RACISM IN AMERICA: THE SCAPEGOATING OF THE POLICE.

ICHEOKU says the first indication of racial America is the classification of Americans according to their respective tribes including African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Latin Americans, Russian Americans, Chinese Americans, Mexican Americans, Irish Americans, Italian Americans, Russian Americans, Black Americans and the list goes on and you wonder why not just Americans. 

But the intention is to drive wedges between the people and keep them divided; and that way prevent a full assimilation and total integration of all the people who found themselves mired in the conundrum of Americanism. Instead of all the prefixes and respective tribe identifier/markers, why not just refer to every American as an American, one would ask.  But no, the intention is well known; it is to divide and conquer the people in order to maintain the existing internal hegemony of white people over other people in America. They made it so in order to keep other disparate Americans fighting each other for survival and trying to curry favor from white people by snitching on other minorities in order to remain in the good book of white people. 

It is a game of survival and white people know exactly how the game is played, they pit one minority group against the other minority group and watch them fight each other and whoever survives is made the supervisor who then reports to them. They are good at what they are doing and they have successfully achieved their desired goal of keeping American people separately apart from each other and dug in, in their own respective hamlets, zones and neighborhoods and to the near exclusion of other Americans who do not look like them nor share their experiences and backgrounds. 

This is the reason you have various towns and neighborhoods in America reflecting some cultural backgrounds which they pass off as celebrating those cultures, but it is not. It makes the multi cultural American society a ruse because there is no real integration when a Chinese American lives in ChinaTown and white man lives in their own neighborhood, ditto blacks, Italians, Hispanics etc. 

This shows that America is not the monolithic society which it is often projected as. Rather, it a motley of different people, from diverse cultures and backgrounds; people who are from everywhere and who are laboriously mired in what Joe Biden once described as a racial jungle and trying to survive. This causes the frequent escalation of tension in the society between each rival groups as everyone wants for themselves what the other has, hence the survival of the fittest attitude and the treating of the needs of their own kind as superseding the needs of others. As a result any person who finds himself or herself in a position of authority, no matter at what level, usually saturates the place with their own people, firing others and bringing in their own people to fill the vacancies. They want to maintain dominance and increase their own peoples economic fortunes and they must exclude others to get their desired objective. 

It is generally broad and it goes from janitorial to the highest office in the land, both in private and public sectors. With jobs and other economic opportunities given to their own people, wealth is created within their tribe and they fare much better, while the other less fortunate tribes are left with little to nothing to take care of themselves and their own people. This economic exclusion of others is not limited to white people as the Chinese, the Mexicans, the Hispanics, the Japanese, the Russians, the Filipinos, the Jews and everyone else who can, bakes the cake primarily for their own kind. As a result, those who are shafted and left with nothing, engage in all manner of things for survival including strong arm robbery. It is this institutionalized tension in the American society that the police exists to maintain a firm lid over and prevent it from boiling over; and often times are demanded to quell any arising fallouts from. 

A thankless difficult job but they do it anyway as that was what they signed up to. The police are also from diverse backgrounds as every American and share in the same biases and resentment of others who are not members of their tribe, admitted mostly internalized until acted out. They also have their employers, usually the Mayor and those at City Halls with police supervisory jobs, who they have to satisfy to remain employed. So, they do whatever they can to not only keep their jobs by maintaining order and to be in the good book of those in power who must be protected from the angst of the ever eruptive have nots. It is in the attempt to balance these loyalties that they often times overreach and over perform, leading to excessive use of force. 

This is why it always takes a protest before the condemnations of the police because their employers are fully aware of the underlying smoldering tension but keeps quiet until it boils over. How many times has a policeman or woman ever been disciplined for their misconduct before protests erupts, as many protests usually start after the people have waited for those in charge to take action but to no avail. The protest from the Minneapolis killing of George Floyd could have been averted if the Minneapolis police department and the Mayor acted summarily in disciplining the offenders and charging them to court for what they did. But they waited, thinking that things will quieten  down to sweep it under the rug as usual but they miscalculated this time. 

The police is being constantly harangued and hounded as if they are the only cause of the problem when the politicians that hire them and abuse them, demand that they accomplish so much with limited resources and then turn around to deride them when things go wrong. They forget that the police are human beings too, that they have feelings and that also they have families as well. The police are not superhuman, admitted they are asked to undertake dangerous assignment chasing down and arresting the dregs of society, take and accept what other humans cannot take and accept. They want the police to catch bullets being fired at them with their teeth but never to fire back at the criminals who want them dead. They forget that the police are afraid too and wants to return home to their families at the end of each work shift. But how the police is expected to mission accomplish on all they are asked to do and still not make mistakes is what ICHEOKU is still trying to figure out. 

So please spare ICHEOKU all the pretentious indignation that George Floyd, was killed. He was not the first black person to be inhumanly executed by the police and he will not be the last. His murder was not even the first time such horrendous treatment or killing of a black person was captured on video, Rodney King and Eric Garner were both captured on video but elicited no such outcry. But suddenly everybody just woke up to the issue of race in America and the fact that black people have been on the business end of the spear of racism. 

But it is an election year and their main target is President Donald John Trump, so they must hype everything up to near breaking point in order to get the president. But again, they have failed because American people saw through the charade as the president is not the Governor of Minnesota nor the Mayor or Police Chief of Minneapolis under whose jurisdiction George Floyd was murdered. It is instructive that all the three men are all Democrats. 

So why exactly is the police being singled out and hung to dry as if they are doing something which their employers does not know about or did not want them to do. Their employers want the police to keep them safe and the police must do whatever it takes to achieve the objective. If their employers are not afraid of a society which they created, they would have since disarmed or disbanded the police. But they know the consequences of such a reckless act as they will be the first victims of a lawless state of affairs without a police to call to their rescue. The police are only the enforcement arm of the society which hired them to do exactly as commanded, yet some people are now questioning the police without questioning the politicians who hired them and under whose supervision they work. Why is the outcry not to defund politics or disband politicians instead of the police.The police, no matter how low their estimation are still better than politicians, yet America has not disbanded Washington DC, Governor's houses and City Halls. 

ICHEOKU says please stop singling out just the police for chastising because the whole system is skewed up, from Wall Street to Main Street, from Washington DC to various City Halls including in private businesses that do not hire black people and landlords that do not rent to black people to money managers in banks that do not lend to black people and when they do, at exorbitantly high interest rate. People should stop blaming the police for they are just a product of a society that have no regard for black people and treats their breaths as if it does not matter. So, why expect the police to be any different and for them to allow black people to breath when the general society does not. It is better if the the fix is wholly throughout the society or lets stop the occasional pretense and waddle on in the American experience which is bleeding.