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    Black Blood; The public execution of black life; How to Live in a World with Racism
    Black Blood; The public execution of black life; How to Live in a World with Racism
    Black Blood; The public execution of black life; How to Live in a World with Racism
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    Black Blood; The public execution of black life; How to Live in a World with Racism

    By Johanna Sparrow

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    A black plague has landed upon our doorsteps, more so in low-income black communities and neighborhoods but nonetheless on the heads of our black men. Our black men’s blood is filling the streets around the world fast while the screams of their loved ones fill the air echoing across every social media and news show covering the story. Guess what? Black executions are not hidden they are beautifully laid out to provoke even the most peaceful soul too rage. Isn’t that the plan, I mean a true hunter baits its prey so that the kill can be justified when it was a planned execution all along. It’s as if the world waits day after day for black blood.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJohanna Sparrow
    Release dateAug 24, 2015
    ISBN9781311144355
    Black Blood; The public execution of black life; How to Live in a World with Racism
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    Johanna Sparrow

    Antoinette M Watkins writes under the pen name Johanna Sparrow, she has been writing for over 17 years and has published a variety of books from children's books to self-help books dealing with relationship, personal growth and conflict issues. She uses her expertise, knowledge and experience on a system she's created and used over the years dating back as far as 1995 in improving relationship issues, called the (HBCCR)© Heart Bruised Conscious Connection Renewal codes which we either have or don't have inside of us. When she is not writing self help books she writes Novels and Novella under the pen name SPARROW.In 2015 Johanna Sparrow will release for the first time her powerful and inspiring HBCCR system she's created for the rest of the world in hopes that we all can find a common goal or ground within our daily connections. She has researched and studied over the years connections between human to human and human to nature interactions in which she concluded in her research how understanding ones connections and disconnections in life is the essential step code and laws for love, happiness and tragedy, governing and guiding us in becoming life's greatest or worse creation to ever exist.

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      Black Blood; The public execution of black life; How to Live in a World with Racism - Johanna Sparrow

      Black Blood

      The public execution of black life

      How To Change the Mind of Racism

      Johanna Sparrow

      Smashwords Eitition

      Black Blood Copyright © 2015 Johanna Sparrow

      All rights reserved.

      www.johannasparrow.com

      DEDICATION

      To all who seek change.

      CONTENTS

      Introduction I

      1 A Call To Action

      2 Black Blood

      3 No Justice No Peace

      4 Public Execution

      5 A Mothers Tears

      6 Wake Up

      7 Disbelief

      8 Are We Sabotaging?

      9 The History of Destruction

      10 Self-Discrimination

      11 Breaking Through Chaos

      ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

      All my loved ones.

      Introduction

      A black plague has landed upon our doorsteps, more so in low-income black communities and neighborhoods but nonetheless on the heads of our black men. Our black men’s blood is filling the streets around the world fast while the screams of their loved ones fill the air echoing across every social media and news show covering the story. Guess what? Black executions are not hidden they are beautifully laid out to provoke even the most peaceful soul too rage. Isn’t that the plan, I mean a true hunter baits its prey so that the kill can be justified when it was a planned execution all along. It’s as if the world waits day after day for black blood.

      The truth is being exposed no matter how raw and uncut or cold hearted it is. Our men and women are being hunted down and executed morning, noon and night by overly eager cops who enjoy the hunt and kill of black life. What are we missing here? Why can’t we see this? Who truly gives a damn about black life? The cowards and racist have joined forces and aligned themselves as one, not against true crime but you my black brother and sister and we are too damn distracted in our own demise to even do a damn thing about it. Who ushered this black plague upon us? Has it always been here hidden in plain sight dressed up to give us false hope in believing that we are protected when we are really being put to death daily and the genius part of all of this is that war between brother to brother has caused the hunter to set up camp in our neighborhoods and communities placing us all under siege to cruel and unbelievable destruction while taking us from one trauma to the next. A traffic stop should never be the last stop of your life. Oh, it’s looking more and more unsafe being a black male in the United States.

      Before it’s all said and done Black Blood will become a united front and if this is how we ought to get there, welcome aboard.

      CHAPTER ONE

      A CALL TO ACTION

      There is still so much that needs to be done but are we really looking at the complete problem or are we just placing blame where we see fit? There is no one reason why we are seeing so many killings in our neighborhoods and communities, something must be truly wrong. Are we the only race whose youth are facing annihilation? Are we too weak and afraid as a people to get angry?

      Why is it that everyone else or other races can show anger when their loved ones are cut down at a young age but we are put to death if we roll our eyes. We are showing strength but I truly believe in the wrong areas. When the young people took the streets of the recent youth killings by the hands of non-black police officers it was as if the younger and older generations clashed.

      What I saw was the youth crying out for something to be done knowing that a quiet and silent march is not always the answer but this behavior forced or should I say sparked something within the black community, something within the black communities that was different and our youth did not hold back their emotions. It is more than marching in anger but sometimes in order to get change you must yell and that’s exactly what our young black youth did.

      Sure their behavior was unruly, out of order simply out of control but how else was the world going to hear them? How else were they going to get the attention of the world’s eye to say enough is enough and I don’t want to be next. Of course this was not the marching of young black youth but of people from all cultures who understood or identified with the black community. To say black lives matter is understood even to say all lives matter but so much was lost when that argument became about black lives versus all lives.

      Yes, the black lives that have been taken out so soon for no reason at all other than hate did matter. But wait a minute if we are to really deal with this thing once and for all we will know that black life is taken out every day in the black community many times by another black person. The truth is black lives matter every day and not just on the days when life is taken by someone other than black. How do you get a group of people to see that every day is a fight and a battle for black life? One day is not as important than another unless you are judging that day by the color of that person’s skin. Many times we are not looking to confront our own demons within our own culture but we are eager to confront it elsewhere. This way of handling things is not going to stop what is going on around us no matter how much we march and pump our fits in the air or sing we still are dealing with the truth of how we can stop the craziness around us but that will have to take responsibility.

      I remember hearing a few of my loved ones talking about the order of things in the world today and how the black community is the scapegoat for people’s feelings, their cesspool and every negative and imaginary thing one can think of. I know this is too much to say but all one has to do is take a look around and see how misguided our young people have become. How through that misguidance they are taken advantage of by people who feel they don’t like their skin color. If there is to be any chain reaction in the wake of violence on black life and the wage of war in black communities we must own accountability and responsibility. Below are the six keys we must look at to get a grip on this mass destruction on black life.

      • Accountability

      • Responsibility

      • Awareness

      • Over Standing

      • Forgiveness

      • Respect

      Until we look at these keys we are sure to be prey to whatever awakes us be it by our strong black men, young sons, beautiful black women, baby girls, our elderly and the sick. We have gone on long enough and now accountability awaits in the balance

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