Odd, Jonah, I found his speech to be spoken in a flat, disinterested manner. Not as far as having flat affect, just disinterestedly.
And as for his statement that their black rage was understandable......
uh NO.
Or, just as likely, Brown knew his ass was in a sling having just robbed a convenience store and still had evidence connecting him to the crime so he tried to intimidate his way into getting out of being held responsible for his actions as he was used to doing.
Using that same "logic" we conservatives have every right to go out today (Well, OK let's wait until after Thanksgiving!) and burn this entire nation to the ground. We have suffered greater offenses at the hands of the Øbozo regime than the residents of the town of Ferguson have at the hands of their own civil servants.
Let's go riot!
Too complicated?
How’s this:
Thug tries to grab cop’s gun after punching cop in face.
Cop shoots thug from restrained position in cruiser.
Thug starts to run away.
Cop pursues assault/robbery suspect.
Thug decides to put beat down on smaller cop.
Cop puts rounds into thug to neutralize threat.
Gibsmedat local community goes tribal over one of theirs getting due justice.
Not very complicated, actually very predictable in Obamas society.
Ferguson has struck the primordial fear in blacks. Blacks down deep fear that one day whites will rise up and institute massive genocide against the unwanted blacks. That is why blacks respond in this manner when a black is killed by a white especially if the white has an official capacity. Silly and paranoid? Perhaps from the white perspective but not only do blacks believe it but many feel it will happen in their lifetime.
People on welfare, dependent people, never grow up. They remain infantile, and throw themselves into tantrums and violent behavior in a heartbeat. They are either whining or bashing things. This is true of spoiled white kids or anyone else in a state of dependency on others.
Human nature.
If only the plantation owners had picked their own cotton! ! ! ! !
If they want to keep asking racist questions, no one can get over it.
I just read a Freeper (sorry .. I forget who) who basically said, ;
White America has done more (and ALL the) changing since the 1960's and black America has refused to do anything about ITself
The time is now ... screw 'em.
Only because idiots like Obama, the media, and other leftist trolls are constantly beating that drum. Of course blacks are angry. People who have homosexual sex are getting to an almost black level of anger too because they're constantly being told that everyone hates them and is out to get them. The solution is simple. Stop trying to make a buck and win political points off of fomenting rage.
“Ferguson Too Complicated For Easy Allegory”
Yup.
It requires brilliant, intellectual, really-really smart, intensely intelligent analysis by a brilliant, intellectual, really-really smart, intensely intelligent Progressive Democrat who turns the incident into an allegory while saying, at the same time, that it’s too complicated for a simple allegory making it into a simple allegory.
(The dialectic at it’s best, or worst, depending on one’s point of view.)ti
(How about it’s just a story about someone who committed a crime who was apprehended by a policeman?)
IMHO
I disagree. In my opinion, the ones who tend to riot and loot do not simply want fair and equal treatment under the law, but rather, special treatment under the law.
They want the right to riot and loot without consequence.
They want the right to ignore legal instructions from LEOs.
They want to behave any way they want and then to not be treated by society as though they are behaving differently from the socially acceptable manner.
How many black teenagers skipping merrily down the street have been killed by trigger happy white cops in Ferguson?
I guess Jonah thinks since the normally reasonable (black) John McWhorter says it, then it is true. It is not. Millions of people throughout history have believed in, and committed evil. That does not make it right, or something we should cater to.
I doubt it, but let's just grant that for the sake of argument. The passions of their critics are rooted in something just as real: half a century of parasitism, exploitation, reverse discrimination, and fear. Why is it that after more than 50 years of elevating blacks at the expense of whites, blacks still get to claim victim status? Why is it that, in the whole, their lot has not greatly improved? Why is it that the pernicious effects of segregation, hate, and hopelessness still permeate the self-imposed enclaves of blacks?
Because for half a century it's been too easy to turn to the white man and ask what HE'S going to do about racism.
Maybe it's time to turn the question around, and ask blacks what THEY'RE going to do. If Ferguson is any indication, the fears whites have about blacks is well founded.
They got it partly correct.
Laws aren't enforces uniformly. If you are a politician, a cop or an illegal alien, you get a different standard.
It has nothing to do with color.
Brown evidently had a preset hostility to storekeepers who are smaller than him. And paying for things.
Awesome.
She calls it like it is. But speaks their lingo.
The complicated part is how the "protesters" are still being allowed to wreak mayhem with what is close to impunity.
Both were black teens living on public assistance
Both had attitudes that reflected a culture of badass ghetto culture.
Both screwed with people with guns.
Both were memorialized with fictional (semi-heroic) stories of their demise that were later countered with facts that proved the stories false.