Now I hope you didn’t come here this morning for some feigned outrage over the killing of this off-duty police officer in East Harlem last week. You won’t be getting that commentary here today or any other day for that matter. OMAR EDWARDS had to die. The police have been looking for him ever since their sketch artist got his first box of #2 pencils.
Internets, I’m about to say some shit that I only want the Blacks that come here to read. If all you good white folks, Asians and assimilated latin people would be so kind to visit my Twitter or YouTube pages for a minute I would be most grateful.
Black people…
Now you damn well know that even you had a reservation towards looking homeboy in the face. Even though he’s DEAD! Can you imagine how that officer felt with this man ten or twenty or fifty yards away from him with a gun in his hand? That smell you are noticing are the endorphins from stark fear. Whether you know it of not that smell now blocks and locks the rest of your senses. You couldn’t hear this cop yelling back he was also a police officer because you are in full-on fear mode.
The boogie man syndrome is fucked the fuck up but it is realer than a motherfucker. Fearing the Black man is some shit we all have to contend with here in America. Fuck it, abroad too. Word to Zwarte Piet. Popular literature and culture has been pushing this agenda for so damn long it is now part of the human genome. At least its embedded deep in our psyche and it ain’t coming out no matter who the president is.
I just learned that D.W.GRIFFITH made nearly five hundred movies in six years. His legacy doesn’t end with ‘Birth Of A Nation’ because the movie is still playing on the projectile reel. We are all actors in this feature called the ‘Boogie Man Syndrome’. Sometimes we are the tormentors and other times we are the tormented. It all depends who is watching.
NYPD officer DERWIN PANNELL’s role in the crosshairs was sadly reprised by DESMOND ROBINSON and then officer ERIC HERNANDEZ. While only last year CHRISTOPHER RIDLEY was the latest officer to give the boogie man syndrome to fellow police before OMAR EDWARDS FATAL encounter. I don’t have any examples of mistaken identity of white officers, but you prA’li already knew that.
*Someone please let the white folks back in the room*
As I was saying, if Black officers would just wear their children to work in Snugglies maybe we could curb these incidences of, ahem, friendly fire.
