POST RACIAL SOCIETY WILL HAVE ARRIVED WHEN:
1
People, especially black and brown people, will not watch cell phone video of a white police officer, (like Michael Slager) planting evidence on an unarmed, black dead body (like Walter Scott's) and ask, "Do you think he'll be charged with anything?"
2
People, especially black and brown people, probably will watch body cam video of a police officer, like Ray Tensing murdering someone with zero provocation. But they won't cheer like something special has happened when that officer is arrested an charged with murder
3
When police officers like Dante Servin shoot people like Rekia Boyd because she happened to be near a loud gathering defends himself saying "I thought he had a gun," the word "coward" will be shouted by 90% of the multi-ethnic public and the "good" police officers alike. The Dante Servins of this world will go to jail where cowardly police officers who shoot unarmed people belong.
4
When white television and movie producers stop loving and promoting black people that they love precisely because black people can't stand them. We will not know the names of people like Clarence Thomas, Raven Symone, Whoopi Goldberg, Don Lemon, Taye Diggs, Pharrel Williams, and Anthony Mackie (who said it's not hard for black actors to get work in Hollywood, just not talented enough and he said that BEFORE he made the Selma Oscar comment and before anybody knew who the heck he even was) We will never know the names of black folk like this BECAUSE they will make a negative black comment then disappear into oblivion where they belong.
You know what? I just don't get how white producers cannot figure out why adding certain black actors to projects gets them zero increase in black audience? Or does the fact that certain black famous and black actors aggravate us make their white audience so happy that it's profitable to hire the Uncle Toms, Internal Racism Sufferers, and seriously Brain Dead Respectability Politicians (Mark my words on Mackie. Let him have a big hit and get some real money. He's gonna make Don Lemon look like Malcom X)
When 1 and 2 happen, this will show me that black people have faith that the justice system works for them just like it does everyone else.
When 3 happens we'll know that white supremacy soaked police officers and their ever present fear of dark skinned people as wild animals capable of anything no longer reign supreme with police departments. Therefore, cowardice will be recognized as cowardice even when the unarmed, dead person is black, latino, native american, muslim, or....
When 4 happens, we'll know that #BlackOpinionsOfRepresentativeBlacknessMatters.
Now that I look at this again, I'm pretty sure 3 and 4 are going to have to happen before 1 and 2, aren't you?
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