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Thoughts on Ferguson, Missouri
Townhall.com ^ | August 23, 2014 | Jack Kerwick

Posted on 08/23/2014 8:32:47 AM PDT by Kaslin

To the proliferation of articles on the shooting death of black Missourian Michael Brown via white police officer, Darren Wilson, I register the following considerations.

Firstly, at this time when black underclass thugs are ruining the quality of life in but another once- decent town while their black and white media spokespersons bellyache over the unrelenting racial oppression to which black Americans are supposedly subject, let us call to mind all of the rosy promises made six years ago when Barack Hussein Obama first set his sights on the presidency.

Pundits both black and white, Democrat and Republican, assured us that the election of a black man with an Islamic-sounding name was sure to endear America to Muslims around the globe while ushering in a “post-racial” era here at home. Remember that?

The Islamic world, always a cauldron of violence, is even more violent, more emboldened now than it has been in the past. Something similar can be said for the world of black America, or at least black urban America—as the current happenings in Ferguson, Missouri painfully reveal.

Secondly, those “conservative” commentatorswho claim to be agnostic on whether Darren Wilson, in the absence of any provocation on the part of Michael Brown, killed the latter solely for thrills imply that they’re open to the possibility that this actually could have happened. In other words, they legitimize the outrageous notion that white police officers routinely seek out unsuspecting, law-abiding black citizens to gun down.

I’ll say it now: While, admittedly, I do not know the details of what actually transpired between Wilson and Brown, I most certainly do know—and so, too, I’m ready to bet, does every other commentator who isn’t an anti-white, anti-police ideologue—that Officer Wilson is not guilty of any of the charges that the black criminals in Ferguson and their apologists in Washington D.C. and the media are leveling against him.

Wilson is a decorated police officer. Brown was a thug who just moments prior to his fatal encounter with Wilson had been captured on video surveillance engaging in a strong-arm robbery of a convenience store.

This is one reason why my I’m strongly disposed to sympathize with Wilson’s and the Ferguson Police Department’s account of events over that supplied by Dorian Johnson, the 22 year-old who was with Brown when he was killed—and who served as his accomplice to the robbery and assault of a clerk.

But there is another reason why I believe Wilson acted justifiably. And this brings me to my third piece of food for thought:

We have heard this story before.

Last summer, it was the Trayvon Martin shooting death that had the agents of the “Racism-Industrial-Complex” (RIC) in the media in a tizzy. Presumably, genuinely white “racists” were slim pickings. Thus, they invented one by turning the clearly Latino-looking George Zimmerman into a “white Hispanic.” At the same time, these same activists substituted for the unflattering portrait of the real Trayvon Martin a disinfected one that was more friendly to their template of white oppression and black victimhood—the same template through which they are now filtering the incident in Ferguson.

And like in the case of Martin, RIC agents would have us rather see their sanitized depiction of Michael Brown—the bright-eyed, college bound “gentle giant”—than the hulking man whose audacity and recklessness were as large as his physical stature, the punk who thought nothing of either depriving another man of his hard earned property or assaulting him when his victim resisted.

A bad actor is one who makes it obvious that he or she is trying to act. Similarly, in “miscasting” the most unlikely types into the roles that they’ve written, it’s obvious, painfully obvious, that the Al Sharptons of the world are trying to sell us a bill of goods.

Fourth, that the shameful violence and crime—the “rioting”—that’s occurring in Ferguson and the insidious rhetoric from which it arose have absolutely nothing to do with a desire for justice or interracial peace can be gotten all too easily from the deafening silence with which the shocking rate and nature of black-on-white violence is invariably met.

For instance, just last month, in Iowa, a white 97- year-old veteran of World War II—Rupert “Andy” Anderson—and his 94-year-old wife of many years were bludgeoned with a pipe courtesy of a black Ethiopian immigrant. Mrs. Anderson, though bloodied, survived this attack that occurred in her home. Her husband, however, wasn’t so fortunate.

Whether it’s this case or any other number of grisly instances of black-on-white violence, when the media decides to cover it at all, they invariably either avoid or deny the racial dynamic. In writing about the Anderson murder, journalist Nicholas Stix refers to this phenomenon as the “preemptive MSM [Main Stream Media] propaganda template [.]”

Finally, while it is verboten to raise this question in “respectable” (i.e. Politically Correct) company, raise it we must: If things are really as terrible—as “racist”—in America as so many blacks in Ferguson and elsewhere would have us believe, then why aren’t these same blacks demanding—not requesting, but demanding—that blacks be granted their own separate homeland? We’re not necessarily talking about a “back-to-Africa” movement, but perhaps a country carved out of American land?

After all, today, when blacks demand something, anything—or when they’re demanding it from whites—they usually get it. At any rate, blacks, or at least black “leaders,” have zero reluctance about expressing their demands.

And wouldn’t it be infinitely better for everyone to peacefully go our separate ways rather than perpetually be at each other’s throats?

That not a single black “leader,” or anyone else, for that matter, has so much as suggested this as a possibility, much less demanded it, speaks volumes.


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1 posted on 08/23/2014 8:32:47 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

If you’re a white cop and a black is coming at you....whip out a white flag and raise your hands. The coroner will notify the family of your demise.


2 posted on 08/23/2014 8:42:52 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Kaslin

Here is a thought, responsible media reporting instead of inflaming the uneducated masses into burning down thier community and calling for a police officers arrest and conviction before the truth and evidence is available. This is just like running into a theater and yelling fire. When there is repercusions on the media to be resposible this will end


3 posted on 08/23/2014 8:54:26 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: Kaslin

Here’s a thought .......

Looting = stealing.

The looters steal without giving it a second thought. I don’t know of any religion that gives approval to stealing.

The looters are clearly spiritually and morally void. There seems to be no remorse. These folks have a lot more to worry about than whitey.


4 posted on 08/23/2014 8:58:17 AM PDT by boycott
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To: ronnie raygun

I am guessing that these news guys don’t care because they live in the Hamptons or even possibly the Upper Class section of Missouri, and don’t feel that their luxurious lifestyle is being threatened.


5 posted on 08/23/2014 9:00:04 AM PDT by Morpheus2009
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To: Kaslin
From the article: "why aren’t these same blacks demanding—not requesting, but demanding—that blacks be granted their own separate homeland?
We’re not necessarily talking about a “back-to-Africa” movement, but perhaps a country carved out of American land?"

That is a very silly suggestion.
42 million blacks are never going to agree to move to any one state, and why should they?
It's more than the 38 million population of our #1 state, California.
The suggestion is as silly as saying all German-Americans, or Italian-Americans should move to their own special states.

Ain't goin' to happen, not now, not ever.

6 posted on 08/23/2014 9:14:00 AM PDT by BroJoeK (a little historical perspective...)
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To: Kaslin

“If things are really as terrible—as “racist”—in America as so many blacks in Ferguson and elsewhere would have us believe, then why aren’t these same blacks demanding—not requesting, but demanding—that blacks be granted their own separate homeland? We’re not necessarily talking about a “back-to-Africa” movement, but perhaps a country carved out of American land?”

I vote we give them AZ or NV, the desert should remind them of home.


7 posted on 08/23/2014 9:20:35 AM PDT by Beagle8U (Unions are an Affirmative Action program for Slackers! .)
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To: Kaslin
And wouldn’t it be infinitely better for everyone to peacefully go our separate ways rather than perpetually be at each other’s throats?

That not a single black “leader,” or anyone else, for that matter, has so much as suggested this as a possibility, much less demanded it, speaks volume

Amen to that. Besides where does all of this end up? With the ongoing invasion do people really believe 'race relations' will get better from here?

8 posted on 08/23/2014 9:22:10 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
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9 posted on 08/23/2014 9:23:23 AM PDT by RedMDer (May we always be happy and may our enemies always know it. - Sarah Palin, 10-18-2010)
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To: Kaslin
If things are really as terrible—as “racist”—in America as so many blacks in Ferguson and elsewhere would have us believe, then why aren’t these same blacks demanding—not requesting, but demanding—that blacks be granted their own separate homeland?

They can have Detroit.

10 posted on 08/23/2014 9:23:36 AM PDT by seowulf (Cogito cogito, ergo cogito sum. Cogito.---Ambrose Bierce)
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To: Kaslin
We *know* that the giant was capable of being less than gentle when it suited his purposes.We *know* that he wasn't shot in the back.We *know* that he had illegal drugs (one,at least) in his system when he died.A young (black) woman was on CNN the other day saying that she saw a physical confrontation of some sort occur between the cop and the dead giant.Another guy claiming to have seen the whole thing posted a video in which he says that the giant rushed the cop.There are reports of noteworthy...and perhaps even serious...facial injuries having been suffered by the cop.

My guess,at this point,is that the worst that can be said about the cop is that,injured and afraid,he overreacted a bit in shooting.That,to me,is the VERY worst that can be said.An even more likely conclusion reached by a reasonable person is that,under *those* circumstances,it was absolutely understandable (and justified) for the cop to have fired.

11 posted on 08/23/2014 9:24:54 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Rat Party policy;Lie,deny,refuse to comply)
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To: Kaslin

I would be willing to give up my house and relocate to another state if blacks were given their own slice of America. The only thing I want in return is a guarantee that blacks pay their own way and they can never come back to white America. I would love to see how many black people fight to stay with white Americans.


12 posted on 08/23/2014 9:34:44 AM PDT by peeps36 (Save The Tortoise And Kill The People)
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To: BroJoeK
"why aren’t these same blacks demanding—not requesting, but demanding—that blacks be granted their own separate homeland? We’re not necessarily talking about a “back-to-Africa” movement, but perhaps a country carved out of American land?"

Reminds me of an old Richard Pryor/Rev White skit.

13 posted on 08/23/2014 9:36:36 AM PDT by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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To: Sacajaweau

“If you’re a white cop and a black is coming at you....whip out a white flag and raise your hands. The coroner will notify the family of your demise.”

No, even better give him your gun!


14 posted on 08/23/2014 9:41:30 AM PDT by jimmyo57
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To: Kaslin

C’mon. This ain’t no Rodney King event, which was a clear miscarriage by the police.

Brown is down and this news cycle should have ended two weeks ago.

At first I thought the cop had gone too far.

As more information comes to light, it’s looking more and more like he ended a thug before his career took off.


15 posted on 08/23/2014 9:43:32 AM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: Kaslin

the best way to stop violent protests is to keep media away. No publicity - no protests. Tell them they are to stay away for their own safely and then enforce their removal.


16 posted on 08/23/2014 9:46:28 AM PDT by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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To: BroJoeK

who is going to support them?


17 posted on 08/23/2014 9:47:49 AM PDT by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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To: ronnie raygun
You know as well as I and everyone on the board that Big Lib Media will never be responsible. Even though the Klan no longer rides around, and young, black males are the biggest dangers to other young, black males, for political reasons BLM cannot let go of the narrative of innocent blacks oppressed and often wantonly murdered by a corrupt, racist system dominated by evil, white people.

If the lib media, in conjunction with their evil twins lib pols said, yes conservatives are right...blacks are responsible for their own problems, undoubtedly many blacks would stop voting for Dems. (I think many blacks would still vote for Dems if they promised to keep the "freebies" coming.) I don't know if it would be enough to sway the national elections, but it would be a strong possibility. Libs can't chance that. Therefore, they will keep their lying narrative going on as long as they can.

18 posted on 08/23/2014 9:51:13 AM PDT by driftless2 (For long term happiness, learn how to play the accordion.)
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To: Kaslin

Truth means nothing to many. Keeping this going means power and prestige and money to race pimps and headlines for the lying media.


19 posted on 08/23/2014 9:53:01 AM PDT by mulligan (I)
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To: Vendome

Rev.s Al and Jesse should be workin’ day and night in the lab to perfect the phaser that can be set to stune.


20 posted on 08/23/2014 10:01:09 AM PDT by Paladin2
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