Tag: Black Lives movement

Mr. Chavez’s incarceration tells a truth about utter dismissal of fellow human beings and injustices perpetrated upon himself, his family and so many others, who are suffering and dying from the racist abuses of a system that is designed for dehumanization and genocide of non-white and other vulnerable people.

Fifty years ago, on June 16, 1966, in Greenwood, Mississippi, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) Chair Kwame Ture, then known as Stokely Carmichael, addressed a crowd of youthful demonstrators and the media covering the militant March Against Fear and forcefully re-echoed our millennial and generational demand for “Black Power.”

Virtually every person shot to death by police handguns in the U.S. in the last 20 years has been killed with a bullet that international law has declared to be a war crime. By challenging the police dum-dum, the Black Lives movement could assert, even by implication, that Black people, under assault from racist police and the white supremacist state, should be entitled to at least some of the protections of international law.