Posted on 11/28/2014 12:14:59 PM PST by dignitasnews
In the wake of the Grand Jury decision not to indict officer Darren Wilson we have been witness not just the resulting protests and riots, but an outpouring of self-righteous reflection from the political left. In an attempt to distance itself from their own culpability in setting Ferguson ablaze, white and black liberals alike have dispensed a flood of crocodile tears for Michael Brown and the "social injustice" that they themselves require in order to validate their own perceived goodness. Not since their sudden turn during the Iraq War has the hypocrisy of Progressive-liberalism been so perfectly highlighted.
Forget for a moment that the liberal stance on the entire Ferguson situation is a blatant attack on the rule of law and the mechanism of our criminal justice system that belies statistical realities, on a social and cultural level they threaten to further divide the American people on the basis of class and race, all the while comfortably removed from its fallout. It is a divide Progressives covet in order to solidify their hold on the black vote and reclaim lost support from younger voters in their blind drive for power.
For the white liberal, events such as the Michael Brown case are like manna from heaven. In one fell swoop it allows them the opportunity to assuage their "purse-clutching" guilt they feel for their own suspicions and fears of minorities, and to further blind themselves from the devastation their political ideology has caused to the same black communities they claim to champion.
For the black middle class liberal, they are able to delude themselves into the notion that hold any sort of solidarity and common cause with lower-income blacks they long ago left behind and forgot. It also allows them to assuage their own guilt when they find themselves in agreement with social critiques made by Bill Cosby and black conservatives. In endorsing the "we are all hunted" meme, they are able to find common cause with an inner-city tragedy they are largely shielded from, all the while continuing to blindly support a Democratic Party whose source of power comes from producing millions of Michael Browns, who had nothing better to do at 11 o'clock in the morning but make his way to the store to buy, or rather steal, a package of blunt wraps to wile away an entire afternoon in a marijuana induced haze.
The typical liberal outlook on the Michael Brown case was voiced by Emory University "African-American Studies" professor Carol Anderson in her Washington Post diatribe Ferguson Isn't About Black Rage Against Cops, Its About White Anger at Black Progress. In my best Jim Mora impersonation I exclaim, PROGRESS? The left loves to float this term out, and have redefined themselves as Progressives, but this too is a symptom of their delusion and self-serving hypocrisy. While it is undeniable that our nation, since its founding, has taken incremental steps to live up to the ideals of our founders, and the current black middle class is a recipient of this progress, but these were victories scored by previous generations and have little to do with modern liberal politics. If anything, Ms. Anderson, white conservative anger and frustration comes from seeing our fellow countrymen led like sheep to the shearers, seemingly happy to do so given their undying loyalty to a wicked left-wing ideology that profits from their demise and from further dividing us to the point of mutual distrust and hatred.
Here is the key question that few are asking. Why didn't Michael Brown have something better to do on that fateful morning in Ferguson? Why do we accept a society where millions upon millions of young men, particularly young black men, find themselves mired in a lifestyle filled with sloth, idle time and lack of direction? Like so many of the young in our society, Mr. Brown rested in hopes on dreams of stardom, in his case in the hip hop industry, without a viable and realistic Plan B to fall back on if those dreams did not materialize.
These are questions that are uncomfortable for liberal Progressives to confront. It is far easier for them to throw blame on the supposed "reality" of white privilege, social injustice and America's inherent racism. By casting these unseen boogeymen as the villain, they are able to define the problem as one without a tangible solution, and thus shield themselves from assessment of their own failed policies. After all, if the cause for black poverty and unemployment is racism, they can delude themselves in the knowledge that they are on the "right side of history" for their meaningless and self-serving overtures of solidarity with the victims. They are able to deflect the inconvenient truth that they themselves are flourishing in a society that they have defined as unjust in the comfort that they are "spreading awareness" and as a result have common cause with a black underclass that continues find its lot in life that much more hopeless.
Whether your sympathies lie with Darren Wilson or Michael Brown, the entire ugly episode in Ferguson exposes dangerous divisions and inequities of opportunity in American society, which all the liberal crocodile tears in the world will not solve. These problems demand real solutions and honest discussion. 50 years of Democratic Party rule of black politics has obviously not addressed these problems and in many ways exacerbated these problems. As the rubble is cleared and life returns to normal, this should serve as a call to conservatives to improve its outreach among African-Americans so that our fellow countrymen may be presented with tangible and workable solutions to rebuild broken homes and communities as a result of Great Society failures.
Opinion by Paul M Winters Managing Editor, Dignitas News Service
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Obama sent 3 reps from the White House to the thugs memorial. How many did he send for cops who get killed in the line of duty?
calling that POS Rev is like calling Dahmer a chef...
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The riots that followed the Grand Jury decision led to the
the St. Louis County Police department to fly helicopters over Ferguson, Missouri, and drop job applications as a means of dispersing the crowds to avoid further riots and looting.
Some of us said that (with innocent replacing guilty) about the OJ trial...open and shut, we thought.
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