Michael Brown and Race Hoaxes

Back in August, when news first broke of a shooting in Ferguson, Mo., the media world, perpetually tingling with eagerness for white-on-black violence stories, plunged into delirium. An unarmed, black 18-year-old "gentle giant" had been shot in the back while running away from a white police officer! He was just preparing to enter college in the fall. He had been assassinated while holding his hands in the air in a gesture of helplessness. "Hands up; don't shoot," chanted protesters. The "hands up" gesture immediately achieved iconic status among demonstrators from Boston to New York to San Francisco.

If the early reports of the tragedy had been accurate, I would have been happy to jump on a plane and march with the protesters. I wouldn't have set fire to any convenience stores or beauty parlors -- nor would I, as Missouri's governor and U.S. attorney general did, imply that "justice" would mean the "prosecution" of the officer -- but I would have demanded a full investigation and, if the evidence supported it, an arrest.

But the reports were not accurate, and we had reason to doubt them as soon as the video of the convenience store robbery emerged. The theft and rough shoving of the owner didn't look very gentle. The small cigars Brown stole are often filled with pot.

Now, as the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and The Washington Post are reporting, more evidence is emerging that supports the officer's account. The autopsy (first released in September) shows that Brown was not shot in the back. He was hit in the chest, arm and forehead. The entry wounds show that his hands were not raised when he was hit, and blood-spatter evidence suggests he was advancing on Officer Darren Wilson. A wound on Brown's hand contained gunpowder residue, supporting Wilson's claim that Brown went for his gun while Wilson was seated in the car. There is forensic evidence showing that the gun did, as Wilson testified, go off in the car.

Seven or eight African-American eyewitnesses, reports the Post, support Wilson's account of what happened that afternoon but have remained out of the public eye for their own safety.

Brown was found to have enough THC in his body to trigger hallucinations. Marijuana doesn't usually promote aggression, but it can induce paranoia in some people and certainly warp perception. His companion, Dorian Johnson, who provided some of the narrative about Brown's supposed hands-up posture, has a criminal record and has lied to police in the past.

And so Brown joins a long, very sad list of faux "civil rights" victims. Recall the "epidemic" of black church burnings in the South, the nooses found hanging from black professors' offices, the KKK appearance at Oberlin College a couple of years ago, the Tawana Brawley rape case and the Florida black voter disenfranchisement case. Each of these, and too many other cases to list, was greeted with lip-smacking relish from the press. All of them were frauds or hoaxes.

In this familiar morality play, it's always 1963; it's forever Selma. Participants luxuriate in the warm bath of sympathy for victims of the kind of white racism that disappeared decades ago. The awful period in American history when Emmett Till (to whom Brown has been compared, which is outrageous) could be lynched for smiling at a white girl, when the Scottsboro boys were found guilty of rape despite one of the "victims" admitting she had lied, when blacks faced endemic racism everywhere, is long gone.

Now racism is the province of a few kooks, while the overwhelming majority of Americans of all colors agree on the sacredness of equality and vote twice for a black president to underscore it. Americans have many more pressing problems than racism -- including family decay, terror threats, educational mediocrity, stagnant growth, intergenerational poverty and shrill polarization.

So it's heartbreaking to watch the kabuki theater play out yet again and to know that thousands, maybe millions, of American blacks are being deceived into believing that an 18-year-old who showed really bad judgment in attacking a police officer is a civil rights hero, and that young black males minding their own business on city streets are in danger of being shot by police for fun. It's demoralizing for blacks and a calumny on whites.

As with so many other issues, the right has surrendered the battleground to the left on Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. Conservative commentators and politicians like to parrot his phrase about the content of character rather than the color of skin but by the end of his life it was becoming very clear, as you have so well articulated, that he was buying into Marxism and, rather then judging people individually, was seeing "Negro" rights as a collectivist or group phenomenon.

You are right about his communist connections. We have seen the danger of communism infiltrating African-Americans in Chicago which produced Frank Marshall Davis who mentored Obama. Frank Marshall Davis worked closely in communist front activities with Vernon Jarrett who would become Valerie Jarrett's father-in-law. He worked closely with Robert Taylor who was Valerie Jarrett's grandfather. Davis, Taylor and Jarrett also worked closely with the Cantor family who mentored David Axelrod.

We see the chokehold this African-American/communist axis has on the politics of Chicago and, by extension on the whole country. Much of that influence is exercised, not just in Ferguson, Missouri but throughout the country by the Attorney General, Eric holder, whose radical leftist leanings need no explication for readers of these threads.

More than 10 years ago I wrote this in my about page:

… the modern tendency to indulge certain taboos such as, Nazism, anti-Semitism, and the Holocaust, pedophilia, and, the most incendiary tripwire taboo of all, racism. These taboos have become weapons of the left in the war that is raging in America, a civil war waged against us by the left. I believe that the Democrat party in the extreme elements of it on the left have become increasingly philosophically bankrupt but the main prop of this empty vessel is the unshakable belief that they are superior to the right because we are racists. There are ways to react to this propaganda: the first is to cravenly succumb to it, which is the present practice of the modern Republican Party and it has been exemplified by the pathetic, interminable apologies of Trent Lott and Senator Allen. The second is to brazen a situation out as exemplified by the post gaffe performances of senators Byrd and Dowd. A third way, Nathan Bedford Forrest's way, is to declare, "damn your eyes, here I stand."

If anything the left has become more proficient and has had increasing success playing the race card. As I noted, "The last refuge for scoundrels of the left is to play the race card." But the situation has deteriorated with the merger of the left with radical Marxism and African-Americans. If they succeed in seducing Latin Americans, the cumulative effect will be devastating. In the same vein, we are now witnessing the Democrat party, much of it already in bed with communists, inextricably committed to African-American politics, flirting with Islamicists. These are toxic combinations.

It is worth observing that the mindlessness of the Arab Street, it's weakness for conspiracy theory, it's rejection of science and the values of the Enlightenment, it's adherence to superstition, it's willful wrongheadedness are eerily similar to the psychological and philosophical pathologies rampant in the American ghetto. They are all easy prey for the communist siren.

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