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imsobrooklyn-archived-sameurl · 2 years

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🙋 + BLM and Cops

about cops...

one important aspect to know about my miles is that he isn’t pro-police, but he is pro-dad. he believes in what he says about wanting to be a better role model as a black police officer in their communities across new york. he’s a hard man, and while miles looked at him as unfair in his punishments as a teenager, he saw positive contradictions of that in his father’s career practices. the man could actually be fair and not the hardcore man that shared an apartment with. there have been instances he overhead dialogue that took place between his dad and kids that had committed petty crimes. later in his career as spider-man, he’d learn to adopt that diplomatic attitude and attempt to be voice of reason versus just webbing up a common “criminal” for the cops to take in.

now, as for b/ack l/ves m/\tter, the national org, miles frowns upon caricatures of black life. he is well aware of the corruption surrounding blmgn. having long conversations with his father, being comprehensively engaged with his own research on the matter, and chopping it up with the locals on the daily gave him fair perspective on a movement that's supposedly centered on black interests. to him, they're vultures that profited heavily off of the deaths of black men and boys, and he saw how their actorvism prioritized forging corporate partnerships, social justice campaigns, and hoarding the resources from local grassroot blm chapters that actually been at the frontlines on protests and involved with community work.

he sees blmgn as an example of what happens when individuals or a group has proximity to power. miles read about cointelpro tactics, but reading about it is one thing, witnessing it in real time, disguising itself in another form is another. he saw how other groups harmful agendas became highlighted and supported after successful high-jacking of black liberation movements. he’s twenty-one, he’s on social media, so he hardly ever misses the consistent influx of think-pieces from fake ally-ship pledgees that believe they’re helping raise awareness, when it’s just black trauma porn galore in literary form. perhaps one of the saddest parts about it to him is that it’s clear as day that people are losing their humanity for material gain and clout, and the injustices are frequently rising because of it.

but overall, miles look at it as a lesson on responsibility. blmgn managed to accumulate $90 million dollars and maintained moral neglect towards the families (i.e., michael brown sr., samaria rice, lisa simpson, etc.) whose lost loved ones to constitutionally immune cops for years. they successfully joined in on the systematic operations they claimed they were fighting against. he doesn’t want to contribute to that. he’s one spider-man and one miles morales, so as a black superhero and a young black male, it’s more than just beating up bad guys and thinking he has done a good days work. it’s about cracking down on people in order to bring down the system. an idea he learned from his father, who eventually would become police commissioner in later years.

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