Posted on 11/26/2014 6:16:18 AM PST by artichokegrower
On Aug. 9 in Ferguson, Mo., Darren Wilson, a white police officer, shot and killed Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager. Brown's body was left in the street for four hours.
Brown's killing was a familiar American tragedy in a country where young black men between the ages of 15 and 19 are 21 times more likely to be shot by police officers than young white men of the same age.
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Remember not all that long ago when people fought to portray blacks in a better way on TV and in the movies? With more roles as professional people in respectable professions like Drs, lawyers, cops, teachers, firemen, etc. instead of the usual street thugs, druggies and vagrants?
The psychology is easy to understand. Those images, good or bad, those roles, good or bad, are important to how we learn about people we may not meet in our own personal day to day.
If you don't live or work around whomever, but the only time you see them is on TV as a thug or as an alcoholic, when you do meet whomever for the first time, you've already formed a first impression based upon what you already "know" from what you've always seen.
Now check the viewscreen, Ohura, and look at how things have changed and at the playbook now being used on this front.
First, "they" stir you up enough to get you to do something out of character while you're thinking you're doing something righteous.
Next, "they" get lots of images of all you do while being all stirred up.
These images of what you do when all stirred up then become "stereotypical black America" because "they" show these images over and over again until those images are the programmed into the viewers as their first and/or now lasting impression of black Americans.
So...people who've never met you, now know all about you, because they've watched "you" over and over again on TV.
And, when you realize all the action being filmed is in reaction to "their" politically induced problems, and how the images "they" get from stirring people up are then used against those "they" got stirred up in the first place, you see how it's done.
All too easy. Just settin' 'em up and knockin' 'em down. Wise up, people. You're better than this.
(It works in reverse, too. Notice how they quit showing video of the planes hitting the Towers? I wonder why?)
When they actually saw the country and met the people, they saw the real country. For most of them, it was diametrically opposed to the preconceptions and most expressed a level of embarrasment that they were so ill informed about the true America.
“Brown’s killing was a familiar American tragedy in a country where young black men between the ages of 15 and 19 are 21 times more likely to be shot by police officers than young white men of the same age.”
The statement is irrelevant with the corresponding statistic for the occasion of young black makes who commit violent crimes:
“In the year 2008, black youths, who make up 16% of the youth population, accounted for 52% of juvenile violent crime arrests, including 58% for homicide and 67% for robbery.” By contrast, the only categories where white youths surpassed blacks were in liquor law violations and driving under the influence.”
http://americanfreepress.net/?p=14864#sthash.3UdNz6Th.dpuf
analysis dead right!!
Brown had just finished his business of intimidating and shoving a little clerk around, burglarizing and getting away with it. I'd bet he was pumped about that more than the pot he'd smoked. He'd got away with it and his level of immaturity and limited intellect [and, ok, maybe the weed a little] told him to go for it again. Poor choice for him.
Sorta like what Guinan was saying in Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Yesterday's Enterprise" when the Enterprise shifted into a different time/universe.
Capt. Picard: You must have some idea how things have changed.
Guinan: I look at things, I look at people, and... they just don't feel right.
That's kinda what it's like for US now: just not right. Our universe seems to have flipped over and fundamentally changed.
I think when our world is upside down, perhaps it's because we've chosen to follow the leader from below rather than the One from above.
Just a theory...
If Wilson had followed your advice he would be dead. Are you proud to be the only guy still at FR who sides against Wilson.
There’s no money to be made in exploiting black-on-black crime.
He finally wrote a check his body couldn’t cash, it was going to happen sooner or later.
You rang?
Enjoy.
Don't get me started on this one!The rest of the world, including Mexico, got to see many videos of the 911 victims jumping to their deaths to avoid incineration.
Americans did not.
Not that I and most people had any great desire to witness the results of the muslim massacre, but accepting that the nanny State made that decision for me and all of us, still rankles...
At certain moments of my life, on anniversaries, when the immediacy of things return, I would remind myself why I must maintain perpetual enmity towards the world's only culture of truly two legged vicious human animals.
...”I still think Wilson handled it wrong. He should have called for backup before attempting to arrest Brown”....
You need to do more homework as your reflects you’re not aware of the evidence or what took place IMO. To start Wilson did call for back up and this wasn’t about arresting Brown.....
It’s very difficult to see the Ferguson protesters as they think they should be seen for the behavior, and worse they’re inability to understand anything regarding law and how it works. They don’t seem to have an “ability” to understand nor a desire to see reality at all.
That is more common than ever! I lost track of the number of black presidents, black scientists, black general, black owners of huge productive companies, black doctors, black researchers, portrayed in TV series and movies generally.
The proportional ratio of white to black vicious criminals in real life is exactly reversed in what passes for entertainment.
But it jars. Pulls the viewer right out of the story with the inevitable urge to laugh out loud, because the actors usually portraying special people, can barely understand the words they are expected to deliver.
I just have to laugh every time.
I guess I am the only woman at Free Republic that doesn’t feel obligated to get in line with all you conformists.
Did you know Wilson had a previous police job he was fired from?
Forgot the Language warning.
Should haves can be argued until the second coming but the facts and the law prevail here. Wilson had no obligation to dilute the effectiveness of limited resources in order to apprehend a petty criminal w/o bringing harm to him. What should have happened is citizen Mike ought to have complied with the officer’s lawful orders. If someone wants to defy the law and even physically attack its enforcement officers then the law supports death as one of the possible outcomes. The objective is to uphold the law, not figure out how to safeguard an aggressive perp against potential harm. Officer Wilson’s choices were well within protocols, something we can’t say for the citizenship of big dead mike.
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