Every Day Life In White Racistan -- Murder In Front A Four Year-Old Child

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This is The Chuck Wagon Radio Show In New Orleans. Here is one radio episode broadcast daily by my friend, Chuck Perkins.

Chuck is an ex-Marine, performance poet and writer. He lives with his beautiful wife and daughters in New Orleans, where he operates Cafe Istanbul.

Please listen. Chuck is an important black voice in New Orleans. Stick with this for the first ten minutes of the recording of the Minnesota killing.


My heart breaks to hear this woman's little innocent girl comfort her mom after police shot Philando's arm off.

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As black people keep asking us: Are we conscious white people doing everything we can to stop this slow jam genocide and "the making of slaves"?

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1. Philando Castile was a teacher. Didn't matter.

From Tamika Kelly Walker, black teacher from North Carolina:

As a teacher, I am deeply troubled. As a wife and mother, I am afraid for my family and myself. Afraid for my fellow brothers and sisters.

Many ask, during the year, why teachers are involved with ‪#?BlackLivesMatter‬ and other movements. The past few days are why.

‪#?PhilandoCastille‬ was a teacher. A teacher. But none of that mattered because he was BLACK. He wasn't doing anything criminal, he was law abiding but none of that mattered because he was BLACK. He was my fellow colleague in this profession. So does his life matter?

And his baby, his four year old, sitting in the backseat, will bring that trauma to a classroom. A classroom that that has a teacher who will need to meet her academic, but most importantly, her mental and emotional needs.

And if that is a public school classroom, her teacher may not be able to meet those needs. Because our schools are under attack and underfunded.

So don't dare tell me these things are unrelated. Don't ignore how these issue and events intersect. And don't tell me there isn't anything we can do about it.

I'm fighting to live. I'm fighting for lives. I'm fighting.