"It Doesn't Add Up" A real lawyer turned TeeVee journalist rips the #FergusonDecision a new one.
#Ferguson Prosecutors Misled #GrandJury to Protect Officer #DarrenWilson http://t.co/TLuiMXUvAf #BlackLivesMatter pic.twitter.com/zUFXDjlSwf
— Syd's Soapbox (@heysyd) November 29, 2014
Wouldn't it be nice if ABC had hired some investigative reporters and done an in depth analysis of Darren Wilson testimony instead of making him rich and accepting everything he said at face value?Ferguson burned. The police protected the White side of town while allowing businesses on the Black side to be robbed and burned. At least 12 buildings were on fire. Most protesters, though, were peaceful. At two in the morning the police held a press conference. They blamed protesters for tearing apart “the fabric of the community”.Now you won't hear about this in the white, male dominated mainstream US media, because it doesn't fit the media driven racial stereotype of "violent protest" out of control black brutes, angry because they can't have their way, but Mike Brown's fathers church was burned to the ground.
A Ferguson, Mo., church gutted by fire on Monday was targeted by white supremacists because the pastor had publicly called for Police Officer Darren Wilson to be arrested, Rev. Carlton Lee alleged in an interview.Let me put this black folks can't demand equal rights because of black on black crime meme to rest once and for all. Black folks don't march when black folks kill each other for the same reason white folks don't march when white folks kill each other. Black folks do not commit the most crimes because they are black, black folks are convicted of committing the most crimes because they are black.
Flood Christian Church was one of more than a dozen buildings and businesses damaged by arsonists in the St. Louis suburb overnight after a grand jury chose not to indict Wilson in the shooting death of a black teen.
Lee was an ever-present fixture next to Michael Brown Sr. in the months after his son, Michael Brown Jr., was killed in a violent confrontation with Wilson on Aug. 9. The elder Brown was even baptized at the church on Sunday.
What is wrong with this argument:Ferguson is right to resist by any means and all means necessary. We shall not remain calm while we're being attacked. We shall Overcome.....
- It is a deflection. The people who make it do not truly care about black-on-black crime.
- It creates a false choice: Most who are truly concerned with black-on-black crime were upset about the Zimmerman case too.
- It allows the white press to determine reality, which makes it seem like Zimmerman is an exception while no one is doing anything about black-on-black crime. As it turns out, on average there is a Zimmerman-style shooting (armed security person or vigilante killing an unarmed black person) once every 28 hours. Trayvon Martin is just what made the papers. His case is hardly the worst nor the only one to get protests. Likewise, there is plenty being done about black-on-black crime, like by the Nation of Islam, but the white press is not particularly interested in reporting that either. Even worse, the white press turns a blind eye to the bad policing that leads to a high black crime rate. Yet, somehow, it always seems to find time to show black male suspects on the 11 o’clock news.
- Crime is mostly intra-racial. That means there will always be way more black-on-black crime than white-on-black crime. While it is true that 94% of black murders are black-on-black, it is just as true that 86% of white murders are white-on-white. In fact, most crime in America is white-on-white – yet for every web page that mentions “white-on-white crime”, there are 25 that mention “black-on-black crime”.
- It makes the worth of black life conditional. Conditional on good behaviour, like low crime rates. Once blacks get black-on-black crime under control, then they can act as if their lives matter, then they can act as if they should have justice, then they can act as if they are human beings with human rights. Meanwhile the worth of white life is taken seriously, as absolute, as not being conditional. Compare Nicole Simpson to Trayvon Martin:
- No one belittled the killing of Nicole Simpson by quoting white crime statistics, saying “white people kill each other all the time, what’s the big deal?”
- No one deflected by talking about white parenting or violence in white films.
- No one made Nicole Simpson posters for target practice.
- No one pretended to be a dead Nicole Simpson for laughs.
- No one questioned Nicole Simpson’s character – or her choice in clothing.
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spoke the truth about #MikeBrown #Ferguson & #DarrenWilson the #Murderer
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— ILoveMyWife0007 (@NavyDad0007) November 25, 2014
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Look, I am not going to pretend that this is some kind of new development, but can anyone seriously say that black people don't have every right to be terrified of letting their kids out of their sight? When their children can be murdered with absolute impunity by our law enforcement officers, that sends a message that cannot be understood by non-black people. It cannot be understood because it isn't felt.Read for yourself what Darren Wilson told the grand jury. It reads just like the right wing talking points you've been reading in the comment section on this blog.
I suspect that even our president, our First Lady, and our Attorney General are terrified.
Why wouldn't they be?