Black Men Dying, Justice, Society and The Memory of Trayvon Martin Killed By George Zimmerman

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We don't have any problem with Black Men dying, whether it's young or seasoned Black Men dying and death is natural and a fact in the general equation of existence.  What we do have a problem with is worthless death and senseless dying.  There has to be order to dying.  What we mean is the currency of life has to be spent in the most dear and exorbitant manner possible, meaning what is charged to spend life must then be the ultimate price to society.

Society demands that we pay the ultimate price which is our lives in an existence that is dictated and governed by circumstances and conditions the machinations of society brings into being---we must therefore respond with, if the proverbial deck as is won't to say is stacked against Black people particularly Black Men then society must, in turn, be held accountable for exacting it's ultimate charge so there will be a coming to terms with society, it's governing status quo and the farcial and hypocritical contention it utilizes in legitimizing it's terror.

Why must Black People, particularly Black Men tolerate the injustice of the American system and submit to its abuses?  If in theory, the issue of justice is a noble idea, one that well-fed and consent mainstream America in the bask of its well-fed bodies and content souls speculates in the abstract.  But in practice we the subjects experiencing its application encounter it not as a noble enrichment but as a draconian netherworld of catch 22's.  Where in that universal quest to feed our bodies and satisfy our souls we find it as draw-bridges the status quo collaborators draw up behind their retreating ample back sides as they consolidate and conserve their gains and spoils.  Why must we the objects of the abstraction continue to objectify the illusion by maintaining those relationships with the citadelist and their boot-lickers which results with us spending the currency of our lives cheaply and idiotically?

Why is the administration of a law and it's justice that does not reflect by taking into account the particularities of the Black Experience and condition in America accepted?  If we state that the system is in opposition to the development of Black determination in America why then is the injustice tacitly supported and legitimized by cooperating with it.  There isn't any middle ground.  We are either included in the American system and it's Political-Economy which is to mean we actively share in the spoils from it's exploits or we are defacto excluded from it's strategic intent which is also to mean we are the objects of it's imperative.

As men, our potential is either a stabilizer or de-stabilizer to the status of society.  As Black Men the potential is always seen as threatening to the stability of American society.  So why then must Black Men continue to allow and accept the influence and effects of a system that in practice prejudicially excludes Black Men from the substance of it's value?

The nature and reason for our behavior, the decisional choices determining and predicting actions in society are a result of the way we relate to the forces which are in existence due to the composition and structure of American society.  If we decry governmental attitudes towards us in all forms and fashions as being perceptual biases, based on a paranoid view that hold Black Men as the antithesis to the American strategic imperative, then why as we have already demanded do we give up our lives, spend the currency of our lives in ways that in principle and in deed convey the incredulity of our inability and reluctance to confront the reason why we exhibit the behavioural chaos which in consequence has us spending our lives cheaply?

In memory of Trayvon Martin, the 17-year-old teenager from Sanford, Florida.  Killed and murdered by George Zimmerman on February 26, 2012.

By Apropos