[Vendome]

He was a rounding error?

[MuttTheHoople]

REminds me of when the Overseer forced Kunta Kinte to call say he’s “Toby”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CpJpGF8lS8

[JRandomFreeper]

I'll say Brown sounds like he was a thug.

When do I get my bullies? I've got a present for them.

/johnny

[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

“I pray for the day when my little children will be judged on the basis of the content of their character rather than the color of their skin.” MLK

Character a problem? Just change the definition of character! There are no thugs, they are all just misunderstood “Good boys.”

[2ndDivisionVet]

Here’s the original NYT article:

Michael Brown Spent Last Weeks Grappling With Problems and Promise
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3196912/posts

Here’s some left-wing push-back:

New York Times on Michael Brown Is Everything the Media Gets Wrong About Black Men
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3196943/posts

[The_Media_never_lie]

John Eligon, a 31 year-old black New York Times reporter who says that he has been racially profiled by police, was mercilessly bullied by the Left Monday into recanting his description of Michael Brown as "no angel."

So, Mr Eligon recanted, and agreed that Michael Brown really was an angel, after all? Is this what I am reading?

[PGR88]

Michael Brown was big, gentle giant angel, and also was a genius who was on the verge of inventing a cure for cancer. He sought to reach out and embrace everyone in the world with love, even Darren Wilson, who misunderstood his loving gestures and deliberately gunned him down out of pure racist hate.

There - do I pass?

[subterfuge]

Intimidation is always strongly relied upon by totalitarian regimes.

Make no mistake. All the leftist groups, from the media, the democrat party, the minority caucuses, women's groups, the environmentalists and the “justice” department are all playing from the same fascist, totalitarian playbook.

If people aren't intimidated this time, then maybe the next time, or the time after that. They are patient and will never stop, because they are evil.

[fone]

Today, on campus (back for my MSW), I saw a young man, er, of color, wearing a tee shirt:

I AM TRAVON

lithograph picture and all...

Shook my head and thought: no, you are not Travon...he is dead.
But damn, he looked very angry...

[txrefugee]

Everyone knows angels push little old shop keepers around as they rob them and they write pornographic rap songs for their blogs. (Did Sharpton quote any of those filthy writings as a tribute to Brown’s spiritual side in his shout fest today?)

[logic101.net]

“no angel” was not a good choice of words

True, goon, thug, bully, small time terrorist; all these would have been better choices.

[Amity]

Check out this article about the original article Eligon wrote.

The mind, she boggles.

http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/new_york_times_michael_brown_no_angel.php