Always Blame the Victim

The black establishment figures would all have us believe that low voter turnout killed Michael Brown, rather than the sharp end of a vicious police and prison state that black politicians, black Democrats have partnered with their white colleagues of both parties to build and operate.

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South Carolina representative James Clyburn was on CSPAN TV Labor Day sitting alongside establishment historian Peniel Joseph, sagely instructing audiences that while 56% of Ferguson residents turned out to vote in the 2012 presidential elections, less than 10% came out when the local mayor's job was up for grabs.

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Congressman Clyburn is not stupid, just self-involved and self-interested like the rest of the black political class. He knows that cities with lots of high ranking black cops and often black mayors, from New Orleans and Atlanta to Philly and Columbia SC, also savagely mistreat African Americans.

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[O]ur black political class doesn't need anything new. For them, the old stuff is working perfectly well, as long as their own careers keep rolling along.

  Black Agenda Report

Now that’s the same in any color.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.