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Michael Brown's upbringing should cause Black Lives Matter to take note on their real problems
Silence is Consent ^ | 5-18-16 | The Looking Spoon

Posted on 05/18/2016 11:37:35 AM PDT by The Looking Spoon

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From The Daily Mail:

The father of the black teenager shot dead by a white cop in Ferguson, Missouri, was a violent abuser who once forced a shotgun into the boy's mother's mouth during a fight, she claims in a new book.

Michael Brown Sr left Lezley McSpadden fearing she would die when he pushed the firearm so far down her throat that she choked on it, she writes.

In her memoir, she writes that she could hear their two children crying downstairs and thought: 'God, please don't let me kids see this. God, don't let this man kill me.'

Their relationship was a 'ticking time bomb', she said, claiming that Brown Sr was so controlling and paranoid that he once tried to strangle McSpadden in a jealous rage.

In another terrifying incident, he is said to have smashed the windshield of her car with his fist and beat her in front of their son.

While McSpadden was working two jobs to support their family, she claims that Brown Sr was lazy and cheated on her with other women.

The unflinching account is the most detailed yet of how the younger Brown was brought up.

More here.

If "Black Lives Matter" is serious about its namesake then it's time they realized that the problems of the black community won't get better without recognizing and attacking root cause of them.

The shooting of Michael Brown was one of the major factors in galvanizing BLM into existence, and his fate was as tragic as it was predictable.

By his mother's own admission in her new book,  Michael was raised in a home with unmarried parents with an abusive (to the point of almost murdering her), philandering father who didn't want to work while his mother toiled away at two jobs. Then she moved on to two other boyfriends, one of whom was killed while committing a crime.

It should be a surprise to nobody that Brown grew up to engage in violent and criminal behavior himself, and the galling thing is that given all of this we are supposed to believe Officer Darren Wilson was 100% in the wrong.

It has been well proven by now that kids have the best chance in a household with two parents (with a mother and father, if you wanted to be "politically incorrect" about it from a liberal point of view). Poverty rates are much lower, crime rates are lower, and success in education is much higher.

If "black lives matter" to BLM then they would do better to attack the cycle of poverty and violence rooted in an almost entirely non-existent stable family structure 70% of black children are born into. Focusing on better relations with police departments will only go so far, and probably ultimately fail, until this is addressed.


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Politics
KEYWORDS: blacklivesmatter; michaelbrown

1 posted on 05/18/2016 11:37:35 AM PDT by The Looking Spoon
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To: Blue Jays

"...Shotgun shoved into Saint Michael Gentle Giant Brown mom's mouth during fight while her children were downstairs..."


Yeah, that happens all the time when white couples have simple disagreements at home.

2 posted on 05/18/2016 11:45:19 AM PDT by Blue Jays (Rock Hard, Ride Free)
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To: The Looking Spoon

Eric Holder doesn’t want this mentioned,


3 posted on 05/18/2016 11:48:53 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
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To: The Looking Spoon

Black Lives Matter has NOTHING to do with black lives....they couldn’t care less.


4 posted on 05/18/2016 11:52:22 AM PDT by Envisioning (4.13.15 - That awkward moment in history when 53 million racists became sexists...)
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To: Blue Jays

.....Shotgun shoved into Saint Michael Gentle Giant Brown mom’s mouth during fight while her children were downstairs....

Black Lives Matter except for things like this.


5 posted on 05/18/2016 11:55:52 AM PDT by Sasparilla (Hillary for Prison 2016)
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To: The Looking Spoon

Sounds like a typical ghetto-welfare-Democrat family to me.


6 posted on 05/18/2016 11:57:58 AM PDT by fwdude (If we keep insisting on the lesser of two evils, that is exactly what they will give us from now on.)
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To: The Looking Spoon

The shotgun didn’t exist.

This article doesn’t exist.

There is only white racism, nothing else.


7 posted on 05/18/2016 12:03:21 PM PDT by samtheman (Trump For America.)
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To: The Looking Spoon

Recognizing patterns of behavior is racism.


8 posted on 05/18/2016 12:03:27 PM PDT by Tea Party Terrorist
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To: The Looking Spoon

Black Wives Matter!!!


9 posted on 05/18/2016 12:04:31 PM PDT by DungeonMaster (the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.)
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To: The Looking Spoon

Black lives don’t matter to BLM. Obviously.


10 posted on 05/18/2016 12:28:09 PM PDT by ozzymandus
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To: The Looking Spoon

You think BLM cares about Black families or problems within the black community? All they care about is destroying the police.


11 posted on 05/18/2016 12:32:57 PM PDT by armydawg505
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To: The Looking Spoon

From the NY Daily News
“The mother of Michael Brown could be charged with felony armed robbery for allegedly attacking people in a Ferguson, Mo., parking lot because they were selling T-shirts honoring the late teenager.”

The mother is no prize either.


12 posted on 05/18/2016 12:33:42 PM PDT by chuckee
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To: The Looking Spoon

To bad that shotgun shoving was not the limit of his shoving.


13 posted on 05/18/2016 12:40:31 PM PDT by Recompennation
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To: The Looking Spoon

#blackneuronsdontmatter


14 posted on 05/18/2016 12:43:29 PM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (I apologize for not apologizing.)
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

Neurons imply a connective structure; what makes you think any of these subhumans have even the rudiments of a brain?


15 posted on 05/18/2016 12:55:16 PM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: armydawg505

destroying the police

Blacks will pay the price for Obama first ever black president for the next 100 years.

Really and the way the parents acted when the whole thing went down....just outrageous.


16 posted on 05/18/2016 12:57:01 PM PDT by Uversabound (Our Military past and present: Our Highest example of Brotherhood of Man & Doing God's Will)
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To: Envisioning
Black Lives Matter has NOTHING to do with black lives....they couldn’t care less.

Come to think about, they should call themselves Black Deaths Matter, because they sure don't give a crap about blacks when they are alive.

17 posted on 05/18/2016 1:30:46 PM PDT by Go Gordon (Barack McGreevey Obama)
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To: The Looking Spoon

In every photo of Fat Bastard that came out he had on an item of red colored clothing.
He was a Blood or a Blood wannabe.


18 posted on 05/18/2016 2:08:57 PM PDT by Rockpile (GOP legislators-----caviar eating surrender monkeys.)
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To: chuckee

Weren’t the other t-shirt hawkers Fat Bastard’s grandmother and rival relatives?


19 posted on 05/18/2016 2:11:25 PM PDT by Rockpile (GOP legislators-----caviar eating surrender monkeys.)
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To: The Looking Spoon

“...philandering father who didn’t want to work while his mother toiled away at two jobs.”

Smash the patriarchy. Matriarchy will liberate us, say the cultural Marxists.


20 posted on 05/18/2016 6:45:36 PM PDT by mumblypeg (My Glock goes to the ladies' room with me. It identifies as my bodyguard.)
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