RESPONSES TO THE GUNNING DOWN OF OUR YOUNG MEN

It is claimed that, in America, young Black men are killed—frequently gunned down—by some branch of law enforcement at the rate of one every twenty-eight hours. We African Americans have basically tolerated this outrage. Two years ago, I published a book, THE GUNNING DOWN OF MICHAEL BROWN: AN AFROCENTRIC RESPONSE. The book still languishes on the shelves, basically ignored by the African American community.

Now Micah Xavier Johnson’s Afrocentric response to the gunning down of our young men has certainly gotten all kinds of attention. One wonders: if even a fraction of that level of attention had been given to Afrocentric responses such as mine, could we have forestalled, prevented young Micah’s desperate, deadly action?