tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post4322119930026314662..comments2024-03-22T20:34:13.792-05:00Comments on Indomitable | The online home of Chauncey DeVega: From 'Bumptious Walking' Under Jim Crow to the Shooting of Michael Brown by Darren Wilson in the Age of ObamaLady Zora, Chauncey DeVega, and Gordon Gartrellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09138154899923808806noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post-69642924076438840292014-11-03T00:42:07.617-06:002014-11-03T00:42:07.617-06:00Geo Zimmerman, with malice aforethought(" the...Geo Zimmerman, with malice aforethought(" they always get away" he told the 911 operator), pursued an unarmed, minding his own business teen through a housing subdivision. He pursued him, first in his vehicle, then on foot, gun in hand. That the teen ended up dead, shot to death, is hardly a Nancy Drew mystery.<br /><br />And who is Geo Zimmerman anyway? A drunken, violent, unemployed, racist abuser of women. A man child who has never had to face the consequences of his actions. Hardly a role model, in fact a classic example of the worst kind persons you would ever want your child to grow up to be like.<br /><br />But, he killed a black male, and to the cons and racists of this country that makes him a hero.Dennisdread_2000noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post-9750465997596227252014-11-03T00:27:56.650-06:002014-11-03T00:27:56.650-06:00The official story is almost always a lie.The official story is almost always a lie.Dennisdread_2000noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post-40313437616926625582014-11-03T00:26:04.674-06:002014-11-03T00:26:04.674-06:00Because they see the police as their personal shoc...Because they see the police as their personal shock troops, charged with keeping them safe from the rampaging and murderous, angry black hordes.Dennisdread_2000noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post-78382787459680862652014-10-27T11:54:09.304-05:002014-10-27T11:54:09.304-05:00Hopefully, if Darren Wilson is not indicted (which...Hopefully, if Darren Wilson is not indicted (which I hope he will be), Ferguson will not burn. If Ferguson does burn, then the story will shift to the burning and rioting and the violence and whatever else happens. RFK is reported to have said, "Don't get mad, get even." Violence only serves the white supremacist cause and plays directly into their "law and order" code words. Political organizing and putting together a movement is what is needed. "Righteous anger" will be re-framed. This is the time for the black community and progressives to formulate a strategy to counter-act a strong possibility that the murderous officer will not be indicted. If you know something is coming and don't prepare for it, believe me, the other side, the white supremacist side, the colorblind conservatives, mainstream media, and others will be prepared.James Estrada-Scaminaci IIInoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post-49243812091416322722014-10-25T09:58:24.188-05:002014-10-25T09:58:24.188-05:00Five words : Burn it the fuck down.Five words : Burn it the fuck down.Wavensteinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post-29165582043180866832014-10-24T14:50:11.141-05:002014-10-24T14:50:11.141-05:00The Daily Kos comment I'm going to excerpt is ...The Daily Kos comment I'm going to excerpt is actually about Trayvon Martin and Zimmerman, who of course wasn't a policeman, but I think it still might answer your question:<br /><br />Later I realized he wasn't a little kid, he was practically an adult. He had already been in fistfights, he smoked pot and he'd been kicked out of school. His dad was out with his girlfriend instead of home with his kids. Of course, this background information was not available via the MSM since they were much more interested in riling up the public and getting more attention for their shoddy reporting antics.<br /><br /><br /><br />This same guy complained about the photo of Mike Brown that accompanied another Kos post. It's the one where he's wearing a green jacket and has headphones on. This guy thought he lookedunacceptably nonthreatening in that photo.Plantsmantxnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post-19225114140151880292014-10-24T14:42:12.291-05:002014-10-24T14:42:12.291-05:00Let's not forget the "sidewalk lane chang...Let's not forget the "sidewalk lane change", in which you approach a white couple, and happen to be walking on the part of the sidewalk that will bring you closer to the woman than the man when you pass them.Plantsmantxnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post-91902352061623730802014-10-24T13:52:03.334-05:002014-10-24T13:52:03.334-05:00Great comments. Funny how these day to day white s...Great comments. Funny how these day to day white supremacists won't simply own their sentiments, i.e. black and brown people should be killed by the police because it makes me feel safe.chauncey devegahttp://wearerespectablenegroes.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post-18205346329670616692014-10-24T13:50:57.624-05:002014-10-24T13:50:57.624-05:00Kind words. Just trying to tell some truth. Wilson...Kind words. Just trying to tell some truth. Wilson walks. Old story. Now what do we do? I have another piece on a bit of hidden American leisure culture that is part of this too that I will save for next week. I have been finalizing and editing Season 3 of the podcast so I am a bit behind. I have 3 interviews from folks who were/are on the ground in Ferguson--2 already done, one for Monday, that will make for a special podcast series.chauncey devegahttp://wearerespectablenegroes.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post-90578541148437315462014-10-24T13:49:15.798-05:002014-10-24T13:49:15.798-05:00There is a serious decline in public standards of ...There is a serious decline in public standards of comportment across the board. I have also noticed young people walking 3 and four abreast on the sidewalk blocking everyone around from passing and getting an attitude when you push through or tell them to move. Nevermind the "smart phones" that have created fools and zombies who can't pay attention to where they are walking.chauncey devegahttp://wearerespectablenegroes.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post-57341922438858262042014-10-24T13:47:55.182-05:002014-10-24T13:47:55.182-05:00That is so spot on. Interesting too, how the black...That is so spot on. Interesting too, how the black witnesses who saw this unfold before could not be trusted by Wilson' murder defenders...now the "new" black defenders of Wilson who were "in hiding" must be believed because they are saying what Wilson's fans want to believe.chauncey devegahttp://wearerespectablenegroes.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post-56398584148017348402014-10-24T13:38:14.555-05:002014-10-24T13:38:14.555-05:00And speaking of bumptious walking... Every time t...And speaking of bumptious walking... Every time the wife and I take a stroll, we find ourselves expected to step out of the way of younger white people (sometimes men, sometimes women, sometimes couples). <br /><br /><br />When I was younger, if I saw an older person approaching, I'd respectfully make room for them on the sidewalk. But now that we are older, young men and ladies seem to expect us to step out of their way.<br /><br /><br />At first we made room without even thinking about it, because as my wife put it "we're polite" but then I finally asked her if she noticed the pattern, and she did. She told me it irked her because it wasn't long ago when people of color were expected to step out of the way of their "betters."<br /><br /><br />Is it racism or rudeness? I don't know. Pedestrians are supposed to make way for each other. The next time someone tries to walk directly into us, there's going to be a collision.Buddy Hnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post-84839203482492594352014-10-24T13:16:03.751-05:002014-10-24T13:16:03.751-05:00Again, John Fugelsang has been making some interes...Again, John Fugelsang has been making some interesting twitter comments:<br /><br /><i>I like how ppl who would never trust govt or the media immediately believe both whenever an unarmed black teen's been shot.</i>Buddy Hnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post-25375613749644582472014-10-24T08:50:43.972-05:002014-10-24T08:50:43.972-05:00Brilliant-yet-maddening as always. How can so man...Brilliant-yet-maddening as always. How can so many people be so deluded as to NOT understand the idea that overt racism is alive and well in our 'Land of the Free'? Oh wait.. it's because they're willfully ignorant. Sorry, I keep forgetting that sorrowful fact. "The present is not an orphan. It has parents." Spectacular, CDV!!!!Bob Maciasnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post-26697890911751248972014-10-24T08:31:20.932-05:002014-10-24T08:31:20.932-05:00"The present is not an orphan. It has parents..."The present is not an orphan. It has parents."<br /><br />These are a really fantastic couple of sentences. Might I humbly suggest that we add the phrase "history-blind" to our concept of modern color-blind racism? It is such a common tactic among racists, covert and otherwise, to harp on the supposed facts of a single case in order to seek out some justification as to why that particular "thug" deserved what he got, or why some single instance of police violence may have been regrettable but wouldn't have happened if X, Y, Z. There is always some minor mitigating circumstance to be found, the discovery of which is immediately elevated into the determining factor in the case. Each instance of police brutality or white-on-black murder then becomes a singular, unrepeatable phenomenon, hermetically sealed in the present and to be judged only according to its own supposed rules, divorced from any historical context or link to this country's rich past of gunning down non-respectable negroes in the street. The black bodies pile up, each one marked with a blood-stained factoid that absolves its murderer of culpability in this longest of cons. "This isn't about racism, it wouldn't have happened if he'd been polite." "This isn't about racism, it wouldn't have happened if he hadn't been wearing that hoodie." "This isn't about racism, it wouldn't have happened if he hadn't been drunk."<br /><br />A color-blind, history-blind, racism-blind acquaintance from high school who engaged me in a conversation about Michael Brown on Facebook back in September actually wrote to me: "Well I would just say this, the more often you put yourself in the position to get shot by a police officer the more often it will happen.." I didn't bother to ask what his minimum standard was for "putting yourself in the position to get shot by a police officer."Jim Wagnernoreply@blogger.com