Chicago paid $5 million to shooting victim's family, keeping them quiet and video secret while Rahm re-elected
. . . "It is rather remarkable that the shooting was not a major issue in the election. No campaigning by the family of young McDonald, no indictment, and no release of the video. Perhaps this had something to do with it, as reported by DNAinfo Chicago:
. . . "Now, with his re-election accomplished, the mayor is coming to a judgment of Officer Van Dyke’s action before his trial:
A return to the paranoid style in African-American politics
"From time to time, something will leap out to me as an illustration of the fact that blacks and whites often inhabit separate realities. I’ve often told the story of the editorial in a black neighborhood newspaper in Philadelphia warning African-Americans to flee urban areas in the lead-up to the 2004 presidential elections because George W. Bush was planning to — this was presented as unquestionable fact – use nuclear weapons against the inner cities to suppress the black vote. This wasn’t somebody ranting on Twitter — this was in print, in a regularly published newspaper that was, in the early days of the 21st century, still a going concern." Read more...
The ‘Legacy of Slavery’ Is an Excuse for Social Degeneration
. . . "It is rather remarkable that the shooting was not a major issue in the election. No campaigning by the family of young McDonald, no indictment, and no release of the video. Perhaps this had something to do with it, as reported by DNAinfo Chicago:
"The city has already paid a $5 million settlement to the family for the shooting."The details of the shooting threatened to become public prior to the February election, but action was taken to keep the video under wraps and the [family] quiet." . . .
. . . "Now, with his re-election accomplished, the mayor is coming to a judgment of Officer Van Dyke’s action before his trial:
"Mayor Emanuel told reporters, "We hold our police officers to a high standard, and obviously in this case, Jason Van Dyke violated the standards of professionalism of becoming a police officer, but also basic moral standards that bind our community together.""If I were Emanuel, I would be careful about using language like “basic moral standards.”
"How long will it be until the mainstream media catches on about the payoff with public money that kept the video secret, the family quiet, and the mayor re-elected?"
A return to the paranoid style in African-American politics
"From time to time, something will leap out to me as an illustration of the fact that blacks and whites often inhabit separate realities. I’ve often told the story of the editorial in a black neighborhood newspaper in Philadelphia warning African-Americans to flee urban areas in the lead-up to the 2004 presidential elections because George W. Bush was planning to — this was presented as unquestionable fact – use nuclear weapons against the inner cities to suppress the black vote. This wasn’t somebody ranting on Twitter — this was in print, in a regularly published newspaper that was, in the early days of the 21st century, still a going concern." Read more...
The ‘Legacy of Slavery’ Is an Excuse for Social Degeneration
"But slavery became the rhetorical distraction for the political magicians’ trick of making their own responsibility for social degeneration vanish into thin air by sleight of hand."
