Posted on 11/30/2014 8:13:15 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Do not accept the Ferguson police officer’s retirement. Just keep talking about his phantasmagorical fear of the black body – or else.
It would be easy enough to call Darren Wilson a liar, as so many pundits have done, after reading the now-former Ferguson police officer’s testimony in the case of the killing of the 18-year-old Michael Brown. We could imagine this paragon of whiteness, soft-spoken and soft around the middle, as a rational actor, spending months after the shooting to carefully prepare for his grand-jury testimony, to repeat his performance in front of George Stephanopoulos for a television interview. Calling him a liar establishes his sanity.
It could be easier still to forget Darren Wilson, now that he has ostensibly retired – “for obvious reasons”, he says, gesturing to security risks that he “cannot allow”. Representing his retreat from police work as noble self-sacrifice, Wilson refuses to be defined as racist, despite his central role in a killing that is difficult to understand without race. These days, we have “racism without racists”, as the sociologist Eduardo Bonilla-Silva puts it, which means that we have more and more black victims – indeed, a veritable wall of names and faces – and fewer and fewer convictions of their killers, who are allowed to fade away. Like Darren Wilson, if we forget him.
We need to keep Darren Wilson around for a little bit longer. Because the problem at hand is bigger than one policeman. Darren Wilson, after all, is an instrument. In the moment of the encounter, he did exactly what he was built to do. What we, collectively, have built him to do. This looming representative of our civilization, in which the “New Jim Crow” is a seemingly permanent fixture, has something to tell us about our world....
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
I don't know about that, but it's pretty clear that Matthew Pratt Guterl is a paragon of leftist stupidity...
Paragon of whiteness?
Matthew Pratt Guterl’s an idiot...
Through all of the BS in this article there is nothing about holding Michael Brown responsible for his own actions. His stupid and very bad decisions started long before he was caught fleeing the scene of a crime by Officer Wilson. If he had been making rational decisions that night he would still be alive.
As if he went out to hunt one down... that just validates the black pity party narrative. No, “fate” arranged their meeting.
Regardless of color I will be very concerned about an angry 300 pound thug charging at me. I know what disparity of force means, and I will respond with that in mind.
he would have been arrested for relatively minor charges.
his dad and stepdad ARE Blood gang members. this is why this punk thug reacted the way he did.
maybe we need to discuss how black gangbangers view cops and pass that teaching down to their spawn.
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