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)

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.)

Canonizing Trayvon Martin

Canonizing Trayvon Martin

 

With Pope Francis scheduled to officially recognize former Popes John XXIII and John Paul II as canonized saints in the Roman Catholic Church on Sunday, it’s appropriate that we pay homage to an unofficial American saint-in-the-making, black martyr, Trayvon Benjamin Martin.

If eventually secularly sanctified, Martin’s sainthood would be unique.

The fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin, a 17 year old black man-child, by 29 year old, mixed-race neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman in the early evening of February 26th, 2012, was an avoidable national tragedy, but hardly grounds for Trayvon’s sainthood in any sense.

It was avoidable because Martin failed to control his rage at being accosted and challenged and because of Zimmerman’s overzealousness in performing his volunteer job of protecting his Sanford, Florida community.
I
t evolved into a national tragedy, in fact, a national travesty, when Zimmerman was pre-judged guilty and threatened with execution by radical civil rights agitators. 

That unpunished, outrageous threat by the New Black Panther Party accompanied the mainstream media wildly sensationalizing and twisting the truth about the defendant and the incident and was further exacerbated by the president of the United States needlessly interjecting himself in a local affair, thereby intentionally or unintentionally helping ignite a national firestorm over race, prejudice, and the equity of “Stand Your Ground” laws.

(See graphic, including previously suppressed, photos of Martin and Zimmerman here http://tinyurl.com/k9blrzo.)

When George Zimmerman was totally exonerated by a jury of his peers in July, 2013 and the FBI regretfully conceded it found no racial bias in the shooting, overly optimistic observers assumed, hoped, that the unfortunate spectacle was over and done with. 

We naively felt that Martin would and should forever be fondly remembered by his family and friends and that  Zimmerman would and should be permitted to live out his life as an innocent, free man.

Of course, as often detailed in this space, none of those hopes came to fruition.

Following the not guilty verdict, black agitators like the New Black Panther Party, Al Sharpton, and Jesse Jackson reacted by ramping up their threats and racial hatred.  Obama’s MSM continued to publish pictures depicting Trayvon as an innocent 12 year old instead of the thuggish, menacing 17 year old he had become.  Martin’s memory was cynically transformed into a black cause of dubious merit.  And Zimmerman was forced to go into hiding to preserve his life.
Compounding those belated miscarriages of justice at the same time they demeaned the life and death of Trayvon Martin, . . . (Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=36827.)