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  • 1.  Nobody Can Remain Silent

    Posted 07-11-2016 08:34 AM

    Nobody can remain silent

    With the events of the last three days in Atlanta, St Paul and Dallas no other city topic seems possible.
    You don't fight racism with racism, the best way to fight racism is with solidarity.
    Bobby Seale
     
    White people in the US who stayed silent when black people got killed by police in stairways in New York, while hawking CDs in Atlanta or standing in the street in Ferguson, or after running away from police in Baltimore (to name only a few instances) because they couldn't relate and imagine it could ever happen to them, were probably right, it wouldn't. 

    But as far as relating to a driver being pulled over by a cop for whatever infraction? This has happened to almost anybody. But getting shot in the process without any threat being voiced, without belligerence, without as much as a tussle with a four year old child in the backseat? Getting gunned down not by one shot but multiple shots aiming to kill, recovery impossible? This, too, is very unlikely to happen to a white man. Yet, the situation is so familiar that even those who managed to not pay attention to police violence and the obvious uneven treatments based on race in spite of everything everybody could  have known for years, would have to wake up from their stupor.Young black males in recent years were at a far greater risk of being shot dead by police than their white counterparts – 21 times greater i, according to a ProPublica analysis of federally collected data on fatal police shootings. (Pro Publica)
    There is no remaining silent possible because what needs to be seen is not only each individual case, as terrible as they are, but one must see the pattern. This pattern cannot be tolerated in a society that calls itself free, enlightened and democratic. Or stated differently, a society that tolerates such patterns is no longer enlightened, free or democratic.
     
    The pattern of uneven and blatantly unjust treatment of the different races, therefore...
     
     
     
     
     

    Community Architect: Nobody can remain silent

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    Nikolaus Philipsen FAIA
    Archplan Inc. Philipsen Architects
    Baltimore MD
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