Michael Welch
Jul 22, 2017 · 1 min read

Hey, Son — I agree with you, and I didn’t shed tears over this like I did when I watched the Philando and Alton tapes, and it is BITTERLY IRONIC that the police chief got forced out SO QUICK on this one, and SHAME ON all white folks who are feeling such outrage over this ONE… but… in the meantime don’t let this shit make YOU go cold. If you were cold-hearted, I wouldn’t be following you. If you laughed when people drowned, I wouldn’t be following you. The immortal JAMES, as you well know, took his devastating licks on SO MANY fronts, angered, wept, wrote, then came back with hate, not out front, but stuck in his ba-aack pocket. This woman went down in the same callous, thin-blue-line, unrepentant, shoot-first then circle-the-wagons-in- denial-as-soon-as-possible fashion that is far far more familiar in the black community; but up there, if that’s where we wind up, that makes her more a sister, right?

    Michael Welch

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    Fiction writer, dad, prison worker… writer for Creative Cafe; The Junction; Bullshitlst… blogs at VoicesfromtheMargin.com, MichaelWelchWriter on Facebook.