The "conservative" movement division of spin - F0x - has added a new chapter to their narrative that Democrats are at "war with whites", that African Americans and all Dems are "Playing the race card".
This latest reactionary theme involves the notion that AA's are to blame for their own oppression, disenfranchisement, under-representation and pretty much deserve to be beat up for speaking out when profiled, stopped and frisked and yes, even murdered by the police.
The murder of teenager Michael Brown by a "peace" officer has exposed just how far the RWNJ's in this country will go to absolve themselves of their own complicity in maintaining a system of minority oppression and white privilege.
It also shows that the GOP, in balancing their narratives between the true interests they shill for; the 1%ers, and those they feign interest in and must convince they also represent; the RWNJ's (including the fringe - their base iow's), are fearful and it is showing in their choice of spokespersons to their cause
Fox news examines Michael Brown's mother, but ignores her concern that justice be done for the police shooting of her son (video @ minute 4:20):
Question asked of Michael Browns mother:
"How can peace be restored ma'am?"
Michael Brown's mother:
"With justice."
Question:
"And what is justice to you"
Michael Brown's mother:
"By being fair. Arresting this man, and making him accountable for his actions"
Fox then turns to Ben Carson to nail down the spin job:
"She believes the officer needs to be arrested, and I can understand why she feels that way. Do you agree?
Ben Carson:
"Well..I couldn't hear, it broke up. I think it's very unfair to march the families who've been traumatized like this out in front of, uh, the national media. Of course they're going to be emotionally distraught. And of course they're going to say things..you know, if they had time to reflect and after the wounds have healed a little bit that they might not say.
That's exploitation as far as I'm concerned, and ya know, my heart of course, like everyone else's goes out to these families..."
No. No and NO asshole. Mrs. Brown's son was
murdered. No amount of reflection will change that painful fact or her completely reasonable request for justice. And to belittle Mrs. Brown by questioning her thoughts, feelings, and her unequivocal message that she wants justice for her son and the way to do that is to arrest the murdering officer, as if these thoughts and demands are not of her own, is exactly the kind of scum bag tactics that republicans use to cover for their racist agenda.
Appeasing the guilty and blaming their political enemies for crimes against humanity that they, the republicans commit, even if it means attacking an innocent grieving mother as part of the method to absolve themselves.
But Carson didn't stop with the mother. He goes after the victim himself
Carson makes sure to mention Michael Brown's 'questionable character' continuing his smug paternalism:
"You know it doesn't really matter what you're son did, uh, or what kind of record he has, uh, he's still your son. He's still someone you absolutely love..and someone you're going to have feelings that other people have or perhaps don't have.
But to march them out [Michael's mother and other family] and to torture them like that in front of the national media is probably not the right thing to do right now."
So there's that. Some soft spoken spin job that F0x &
not-
'blah'.. friends, afraid to stand alone to speak their racist meme that they need said. So they hide behind a 'blah' man to speak for AA's.
Ben Carson who then demeans Michael Browns mother and family by implying that Michael Browns mother doesn't really mean what she says, she's too weak minded not to be manipulated; easily coerced into saying and thinking what the evil liberals put in front of her. Poor thing she was "tortured" by the liberal media.
Pure assholery right there Carson - and imo - says more about Carson's lack of intellect than it does about anyone else
Then with more diversion from truth: For racially "balanced reporting" Fox finds another AA dominionist teabag Kevin Jackson, to focus blame on everyone but the guilty:
Fox And Friends Find Black Teabagger To Defend Ferguson P.D. - By Vegasjessie August 18, 2014 @ Crooks & Liars (video - warning - F0x's Elisabeth Hasselbeck, Steve Doocy, Brian Kilmead interview Kevin Jackson - blaming AA's and activists for their own oppression)
There are a number of really wrong things happening in this country. Painful destructive racist, ugly things.
John Oliver covers some of them including the need to demilitarize our police force in this video over the orange divide.
link: http://www.hbo.com/...
Just a couple of things:
• The U.S. Defense Department 1033 program = 4.3 $billion in military equipment transferred to local police
• military escalation of force training: the only time to directly point a weapon at another person is to shoot to kill.
militarized riot police aim weapons at citizens
• local police forces have demonstrated are not trained to handle these military assault weapons/gear/vehicles
• "79%.. of SWAT deployments the ACLU studied were for the purpose of executing a seach warrant, most commonly in drug investigations." - iow's the racial targeted "war on drugs" aka Criminal injustice: the American cradle to prison pipeline
• We have police to keep the peace not make war. This is a clear cut example republicans favorite theme; "waste fraud and abuse" on steroids and Ferguson, Missouri drives that point home - this program and any like it should end
After pointing out the patronizing (putting it gently - imo) treatment of the citizens of Ferguson, John Oliver ends with this:
"..I know the police love their ridiculous unnecessary military equipment, so here's another patronizing test; let's take it all away from them and if..they can make it through a whole month without killing a single unarmed black man, then, and only then can they get their fucking toys back."
Thank you for putting up with my
ranting anger on this - and Kudos to John Oliver for what he does so well :) - and Captain Ron Johnson for the man he is
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P.S. this subject has been covered very well by really good writers here @ Daily Kos and i've linked to several. I wanted to help to expose the republicans on this latest ugly attack on the people of Ferguson as it is a national agenda that is at the heart of this GOP effort and will continue to worsen as they wage war on the American people they do not value as people the way all people deserve. Demographic evolution has the "conservative" party of white privilege experimenting with dressing up the same old Jim Crow tricks in a more modern disguise - imo
Also John Oliver has a way of framing the issues that may reach even rwnj's since mocking seems to be their fun thing these last 5 years and Oliver shows how it is done - imo - and it looks like the word is getting out about the neo-con chicken-hawk GOP.
They've lost the narrative and the trust of the American people. Too many lies badly told and we Dems are making a difference too
Daily Kos writer Mark Sumner wrote on it:
Ferguson, Missouri: I think I felt the wind change...
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And this link too is good in this MB Dairy today: Tell Congress: Pass the Stop Militarizing Law Enforcement Act. No more Fergusons!
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Okay so this turned into a mosaic of ideas not quite as gathered up as I planned but I hope it makes sense too - Thx again