Monday, August 25, 2014

The voices that drown out reason in places like Ferguson

Racism Forever; The never-ending rallying call for progressives.

 
... "But that is not a story that the attorney general or the president wants to tell. They will stick to the narrative that allows them to deflect blame on others — and to go on acting as if they are champions of poor and downtrodden."
 
"Politico's Glenn Thrush reports in this week's edition of the magazine that Al Sharpton has become President Barack Obama's "go-to man on race" in Ferguson and elsewhere. Thrush tells the story as one of Sharpton's own reform and revival, dwelling on his weight loss, his self-professed caution with words, and criticism (envy?) from his old allies on the left. Yet he leaves out a few crucial details that are important to the Sharpton story." ...

"In reality, Sharpton's role is to stoke divisions, acting as Obama's agent, as well as his eyes and ears on the ground.

"Another "tell" in Thrush's piece is the omission of any reference to Yankel Rosenbaum, the Jewish religious student murdered by the mob Sharpton helped to incite in Crown Heights 20 years ago. Thrush writes that Sharpton "stoked black rage," but leaves it at that. "

Ferguson logic: rebuild local businesses 'or it's going to be be hell to pay'  


... "I would be willing to wager that in another year we will be hearing complaints that whatever businesses do manage to open in Ferguson are charging unfairly high prices. The notion that insurance costs will skyrocket and that rebuilding and restocking costs will have to paid for out of revenue will be too complex for the passive-aggressive community that knows only victimhood and protest.

"Sundance summarizes:
If you don’t rebuild those businesses we looted and torched, we’ll loot and torch some more – until you do.
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White war on African-Americans? Not according to Bill Whittle and this evidence he presents. 

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