In case you missed it, a peaceful New York protest against the Sean Bell verdict has ended in arrest. Civil rights activist Al Sharpton has been arrested along with Nicole Paultre Bell (Fiancee/wife of Sean Bell) and about 190 other demonstrators were arrested for “civil disobedience.
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It’s been a day or two since I’ve posted any new news or opinion pieces. Partly because the cocoa colored news has been a little slow, but mainly because I’ve been a little down since the Sean Bell verdict. I’m not from New York; I don’t know Sean Bell, his Fiancée, Nicole Paultre-Bell or anyone associated with the case and I can’t say that I was truly shocked or surprised by the verdict. And yet it has burdened my spirit.
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The three Cops have been AQUITTED in the Sean Bell Case!!!!
State Supreme Court Judge Arthur Cooperman said the charges could not be proved beyond a reasonable doubt.
“Questions of carelessness and incompetence must be left to other forums,” Copperman said.
WOW!!!
I know some folks have already written their thought under my Converstation Starter post. (either post you use is fine with me)
I just want to know who will police the police??
This was not a criminal, or an armed assailant. Just a man and his friends in a car.
If I shot at someone who was unarmed because I “thought” they may do something wrong I’d go to jail.
Contrary to what Mayor Bloomberg believes this is a case about race and class. The cops involved may have been black but that doesn’t mean that they don’t stereotype against their own culture. These Black cops saw, young black males and automatically assumed they were going to do a “drive by.” that assumption isn’t right even if the one doing the stereotyping is of the same ethnicity
I’m just in shock, and worried about safety the black men in my life. whose stereotypes might put them in danger??
Tomorrow is a big day for the people of New York. The Judge in the Sean Bell case is expected to reach a verdict. Will the three law enforcement officers be dealt a guilty verdict?
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Alica Keys has cancelled a tour date or two to recover from vocal illness. Read the rest of this entry »
Two quarters is mad at Alicia Keys for her comment in Blender Magazine. Curtis had this to say about Alicia Keys and her thoughts on gansta rap.
What did you think of Alicia Keys’ comments regarding gangsta rap in Blender?
50 cent: I don’t like Alicia Keys no more.
She clarified the comments, though.
50 cent: If she thinks what they consider [to be] gangsta music is [made] to bring black people down then I think my sh*t falls into that category. I don’t like people who don’t like me. I don’t like her then because that’s what provides the life for me. I think if you ask Ice Cube the same shit, he’ll tell you, “F*ck Alicia Keys” for even saying that. Because the success he’s had as an actor and a businessman, there was no opportunity for that sh*t without N.W.A. But I don’t think that [her] classical sh*t is cool. I don’t give a f*ck if you can classically play the piano. I haven’t been classically trained, because my upbringing, nobody put me in front of a piano at that time. If they did, I would know how to do it as well as she does. I could learn how to play the piano if I was passionate about it right now. That’s obviously my perspective evaluating what she does, and I could f*ck*ng care less about the sh*t. So she don’t like the music that embodies the harsh realities because they’re not her realities. She hasn’t been subjected to the same things.
Source
Alicia Keys got on Ryan Seacrest’s Radio show today in order to clarify her comments in Blender Magazine
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In what has to be her most controversial statement yet, Alicia Keys told Blender Magazine that gangsta rap and the east coast/west coast beef of the 90’s were created by the government (“the man” )
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