The media is Real Racism!

Real Racism

     Real Racism
A lot of times when a race issue comes up then it is really the media creating the controversy. I know of people from all races that have supported the black community and it’s families in the Trayvon Martin case, Marissa Alexander case, Michael Elder case and Michael Dunn’s killing based off Stand your Ground laws and Police Brutality. The media has not pointed out that much,. That even our own kind, has successfully been acquitted by the same laws over senseless acts of violence that did not have to take a gun to resolve, but cooler heads willing to talk instead of shoot would have been a better compromise.
Firstly, it is rare for the media to point the camera on the other races that show up at these rallies, vigils, and marches of injustice that may be done on behalf of a particular family seeking justice which race may be opposite of those in the crowd. It is being done on purpose and through what I call media segregation. It is being done to make us to believe that we are the only ones that care about our own kind and that is simply not true. It is their meaning select media’s job and directives to make it a black and white issue to manufacture its own story of controversy, when in all actuality it is a multi-cultural issue that people feel justice was not done and has yet to be fulfilled in the cases I have mention previously in this article. We always will continue to have media spin doctors to put stories in their view and does not reflect the real issue at hand.
Furthermore, you will notice on Facebook and on other media and blog websites that there are derogatory, defamatory, and racially insensitive dumb comments to blend in with the articles on what they view as a race related injustice. We should all want the same thing justice. No matter our personal prejudice, bias, or opinion, the goal for everyone should be seeking justice through innocence, not guilty, or with guilt. We all have been or known victims. They may not look like us, but we feel and pray that they can have closure during a time of great crisis. Moreover, there fight is still our fight, but a coward does not even deserve a piece of the sidewalk.
Secondly, during my return to Norfolk, I have enjoyed the meetings with civic leaders and with people of many different backgrounds. The problems of the City continue to exist, but there is more of a will for people to keep moving foward and not backwards. This was demonstrated through a revived energy of leadership before, during and after the election. Michael J. Muhammad has proven that he is the leadership and the voice of the black community. In order for Mayor Fraim to effectively take on the issues that we have in our City is by seeing, knowing, and proving that our leadership exists that is unwavering and that example was what he faced during his re-election campaign. There is no way Mayor Fraim can avoid, ignore, or dismiss the black community, because our voice is loud and clear. The media comes to Mr. Michael J. Muhammad for the response to racial injustice in the City and rarely do I hear a group that he has to represent for, because he represents the whole community. We are always proud to hear his answer represents us and not protective and protracted statements that lets injustices get off the hook. He is the leadership that is no longer in crisis.
Thirdly, All black people do not hate white people because it is false. All white people do not hate black people because that’s false. It is always someone on your side on any point of view that you can imagine. It may not be the people you expect that will be on your side, this is true. Furthermore, I am the prime example of finding out how many people that I never thought, knew, or had the privilege of meeting that I would find out was on my side. They paid more attention to my character and the issues that I address before making an informed decision about me. I encourage them to do the same for others and continue the quest of knowledge of an issue and not ignorant of the lack of in their own disposition of others.
Moreover, I spoke with one of my professors before coming to the area. I take her words very seriously and sometimes I need to have that reality check. She said I was arrogant and had a “I do not give a fuck attitude.” This was not a complete assessment of who I am, but who I was starting to become. I was letting my enemies begin to win when I already had them losing.
Accordingly, I had to go back to what I love instead of embracing the confrontation to take on hate. A good teacher, mentor, or person that has taken on that role of guidance will continue to mold me for a bigger purpose and that is all that I hope that everyone has a opportunity to find. The definition of being what you want to become and not what other’s hope that they can destroy.
Lastly, I am happy to be here and look forward to meeting and saving the best for last because the work will continue forward. Do not let the hate that comes from a few address an entire population. Put your shoes on the other foot, the race is irrelevant. The question that I ask everyone is how would you feel if the same injustice happen to someone that you loved? The answer should be the same that should be given to others and be committed to actions that create justice and not silence. Everyone that you think hates you is making you out to be a lie, because it is no truth in that statement. Whether it be God or someone you may or may not know, it is always someone that loves you!
Article written by Merle T. Merle Rutledge Jr

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Danville, Va violence stops with the dismantling of Pitts Co/Danville NAACP and SCLC, corrupt public servants, judges, and prosecutors!

Merle Rutledge – Part 2 of Forget the Danville, Va and Pitts Co NAACP and SCLC

Recent Newspaper article about How to Stop Crime with Prayer and the direct infusion by the newspaper of Danvillie, Va Police Department and its back up judges and prosecutors help in fighting crime.
Merle Rutledge Jr responds – I respect the churches and its leaders for trying to pray away crime, inside of a church,… and away from outside of the church in which crimes breeds. However, crime also occurs inside the church, so start praying for yourself first and than for others next.
A job of a police officer is to protected and prevent crime. However, my studies have shown it has manufactured more crimes than has been committed in the City of Danville, Va. These enforcement practices are concentrated on quality of life arrest. I remember watching “The Wire.” A officer responded on making petty arrests on minor offenses by stating a “man’s beverage is his business.” However, this targeted enforcement is only done in high populated African American neighborhoods. It is not a crime to live in these areas nor does it raise a level of suspicion because you choose to do so.  The Michael Elder case with the Danville, Va SCU officer Thompson is a prime example of the exposure to flaws with any system or department in government. I personally would rather be surrounded by family than unknown strangers that are my enemy.
To Avon Keen, SCLC, local chapter Pitts Co/Danville, NAACP and Willie Fitzgerald, when is the last time you been to been in our neighborhood? You should come much more often to celebrate in its success, than to only be there in its worse time. We spend more time saying stop the violence instead of more time in increasing peace, success, and showing the highlights of our community. We continue to promote death instead of the real quality of life.
In conclusion, we have more grandmothers and grandfathers that have done more than these NAACP white men in black skin to keep our streets safe.  The NAACP has came to represent the white man way of getting out of bullshit.  The first thing a white man does when they have a problem with the black community is contact the NAACP and they get a call, response, and a carefully crafted plan on how to give a statement to get them off the hook.  When is the last time, (African Americans) in this area can remember contacting the NAACP to help them with a problem and see serious action? We all use to remember as kids having Uncles and Aunts that was not related, but when they spoke we straighten up and listen. Why does people that can not move or do as easily as we do still have more energy than those that is paid to do nothing. We need a gang of real leadership because you represent the crisis that we blame everyday for doing nothing. — with Merle Rutledge and Michael Elder.

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Straight True M…

Straight True Message – “Expensive”
“If all it takes is gifts and money to get with you and have your attention. When someone become physically and verbally abusive than they tend to give you the same thing to gain your forgiveness and trust. After a while, it becomes accepted ass whoopings instead of love! Possession instead of being treated like a Human being. Coming from being treated like a queen to being given a bone like a dog. Anyone that has been through this cycle will always say this message touches their heart and not destroy their body. Do you see the irony in somethings that are priceless are worth more than fool’s gold!” Realest Talk Forever Host Mack a.k.a Merle Rutledge

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Gun laws need to be more liberal and not restricted

Gun laws need to be more liberal not restricted!

What happened it Connecticut, Arizona, and Colorado happens everyday
all across America.  It happen at another school, house, neighborhood,
and place imaginable in America.  The issue hits home when it hits home and this should not be the excuse use to promote personal and not public agenda.  I mourn for those lost, but I also mourn for those that took the actions of those that commend them in Congress by saying what if someone was armed to prevent the gunman from causing more harm.

Moreover,  The more you read this blog than you can see why that philosophy would not have helped, but left another American stranded that should be a hero.  I believe for the first time, Im ashamed that
President Obama would use this one issue to be a stepping platform for
gun control, when this issue has been relevant to many American
families all across America that so happen not be in movie theater,
political rally, or elementary school when a loved one has been taken.

However, in America, Im scared, just like so many other Americans, to
pick up my gun and use it because a prosecutor and grand jury will be
waiting for me with a second degree murder charge.   I can be morally
right and legally wrong for coming to the aid of others in Virginia
because of someone else intent to murder people for no reason.

In Virginia Beach, a security guard was found guilty for killing a patron
who had fired shots in a nearby parking lot.   Belmar testified, he
swiveled around to see Spencer leveling a shotgun over the hood of a
vehicle toward the parkway, over the heads of several of his guards,
who were lying on the ground or scurrying to hide behind street lamps
and gas pumps.  Belmar fired twice, with one bullet killing Spencer and going on to
wound his friend sitting in the driver’s seat.  Spencer, too, had
fired, damaging an uninvolved vehicle and injuring its driver, Bryant
said, commonwealth attorney.  The shooting occurred after Belmar and
his fellow security guards broke up several fights at the nightclub
Hangar 09 off Lynnhaven Parkway, according to court testimony. When
the brawls spilled over into a nearby 7-Eleven lot, they followed in
an attempt to cool tempers, testified several of the guards.  Martin
Bullock, Belmar’s attorney, said his client was trying to keep people
safe in an unruly situation and had only a few seconds to decide what
to do when he saw Spencer with a gun.  “He acted reasonably under
those circumstances,” Bullock said.

Ernest Roop, 38, created “a very dangerous situation” when he broke into the J&L Food Mart in Whaleyville dressed in camouflage and carrying a crowbar and a hunting knife, prosecutor Phil Ferguson wrote in a statement released Thursday. Roop did not have a gun and did not appear to be holding the knife or the crowbar when he was shot, he said. A store owner (white) who shot a burglar four times last month will not face criminal charges because he believed his life was in danger, the commonwealth’s attorney has decided.

Furthermore, the judge replied, During a two-day trial, the defense
for Lester Ray Belmar Jr., 29, argued he fired on Darrel Eugene
Spencer in a 7-Eleven parking lot the morning of May 21, 2011, because
he feared Spencer would injure others, including his fellow security
guards.  But Commonwealth’s Attorney Harvey Bryant argued no one was
in immediate enough danger to justify killing Spencer.  Judge A.
Bonwill Shockley agreed. “The victim’s actions hadn’t gone far
enough,” she said, before finding Belmar guilty. “… I just keep
thinking, ‘Why didn’t the defendant wait? Why didn’t the defendant
wait?’

Moreover, Im a firm believer in the castle doctrine and seeing more
liberal gun laws.  However, the laws should not be black and white but
equal and liberal to all those that protect people welfare.  The case
mention before sends me shocking chills to know that I could want to
save lives, but loss my own because of defending others.  The laws and
minds of judges have to change to be color blind.  The judge ask why
he didnt wait a couple of seconds and the last I checked in these mass
shootings, was all it took was a couple of seconds to take multiple
humans beings.

Lastly, Im all for gun rights, but babysitting by President Obama and
the rest of the anti gun supporters, need to stop politicizing a
tragic issue and start getting to work on making sure we have a right
to defend ourselves locally and nationally.   Republicans please stop
saying God sanction murder of our
children.  The last I check my god is good, all of the time!  There
are not enough mental hospitals to keep America safe and we need as
many competent and trained gun owners with laws that protect them
being added to the Virginia and U.S constitution.

Merle T. Rutledge JR
757-692-3571
Chatham, Va

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Stray Bullet by Merle T. Rutledge Jr (Frustrated response to Gun Violence Everywhere!)

The Isolated Stray Bullet by Mack
Stray Bullet by Merle T. Rutledge Jr aka Mack (Response to Arizona Tragedy)

Their is a 9 year old girl dead and gone over cowards that sit in their houses that hide, and utter out the very declaration of victory in which they based their souls on other people tragedies for years, decades, and centuries. There are many sons, daughters, husbands, wives, fathers and mothers that have followed in these footsteps of the innocent dead, over the very thing that so many pretend to stand against. We only feel sorry for those that impact us personally, but when it comes down to the problems, that it has always been a problems, but we pick and choose when it has become a relevant national problem. I’m sick of the political game playing, the rhetoric, the symbols of false leaders that follow in the direction of party and not in the direction of the people. We have a 9 year old girl that we have sacrifice for the love of bloodshed and ignorance behind the trigger of a gun.

     Her life is important, so that others can one day stand together and not apart in peace. It is little babies all across the world that want people integrated, but its this beating heart that has yet to die of segregation. Why has the stray bullet failed to reach those that repeat and act in such a manner of utter disregard for people welfare, but now that words have became action; are now pretending it has became a isolated problem in respect to their own. How long can we claim that incidents such as these are isolated, but when you put all the isolated incidents together, than it really tells the truth. See truth has been lost to the point that we give out ignorance each and everyday.

     There is a 9 year old girl laying in the grave today. She use to play. She use to sing. She use to believe in this thing that we all want is peace. She can no longer do the simple activities, and the cowards that put her there are acting as if this is a isolated incident. How many in your hometown? How many in your state? How many have you known directly that have died , but it has always been considered a isolated incident. The children who died in Alabama, Colorado, Newtown, and all across America, from the ghetto, to the projects, to the neighborhoods that do not get the same media attention, but the same thing happens each and everyday in the same beloved streets of America! Once again, it was all noted, as a isolated incident.

     A mad man with a gun. A mad man with a bomb. Its history repeating itself. Why does the stray bullet keep missing them and hitting the innocent children. It is the very strays that keep shooting the bullet. Do they have the right to seek out their revenge on those they believe have left them,  to be who they are, and who they are going to be, the death of little girls all across America. Stray bullet, there is a little girl not here anymore. There is a little girl that died for us. There are little girls, all over the nation, that is asking us all to stop saying isolated incident. They want the truth and deserve it all over the country. We all have played a part. We either did nothing. We either did something but know we didnt do nearly enough. We all did enough, but forgot to do something. No, No, No… We all know what we done. We do what we always do. We point the fingers at anyone but ourselves. Once again Isolated Incident Stray Bullet.

     I hope one goes through your head. A guy is someone son, who has a mother and a father is sitting in jail over the messages we repeated. Guess what? It is now a isolated incident. A mad man. No one is to blame but him. How many of you really and I do mean really believe that? I want you to look at the little girl in the grave. I want you to visit many more around the country. All written off as a isolated incident. Somewhere and some place there is a fight brewing right now. There are words being exchange. We are hoping for bad to happen in someone life to justify our opinion and not further the girls fact. Do we want to be the family at that funeral burying our little girl, burying our son, burying our father, burying our mother. The headlines of bloody murder, it was a isolated incident. Do you really believe that? When you look at television? You see the signs die this, hate this, and we claim they are only insults. Millions on Millions of signs supporting the little girl in the grave being dead and gone. Stray bullet, but those millions of cowards want to say it was a isolated incident, but the image that they scream from valley to valley, bridge to bridge, city to city, state to state. It was just a isolated fucking incident. There is a little girl in the grave. There are hundreds of little girls in the grave. There are millions of little girls in the grave. Once again we state its a isolated incident.

      Once again we are cowards, if we keep stating its a isolated incident. There is a stray bullet going through my head. The stray bullet is the sign of hate, the words of hate, the practice of hate. It is the stray bullets that has been hitting and striking people everyday. We have a little girl in the ground that is showing the results of what we support. So when is there going to be isolated incidents of forgiveness before the gun goes off, there is hundreds of isolated incidents of forgiveness, there are millions of isolated incidents of forgiveness from the murderer but not from the gun in which he held. There are millions still alive because of isolated incidents. Stray bullet. Another one through the head. It starts with us. Each and every one of us. Isolated incidents. The same passion we put into our differences, can we put the same passion into our civility. You are a third party of liability. Turn yourself in. There is a little girl in the ground and you keep saying its a conspiracy of a isolated incident, as a reason not to seek the truth further. Stray Bullet, there is little girls in the ground. We strive for education and this is coming from a educated mind. Ive been hit with a Stray bullet. The bullet that has hit me tells me to seek the truth beyond the limitations of what I think I can do. It is what I think I cant do, that I make can do, is going to measure should the Stray Bullet take life or give life. Give us understanding that there are no isolated incidents. We all must plead guilty to the part we played. Stray Bullet.

      There is a mass grave of little girls in the ground. There is a mass grave of our family in the ground. They had the knowledge but once again they are in the ground and we wish, we hope to hear their message, their story. What would they like to have done if they was still alive to this day. Stray Bullet , there is a little girls in the ground. If you think about what they would want to happen to change the events. Stop saying that a little girl in the ground is a isolated incident. The day we all turn ourselves in, We are judged by those in the grave. I want you as a individual to sit back and think. How would they judge our response to the defense of it being a isolated incident. Would they show you having prior and constructive knowledge. Stray bullet, there is little girls in the jury stand waiting to decide your future. There is a little girl being prosecuted by you. Stray bullet, there is little girls in a mass grave. A little girl asks you a question, “If I was to replay your whole life, than would you say my death was really a isolated incident.” Once again I repeat to the judge and jury, “There are little girls in a mass grave… Stray Bullet… We all been declared isolated incidents.” As the jury delivers your verdict… What would the little girls in the grave decide on the question, whether you are guilty or innocent!   Stray Bullet….

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