The Rude Pundit: Let's Be Clear About Michael Brown
Here's a nice picture for your Thursday night:
This is the desperate attempt by Matt Drudge to show that Michael Brown, who was shot down, unarmed, and, from multiple witness accounts, with his hands up and moving away from a police car in Ferguson, Missouri, was some kind of thug. How him flipping off the camera (in a jokey, "I'm-just-scratching" way) accomplishes this only the terrier-fucking Drudge would know. Drudge and other shit-eaters of the right just have to gangsta Brown up in order to protect the power of the cop-soldiers who, until tonight, were acting like total, deranged, over-armed, roided-up cockholes with protesters, reporters, and people at home in Ferguson.
And to what end do Drudge and the cop's water carriers need to show this? To say that it was okay to gun the 18 year-old down?
Let's be fucking clear about Michael Brown:
It doesn't matter if he was the biggest drug dealer in the St. Louis metropolitan area.
It doesn't matter if he was the baddest gangsta in the Ferguson 'hood.
It doesn't matter if he was the biggest pimp in the state.
It doesn't matter if he had committed robberies or purse snatchings.
It doesn't matter how many gang signs he flashed with his hands.
It doesn't matter if he said, "Fuck tha police" every chance he got.
It doesn't matter if he flipped off cops or grabbed his junk while looking at them.
None of that justifies being gunned down by a police officer. None of it.
Of course, Michael Brown wasn't any of the above.
What does matter is what the cop did and what the cops have done and will do. You can bet that the officer who shot Brown didn't ask if he was a future college student. He was just another nigger, indistinguishable from the niggers around him, and that was enough.
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That's all he was to them. Just another- what you said. I'm tired this. I've been called that more times than I can count. So tired. 
which had absolutely nothing to do with what Zimmerman did. I get so sick of it. Blame the victim; like flipping off a camera should carry the death penalty. 
for what's going on in this country. If they were white, they would still be called children, African American children are no different, but to them, they are "adult thugs". Full disclosure, I'm white, my son is 20 and in the scheme of things, he's still a "baby"; meaning an absence of life experience. I feel the same for these kids shot down in cold blood, whether from cops, or wanna be cops.
If they'd take a look at the FB pages of white kids, they'd find he exact same things. The only difference is that they're used against African Americans to impugn their characters, when it has nothing to do with the issue at hand. 
Easy to find out ain't it. 
I say we split first place 3 ways! 
I'm rolling on the floor here at the coinkydink of it all.
Thanks to all three of you for posting that video. I'd seen the pic lots of times but never did see its origin.
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Twitter users are challenging media portrayals of black youth in the wake of Missouri police shooting. (Source: @901JohnnyDa55h, Twitter)
...Hundreds of African-Americans posted side-by-side images of themselves, juxtaposing graduation, military or family photos with those that reinforced stereotypes assigned to black youth. Then they asked: "If police shot me down, which picture would the media use?"
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So instead of arresting Michael Brown as an armed robbery suspect, he tells the two young men to get on sidewalk...
Seems legit.
Libruls.
You know,...cuz we're screwed if it turns out the black kid wasn't "one of the good ones".....ya know?
