How Do Whites Cover Up The Whole Town Of Ferguson Being Racist & Financially Exploitive Of Blacks? They Make "Hands Up! Don't Shoot!" Into Their Biggest Issue

Fulfilling blacks every dream of white people!

Yes, I've been peeking at Althouse again, because - if there's a racist "spin" to be had - you know she'll be promoting it for cash, too,...

ADDED - since a law professor thinks "Hands Up! Don't Shoot!" is SO where the really important discussion is now:

TMR is, you can be sure, that whites who decide to "help" black people are usually doing something we don't like with the rest of their time,...

Jon Stewart Reminds Us Few Remark When The Goose That Layed The Golden Eggs Was Merely Taking A Shit

I can think of lots of people - especially two in Wisconsin - who should be apologizing,...

Weird: The DOJ Report On Ferguson And The Case For Reparations (By Ta-Nehisi Coates) Tell The Same Story

There's a reason these people are smiling

Here's Eric Holder's Department of Justice report on the Ferguson, Mo. Police Department.

And here's The Case For Reparations by Ta-Nehisi Coates.

Get ready to pay us back our money,...

Emptying The Ocean With A Paper Cup: That's The Job

“The problems may have been there, but they were new to me. A lot of this just destroyed me. We want our people back. We want everybody to come back and be a part of it. We would like to change. We want to improve, to be able to help what other people feel is the problem, because we didn’t see it.”

- Mike Brandon, 45, a Ferguson contractor whose suffered as protests stretched on over the months

"In the city of 21,000, there are literally 16,000 with outstanding warrants out for their arrests. That means that three out of every four Ferguson residents is a wanted fugitive. There’s something very wrong with that,..."

All supported by American law, and it's judicial system, we might add: every bit of it perfectly legal, as the plunder of blacks has always been in this "land of the free."

Knowing our fellow citizens will kill us, before securing our rights, is a discomforting feeling. That they think their murderous framing is good, and normal, is unnerving. That they'd rather fight over it, merely because they can, says all any black history student needs to know about the "content" of white America's "character" - a much discussed topic - after 400 years. Their willing betrayal is true, and still as based in their own ignorance as ever, reason be damned. No one can reason with the violently insane:

What’s hard is reforming the whole country, the whole culture, the whole world. What’s hard is looking at the systems that cause racism in your own workplace, your own community, in yourself. Because that’s a fight that doesn’t end with a “return to normalcy,” which usually just means people learning not to let their racism get caught on video. That’s a fight that requires we acknowledge that none of us in our lifetimes have ever seen “normal,” that we shouldn’t settle for a version of “normal” that’s anything less than “the normalcy that recognizes the dignity and worth of all of God’s children.” 

I worry that the ebb and flow of social change isn’t determined by the resistance of the reactionaries–that revolution doesn’t slow, stall or even reverse because the Right finds new reservoirs of strength. It happens because the revolutionaries get fatigued. We want to declare an easy victory, get some racists fired and go home. Progressives had a huge rowdy party the night we fired the GOP from the White House in 2008 and then, seemingly, spent the next four years in bed. 

What’s happening in Ferguson is great. It’s not over. The outcry on college campuses against SAE because of the Oklahoma University video is great. It’s not over. 

Getting racists fired is always satisfying. It’s never enough.

So you yell loud, you yell often, and you never change focus:

Reparations now. Reparations tomorrow. Reparations forever,...

Awwww: Ferguson's Mayor Wants To "Play The Victim"

Ferguson's near St. Louis, which is located in Missouri: all parts of these United States

Some white somebody needs to tell Ferguson Mayor James Knowles to hush up, or else he'll ruin this deal for some other white somebodies:

"We're the only ones being held accountable and I don't know why that is,..."

TMR doesn't know either, Mayor, but I betcha - the longer you keep talkin' - the less likely THAT will stay the same,...

You Got Nowhere To Run To, Baby, Nowhere To Hide

This is about how honest whites are on race.

The gap - between what white people can't admit about America and what they won't admit - isn't very wide:

"If the shooting of Michael Brown had taken place about 500 yards to the southeast, he would have died not in Ferguson, Mo., but in the neighboring city of Jennings. The court system there, which is overseen by a white judge but has almost exclusively black defendants, routinely sends people to jail for failure to pay minor traffic fines, a new lawsuit alleges. 

Had the shooting occurred three and a half miles to the north, the world’s attention might have turned to the city of Florissant, where in 2013, the police stopped black motorists at a rate nearly three times their share of the population. Less than four miles to the northwest, in Calverton Park, court fines and fees accounted for over 40 percent of the city’s general operating revenue last year,..."

So what's the take-away?

Blacks live in a racist COUNTRY. 

And expecting it's biggest practitioners to admit it is foolish,...

Joe Scarborough Takes A Stand: "What Am I Missing?"

The White-Wing media is having a blast watching Joe Scarborough getting flustered over the Ram's salute to Ferguson, since Joe swallowed the police's leaked-bait that Michael Brown stole some cigars, and thus deserved to die. Scarborough ignorantly steamrolls right over respectability politics (because there's no one on his panel who understands it) before acknowledging a lot of differences (but not the urgency) in how blacks and whites live - and are living - even as Joe's (oh so comfortably) speaking. He finally then passes the mic, only to discover only one person in the studio ("an old white guy") agrees with him. It looks like few outside agree as well.

But that's our White-Wing media:

There's no telling what they'll find inspiring,...

Conservatives Love The Black-On-Black Talking Point Of Comparing Police's Conduct To That Of Gangsters

They seem to think the black-on-black crime meme is pretty effective.

Until it's mentioned police are held to a higher standard than criminals. 

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Which was a point - despite Giuliani and other Rightist's ignorance - that's been made, over and over again, since a long time ago:

And, it's only because TV allows idiots to be treated as credible, that we're finding it so "exhausting" to keep doing so,....

Ta-Nehisi Coates Takes Out Jonathan Chait & Althouse

First came Rudy Giuliani, and now other whites, insisting a racist place taught them morality

"Property damage and looting impede social progress.”

- Jonathan Chait, pushing an ahistorical line, November 25, 2014 

The goal of most white writers, when it comes to race, is apparent

"This message — incarceration as racial oppression — has been cultivated by some who are dedicated to issues of racial justice. Those who are reacting to Ferguson by engaging in criminal violence are stepping on that message.”

- Ann Althouse, who won't open a book, November 26th, 2014

Whites, getting their two cents in: still more important than being informed

"Taken together, Property damage and looting have been the most effective tools of social progress for white people in America. It describes everything from enslavement to Jim Crow laws to lynching to red-lining.”

- Ta-Nehisi Coates, killing the two dodo birds with one stone, November 26th, 2014

Ann Althouse: Race-Baiting For Her Racist Readership (As Easily As Don Lemon Is Making CNN's Lemonade)

She redefines "smug" AND America's history of racial justice

Getting race wrong (has she ever gotten it right?) is, now, such a daily operation for Ann Althouse, I can fully see what worth the University of Madison finds in her (employing a law professor who can't grasp what few options blacks have is "win-win") when - decades after MLK - we still live in a nation with unjust laws:

“This message — incarceration as racial oppression — has been cultivated by some who are dedicated to issues of racial justice. Those who are reacting to Ferguson by engaging in criminal violence are stepping on that message.”

He redefines "smug" AND America's history of racial justice, too

But then, it's her example that also makes it possible for me to see what worth CNN finds in employing Donald Dilworth Lemon (a reporter who also can't grasp what few options blacks have) when - decades after MLK - we still live in a nation with unjust laws:

To accuse Jackson of continuing MLK's "race hustle" - without mentioning whites illegally jailed and harassed MLK - works just as Ann's ignorant posts do

"Reverend, part of your legacy is that you marched with Dr. King peacefully, non-violent protests," he said. "What has changed in our culture and our society that people result -- resort to things that played out here last night in Ferguson?"

"You do know that when Dr. King was alive we had the Watts riots and the Newark riots and the Detroit riots and Chicago," Jackson responded, adding that "police action triggered those riots."

"Blacks are ten times more likely to be arrested. That matters.”

Whites said blacks should emulate "America's Dad" - blacks smelt a rat and said "no"

You see - considering America IS a racist place with unjust laws - the worth of these two's "respectable" racial cluelessness is obvious:

"Waiting for whites to grow up" is a better name for this place than the United States

They (and Cosby) can buy time for whites - to "make progress" - which means, of course, black lives can further rot,...until whites learn to process more complex ideas about blacks than currently possible.

Whites will keep saying their racism ended, whenever they say it did, in the meantime

Oh well:

At least we blacks can be "happy" because - between these two multi-racial mental giants - we're now part of our nation's racist's education.

Moral - and otherwise,...

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"Minor hockey coach fired for posting pro-Nazi content on Facebook"

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"Ferguson's Toxic Police Department"

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Lying Ferguson Police Department Admits To,....Lying

"It's time to panic" alright

How strange is it that, no matter how dishonest the police are behaving, whites insist on not trusting their accusers:

"St. Louis county police instituted a no-fly zone over the Ferguson protests solely to prevent news helicopters from covering the events, recorded conversations obtained by the AP reveal."

I repeat: cameras are now the cops worst enemy:

And one of the few friends blacks have,....

Stokely Carmichael Was Right: White Society's Fucked

American blacks have no chance for a "normal" life under the white gaze

We Are Respectable Negroes' Chauncey DeVega is making a list of things whites can do that blacks cannot, as supposedly-full American citizens, in 2014. His latest addition? Making a citizen's arrest of a police officer without getting shot. Why DeVega is doing so puzzles me - it's not like white people care how racist they are. They revel in it.

"According to a study by the St. Louis nonprofit Better Together, Ferguson receives nearly one-quarter of its revenue from court fees; for some surrounding towns it approaches 50 percent. Municipal reliance on revenue generated from traffic stops adds pressure to make more of them. One town, Sycamore Hills, has stationed a radar-gun-wielding police officer on its 250-foot northbound stretch of Interstate. 

With primarily white police forces that rely disproportionately on traffic citation revenue, blacks are pulled over, cited and arrested in numbers far exceeding their population share, according to a recent report from Missouri’s attorney general. In Ferguson last year, 86 percent of stops, 92 percent of searches and 93 percent of arrests were of black people—despite the fact that police officers were far less likely to find contraband on black drivers (22 percent versus 34 percent of whites). This worsens inequality, as struggling blacks do more to fund local government than relatively affluent whites."

This is no accident, and couldn't happen for decades unless white Americans specifically wanted it so - it is the outright theft, and an open injustice, that undergirds and asserts white's racism and white's conception of "society," which is so ingrained as a long-standing source of white power, they are 100% positive there's nothing blacks can do about it. So they openly rejoice, just as their racist ancestors planned. 

Which raises an interesting question, regarding the news that Michael Brown struggled with the police officer in Ferguson, Missouri:

Why should Michael Brown - or any other black person - respect whites, their so-called laws, or those who defend them, when we know their entire system is, has been, and will be rigged against us?

The answer's "news" only to blacks, and only a subset at that:

Because the racist bastards will destroy anyone who doesn't,...

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This Boris Pasternak quote on communism, from Doctor Zhivago, is a great reminder of what's-what:

"And so it was necessary to teach people not to think and make judgments, to compel them to see the non-existent, and to argue the opposite of what was obvious to everyone …"

I like it, because it could also be about the results of capitalism and/or democracy, or any western society with NewAge integrated into it's contours, or American white's racism. Listen to Ferguson, Mo., Police Chief Thomas Jackson: 

  ”I can’t imagine having to sit down with my boys and say, ‘Because you’re white, you have to be extra careful about law enforcement.’ That’s a perception that is probably rooted in some reality for a lot of people.’” 

Meanwhile, those who are supposed to help end racism are doing this, instead

He might as well be Stalin. This is a man who's seriously suggesting blacks should feel sorry for him, because he's been running a police department that's so racist, it's now famous for not only killing Michael Brown (amongst others) but also for suing an innocent black man for bleeding on his officer's uniforms after they delivered a brutal beating during a bogus arrest. It's an impressive thing to behold. Unless you see it for the madness it is.

When your country's legal foundation is built, by whites, on centuries of black slavery and oppression - including even writing laws that created a police force for, specifically, capturing and returning blacks trying to escape the horror - expecting anything less makes no sense,...

Judge: Police Violated Rights Of Ferguson Protesters

Even Oprah can't figure it out using psychic "powers"

Why whites, historically, haven't supported black's rights is hard to fathom: 

 Unless you consider the obvious,...

 

"Which Side Are You On? Black Lives Matter!": The Inter-Racial Requiem For Michael Brown At The St. Louis Symphony

This is the most beautiful demonstration yet - because we're finally not alone,...