Posted on 11/27/2014 7:15:17 AM PST by Kaslin
From the very beginning, this was much ado about an aberration, a tragic aberration to be sure, but an aberration nonetheless.
Michael Brown was shot and killed by Ferguson police Officer Darren Wilson on Aug. 9, 2014. Immediately, according to St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Robert McCulloch, witnesses began to give different versions of what happened.
The apparent would-be star witness, Dorian Johnson, was with Brown when the shooting occurred. He gave a dramatic account of a trigger-happy bigoted cop who shot "my friend" in the back and gunned him down despite the victim attempting to surrender by placing his hands up. Other alleged eyewitnesses came forward with similar, if not identical, descriptions of an aggressive, out-of-control cop.
Several witnesses, according to McCulloch, later changed their testimony, with some admitting that they really didn't see the incident -- just heard about it and so filled in the blanks in their own mind. And some witnesses were simply proven wrong by the physical evidence. Others corroborated the officer's account.
McCulloch explained why more information wasn't released in a "timely" fashion: "Those closely guarded details, especially about the physical evidence, give law enforcement a yardstick for measuring the truthfulness of witnesses." McCulloch explained that a trail of Brown's blood led from the police car, and was found 25 feet farther away from where Brown's body lay -- suggesting Brown turned and came toward Wilson, as the officer said. "Physical evidence," said McCulloch, "does not change because of public pressure or personal agenda."
After summarizing the evidence, McCullough ended his press conference with a note of hope. He said don't let this "fade away ... we have to keep that discussion going."
But the "discussion" we should have is one we rarely do -- that is, about absentee black fathers, poor education and urban crime.
Ironically, in Wisconsin just three weeks ago, Milwaukee police Chief Edward Flynn was being criticized for inappropriate and disrespectful behavior. Flynn, during a police commission meeting related to an officer-involved shooting, was on his cell phone. Didn't he appreciate the gravity of this hearing? Later, at a press conference, he was asked why he was rude.
The chief said: "Well, I was on my phone, yes. That is true. I was following developments with a 5-year-old girl sitting on her dad's lap who just got shot in the head by a drive-by shooting. If some of the people gave a good goddamn about the victimization of people in this community by crime, I'd take some of their invective more seriously.
"The greatest racial disparity in the city of Milwaukee is getting shot and killed -- hello! Eighty percent of my homicide victims -- every year -- are African-American; 80 percent of our aggravated assault victims are African-American; 80 percent of our shooting victims who survive their shooting are African-American.
"Now, they know all about the last three people who have been killed by the Milwaukee Police Department over the course of the last several years. There's not one of them that can name one of the last three homicide victims we've had in this city. ... But this community is at risk all right, and it's not because men and women in blue risk their lives protecting it. It's at risk because we have large numbers of high-capacity, quality firearms in the hands of remorseless criminals who don't care who they shoot.
"Now I'm leaving here to go to that scene. I take it personally, OK? We're going up there, and there's a bunch of cops processing a scene of a dead kid. And they're the ones that are going to be out there patrolling and stopping suspects that may have guns under the front seat. They're the ones that are gonna take risks to their lives to try to clean this thing up, all right?
"We are responsible for the things we get wrong, and we take action. We've arrested cops, we've fired cops and so on. But the fact is, the people out here, some of them -- who had the most to say -- are absolutely MIA when it comes to the true threats facing this community. It gets a little tiresome, and when you start getting yelled at for reading the updates of the kid who got shot, yeah, you take it personally, OK?"
Meanwhile, in an exchange with black MSNBC pundit Michael Eric Dyson, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani called the Ferguson killing a rarity. He argued that the "heavy policing" in black areas results from the need to address black crime: "I find it very disappointing that you're not discussing the fact that 93 percent of blacks in America are killed by other blacks. We're talking about the exception. ... I would like to see the attention paid to that, that you are paying to (Ferguson). ... It is the reason for the heavy police presence in the black community. ... The white police officers won't be there if you weren't killing each other."
Dyson's response? "This is a defensive mechanism of white supremacy at work in your mind." Well, at least we're "keeping the discussion going."
But the “discussion” we should have is one we rarely do — that is, about absentee black fathers, poor education and urban crime.
I look forward to the day when we can have those discussions. As of now, political correctness forbids such discussions. One is silenced by the liberals with charges of racism if you bring up any of these issues.
Cosby tried that and look what happened to him
Dyson auditioning For Sharpton’s job!
We must get rid of the political correctness nonsense
They’re having a sale in Ferguson. Everything is free, and pants are half off!!
(Credit to a forgotten freeper)
obola, holder and the whole zero administration is despised by most of America
Ferguson has shifted the focus to the black community
THAT'S why (imo) people all over the globe are 'demonstrating' .. (personally, I think some dollars have been transferred into a few accounts) ... it didn't go well in America ... time to gin up the Brits and the Germans
Dyson you ignorant jackass. Your keeping shi! in mind is greatly responsible for the destruction in America. My mind has now been made up. Black shi! is enough to make me sick. America has given the black plenty of time and opportunity and millions would rather live in hate than prosper. We all worked our butts off for a living and security in our homes and our cities. You ass hat want to destroy everything because you cannot face reality, your shi! is pure misguided hate.
The semantic fig leaf must be removed. The discussion is not racial, the discussion is cultural. There is nothing wrong with criticism of the tenants of the urban black sub culture.
A subculture is a part of the larger culture incorrectly called the black community. There is no black community. Rather there are a series of black subcultures one of which is populated by urban criminals. The all pervasive nature of the SC is to exhibit disdain for things American. The SC is like a tapeworm, parasitic on the host.
A tapeworm can not demand caviar and prime rib.
It is acceptable and politically correct to profile black people and place them in their respective subcultural groups. One does not consider Michael Jordan as a criminal but know Instinctively that Michael Brown must be carefully watched.
Addressing the real problem is beyond the ability of the “progressives” to understand that they have created the underclass that breeds this behavior. Their “Great Society” has formed incubators in the cities that has fostered the predator society we are witnessing. Until families are norm again this will continue until they have the numbers to force a race war on the country.
These are the children and grandchildren of LBJ.
Every young black man has to make this decision, do you grow up to be Benjamin Carson or Michael Brown?
Until their criminality becomes an admission followed by protests and actions to address it, nothing will change for the better. If they wish to continue living in neighborhoods they’ve crapped out and schools that can’t teach, then they should just stay the course and keep on blamin’ Whitey and everything else for their sorry lack of values and decency
Three steps, may take a generation or two though:
Get off the public assistance, EDUCATE, stop hammering the racism and victim stuff into their heads every minute.
Morals are up to the individual if they honestly want to make things better.
(I know, I know...extremely racist of me, and that’s what’s wrong with America)
"There is no reason why Negroes cannot be taught to read, write, and speak properly. I have taught hundreds myself."
I am quoting my sainted (but not saintly) widowed mother, who taught grammar school for 25 years, and then ran educational programs. She was having a great deal of trouble with many of the the African-American teachers whom she frankly found to be a great load of unmanageable slackers. They got no results, rejected standards and simply passed their undisciplined African-American students along via "social promotion," while maintaining anti-white attitudes and a constant stream of excuses and platitudes. "Bullshit," I think she called it. (Neither saintly nor shy, nor politically correct.) And it did get her rather summarily dismissed!
On her way out, she also pointed out (IMNVHO correctly) that "Negroes" had often done better in some of the segregated schools, where dedicated teachers and much more conscientious administrators maintained standards and discipline. BTW, as school districts became increasingly black, with black principals, black administrators, and especially black superintendents, they have become demonstrably less effective, until we have reached the pathetic level of achievement one sees in today's young street Negroes. Both the thugs Trayvon and Michael, were functional illiterates despite 10+ years of public schooling, and despite "diplomas." Michael headed for "college." Love to have the facts on that one! When black-managed and staffed school systems spend $10,000 per student per year and "graduate" functional illiterates, it's probably time to think about cutting out the "bullshit" of which my sainted (not saintly) mother spoke.
Instead of setting an example, or speaking directly to these issues, what does the "black" man in our POTUS suit do? He sends in an illiterate anus, "The Rev" Al Sharpton, as his spokesman. He winks and nods in approval of the violent behavior in the 'hood. He attacks the police. Of course, he and Holder have pulled up their pants, and learned to speak pretty good Lefty, but do not counsel their homies to do the same. He used (uses) drugs, and does not counsel them on their potential for harm. He is using the street Negroes as a lever against the American people, whom he then can accuse of "racism" when they oppose his policies.
In a way, it's W.E.B. Dubois vs. Booker T. Washington all over again. Late in the game, we realize that Booker T. Washington was the more realistic. I.E., train and educate EVERY Negro to the best of his independent ability. Because now we see that when just Dubois' "Talented Tenth" are somehow selected for special treatment and the rest ignored, charlatans like Barack Hussein Obama, Jr. (or II) and Eric Holder can be the result. Both are black oligarchs, manipulating those left behind to support them in illegitimate power.
“I’ll have those niggers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.” —Lyndon B. Johnson to two governors on Air Force One -
93% this, 93% that.
but you left out the most important 93%, make that 98%:
block voting for democrats.
until that changes, it will only get worse in the “community”.
it has to start with education, and as long as the unions and democrat party control monopoly education, it won’t change.
They dance in the firelight and loot and destroy while their erstwhile leader invites millions in to take their jobs. Dance on suckers.
I could not have said it any better
Was the timing on Cosby to shut him up about Ferguson?
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