With two sides going head to head protesting anti-police brutality and pro-police protesters young rappers are taking a step back to say “We just want peace.” They are not ignorant to the differences and challenges faced being African American and these issues need to change but they will not change through violence, only by communication. Darryl Green II aka Storm Green a young 20 year old rapper from Las Vega as is taking that stand and calling for peace.
Growing up in Las Vegas, presents many challenges with racial profiling and the police and this is not new for the people that live in Las Vegas. The Police department does a mandatory data collection of all it’s residents using the terminology that this will help the police better serve the community. When I looked into what that really translates to I found that in a calendar year African Americans were actually stopped the least in traffic violation but arrested and searched the most.
I was thus not surprised that Storm had very few traffic issues with the police however he did avoid them if he saw them. Most people,color aside do not want to have problems with the police, but to have to live in fear that you could be the next victim of police brutality because you are African American is simply an injustice. According to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights and freedoms are to be without distinction of any kind. Police departments in the United States are not excused from following the guidelines of this declaration.
Multiple murders of African American males at the hand of the police who are suppose to protect you leaves young men like Storm feeling less than human and wondering if it will someday be them. “There are young people out there who haven’t even had their first job, yet being shot and murdered by police because they are African American and look older”, Storm says. “These young people have no weapons, no arrest records, innocent and being killed.” Storm and young emerging rappers like him want equality, to be viewed as human beings not as a color, given dignity and respect.
Storm wants to see the entire African American community come together dropping all personal differences and uniting as one voice to overcome the diversities faced in the United States with police brutality, racial profiling and racism. One people with one voice united for peace.
Link to Storm Green's latest Release:
Put your Hands Up for Peace "OH NOO" Mos Def " Oh No" (TRIBUTE)
Follow Storm Green:
Twitter @StormXGreen Instagram StormxGreen SoundCloud Storm_Green
Growing up in Las Vegas, presents many challenges with racial profiling and the police and this is not new for the people that live in Las Vegas. The Police department does a mandatory data collection of all it’s residents using the terminology that this will help the police better serve the community. When I looked into what that really translates to I found that in a calendar year African Americans were actually stopped the least in traffic violation but arrested and searched the most.
I was thus not surprised that Storm had very few traffic issues with the police however he did avoid them if he saw them. Most people,color aside do not want to have problems with the police, but to have to live in fear that you could be the next victim of police brutality because you are African American is simply an injustice. According to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights and freedoms are to be without distinction of any kind. Police departments in the United States are not excused from following the guidelines of this declaration.
Multiple murders of African American males at the hand of the police who are suppose to protect you leaves young men like Storm feeling less than human and wondering if it will someday be them. “There are young people out there who haven’t even had their first job, yet being shot and murdered by police because they are African American and look older”, Storm says. “These young people have no weapons, no arrest records, innocent and being killed.” Storm and young emerging rappers like him want equality, to be viewed as human beings not as a color, given dignity and respect.
Storm wants to see the entire African American community come together dropping all personal differences and uniting as one voice to overcome the diversities faced in the United States with police brutality, racial profiling and racism. One people with one voice united for peace.
Link to Storm Green's latest Release:
Put your Hands Up for Peace "OH NOO" Mos Def " Oh No" (TRIBUTE)
Follow Storm Green:
Twitter @StormXGreen Instagram StormxGreen SoundCloud Storm_Green
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