White Folks Be Like "Gimme The Loot"!

To paraphrase Biggie, and turn it around, the reason Ferguson-type cases keep happening is that white folks have been "Robbing motherfuckers since the slave ships, with the same clip, and the same four-five." This stuff isn't new. It's very, VERY old.

Man, That Prosecutor is a Pit Bull

The St Louis DA's examination of Darren Wilson, paraphrased:

Mr. Wilson, isn't it correct that you are Caucasian?

Yes.

And isn't it correct that Michael Brown was black?

Yes.

Prosecution rests, Your Honor.

Darren Wilson Has a Bright Future

So Darren Wilson quit his job with as a St Louis police officer. Don't worry about him, I'm sure he can get on as a cop in either Maricopa County, AZ, Sanford, FL, or Jefferson Parish, LA.

Those White Kids and Their Culture of Violence

Gee, why aren't white people protesting all this white on white crime? Is it just their culture of violence? Or all the single mothers?

What Do "White People" Have to Do with Darren Wilson?

I've seen several Internet comments asking what "white people" as a group have to do with Darren Wilson. It's painful but simple: we created him.

We created a culture that devalues black lives, most especially young black male lives. That's us. We created a culture that sees police force against black citizens as acceptable "law and order" but sees force against white citizens as an aberration at best and government tyranny at worst. Look at the responses to Waco and Ruby Ridge. That's us. We created a culture that is reflectively defensive in the extreme, banding together in support of "our own" whenever one of us is criticized, much less actually attacked, by one of "those people." Us again. We created a culture that thinks the answer to racism is for everyone else to stop talking about the existence of racism, while we pretend to "not see color." Us, too. And it was us, as a group, who collected over a half a million dollars in donations to support Darren Wilson BEFORE his legal guilt or innocence had even begun to be tested. THAT's what we have to do with Darren Wilson.

If any given white person wants to NOT be "lumped in" with those "other" white people, we have to start by admitting who and what we have been and continue to be, culturally. And then we have to actively reject and work against those things in white culture that we want to be separated from in the eyes of others. And after that...we have to recognize, understand, and accept that because we always have benefitted and always will benefit from the racial inequalities in this country, we are GOING to be included in any discussions of what white people do as a group and a culture, with at best an occasional mention of us not being "like that".

Nothing Inherently Racist About the Handling of the Wilson Case?

To those who think there's nothing inherently racist about the handling of the Brown case: St Louis County DA McCullough just ran unopposed for reelection despite a longstanding negative reputation in the local black community. How is this possible? The county is 70% white and 23% black.

Thus far, the only prominent dissents against McCullough's handling of the case have come from the black community. The white community is essentially silent on the issue, or vocally supportive. Without some pushback from the white voters, McCullough has ZERO chance of suffering any political fallout from this.

White prosecutor in a county with a white supermajority exonerates white cop for shooting an unarmed black man. Tell me again that has nothing to do with race.

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