OH I DIDN'T FORGET

So when one decides to commit a robbery, does that individual think about why they are going to do it? The consequences of doing it? The chance that someone could get hurt in the act of committing a crime? Yeah okay...let's assume that everything comes up yes. What in the SPECIAL FUCK would possess someone to rob somebody after a car accident. In that same vain WHY IN THE SPECIAL FUCK would you rob a policeman who has just crashed his car into a light pole? HUH?!

Details: Wednesday evening here in Chicago a veteran Chicago Police officer (and by the way, I am not saying that I am an advocate for the cops in fact QUITE the opposite) was responding to a burglary in progress when an 85 year old man crashed into the cops car critically injuring him. His spine was fucked up do you get what I am saying? In the midst of this injury with a cop clinging to his life some industrious black folks decided to rob the cop. That's right go into the cop car and rob him. When I first heard this I thought it was a joke but you will soon see it was no joke at all.

Here is the problem, the police do not hold special keys to the shit black folks need. They can't buy us food or get us a car off the lot. They can't get someone to stop by and mow our lawns or any of that stuff. The police have a challenging job as it is and to ask them to do more is kind of crazy. To rob a man when he is critically injured is a whole new box of BBQ. The cop was turned over by a group of people BLACK FOLKS who decided that he must have something of worth...after all he is a cop by all accounts a BLACK COP so instead of saying, oh my God we gotta call 911 they said fuck him - he must have the keys we need.

Here is where the shit gets all Barney Miller-ish right? One of these stupid fuckers took the cops gun. His address is posted on this site right here along with his name and his face...take a good look at him because THIS IS THE FUTURE IF WE DO NOT WAKE UP. The idiot took the gun from the cop. When this story hit the news and the gun thief figured the heat was on him, he tried to turn his self in. He brought the gun into the police station with a pencil through the trigger part so he wouldn't get his prints on it - like on TV. He tried to say that he found the gun but what asshole forgot - THERE ARE CAMERAS ALL OVER THIS BITCH! You cannot go anywhere in the US or UK without your image being captured by somebody...

Of course the Mayor was upset...I mean with a parking meter system that rivals Al Capone why wouldn't he be upset? The heat is on him and he knows it so anything that can be a distraction is valuable to him right about now...and having said that the Mayor is absolutely correct he should be upset - what the fuck Mayor Daley was right!...can't believe I said that either...

I am going to make a plea on a few fronts really quick...

85 yr old people SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED TO DRIVE - I don't know how long I have been saying that shit...get our Seniors a driver.

The cops do not have the ticket out of our malaise black people - STOP THAT STYLE OF THINKING? WTF!? If you see a cop pinned in his car - call an ambulance because out of that uniform that is a human being...he or she may be uber fucked up in their human being clothes but c'mon? Robbing a cop? You are extra crispy stupid.

The police officer is paralyzed as a result of the robbery. Had they called an ambulance instead of rolling him over to get his wallet, he might not be paralyzed.

Stop acting stupid y'all - people are watching us...all the fucking time.

On Behalf of TROY DAVIS

Let us begin by stating this is not unfamiliar territory. It fucking disgusting. Today May 19 2009 is a Global Day of Action on behalf of Death Row inmate Troy Davis. He has been on Death Row in Georgia (no seriously Georgia) for over 17 years. If this sounds a lot like Mumia it has its parallels in that the refusal to look at evidence is MIND BLOWING.

Amazingly and to be quite honest with all of you, I am just hearing about this brothers plight in the last two months...how many more men are sitting on Death Row in the United States that should be retried? In Illinois January 2003 then Governor George Ryan commuted 156 Death Penalty cases because the state unfairly interrogated, prosecuted, convicted and sentenced these men. The cases were worthy of being reopened and the state has shelled out MILLIONS of cha-ching to unfairly convicted men. Men whose trials were reopened based on DNA evidence - SCIENCE ! By the way the majority of these men were/are Black or Latino.

Here is what's frightening about the case against Troy Davis...NO EVIDENCE - NONE at all. I encourage you to get the details for yourself today. You can get information here and here. You can Google Mr. Davis' name and find out what activities are taking place in your city. But if you think that this is just another case of Black folks and progressive White people and determined Latinos being upset - you would be correct.

This post Obama love fest is on the verge of losing it's bloom if Troy Davis is executed, same goes for Mumia Abu-Jamal. 

Do something on behalf of these two men and the unknown numbers of others who are languishing on Death Row across America. I'll say it for you, this is fucking disgusting.

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Things have been quite interesting in the US the past few weeks. Of course being centered in Chicago (aka "the middle") my perspective is different - naturally. I am in awe of the way people treated the swine flu situation a few weeks ago.  With all respect that can possibly be due to those who were affected by the disease, Malaria has a running tote of 350 plus MILLION cases every YEAR. Over 1 MILLION people die from Malaria...I ain't sayin'...I'm just sayin'.

By definition a pandemic is -  occurring over a wide geographic area and affecting an exceptionally high proportion of the population <pandemic malaria> .

With that in mind here in Chicago we are under the throws of a Pandemic. 36 children and teens have been murdered in Chicago. One crazy murder this past weekend and as I write this I am certain that there is a kid someplace in this city who is scared out of his shit thinking that he might get killed tonight. Roll that around in your mind. 36 kids murdered and it's only May. Scary stuff huh?

I tried to find stats for other US cities and their Teen Homicides but that is a hard find because Chicago is NUMBER ONE BABY! Somehow I do not feel like partying. I actually feel like crying. The usual suspects who seemingly appear with one poectic solution or a permed out hair-brained scheme to "stop the violence" are silent this go around. No noise from the afflent folk...too busy worrying about Olympic bids and the like. Even his honorless the Mayor is telling everybody to shut the fuck up! Olympics bitches...keep your mouth shut! 

Could it be because those 36 kids who died are of color? I'm not sayin'...I'm just sayin'.

It is so bad in Chicago that at one high school the students stay in the building until 6pm or later just so they can feel some form of safety. This is a pandemic too and it requires some attention too. Maybe if the number reaches 40 then people will care. Maybe if somebody dies in one of the mansions on the North Shore or downtown in Streeterville maybe someone will care, if something were to happen to an Aldermans son or daughter maybe then someone will care.

The biggest news out of Chicago this week? Oprah hooked up with KFC and gave away chicken dinners...which followed a low level riot around the US when Popeye's Chicken RAN OUT OF CHICKEN. 

Chicken is the new black...you dig?

pray for this city and its people.