Posted on 08/26/2014 1:21:15 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
WASHINGTON -- To be young, male and black in America means not being allowed to make mistakes. Forgetting this, as we've seen so many times, can be fatal.
The case of Michael Brown, who was laid to rest Monday, is anomalous only in that it is so extreme: an unarmed black teenager riddled with bullets by a white police officer in a community plagued by racial tension.
African-Americans make up 67 percent of the population of Ferguson, Mo., but there are just four black officers on the 53-member police force -- which responded to peaceful demonstrations by rolling out military-surplus armored vehicles and firing tear gas. It is easy to understand how Brown and his peers might see the police not as public servants but as troops in an army of occupation.
And yes, Brown made mistakes. He was walking in the middle of the street rather than on the sidewalk, according to witnesses, and he was carrying a box of cigars that he apparently took from a convenience store. Neither is a capital offense.
When Officer Darren Wilson stopped him, did Brown respond with puffed-up attitude? For a young black man, that is a transgression punishable by death.
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Black response to getting pissed at whites is to loot other blacks stores. This always causes quite a lot of angst among us honkeys!!!!sarc/on
Thank you. I’ve been doing just that since I read this here at FR last week.
A FReeper said that an attorney he knew opined that Brown did indeed fit the legal definition of being an armed man.
felony...that’s what it’s called!!!
Can’t the black community hold their outrage ‘til they’ve got someone who’s not a total asshole?FR:SansCulotte
Bull$h!t. It means getting your marks on an exam raised. It means getting a job that you are not qualified for. It means freedom from prosecution if you attack a White person. It means being held to a lower standard of conduct.
EXACTLY , not too mention loans and business loans which have lower payments and interests, mortgages which have lower interest than whites.
Oh there is a privilege in the country and it’s not for whites.
The ‘talk’? like don’t commit strong armed robbery? Don’t attack a police officer?
” ...... but there are just four black officers on the 53-member police force . “
Maybe they need to get a freakin’ job? Robbing a store like Michael Brown did won’t help you get that job.
associates, yes but some do require 4 year college unless you have military which then you need a two year degree.
In the America I grew up in, if you did the job better than the other guy, you got the job!
Period.
which responded to peaceful violence, looting and demonstrations where firebombs were thrown at police. ...
Couldn't get past these two lines, that's all I could read. I knew I would vomit if I read further into this racist screed.
Fixed it.
Reality is pretty much the exact opposite of everything that turkey says in his absurd little piece. He must have some kind of talent, not everyone can be as wrong as he is, it must take some real trying to get it that wrong.
Cognitive dissonance on display once again.
Newsflash, jackass: being white in America means THE SAME DAMNED THING!!!
RLTW
Being Black means that you are never responsible for your actions.
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That's it, essentially.
In the white neighborhood of my childhood we ran from cops rather than attacked them. I guess I don’t understand black neighborhoods.
The oft repeated excuse of the black apologists.
“He made a mistake.”
A mistake is when you don’t what the answer or consequences are.
MB knew what he was doing and that there would be consequences and did not give a rip. He made a serious of informed fateful decisions that led to his death.
Must steal gif, must steal gif, must steal.......
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