed man with a weapon and falsifies his police report. The officer is jailed only because his irrefutable actions are caught on camera, not that that helped Rodney King--I digress. Then said officer is quietly released on bail to await trial. Is Debbie Duncan protesting the officer's release on bail? Again I ask Where is Debbie Duncan?
Dear Debbie,
We see you...
