Monday, December 22, 2014

The Brooklyn Slaughter and the End of Gotcha

Al Sharpton
Al Sharpton (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
We are way past playing games of gotcha.

The Brooklyn police slaughter is just another example of how black racial hostility is now an everyday fact of life. Part of the national fabric.

So much so that no one even bothers to hide it. Not anymore. A few recent cases illuminate the bigger picture:
In Portland, Oregon, a sales clerk for Nordstrom tells his Facebook friends black people should kill one white cop for every white cop who kills a black person
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In Philadelphia, a paramedic said the same thing but took it one step further: He posted a picture of two black people holding a gun to the head of a white police officer
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Chris Rock tells NPR he instructed HBO to fill his audience only with black people.

Shrug. Shrug. Shrug.

In black churches across the country, Reverend Jeremiah Wright -- the black minister who made a career out of preaching racial resentment for 20 years to the future President of the United States at his Chicago church -- is received like a rock star. A messiah. A hero.

And he’s very, very busy -- saying the same thing that pretended to surprise our future president in 2008.
Wright’s former parishioner goes to the United Nations to confess (the rest of) our sins about race. At home he talks about “the justice gap” that results in black people going to prison at a rate that is astronomically out of proportion because of troubled “police-community relations.”

Which is defined as too many white cops catching too many black people breaking the law.

The attorney general chimed in with his own "We Shall Overcome" moment. He reminded us how police stopped him driving a car. It is hard to tell what he disliked more: Being pulled over, or not having the chauffeur to which was entitled since birth.

Shrug. Shrug. Shrug.

Congressman John Conyers tells his colleagues that white people and black people commit the same amount of crime, but the only reason black people are caught 6, 8, 10, 50 times more is because white police pick on black people.

Reporters bob their heads.

How many recent examples do you want? Pick a number between one and 10,000. That’s a start.

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