No Alarms & No Surprises!
This article was posted on Voxunion.com May 25, 2010.
Her Name Was Aiyana Jones
Her name was Aiyana Jones. She was 7, Black, in a poor family, living in Detroit and was killed by the police. She was the victim of an unbroken and thoroughly vicious cycle of police brutality, followed by temporary, short-lived outcry and then the soon-to-come oppressive silence or worse acceptance. Most will never hear the story, fewer will hear and follow up on it and fewer still will have yet another name to list during self-aggrandizing moments on podia, panels or in various forms of media commentary. The national eulogizer Al Sharpton spoke at Aiyana’s funeral this week and said, again, that “this child is the breaking point… enough is enough” which I am sure a search would show he has said in one form or another at the never-ending cavalcade of funerals he does. But is it really enough? Is Aiyana really a “breaking point?” Absolutely not and we know it.
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Aiyana Jones was 7 years old. Some dirty cop went and snuffed her precious life out.If they had to take a life that night they should have come and taken mine instead.
Enough is enough.It is time for us to take stand and put a stop to this madness.