With Impunity – Black Birds and Black Men

With Impunity

The Rape of Recy Taylor

Excerpt from, The New York Times Obituaries – Recy Taylor

“The next evening, Mrs. Taylor faced new threats: White vigilantes set her porch on fire. The following day, she and her husband, Willie Guy Taylor, and their daughter, Joyce Lee, moved in with her father and siblings. Mr. Corbitt, her father, would sleep in a chinaberry tree in the backyard, watching over the family while cradling a double-barreled shotgun, going inside to sleep only after the sun rose.”

Inherently, cast as inhuman and lacking mental or moral judgement the Negro is regarded as property and a non-being.

It seems that from the earliest experiences you are sensitized to the nature and relationships of race/racism. Mass media in all contrivances delivers a daily dose of racial demagoguery that shapes the social structure and continually reinforces a subconscious mindset of white superiority and black inferiority.

Black people are keenly aware of this racial dichotomy, and are educated to its immediate existence outside the boundaries of their dwellings and within their existential, physical and mental state of mind. [edit— The physiological epistemological apartheid created with a second sense of actualization and self-preservation, born of being invisible and deprived of power—-edit. Black rage is managed like a walk across a busy intersection. Look both ways, turn around and check your back.

Recy Taylor, a young black wife and mother was raped by six white men as she was returning home from church. All the assailants were identified and none were charged by two grand juries. Despite the assailants confessing their involvement; misrepresenting their entanglement as consensual with their accuser victim, Mrs. Recy Taylor. They were never held accountable. Even with the contradictory confession of one of them to the contrary. Heinous crimes against blacks continue on with impunity.

To orgnize themselves against white victimization, for the insulting audacity of  bringing charges, the black community slept sleepless nights. As they chose to remain and defend their families armed with their “unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness” —-they packed a gun, climbed a tree and waited for the violence and fire to come next time.

Black birds, and Black men with shotguns in trees.

Fin

JB

But I digress…

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