The Hip Hop Anthropologist

 I am heartened to see prominent attorneys of all genders, races, ethnicities, and hues rallying to Mosby's defense because while she is a passionate, progressive, and articulate defender of poor Black and brown folks, her outsized impact on criminal justice policy as Baltimore City State Attorney made her a convenient target for the hypocritical "law and order" crowd, who believe like Ghouliani and chump the brain dead comic carnival barker aka klueless the klown, the law only applies to those other "folks." And as these people placed a huge bullseyes on this sista's back, they employed other unconscious Black folks to do their bidding, their dirty work. The US District Court Judge and Assistant US Attorney are both Black. And though if it were any other ethnicity or race, that might mean something substantive, with our people, it does not mean shit. I cannot count how many times it was Black or brown people who screwed up a deal, position, or o

Having co-opted Negroes in the employ of Baltimore County Police Department that validate the racism evident within this rogue agency by ignoring it does little to dissuade one as a conscious professional Black man from pursuing a full and thorough airing of an extremely serious grievance against the agency. Under no circumstance will I allow an aggressive, wet-behind-the-ears, overpaid, under-trained cop to insult, threaten and humiliate me while a Negro corporal senior to this moron stands idly by divesting his authority because like most if not all Black cops within this law enforcement agency and many others he was more concerned with going-along-to-get-along than with doing the right thing, acting professionally, and exhibiting a degree of responsibility commensurate with his standing as not simply sworn police officer but ostensibly a senior one. 7-11 and the “terrorist” in its employ is going to be dealt with in the appropriate forum. This agency needs to obey the laws it