Sandra Bland Mattered.

#WhathappenedtoSandraBland?

The biases that lead to Bland’s demise mirror the injustices borne by many black victims of racist policing. My book, Sandra Bland 2.0: Racist Policing in America, explores what happened to an unsuspecting black female entrapped and victimized by a racist cop.

Police don’t normally arrest drivers for minor traffic offenses like failure to signal.

So, why did Sandra get jail time instead of a traffic fine?

It’s called a police officer’s prerogative. Not to be confused with “a woman’s prerogative.” However, there are plenty of female cops. The legal name for a cop’s prerogative is police discretion. Often, this discretion is a license to act and administer the law based on personal biases and whims instead of legitimate infractions and non-compliances. In other words, many police officers operate within or outside the law based on individual discretion or judgment. And this discretion runs amuck when the officer is prejudice or a racist.

Oh no! There goes the race card! And America’s fingerprints are all over it.

Sandra didn’t understand her prolonged detainment, brutal treatment, and arrest.

What happened to her rights as an American Citizen?

There’s nothing worse than a racist cop. And America’s streets won’t be highways of protections and equality for black Americans until racist policing is eliminated.

Sandra Bland 2.0: Racist Policing in America brings readers face-to-face with the evils and root of racist policing, a crisis in America. The unjust use of police force and trigger-happy killing of blacks are commonplace in a supposedly post-racial society.

Implicit racism speaks to unconscious biases and judgments relative to a person’s ethnicity or race. Explicit racism is a conscious display of racist disparities. Both yield the same result. And too often ends in the death of blacks.

Police bias and racial disparities produced by stereotypes, subcultures, and other unchecked vices run rampant in America.

What proof?

The Internet is a memorial gateway to many African-American victims of unfounded police violence and shootings.

Martin Luther King Jr. said, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”

People didn’t like it when Sandra Bland and thousands of protestors shouted “Black Lives Matter.” And it’s a tragedy that Bland fell victim to the racism she fought to eliminate.

Sandra Bland’s traffic stop debacle and subsequent death inside her jail cell captured the world’s attention.

Some blacks don’t believe America will ever become post-racial. The alt-right will never disband, white supremacists are here to stay, and racist white police officers will continue to terrorize the black community.

Blacks aren’t disillusioned. And wishful thinking doesn’t make African Americans safe. But our voices will be heard. We demand equal protection of the law.

Black Lives Matter.

Sandra Bland 2.0: Racist Policing in America explores Sandra Bland’s convictions about racism, what happened to Bland, and America’s heartbreaking panorama of racist policing.

How do we ensure justice for Sandra Bland and other victims who died needlessly during or in the aftermath of a simple traffic stop?

We fight for change! We continue to fight for equality!

Sandra Bland 2.0: Racist Policing in America is a protest against the victimization of African Americans and commentary about racism.

Sandra Bland should be alive today, working at Prairie View A&M University, her beloved alma mater, voicing her support of the Black Lives Matter movement and opinions as “Sandy Speaks.”

The injustices and inhumanity against blacks by white racist cops must desist.

You and I matter.

To learn how you can purchase Sandra Bland 2.0: Racist Policing in America, go to http://www.sandrayouandme.com.