Posted on 05/01/2015 3:05:17 PM PDT by Kaslin
Had Freddie Gray been robbed, beaten and left to die in the streets of his Baltimore neighborhood, no one would be mourning him today.
No one would be marching for Freddie. No one would be using Freddie as the new poster child of "Black Lives Matter!"
No one would care, three weeks later, but his family and friends.
It was the manner of his death, suffering a fractured spine in police custody, that makes Freddie matter. For he can now be credibly cast in the victim's role in the great new narrative against America -- that ours is a society of unequal justice where racist cops routinely brutalize black men and boys and are rarely called to account.
In this narrative, the liberal is always the hero.
Hillary Clinton knows the narrative by heart and has rushed forward to cast herself as the champion of black America.
As The Washington Times reports, Hillary declared Wednesday she would help to end a "pattern" of cops killing black men.
"There is something wrong when a third of all black men face the prospect of prison during their lifetimes. And an estimated 1.5 million black men are 'missing' from their families and communities because of incarceration and premature death. ...
"My heart beaks for these young men and their families. We have to come to terms with some hard truths about race and justice in America."
We certainly do, Hillary.
She specifically mentioned Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown.
But Trayvon died when he was shot sitting on top of and beating senseless a neighborhood watch guy, "martial arts style," and banging his head on the sidewalk as he screamed for help.
Michael Brown died of gunshot wounds when, after knocking over a convenience store and throttling the clerk in Ferguson, Missouri, he tried to wrestle a gun from a cop, and, told to halt, charged the officer.
This latest great narrative against America -- that the men in blue are a threat to us all, especially black America, rather than the last line of society's defense from its criminal class -- is but another big lie, rooted in a tiny truth.
Yes, some black men and boys are killed every year in clashes with cops. And, yes, blacks are incarcerated in far greater proportions and suffer, on average, more early deaths. But who is killing them?
When black men and boys are shot to death, overwhelmingly, it is by other black men and boys. Their premature deaths are due to the violent culture in their own communities, not rampaging white cops.
As for incarcerations, every imprisoned male has confessed to or been convicted of a crime. And many of the drug charges for which blacks are in prison were a result of their being allowed to plea bargain to a lesser offense.
Freddie Gray had a rap sheet of a dozen arrests.
Fifty years ago, Lyndon Johnson declared at Howard University, "We seek ... not just equality as a right and a theory but equality as a fact and equality as a result."
In pursuit of equality of result there began one of the most massive transfers of wealth in all history. Trillions of tax dollars were plunged into programs of social uplift. The results in black America?
Where the illegitimacy rate was 23 percent in 1965, it is 72 percent now, and the gap between black and white test scores endures. In the black community, the dropout rate, crime rate, drug use rate and incarceration rate are now far higher now than in 1965.
And one notices something else in America. The lawns are being mowed, potholes filled, ditches dug, fast-food served, dishes washed and buildings cleaned increasingly by folks who are newcomers. It is they who are, in Jesse Jackson's phrase, "movin' on up."
Looking back to when LBJ's Great Society was launched, and the moral, social and cultural revolution of the 1960s began, what has liberal ideology done for black America?
Their work ethic has been eviscerated by an endless flow of social welfare benefits. Those benefits have often removed the incentive to find or hold a job, and the necessity to have a breadwinner, a father in the home.
The social and cultural revolution of the 1960s undermined the black churches and depopulated them of their young.
The expulsion of the Bible and of all religious and moral instruction from public schools left black children defenseless against the lure of the lifestyles of gang leaders and rap singers.
The conscience- and character-forming institutions that inculcated the beliefs and values that sustained black families through the Depression, the war and the 1950s have collapsed.
Result: Many black neighborhoods are unsafe for those who live there.
Hillary's answer: "It's time to end the era of incarceration in America." But how will returning scores of thousands of convicts to their home communities make them safer -- not to mention ours?
Given how it all worked out, are we really ready for Hillary and another giant leap forward into Great Society liberalism?
One can only hope the repubs bring this up in there brutal anti Hilary ad blitz that will be relentless....yea right
I have a great slogan for Hillary — “The cops acted stupudly”!
That's good commercial material there. All repubs running should go with this one. Hillary wouldn't be able to answer it without adding another trillion into the welfare state, and any honest person would have to admit (if only to themselves) the "give away free money" welfare state is a disaster.
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What happened? Did the cops make a Youtube video?
Of course when questioned during the debates after the cities have turn into anarchy hell holes Hillary is going to deny that she said any such thing “ I didn’t say that “.
Hillary Clinton ? Here is a question for you to answer.
If your the champion for black people and black lives do matter, why then do you support the abortion of millions of black lives each and every year, the black genocide ?
Please answer that peculiar question.
Excellent point
Lard-ass Hillary is the poster woman for what is wrong with our political system.
In a fair and honest system she and Bill would be in prison instead of sitting in millionaires row with lock boxes full of cash from influence peddling.
When a thug dies, there is a violent uproar and CNN and others in the media go ballistic, and innocent people are accused. But there is seldom a reaction when good people are murdered, such as Jack Wheeler III. He was a prominent person yet media showed little interest.
Her husband Bill helped create the current police state with their campaign promises during Bill’s campaign of getting tuff on crime adding 10’000 more police on the streets back in the 90s, remember that Hillary ?
Stinking Libs, always want it both ways.
bubba added 100,000 cops. they are gone because he only funded the effort for a few years
the issue was crime then. Obama has taught us there is no crime
Perfect song for her is from Pink Floyd: PIGS, from the Pink Floyd album Animals.
The singer says “ ha ha sharde you are “.
He taught that crime pays and is honorable.
Der Hildebeast is sounding just like Michael Moore. Her effort to patronize a false ideology, “no justice no peace,” is a effort to sell out the rule of law for political expediency. So, let’s put her stupidity in context. What I wrote about Michael Moore’s idiocy applies Mrs Clintoon:
Der Hildebeast’s (I use the name Hildebeast and Clintoon interchangeably) mind must be addled by the illegal drug culture.
These huge numbers of blacks incarcerated in our nation’s prisons are the result of their criminal activities in the illegal drug industry. I’ve been saying for a long time that the Left’s agenda has been a hands off policy for workers in the illegal drug industry. The legalization of pot was a first step (just like gay marriage was a first step). What Mrs Clintoon is calling for is a complete decriminalization of all illegal drugs. They always said that pot was a gateway drug. What Clintoon is calling for is the ultimate goal, the elimination of the enforcement of all illegal drug laws.
Fools like Der Hildebeast, would see no problem if the illegal drug sales went rampant with our children. By letting armies of drug pushers looking to our children to expand their markets, we would allow lives destroyed and the rule of law to collapse. Numerous studies have documented the strong relationship between substance use and crime, and that collateral damage to our society and youth would be devastating. U.S. statistics show that more than 50% of state and federal inmates used drugs in the month prior to committing the offense for which they were incarcerated and that more than a quarter of all offenders were using drugs at the time of their offense (U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice).
How would a nation pick up the pieces of countless youths destroyed by drug addiction? The enforcement of illegal drug laws is a national security requirement.
Pat Buchanan, love or hate him, nails it in the most brutally honest ways. He may upset some, but his brutally honest assessments of the state of which we find ourselves in has gotten him into trouble with the PC crowd
the crime that will pay the highest reward to the public is the highest crime
I hate defending Hillary...but the guy did not break his own neck.
I was thinking that someone should ask her, “What difference, at this point, does it make?”
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