“He wasn't a genius, just educated...”
-Charles M.
Have you heard of Kester Browne?
Where is the storm of national media outrage over the execution of a seven year old black charter school student, a casualty in the nation's sick War on Drugs?
Why is there no call for "justice," by people marching in the streets demanding that a prosecutor find and charge the killer of this boy?
In the mean time, Baltimore's paper of record, The Baltimore Sun, has been running cover stories of former drug war leaders and soldiers—men who carried out and ordered acts identical to the double-murder that claimed the life of this boy and his mother, painting them as victims of a system stacked against black men—men who may not be held responsible for their actions as they are mere victims of a system, simply tragic co-victims of those they kill.
Why has not CNN setup a panel of legal experts to discuss the possibility of "justice" for Kester Browne?
Note that the community where Kester Browne was executed by drug lords is described in the news story linked below as “tight-knit,” apparently so tight-knit that not a single member of the community will speak with police.
The execution of this sickly and academically motivated boy, being groomed to be an English-language teacher in China, has been mourned by very few blacks in Baltimore. Two black men I personally know, one a man who has held a job with a major soda company for twenty years, and another a church deacon, both expressed their opinion that the boy’s killing—while tragic—was an understandable and reasonable bi-product of his mother dating a man involved in the drug trade, and that there is no just call for the naming and trial of the killer or killers, who were simply “taking care of business” in regards to “that snitchin’ bitch.” These men did not know her or her son, Kester, but did know who she was dating, and will not point the finger. Apparently hundreds of black Baltimoreans have a good idea of who ordered her killing. Mind you, these are non-violent, law-abiding family men and they hold the killing of Kester Browne as something less than an investigation-worthy crime.
Kester Bowne’s life and death have no meaning to Black Baltimore or Black America, because Black America sees itself as having no agency, no hand in its own fate, unable, collectively to conceive of itself as anything other than the victim or tool of one sort of master or another.
If a white educator had been videoed correcting Kester’s English, or, even worse, committing the insult of telling him he was "well-spoken," [a taboo statement in Baltimore, which is taken as inferring that many black Americans do not speak correct English] that person’s job would have been forfeit.
But if a black man had been videoed shooting this boy in the brain, the black man would by heroized as a victim of the white man’s world and become a martyr, as have the numerous murdering black drug-dealers recently sympathetically portrayed as martyred victims in the cover stories of The Baltimore Sun.
This is our world, as it was brilliantly sculpted by the degenerate septic mind of the English Slave-breeding Aristocracy of 18th Century America, when it was forced by free will to give up its cheap white slaves and replace them with expensive Africans, a world where the descendents of those that survived that evil institution are now used to guilt and terrorize the descendents of those that escaped it.
Kester is already forgotten in Baltimore.
I was hoping he might be remembered beyond the toxic sprawl of this wretched warren of denial.
Please check out some of the links found in the second link below, particularly The City Paper story.
Remember that old feature in Reader's Digest called "Block That Metaphor"? I've got to say 'wretched warren of denial' from your essay is world class. Way to turn a phrase James.
warmest regards,
Jim
Does blaming the drug war relieve the above named persons and groups from agency? I am no fan of the drug war but the choice is between legalization, this drug war or some hypothetical different way of enforcement. Do you think if drugs were legal these same people would behave differently? I don't use any drugs, so am not providing demand, my conscience is clean. I am seriously asking. To me it sounds like naming the drug war and 18th century aristocrats removes agency. Even today's welfare system (which I see as the biggest external factor) removes agency. Plenty of people use welfare for a short or long time and don't turn into violent criminals.