They beat him with a club and kicked him. They mocked and laughed at this monkey. They showcased their brute master-like antebellum aggression over this simple nigger. He displayed every bit of his nigger caste characteristic, the lowest of the North American caste system. White men in blue suits screamed boy over and over again. The world watched this brutality as if it was fiction. The power of white supremacy had taken its toll in a fashion most ubiquitous to black folks. The scene of white officers beating Rodney King was shocking, yet not surprising, as former Los Angeles Police Chief Daryl Gates stated, “My goodness, here is this black person who is being beaten. It looks like the Old South.”[1] That March 1992 event marked another narrative of racial alienation in the United States, as white cops furthered the aims of white supremacy. King was just a black boy. There was no thought of this boy’s black mother, who was part of a long line of women advancing the case for oppressed black men in America.
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