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Sixty-Four year old retired school teacher Robert Davis, Black man of good standing, is captured by a CNN camera crew being violently kicked, punched and assaulted by a group of four white New Orleans policemen. He sustains a broken nose, bruised arm and the loss of cupfuls of blood.

Yet he is confident two days after the incident to tell the media that the unprovoked attack by police on him was not racially motivated.

I believe Davis, God bless his cotton socks, must have also suffered from knocked head, shock or some kind of humble pie eating disorder! The following points to me show that the police action was racist. Robert Davis:-

1. Was not drunk and has not drank alcohol for over 25 years
2. Was not breathalysed to establish that he was in fact drunk
3. Was not read his rights as a citizen
4. Did not provoke the situation by throwing any punches let alone the first one at the mob-minded arresting officers
5. Is 64 and posed no threat to anyone.

There is no other explanation that covers their action on him other than racism!

Quite simply the white officer who initiated this senseless attack was somehow ‘affronted’ when a confident Black man told him to mind his own business as he talked to a black policeman on horseback. Imagine the effing cheek of it: “this ni**er telling me to get lost! I should kick his ass…” and that is precisely what he proceeded to do.

Regardless of how much anyone wants to nice up the circumstances, twist the evidence, turn the other cheek, eat humble pie and recite “why can’t we all get along,” race played a central part in this. When was the last time you saw a video of white policemen beating up white people in the same way? Exactly!

While you’re still scratching your head, acceptance of the reality race played a big part, will go a long way into understanding the mindset of people in positions of American power, and you can number President George W. Bush among them, and why they only see Black people one way: subservient.

There are some people who want to pretend this is not so and that is up to them. But denial is not a river running through Africa and if they continue to sing that song the race river will continue to run red with blood, the blood of innocent black people.