Black agitators are up in arms, literally and figuratively, in
response to the death (not murder) of Ferguson, Missouri convicted felon
Michael Brown. In August 2014, h3 charged at police officer Darren Wilson (per
testimony from African-American grand jury witnesses). Following law
enforcement’s best practices, Wilson tried to get the young man to stand down. Brown,
the not-so-gentle giant refused, and Wilson opened fire. Despite absentee
parents, non-existent upbringing, bad schools, and his impoverished community
conditions, Brown has no one to blame but himself, a reflection not from a
self-righteous, unaware white person, but from Reverend
Jesse Lee Peterson, founder of the South Los Angeles Tea Party.
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fact does, and Ferguson’s grand jury decided that there was no probable cause
to indict Wilson. Before denouncing racist collusion in American law enforcement,
Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson (and even Louis Farrakhan) should walk a beat for a
week, and see how easy it is. Hindsight is 20-20, as the cliché goes, and there
is no worse backwards criticism than commenting on a police officer’s
life-or-death discretion in the line of duty.
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| Michael Brown |
case, they determined there was none. However, the racially-fomented narrative
of police aggravation and victimized grievance runs its course. “Hands Up, Don’t
Shoot!” replaces “I am Trayvon Martin!” The (white) cops shoot, ask questions
never, and get away with murder. Protestors (later, looters and rioters) raised
their hands, stormed the streets: “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot.” The
St. Louis Rams also took to their field in the same pose, with disgraceful,
immoral solidarity. Local law enforcement wanted the team fined. No one rebuked
them, not even President
Obama. Yet the protestors, and the ensuing rioters, believe themselves
justified, and they are raising their hands in faux-sympathy with the mythic
martyr Michael Brown.
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Representatives.
history of this country, that more Americans, black and white, should start
throwing up their hands in frustration, or think: “Put your hands down, and
shut up!”
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| Congressman Hakeen Jeffries (D-NY) |
shoot!” is a rallying cry of people all across America who are fed up with
police violence in community after community after community.
real black people, those are scumbags. . . If it
wasn’t for the cops, we’d be living in the wild wild west in out neighborhoods.
young black man courageously spoke up at a Ferguson open forum:
just doing his job.
of the country is divided in their opinion about the shooting.
fed up with a broken, criminal justice system.
Residents are actually fed up with the destructive protests themselves: Oakland,
CA, San
Diego commuters, Seattle,
WA ,
take on the case:
Brown and attacks by the Ferguson Police department on protestors demonstrate
an assumption that young women and men who are African-American are inherently suspicious.
She did not witness the rampant looting and pillaging. Clark’s pretensions on
the House Floor do not she get down to the bottom of this fraught pathology of
crime and homicide in ghetto communities.
patience. Last week, the nation waited and hoped that justice would be served
in the case of Michael Brown. We waited for our country to say loud and clear “There
are consequences for taking the lives of others. We waited to hear some reassurance
that black and brown boys’ lives do matter.
Justice was served, but the outcome did not please Rep.
Fudge. Was she expecting a hi-tech lynching of Officer Wilson? If the lives of
minority youth do matter, then Fudge and her Democratic colleagues should stop resisting
school choice, end the welfare state, and promote communities based on
families, not collectivized bitterness. At
least Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clark understands the deep-rooted
problems which explode in race-fueled riots.
Despite the harsh words of the Congressional Black Caucus,
the American public, black and white, do not agree with them. Instead of
dumb-show outrage, Jeffries and his black colleagues should put their hands
down, shut up and consider the staggering number of black men killing each
other. Not a white cop, but a black peer is statistically the most dangerous
threat to a black man’s life. 94%
of the time according to the Wall Street Journal. Juan Williams of Fox News
points out that the number one cause of death for black males aged 15-34
is murder, committed by other black men. Michael Brown should not be memorialized,
the protests (and protestors) are undignified, the resulting crime sprees and
civil unrest is unjustified.