Sean Bell
Starting 2009 With A Bang...Literally
Written by Risa Dixon |
Instead of celebrating a new year, which for most signifies a new beginning, Oscar Grant III came to his end. We start this new year with the same old injustice from non-other than the ones who’ve swore to protect and serve…the police.
The 22 year old man thought he had his whole life ahead of him, but Oakland Transit officers had other plans.
Sean Bell Special : Contagious Shooting
Written by Beth Beatrice Smith | 17 December 2006
I was asked to write a piece on the human rights aspects of the Sean Bell story. But this is all I can say.
ALLEGEDLY 
during questioning following the incident, two of the officers involved could not remember how many shots they fired at the scene
two other offices remembered firing shots but did not know how many one of the
Sean Bell Special : No Shame, No Gain
Written by Justin Mitchell | 17 December 2006
Cases of police brutality always put ordinary, hard
working black folks in a compromising situation. We
re sick and tired of being preyed upon by people who look like us, if only for practical reasons. Forget any noble notions of black brotherhood. Many of us just dont want to be confused with our desperate, underclass neighbors out of fear that the police, whose powers of discernment remain woefully inadequate, might make us the target of
"What Went Wrong With Sean Bell?"
Written by C.B. Forde | 17 December 2006
I know I should be outraged by the shooting of Sean Bell, but I am a different type of Negro. The police kill Black men it is in the job description keep the Darkies at bay. But two things did really upset me this past week. The first thing was the New York Daily News having the nerve to question, just two weeks after the Sean Bell murder,why City College of New York would have a center named for Assata Shakur. It is so funny how obtuse mainstream
my code word for White
America can be. To Black America, Assata Shakur symbolizes the fight against police violence and hence is an icon for what she has done. ICON. After the Bell murder and the ridiculousassertion by the police that there was a fourth man in the car, I dont understand why mainstream America would not understand why a College in Harlem, the Black capital of the world, would honor Assata Shakur, an ICON of the Black community. It is just stupid and insulting for
17 August 2006
Wire Lesson 1: Stop Being Stewpid
By Vasco Bridges III
Chief editor of Diseducation.com
If you havent seen The Wire, the show is the story of the Heroin trade in Baltimore, told from every vantage point possible from the dope fiend to the mayor from the cops to the hustlers. Despite the wealth of story lines and characters, theres one common theme throughout the show cops are stupid. This season, thanks to the ineptitude of the Baltimore Police, one young boy
s house is burned to the ground and his foster mother critically injured, an old preacher is unwillfully stopped, searched and fondled by officers on suspicion of drug possession, and a reformed dope fiend tries to kill himself because a cop cant live up to his promise of protection. The cops help send wellmeaning kids from the schoolroom to the street corner. They send a budding businessman to a group foster home. 