I really hate it when certain of us as people of color are
outraged when things happen today, and totally ignore things that happened
yesterday. The murder of Trayvon Martin, especially the way our judicial system
laws are written; makes it seems as if it’s OK as long as the color barrier has
the upper hand of defending each other. Before I go deep on why the color
barrier play a big part in all of this; I want to confront those who try to
explain their elementary point, without the benefit of intellect. Here’s where
Mr. Vincent Chin demise, three decades ago coincide with Trayvon Martin’s
demise. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Vincent_Chin
At the Fancy Pants Club in Highland Park Detroit, Michigan
on June 19, 1982; Mr. Chin was having a bachelor party. Subsequently, Mr. Chin
and his Asian entourage were thrown out of the club after Mr. Ronald Ebens a
Chrysler plant superintendent and his stepson, Mr. Michael Nitz confronted Mr.
Chin with racial epithets.
Mr. Ebans took the confrontation to a higher level by
declaring that, “It’s because of you little muthafuckers that we’re out of
work.” Mr. Ebans were referring to America ’s
manufacturing auto jobs lost to Japan ;
the irony in this, Mr. Chin wasn’t Japanese. Mr. Ebans and Mr. Nitz walked away
with probation for murdering a person of color.
My question is this, why is it that we as people of color
have to wait until something or somebody have stepped on our big toe of manhood
before we get to a point of, “OK, that’s enough!”
What about the tragic wrongs that were perpetrated a moment
before Trayvon Martin and Mr. Chin; while all of us were silent?
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