Posted on 05/01/2015 12:52:29 PM PDT by ek_hornbeck
Had Freddie Gray been robbed, beaten and left to die in the streets of his Baltimore neighborhood, no one would be mourning him today.
No one would be marching for Freddie. No one would be using Freddie as the new poster child of “Black Lives Matter!”
No one would care, three weeks later, but his family and friends.
It was the manner of his death, suffering a fractured spine in police custody, that makes Freddie matter. For he can now be credibly cast in the victim’s role in the great new narrative against America – that ours is a society of unequal justice where racist cops routinely brutalize black men and boys and are rarely called to account.
In this narrative, the liberal is always the hero.
Hillary Clinton knows the narrative by heart and has rushed forward to cast herself as the champion of black America.
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2015/04/hillarys-blame-the-cops-narrative/#mlZywU9r1tAFHc10.99
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Hillary's right in a way. There definitely is something wrong with all of this. But these problems have little or nothing to do with racist whites or with rogue cops, and everything to do with the culture and mindset of those who get incarcerated.
H! want to be Her Excellency, the top cop of the nation.
Whether or not Hillary might be right, I think it IS important to all of us that he died at the hands of police instead of being mugged.
Yes, the loss of life is the loss of life. But we don’t control the mugger, the miscreant, the criminal.
We DO control the organs of government. When the government harms an individual, it is a concern for all of us.
As conservatives, we tend to focus much more on all the ways government hurts the people it supposedly answers to than liberals, who are always looking for excuses why it isn’t the GOVERNMENT’s fault when government behaves badly.
It destroys their worldview to confront the fact that Baltimore’s failure is a failure of the government instituted by liberals for liberals. So they blame “police” and “white people” and “republicans”, as if republicans have done anything in Baltimore in 30 years, as if white people run the place, or as if the police do not answer to and behave in accordance to the desires of the liberals who run the police department and the rest of the government.
Yeah and their being “missing” is a big loss /s
Drove a cab in black neighborhood oj Staten Island for a few years as second job. maybe 10 percent of the “men” who got in my car were worth missing.
Hillary making huge tactical error imo. Whites have SEEN that the great black one made them no safer and blacks didn’t advance at all. They will vote for law and order.
Hilary can have the Obama’s son vote. She had it anyway.
Lard Butt Clinton isn’t particular about what band wagon she jumps on as long as she thinks she can ride it in the direction she wants to go.
Now that is a pot calling the kettle black! After all, isn’t she the one to blame prosecutors for her troubles?
Hopefully, it was clear that my "Hillary is right in a way" was rhetorical - she and other liberals right that sky-high incarcerations of blacks are a big problem, but they're right for the wrong reasons. Blacks are disproportionately incarcerated because they commit disproportionately many violent crimes. That and not "white racism" is the problem.
So now it makes a difference ? Thought how an American was killed is immaterial after the fact ?
Cops today are way out of control. And race has nothing to do with it. But, that's all anybody notices. That's because Americans are sheep and WANT a brutal master.
The riots in Baltimore and about a half dozen other cities have everything to do with race. They're specifically targeting white and Asian owned businesses, for example.
There were similar riots in response to the Zimmerman verdict. Out of control cops had nothing to do with that one.
““There is something wrong when a third of all black men face the prospect of prison during their lifetimes.”
Maybe if they would stop breaking the law.....
“Whether or not Hillary might be right, I think it IS important to all of us that he died at the hands of police instead of being mugged.”
“We DO control the organs of government. When the government harms an individual, it is a concern for all of us.”
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BS. As I see things as they stand now, Freddie - like Eric and Michael before him - was responsible for his own demise. Blaming the cops is a pathetic smoke screen to divert attention away from the larger issues.
Hillary should be asked some incisive questions about this, such as:
1. What did the Clinton administration do about these issues when they were in the White House? These same things we are hearing about ghetto life and all that, existed back when the Clintons were there before.
2. What has her good Democrat colleague, Obama, done about these issues in his six plus years as president? what the heck would she do that is different from Obama?
The liberal response to that, is that black men get longer sentences for the exact same crime as white men.
Who knows if that is true, or a liberal lie repeated often enough, that it gets ingrained in liberal minds as fact????
A classic example of how to lie with statistics, specifically by providing incomplete information. It's technically true that the average black man gets a longer sentence for the same crime than the average white man, on a per-crime basis. The reason for this is that you can't look at prison sentences for a single crime in isolation. A repeat offender gets a longer sentence for the same crime than a first time offender, so if blacks are getting longer sentences for the same drug charge, it's because they've more often made a career of it than the white convicted of the same crime. A legitimate comparison is not what sentences a black and a white man get for the same crime, but what sentences blacks and whites with similar criminal records get for the same crime. Those would be about the same.
Then, the inconvenient truth becomes that black men are more prone to criminal activity than white men. But that doesn’t comport with the liberal narrative in this area. Can the liberals ever accept this inconvenient truth????
No. If you read enough lib narratives about crime (especially black libs i.e. almost every black person), they firmly believe blacks don't commit any more crime percentage-wise than whites.
Take drug offenses. Blacks maintain that whites use more drugs per capita than blacks. They base that belief on a study done asking whites and blacks if they used drugs.
Well then another study was done where they asked whites and blacks if they used drugs...AND THEN!!! they did a blood test. Blacks where shown to be likely to lie six or seven times more than whites about drug use.
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