Our Common Ground With Janice Graham

A COP KILLS OSCAR GRANT IN COLD BLOOD: A JUDGE DENIES JUSTICE What ABOUT THE VALUE OF BLACK LIFE in AMERICAN JURISPRUDENCE ? NEWS REPORT November 5, 2010 4:46 PM ET Judge Robert Perry handed Mehserle a minimum two-year prison sentence. Mehserle has already served 146 days in jail. NOT NEWS: A Black person can be gunned down in cold blood by a policeman and get away with it. Perhaps we have forgotten how to be Black in America ? ON OUR SECOND PAGE A BROTHER’S BEAT DOWN: A MESSAGE TO BLACK AMERICA It is just not ALL ABOUT HIM. IT IS ABOUT US AS WELL. President Barack Obama, the first African-American President since Reconstruction, has been the victim of brutal attacks since he took office. This onslaught of white supremacy and racial hatred has not only rendered him confused and ineffectual, all Black people are the targets as well. They can’t deport us, so they despise and dismiss us and slash and dash at our greatest aspirations. How do WE get our groove back ? November 6, 2010