Black Psychology

The mission of policemen in America is to “serve and protect,” but if one reviews the recent history of the police force across the country, one is forced to ask: who is doing the protecting? Africans in America are far too often the victims of police violence, and very infrequently the beneficiaries of it. The police force exists as part of the distorted view of life given to us by the ruling elites. At the …

…that the police are granted. This power to maintain the status quo by any means necessary is in contrast to the frequent responses of oppressed communities to this violence. Lacking such institutional power, oppressed communities rising in revolt and dissent from police violence are labeled deviants, rioters, looters, opportunists, and thieves. Their lack of power in defining their counter violence is in sharp contrast to the power of law enforcement officials to define such things.