{"id":11799,"date":"2015-01-19T14:25:33","date_gmt":"2015-01-19T19:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/?p=11799"},"modified":"2015-01-19T14:40:01","modified_gmt":"2015-01-19T19:40:01","slug":"the-stop-the-killing-march-to-nowhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2015\/01\/19\/the-stop-the-killing-march-to-nowhere\/","title":{"rendered":"The “Stop the Killing” March To Nowhere"},"content":{"rendered":"

The annual “Stop The Killing” march was held on Sunday evening in Danville. This year it will actually accomplish something. Not.<\/p>\n

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Let’s start with the Danville Register & Bee article about it (because SouthsideCentral sure forgot about it and wasn’t invited). Remember, it’s a R&B article so the paywall may apply unless you break through it.<\/p>\n

Danville march remembers King’s goals<\/a><\/h4>\n

I’ve said before that these types of events are purely symbolic and have absolutely no effect in the real world<\/a>. This one seems to have set a new low. Let’s take a look at why.<\/p>\n

Let’s look at\u00a0 with Avon Keen’s quote section…<\/p>\n

\u201cIt will be the theme until the killing stops,\u201d Keen said. One point organizers have not been able to make people understand, Keen said, is that there is all kinds of \u201ckilling\u201d \u2014 the death of ideas, visions and dreams; police killings; killing each other and even the killing of corporations were kinds of killings Keen said are being fought. \u201cWe\u2019re still having trouble getting that across,\u201d Keen said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’ll translate that for you. “Since we’re not stopping the killing, we will change the definition of killing.” Seriously. This new definition of “killing” is serious job security<\/p>\n

Donna Waddell, of Blairs, is a member of the national SCLC board and regional director for the United Food and Commercial Workers Union; she said she has attended the march in Danville since 1999.\u00a0 This year, Waddell said, she brought shop stewards from the Richmond chapter of the UFCW to the march. \u201cMy belief is we need [organizations like the SCLC],\u201d Waddell said. \u201cDr. King fought for workers; that\u2019s the main reason I stick with the march; workers make the world go around \u2014 without them, nothing happens.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I criticized all of the outside agitators that came into Danville to support the Confederate Flag issue, and I’m throwing the same criticism at these people from Richmond. These people won’t be back in Danville until the next time they’re sent down. Does the UFCW union represent anybody in Danville? I’m also obliged to point out that these people’s hometown of Richmond hasn’t been very successful in “Stop The Killing” efforts there.<\/p>\n

Danville Mayor Sherman Saunders and Vice Mayor Gary Miller are both regular participants in the march, and were looking forward to the service at Shiloh Baptist Church on Betts Street. Also taking place in the event was Kim Adkins, former mayor of Martinsville and a candidate for state Sen. Bill Stanley\u2019s seat in the November election.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, it wouldn’t be a Denice Thibodeau article unless Saunders & Miller are mentioned. Kim Adkins came to the march for campaign purposes. There’s nothing wrong with that because she’s mingling with the voter bloc that she has to count on in her attempt to knock off Bill Stanley. But don’t think that she would have been here if she wasn’t running for state senate this year, folks.<\/p>\n

If you want to discuss the symbolism of this march, note that this march’s direction was in the opposite direction from Danville’s last violent crimes. The shooting into a house on Harrison St. on January 14th, the stabbing on Walker St. on January 10th, and the shooting on North Main St on January 6th. If you wanted to show the community that you really want to be on the streets and stop the violence, march into those areas of the city and “take over the streets” for the cause. Marching 2.5 miles in the other direction into Shiloh Baptist Church does nothing to directly confront the causes of the violence in Danville. The people doing the shootings and the stabbings aren’t attending these marches. Instead of a once-a-year walk to a church, attack the “Don’t Snitch” philosophy directly every Sunday in church. Take that message to the streets on the other days of the week. Embrace the police department and encourage the community’s partnership with them. Make the community uncomfortable and force them to look at what’s happening around them.<\/p>\n

You’ll never “Stop the Killing”. You can do real things that make real people see what the real problem is. That’s how you make a real difference.<\/p>\n

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