Posted on 03/13/2015 5:16:43 AM PDT by LeoMcNeil
Ferguson, Missouri is back in the news again. Last week the Justice Department released two reports about the Ferguson police department. In one report they completely exonerated Darren Wilson for the death of Michael Brown. Wilson did not shoot Brown in the back, Brown did not have his hands up and Wilson had no racial motivation. In other words, the entire cause for protest in Ferguson was inaccurate, fabricated or an outright lie. The Grand Jury got it right when they didn’t indict Wilson, even Eric Holder’s Justice Department had to acknowledge there were no facts indicating any crime was committed.
It’s the second Justice Department report that is more troubling. In that report apparently two Ferguson offers engaged in racist banter over email. They essentially suggested that abortions reduced Ferguson crime. Margaret Sanger would have agreed. Besides a handful of idiotic emails the best the Justice Department could do was argue the Ferguson Police Department is racist due to “disparate impact.” Around 63% of the population is black, 90% of the arrests made are of black people. For some reason the Justice Department believes this is indicative of racism within the police department. Not surprisingly the question of whether blacks actually commit 90% of the crimes in Ferguson wasn’t asked.
Disparate impact assumes that all people of all races, sexes, religions and creeds will engage in identical conduct and have identical abilities. It’s essentially communism applied to race, sex etc.It’s also a fools game. It could be argued the NBA is racist because 75% of its players are black when blacks are only 13% of the American population. The NBA’s racism has a “disparate impact” on white basketball players. Likewise, New York City’s “elite” government schools, for which admittance is based solely on a test, see over 50% of its spots taken by Asian students. Asians are of course nowhere near 50% of New York City’s population and as such it’s racist to allow Asians to have 50% of the spots in these schools. Everyone is equal after all. New York City’s elite school racism has a “disparate impact” on blacks, Hispanics and yes, even white students.
Of course the Justice Department isn’t going to accuse the NBA of racism, though the EEOC could in theory bring a case against them. New York City progressives are actively advocating racism against Asian students by pushing affirmative action in favor of black and Hispanic students but not the white students who are also under represented. The fact is that for whatever reason black athletes are better at playing basketball than white athletes. Asian students are smarter than black, white and Hispanic students in New York City. In the case of Ferguson it may very well be that blacks commit more crimes than other races. The fact that the police department makes arrests that correspond to the crimes being committed doesn’t equal racism, it equals good police work.
The Justice Department cannot cite a single example of the Ferguson police unfairly targeting black citizens. They also cannot cite a single example of a non-black citizen being given a pass in their criminal conduct because they aren’t black. All the Justice Department has is a handful of statistics that have been manipulated into a “disparate impact” argument. Their argument is absolutely foolish and ridiculous because it assumes absolutely equality among all races in all behaviors. Common sense tells us that not all races have the same traits and characteristics. These traits can be positive, such as grades in school or ability to play professional sports, or they can be negative such as criminal conduct. Even within criminal conduct, not all races commit all crimes equally. A higher percentage of white criminals commit white collar business crimes, a higher percentage of black criminals commit murder.
Eric Holder’s bogus racism accusation against the Ferguson police department sent protesters over the edge. On Wednesday night, two officers were shot during anti-police protests. The criminals who shot the officers are ultimately responsible for their own conduct. However, there is no doubt that both Holder and President Obama added fuel to the fire by crying racism without any proof. Holder has gone so far as to threaten to dismantle the entire police department. Of course he has no evidence of racism. His only evidence is that blacks are arrested 50% more than their percentage of the local population. Whether they commit 50% more crimes is never asked because with a communist style mentality it doesn’t matter. Groups of people are equal in all ways and that’s the end of the inquiry in the world of Holder and Obama. Two officers have been shot as a result, I rather suspect that if the thug who shot them is caught the Justice Department won’t be investigating any racial “hate crimes.”
The officers families ought to sue Holder... there are certainly grounds.
Loathesom individuals, being elected by loathsome individuals in the electorate.
IMHO
Great post, LeoMcNeil. Thanks.
Plunder and death…the calling cards of criminals/collectivists/socialists/totalitarians. The noblest who wear the uniform to protect and serve the weakest and vulnerable among us are under attack from said criminals and their collectivist (Al, Jessie) enablers and scumbag (Barack, Eric) politicians.
“Besides a handful of idiotic emails...”
Are personal emails now to be taken up to the same degree as genocide and crimes against humanity and used as proof of deeply ingrained racism and bigotry?
What detestable individuals these are who remove all perspective for the purpose of furthering their radical agenda of delegitimizing local police with the intent to replace them with saints of political correctness chosen by the delegitimizers for their own radical purposes.
IMHO
Amen to that!
” All the Justice Department has is a handful of statistics “
Whenever I see a sentence like this I cannot help but think of a quote from a long dead American author and philosopher, Mark Twain, who is now banned from polite society.
“There are Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics”
When it comes to racism..... there is no intelligence or common sense involved in most of the arguments. There is only emotion.
Obama, Holder, Sharpton.
Guilty of inciting violence resulting in attempted murder.
Good article. Logical and articulate.
He sounds like the sort who believes 9-11 was an inside job, the school shooting in Connecticut a few years ago didn’t happen etc.
My guess is that the police department in Ferguson leans conservative. Holder and company likely wants to replace its leadership with a bunch of progressives. Doing so will only increase crime in a town that is already rich in criminal activity.
What do you expect from a pair of Black Panthers racists?
Thoughtful and well-written.
Thank you sir!
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