assertion big mike

by elizabeth zabala

In Killer Mike’s discourse about the brutality in Atlanta, he specifies how he doesn’t want his local community burning down their homes. “So, I’m duty bound to be here to simply say that it is your duty not to burn your own house down for anger with an enemy.” “What I can tell you is that if you sit in your homes tonight instead of burning your home to the ground, you will have time to properly plot, plan, strategize, and organize and mobilize in an effective way.” The speaker is attempting to persuade the Atlanta protesters to sit and think and not be fierce when creating ideas or thoughts to stop  corrupted police power. Since Atlanta is his home he knows the difficulties they have survived. “We got good enough to destroy cash bonds. You don’t have to worry about going to jail for something petty. We got smart enough to decriminalize marijuana. How smart are we going to be in the next 15 to 20 years, to keep us ahead …”He has confidence the people of Atlanta can accomplish such a great deal since they are tough individuals who are extremely energetic about getting their direction and have common interests. He accepts that they will just improve  throughout the years since it will never be perfect and there will be flaws however they will do all in their work to sort it out. So he gives his local people 2 different ways to do as such,“Two of the most effective ways is first taking your butt to the computer and making sure you fill out your Census so that people know who you are and where you are. The next thing is making sure you exercise your political bully power and going to local elections and beating up the politicians that you don’t like.” He needs his locale to remove the electors who help make the system so corrupted and give them these crazy principles they have to follow that are so exceptionally off-base and racist and end up with the police having blood on their hands yet getting away with it. “You got a prosecutor that sent your partner to jail, and you know it was bullshit? Put a new prosecutor in there.”He closes with saying that only he alone can’t fix this however he trusts that as a greater community they can pull it off. . “I love and respect you all. I hope that we find a way out of it because I don’t have the answers, but I do know we must plot. We must plan. We must strategize, organize, and mobilize.”