The effort to make a social-justice symbol out of a two-bit thug

Michael Brown's dad has gone to Geneva to address the cesspool of inhumanity known as the UN Human Rights Council.  A year ago, he was just a guy in Ferguson, Missouri who had done a mediocre job raising a son.

Yesterday, LITD noted the list of demands from those who are going to riot if the grand jury finds officer Wilson innocent.  Demands to law enforcement for conditions during those riots.

Of course, we know that Eric Holder went to Ferguson not just as Attorney General (which raises enough questions; this was a local matter) but "as a black man."

"Reverends" Jesse and Al of course have gotten involved.

If you didn't know the actual situation, you'd assume from the above developments that an incident fraught with race-relations implications and probable systemic bigotry had occurred in Ferguson.  But, of course, you do know the actual situation, that Michael Brown made rap recordings with lyrics like these:

My favorite part is when that body hits the ground.

I soak em up like I’m wringing out a sponge

Talking down make me shoot off your whole tongue

You know that Brown had, in the minutes previous to his encounter with Officer Wilson, robbed a convenience store and roughed up the clerk, and that the encounter with Wilson began with Wilson telling him not to walk down the middle of the street.  You know that this then went down:

. . . after pulling Brown over, Wilson said, Wilson tried to get out of his car – Brown shut the door on him, then pushed himself through the driver’s side window. He went for Wilson’s weapon, whereupon Wilson fired the gun in the vehicle. Brown ran. Wilson chased him. Brown then turned around and ran toward Wilson, whereupon Wilson shot him several times.
According to the Washington Post, “more than a half-dozen unnamed black witnesses have provided testimony…that supports Wilson’s account of the events….blood spatter analysis, shell casings and ballistics tests – also support Wilson’s account of the shooting, the Post sources said.”
Now, a new autopsy report revealed by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch – the same newspaper that originally termed Brown a “Gentle Giant” – showed that Brown’s body had a “graze wound” on his thumb; the wound contained matter “consistent with products that are discharged from the barrel of a firearm.” That can only happen at close range – so close, in fact, that there was no stippling – a patterning of gunpowder that will not appear within an inch of the gun barrel. In other words, as San Francisco medical examiner Dr. Judy Melinek said, “this guy is reaching for the gun.”
The autopsy backs up the altercation at the car as well – Brown’s skin was found on the exterior of the vehicle.  CNN reports that blood from Michael Brown was found on Wilson’s uniform, police car, and gun.

The autopsy even gives shows that Brown was shot with his hands up. According to the autopsy report, the gunshot wound to St. Michael’s “upper dorsal right arm” demonstrated that the direction of the shot was “slightly upward, backward and leftward.” That means, according to Melinek, the shot “traveled from the back of the arm to the inner arm, which means Brown’s palms could not have been facing Wilson.” 

My overarching point isn't really even about race.  Frankly, I avoid blogging about or even discussing race unless I have to.  I'm so tired of the vulgar and embarrassing efforts by the Left to keep society inflamed with that crud when nobody except hustlers motivated by fame and money gives a flying diddly about people's pigmentation.

What I am out to point out here is how this is yet another example of the Left trying to create a crisis on the basis of a phony claim.  Just like "climate change."  Just like "inequality" for women, homosexuals and the transgendered.  Just like some mythical majority of Palestinians who want to live peaceably in a sovereign state alongside Israel, and are prevented from doing so by some supposed Israeli aggression and oppression.

Last week, I tempered my definite joy over the election results with the remembrance that culture is upstream from policy and politics.  If there is any encouragement stemming from that fact, though, it is that the elections served as a snapshot of a public far less willing to buy these fictions than it used to be.

For instance, this situation.  Brown's dad comes off looking like an opportunistic hustler, does he not?

Maybe I ought to see if anybody has done a poll on that.  Then again, maybe I ought to devote my attention to the actual challenges and crises facing our civilization.