It’s no secret that more black men have been killed under Barack Obama’s presidency than ever before. The uprising and death of African Americans, both men and women at the hands of police have been prevalent in recent years.
The latest victim of causality is Freddie Gray, a Baltimore, Maryland native who was killed this month while in police custody.
Gray was hauled into a police van with a broken spine but exited with a broken spine and severed voice box. It is widely speculated that Gray had several injuries, of which details are being withheld; due to the current tension and violent rioting going on since he was laid to rest.
But Freddie Gray is just one black man amongst many who have been killed by police.
Last year alone there was the killing of Michael Brown Akai Gurley, Kajieme Powell, Tyree Woodson, Jonathan Ferrelle, Ezelle Ford, John Crawford, Tamir Rice and Eric Garner. The list goes on with many to name but is president Barack Obama really to blame?
Did people of color really expect to receive justice for all and equal share, just because a black man took up residence in the white house?
Join me tonight at 6:30 p.m. on “Conversations Of A Sistah” as we discuss these questions and the recent upset in Baltimore, Maryland.
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Now see that’s whatz up. yeah Tra I wanna hear how u address this issue.
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Juicy!!!!!!!!!
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The woman who whooped her sons ass when she saw him down there is the hero in all this.
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CoSign @Coco…….I applaud the mother who got up off her ass and found her child. The rest of ‘em was sitting at home waiting to see what PookieNem stole while they were out lootin and burnin down their own neighborhoods.
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Bunch of fukkin dumbasses…plain and simple. Those are the niggas that I don’t give two shyts what happens to cuz they’re the ones walkin around saggin while stealing from and killing their OWN PEOPLE!!
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Yea but like Tra said you gotta understand their plight. I agree
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She was right…. go get yall kids!
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I’m going to jump right on it!
What truly grinds my gears are the fools saying black people only get upset when a white person/cop kills another black person but never when it’s a black murderer. I’m like :huh: on what planet do you see that happening?
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Yes Neicy.
Problem isn’t balack on black crime. We know what it is but when Rashad kills Raheem 8 out of 10 times Rashad is arrested but when Officer Jim kills Raheem, Officer Jim gets paid administrative desk leave, a internal investigation and back on the beat in 6 months.
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I’m so tired of everyone talking about the effect and not the cause. This man had his SPINE detached from his body in police custody and died with no repercussions and the powers that be state “they don’t know” what happened.
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The Alabama cop that partially paralyzed the East Indian Man, who was just walking down the street, was arrested and indicted and the Sureshbhai Patel, is ALIVE and slowly starting to walk again. The cause, a call stating there “is a black man walking down the street” this is our life in 2015.
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Problem isn’t balack on black crime. We know what it is but when Rashad kills Raheem 8 out of 10 times Rashad is arrested but when Officer Jim kills Raheem, Officer Jim gets paid administrative desk leave, a internal investigation and back on the beat in 6 months.
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CoSign
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The woman who whooped her sons ass when she saw him down there is the hero in all this.
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She was on the vriew?
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She was on the vriew?
why?? ……
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Why is she still in the damn news
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Val & Olivijah
Why is this broad doing interviews all kinda shyt …. why
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The woman who whooped her sons ass when she saw him down there is the hero in all this.
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They really making this into a big story? They act like black folks don’t discipline their kids. they need to stop celebrating this heifer.
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She needs to stop talking and doing interview before they start watching her even more. Find out she got warrants or is doing food stamp fraud. watch!
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But let her have been that physical with him about something else..the word “discipline” would not have been anywhere in the title.
Headlines would’ve been “Mother Caught On Video Violently Attacking Young Son.”
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Actually we need more than a black mom but if the black daddy ain’t there…the momma is all the child has left! daddies abandon their children at alarming rates? I want to see articles about THAT and how there should be a call to action for these men to help raise their children.
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I’m glad my girl is getting some money from this because I know she needs this, but I don’t want this to backfire on her. I want them to let her slip back into obsurity after this. Because they are going to turn on her any second.
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They going to find something. Even if they have to pull up the baby daddy’s and see what the fuck they got going on. God forbid they shady.
Her ass will be on the news next week with handcuffs and conspiracy charges. She should know they using her ass and ain’t going to let her shine too damn much.
Dumb ass.
I wonder if anyone close to her done already told her she might want to slow her roll. She must not have no friends.
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Sane,
I am so scared they gone turn on her.
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6 kids by 6 different me
ain’t nothing to celebrate. But let that woman have her 15 minutes of fame.
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Ms. Fulton (Travon’s Mom) and Ms. Bell (Sean Bells mom) was on tv this morning and they said, with sadness in their voice. She did the best she could. Hopefully she can move out the city, get a good job, and this young man can finish high school and go to college.
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I hope she is smart enough to let this be the last week in the news. We discipline our children so this ain’t news.
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she’s a nurses aid but raising 6 kids got to be tough!
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Miss Ang…………..hopefully someone will offer her a higher paying job than a nurse’s aid cuz that’s gotta be tough with six kids. I hate that this has to be a part of the story but that’s the world we live in today. baby daddies’ names, addresses, work status, criminal records, etc. will be on the news bfo’ the weekend is over. smh
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OK…so why is she being interviewed? i swear the media will make a story out of nothing
they need to interview the articulate young brother who went toe to toe with wolf blitzer yesterday…broken windows vs. broken spines!
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Hey night crew!!! I’m trying to read all the post from today….Hope everyone is well.
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nitey, nite, all.
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Goodnight Bobby….If Tra don’t give s a new post let’s meet up in here on the morrow
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Hey night crew!!! Y’all checking out already?
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Hey everyone! I’m up or y’all out?
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Mittsey and Q….I just said GOOD NIGHT y’all late anyways.
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AND WHOOP HERE IT IS!!
http://www.newslo.com/child-protective-services-launch-investigation-on-baltimore-mom-who-hit-son/
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Billy I knew they would do this to her ghetto ass.
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The looting is the real kicker. Kudos Tra tuning in.
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How is Obama to blame. His only fault is bein a black man in authority.
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Good show Tra
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The fault lies with us waiting for a “hero/saviour” to solve anything. Be your own hero, in your family, Un your community, in your life. You collectively are not helpless. Stop thinking divine help will happen without work.
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True Dat Trudy but…… what about when we’re faced with INJUSTICE like what we’re seeing all over this country today? How we gon be TRUE hero’s when cops are having a field day killing black men in their communities? Oppressing and DISRESPECTING a people of color based upon their hatred used authority. How long must we march and demand JUSTICE? When all the POTUS is doing is seeing these issues through rose colored glasses while using Al Sharpton’s ignorant ass in in the long run!
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The fault lies with us waiting for a “hero/saviour” to solve anything.
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Some may have seen the president as a hero or even expected more from him because he just so happens to be BLACK. but believe it or not people (black people especially) feel the president and Eric Holder could have done more.
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The question was has Barack Obama failed his people, not whether or not we are under attack by police. I agree with him doing something that really goes without saying, I’m just disappointed in people thinking that because he’s a Black man he’s going to solve all ills that we face. It doesn’t work like that,he’s there with his own agenda as all politicians are. Has he failed his people..? Most definitely with the help of the corporations that funded his run for President now that money counts as speech , the choices he made in his cabinet with former employees from large banks, allowing the cuts in social services, to name a few. I’m going strictly by the question asked and while we are on the subject of police brutality he failed with putting pressure on Eric Holder to be more thorough with that investigation into Ferguson which would’ve set a precedent in extreme measures.
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Lawd have mercy Tracy…..You are a trip!!!
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Just heard the rewind.
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Tracy good show, I had to hear the rewind.
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IN A WAY PRESIDENT OBAMA IS TOO BLAME.
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I missed the call-in….but I’ll catch the rewind.
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local news media were appealing to parents to go get or call their kids to come home. But it was prolly a lot of those parents out lootin and burnin shyt down right beside their badass chilluns.
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The mayor of Baltimore, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, is under fire for her handling of the crisis.
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The mayor of Baltimore, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, is under fire for her handling of the crisis
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She may as well resign. She is never getting re-elected. Especially after she let them tear shit up comment and thug comment. I read last night that she was deemed by some websites as the worse mayor in America…way back in 2013.
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She may as well resign. She is never getting re-elected.
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CoSign
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The mayor of Baltimore, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, is under fire for her handling of the crisis
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She might be able to salvage this. Who knows
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The mayor of Baltimore, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, is under fire for her handling of the crisis
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She is a weak woman. Speaks/spoke with no kind of authority…..then called them looters THUGS!!!!
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Kudos to Pastor Jamal Bryant for taking a stand on this issue. He dealt with the media,
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A group of community/church leaders tried to keep them from looting the liquor store but them fools pushed past them and did it anyway.
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Morning fam.
good show topic I listened in and their were NO CALLERS.. why?
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good show topic I listened in and their were NO CALLERS.. why?
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morning val….good question because the topic was on point.
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good question because the topic was on point.
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Cosign
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Im sicka talking about this shyt 🙄
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Mz. Bell I had to catch ya show’s rewind. you posting these show details too late.
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I had to catch ya show’s rewind. you posting these show details too late.
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I caught the rewind too. I kept checking this blog for the details too. then she finally posted about the show.
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Trace Barack Obama was NEVER for his people. That man is mixed in race, he don’t know what a frustrated people are going through in Bmore.
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Tracy I miss you 🙂
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