IT'S NOT ALL BLACK AND WHITE

October 3, 1995. Los Angles, CA. O.J. Simpson was acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Coleman outside of the Simpson's Brentwood, CA. condominium. The residents of Brentwood, to show their disagreement with the verdict, looted and burned down all the businesses on Brentwood's main street shrieking, "No justice, no peace."

Actually, I just made that story up. The OJ case didn't have the right "ingredients." for a riot. Ferguson MO did.

Ferguson MO is just the latest in a string of occurrences where poor blacks feel they are being preyed upon by "the man," and have no resource but to burn down what little they have. Why? Poverty is why the media will tell us that the blacks over react consistently, and negatively, as no other race has in similar situations. This would make a certain amount of twisted sense if it weren't for the fact that blacks make up about 14 % of the US population, and according to government statistics 48% of the US population is considered low income or in poverty. That means there are 34% of the rest of the population's non black, low income or in poverty and don't find it necessary to crap in their own cup and set their neighborhood back a couple of years at every seeming injustice.

I have been trying to figure out why the Ferguson fiasco, and others like it, have occurred. It was obviously not the killing of Michael Brown. Homicide is the leading cause of death among black youths 15-34 years of age. It could not have been a complete surprise to those who knew Michael, a choir boy he was not, and if he weren't killed chances are better than even he would spend a good portion of his life making license plates. I guess it's possible, even with his alleged marijuana use, he could have changed, straightened out his life and even become President, but that wouldn't be the way to bet. No, the riots couldn't be just about the killing of Michael Brown.

The riots couldn’t really be about a black person being killed by a white person because only 9% of the homicide deaths of black youth are committed by other than non blacks. It doesn’t seem to be worth burning down your neck of the woods to stop something that only happens 9 % of the time. Though the white person was a policeman, statistics show 99.9% of arrests do not end in fatalities. Why spend valuable time the rioter could have used looking for a job, to protest such an unlikely occurrence. No, the riots couldn't be a black and white thing.

So, again why the riots?

I have never met a black person I did not like. It's not the individuals; it is what the African-American race has let its leaders do to them that saddens and frustrates me. When you are a victim, your only power rests in your victimhood ("What can I do, I am a victim you know?"). The black "leaders" fully recognize that, and those leaers have made their livelihoods on insuring those who have thinking as a secondary skill believe there is very little blacks can do as long as the white establishment continues to be the "Masters of the Plantation."

I believe that riots occur in places like Ferguson not because of what actually happen, nor the skin colors of the participants, but because the blacks, as a race, feel they have lost control of their lives. They have no power. Their overlords can just come in and can even kill them with impunity. This is enough reason to lash back.

Which is just what the race-baiting "leaders" want. Unfortunately they are not the only ones who want this outcome. The "victims" are also wallowing in their victim status. If a person were to be able to examine the motives of those non Fergustonion blacks who came to Ferguson to loot and riot, you would find folks who recognize the power of victimhood and have made a life-style out of practicing "poor me."

An example of what I mean about the black leaders: Jessie Jackson was on TV with Chris Wallace and Jackson referred to the shooting as an "execution." (If the Rev. wanted to see an execution, he should have watched ISIS cutting off the head of James Foley.) Jackson then, in the face of known statistics, said white police killing black youths was a "pattern." Pattern? 91% of black homicide victims are killed by other blacks and .1% of all police encounters end in a fatality, and not all of those fatalities are a black fatality. The word "pattern" helps the reverend solidify the victim mentality and his own livelihood.

I just finished reading a column by black liberal columnist Eugene Robinson in which he was bemoaning the life of young black men and how policemen always pick on them and not white youth in the same situation. If blacks keep reading that BS day in and day out written by people who are supposed to have their readers' best interest at heart, like brain washed prisoners of war the blacks are going to believe it. Then when one of their fellow victims is killed by the "oppressor," their response, through fear alone, is bound to be excessive.

Blacks are constantly being jacked around. Their leaders are telling them every bad thing that happens to them is somebody else's fault, and the government is saying, "Don't you worry, you have obstacles to overcome, so we will take care of you." Where do blacks go and who do they go to to get back their self-esteem?

If only Ferguson could act as a catalyst for the many blacks not under the spell of this race rotting social system to rise up and find a leader that will give back African-Americas their pride and dignity by emphasizing, among other things, education and family. Blacks have a high school graduation rate of 69% vs. 86% for whites, which creates their unemployment rate of 11.4 % vs. 5.3% for whites. The family is where young men and women get their values and morals, and 55% percent of black children are raised in one-parent households vs. 21 % for whites. If the African -American community does not pull itself up buy its own boot straps, I fear we will forever lose the significant potential of much of our African-American population.

Events like those in Ferguson and other like it seem to me to be so bizarre. I mean destroying your own neighborhood even before you have the facts isn't logical, but it happens often, why? In an attempt to peel the skin from this complicated onion, this is my conclusion. Riots after police shootings do not occur because of the death; riots do not occur because of the color of the folks involved; they do not occur solely because those involved are poor. Riots occur because the people involved feel disrespected. When you are adults and treated as children by your leaders and by your government you tend to react like children and throw your toys all around your room.

The Liberal approach of giving to the poor while requiring nothing in return has insured this segment of our society will be forever takers, not givers. This social philosophy has robbed the poor in the US of their dignity. The folks in Brentwood didn't have to riot, not because they have money, but because they have pride and dignity. They have been given and have taken the opportunity to be in control of their own lives, to be adults. Hopefully in the years to come all of our citizens will have that opportunity.