Posted on 12/17/2014 7:51:19 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
The outcries throughout our country -- protests, demonstrations, disruptions of traffic, and riots -- that have dotted our collective landscape since white Ferguson police office Darren Wilson shot and killed unarmed black teenager Michael Brown isn't just about Ferguson, the city. It's about the hundreds and thousands of "Fergusons" throughout our country where black youth are by-definition disadvantaged in their relationship with police simply because they're black.
It's about the fact that police throughout our country have systematically violated our shared American values, which instruct us to have respect, provide equality, live together as community, and do the right thing. It's about the distrust that the black community has of police and that the white community can no longer ignore or tolerate.
For the purpose of this post, I'm calling this disconnect, dissonance, turmoil and distrust the "Ferguson Effect."
I saw this "Ferguson Effect" first hand in Cleveland, where police are currently under siege because of the recent killing of 12-year old Tamir Rice (who was waving a toy gun) by a white police officer. Recently, a scathing U.S. Justice Department report also condemned the Cleveland Police Department for excessive and arbitrary use of force, lack of accountability, and systemic disregard and disrespect.
Six or seven years ago, my wife Susan was traveling to do a Project Love school training at a Cleveland public school when she was pulled over by a white Cleveland police officer for slightly speeding in a school zone. She apologized and explained to the officer that she was late for a Power of Kindness workshop for tenth graders in the neighborhood high school across the street. The officer responded that nothing could possibly change the "wild animals in that school" and that, although well intentioned, my wife was obviously misdirected....
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What are their ‘values’?
This stuff makes me sick. Latter day Epicureans cannot fathom consequences for behavior.
These kool-aide gugglers haven’t figured it out: attack a cop, what do you expect to happen?
My guesstimate is that the ratio of "unarmed black teenagers" shot by "armed black teenagers" to "unarmed black teenagers" shot by police officers is at least 99:1.
“Six or seven years ago, my wife Susan was traveling to do a Project Love school training ——————————”
That’s where I stopped reading.
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Perhaps, sometimes.
But if the word "police" is replaced with "multiple-generation-govt-dependent minorities" -- that probably makes this a much truer statement.
I have a slightly different take. When socialists, called liberals over here succeed in a roundabout way dumbing down a good portion of the public in order to entice them to vote for them, events like Ferguson will happen. Sorry to say, but it sure doesn’t speak very highly of some ones mental capacity when they attempt to fight or tackle a cop.
Racial hate, theft, drug abuse, sexual immorality, government dependency, violence, disrespect of legitimate authority, contempt for society at large, profanity, vulgarity, obscenity, covetousness ...
It’s actually worse than that. They allow the “gangsta” culture to teach their children .. instead of teaching them to obey the law. They condone their children stealing, strong-arm robbing; bullying; disrespecting; seems like it’s the adults who have a warped set of values.
Most of those apes aren’t civilized enough to have developed any values.
They should make all these so called “Journalists” live in Public Housing in a Black Neighborhood.
That way they can pontificate the glory that is LBJ’S Great Society first hand...
‘Ferguson’ Happens
So ferguson is another word for -hit?
No. When there is no morality and the dominant negro culture is that of the gibsmedat generation is when Ferguson happens.
I concur wholeheartedly with your well-articulated take. Socialists are Epicurean and Utopian at the core. For them reality sucks. They would like to make it suck for everyone else.
If we drank every time some pressie used the term “unarmed black teen” we’d all be in 12 step programs or in the hospital by now.
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In a scene in the movie “Its a Wonderful Life”, George Bailey punches a policemen and flees. While fleeing the officer shoots at George’s back. George isn’t even black!
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