On MLK Day-No Justice, No Peace- Stop The Police Killings Of Black And Brown People-Malcolm X Where Are You Now When You Are Needed

 

 

Frank Jackman comment: 

The comment below was used just last week (November 22, 2014) on the decision not to indict the police officer in the Ferguson, Missouri case of Michael Brown. The situation in New York yesterday (November 29, 2014) is so raw that I am using that basic statement again.

“It has always been easy for the American imperialist capitalist government and their police to treat black youth, especially black males and increasing Latinos like they have treated the peoples of Southeast Asia in the past, and in Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan more recently as so much collateral damage when they pulled the hammer down. Trayvon Martin, Eric Garner, Michael Brown, and a myriad of others shot down over the years by the police and/or vigilantes cry out for justice in New York City this day and will not accept another whitewash.  If only we had another Malcolm X around to properly channel this rage and really do something about the situation.” 

Malcolm X on Racist America

The text of this telegram to Rockwell, head of the American Nazi Party, was read aloud by Malcolm X at a public rally of the Organization of Afro-American Unitv in Harlem on January 24. 1965.

Public Notice to George Lincoln Rockwell

"This is to warn you that I am no longer held in check from fighting white supremacists by Elijah Muhammad's separatist Black Muslim movement, and that if your present racist agitation against our people there in Alabama causes physical harm to Reverend King or any other black Americans who are only attempting to enjoy their rights as free human beings, that you and your Ku Klux Klan friends will be met with maximum physical retaliation from those of us who are not hand-cuffed by the disarming philosophy of nonviolence, and who believe in asserting our right of self-defense—by any means necessary."

With that in mind all I can think of today is a couple of the lines from the lyrics to Bob Dylan’s 1960s song, The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll-the facts of each of the cases may be quite different but the injustice reeks to the same high heaven…

Oh, but you who philosophize disgrace and criticize all fears
Bury the rag deep in your face
For now’s the time for your tears