WHITES DON’T NECESSARILY HATE BLACKS; It’s Black American Police Officers Who Should Be Mandated with Apprehending Afro-Americans to Avoid Police Brutality

 

WHITES DON’T NECESSARILY HATE BLACKS; It’s Black American Police Officers Who Should Be Mandated with Apprehending Afro-Americans to Avoid Police Brutality

American president Abraham Lincoln declared the freedom of the black slaves was white

Last week another brutal shooting of a black American by a white officer took place in Wisconsin sparking outrage all over the world.

The protests have been so huge that the American National Guard has been deployed on the streets to assist the police to calm down the situation.

When George Floyd was strangled to death by a white police officer early this year it sparked off The Black Lives Matter campaign which seemed to send a statement that NEVER again will such a thing happen again.

But it has happened again barely a year after the George Floyd incident.

This time Jacob Blake was shot seven times in the back in Wisconsin by this month but has miraculously survived with the bare straps of his life.

It’s a pity that these shootings and killings have taken a predictable phenomenon, but there has not been a lasting solution found to cut it out completely.

All we have had have been protestations, condemnations and speeches by world leaders and righting thinking members of the global village.

If racism is horrible, abominable, and totally unacceptable why don’t we get a legal instrument that makes it a criminal offense?

Why don’t we find solutions that can avert such shootings?

Why is the United Nations and other world bodies like the European Union silent about racism in the world?  Why are blacks not advancing lasting solutions to protect them from being killed by white policemen?

These white versus black confrontations that be easily dealt with if there was an interest in ending it.

When George Floyd was strangled to death by the white policeman, I came up with an idea (on my private blog) that could have prevented a repeat on Jacob Blake from being shot like a common thief.

My view was that the American system must make it mandatory for black Americans to be arrested by the fellow blacks. Once a black American police officer shoots a fellow black American, it will not spark off the racial debate we are having when a white police officer does it.

This alone will avert the kind of undertones that arise whenever a white police officer apprehends a black man.

It’s this procedure which can avoid this friction because normally some criminal situations are interpreted as racial, well as not.

Although the white policemen have also been very brutal, most times our fellow blacks have been violent in their reaction to the authorities.

This brutality of the police towards blacks has sometimes been misinterpreted as racism yet it’s not the case all the time.

THE DETAILS

For instance while the world was horrified with the way Blake was shot the American police officers issued a statement suggesting that Mr. Blake had strongly resisted arrest: He “forcefully fought” with officers even after being hit twice by a Taser and ignoring orders to drop a knife that he held in his left hand.

When you look at the Joe Blake video, you see him adamantly running away from the police sparking a possible confrontation. If Jacob Blake had stood and spoke to the policemen, it’s improbable that such an incident would have arisen at all.

It’s true that that there are white supremacists not only in America but also in the world in general. But our blacks also make it inevitable to be treated in such a way.

In fact Blake had been reported for cries he had committed several months ago.

The marginalization of the black race

It is obviously true that the black race has suffered marginalization for very many years. For very many years blacks were enslaved by the whites.

 But it’s also important to note that most of the people who fought against slave trade and its practices were whites. American president Abraham Lincoln who banned slavery was white.

British antislavery trade activist William Wilberforce was white.

This therefore means that it’s not necessarily true that whites hate blacks.

The marginalization of the blacks was brought to its peak when the South African government introduced apartheid that compounded the differences between the two races. Blacks were not allowed to share hotel rooms, bus seats, and may other facilities with whites.

Although apartheid was legal in the South African legal system, it was morally wrong.  It was the American and British government which strongly supported the apartheid regime in South Africa while the rest of the world opposed it.

When apartheid was finally defeated with the eventually release of Nelson Mandela from a 27 year jail term, most of the whites celebrated with us , the black race .

When the Americans rallied and voted for a black president Barrack Obama, the whites celebrated equally with the blacks.

It’s also important to also note when George Floyd was killed by a white policeman, the majority of the protestors were white.

This demonstrates that there is nothing fundamental fueling hatred between the two races. This is also another indication that the white supremacists are the minority.

 

 

 The way forward

The international community should a draft a law that criminalizes racism and its tendencies with long prison sentences and fines.

Secondly, the American security system must ensure that black police officers are the ones mandated to arrest blacks.

This will be similar to the global tradition where women police officers are the ones mandated to arrest women criminals to avert gender abuse between men and women.

But most important of all, we should desist from interpreting the criminal tendencies as racism, well as NOT.

The author Fred Daka Kamwada is a social political analyst and a blogger

Chat with him on kamwadafred@gmail.com