What can you do to prevent another Grant, Bell, Diallo, or other police murder?

The question before us is what can we do to prevent another senseless murder from occurring? How can we stop the police departments from across the nation from seeing Blacks as target practice?





In case you missed some of those numbers I will provide them again.

BART Director Carol Ward Allen: 510-464-6095 or BoardofDirectors@bart.gov

Police Chief Gary Gee: 510-464-7022 or toll free 877-679-7000 or ggee@bart.gov

Senator Feinstein: 202-224-3841 or http://feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=ContactUS.EmailMe

Senator Boxer: 202-224-3553 or http://boxer.senate.gov/contact/email/policy.cfm

Governor Schwarzenegger: 916-445-2841or http://gov.ca.gov/interact#contact

Reverend Al Sharpton (via his National Action network): 212-690-3070 or toll free 877-NAN-HOJ1 or crisis@nationalactionnetwork.net

Rev. Jesse L. Jackson: editor@rainbowpush.org or 773-373-3366

Minister Louis Farrakhan: http://www.noi.org/letters/

Michael Baisden: 877-6BADBOY

NAACP: (877) NAACP-98

100 Black Men: 404-688-5100 or info@100bmoa.org

Again I want to thank Racewire.org for some of their ideas on this subject that inspired my video. We can stop this pattern, this institutionalized policy of murders without reprisal. We can change America. And all we need to do is speak up.

If you know of another useful organization please let us know.

**I've never asked this before, but please DIGG this post so others will also see what they can do to help prevent another cold-blooded murder from happening. Let's never hear of a father,son, mother, wife, daughter, or person being killed in such a manner again.

The power of Black bloggers - 7.6.2007.1

I am amazed at the response that has been pouring out across the blogosphere, particularly among many of the prominent and not so prominent African American blogs. There is a rally cry going on and I can’t imagine that BET, and its owner Viacom, can’t hear it. I am so glad to see this occurring and I hope other television networks, on cable and broadcast, stand up and take note. It wouldn’t hurt if the Presidential candidates take some notice too.

What has happened is that on Monday, July 2nd, C21media.net mentioned that BET (Black Entertainment Television) will be coming out with a new line of programming for the touted 84 million households it claims to have. Now the news might have been out prior, but that was when I got my first chance to read about this. In reading the description of Hot Ghetto Mess, I had no clue what was really happening. I just thought the title of the show was horrible, but so was most of the programming on BET. Thus I don’t watch the channel.

The next day I noticed that What About Our Daughters had run a campaign to force advertisers away from the above mentioned show. Their protest seemed to be a complete success. That got me wondering. I had to see why they were upset.

Obviously I understood it and had to write on the subject as well. I had a lot to say, and my anger was not just limited to the program, but extended to Black Entertainment Television and the executives that program the channel at Viacom. To me that is the true source of the problem with BET. As I’ve stated before,

“Am I angry? HELL YES. BET is apparently using the guise of comedy to insult us and profit from that insult. It’s exactly what has happened with the promotion of gangsta rap over any other form of the music genre. It’s finding a way to get someone to call me the N-word, which they can’t do without an issue, and get paid for it. And the meaning is exactly the same one that has been used in this nation for 400 years. Doesn’t that get you upset?”

Now I may not be the largest blog yet, but there is no question that both of the blogs just mentioned, and African American Opinion where we both post excerpts to, get attention in large numbers. The word was out and Race Wire was next to speak on this.

Continued in Part 2...