The Gantt Report
It’s December 2012, around Christmas time and there is no peace in The Middle East and the joy ain’t great in the Sunshine State.
Design, coincidence or perhaps both, somehow keeps Florida in the state, national and international news.
Most news stories are people stories. The actions, thoughts, feelings and behavior of people is what news reports are about.
Murder in Florida is the lead broadcast story and is on the front pages of newspapers far and wide.
It seems like you can come to Florida and murder a Black person any time you want to. To get away from punishment all you have to do is say that you “felt threatened”. What if everybody felt threatened? Will the law allow us all to go around and kill each other?
Now, I pretty much stay in my own lane and don’t venture into unfamiliar neighborhoods but I believe that more white people threaten white people than Black teenagers. Common sense can tell you that but why are unarmed Black kids being shot down in broad daylight time after time?
Well, it is obvious that the shooters had racial motivations in mind when they decided to kill. But there’s more.
One of the reasons that racists, segregationists and white supremacists believe that it is OK to shoot a Black child is because the Black parents, the Black siblings, the Black family and the Black community are afraid to do something to stop the shootings of Black youth.
The old ass Sambos, Uncle Toms, Jezebels and Aunt Jemimas in Black communities will never do anything because they are historically scared of their own shadows.
However, young people aren’t afraid to fight for their family, for their community and for their cause. Young African-Americans should rise up and demand that these unprovoked, unwarranted and devious attacks on Black teens must stop immediately, because if Blacks kids are not safe no kid will be safe!
Now let’s go back to “threatened” a little bit.
You tell me, who in America should feel more threatened than African-Americans? Who gets charged more, arrested more, jailed more, brutalized more, fired more, divorced more, made homeless more and stereotyped more than Black people?
OK, who gets dragged in the streets more, who gets called derogatory names more, who has more churches bombed and who gets shot more by people they don’t know in broad daylight than Black people?
The people who threatened us in Africa and forced us into slavery made children and offspring that threaten us today!
No disrespect but Florida Blacks should not need out-of-state preachers to come here and weaken our efforts by calming a people who should be fired up! We don’t want God to forgive our enemies, we want God to give us a smooth stone or the jaw bone of an ass and let us go to work!
African-Americans in Florida, I know you don’t have a home-grown Black leader that is accepted from Key West to Pensacola, but you do have people who are not scared like you are.
My Florida friends and neighbors, if you are afraid to stand up for yourself, you should not be scared to stand up for Black children just like Blacks before you stood up for you.
If the police and court system can’t stop these shootings of Black teens in Florida, Black Floridians in Florida have to put a stop to the killings ourselves.
