Protect and Serve?

My brother, being the hardworking black man he is, decided today to go back to the school from where he recently graduated to do some follow up work with former classmates.

He gets on the train and proceeds to go to another car while the train is moving and while doing so is stopped by the police (two black officers).

Not because he’s selling drugs or assaulting a helpless, old woman and snatching her purse, apart of a Bernie Madoff-like Ponzi scheme, or even listening to his music too loud -- he was simply moving to another train car and he gets slapped with a $35.00 ticket because apparently this is illegal and these cops are just starting to enforce a law I see regularly broken on a daily basis.

Now no one I have seen doing this has EVER been stopped by two cops and given a ticket, but unfortunately my brother is big and black and a target and these cops are out to show to their superiors they can be just as complicit in attempting to cause their own race undue grief. They’ve got something to prove to what they feel is a superior race and in the process make their own people’s lives hellish.

It's what I call "Plantation Negro" syndrome. You know,  the ones who didn't want to leave the plantation (though the horrors there were too inumerable to count), and said, "We have a good life here. Don't mess it up." Yeah, those people.

I see it daily. Some African-American cops are going to be harder on blacks because they don’t want to be seen as giving us an unfair advantage and what really happens is they feed into the stereotype blacks have that all police “are all out to get us” and that isn’t true.

I do believe with those cops and others like them there is on some level a deep-rooted self-hatred of their own race for them to be able to break down when building up is a far better option.

I do believe those cops can do better and help the community they are trying to oppress. I do believe there are genuinely good police officers out there of all races and colors who strive every day to show us who the good guys are. However, I believe these two cops when they gave my brother that unnecessary ticket gravely undercut their honorable colleagues’ actions and that I find is tragic and sad.