Will St. Michael of Ferguson Join St. Trayvon of Sanford?

Will St. Michael of Ferguson Join St. Trayvon of Sanford?

 

They’re still demonstrating in Ferguson, Missouri three weeks after the shooting death by a white policeman of the black, unarmed, 18 year old ”Gentle Giant” Michael Brown, a six foot, four inch, 200+ pound “Big Teddy Bear,” and there are already signs that Brown may soon be elevated to virtual sainthood to reign with Trayvon Martin as the patron saints of all black teenaged martyrs of evil white people.

The unarmed, seventeen year old, black teen Trayvon Martin was killed in Sanford, Florida in 2012 with a bullet fired from the legally-owned weapon of Neighborhood Watchman, mixed-race George Zimmerman.

Numerous reports surfaced substantiating the truth, namely that Martin was a violent gang banger, after Zimmerman was  exonerated on the basis of self defense by an impartial jury of his peers.  Nevertheless, Trayvon Martin has been enshrined by his supporters as an innocent martyr to the cause of the African-American quest for truth and justice, a black saint who gave up his life to a hateful, white bigot.

If anything, Michael Brown revealed himself as an even greater low life than Trayvon during his aborted career as a rap aficionado.

In Brown’s case, his supporters have intentionally ignored multiple video and eyewitness evidence that the Ferguson police officer had also acted in self defense and in line with his enforcement duties but those realities and the fact that police and FBI haven’t even completed their investigations have failed to deter them from characterizing Brown as just one more innocent victim of white injustice worthy of virtual sainthood.

Lauded by his 2013 summer school English teacher as an aspiring rap song writer who “had a plan. It was his music, and then it was technical school. A lot of kids who think they’re rappers don’t have a Plan B, but Mike really seemed to.” 

But Wesley Lowery, while gratuitously praising Brown, described him in the Washington Post as a prolific rapper “who appeared to be one of those guys who was putting in the time, even if the skills didn’t quite match his aspirations.”

To advance his rap career as “Big Mike Luh Vee K,” Brown actually built a makeshift, basement music studio where he composed, sang, and recorded such lyrics as, . . . (Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=38835)

The Ferguson Aftermath: More of the Same

The Ferguson Aftermath: More of the Same

 

Two years ago, the rabidly-leftist Center for American Progress (CAP) published a report by Sophia Kerby detailing the gross inequities in America’s justice system.

A self-described “civil rights and social justice advocate passionate about issues that impact communities of color and women,” Ms. Kerby is the Special Assistant for Progress 2050 at American Progress and serves as the Policy Associate for the Brennan Center for Justice working with “civil rights, social justice, and democracy organizations to develop policy goals and share information critical to advancing civil rights in federal policy.”

Unfortunately, though the information in her analysis of the comparative number of arrests, incarcerations, and executions of blacks as contrasted with whites in America cited a number of statistics, it omitted the reasons of those arrests, etc.

For example, Ms. Kerby references the fact that people of color, some 30% of the U.S.’ population, account for 60% of men in prison and that incarceration rates of men of color far exceed the rates of white men.

Among other damning facts, she correctly states that:

–A third of black men will end up in prison at some time in their lives and incur longer sentences than whites; 

–Individuals of color have a disproportionate number of encounters with law enforcement, attributable to racial profiling;

–Non-white students face more frequent and more severe punishment in our schools and are arrested more often than white kids;

–The war on drugs has been waged mainly in minority communities and people of color are usually charged with ”higher offenses”;

–Over the thirty year span of 1980 through 2007, a third of the 25.4 million adults arrested on drug charges were African-American;

–Voter laws prohibiting those with felony convictions from voting ”disproportionately impact men of color.” 

What Sophia Kerby curiously and egregiously fails to mention are the uncomfortable realities that people of color are disproportionately disposed to commit crimes and, by virtue of that fact, are treated appropriately in our courts of law and are being arrested, incarcerated, denied voting privileges, etc. just as whites would be. . . . (Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=38776.)

The Phony Trayvon Martin Foundation

The Phony Trayvon Martin Foundation

 

Acording to its website, the Trayvon Martin Foundation is dedicated to creating “awareness of how violent crime impacts the families of the victims and to provide support and advocacy for those families in response to the murder of Trayvon Martin. . . . [and] to advocate that crime victims and their families are not ignored in the discussions about violent crime to increase public awareness of all forms of racial ethnic and gender profiling to educate youth on conflict resolution techniques and to reduce the incidences where confrontations between strangers turn deadly.”

An admirable “Mission Statement,” indeed!  Who could take issue with the goals of supporting victims’ families and educating young blacks who are killing one another nationwide in unprecedented numbers?

The chief problem with that dedication is that the TMF, founded in March 2012 by the late Trayvon’s parents, Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin as a not-for-profit organization, less than a month after their son was killed by George Zimmerman in Sanford, Florida, is that it is predicated on a fundamental falsehood since, in fact, his death was not a murder.

“Murder” is commonly defined as an unlawful, premeditated killing of a human being with malice aforethought.  The shooting death of Trayvon Martin doesn’t come close to satisfying that accepted meaning of the word and its use constitutes nothing more than an incendiary effort to arouse false sympathy and irrational anger in African-American circles, as well as to stoke funding for the foundation.

Despite a concerted effort on the parts of local and federal authorities, the mass media, and black racemongers to convict him, Zimmerman was acquitted over a year ago on the basis that he lawfully, without either premeditation or malice, shot and killed Martin as an act of self-defense during the course of carrying out his patrol duties as neighborhood watch coordinator at the gated Retreat at Twin Lakes, a community beset by a rash of burglaries and home invasions.

It was certainly the prerogative of Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin to establish a foundation in memory of their son, just as it was perfectly within his grieving mother’s rights to try to trademark virtually everything associated with Trayvon’s name, also only a month after his tragic death.

At the great risk of seeming grossly insensitive, . . . (Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=38622.)

Ferguson and Michael Brown, Microcosms of MSM Hypocrisy

Ferguson and Michael Brown, Microcosms of MSM Hypocrisy

 

With notable exceptions, President Barack Hussein Obama’s mainstream media studiously, obediently, avoid mention of the race of wanted and suspected criminals even when identifying their race would greatly aid in their apprehension and possibly obviate repeat crimes.

The exceptions invariably include situations in which the criminality has become public knowledge through some source–and almost always when the suspect is white.

The practice of concealing the ethnicity of black suspects pre-dated the Obama administration and was defended by Chicago Tribune Editor Gerould Kern as an effort “to guard against subjecting an entire group of people [blacks] to suspicion” and to forestall racial unrest.

The MSM’s and Kern’s rationale has been repeatedly shown to be an abject failure as evidenced by the riots in Ferguson, Missouri, riots, looting, and burning in premature overreaction to the shooting death of Michael Brown by a Ferguson policeman. 

If anything, pretending violence among African-Americans isn’t rampant simply fuels more violence by other blacks who may think the media are on their side.

Obama’s media has truly outdone itself with this story, almost outdoing their misrepresentations and outright distortions two years ago involving the case of George Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin when they plumbed new depths of journalistic and ethical irresponsibility.

As with Martin, much of the MSM quickly jumped to unfounded conclusions as to Officer Darren Wilson’s guilt as well as concealing details which conflicted with their politically correct political agenda aimed at portraying Brown as the innocent, black victim of endemic, racial prejudice and Wilson as his bigoted, white, merciless executioner.

—They have in effect tried and convicted the six-year police veteran Wilson of murder while depicting the new high school graduate Brown as just another unarmed black kid who was targeted only because of his race.  

---They have . . . (Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=38590.)

Trayvon Kicked to the Curb, Michael Takes Center Stage

Trayvon Kicked to the Curb, Michael Takes Center Stage

 

Remember Trayvon Martin?  Of course you do.

For those who don’t, Trayvon was the 17 year-old, unarmed Sanford, Florida black teenager who was shot and killed by white neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman in 2012 and then crowned the new poster boy for black racist agitators, supplanting their previous hero, Rodney King.

Zimmerman was subsequently exonerated by a jury of his peers on the grounds of self-defense.  His exoneration didn’t mean a tinker’s dam to the agitators who continued to campaign for his assassination and inflamed the nation into an orgy of demonstrations, looting, and student strikes–all in Martin’s honor.

In point of fact, Trayvon Martin may have been a chronological teenager but he was also a muscular, six-foot one thug and an avid strret fighter with a record of drug use and possession of burglar tools, although none of those negative character features were brought up either at Zimmerman’s trial or by Trayvon’s chief fan club, the New Black Panther Party.

Instead, he was lauded in the mainstream media as an innocent, young kid who had been senselessly murdered and was then virtually adopted posthumously by Barack Hussein Obama when the president said, “If I had a son, he’d look like Trayvon.”

Now, fast forward to 2014 and Ferguson, Missouri’s 18 year-old Michael Brown.

The unarmed Brown was shot and killed last Saturday by a Ferguson police officer but few other details on the circumstances of the shooting had been made public, not even the cop’s name or race.  Until today when the officer’s name was released.  

In view of the numerous death threats made against him and the murderous reputation of the New Black Panther Party which agitated for that information, that move might be tantamount to complicity in murder.

The police also released today videotape evidence that Brown wasn’t exactly your average black kid in Ferguson, unless the average black kid in the St. Louis suburb engages in stealing cigars from a local convenience store and strong-arming a white clerk half his size.

That surveillance video puts the lie to claims that Brown was simply . . . Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=38549.) 

The Tragic Travesty of Michael Brown's Death

The Tragic Travesty of Michael Brown's Death

 

Isn’t it funny, in the most pathetic sense, that a lone shooting in the little town of Ferguson, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis, can stir up such an upheaval while hundreds of shootings in the metropolis of Chicago, Illinois elicit a great, big yawn?

An unidentified police officer apparently shot and killed 18-year old Michael Brown on Saturday.  According to  his buddy, Dorian Johnson, he and Brown were innocently strolling home after visiting a convenience store when the cop told them to get onto the sidewalk and off the street.

The pair ignored him and kept on walking which seemed to arouse the cop’s suspicions as to whether they might be up to no good. 

He dutifully confronted them and Johnson says the officer then fired at them as they were running away and, after the second shot, ”He shot again, and once my friend felt that shot, he turned around and put his hands in the air and he started to get down.  But the officer still approached with his weapon drawn and fired several more shots.”

Johnson adds, “We wasn’t causing harm to nobody. We had no weapons on us at all,” without clarifying whether they have caused any harm in the past or usually carried “weapons.”

In any event, the tragic incident, reminiscent of Trayvon Martin’s 2012 killing in Florida, resulted in huge demonstrations and a massive outpouring of grief over Brown’s death and a candlelight vigil in his honor, as well as an influx of racial agitators including Attorney General Eric Holder’s Department of Justice. 

As typical in such cases, widespread looting and burning of Ferguson’s stores and businesses ensued,  undoubtedly also carried out in Brown’s honor. . . (Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=38508.)