Posted on 12/17/2014 7:51:19 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
The outcries throughout our country -- protests, demonstrations, disruptions of traffic, and riots -- that have dotted our collective landscape since white Ferguson police office Darren Wilson shot and killed unarmed black teenager Michael Brown isn't just about Ferguson, the city. It's about the hundreds and thousands of "Fergusons" throughout our country where black youth are by-definition disadvantaged in their relationship with police simply because they're black.
It's about the fact that police throughout our country have systematically violated our shared American values, which instruct us to have respect, provide equality, live together as community, and do the right thing. It's about the distrust that the black community has of police and that the white community can no longer ignore or tolerate.
For the purpose of this post, I'm calling this disconnect, dissonance, turmoil and distrust the "Ferguson Effect."
I saw this "Ferguson Effect" first hand in Cleveland, where police are currently under siege because of the recent killing of 12-year old Tamir Rice (who was waving a toy gun) by a white police officer. Recently, a scathing U.S. Justice Department report also condemned the Cleveland Police Department for excessive and arbitrary use of force, lack of accountability, and systemic disregard and disrespect.
Six or seven years ago, my wife Susan was traveling to do a Project Love school training at a Cleveland public school when she was pulled over by a white Cleveland police officer for slightly speeding in a school zone. She apologized and explained to the officer that she was late for a Power of Kindness workshop for tenth graders in the neighborhood high school across the street. The officer responded that nothing could possibly change the "wild animals in that school" and that, although well intentioned, my wife was obviously misdirected....
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Or walk a few miles down an inner city street after midnight. Unarmed.
Most adults don’t teach the kids anything; the kids were bred to provide a life of leisure for the adults, and aren’t raised in any particular manner at all. They learn government is to provide breakfast, lunch, housing, and food stamps; beyond that they are on their own (hence the crime). I’d think that the children are more educated than the parents at a fairly young age.
I stand here today proud to say I do not value the standards of the huffington , puffington post commie rag values .
Ferguson is the result of it’s own making , a lawless thug and a national liberal press who created a false narrative to create the results they got . Civil unrest should be aimed at those who perpetrated this violence ,,,, the communist press and the race baters .
Nicely Done
I agree. The children have learned how to game the system even before they get out of school; if you can call it school. The garbage they teach them is “you’re special, and everybody owes you something”.
And I thought my retirement was going to be peaceful.
Thanks.
Liberals have no values and no ethics. Which explains a lot of why Michael Brown grew up to be a feral thug and why the police officers had to put him down.
I’m not saying we don’t need serious reform in policing ethics, standards and training. But Michael Brown is not an example to hold up for sympathy while seeking reform. And liberals, the lawless racist thugs with no American ethics nor respect for the constitution are not the ones to lead reform efforts. They created Michael Brown and they killed Michael Brown.
>>>Or walk a few miles down an inner city street after midnight. Unarmed<<<
Their Halo of Enlightenment will protect them.
Apparently it seems blacks killing blacks is within their values.
I believe it was on Rush’s show that a female caller identified herself as a social worker, and described how a welfare sow’s kids asked her if she would their social worker when they grew up.
Imagine that.
I don't wish violent harm on anybody (except of course for our enemies and violent criminals), but it's difficult not to laugh at the white, liberal fool in Oakland who got himself killed by black criminals because he couldn't deal with reality.
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