There are lessons to be learned from Ferguson, Missouri…
No one can put themselves inside the mind of another person, but the actions of that person can provide a pretty good window into their mind set…
Because basically, actions don’t happen without the mind allowing them to.
Consequently the actions of Michael Brown during the strong-arm robbery in Ferguson immediately preceding his death shows these facts. Michael grabbed the store owner by the collar and was menacingly walking around as if he were King Kong. Knowing how human beings are this could not have been the first time Brown had used his size to intimidate people.
In essence, I believe Brown was a bully.
The bullying attitude Brown displayed during the strong-arm robbery almost had to carry over to his relationship with the police when he was stopped shortly thereafter.
The evidence shows that he scuffled with the policeman and then walked away, just as he’d walked away from the store owner after stealing from him. When the policeman finally caught up with him and Michael turned around any human being’s mindset would have been just like that policeman’s—which I believe was fear.
If you’re a policeman – or for that matter, any human being – when a 240 pound, 6 foot 4 inch person who has already tried to fight you turns towards you, your natural instinct is to protect yourself and that may well have been what led to the policeman shooting Michael Brown.
The argument as to the number of times Michael was shot is superfluous because any person in a state of fear is not going to stop and think, “How many shots it will take to stop the individual from attacking me.”
No one needs to apologize for necessity and basic human instincts.
However, I do not want to crown these terms with an aura of sanctity because the minorities in Ferguson, Mo have suffered injustices from their police department for years.
Now is the time for the police departments everywhere to repair and improve their relationships with the minority community.
History has shown that the actions of the police against a bad person, such as Rodney King (who had problems with law enforcement in his past) can lead to positive changes in society for minorities.
After the Rodney King incident and the riots that followed the police acquittals, changes were made in the LA Police Department that have led to a better relationship between the minority communities and the police.
Calvin Sense is a prominent local African American who chooses not to reveal his identity.
Give it another week, 20 or 30 more black-on-black murders and everyone will have moved onto the next “big” thing. America’s attention span is that of 5 year old ADHD kid.
All the way up to when they acquit officer Friendly and all hell breaks loose.
They want a conviction regardless of the facts.
I don’t know, Dude. I think they are going to crucify the guy regardless of guilt or innocence. I have no idea if the guy did the right thing or the wrong thing, but I’m not sure if that matters any more.
Can you imagine the uproar if the grand jury decides not to indict? It’s a mostly white jury. Of course, the county in which Ferguson resides is mostly white, so it makes sense….but the minority population won’t see it that way…
The evidence shows that he scuffled with the policeman and then walked away, just as he’d walked away from the store owner after stealing from him. When the policeman finally caught up with him and Michael turned around any human being’s mindset would have been just like that policeman’s—which I believe was fear.”
What “evidence” shows that? WE DON’T HAVE ANY EVIDENCE. All of this is conjecture…a story spun out of whole cloth. You can think and suppose and believe anything you want, Mr. Sense. Just don’t call your opinion “evidence” and purport it as fact. That’s Fox News’ job.
There are a few things we know for sure.
We know for sure that the media latched onto the testimony of Dorian Johnson who stated on camera that his friend “Big Mike” (The “Gentle Giant”) was shot in the back. This is the same Dorian Johnson who has a warrant out for theft in Jeff City and is on record for filing false police reports related to that robbery.
We know for sure, that as the evidence and witnesses cameforth, that the “Gentle Giant” was NOT shot in the back but in the front. There are, to my knowledge, no apologies from the President’s buddy and advisor, Al Sharpton or the media responsible for trumpeting this false claim for 2 days and inciting the wet by every rain and blown by every wind emotions of the flat liner looters and thugs who seemed to take the news to heart and riot, loot and assault everything within close proximity in response.
We know for sure, only because it is on video, that the “Gentle Giant”, jsut minutes before his encounter with the law, was breaking the law and close to breaking some little guy’s neck during an assault and robbery.
We know for sure, that the media demanded to have the records of the Officer Wilson made public because his actions in the past, would be a good indicator of his actions during the shooting.
We know for sure, that the media, black community leaders and the Attorney General himself, tried to suppress the video of the “Gentle Giant” robbing, choking and assaulting the convenience store clerk.
We know for sure, that the video release is “Character Assasination” and should have no bearing on the incident and is NOT an idicator of the “Gentle Giant’s” actions during the encounter.
We know for sure that the officer has a blown out orbital socket from the encounter, but that should NOT be an indicator of the “Gentle Giant’s” intentions during the encounter.
By the way, “Institutional Racism’ is way overrrused. Lemme help ya out, here is the defense of an African American rapist last month.
White male heteronormative oppression and privilege, plus ‘transgenerational slave trauma and rape disorder’.
Makes sense to me.
Chuck, you left out the part about the Gentle Giant dropping out of football because he felt bad about mowing down all the smaller kids on the team.
Thanks for the catch Hearne.
Clarification is important and as we all can see, that so frequently mentioned “Content of Character” remark from MLK is personified by the “Gentle Giant”.
The many video elegies for the great man, lost to us so young, looting, riots, business’ burned and assaults on film, speaks to the deserved, ongoing media apotheosis of the “Gentle Giant” that we soldiers in the fight for equality need to keep us motivated in the coming weeks.
If there is no Grand Jury indictment, then once again, the Civil Rights Army Of The Night will make it’s presence felt while the smell of cordite wafts through the midnight air (Hopefully, we can all get some time off from our jobs and stay out till dawn.) to the sound of sirens and the chants of “No Justice No Peace!”
Soon, all Americans will throw their hands in the air too. That day can’t come too soon.
Can’t Get Enough Of That White Male Privilege Perspective!!!
You certainly shut me up.
Good one, rkcal
So Harry Stone is cml is chuck.
Three anuses spewing the same diarrhea.
Surprise surprise.
“White Privilege” is a social construct. But it’s a necessary one: it’s the “deus ex machina” to which liberals must resort in order to write themselves out of the corner they’ve painted with their narrative.
Using all logic in a Cartesian world makes everything apparent: we’ve spent $100 trillion or so on an unwinnable war, and we should stop fighting it. For 50 years, we’ve tried in earnest to close this “achievement gap” or the “intelligence gap” or the “criminality gap” and all of the offshoots of the above. It didn’t take.
Rather than simply cut our losses and admit defeat, the liberals need a reason to keep us fighting. A reason to get us to keep spending more and more untold trillions of dollars on this quagmire, this squaring of the circle, this Waterloo for white society. “White Privilege” is this vague concept that otherwise logical people must swallow before they can throw out their obvious conclusions and simply say, “yeah, white privilege. We don’t understand it, because we can’t. So we’ll keep on writing them checks, and eventually, they’ll stop robbing, raping, and murdering us, and they’ll become good taxpaying republicans.”
So, on we went, and waited for the light, and went without the meat, and cursed the bread.
How do we know Fergusen, MO has “suffered at the hands of the police department for years”? Is this just something repeated on MSNBC or do we have facts to back it up