The Cops Think I'm JUST ANOTHER N*GGER - Regardless of my educational background........

This post isn't necessarily about education, but I hope to tie it in.

In the past 2 or 3 days, a person of color, a black person was killed by a police officer.  One of the gentlemen was killed while restrained by officers, for apparently selling compact discs at a gas station.  The second gentleman was killed as he reached for his wallet to get his driver's license, which the offer had told him to do.  There are many things that can be said about a man selling cds, at a gas station, but nothing can explain why a trained officer killed him.  The second man, what can be said about his situation?  He was a law abiding citizen, he was obeying the officer's order to retrieve his license.  He didn't have a criminal record.  He was complying to the orders of the cop.  He was a hard worker.  Yet, he was still murdered, in cold blood, in front of his fiancee and a 4 year old child.  Again, I say, damned if we do, and damned if we don't.

I recently posted my first live feed on Facebook and I was doing it because I was in another city, on vacation, taking an early morning stroll and I didn't want to come in contact with a trigger happy police.  In my video I discussed the fact that I'm highly educated, because of my bachelor's and master's degrees, but regardless of the degrees I earned, when a cop sees me, all he sees is the color of my skin and that's enough to make him kill me or rape me or both.

I listed to Ms. Castile's interview on CNN and she discussed how she taught her children to respond to the police; she taught them well, but well wasn't enough to keep her son alive when he encountered a trigger happy cop.  So what do we tell our youth?!  I work with children of color every day, I constantly push education on them, but what's the point when I know that they're not safe outside of the classroom? 

As a group of people, people of color, especially people who look like me, we can never catch a break; NO matter what we do.  You can have money, but if the cops don't know who you are, to them you are just another n*gger.  You can be a professor at Harvard or Yale, but to the cops you are just another n*gger.  You can be a hard working, public school cafeteria supervisor, with a concealed carry permit, but to the cops, you are just another N*GGER! 

Our justice system needs an overhaul, the cops need better training and cops who break the law need to be punished accordingly........because I'm tired of being JUST ANOTHER N*GGER.