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Had Freddie Gray been robbed, beaten and left to die in the streets of his Baltimore neighborhood, no one would be mourning him today.
No one would be marching for Freddie. No one would be using Freddie as the new poster child of “Black Lives Matter!”
No one would care, three weeks later, but his family and friends.
It was the manner of his death, suffering a fractured spine in police custody, that makes Freddie matter. For he can now be credibly cast in the victim’s role in the great new narrative against America — that ours is a society of unequal justice where racist cops routinely brutalize black men and boys and are rarely called to account.
In this narrative, the liberal is always the hero.
Hillary Clinton knows the narrative by heart and has rushed forward to cast herself as the champion of black America.
As The Washington Times reports, Hillary declared Wednesday she would help to end a “pattern” of cops killing black men.
“There is something wrong when a third of all black men face the prospect of prison during their lifetimes. And an estimated 1.5 million black men are ‘missing’ from their families and communities because of incarceration and premature death. …
“My heart beaks for these young men and their families. We have to come to terms with some hard truths about race and justice in America.”
We certainly do, Hillary.
She specifically mentioned Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown.
But Trayvon died when he was shot sitting on top of and beating senseless a neighborhood watch guy, “martial arts style,” and banging his head on the sidewalk as he screamed for help.
Michael Brown died of gunshot wounds when, after knocking over a convenience store and throttling the clerk in Ferguson, Missouri, he tried to wrestle a gun from a cop, and, told to halt, charged the officer.
This latest great narrative against America — that the men in blue are a threat to us all, especially black America, rather than the last line of society’s defense from its criminal class — is but another big lie, rooted in a tiny truth.
Yes, some black men and boys are killed every year in clashes with cops. And, yes, blacks are incarcerated in far greater proportions and suffer, on average, more early deaths. But who is killing them?
When black men and boys are shot to death, overwhelmingly, it is by other black men and boys. Their premature deaths are due to the violent culture in their own communities, not rampaging white cops.
As for incarcerations, every imprisoned male has confessed to or been convicted of a crime. And many of the drug charges for which blacks are in prison were a result of their being allowed to plea bargain to a lesser offense.
Freddie Gray had a rap sheet of a dozen arrests.
Fifty years ago, Lyndon Johnson declared at Howard University, “We seek … not just equality as a right and a theory but equality as a fact and equality as a result.”
In pursuit of equality of result there began one of the most massive transfers of wealth in all history. Trillions of tax dollars were plunged into programs of social uplift. The results in black America?
Where the illegitimacy rate was 23 percent in 1965, it is 72 percent now, and the gap between black and white test scores endures. In the black community, the dropout rate, crime rate, drug use rate and incarceration rate are now far higher now than in 1965.
And one notices something else in America. The lawns are being mowed, potholes filled, ditches dug, fast-food served, dishes washed and buildings cleaned increasingly by folks who are newcomers. It is they who are, in Jesse Jackson’s phrase, “movin’ on up.”
Looking back to when LBJ’s Great Society was launched, and the moral, social and cultural revolution of the 1960s began, what has liberal ideology done for black America?
Their work ethic has been eviscerated by an endless flow of social welfare benefits. Those benefits have often removed the incentive to find or hold a job, and the necessity to have a breadwinner, a father in the home.
The social and cultural revolution of the 1960s undermined the black churches and depopulated them of their young.
The expulsion of the Bible and of all religious and moral instruction from public schools left black children defenseless against the lure of the lifestyles of gang leaders and rap singers.
The conscience- and character-forming institutions that inculcated the beliefs and values that sustained black families through the Depression, the war and the 1950s have collapsed.
Result: Many black neighborhoods are unsafe for those who live there.
Hillary’s answer: “It’s time to end the era of incarceration in America.” But how will returning scores of thousands of convicts to their home communities make them safer — not to mention ours?
Given how it all worked out, are we really ready for Hillary and another giant leap forward into Great Society liberalism?
Patrick J. Buchanan is the author of the new book “The Greatest Comeback: How Richard Nixon Rose From Defeat to Create the New Majority.”
Copyright 2015 Creators.com.
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Hey Pat, no doubt the criminal personality Hillary would milk any circumstance for political capital. But why pick on a subject area where you can be accused of slanting the facts as easily (or more easily) than the Black people you’ve picked on? Generations of Jim Crow didn’t exactly prep that community for social success. And there’s more:
http://blackagendareport.com/
The are some solid ethical people at Black Agenda Report who can give the other side of the story but no doubt you’d have problems with their atheism because ours is a ‘Christian’ society, correct?
Or you’d have a problem with their socialism because we’re a capitalist society, correct?
In either case you would be in principle, as an intolerant Christian White, demanding shutting down secular Black freedoms. That’s the paradox reflecting in the bias of your article and the social circumstance creating the communities of despair. Jim Crow has vanished as a principle of law, but not as a social fact. And it’s not so different to White Europe where it is a ‘Christian’ society lampoons Islam and then shrieks over the violations of ‘secular’ principles when confronting the blow-back. In short, larger western ‘secular’ democratic societies, largely pushing ‘Christian’ values, have trapped themselves in a dilemma of hypocrisy. How do you have it both ways?. Oh, and most those Muslims aren’t lily-White, so maybe it’s not all about religious versus secular.
Now, instead of the cheap shots at the Black community no matter the depth of the problems, why not pick on Hillary’s rank criminality instead?
“According to Mother Jones Magazine, in Hillary’s own words, she is under the spiritual tutelage of Doug Coe:
““Coe, she writes, “is a unique presence in Washington: a genuinely loving spiritual mentor and guide to anyone, regardless of party or faith, who wants to deepen his or her relationship with God.”
“And according to the excellent investigative reporting of Jeff Sharlet on ‘The Family’, the cult which sponsors the ‘National Prayer Breakfast’, Coe, in his own words, is no stranger to violence in politics:
““Doug Coe offered Pol Pot and Osama bin Laden as men whose commitment to their causes is to be emulated. Preaching on the meaning of Christ’s words, he says, “You know Jesus said ‘You got to put Him before mother-father-brother sister? Hitler, Lenin, Mao, that’s what they taught the kids. Mao even had the kids killing their own mother and father. But it wasn’t murder. It was for building the new nation. The new kingdom””
http://ronaldthomaswest.com/2014/08/09/hillary-clinton-in-four-short-paragraphs/
^ Does the rank Christian criminality hit too close to home?
The problems of Black America cannot simply be explained by welfare. Welfare in Sweden doesn’t produce anything like Detroit or Baltimore. The reality is that the problem is genetic.
Gary North once wrote that after slavery was ended, the (white) law enforcement in the US would apathetically ignore black-on-black crime (especially capital crime such as murder and armed robbery). This is part of the reason why there is such a significant criminal element in the black community.
On a more incredulous note, you have to wonder about the hypocritical double standard:
Black kid murdered by thug: All they do is sob and hold candle light vigils.
Black kid murdered by police: They grow furious and volatile, to put in mildly.
I’d never heard of Doug Coe so I looked him up at Wikipedia. The word that came to my mind at once was “Rasputin”.
Close enough
Typical of low IQ groups, blacks concern themselves with the minute percent of blacks killed by police and and have no concern for the extreme percent of blacks killed by other blacks. Low IQ people are driven by emotion, not reason.
ps, here’s the better reading (what you won’t find at wikipedia)
http://www.salon.com/2009/07/21/c_street/
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If c. 13% of the population are responsible for c. 50% of murders (or as it’s mostly young males if c. 2% of the population are responsible for c. 50% of the murders) then the police will be hyped up when dealing with them.
Obviously.
It’s a hard problem to fix, I’d say the root is no jobs but it’s really beyond that now because even if there were jobs there are so many smarter better educated people without work that the blacks might never be considered. It’s a tough World and getting tougher all the time but I’d say whatever it costs to give these poor people something constructive to do would be well worth investing in because one of these days they will be heading into the suburbs.
What’s going on is just black tribalism, nothing more. When their kind kills one another, it’s considered the cost of living in a black society. When a outsider(white man) does it, the black man’s demise is considered a outrage worthy of rioting and looting the local businesses for fun and profit.
I used to see this when the news reported on black neighborhoods who complained about the crime and violence. When the cops came in and arrested the black perps, the blacks then screamed bloody murder about the cops.
You can’t win with blacks.
“Given how it all worked out, are we really ready for Hillary and another giant leap forward into Great Society liberalism?”
Stupid people elect stupid people.
Hillary Blames the Cops
If Americas ex-wife bleats something in the wilderness and there is no one who cares does she actually make a sound?
I’m a little miffed here I was hoping Hillary would win…..I think America deserves Hillary Clinton…..but she is exceeding her usual standards of campaign ineptitude here. Even in a country gullible enough to elect “Sugar Frosted Barry O’s” not once but twice she seems determined to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory!
I don’t care about the welfare of blacks. All I, and Native Born White Americans in general should care about is one thing:is it good for Native Born White Americans?
So is it in the interests of Native Born White Americans to be governed by a racist Kenyan Foriegner War Criminal with an administration infested with black racists who encourage black race-hate towards Native Born White Americans including Native Born White American Police Officers who are “guilty” of doing their job like PO Darren Wilson was doing? These are questions that answer themselves.
I consider you to be a piece of filth…homos in the military…homo marriage…homos in The Boy Scouts…homo marriage activists destroying Native Born White American Conservative Christian Bakers…White Guilt Trips about Slavery….I have had it with your weirdo Z Magazine kind…
“Welfare in Sweden doesn’t produce anything like Detroit or Baltimore”.
For Sweden before the hoardes of refugees and gypsies, yes. In recent years, no, they’ve got big problems, and this is only the beginning of the process.
A large part of the news and discussions is about new arrivals and the usual problems that arrive with them.
http://www.thelocal.se
I’m honestly laughing. If you knew my work, you’d know what I think of the arch criminal Obama. Not that lily-White criminals are any better. Here, I wrote this satire just for people like you:
http://ronaldthomaswest.com/2013/05/17/bozos-handcock-u-speech/
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If only there were thousands of bumper stickers across America that proclaimed:HILLARY CLINTON=NOTORIOUS WAR CRIMINAL!!!!!!!!!!
Or:THE HAIRY BULLYDYKE BILLARY=NOTORIOUS WAR CRIMINAL!!!!!!…
I couldn’t agree more with the 1st, but you’re a conservative Christian, the 2nd sets you up with a dilemma; because the ‘bulldyke’ moniker is perfect for Michele Bachmann:
http://ronaldthomaswest.com/2013/05/24/the-michelle-bachmann-archetype/
^ It were never a black & white world 😉
Are jews, slavs, white hispanics, wogs (italians, greeks, MENAs etc) who were born in America included in your Native Born White American tribe?
Reading these comments really makes me wonder where people have their heads. Amerika has become a police state and is going even further in that direction. Most of these commenters seem to think it is OK for police to treat blacks anyway they see fit. The fact of the matter is they don’t treat whites any better. It is past due for the brutal police to be brought under control. First of all they need to establish minimum IQ standards to be in law enforcement (Most of the present police appear to be on the lower end of the IQ range). Secondly they should have to pass strict psychological screening (many are sadistic bullies). Thirdly all jurisdictions that hire police should have to establish civilian review boards selected in the same way juries are selected. They should serve for a maximum of two years and then be replaced. Their job should be to determine matters of police brutality and other misconduct and refer their findings to the State Attorneys Office. As far as war criminals in public office goes we have more than our share in both parties. Both Clintons are war criminal and Jeb Bush is a war criminals brother and son.
The New Testament challenges Christians to be SOBER.SOBER.SOBER.
Acknowledging that the world’s” culture” is rotted through and through by intoxication, is part and parcel of coming out of the Babylon system.
African-Americans who repent and are willing to turn from sin have blessed assurance of eternal life-a process that begins here !
God resisteth the proud; but giveth grace unto the humble.
They should have never been allowed into the country to begin with. This nation was founded for the posterity of white protestants from the British Isles. Every group we have allowed in since the 1840s has worked to destroy the liberties left to us by the Founders.
@ Chris Mallory
The WASPS turned to false idols and worshiped money-and kidnapped Africans and brought them here in chains because they believe in enlightened self-interest… GREED!!
“The problems of Black America cannot simply be explained by welfare. Welfare in Sweden doesn’t produce anything like Detroit or Baltimore. The reality is that the problem is genetic.”
Welfare does explain much of it, but not all.
Genetics (low IQ) and the resultant dysfunction and crime are exacerbated by giving them unearned cash & benefits at others expense.
Problems in Sweden? How about under reported, unacknowledged, ‘I don’t see you’.
After all the whole unsustainable Marxist system will be revealed unless the truth is hidden.
And as to when it becomes too obvious to deny, the answer is SOON.
See case after case, there is no exception.
Oh yawn, Mr. West.
As if your rambling rant explains why so many blacks & browns are breaking down the door to get into white majority countries.
In any region, city, country where blacks run the government and / or are a majority we see the same rampant crime, corruption, blight, disease, filth, & over breeding.
There are no exceptions.
Sorry Bobby, perhaps my referred link was above your reading level. Here’s an easier to comprehend analysis of White conservative Christian mentality:
http://ronaldthomaswest.com/2014/04/07/thuck-norris/
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So if a system is doomed to failure and it’s reported, then that proves its failure. But if its failure isn’t reported, then that also proves its failure because they don’t report the failure out of refusal to acknowledge it or because they’re deliberately hiding it?
You realize that, with such a system in place, you can literally never be wrong? Not to mention that your whole argument is a monumental example of begging the question? I’m sorry, but things don’t actually work that way.
I think mass unemployment has a corrosive effect on everyone. Genetics make the effect worse or better but if the 50s culture had carried on longer then the genetics would gradually have changed for the better in the same way they did for white people in the past.
I hope the above is a self-parody but I’m afraid you may really mean it.