{"id":23600,"date":"2014-08-19T16:14:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-19T20:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=23600"},"modified":"2014-08-19T16:14:00","modified_gmt":"2014-08-19T20:14:00","slug":"one-opinion-on-the-cause-of-ferguson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=23600","title":{"rendered":"One Opinion On The Cause Of Ferguson"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday PJ Media<\/a> posted an article entitled, “The Real Villain of Ferguson.”<\/p>\n

The article opens with the following comment:<\/p>\n

It\u2019s hard to have sympathy for anyone in the Ferguson affair \u2014 the cops, the demonstrators, the pontificating politicians, the exploitative media or we its pathetically loyal audience that keeps tuning in. \u00a0The whole event plays out like the umpteenth rerun of the famous quote from Marx<\/a> about history repeating itself, the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The events in Feguson have gone on for a number of days now. It is unfortunate that a young man died, but I just don’t understand why that justifies looting and violence. As more evidence becomes public, the story changes from the original sympathy for the innocent young man brutalized by the police to a young man, possibly high, charging a policeman. We shall see how all of this shakes out.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the story at PJMedia concludes:<\/p>\n

But, you say, this was a white-on-black<\/a> crime. An o-fay cop offed a brother. (Never mind that brothers can butcher brothers like it\u2019s going out of style, this pig had white-skin privilege<\/a>.) \u00a0Well, yes, and we don\u2019t yet know the circumstances, but even accepting the narrative of, say, the Huffington Post<\/a> that the cop was the reincarnation of Bull Connor<\/a> and that the \u201cyouth\u201d<\/a> was a \u201cgentle giant\u201d on the way to a contract with PBS<\/a> as the next Mr. Rogers, the event is basically a charade. \u00a0Everyone knows we\u2019ve seen it before and everyone knows we\u2019ll see it again. \u00a0In fact, many parties don\u2019t want it to go away. \u00a0The beat must go on. \u00a0It has to go on or their very personalities will disintegrate. \u00a0And I will tell you why \u2014 what caused it.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Great Society<\/a>. \u00a0There, I\u2019ve said it. \u00a0The Great Society, which I voted for and supported from the bottom of my heart, is the villain behind Ferguson. \u00a0Ferguson is the Great Society writ large because the Great Society convinced, and then reassured, black people that they were victims, taught them that being a victim and playing a victim was the way to go always and forever. \u00a0And then it repeated the point\u00a0ad infinitum from its debut in 1964 until now \u2014 a conveniently easy to compute fifty years \u2014 as it all became a self-fulfilling prophecy.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Great Society and similar policies screwed black people to the wall. It was racist to the core without knowing it. \u00a0Nobody used the N-word. \u00a0In fact, it was forbidden, unless you were Dr. Dre<\/a> or somebody. \u00a0But it did its job without the word and did it better for being in disguise. \u00a0Those misbegotten kids running around Ferguson high on reefer and wasting their lives screaming at cops are the product of all this. \u00a0Stop it already. \u00a0No one has said this better than Jason Riley, author of Please Stop Helping Us<\/em><\/a>. \u00a0Listen to Jason if you want to end Fergusons.<\/strong><\/p>\n

There are people out there who represent the voice of reason. We need to start listening to them instead of those the media places in front of us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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