An African American man is murdered by the police. African Americans get upset, and wait for justice to be served. This is despite the fact that we know that the police will most likely be acquitted of any wrong doing.
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Black men have to arm ourselves with the intention to defend and prevent. Never to initiate violence. This is necessary and we have the right according to the law.
Next, local African Americans will hold rallies, marches, and eventually there will be riots in the city the shooting took place. African American communities around the nation will organize marches to show solidarity.
Instead of heading to a police station or City Hall in the city that the shooting took place, rioters vandalize their own communities. African Americans excuse this, by pointing out the tension that exists in poor African American communities as a result of ongoing discrimination and ever increasing economic disparity between white and black people.
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Education. Our education should reflect our experience. We need to emphasize politics, and law. Changing public policy and public opinion is extremely necessary to fight against police brutality.
The anger and frustration is not the issue. The issue is that time and time again, the anger and frustration built up over generations and generations of African American people that have experienced the same injustice is wasted. Nothing changes and weeks later there is another report of a dead African American man.
3rd tier Civil Disobedience. Disrupt the economy, by striking and boycotts.
Enough with eloquent words and candle light memorials, enough with violence and anger, without a plan. African Americans need to dictate this situation with the police rather than continue to react without an actual strategy to stop African American men from losing their lives at the hands of police.