Who’s to Blame for the Ferguson Riots?
Source: amren.com
The police, of course.
The day before Michael Brown was shot in Ferguson, Missouri, and the town went up in flames, citizens of Baltimore buried a three-year-old black child, McKenzie Elliot. A stray bullet, fired in another one of those “random” acts of mayhem that are buried deep in local newspapers, killed little McKenzie. That same day, the city of Baltimore implemented a curfew. Children under 14 must be indoors by 9 p.m., with 14-, 15-, and 16-year-olds inside by 10 p.m. on school nights and 11 p.m. on weekends.
A spokesman for the black mayor of Baltimore, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, explained the purpose of the curfew: “The primary goal of all of this is to make sure young people who may be in challenging situations late at night are able to get home safely.”
Curfews are usually imposed as part of martial law. In cities with large black populations, however, this kind of authoritarianism is common. Nor are curfews imposed by whites on blacks–blacks often complain that whites had not been doing enough to police their communities.
- In 2011, Mayor Michael Nutter of Philadelphia increased police patrols in response to “knockout game” attacks, imposed a curfew, and pushed harsh sentences on first-time offenders.
- That same year, Mayor Sly James of Kansas City, also black, tightened an already existing curfew after he was caught in a gunfight between “youths.” To this day, the city maintains a strong presence in trouble areas in order to enforce the law, which imposes a $500 fine on curfew-breakers.
- In 2013, Jesse Jackson called for “immediate Federal Intervention and Homeland Security in Chicago.”
- Just last July, black pundit Roland Martin said the National Guard should be sent to protect Chicago.
When black politicians impose a police state on their “youth” or when black activists ask the armed forces to keep blacks from shooting each other, it goes mostly unnoticed–unlike the frenzy over a white mayor’s “stop and frisk” policy in New York City. Needless to say, the reactions to the police response to the Ferguson riots–because it was ordered by a white police chief–is getting the same treatment as Michael Bloomberg’s “stop and frisk” policy. At Slate, Jamelle Bouie says the police are “treating demonstrators–and Ferguson residents writ large–as a population to occupy, not citizens to protect.” When white people are behind it, a robust police response is invasive and threatening.
The Ferguson police department is, of course, being criticized by the rioters and everyone else for being too white: It has three black officers out of a force of 53. Police Chief Thomas Jackson pleads that he is “constantly trying to recruit African-Americans and other minorities . . . but it’s an uphill battle.”
The Ferguson riots are also a chance for reporters and activists to work one of their favorite–and ugliest–moral shell games. Instead of condemning rioters and arsonists outright, they accuses the police, white people, and America generally of “racism,” thus implicitly excusing and encouraging the violence. Gawker is using the incident to claim “America is not for black people,” and VICE’s Natasha Lennard explains that “The Ferguson Riots Are Not a Shift Away From Peace, They’re a Challenge to Violence.” Got that? Looting and burning local stores, attacking police officers, and destroying public property is a “challenge to violence.”
"A QuikTrip convenience store burns during a night of rioting in Ferguson, Missouri August 10, 2014. Police arrested 32 people after rioting and looting erupted in Ferguson, Missouri, late on Sunday and spread to neighboring towns in protests that turned violent over the killing of a black teenager by a police officer, officials said on Monday." (BDNMaine Nation)
"Protesters form a line against Missouri State Police during a protest in Ferguson, Missouri on August 11, 2014. " (CBSLocal)
As of this writing, the rioting continues, though so does normal life in Ferguson. Yesterday, four or five blacks driving by in a car shot a woman in the head. This was so unremarkable that it got just four sentences in the local news.
Everyone is tip-toeing around “root cause” of all of this. Ferguson used to be a prosperous and peaceful Southern town, but as one story explained, St. Louis schools got so bad that even blacks couldn’t stand them, and some moved to nearby suburbs like Ferguson. The result: “As more black residents moved in, whites in Ferguson began to move to outer suburbs.” The town is nearly 70 percent black.
Jesse Jackson warns us, “There’s a Ferguson near you.” Believe us, we know–and most whites are doing their best to move away from it, though Barack Obama’s government does its best to prevent that.
The story of Ferguson is the story of countless communities that transformed from the First World to the Third in just one generation. The legacy of that transformation in Ferguson is a mostly white political class and mostly white police force that try to keep a lid on crime and violence in a majority black city. For trying to achieve the impossible, they receive nothing but condemnation.
Michael Brown’s shooting may have been unjustified. Or maybe not. We don’t know what happened because the investigation is just underway.
What blacks and those who defend them in the media fail to understand is that rioting has nothing to do with whether an officer committed a horrible mistake or even premeditated murder. If whites were rioting in analogous circumstances–very hard to imagine, but let’s try–everyone would say they were scum, but since they are black they are mounting a “challenge to violence.”
What, after all, are the “protestors” supposedly protesting? That they don’t have the right simply to murder people they don’t like? Michael Brown’s mother has already said she wants the police officer who shot her son dead, so that may be the case.
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