Black Prophetic Fire: Cornel West on the Revolutionary Legacy of Leading African-American Voices [VIDEO]

 

“The renowned scholar, author and activist Dr. Cornel West, joins us to discuss his latest book, “Black Prophetic Fire.” West engages in conversation with the German scholar and thinker Christa Buschendorf about six revolutionary African-American leaders: Frederick Douglass, W. E. B. Du Bois, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Ella Baker, Malcolm X and Ida B. Wells. Even as the United States is led by its first black president, West says he is fearful that we may be “witnessing the death of black prophetic fire in our time.”

 

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Source: www.democracynow.org

 

My favorite role model here.

Dr. Cornel West.

 

He is the closest living person that I know of to the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in his passion for social justice and oratory eloquence.

 

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Cops Tackle 11-Year-Old Girl and Hold Her at Gunpoint, In Her Own Home

A young girl is now left traumatized after police rushed into her home, threw her to the ground and held her at gunpoint while she watched cartoons.

Source: thefreethoughtproject.com

 

I’m thinking it’s a bad idea to have those alarms that call the cops.

Sounds like the cops are likely to shoot the home owners and children of the home owners.

 

The Shooting of Milton Hall

 

Learn more at http://www.aclumich.org/MiltonHall

Police officers in Saginaw, MI fired more than 45 shots at Jewel Hall’s son Milton. Despite abundant evidence that officers showed a reckless disregard for Milton’s life, the U.S. Justice Department did not charge any of the officers responsible for the killing.

 

Learn more at http://www.aclumich.org/MiltonHall

 

Source: www.youtube.com

 

This Is How UK Police Stop Someone With A Knife

Detroit Cop Who Killed 7-Year-Old Aiyana Stanley-Jones Walks Free

 

After two hung juries, the Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office has decided not to retry the police officer who killed Aiyana Stanley-Jones in a raid gone horribly wrong four years ago.

Detroit police office Joseph Weekley, 38, shot and killed the sleeping 7-year-old with an MP5 submachine gun as he led a SWAT-like team into her home in search of a murder suspect.

 

Weekley was indicted more than a year later and has been tried twice before in Stanley-Jones’ death, both times resulting in mistrials. Prosecutors maintain that the officer was negligent and reckless and didn’t follow proper protocol in the May 16, 2010 operation, reports The Detroit Free Press.

 

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Source: thoughtprovokingperspectives.wordpress.com

 

I’m outraged – but not surprised.

 

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Full Video of police shooting #KristianaCoignard age 17

Apparently this police station has no pepper spray and no K9.

And who is training these coward officers that they can’t each grab one of her arms so that she can’t pull out a weapon?

Why become an officer if you have no courage to subdue a child?

Why are we paying our officers to shoot our children? Any why do none of them make a move to stop the bleeding? Or give CPR?

#ChildLifeMatters

Two Cops Hold Down 110 lb College Student, While Third Cop Releases K-9 to Tear Her Apart

 

Norfolk, VA — A 21-year-old Army private was hospitalized with severe wounds after an incident involving three Norfolk Police officers.

London Colvin is a second-semester junior and Sociology major at Norfolk State University and a private in the 3rd Brigade, 318th Regiment and 78th Training Division, based at Fort Belvoir.

Colvin was at an off-campus party early Sunday morning when a fight broke out. According to her cousin, her and her friends were leaving when the police showed up.

“She was at a party off campus. She said that a fight broke out, and she had nothing to do with the fight. She did say she was at the party, and her and her friends were leaving,” said Whitney Dunn, the victim’s cousin. “She was definitely being loud – she did admit to that.”

Dunn explained to Potomac Local the series of events leading up to the attack:

She told her family that one of the police officers approached her as she was leaving the party to question her. She also told her family that she had nothing to do with the situation, so she didn’t want to talk to the officer.

Colvin was completely within her rights to not to talk to the police officers. Also, unless she was being detained, she would’ve not had to stop. Dunn explains what happened next:

“Her and her friends continued to walk, and she said that she definitely continued to be loud, however they were walking away. The two other police officers approached her – asked her to stop. Whatever the case may be, they had her down on the ground when the dog came. Two of the police officers restrained her on the ground, and then they allowed the dogs to attack her.”

Colvin’s leg was subsequently torn to shreds after the dog was released.
Read more at http://thefreethoughtproject.com/cops-hold-110-lb-woman-cop-releases-k-9-tear/#QECulLHgGHfTbtRq.99

Source: thefreethoughtproject.com

 

Look what police officers are doing to our children.

 

This ain’t right.

 

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