Enough

When is enough, enough? Just 6 months ago an innocent Black man, Troy Davis was put to death in Atlanta, GA and the brutal blow to Black America once again came from the bloody hand of "Injustice' system. When is enough enough?

Between March 16-18 49 people were shot, 10 killed in the Chicago area. Shootings are up in Chicago 27% and homicides are up 32% from the same time period in 2011. All this while the Mayor of Chicago allegedly told the Chicago teachers union President that "25% of the Public school children (majority Black & Brown) were NOT going to make it; therefore he would NOT waste resources on them." If he really said this, when is enough enough?

And now our hearts are ripped from our chest because 17 year old Trayvon Martin carrying some skittles and wearing a hoodie was brutally murdered by 28 year old George Zimmerman. George Zimmerman ignored 911 operators who explicitly told him to stop his stalking of Trayvon in order to kill this boy. Plain and simple! Now because of Florida's "Stand your ground and kill Black people" law George Zimmerman is able to walk the streets a free man while Trayvon's parents are imprisoned in grief.

To add insult to not an injury but a gaping hole the police chief Bill Lee not only refuses to arrest Zimmerman but blames Trayvon by saying "maybe Trayvon would have done something different if he had the chance to?" Done what different, not be born Black? When is enough, enough?

This short catalogue of carnage against Black and Brown men are the result of a racist society. Plain and simple! Why is it that no other race of people have had to go on these emotional roller coaster rides of emotion concerning the lives of their men? Trayvon did what society told him and his parents was right. He was a good kid who stayed out of trouble. He did well in school! What else did he need to do?

When is enough, enough? The President will not weigh in because despite it being a gross tragedy he does not want his Right wing republican rivals to use his concern as a cause to paint him as "anti-America," translated "Anti-White" way.

The government has failed Black people once again, Law enforcement has shown its unwillingness to protect Black people as does the Criminal injustice system. So when is enough, enough?

What will happen now, because the insult is already stamped. George Zimmerman has been walking free for weeks. If he is arrested today (and he should be) it still can not cover the stench that assaults Black America and suffocates two parents sorrow at the senseless murder of their beautiful son. By the way, have you studied the picture of this beautiful boy? Did you gaze into his face captured now on picture because he will never move with grace again? Did you see his eyes in any of the photos? Did you notice how Bright, innocent and happy those eyes were?

How about that smile? Did you gaze at that grand joyful smile? You see that is the problem with pictures. Pictures are reminders of what could have been. Pictures lock us in a time that is long past and we shed a tear every now and then but rush to catch up to ever moving world we live in. We are afraid of staying there too long with pictures because they make us think. They make us ponder and ask ourselves "was there something I could have done?" Pictures make us wonder if we are trying to hurry too quick to forget. If you look at a picture too long it will make you as "When is enough, enough?" But it will also make you answer it starts with me and it starts today.