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Ferguson grand jury decision: Brown's death should be call to action not violence
Fox News ^ | 25 Nov 2014 | Juan Williams

Posted on 11/25/2014 5:56:33 AM PST by Hoodat

Where is the black leadership now that a grand jury has decided not to indict the police officer that killed Michael Brown?

Where is Al Sharpton? He advertises himself as a spokesman for the best interests of black America. But he is absent.

Where is Jesse Jackson, another popular media personality who says he speaks for black America? He’s missing in action, too.

It breaks my heart to see televised images of violence from Ferguson, Missouri juxtaposed next to President Obama, the first black president. The president represents black power beyond anyone’s imagination just a few years ago.

President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder have been meeting with younger civil rights activists who are on the front-line in Missouri. . .

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; US: Missouri
KEYWORDS: alsharpton; demagogicparty; ericholder; ferguson; jessejackson; juanwilliams; koolaid; memebuilding; michaelbrown; missouri; obama; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills
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To: defconw

I wonder where he got the idea that it was OK to get confrontational when someone called him on his behavior?


21 posted on 11/25/2014 6:13:33 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: DownInFlames

I learned early on in life that dire consequences would ensue from punching a cop in the face.


22 posted on 11/25/2014 6:14:43 AM PST by Hoodat (Article 4, Section 4)
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To: Hoodat

I found it hilarious to see Obama - the head of black American - pontificating pointlessly about non-violence when his sons were trashing black businesses in old Ferguson.


23 posted on 11/25/2014 6:16:54 AM PST by miss marmelstein (Richard III: Loyalty Binds Me)
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To: bigredkitty1

You just summed up the mentality of a liberal with their hypocritical reasoning.


24 posted on 11/25/2014 6:17:09 AM PST by Blue Highway
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To: uncitizen
I did the google earth thing. it looked like it was a pretty nice area. Single family homes etc. Well if that's not good enough for black America, well nothing more we can do for them.

Blacks must solve this for themselves. I can't read for them. I can't make them sit in school and learn something. That's on them.

25 posted on 11/25/2014 6:18:02 AM PST by defconw (If not now, WHEN?)
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To: Hoodat

Go Juan Williams!


26 posted on 11/25/2014 6:18:32 AM PST by jimfree (In November 2016 my 14 y/o granddaughter will have more quality exec experience than Barack Obama)
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To: Hoodat

In the article, Williams refers to brown as the “murdered teen”. He was not “murdered”. Juan needs to learn the difference between ‘killed in self-defense’ and “murdered”.


27 posted on 11/25/2014 6:18:36 AM PST by American Infidel (Instead of vilifying success, try to emulate it)
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To: jersey117

WHat I don’t get is how there were 2 cop cars on fire in Ferguson, but there were tons of cops. Didn’t the police even try to stop the looters or the fire starting thugs?


28 posted on 11/25/2014 6:18:40 AM PST by Blue Highway
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29 posted on 11/25/2014 6:18:57 AM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: MrB
If the kid had been alone, it probably would not have happened. Like all young kids they show off, only there are consequences to trying to take a cops’ gun.

Partner young, impulse control challenged, with entitlement and being told your whole life you are a victim, It's a wonder he made it 18 years. That BS about going to "college". These libs today call everything from beauty school to Medical school, college. I am sick of it. I am sick of them. Screw em!

30 posted on 11/25/2014 6:22:24 AM PST by defconw (If not now, WHEN?)
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To: Hoodat

So is Juan saying that Officer Wilson murdered Saint Michael in cold blood?


31 posted on 11/25/2014 6:22:58 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Any energy source that requires a subsidy is, by definition, "unsustainable.")
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To: Blue Highway

It’s not “hypocritical reasoning”,

1) there’s no “reasoning” to it
2) it’s just using every situation as an excuse to advance the agenda, so it really doesn’t matter to them that they appear hypocritical to us.

One thing we’ve got to get over and understand -
pointing out the left’s hypocrisy to them does nothing.
They are not ashamed and will not be swayed by having their illogic and hypocrisy pointed out.

What we DO need to expose is their goals. When their goals are exposed, they lose.


32 posted on 11/25/2014 6:24:57 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: defconw

This whole thing is the Brown parents fault, now they speak out like they are experts.

When my own daughter stole things from Walmart and hid them under her blouse, I marched her back into the store to give them back and apologize and promise she would pay for them in the future. Had the Brown parents taught Micheal this simple lesson he would not have taken the Cigars unless he intended to pay for them.

Micheal Brown was a Giant Bully, he manhandled the store clerk which made the clerk call 911, if he was taught by his parents not to bully, his size wouldn’t have mattered.
I am big and a Black Belt, yet nobody has reason to fear me hitting then without lots of cause.

As a parent I teach respect of authority, Teachers, Police, adults. A little Judeo-Christian ethics goes a long way in training kids to be humans not brutes.

The Brown parents need to stop acting like experts and do some soul searching on why Micheal would steal, and assault the store clerk and attack Officier Wilson who stopped shooting each time Micheal paused in his attack and only resumed shooting when Micheal resumed charging at him. Fault the Parents and Micheal, not the cop he punched in the face.


33 posted on 11/25/2014 6:25:23 AM PST by Zenjitsuman (New Boss Nancy Pelosi)
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To: Hoodat

It breaks my heart that the likes of Williams are given any credence anymore.


34 posted on 11/25/2014 6:26:28 AM PST by raybbr (Obamacare needs a death panel.)
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To: Zenjitsuman

Amen.


35 posted on 11/25/2014 6:27:59 AM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: jersey117
The supreme irony is that he probably would've gotten away with knocking off the convenience store had he not insisted in strutting his stuff in the middle of the street.

And he would've even gotten away with strutting in the middle of the street had he shuffled off toward the sidewalk when the cop asked him to do so rather than attacking.

36 posted on 11/25/2014 6:28:12 AM PST by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: Zenjitsuman

I seriously doubt Michael’s parents gave a rip what he was doing before he died. I used to work with welfare recipients. That kid was some extra food stamps that is all. No one gave a crap about him and it showed.


37 posted on 11/25/2014 6:29:34 AM PST by defconw (If not now, WHEN?)
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To: Eddie01
Blacks can't even process the complexity of the fast food counter without getting into a fight with the cashier.

Just what call to civic action may be within their world view besides "don't be disrespekin me", and How much be on my EBT Card, Obamaphone this month?", and "Bitch, yo forgets my fries!"

38 posted on 11/25/2014 6:33:39 AM PST by blackdog (There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
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To: Hoodat

Juan is a moron.

Here’s the cop getting all this grief, the system attacked nine ways from Sunday for the death of a criminal in the course of official police duty.

I mean, in America ... African-Americans brutally waste one another for less with such frequency over meaningless issues (issues much LESS significant that robbery, assault on a police officer, resisting arrest, etc.) that it’s hilarious!


39 posted on 11/25/2014 6:34:58 AM PST by SMARTY ("When you blame others, you give up your power to change." Robert Anthony)
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To: bigredkitty1
Race-baiting blacks want to be protected by the law but not prosecuted by the law. Conversely, these same race-baiters want all non-blacks prosecuted by the law but not afforded the protections of the law.

Worth repeating!!
40 posted on 11/25/2014 6:35:52 AM PST by ExTxMarine (PRAYER: It's the only HOPE for real CHANGE in America!)
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