Posted on 08/25/2014 1:14:08 PM PDT by Dallas59
St. Louis (CNN) -- The funeral of slain Ferguson, Missouri, teenager Michael Brown was a celebration of his life, a search for meaning in his death and a battle cry to change policing in America.
The Rev. Al Sharpton delivered one of two eulogies during the service, and he had sharp words for those who looted stores and rioted after the teenager was shot.
"You don't understand that Michael Brown does not want to be remembered for a riot. He wants to be remembered as the one that made America deal with how we're going to police in the United States."
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
There is the class of hard-working, law-abiding blacks. Then there is the Black Underclass. Virtually all crimes and financial drains on society from black Americans are from the BU. Mike Brown was a member of the BU. He had a chance to join the rest of American society and make a contribution. In a one awful afternoon, he threw it all away.
There was a devastating result from the store looking. The town of Ferguson has had untold damage to its future. The retail businesses have been destroyed and are out of business. Anyone thinking of opening business there will face prohibitive insurance costs and risks. Existing businesses will move out and jobs will dry up. It will be a long time for that city to recover. This is the lesson that the departure from the rule of law teaches. It should have been learned from the Watts Riots of 1965. That economy has never recovered from that tragedy. All it does is lock more youths into the illegal drug industry when there are no other job opportunities.
Nothing is going to change as long as people refuse to see and accept the truth about the Michael Browns in our society. He MIGHT HAVE BEEN the person the speakers described at his funeral, but he CHOSE NOT TO BE. His family apparently chose not to bother knowing with whom he was keeping company, not to observe his habits, and not to be concerned about the direction of his life. We don’t know much about Michael, but we know that he chose to hang out with a fellow with a bad reputation, steal, intimidate, and disregard the demand of a law officer that he stop obstructing traffic. It also may be that Michael chose to assault a police officer, but that will be sorted out later. Meanwhile, Mike Brown’s supporters have decided to cover Mr. Brown’s casket with their own truth. More young black men will take the wrong road and end up sprawled in the street. Nothing will change. Pity.
So, so true. Devastatingly true. And then there’s this. What about the people of Ferguson who took no part in the riots? What about those whose transportation is limited, and who depended on the Quick Trip? With no say in the matter, they have had their lives turned upside down for the worse.
It’s a horrible situation. And nobody—not Sharpton, Obama, Holder, etc.—made a serious effort to control matters before the damage was done. As ‘leaders’ they are worse than useless.
Pronounced Haysoos. His dope dealer.
Ya mean like Obama’s “Hope & Change”!!! These African-American folks must be either buffoons or high on drugs!!! What fools!!! Shucks I would have booed Al Sharpton off the stage!!! I guess they really love getting thrown under the bus by Obama, Sharpton, Holder, Jackson, the CBC, the NAACP, and his Democrat low life!!!
How’s this for change: move away from liberals, move away from thug infested areas. Live far away in the part of the red states that liberals and their pet media love to pick on. Raise a family using Christian values, work hard, save hard. Don’t spend a minute on anything that is produced in Hollyweird or for the major networks. Don’t give a dime in vacation expenses to blue states or their lunatic populations.
Big Mike
La La Land is teen life.
Yes, NPR dutifully fed their white liberal audience that part of Rev Al's speech about the black community. But where was the black leadership during the riots? Where was the white leadership? Democrat or Republican leadership? The sad fact is we have no leaders, just politicians pandering to one group or another and grubbing for a bigger share of the dollar printing.
Unlike the national elections where a lot of the blacks came out to vote for Dems in Missouri, the local elections have 6% black turnout. Then they whine about how whites run the place and all the cops are white. Pathetic.
Social Change might well insist on
Being Polite TO Cops
Just Saying No to Blind Rage
those sors of thing would work well to begin to affect some “Social Change”.
By robbing a store, assaulting a store clerk then attacking a policeman? Not the same Jesus I know...
They would say you speak thus because of "White Privilege"
They're wrong, but that's what they would say.
He is now being portrayed as a man of the cloth, evidence of this is the video with the store clerk
Yet.
I hear you. Otoh, there really is only one Sabrina Fulton. She spent most of her life ignoring her son, & a small part of it screwing him up beyond belief. Then, when he met a bad end, she jumped on that bandwagon like a starving vulture on a rotting corpse. “Unseemly” doesn’t express a glimmer of the ugliness. You’d need to coin a whole new word to try and express the insatiable, nauseating greed of the Trademark-Trayvon crowd. The average mother who did not raise her own son, & who demonstrably contributed to his major problems/death, could never bring herself to do what Ms. Fulton did. Truly, she is in a league of her own.
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