Sooner State
Abate Sentinel
Volume 2 Issue 2
The Voice of the Oklahoma Confederation of Clubs
Motorcycle Rights Organization
Freedom and Justice for All!
“Black Lives Matter” police walk
beside them to protect them. When
bikers protested the Waco shootings
police put snipers on the roof tops.
Bikers come in all colors…White,
Black, Asian, and so on. Bikers are a
microcosm of America itself. Each
club or association supports several causes. Bikers don’t riot or burn
down buildings and if we have issues
we resolve them peacefully among
ourselves through the Confederation
of Clubs. Discrimination toward us
isn’t because of the color of our skin.
It’s because of what we wear and
what we ride.
In 2015, The Washington Post
launched a real-time database to
track fatal police shootings, and the
project continues this year. 1,502
people have been shot and killed by
on-duty police officers since Jan. 1,
2015. Of them, 732 were white, and
381 were black (and 382 were of another or unknown race). The report
does not specify how many shootings were unjustified.
Recently a good brother and I were
sitting in a café having breakfast.
The table next to us was full of older
white men from a variety of walks
of life and professions. It’s the kind
of place I look forward to having my
In Oklahoma and despite attempts
to pass a no texting while driving
bill for years, the bill finally passed
when two Oklahoma Highway Patrol
Officers were killed by a driver texbreakfast as the people are friendly
those bikers killed in Waco by police ting while driving. After five police
and the service is great. The conver- snipers? The table went quiet and I
officers were killed in Dallas I heard
sation this morning was about the
went back to my breakfast.
the Police Chief talk about how we
horrifying sniper attack that killed
My point being that the relationship all need to come together and bridge
five Dallas police officers and injured between blacks and the police are
the gap between blacks and law
seven other officers. The attack came a big national conversation even
enforcement. It gives the appearance
at the same time a Black Lives Matter in the small towns of America but
that government and law enforceprotest in downtown Dallas dethe shootings of bikers by the Waco ment only recognizes an issue when
nouncing police violence in the wake Police Department and the ruin of
they suffer the loss of one of their
of the deaths of Alton Sterling and
own. Dear legislators WE NEED AN
over 100 lives through false arrest
Philando Castile.
ANTI-PROFFILING BILL PASSED!
and million dollar bail (over a year
I’m sure all of the blacks would
Eventually one of the gentlemen
ago) has not resulted in a single
agree. What we really need is Freeat the table asked me “What do ya
trial leaving the future of fathers
think about that black guy that killed and mothers, sons and daughters in dom and Justice for ALL!
all those cops in Dallas?” I found
limbo while the Waco Police departRayMan
a bit of hostility stir within me as
ment wipes their hands clean of the
2nd Chair
I replied “What do ya think about
incident. When blacks protest with
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