Posted on 11/25/2014 5:29:43 AM PST by shortstop
Actually, relations between the police and my community are great.
The police enforce the laws, the community obeys the law, we get along fine. We speak to the police politely, we comply with their orders, we don’t have a problem.
It’s all good.
So, no Mr. President, there isn’t a national problem between the police and “the community,” at least not in most communities.
And, likewise, Ferguson is not about some great rift between the police and society. Ferguson is about a kid who did a strong-armed robbery of a store and then attacked a police officer.
Period.
It’s about a series of events started not by slavery or Jim Crow, but by one young man’s decision not to obey the law.
If there is a trend illustrated in the events which led to Michael Brown’s death in Ferguson, Missouri, it is black lawlessness, not police insensitivity.
Those words may seem harsh, but they happen to be true.
Even if the president, the attorney general and various big-city mayors can’t see it.
Because what we were reminded of last night is that many people who happen to be black have a prejudice against the police. It is a bigotry against a profession as immoral and baseless as bigotry against a skin color, religion or sexual orientation.
That is the only explanation for some of the reaction to the decision of the St. Louis County grand jury.
Instead of basing reaction on the facts as ascertained by the investigation and grand jury decision, some people came back to their pre-existing belief – that the police are racists who target blacks.
The mayor of Rochester, New York, posted on Facebook: “I know that many members of our community are upset about the decision today in Ferguson. I am too. As I was thinking about how to respond, I went back to how the situation started: With a young, unarmed black man and an authority figure who had little regard for this young man’s life.”
Her final sentence is pure fabrication.
It is found not in the testimony before the grand jury, but in the prejudice of her own mind.
Regard for life in this matter is something which seemed to be lacking on the part of the young man who ended up dead.
It was he, after all, who attacked the police officer in his car and started grappling for his gun. It was likewise he, after all, who turned and charged the officer after repeated commands to stop and show his hands.
And that led to his death.
It was not some lack of sensitivity training – which the president said Sunday afflicts all of America law enforcement. It was not some racist attitude of the police. It was the lack of civil and legal deportment by the young man in question.
And that arose at least in part, it seems logical to surmise, from this young man’s upbringing in a stew of anti-police prejudice.
When the president and the pretend reverends from near and far lambaste the police, reinforcing folklore and fairy tale about a war on young black men, they encourage enmity with police, and antagonism toward them.
The kind of enmity that leads a young man to reach inside a police cruiser and begin pummeling a cop.
That’s the cancer that needs to be rooted out.
It’s not that the police don’t know how to respect minority communities, it’s that minority communities don’t know how to respect themselves – or anybody else.
And the palpable hatred of police leads to actions that endanger police and civilians alike.
And to bad policies, and bad policy positions by public officials.
Like the president, who said on national television on Sunday – the day before the Ferguson verdict – that more training for police on how to be sensitive to minority concerns would over time lead to building trust between police and “the community.”
Translation: Police are poorly trained and insensitive, that’s why there is distrust.
That’s what the president of the United States thinks and said.
And in so doing backstabbed all the cops in this country.
And perpetuated a lie.
Because the problems between the police and “the community” – I think that’s code for “black people” – are not the fault of police training or attitude, they are the result of a bigoted, prejudice-based attitude among the community toward police.
And the cops can’t fix that.
And elected officials shouldn’t perpetuate it.
Because it is morally wrong.
This vilification of police is immoral, dishonest and destructive of society. Nowhere is that more evident than in the reaction to Ferguson.
A young man initiated a violent attack against a police officer. He grappled for the officer’s gun. He charged the officer and refused to show his hands.
And he died for it.
It’s a tragedy.
But the truth is clear.
He deserved what he got.
No matter what color he was.
Obama was touted as the “post-racial” president but many who were anchored in reality said six years or more ago that he would set racial relations back fifty years. Apparently he has done even worse, he has created a racial conflict which has no historical parallel.
Not relevant but, since you asked, those race hustlers speak for a far too large segment of negro America.
And they expect all "negros" to think like they do, or they will impose social sanctions on them. "To get along, you go along."
The reality is that Obama himself is just another lawless black man (well, half-black anyway). Evidenced by his recent Not-So-Executive-Order.
I watched both CNN and Fix News last night to compare and contrast the hosts and their views. On CNN, they were talking about the travesty and the injustice. On Fox, they were talking about the facts of the case.
This is why Fox is number one in the ratings and CNN is behind the Knitting channel and MSNBC.
And why they are the Liberal's Public Enemy Number 1.
The best thing that can happen to black communities across America is the black radicals from the 60’s and their acolytes die.
That’s the only thing that will save Black America. It’s harsh, but it’s the truth.
“The law won”
It usually works out that way, just ask the Clash:
Breakin’ rocks in the hot sun
I fought the law and the law won
I fought the law and the law won
I needed money ‘cause I had none
I fought the law and the law won
I fought the law and the law won
I left my baby and it feels so bad
Guess my race is run
She’s the best girl that I ever had
I fought the law and the law won
I fought the law and the law won
Robbin’ people with a six-gun
I fought the law and the law won
I fought the law and the law won
I lost my girl and I lost my fun
I fought the law and the law won
I fought the law and the law won
Well said.
If Obama can create a rift and a chasm between varying groups and set them upon each other, then he is being a good little Alinskyite and community "disorganizer".
Could the Ferguson rioting finally be the tipping point that brings in the middle class (white and black) into the disaster of the black underclass? Is Guiliani showing the way? Is the threat of being called a racist finally lost its power? I pray that this is the case.
And, likewise, Ferguson is not about some great rift between the police and society. Ferguson is about a kid who did a strong-armed robbery of a store and then attacked a police officer.
Period.
It’s about a series of events started not by slavery or Jim Crow, but by one young man’s decision not to obey the law.
I'm not familiar with Bob Lonsberry - but I'm now a fan...
Thanks. I’m just hoping that one of the take aways here is a realistic analysis of what can really be done with police. Rather than the typical, knee jerk reaction to just hire more.
There were a lot of police in Ferguson last night. The National Guard made a debut. But to what end? The scum burned the town just the same. By having a police presence, all you’re doing is putting up a convenient and expensive scapegoat. A more honest and inexpensive response would have been to tell the local residents that they’re on their own, and if they don’t want to live in a burnt out, robbed out ghetto, it was up to them to decide to defend it.
> I agree .. most people have no clue. I tell people .. go watch (and study) a few hundred episodes of COPS .. and then .. just maybe you’ll understand a little about what’s really going on.
I found out I’d much rather work in an investigative capacity than patrol. Nowadays you do have to arm up like a soldier to deal with the thugs. Hell they make a big deal about what cops are carrying these days but if they took a look at the drug dealer’s arsenals they’d crap themselves. And don’t tell me they couldn’t get them if they outlawed guns because many of their weapons are stolen but I’m sure Jarrett would love it if we laid ours down while their kind and their bodyguards are pack’in. Never ever give up your guns.
It’s not as if there was any outcome which wouldn’t suit his purposes. The Zimmerman case proves, to anyone willing to see, that Big Journalism will dismiss and ignore inconvenient truth. There is only one conceivable way to stop it, and that is to sue the Associated Press and its members (joint and several liability) for promoting riot against the public interest. That way they wouldn’t have anyone else to play their circular finger pointing game.And sue them for triple damages under RICO, because this isn’t an isolated incident - this is systematic. They did it to Zimmerman, of course, and they did it in this case, and the Duke Lacrosse case, and in the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth case - but in all cases the nominal target is just a symbol of the evil white Republican man.
Proof, please.
I’m not gonna go that far. ObaMao and Holder are certainly complicit in ginning up racial animus once the initial event had occurred.
But they didn’t cause Michael Brown to thug out.
Michael Brown did that all by himself.
Good article.
It's not semantics. Words mean things. What did ObaMao actually do? He hopped on the bandwagon.
...but the the reality is that Obama and Eric Holder, in the last six years, have poisoned the well of racial harmony in this country.
No argument there.
Not buying it. They are certainly racial arsonists, but black animus toward whites and law enforcement certainly predates ObaMao and Holder, and it is a facet of a signficant part of current urban black culture.
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