Posted on 08/12/2014 12:25:34 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
HuffPost Live host Marc Lamont Hill has poured gasoline on the racial controversy over Michael Brown, the unnarmed, 18-year-old black Missouri man who was shot dead by a police officer.
“A Black man in America is killed every 28 hours by police or vigilantes,” Hill tweeted on Monday. “THAT, not rioting, is domestic terrorism…”
Hill was referring to unrest that broke out in Ferguson, Mo., following the shooting that resulted Monday in law enforcement using teargas on protesters.
Hill followed up on that tweet with more racial commentary. “Michael Brown should be starting college in a few hours. Instead, he’s yet another teenager executed for being young, black, and outside,” he wrote in one tweet. “I don’t endorse the riots in Ferguson,” he wrote in another. “Again, I think they instigate State violence. But I won’t spend a minute criticizing people’s anger.”
Hill’s tweets were greeted with some backlash, mostly from conservative followers.
At the National Review, conservative writer Charles Cook accused Hill of feigning outrage. “In some quarters of the media,” Cook wrote, “pundits have begun to pretend that America’s cops are routinely gunning down unarmed young black men for their own pleasure.”
The name of the officer who killed Brown is not being released by authorities, who say they have received death threats related to the shooting.
Tweets below:
A Black man in America is killed every 28 hours by police or vigilantes. THAT, not rioting, is domestic terrorism…
— Marc Lamont Hill (@marclamonthill) August 11, 2014
Michael Brown should be starting college in a few hours. Instead, he's yet another teenager executed for being young, Black, and outside.
— Marc Lamont Hill (@marclamonthill) August 11, 2014
Ferguson Missouri police shoot Michael Brown, an unarmed teenager, with his hands in the air. Black life has so little value in this world.
— Marc Lamont Hill (@marclamonthill) August 10, 2014
[Image via Twitter @marclamonthill]
What does he call the situation when black men kill black men?
Have you considered the Bill Clinton/Al Gore school of honesty in claims?
How about a Clinton-New-Speak definition of "vigilante"?
That's to ask if in MLH's definition of "vigilantes", he includes deaths by rival bangers and dealers?
(That would include the deaths of collateral victims in the wrong place at the wrong time)
So what? Thugs are thugs, and they are better off dead, no matter their color or ethnicity. “Racist” is a term cowards use to slander people.
I love how race baiters jump to defend someone when we don’t even have the facts of the case yet. The “kid” could have been in the wrong.
We just don’t know yet but vile individuals like Hill will stoke the flames of racial hatred anyway.
You are correct. We do not know that the boy was right just because he was young, or because he was going to college soon or because he had dark skin. We do not know that the police are right just because they wear blue shirts and carry guns. Until a jury hears all the facts, nobody knows anything.
Motor Mouth Hill is comedy gold.
I am sick of Mark Lamont Hill and his racism.
I think even O’Reilly dropped him. He’s a CNN “contributor” now.
This should be turned back on Marc Lamont Hill, that he is pleading with young black men to stop robbing, stop attacking, stop murdering innocent people, because the innocent people are arming themselves and will kill them.
“Please, oh please”, he implores young black men, “stop being vicious, savage, primitive criminals, because society will STOP you, either by putting you in prison or killing you.”
So, I guess the “knockout game” is just harmless fun?
I believe Hill claimed the knockout game doesn’t exist, but it might have been Juan Williams who said that. Possibly both.
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