Vanita Gupta
Posted on 05/19/2015 1:53:50 PM PDT by jazusamo
This lunacy is mainstream thought at the Department of Justice.
Vanita Gupta, head of the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division, has told a lawyers group in Colorado that slavery and Jim Crow helped fuel the Ferguson and Baltimore riots.
The last few days have seen a number of fanciful stories with the Obama administration seemingly questioning the authority of local police. I’ve long maintained that the administration is nakedly seeking to federalize policing standards — but get rid of local police? No way, that sounds like something broadcast from a shortwave station in Austin, Texas.
But then up steps Vanita Gupta to lend some credibility to the idea that some want to disband local police and replace police powers with the federal government. Speaking to a group of left-wing lawyers in Colorado, Gupta had this to say :
The conversation in these rooms, however, is not about whether to have police or not but about what kind of policing communities want and deserve.
There is no question that we need police in our communities.
The conversation? What conversation is Gupta hearing that needs to be corrected? Who brought up the idea we might not need police? Nobody sane, for sure.
Vanita Gupta
If you read the entirety of Gupta’s speech, you’ll get a sense of what is going on in the mind of the anti-police left. Officials in this administration still think it is rational and acceptable to bring up the name Michael Brown in the context of anything other than a likely felon against whom deadly force was justifiably used. Behold Gupta:
Eric Garner. Michael Brown. Tamir Rice. John Crawford. Walter Scott. Freddie Gray.
These names and many others have become familiar to us under tragic circumstances in recent months. Their deaths and those of other unarmed African American men and women in encounters with police officers, have provoked widespread responses across the country and have fueled the Black Lives Matter movement. In communities of color, in particular, the reaction has been stark and sobering.
In the seven months I have been at the Civil Rights Division, I have spent a lot of time with local leaders and community members in cities all across America, including with numerous mothers who have lost their children in officer-involved shootings. The pain, anger, frustration — the lack of trust in the police — is real, and it is profound.
Gupta asks the question that many Americans have already asked and answered:
It’s worth asking, first, how did we get here? And second, what are we going to do about it?
To most law-abiding Americans, the idea of fleeing from the police, or worse, charging at a policeman you have already punched, is simply beyond the realm of possibility.
So how did we get here? Was it a breakdown of values? Perhaps a pervasive tolerance for lawlessness? Of course not. Says Gupta:
Let’s start with the first question and consider the source of the mistrust. Mistrust can’t be explained away as the kneejerk reaction of the ill-informed or the hyperbolic. It’s in part the product of historical awareness about the role that police have played in enforcing and perpetuating (wait for it! here it comes!) slavery, the Black Codes, lynchings and Jim Crow segregation.
Give Gupta credit, she adheres to the fringe orthodoxy on race at the schools she attended: Yale and New York University Law School. Perhaps you can’t blame her, because she’s never heard anything different. But she’s wrong. The riots in Baltimore and Ferguson are related to slavery and lynchings as much as the Waco biker bloodbath is the fault of the Rolling Stones hiring the Hells Angels at Altamont.
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When people make choices to do evil, they cannot blame attenuated events which happened decades or centuries earlier. When Michael Brown charged a cop, when racialist anarchists set Baltimore on fire, they chose violence and evil then and there. The past was unrelated to that exercise of free will.
Gupta’s fringe view, however, is mainstream among the leftists who populate the Civil Rights Division .
It was no accident that these same leftists produced an absurd self-fulfilling report on Ferguson. But that hasn’t stopped Gupta from trumpeting the report, or better still, using the report to shake down police departments across the country to change their ways or else. After all, Ferguson is just like lots of other places, Gupta tells us:
In many ways, Ferguson is not an anomaly. Through our work around the country, we know there are similar police and court practices in many places. I also know of several police chiefs around the country that assigned the report as required reading for their officers. We are already seeing the force multiplying effect of the report. In the days subsequent to the issuance of our report, cities around the country are beginning to re-examine their policing and municipal court practices, though we know there is much more work to do.
Gupta “knows of several police chiefs around the country that assigned the report as required reading for their officers.” Let’s decode: this means that several police chiefs around the country know that if they tell Gupta it is required reading, the federal government will stay off their backs and another police chief won’t get fired.
Give the leftists their due. They know how to use the levers of power to fundamentally transform a nation, no matter the truth. Lets hope that in 2017, there is the courage to undo the racialist mess Obama has created inside DOJ.
vanita Goop Duh is a CHOOMER!!
Or freeing them /s/
Good post.
Not that he’ll be elected but just that an admitted Socialist is running for president in this nation is abhorrent.
Now he says he wants free college for everyone, not just free community college as 0bama wants which is bad enough. They both want the masses to get free indoctrination from the commie leftist academics.
Not in the definition you mean, nor they mean. But they are slaves. They are slaves to the idea that they are owed something. They are slaves to the party of the democrats, they are slaves to welfare. Yes, they are slaves indeed. By their own choice.
In their racist, warped, tribalistic minds, slavery is still going on; it was never abolished.
Exactly, and there’s a hundred or more other DOJ hirees with basically the same history thanks to Eric-the-Red.
So the solution is to take money from people who didn’t have slaves and give it to people who were not slaves.
I have no objection to giving special consideration to any living person of any race who was actually held in slavery in America.
IIRC, all that is needed is a simple bill passed from congress and president changing the rules of Federal employment and this idiot would break a speed record being shown where the door is.
Well I’d guess it’s time to fire all the white, white Hispanic and most Asian cops and set a timer to record how quickly we become a bloody copy of Zimbabwe.
I had thoughts along that line, but not the words to express ...
to take your line of thinking one step further ..
they are slaves to sin.
And there’s only one cure for that.
Firing striking Air Traffic Controllers who refuse an order to return to work is a little different than firing a female, minority Federal Employee for incompetence. If they ever started that, it would be hard to stop before most of the federal workforce was dismissed.
You nailed it.
Well, Heck! I thought it was global warming/climate change.
In all honesty, I think many of us have reached the place that we are so tired of the excuses, the chronic victimology, the race baiting shakedown artists, and every other component of this mess, that we’re ready to just let them have at it. I think police officers need to withdraw from these neighborhoods and let them deal with their own destructive behavior.
No it isn’t. You do what you are told as an employee or you hit the road. All it takes is a boss with willpower. Insubordination always has been grounds for termination. Always will be until we are communist by decree. Then they get shot instead.
You revoke all policy, set a new one they don’t like and fight. Then you fire them for doing it.
“should have picked our own d*** cotton”
Isn’t That the truth! What you never hear from these folks that won’t let slavery die, other Blacks sold those people into slavery and it is still happening in some areas of Africa.
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