The Derrick Chauvin-George-Floyd Case shows that it takes an extraordinary crime to even bring a decent case against a Killer Police Officer like Chauvin: a video showing the officer, literally a public lynching, with his knee on the neck of a Black victim for nearly nine minutes. A clear cut case this impactful may likely never happen again. And to get so many police and law enforcement experts to actually come in and testify to the truth on behalf of a Black male victim, it litterally takes a one-of-kind historic case. This may never happen again because the police are very aware of the cameras, but still most of them are still killing Black people.
It’s also startling to witness the prosecutors using their power to actually prosecute a policemen. This may never happen again anytime soon.
And to see the majority of the public, especially White folks, so outraged is rare. Even the media has slightly toned down its typical trashing of the Black victim, George Floyd. But I’ve still heard about Floyd’s opiod use, over and over, again and again.
My name is Walter Hilliard III. I have a B.S. degree in Public Administration and a Masters in Psychology (specialty in Media Psychology). I’m currently seeking publishers for a book focusing on Black Self-Destruction and two inspirational eBooks, having already published a multitude of articles in several different newspapers and magazines over the years. I’ve been a head basketball coach on the high school and college level, and taught success classes at a private college, created numerous community and college programs focusing on leadership, mentoring, college awareness (for inner-city kids), and employment and training. And I have worked as an employment and training manager, family therapist, behavior specialist, college retention specialist, juvenile detention center treatment supervisor, and a contractor, facilitating relationship and marriage education groups for couples.
The purpose of Universal Soul Power is to confront negative media messages about African Americans, proliferate positive messages about the Black community, and inspire all those who are part of the universe, but especially African Americans, through my inspirational writings.
The truth is that most African Americans haven’t lost their Spiritual Souls, yet (although some of us behave like we’ve lost our minds), but we have lost our “Soul” — that NewRhythmandBluesyContemporaryHipHopSoul that allows us to be compassionate, productive leaders who recognize what really matters in life and live our lives beyond fad terms like “Swag,” instead embracing more fulfilling concepts like being Calm, Cool, and Collected, and knowing what they are all about: being your “growing self,” dancing to your own Life Drum, in tune, on beat, unfazed by fear, and leaving the world a better place when they move on.
Now dat’s Real Soul, and dat’s whatum talkin’ ’bout!
Walter L. Hilliard III
