"THE TALK" IS NOT WORKING: BLACK PEOPLE STILL RESISTS THE POLICE.

ICHEOKU says it is baffling that despite the never ending badluck which black people have each time they confront the police, resist an arrest or disobey police command, that some black people are still disobeying police, resisting the police and confronting the police. Regardless of whatever right they may claim to be asserting by doing this; or whatever injustice they are fighting through this practice, one has to be alive first before one can enjoy or exercise any rights. A dead person has no right of anything and is entitled to nothing except a burial or any other form of disposition of a dead body. So why deliberately throw one's live away in this manner, in the hands of the police, just because one felt disrespected or that he or she did nothing wrong. 

Black people know that the odds of being shot and killed by the police is very high, so one would expect them to have learnt this lesson and then be strategic on how to stay alive by surviving  police encounters. But unfortunately the records seem to suggest otherwise that either the lesson has not fully sunk in or they really do not care to take this necessary life saving precaution very seriously. They are still falling victims to police killing because of this penchant of  obstinacy whenever they encounter the police. Is it that the parents doing "The Talk" are not doing enough talking or that these youngsters are indifferent and care less about seeing the next day. They watch the news and they know the statistical odds stacked against them, yet they do not reflect this awareness in dealing with the police, begging the question, why? 

So what is behind this constant urge by black people to flee or resist arrest whenever they have encounter with the police. Is it an inbred instinct in them that they just mechanically do it without even thinking about it, sort of a natural reaction, whenever they see the police. It appears that the famous "The Talk" which goes on in black families, where parents teach their kids the expected mannerisms whenever they are dealing with police, is not working or at least not working as expected. Many of these police killings are otherwise avoidable and some could have been avoided had the victims merely complied and played nicely with the police. This is not victim blaming, but a deeply rooted concern on how to mitigate the number of black people dying as a result of police shooting. 

It really does not matter whether they were right or wrong and whether the police was intentionally seeking out some black person to kill, assuming they do that; what is important is staying alive by surviving a police confrontation. Therefore more talks need to be continuously had with black youngsters to instill in them the discipline that it is to their own benefit that they play a zombie whenever they encounter the police by doing exactly as told or commanded. Although a person should not live in this way of constant fear of the police just because of the color of their skin, but with the cruel fate which nearly regularly befall them in the hands of the police, anything is good enough that saves them from becoming another number in the statistical data. 

This compliant and total obedience to police command is a responsibility which black people have and owe to themselves; and which they must regimentally discharge at every given time to help reduce the continuing sad story in the saga of police brutality in America. If one knows that there is a red line which if they cross could result to their being killed or that they are specifically being targeted yo be killed, why then make it easy for their killers. Why give those with a bull-eyes painted on their back a reason and the opportunity to pull the trigger. It is a very difficult situation which black people face, not knowing if they will see the next day following a police encounter, but sadly, black people somehow somewhat contribute to their fate by repeating the same thing which they knew led to the death of the last black victim. 

ICHEOKU laments this recurring decimal and reiterates that it is about time black people started helping themselves in order to avoid becoming the next statistic. All the protests and speeches and civil rights lawyers cashing in from such unfortunate incidents to help keep their practices afloat, with pastors and other civil rights leaders shouting themselves hoarse are practices too many. Enough of them as it time to do the needful of proactive prevention. Lets stop the madness by ending the ugliness in black and blue encounters, let black people start playing nice with the police until the day police will stop shooting and killing black people. ICHEOKU says is tired of the same drama on a repeat loop and urges a new approach, the life saving type, of obedience to police command. And in those "The Talk" sessions, parents should try and lay more emphasis on the consequences of non compliance to police orders so that their children will understand the imperativeness of obeying the police.