The color of privilege, the color of doubt (FERGUSON ALERT)

Southtown Star (Chicago) ^ | September 14, 2014 2:13AM | David McGrath mcgrathd@dupage.edu

[Nepeta]

I drove through an all black neighborhood the other day, and I saw lots of bars on windows and doors.

Even in solidly middle class black neighborhoods, you will see this.

[Paladin2]

[Altura Ct.]

He was a good boy...,

47 shot. 5 dead. Chicago officials meet By Lorenzo Ferrigno, CNN updated 8:51 AM EDT, Tue July 22, 2014

... the fears and misconceptions of too many whites are little changed from the 1960s.

What fears and misconceptions would that be?

[armydawg505]

Get used to it.

[Half Vast Conspiracy]

Then cops released the bodycam video from two of the officers, proving beyond a doubt that nothing of the sort had happened.

I found the link to the original story and the body cam and see no difference between what the firelighter said and the actual video.

However, I do not agree with the firefighter's assessment that it was racially motivated.

[walford]

Notice that none of the professor’s assumptions are sourced. He is presenting them as if it were established fact.

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“Last month, police stopped Michael Brown for jaywalking.”

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That is by no means certain as to why the initial contact took place. There were also reports that the officers had been given a description that a strong-arm robbery had just taken place and the “unarmed teen” fit the description.

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“While all the facts are not yet in, Brown also apparently was perturbed. There was a possible exchange of remarks. A scuffle.”

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One fact that is in is the video showing MB grabbing a much-smaller man’s throat for daring to follow him after he robbed him. It was clear that the “unarmed teen” was used to doing and taking whatever he wanted and felt it necessary to put his victim in his place.

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“Then the officer shot and killed Brown because, he said, Brown hit him in the face and tried to grab his gun. But eyewitnesses counter that the officer shot him after Brown surrendered and raised his hands in the air.”

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The media isn’t showing these so-called “witnesses” giving their accounts personally preferring instead to their legal spokesmen to spoon-feed us what they said instead. If you see them actually talking, you will know why. Anyone who has seen an episode of COPStv has seen this sort of witness give their side of the story.

There was another video in which a black witness can be heard saying that MB turned around and charged at the officer. The autopsy results show that he was hit in the front and at the top of his head, consistent with the officer’s account.

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“Soon after, black residents of Ferguson, elsewhere in the St. Louis area and from all around the country began protests. Not just because they perceived that a crime had been committed by officer Wilson, but because, as many told reporters, they also have been profiled, abused and victimized by police.”

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Profiling under these circumstances is more than justified. Who is over-represented when it comes to committing violent crime in this country?

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“And that the color of their skin disqualified them from the “boys will be boys” presumption and privilege.”

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Actually the color of the skin of the violent sociopath and that of the officer who was forced to shoot him, disqualified the officer from being judged on the evidence, with race being the deciding factor instead.

Hence we have the spectacle of a black preacher calling for a lynching based on race rather than evidence.

The more evidence that comes out showing that the shooting was justified, the more inflamed the mob becomes. They then take out their outrage on old ladies, pregnant women — anyone who is the wrong color in the wrong place at the wrong time.

This professor is giving his blessing to this sort of savagery and the abandonment of Rule of Law in favor of justice being determined by who the person is, not what they did.

[Eagles6]

White privilege affords me the opportunity to work 2 jobs to pay my bills instead of being forced rob, loot and sell dope./sarc

[Cubs Fan]

I drove through an all black neighborhood the other day, and I saw lots of bars on windows and doors. Even in solidly middle class black neighborhoods, you will see this.

Not that I haved EVER seen.

[Shimmer1]

I now live SW of Atlanta and i avoid going there like the plague. So far, so good. Just two trips to the Apple store to get my computer repaired, on the way back I got lost twice. hahahahahaha That will teach me to use my GPS from now on!!!!

[Shimmer1]

I was up at Lennox Square Mall and I saw a prostitute! I never saw her face, but I’m positive that’s what she was. I have always wondered, “how do people know for SURE that’s a prostitute??” But when I saw this one, there wasn’t a doubt in my mind.
A black woman, LOTS of hair cascading down her back, not done, just wild. Like she’d just gotten out of bed. And the tightest, shortest dress that I have ever seen in my life. and heels. And she wasn’t walking with purpose, just strolling along Lenox Rd. (I think that’s the name of it)
Duh, I was trying to look at her and not stare at the same time. LOL I’d never seen anyone that looked quite like that before.

[Shimmer1]

I would have guessed hispanics as the group least likely to obey traffic laws. Of course 92% of all statistics are made up on the spot. :P

[armydawg505]

I see them on Memorial Drive in DeKalb County.

[Shimmer1]

This was right by the Lennox Mall! Isn’t that Buckhead? I thought it would be a rather upscale place.
I don’t know where Memorial Drive or DeKalb Co is. I live in Fayette county

[T-Bone Texan]

"...The vast majority of young black males are earnest, ethical and nonviolent human beings...."

Maybe this is the case in the professor's ivory tower, but my experience "on the street" leads me to conclude otherwise.

[Sherman Logan]

Must be a silent (and invisible) majority.