Vanita Gupta
Posted on 05/19/2015 1:53:50 PM PDT by jazusamo
This lunacy is mainstream thought at the Department of Justice.
Vanita Gupta, head of the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division, has told a lawyers group in Colorado that slavery and Jim Crow helped fuel the Ferguson and Baltimore riots.
The last few days have seen a number of fanciful stories with the Obama administration seemingly questioning the authority of local police. I’ve long maintained that the administration is nakedly seeking to federalize policing standards — but get rid of local police? No way, that sounds like something broadcast from a shortwave station in Austin, Texas.
But then up steps Vanita Gupta to lend some credibility to the idea that some want to disband local police and replace police powers with the federal government. Speaking to a group of left-wing lawyers in Colorado, Gupta had this to say :
The conversation in these rooms, however, is not about whether to have police or not but about what kind of policing communities want and deserve.
There is no question that we need police in our communities.
The conversation? What conversation is Gupta hearing that needs to be corrected? Who brought up the idea we might not need police? Nobody sane, for sure.
Vanita Gupta
If you read the entirety of Gupta’s speech, you’ll get a sense of what is going on in the mind of the anti-police left. Officials in this administration still think it is rational and acceptable to bring up the name Michael Brown in the context of anything other than a likely felon against whom deadly force was justifiably used. Behold Gupta:
Eric Garner. Michael Brown. Tamir Rice. John Crawford. Walter Scott. Freddie Gray.
These names and many others have become familiar to us under tragic circumstances in recent months. Their deaths and those of other unarmed African American men and women in encounters with police officers, have provoked widespread responses across the country and have fueled the Black Lives Matter movement. In communities of color, in particular, the reaction has been stark and sobering.
In the seven months I have been at the Civil Rights Division, I have spent a lot of time with local leaders and community members in cities all across America, including with numerous mothers who have lost their children in officer-involved shootings. The pain, anger, frustration — the lack of trust in the police — is real, and it is profound.
Gupta asks the question that many Americans have already asked and answered:
It’s worth asking, first, how did we get here? And second, what are we going to do about it?
To most law-abiding Americans, the idea of fleeing from the police, or worse, charging at a policeman you have already punched, is simply beyond the realm of possibility.
So how did we get here? Was it a breakdown of values? Perhaps a pervasive tolerance for lawlessness? Of course not. Says Gupta:
Let’s start with the first question and consider the source of the mistrust. Mistrust can’t be explained away as the kneejerk reaction of the ill-informed or the hyperbolic. It’s in part the product of historical awareness about the role that police have played in enforcing and perpetuating (wait for it! here it comes!) slavery, the Black Codes, lynchings and Jim Crow segregation.
Give Gupta credit, she adheres to the fringe orthodoxy on race at the schools she attended: Yale and New York University Law School. Perhaps you can’t blame her, because she’s never heard anything different. But she’s wrong. The riots in Baltimore and Ferguson are related to slavery and lynchings as much as the Waco biker bloodbath is the fault of the Rolling Stones hiring the Hells Angels at Altamont.
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When people make choices to do evil, they cannot blame attenuated events which happened decades or centuries earlier. When Michael Brown charged a cop, when racialist anarchists set Baltimore on fire, they chose violence and evil then and there. The past was unrelated to that exercise of free will.
Gupta’s fringe view, however, is mainstream among the leftists who populate the Civil Rights Division .
It was no accident that these same leftists produced an absurd self-fulfilling report on Ferguson. But that hasn’t stopped Gupta from trumpeting the report, or better still, using the report to shake down police departments across the country to change their ways or else. After all, Ferguson is just like lots of other places, Gupta tells us:
In many ways, Ferguson is not an anomaly. Through our work around the country, we know there are similar police and court practices in many places. I also know of several police chiefs around the country that assigned the report as required reading for their officers. We are already seeing the force multiplying effect of the report. In the days subsequent to the issuance of our report, cities around the country are beginning to re-examine their policing and municipal court practices, though we know there is much more work to do.
Gupta “knows of several police chiefs around the country that assigned the report as required reading for their officers.” Let’s decode: this means that several police chiefs around the country know that if they tell Gupta it is required reading, the federal government will stay off their backs and another police chief won’t get fired.
Give the leftists their due. They know how to use the levers of power to fundamentally transform a nation, no matter the truth. Lets hope that in 2017, there is the courage to undo the racialist mess Obama has created inside DOJ.
Exactly. It’s the same point when I argue about lesser evil stupidity. Everyone says they want conservatism but ‘now’/ “insert current election” is never the right time to actually put votes where words are for many on the ‘right’. Every year, same excuses. Anyone can look’em up. Different names, same excuses.
Yes it is. Now is always the right time.Waiting is just an excuse to assist liberals. In all political things. Time nd history show the fact of that.
Yup. And on Foreign relations when our friends will BE our friends and our enemies will BE our enemies.
That too will take generations to fix though after Barry and the GOP. But now is the time to begin a genuine apology tour backed with concrete ‘repentance’.
Yes, Democrats in the 19th century were the primary backers and fighters for the institution of slavery—a remedial course in history would teach the same.
Yes, Democrats in the 20th and 21st century are the primary backers of slavery—treating human beings as chattel to central planners and bureaucracies.
Erasing liberty and God-given freedoms are the goal of statists, and that is exactly what today’s Democrat operatives work toward.
It was also practiced by most of the world at the time and had been for thousands of years. Still is now in muslim countries. The US didn’t dream it up. I’ve always said one major law that should have been in effect even before 1776 was “Pick your own cotton”.
Absolutely right.
I think Maryland only stayed in the Union in 1860 because of coercion and threats (am I right? Feel free to correct me), which Lincoln’s judicial, military and law enforcement thugs called down on several states, some members of Congress, a lot of newspaper owners and entire towns. Most of them ended up dead, ruined, or in prison in the north. But Missouri was half slave/half free and not officially either one yet. All they had to worry about was being murdered by John Brown’s gang. So exactly WHAT do Baltimore, MD. or Fergusen, MO. have to base that on?
Answer: Abject stupidity - they don’t even know any history.
Are you referring to Vanita or to Barack?
I do believe FreeRepublic.com will go down as the definitive historical record of the United States.
The ‘protesters’ were hired and paid for by George Soros... the ‘press’ - as corrupt as George Stephanopoulos and his leftist trolls ‘missed’ that story.
I’m sure they ‘missed’ it because it was an ‘accident’ and they’re sorry now that they’ve been caught NOT giving the news - just giving left wing propaganda.
NBC doctored tapes, CBS makes up lies to take down Bush - ABC hires a dem operative and pretends he’s a journalist...
The Ferguson riots weren’t real. They were staged by people who were paid to act outraged. The press fell for it because they wanted to - and Soros is probably paying them too.
http://www.infowars.com/thug-tells-whites-bow-down-to-blacks-youre-all-gonna-die/
I gave the wrong link — this is the correct one.
J. Christian Adams needs to check this one out too....
Paid protesters are a hallmark of the left. They can’t generate real grass roots so they buy astroturf and hope no one notices.
bttt
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