Who Is to Blame for How Black Males Are Viewed by Others? "The meme that Mr. Smiley and other prominent black Americans keep repeating is that police officers have such a negative view of black males (which Smiley and others attribute to racism) that they place less value on their (black males’) lives. That in turn causes the police officers to set out from the get-go to shoot to kill.
"Now, there is no evidence that supports that claim. However if that is the case, how did the police officers come to view black males so negatively in the first place?" ...
Rowdy white protesters in Portland instruct articulate and polite black man on oppression ..."Last week, I highlighted a video (embedded below) of a female UCLA student instructing an older black cop from the Deep South that he failed to understand racism. Today, courtesy of Laughing at Liberals and Gateway Pundit, we have the following video, in which a highly civil and articulate black male in Portland, Oregon attempts to get a group of rowdy, seemingly drunk white protesters to stop chanting “f**k the police!” and is rewarded with similar condescension."...
: Lying for the Cause ; If myths do more for social progress than facts — then why worry?
... "From the details of Rigoberta Menchú’s memoir, to Tawana Brawley’s supposed rape, to the O. J. “If it doesn’t fit, you must acquit” myth, to the open-and-shut case of the hate-crime crucifixion of Matthew Shepard by savage homophobes, to Dan Rather’s fake but accurate National Guard memo, to the Duke lacrosse team’s supposed racist raping, to Barack Obama’s autobiographic interludes with his girlfriend, to Scott Beauchamp’s “true” stories of American military atrocities in Iraq, to Lena Dunham’s purported right-wing sexual assaulter at Oberlin College (home of the 2013 epidemic of pseudo-racist graffiti), to the pack of University of Virginia fraternity rapists on the loose, to “Hands up, don’t shoot,” we have come to appreciate that facts and truth are not that important, if myths can better serve social progress or the careers of those on the correct side of history." ...
Andrew C. McCarthy: What’s Really Going on with Holder’s Civil-Rights Crusade against Police Departments ... "Here is how the game works. Holder streams in behind a tragedy that Sharpton and Obama have demagogued. He announces a civil-rights investigation. Eventually, he backs down from the threat of an indictment in the individual case, never conceding that the supporting evidence was not there, usually citing some strawman injustice that has nothing to do with the matter at hand — in Florida, for example, it was “stand your ground” gun laws that purportedly needed reforming. But, the attorney general is pleased to add, the original civil-rights probe of the non-crime has metastasized into a thoroughgoing civil-rights probe of the state or local police department’s training, practices, and . . . drumroll . . . institutional racism." ...
Can't this nation find better people to govern us than these?
