Monday, October 27, 2014

The Freedom-Hater party tries to nationalize the non-existent racial angle of the Ferguson shooting

The FHers would be well-advised to drop it, except for the fact that they don't have anything with which to lob Hail Mary passes in these last eight days besides identity-politics grievance-mongering.  So we get this kind of thing:

A flyer distributed by the Georgia Democratic Party (Ferguson is in Missouri) warns:
“On August 9, 2014, an unarmed 18-year old African-American named Michael Brown was fatally shot six times and killed by a white police officer, his body left in a pool of blood for four hours. Ferguson Missouri’s population is 67% African-American. But the city’s mayor, 5 of its 6 city council members, and 94% of its police force are white. What are we going to do about it? If we want a better, safer future for our children, it’s up to us to vote for change.”
Note first that this flyer was distributed in Georgia, not Missouri. In other words, according to Democrats: Republicans everywhere are racists. Moreover, if 67 percent of Ferguson citizens are black and they elect a white mayor and city council members shouldn’t that be applauded as a sign that they are committed to America’s inclusive ideal, and are not voting along racial lines? Wouldn’t Democrats be saying that if white majority populations were voting for blacks (as they in fact do)? Once again the claim that this reflects white racism is itself a racist claim, one that is typical of self-hating progressive whites.
The flyer’s timing couldn’t have been worse. The just released autopsy report shows that Michael Brown was only unarmed because he failed to wrestle Officer Darren Wilson’s gun from his holster, when he attacked Officer Wilson in his police car. How many innocent citizens attack a policeman in his police car and attempt to grab his gun from him?

Aren't the FHers aware that even Bill Maher sees what the deal is?

Assume that we'll be exposed to an ever-more-ratcheted-up shrillness level for the next week.

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