Posted on 09/21/2014 1:05:11 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Rather than waiting until specifics about the Michael Brown case are known — such as autopsy results, detailed officer reports, toxicology or other details regarding his death — some Ferguson residents, Brown supporters and various hangers-on decided to act.
Learning nothing from the Trayvon Martin case, people took to the street with demands for “justice” and homemade protest signs. They were aided by a media seemingly excited about exploiting the narrative that Brown’s death was at the hands of a brutal and possibly racist cop in a militarized police force that cares little about black residents.
Ensuing nights after the shooting brought out the worst in people — including looting and burning businesses, vandalizing property and the likes of Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson seeking to “organize” the masses.
Regardless of one’s feelings about the Brown case, there’s a need for honest reflection about the behavior of people assembling in Ferguson, Missouri.
The self-destructive and self-defeating behavior on display in Ferguson was inexcusable. It’s a disservice to residents because it takes a sympathetic, accommodating view of the anti-social, regressive behaviors present during the riots, most of which were, unfortunately, committed by blacks.
Sympathizing with looting, vandalizing, personal violence and confrontation with law enforcement essentially excuses it, which emboldens perpetrators. Furthermore, this bad behavior is at the expense of law-abiding local residents whose lives were disrupted by this turmoil — the majority of whom are black.
Aside from being disgraceful, this dysfunction has severe economic consequences for the residents of Ferguson. While vandals reveled in self-created chaos, they made the case that opening businesses there may not be worth the risk.
All this stems from moral decay. There is a noticeable absence of moral values and ethical virtues in the nation as a whole these days, but it seems more concentrated in the inner cities, which are disproportionately populated by blacks. Churches have flunked their mission. The optics are devastating as the stigma associated with these incidents of violence and unrest are projected onto blacks as a whole, unfairly defining an entire race by the misdeeds of a relative few.
Whether the disruptive behaviors witnessed in Ferguson are from locals or self-seeking opportunists from other areas is really of no consequence. Regardless of race, class or residency, people shouldn’t hesitate to condemn bad behavior. But it seems too many whites won’t publicly condemn this condemnable behavior, even though they may earnestly desire to do so. Whites appear culturally conditioned these days to withhold honest commentary and astute observations on race, particularly about blacks. Common sense has been labeled “racist” by the racial grievance industry.
Compounding the problem is that the stigmas of these disgraceful activities and inverted morality behind them are projected onto blacks as a whole and are extremely difficult to overcome. To use a sports metaphor, blacks swallowed their whistle. We’ve forfeited our obligation of self-policing and society seems far too hesitant to publicly confront the conduct undermining the reputation of a race. This stunts our socio-economic progress.
A “soft bigotry of low expectations” is created when we refuse to denounce disruptive behaviors within our own community.
We too often excuse and remove the stigma of detrimental behavior, minimizing the shame that once accompanied dysfunctional, destructive activity. Counterproductive behavior is justified as the legacy of slavery and discrimination. We act as if we are a standard unto ourselves, separate and unaccountable from what society should expect — and actually demands — from other races.
Excusing inexcusable behavior has sullied our reputation and proved to many that we’ve spent our currency as a moral, cultural and political force. The bar is set so low that many aren’t shocked by what happened in Ferguson (or in Chicago, Detroit or other places).
And on the occasions bad behavior is called out, the predictable and reflexive reaction is that such critique is racist. Once again, the behaviors of a disproportionate few define blacks as a whole. The radicals perpetuate the very stereotypes that make them cringe.
Blacks aren’t done any favors when behaviors we’ve seen in Ferguson are excused by white enablers or black defenders. Racial solidarity and racial empathy unfortunately seem less important to these people than dealing with the tribulation of overcoming the stigma associated with undistinguished behavior.
Blacks have a moral obligation to reclaim values and dignity worthy of respect and admiration. It is likewise incumbent upon blacks, particularly the black middle class, to forthrightly and aggressively condemn attitudes and behaviors that thwart our progress and impugn our collective character.
This begins with condemnation of these stigma-creating behaviors.
“It’s hard to make it in the world if you can’t read, write and do arithmetic.”
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Nonsense.
Roughly 45 million kids attend public school. Are you saying they are all going to be uneducated failures?
Give me a break.
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Let’s not blame the schools or the unions when we can encapsulate all of those into JUST The Democratic Party.
We need to apply, going forward, the same stigma to being in the Democratic Party as we did and do to being in the Ku Klux Klan.
The Democratic Party has wrought far more damage in terms of economics and death than the KKK. The enslavement of the black people post LBJ being just one of the most obvious.
Sadly, it's far too late for that to matter.
The ones who come from middle class homes, no. The ones that come from poverty and dysfunction yes. And I’m sorry but the schools should be able to impart basic knowledge to those children also.
And they would, if they took that as their main role. But the unionized public schools see their main jobs as protecting useless teachers and electing democrats.
Stigma!?
It's a fack Jack.
When I see big crimes committed by blacks, crickets!
When I see terrorist or other tragic practices carried out in the name of Islam and their profit, crickets.
To what degree then is that impression directed by what you are allowed to see by a complicit media?
Only one of the reasons I pray we don’t have a home invasion.
Don’t want riots and media circus in our lives.
You have voiced my thoughts exactly. When white people commit crimes the honest members of white society condemn them for it. The same does not seem to be true in the black community or the muslim society.
I’ll never forget when the black community cheered OJ’s court victory.
About that same time I was in a jury pool waiting to be selected. The defendant was black, he had shot a cop, and there were 2 blacks in the pool. The 2 blacks announced to the rest of us that it didn’t matter what the rest of us did they were going to find the black guy not guilty if they were selected for the jury.
The guy pled guilty so the jury pool was dismissed.
My initial thought too. They have removed the stigma from most of society's ills; why not de-stigmatize rioting and looting...
Read the whole piece - this is first rate... the man knows what he’s talking about...
Nothing changes until the blame stays at home.
NO, Mr. Green, here you are totally WRONG. It's NOT our business to condemn this stupid action. It needs to come forceful from your own RACE, so that WE don't risk to be put on the label RACIST. It's like the common muzzies should condemn their race's Jihadists, but they don't do that either, likewise your black race does NOT condemning. Your silence, except from a very few, are approving it in your silence, making black young gang members legit to terrorize and rubbing Whites !!!
Better if you would listen black Harlem preacher Dr. David James Manning, he tells them better than Mr. Green with NO excuses!!!
Better if you would listen black Harlem preacher Dr. David James Manning, he tells them better than Mr. Green with NO excuses!!!
Allen West’s saying.>>>. http://libertyalliance.com/2014/03/lbj-ill-niggers-voting-democratic-next-200-years/
While we’re at it, how about making “acting like a a-hole” a civic virtue? Oh, that’s right - that transcends race and gender, and we can’t identity-politic that for votes and such.
That dude is “Off the Hook!”
A bit Alex Jones but, funny as hell.
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