On the Ferguson, Missouri rioting...................

Watching the Ferguson rioters make their angry case against their police department infuriates me. The truth hurts, but it has to be said: Many in the black community are so addicted to the concept of “victimization” and “racism” that they are unable to cope with reality.

The so-called national black “leadership”, President Obama, Eric Holder, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson et al – seem more interested in stoking the fires of racism rather than leading the conversation where it really needs to go: Black on black crime is the greatest threat to a young black man. Police go into these black neighborhoods to prevent or deal with black on black crime, not hurt innocent young black men. 

It is so politically incorrect for a black man to say these things out loud – you won’t hear this from the NAACP, the SCLC, CORE, or the National Urban League.  Of course, racism still exists and any right-minded person should be against it, but as a country we have come a long way since the 1960’s. We have our first black president (a 2 term President no less), and blacks hold high offices in every city and state in the country. Yet, blacks overwhelmingly commit the majority of crime in this country, even though they are only 13% of the population. Our prison system is populated overwhelmingly by blacks. The majority of black children are being raised in fatherless homes. Personal responsibility has something to do with the current dilemma.

Blaming the police for killing a young man who had recently robbed a store, physically attacked and beat a policeman - and then tried to wrestle a gun from the cop’s hands just makes no sense. Would a “reasonable person” expect a different outcome? Now that the evidence is out in the public - and the physical evidence and testimony is overwhelming, how can these people continue to wail about police brutality – which does happen - in this particular instance?  

There are anarchists in our society who wish to break society down and oppose any authority. More importantly, they have nothing to lose in the instances of rioting that they instigate. I would not be surprised that many of the “strangers from out-of-town” mixed into the crowds in Ferguson were garden-variety anarchists.  I am sure that many in the crowd were genuinely sympathetic to the horrible reality that someone lost their life, and it should not have happened – in a perfect world. Yes, there are many legitimate instances of police brutality that are worth protesting, but Ferguson wasn’t one of them. Unfortunately, our world is far from perfect.