Straight Out Of Patience

Need I say anything more?

As Tensions Increase

Ahhhh when does it all stop? When does it all end??  Another week and another suspicious killing of an unarmed Black man by police and another story that sounds snarky....

Christian Taylor, a 19-year-old college student who played football at Angelo State University in Arlington, Texas, was fatally shot by police responding to a burglary in progress at a car dealership, authorities said Saturday.

 According to Sgt. Paul Rodriguez, a police spokesman, police responded to a report that a suspect had used a car to break through the window of the Classic Buick GMC dealership. "The officers went and confronted him. There was an altercation. An officer discharged his weapon and struck the suspect," Rodriguez told the Star-Telegram.

Christian Taylor's family is in disbelief that the young man would commit such a crime.

 Clyde Fuller, Taylor's great uncle, told the Star-Telegram, "He was a good kid. I don't see him stealing no car or nothing like that," Fuller said.

I would like to give the police the benefit of the doubt here except that too many of these cases are piling up...

Here is the basic story of what occurred...

Officers were responding to a burglary call about 1 a.m. Friday in Arlington,Texas when they discovered someone had driven a vehicle through a front window of the Classic Buick GMC, according to a statement from the Arlington Police Department.
 The statement said police approached the suspect and a struggle ensued. At some point during the struggle, an officer shot Taylor.

Police identified the officer as Brad Miller, a 49-year-old who has been with the department since last September and who has been working under the supervision of a training officer since his graduation from the police academy in March. The police statement said Miller had no police experience before joining the Arlington police force.

(Naturally) He will be placed on administrative leave, which is routine in such cases. Independent criminal and administrative investigations, according to the police statement.

The Tarrant County Medical Examiner's Office identified the dead man as Christian Taylor, of Arlington. Taylor was a sophomore at Angelo State University in San Angelo.

The shooting comes amid increased scrutiny nationwide of police use of force, particularly in cases involving black suspects. Taylor was black. The race of the officer was not immediately known. How many times have I written this this year?

The case resonated on social media, with posts questioning the official account that Taylor was committing a robbery and asking why there was no video of the altercation. By Friday night, #ChristianTaylor was trending on Twitter.

Taylor's great uncle, Clyde Fuller of Grand Prairie, Texas, described Taylor as "a good kid" and said he didn't believe that Taylor was trying to commit a crime.
"They say he's burglarizing the place by running up in there? Nuh-uh. Something doesn't sound right," Fuller told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.

It was unclear whether there was any video of the shooting. Police Sgt. Paul Rodriguez said Arlington officers have not been equipped with body cameras, and police said they haven't found any dealership security video that captured it.
The Star-Telegram reported that court records it reviewed showed Taylor was sentenced to six months of deferred adjudication last December on a drug charge stemming from a September 2013 traffic stop in which police reported Taylor was found with 11 hydrocodone tablets not prescribed to him.

 The case was dismissed July 14 after Taylor satisfied the requirement of his probation. He graduated from Summit High School in Mansfield, Texas, in 2014.

Angelo State officials said they were saddened to hear of the death of Taylor, a 5-foot-9, 180-pound defensive back.

"We're not familiar with any of the details because it happened away from here, but we'd just like people to know that we are sad and sorry for his family and friend," university spokeswoman Becky Brackin told the San Angelo Standard-Times.
In a Twitter posting, football coach Will Wagner said, "Heart is hurting."

Most White people will automatically say..."Thug", "he was a thug.." Black people will automatically not believe the official police report because as I said...Too many of these type of incidents are occurring and you can count on one hand the times the officer or armed citizen has been held accountable for their actions...If the black person has any blemishes on his /her record...you can forget any justice occurring..

An arrest for Jaywalking is justification for shooting someone guilty of switching lanes without signalling or some other nonsense..It doesn't take much...

If the person is a Black male and he's over six feet...The killer need only say.."I was afraid for my life" and that is justification enough for his killing..

II-

In Ferguson Missouri....It is the one year anniversary of the death of Micheal Brown...The 18 year old Black man killed by former officer Darren Wilson last year...
Protesters are out in force again....Truth be told, they have never stopped protesting...

Police arrested several protesters Monday night in Ferguson, Missouri, which continues to be a flashpoint one year after the high profile shooting death of 18-year-old Michael Brown, an unarmed black man who was shot by a white police officer. Officials declaring a state of emergency did not prevent further clashes between demonstrators and police during a second night of unrest in the embattled St. Louis suburb.

As night fell, dozens of protesters repeatedly defied police orders to stay off the street and stopped traffic on West Flourissant Avenue, the scene of riots and looting over the last year.

As further unrest marked the anniversary of the shooting death of Michael Brown, some in the crowd, not far from the spot where he was shot, felt the awareness stemming from that incident has empowered them.
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“They say what we are doing is excessive, but the death of Mike Brown brought an issue that has been swept under the rug to the light, so I like it, it’s powerful,” said a former Ferguson resident who goes by the name Mal Stiff.

“A lot has changed in the minds of the people like the minds of the activists, the protesters, the people who are really down with change. A lot has changed with them, like a lot of us have been awakened in a way we couldn’t even have imagined,” said St. Louis resident Tiffany Shawn.

But for as much change as Tiffany Shawn welcomes, she said some things have stayed the same.

“Not a lot has changed with how the police are reacting to us, and are behaving with us. Not a lot has changed when it comes to that,” she said.

No it hasn't and as both incidents show...Race relations are at their boiling point in America....And no politician....Left or Right wants to honestly talk about it...The only people really talking about it are people like me on Blogs and Social media...

I'm preaching to the choir....Most if not all of my readers are African-American...And I know there are right wing bloggers who are only writing and speaking to like minded
white people...

Until we are talking to each other and honestly airing out our veiwpoints...Tensions will continue to boil and explode and both tribes will continue to retreat into their own bunkers....

No Solution in sight!

DAMN!

Kind Of Makes You Wonder Doesn't It ?

Men Can Starve

True! So True!

Keith's Favorite Quotes

Donald Trump Really?

I watched that Republican Debate Thursday night and all that was missing was some buttered movie popcorn.....

17 guys are running and 16 of em were scared to death of Donald Trump..a clown if ever there was one...At times I didn't know if this was a real debate or an episode of"The Apprentice".

The moderaters had more guts than the other candidates. Megan Kelly had more stones than all of those men...She went after Trump... but somehow I don't think... it worked. Trump unabashedly answerd all the questions truthfully(and showed how foul he really is) and came back with his own heat for Megan Kelly.

I really don't think FOX NEWS realizes that the Republican party of today is made up of hateful and spiteful mysoginistic men and self hating women who agree with Donald Trump especially about Rosie O'Donell who is liberal and gay..., So you know they hate her...(OR MAYBE THEY DO!) Further, most can see that this was a set up to boost Jeb Bush past Trump since Roger Ailles ,the station CEO is related to the Bush family...but it didn't work......Lawd Jesus...All I needed was some buttered popcorn and a Coke.

That was a real clown show....The sad thing is....This is where our politics have gone today....Performance and personality over real solutions and ideals.....

Beware the cult of personality!

Weekend Humor

(In Loving Memory of Trayvon Martin,Jordan Davis, Eric Garner, Sam Dubose, Sandy Bland, Tamir Rice, Mike Brown and I could go on....) Laugh a minute, but then think about it!

Everybody have a super groovy weekend...Stay safe...and alive!

Things That Make You Go Hmmmmmmmmm!

Keith's Favorite Quotes

Real(istic) Family Values

Yes..I saw the stupid(but well paid for ads) denouncing Planned Parenthood...and I wondered to myself...Why would these clowns, who are supposedly so pro life be against a plan that educates poor and inner city women and men on how to limit the number of children they have basically...thus keeping the welfare rolls down that these same Republicans claim are so full..?

It teaches the use of and the reason for contraceptives so that pre-marital sex and even marital sex wpn't lead to an unwanted pregnancy!  If they are so family values minded as they say....Then they should have been completely on board with this...This is real family values or should I say Realistic Family Values...we no longer live in the era where anybody can just have child after child...(Like the Waltons...) They can't afford it...Families should plan...Everybody has limited resources....Like I said..Realistic Family Values.

Yet these guys once again came up with yet another non-issue...since they've all but lost on so called Obamacare(The Affordable Care Act) and Gay Marriage... Planned Parenthood...Let's defund that, they said...

The Republicans' hoax video smear campaign failed; Planned Parenthood has won! Democrats stuck together (for once) and defeated the Republicans in a 53-46 vote that fell short of the 60 votes needed to proceed...It was frightening that it even got that close...

What will the Wingnuts rally around next?  It's frightening to even speculate!

What I've Learned

1.If you look at things after two years,it doesn't seem like much has changed...but if you look back after ten years, the whole world has changed...

2.We are all in a constant state of evolution.

3.You're a different person in every decade of your life.

4.To be a Butterfly, you have to first understand the worm!

5.We've all done things we'd like to take back....but in life..there are no do overs

6.I believe in Heaven....Have to have something to look forward to after all of this is over..

7.Good Genes is what really make you look good for your age...not much else!

8.I learned more about love and relationships after one ended badly....I was always better for the next girl.

9.Most women think that love and sex are inseperable or the same thing...Men know differently.

10.Here's something I learned....If you say to somebody ,let me tell you something...you'll immediately turn them off...If you say..."Let me share something with you"...Then you got their attention,because you've made them a part of it.

Weekend Humor

On the way home from work a woman stops at a pet store. She sees a parrot and immediately falls in love with it. She asks the salesperson, "Can I get the parrot?"

The salesperson replies, "Of course, but I do have to warn you the parrot lived in a Whore House. So he has picked up some colorful language."

The woman doesn't care so she buys the bird and brings it home.

Once home, she puts the bird's cage on a shelf and uncovers it. The bird says, "A new madam! Hello madam."

A few hours later her daughters come home and the bird says, "New girls! Hello girls!"

A few hours after this the woman's husband comes home and the parrot says, "Hi Tom!"

Everybody have a super groovy weekend!