Michael Brown and Race Hoaxes

Townhall.com ^ | October 24, 2014 | Mona Charen

[Kaslin]

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.

[Graybeard58]

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.

Oh to live in a world where the color of their skin didn't add to or detract from the credibility of their story and they didn't have to hide for telling the truth.

[WKTimpco]

The communists some day will find their
one case. Don’t AKs too many questions.
Things ARe going to be different then.
May happen at 2 o’glock in the morning.
ARe you ready?

[bigdaddy45]

This is the only October surprise I’m worried about. That the Grand Jury decides not to indict, and that it’s announced right before the election. And Jesse and Al start screaming about “getting to the polls to get justice for Mike!!!”

Hopefully the non-indict announcement holds off until after the election.

[stinkerpot65]

Young black men: 3% of the population. 50% of the murder.

The above statistic is the reason they are so desperate to manufacture a white on black violence narrative. The truth must be covered up with The Big Lie.

Hitler used the same technique to demonize Jews.

[Arm_Bears]

The farther we get from slavery, overt racism, and Jim Crow, the more tenaciously the Left clings to these relics.

Given that the evidence supports Officer Wilson's account, one is left to wonder if the NFL will discipline the defensive unit of the Washington Redskins for their hands-up solidarity display during the pre-season.

[Nepeta]

Facts don't matter to people who are True Believers in the Cult of the Gentle Giant.

Listen to urban talk radio, and you will hear the delusional rationalizations of genocide conspiracies. Now, if I woke up one morning feeling genocidal, I would NOT murder in broad daylight with plenty of witnesses...but then I am not given to spinning fantasies to suit my inner demons.

The True Believers aren't merely threatening to spill blood in the streets. For some of them, any pale hide will be fair game for violent attacks.

[MasterGunner01]

There are a lot of American blacks who are totally consumed by their racism. I think they should be identified and deported to Liberia. On arrival, their passports are confiscated and they renounce their citizenship.

[blueplum]

Truth be told, Brown tried to pull the knock-out game on a white police officer. It didn’t work out as well as planned and once the struggle for the gun began, Brown’s fate was sealed. Vonderitt, nicknamed ‘the shooter’, tried to graduate from shooting kids to shooting the police. That also didn’t work out well.

But the sheep are too busy with their nightly ‘let’s go insult a cop’ events to stop and look in the same mirrors they love to hold up to the police line. While the ‘organizers’ are too busy leveraging the baa-ing of the sheep into cushy little paid positions for themselves at universities and city hall and such as ‘diversity consultants’. Stupid sheep.

[Kaslin]

Besides he wasn’t really unarmed like the lamestream media claimed. His almost 300 lbs weight and his 6’2 height were his weapons

[Kaslin]

BTTT

[nathanbedford]

Americans have many more pressing problems than racism -- including family decay, terror threats, educational mediocrity, stagnant growth, intergenerational poverty and shrill polarization.

Sadly, untrue. Not one of the dystopian nightmares listed can be addressed without reference to race. Race is at the core of the American experience and it is the single greatest problem confronting and confounding America. Unless we can solve the race problem we can expect little but continued decline for the country as we descend into a welter of social disintegration.

We are entirely unable to address the problem of race rationally or even to speak of it honestly. We elected a president because of the color of his skin and we permitted him to shred the Constitution, destroy our healthcare delivery system, squander our sacrifices in Iran and Iraq, turn the IRS into a political weapon, pushed the nation closer to bankruptcy, and generally turned the American government against its own people. His color has protected him up until now from the normal push back of the democratic process as well as the checks and balances contained in the Constitution. But Brack Obama is only one example which personalizes the fundamental problem which confounds America.

Our political system does not work because of race, likewise our judicial system, and our economic system is about to break down partly because of race. We are losing our sovereignty because of race as Obama (and Bush) utterly refuse to police the borders and we are unable to fight terrorism because we cannot confront Muslims for fear of charges of racism and religious bigotry. We are so handcuffed by race that we cannot sensibly confront the truly frightening prospect of Ebola plague.

There is no hidden corner in America which is not darkened by the problem of race and all of it is the result of political correctness.

[GOPJ]

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.

OMG - someone in the press understands it's the press and elite liberals that hate... that lie...

[Altura Ct.]

while the overwhelming majority of Americans of all colors agree on the sacredness of equality

That's BS! Most non whites don't believe any such thing. Let us get rid of all the political race groups, affirmative action, and quota's and any other hypocritical race based organization, laws and policies and then lets talk about what all races believe in.

[spodefly]

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.

Conform or die. AfricanHYPHENAmericans are a 95% conformist collective ... a Borg Hive mind ... pity the few blacks who are capable of independent thought ... they are heretics, cast out, pilloried in the public square ... No wonder they chose to remain out of the public eye for their own safety.

[spodefly]

BTTT

[tophat9000]

Here what strange. . the two big “martyred innocence”Martin & Brown both turnout to be thugs that attacked first...

why would you pick these two as your cause celebr?...

Simple odds tells you in a country this big you can find truly innocent black victims to make the face of a cause.

So why pick two thugs?

There a reason.. making thuggery especially if you black the new justifiable norm...that being a gangster is to be authentic....

And it not all black people doing this to themselves...

its the left black and white feeding this crap.

Think about the reports of who testified for the cop?..the report was it was black witnesses.. that testified FOR the cop...but they will live in fear from the thugs and the left ...labels sellout and toms if there faces are ever known..

So the roll models must hide and the thug is held up as the example to follow

its real just a way to destroy all.. both black and white......

. same reason gay marriage is the new norm..to destroy....

[Nea Wood]

Magnificent post.

[bicyclerepair]

Hyphenation is Un-American.

[DMZFrank]

The Civil Rights Movement metastasized from a largely patriotic and constitutionally based (at least publically) request for redress of grievances to a largely anti-american racially based industrial complex. There is much expressed bewilderment and anguish as to how this came to be.

I would submit that much of this anguished bewilderment results from a wide spread unwillingness to consider the leftist and outright marxist roots (cultural and otherwise) that generally influenced the civil rights movement and that role in what we are witnessing today.

The foremost icon of the civil rights movement, Martin Luther King was surrounded by known communists and regularly took their counsel. He wrote of his affinity for marxist principles in his book Stride toward Freedom, and accepted the notion of Hegalian Dialectics, a prepratory stage to accepting communism. He was a strident critic of the profit motive and capitalism and the US role in the Vietnam war. Just prior to his death he was all in for ever more statist socialist government programs and racially specific reparative edicts. This mantle was taken up by many in the Civil Rights and Black Nationalist movements as they allied and amalgamated with each other. Part of what shielded them from proper scrutiny was the apotheosis of King and the utilization of political correctness to erect guards against legitimate critique.

The forces that are animating much of the chaos in Fergueson have been emboldened by the leech-like attachment of the radical anti-american deconstructionists of EVERY important institution in this nation, that seek to destroy and supplant them with their own twisted brand of unconstitutional tyranny.

We conservatives MUST NOT fear to tell the truth about the gossamer myths that have improperly alloyed themselves to the genesis of the modern day civil rights movement.. We owe it to black people and the nation, even if the truth hurts or further inflames their discontent.