http://atlantablackstar.com/2014/10/07/black-people-killed-police-lynched-jim-crow/
A startling headline published Sunday put modern-day racism in perspective when one article suggested that more Black people have been killed by police than were lynched during the days of Jim Crow.
The claim made on BlackLikeMoi.com is difficult to dismiss but can’t be labeled as a fact just yet. What is apparent, however, is that the claim is not as improbable as one would like to think.
Data gathered by the FBI recently revealed that a Black person is killed by white police officers approximately every 28 hours – that’s almost once every day.
Even more troubling is the fact that the statistics do not cover every police killing of an African-American simply because it would be impossible to do – the same way it is impossible to have an accurate account of how many Blacks were lynched during Jim Crow.
According to an article published by The Guardian, many police agencies also fail to report such killings unless they see the killing as being “justifiable.”
and therein lies the problem with public perception, when you are deprived of all info you can only be half cocked and under informed making assumptive conclusions like that misleads anyone who hears you too and a stereotypical myth is born and run with and Fox creates a new news story and the general public protects officer friendly, after all he saved them from whatever adjectives they used to describe the murder victim as a threat to society when actually it's the cop that is the danger read a paper or turn on a TV even Fox will confirm the kill just for different reasons check other medis for those archived details.
This number of killings also excludes cases like Trayvon Martin, the 17-year-old who was shot and killed by neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman.
While the exact numbers may forever remain a mystery, the similarities between police brutality and lynchings during Jim Crow are still striking and gut-wrenchingly horrifying.
As the San Francisco Bay View explains, “The haunting symmetry is not just in the number of dead Black bodies in the American streets but also in the stereotypes and images that perpetuate prevailing assumptions of Black inferiority.”
The only difference is that Blacks have traded in titles of being property and savages to being labeled as thugs and gangsters in the mainstream media.
Parallels have also been formed between the way a lynched body was left out in the public to send a message to other African-Americans and the way 18-year-old Michael Brown’s body laid uncovered in the streets of Ferguson, Missouri, for hours.
The modern-day killings of Blacks by police also serve as proof that many white Americans are still disconnected from the lives of African-Americans.
According to a recent Pew study, 80 percent of Blacks who were polled felt that the Aug. 9 killing of Brown “raised important issues about race,” The Guardian reports.
Less than 40 percent of whites who were polled felt the same way.
and for most complicit or not the beat goes on sad as it is for "THE GREATEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD" that this is a testament to the greatest.
