09-01-2009, 08:27 AM
Magda Hassan Wrote:I haven't seen the response by his mum...
Here's a link to it Maggie.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cg...155RRO.DTL
Magda Hassan Wrote:I haven't seen the response by his mum but what you say Myra is interesting. Sometimes calm is not what is needed. Why can't people be emotional? Is it an Anglo-Saxon thing or a control thing? Some one, defenseless and surrendered, is murdered in cold blood by someone who has been trained to know far better. What's not be outraged about that? Why not say so and show so? Why the stiff upper lip crap?...
A control thing, as you say. What the hell has calm gotten us? In 1991 Rodney King had the snot beat out of him for DWB and pleaded for calm. Now over 15 years later we still have black men targeted by thugs in uniform.
BART is obviously stalling; it's been over a week and they have done nothing. They never even bothered to question the guilty cop, who has now quit and lawyered up. Meanwhile we're supposed to watch video of Oscar Grant's execution online and in total serenity? I don't think so.