What Kind of Democracy Is That

by

Abby Zimet, staff writer

 

We're out of words. Two more black men - Alton Sterling, Philando Castile - murdered by police. Two more sorrowful hashtags, two more bloody videos, two more sets of weeping families, two more outraged cities and many more in spirit, two more barrages of tragic parallel stories: They were good guys, they were doing nothing wrong but being black, their awful deaths prove, one more awful time, that whiteness is blindness, and cops are America's terrorists, and black people are tired and hurting - but, alone amidst a well-armed population, not allowed to have guns. We have been here so long that Malcom X spoke of it 55 years ago, and he's still right. We're out of words. Here are his.

"Where's our part of the American dream?!"

The #PhilandoCastile shooting hit home for this frustrated minister:https://t.co/VoSone2OCY

http://www.commondreams.org/further/2016/07/07/what-kind-democracy