a young man that u all kno as JoeThaPoliceman from the What's Goin' Down episode of That's My Mama, put ya hands together for Randy Watson - Coming To America
A Black man’s fatal encounter with Florida police is drawing outrage after officers refused calls to release bodycam footage, only for a neighbor’s video to blow apart their account.
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Yesterday two young cats were selling candy in Walmart. This white lady was asking them, "who are you selling it for, I'll know if you're lying." I walked up and said, "Happy Juneteenth Lil Brothas, let me get that whole box." We dapped it up, I told them, "be safe out here, these people are dangerous," and we left her standing there. I can only imagine what would have happened had they stayed there, it was my duty to protect those babies....
Juneteenth is a reminder that none of this is ancient history. For example, people who think Emmett Till was "so long ago" should be reminded that 10 current members of Congress are older than him, and the white woman Carolyn Bryant who falsely accused him died only 3 years ago.
It’s not ancient history. It’s not even history. It’s contemporary reality.
We're not crying, you are.🥹
Michelle Obama stepped to that podium and gave her husband every single flower he deserved. She spoke directly to Barack and brought him to tears.
This is what love and legacy look like. 🖤
There is something profoundly broken in a country where a child can be killed over something as small as a bottle of juice, a suspected shoplifting incident, or nothing at all—and we are still here, decades later, saying their names.
In 1991, 15-year-old Latasha Harlins was shot and killed over a $1.79 bottle of orange juice. That moment didn’t just take a young girl’s life—it exposed a truth about how Black children are seen, feared, and denied the grace of innocence.
More than 30 years later, the pattern hasn’t stopped.
14-year-old Cyrus Carmack-Belton was chased and shot in the back after leaving a store. And now, in Mississippi, 1-year-old Kohen Kartier Wiley is dead after police opened fire on a vehicle over an alleged non-violent offense. A baby. In a car. In a parking lot.
Officers knew there was a child inside.
Let that sit with you.
A bottle of juice. A suspicion. A moment of assumption. And Black children pay with their lives.
This is not just about individual decisions—it’s about a culture that repeatedly treats Black life as disposable, where escalation comes faster than restraint, and where accountability too often comes too late, if at all.
These are not isolated tragedies. They are connected by a throughline of dehumanization, fear, and a system that fails to protect the most vulnerable.
We should not be this numb to it. We should not have to keep explaining why this is wrong.
Kohen Kartier Wiley should be alive. So should Latasha. So should Cyrus.
Say their names. Remember them. And refuse to accept a country where this continues to happen.
Rest in power, Kohen Kartier Wiley.
A good time to remind you that Black people are 7.5 x more likely to be wrongfully convicted of murder than whites, and that this risk is higher when the victim is white.
Jalen Rose at the Graduation Ceremony of his Jalen Rose Leadership Academy.
This is the 13th straight graduating class from his charter school with a 100% College & Postsecondary Acceptance Rate🎓💯