by eric d.graham
Jill Nelson, author of Police Brutality: An Anthology stated “The notion of the 'Black male predator' is so historically rooted in the American consciousness that we have come to accept the brutalization and murder of citizens by the police as an acceptable method of law enforcement.
The assumption is that Black men are the bad guys, the police are the good guys, and if the police killed someone it must have been for a good reason. They must have done something.”
We see evidence of this in the recent murder of Botham Shem Jean by a white Dallas off-duty police officer, Amber R. Guyger, who, according to the NY Times, claimed that she mistakenly entered the wrong apartment after returning home from her 14-hour shift and believed Mr. Jean, who was Black, was an intruder.
As a result, she fired her weapon twice, striking him once in the torso. See, this is the real reason why Colin Kaepernick took a knee in the first place. And, that Nike (Just Do It) commercial didn't change anything at all.
This is the real Nature of the Threat.
