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.
I see 100% where you come from brother ……. sometimes brothers can’t catch a break for looking ……. then again, have we ever, like my ol’gramps used to say …… “Africano = Born to Suffer”.
“You were put here to protect us, but who protects us from you?” – KRS. This question has now gotten that much more interesting.
But real talk, this is not much different then the white folks who are fine with me while I’m in the office and we’re “safe in the corporate compound” but clutch their purse around me upon initial sighting between sundown and sun-up…
Boogie Man Syndrome indeed…
Don’t be a sucka!
Heart of the matter.
ever notice when you are the only black dude at work you will have no problem hanging out with the white group, but the reverse is almost never true?
I say almost because occasionally the white dude grew up thinking he is Pall Wall or bubbah sparx, and doesnt realize he is white and SHOULD be scurred….
…………..Speakin’ of which, I’ve been bumping the Deliverance album hard for the past week or so for the first time since like 2004 ………. Man, how was that album so slept on back then. It’s a big call but judging by whats come out of the south since, I’d have to agree with bubba when he said “Cause I be the greatset southern rapper …fucken period”, one things for damn sure …… aint no C-rap album has been as well rounded as Deliverance in a minute, even timbalands production still sounds great, his use of samples on it are phenomenal, ok, maybe not THAT good but still professional to say the least, unlike the half-arsed attempts by the kanyes, toomps, polows e.t.c. today).
Damn, hindsight is a bitch …… If we had known what direction rap was gonna be taking back then I would have helped push this album more at the time cos its reception then was so bad even bubba sparx sold out on his next album with shit like MISS NEW BOOTY …….WHAT A SHAME!!!!!!
great article, reminds me of that joke Chappelle made about “thugs”, how he isnt scared of black people but he will cross the street for a thug. unfortunately no other culture seems to be able to tell the difference.
Special kinda pathology that has Black cops thinking going Blue will keep them safe from being Black.
CJ…..it is so unfortunate that is the truth. I remember right after school I used to wear my Blue suit, white shirt and blue tie looking trim proper. I was still under false belief that I would get those promotions cause I looked like I should. It didn’t take me long to realize that as long as couldn’t hide my face i’d still be the black dude.
So out came the Clarks and the sharps, and I left the shirt tails hanging. I got much further in my career after stop wasting time and energy on what I wasn’t…..
@ 40…Son you just spoke my life.
The first composite looks like Chi-Ali.