Well, a lot of us bowed out on the conversation and media hype surrounding the lynching murder of Michael Brown, late of Ferguson, Missouri.

Older Black people bowed out because we’ve been listening to this kind of thing most of our lives, and the general concession is that it pales in comparison to the amount of Black men who have blown each other away over more trifling matters than a “row in the streets with a cop.”

Don’t get it twisted. As MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry put it, responsibility politics will not save those whose skin is white on the outside, but whose own rotted corpse of souls are Blacker than the Black men and carry more stench than the Black women who carry and bear these Black men that they fear the most.

This isn’t about “Black people kill Black people, so we have the right and the responsibility to kill them, too,” because if Black people killed white people for killing other white people – damned near all of them would be dead, simply as a matter of reciprocal actionable response.

But when we start talking about the “vision” or dream Michael Brown had the night before he was murdered, that he saw an angel fly into the face of God while running from a demon, Michael Brown didn’t have to be an angel in this life in order to be the angel he saw in that dream. Apparently, God saw him that way no matter what a racist faction of demons decide to depict about his life.

God knew the Michael Brown who was created in his mother’s womb, not the one they want to use to keep their own souls from sliding into the nearest hell that they know has eventually GOT to come.

The way us old(er) folks got it figured, that cop hasn’t seen hell yet; Michael Brown’s angel is going to follow him and hunt him down and haunt him for the rest of his life, and eventually hang him out to dry the very same way he chose to take the young man’s life.

The laws of reciprocity in this world are not a joke.

The “good Lord,” some of us like to say “didn’t make the world round for no reason.”

It most assuredly was not Mike Brown’s “time” to go from here any more than it was Trayvon Martin’s “time” to go or Emmitt Till’s “time” to go, let alone any of the other young men who were lynched, and whom we, the Black community, are totally at fault for the short length of their dubious lives.

Strange Tale of Ten Little Indian…I mean…Ten Little Nigger Boys

Either way this goes, Michael Brown may not have been an ‘angel’ in this world, but it was certainly not an angel chasing him and gunning him down for no other reason than acting like a 17-year old white kid who wouldn’t have been murdered for doing the exact same thing.

Tick tock…

You can ruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuun, but you cannot hide.

REFERENCES

The Name’s Sake of the Lion of Judah — Matthew 10:22 and 24:9

The Nation of Islam’s “Final Call,” featuring Dr. Frances Cress Welsing: Post-Traumatic Slave Disorder in America

The Proliferation of Anti-Black Racism by White People All over the World