The Slave Patrols Hit Again Analysis

Most people on twitter called Colin Kaepernick a racist thug, a circus clown, idiot, loser, a dog turd with a beanie, and he just a an overrated football player anyway. Other comments contain words like “Shocked the cop was acquitted, but also shocked at Kaps post. Both are disgusting. “ THIS IS WHY YOU DON'T HAVE A JOB! Good luck in the CFL.” “What an idiot, we'll see when he dial 911 who is going to help him” “You need to go away. Loser just leave our country since you are so oppressed. No one wants you on a American team. Traitor.” Comments like these it just a reminder why journal like “Ignoring the Past: Coverage of Slavery and Slave Patrols in Criminal Texts” justified why people are ignoring or so ignorant about their history and will
It is related to the topic of slave patrol and other discussions from the two sources that I provided. The host of the political panel reported a video of an unarmed black man killed by the hands of a cop in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Terence Crutcher, a 40-year-old man, a father of 4 was on his way home from a community college and later had his car break down. Officers pulled to the scene and later taser Crutcher and was shot by another officer. Many police officers view of the scene was the victim looked like a” bad dude or a scary big black man.”. The host later on to say that “But as grim as it sounds, it shouldn’t come as any real surprise modern policing in America is an outgrowth of slave patrols. It's an institution of marginalized and fragmented minority communities, while protecting the status quo of white supremacy. So how can we reinvent policing in America and draw a bright white line between modern police department and historical slave
He summarize that most of us reimagined police reform and the criminal justice system when it comes to accountability, but there is none. And that's why we have protest like black lives matter who do not see any consequences when an unarmed black person is killed. the host even chimed and explained we have a 200 years history since slave patrol of never doing any type of justice when it comes to people of color. Colin Kaepernick said it in the cbssport,com article, "There's a lot of things that need to change," Kaepernick said. "One specifically? Police brutality. There's people being murdered unjustly and not being held accountable. People are being given paid leave for killing people. That's not right. That's not right by anyone's standards." The other two panelist, George Landrith, the president of Frontiers of Freedom and Robert Mariani, the opinion editor of the Daily Caller said the opposite. Landrith explained that we do not have enough a lot of evidence from most of these incidents to say that police are held accountable. He even go off and say that a black academic from Harvard said that blacks are not killed disproportionately, which is obviously untrue. Mariani was contradicting a lot of things, he goes to explained that the incident at Tulsa was unjustly but then goes on and talked about the incident of Ferguson