Shootings: Thoughts from a protest marcher

I marched in Philadelphia with the AME Church and hundreds of other mad and outraged young people Thursday after the killing of Philando Castile by a white police officer in Minnesota. Some things came to mind as I marched and yelled in the streets:

Where is the federal government before blacks burn down cities and riot? Where is the president’s speech before men have to die while their girlfriends film their death on live streaming social media? Where is the establishment of partnerships with the black community before civil wars break out in American streets? Why do Democrats keep yelling about gun laws when the people who vote for them, 90 percent as a bloc, are getting killed with legal guns in the hands of police?

Consistently, there is either no indictment of what is obvious, no guilty convictions of blatant assassinations, or conspiracy by elected officials not to release video evidence they know implicates officers The justice system is absent, ineffective and downright obstinate. What’s wrong? How many times do we have to say it? No Justice, No Peace.

This story was originally published July 12, 2016 at 11:22 AM with the headline "Shootings: Thoughts from a protest marcher."