THE JUSTICE REFORM ERA..

We must come together as a community, change the very narrative, and give exact goals to the movement that are attainable. I believe that the essence of what we are fighting for is 'Justice Reform'. We cannot change people ideas about race in whole, but we can try. We can't get the police to suddenly become our friends, and I don't think we as POC are ready for that step, but we can outline a set of goals that reform our police and courts by creating sweeping justice reform. We can do this by laws and supporting those laws. One such law is ending police immunity from prosecution. If we can win cases against the worst of these crimes police killings with no cause on unarmed POC we can take a step forward in justice reform. Dr. Kings main goal in the civil rights era was the end of Jim Crow laws and the passing of the Civil Rights Act which passed June 19th 1964. Dr. King gave us the template and road work to establish lasting and powerful change. We must continue and put into practice the 4 steps of nonviolent action outlined by Dr. King. I was driving down the street and was behind a police officer on a four lane road. A young POC was on the side of the road and as the officer passed they gave them the finger. I thought there was no protest there just an attack, but that seems the okay sentiment during this week of crisis. We are in a crisis as true as it was in the civil rights era. I would like to again bring forth the work of Dr. Kings and Gandhi's work of nonviolent action and Satyagraha which is the expression of the needed love and willingness to walk into violence. The activists of our parents or grandparents did not know they were no going to have viscous dogs tearing at their flesh, fire hoses pounding with thousands of pounds of pressure enough to lift a full size man and throw him about, police with batons splitting their heads, or lose their freedom with imprisonment for years. They went anyway from sit-ins to freedom rides, from marches to boycotts and they kept up the pressure. If you knew that if you protested today you would met with this type of violence would you go? They had been purified for the action and ready to me violence with non-violence. If you watch the movie Gandhi there is a scene were Indian men stepped forward line by line and were beaten down by batons by the English. They to had been purified for the action. This is bravery the willingness to accept violence. In any nonviolent campaign there are four basic steps: 1) collection of the facts to determine whether injustices are alive; 2) negotiation; 3) self-purification; and 4) direct action. We are in the final step action, but let us rewind and take George Floyd's case. 1) We can see from video that the facts are George Floyd was killed by extreme police brutality. 2) A call was put forward to arrest all the officers involved in the murder of George Floyd. 3+4) These are the steps that we are in and were not planned in action, but were a reaction to a injustice that we have seen for generations. We see the actions of protesters have not been coordinated and many times resulted in riots, and the goals seem to many to loose focus as the country erupted into violence with the police still acting in violent measures. The movie Selma shows us a scene where King asks if the police chief was a certain type of man like sheriff Bull Connor whose violent reaction to protests with all the above noted forms of violence brought the eyes of the whole nation down upon the city of Birmingham Alabama for the inhumane protesters were given in his county. Dr. King was a real instigator, and he used the Ethos of America to be the catalyst of change and the political power he needed to get the Civil Rights Act passed in congress and have president Johnson sign it. I ask you. Is Trump Bull Connor? In his very first act in the protests that he issued was the attack of peaceful protesters, so he could have a photo opportunity. The battle lines are drawn, the want for change will not end, we will not stop protesting. This is the era of Justice Reform, and are you willing to be a soldier and walk into violence, are you willing to purify yourself in this fight and be the voice of change, so we can all breath. Chef John aka THOR https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuwyBfE8hjA     # GeorgeFloyd #ICantBreath #NoFear