You know when Al Sharpton is invited by the president of the
United States to offer his ideas on how police should conduct themselves on how
to do their jobs in high crime areas, we
are in trouble. For a president so concerned with optics, after frequent,
insensitive mishaps, this is disturbing.
Sharpton, the polarizing race baiter and tax evader has no place in the White House.
The outhouse would be more appropriate. He has done nothing to bring harmony to
the great racial divide that now exists in our country. In fact, he has helped
create it. From planting the seeds of hate in the nascent stage of his then medallion
wearing career in the Tawana Brawley case to the present situation in Ferguson,
MO. Closer to his New York City home he is fanning the flames in the tense
situation awaiting the grand jury decision whether or not to indict a police
officer in the strangle hold death of
Eric Garner, the Staten Island man who was arrested for selling illegal
cigarettes.
Of course, Mr. Brown and Mr. Garner would both be alive
today, if they had heeded police requests to cease and desist. Both were caught
in the commissions of a crime. Should the police have just let them go as some
liberal pundits have posited? Should we allow certain citizens because of the
color of their skin get away with crimes to avoid the rage and destruction we
witnessed in the aftermath of the grand
jury decision in Ferguson?
While the president is trying to assuage the marauding gangs
of rioters but little has been done to help the business owners who lost their
livelihood in the looting and rampaging. Most of these businesses were
minority-owned. These are the citizens who should be held up as role models for
African-American youth to emulate; not the “scumbags,” former basketball star
Charles Barkley’s words. Perhaps the most egregious offense in the rioting was
the burning down of the African-American church attended by Michael Brown’s
father. What possible reason could there
be for this? And if you can believe it the pastor of the church blamed white
supremacists for the torching! This demonstrates the level of delusion and anarchy
in the African-American community.
In an ironic twist, Mayor Ras Baraka of Newark, NJ, has requested additional police officers to
respond to the Thanksgiving weekend of
violence where there were 11 shootings and 3 fatalities and multiple injuries.
Mayor Baraka should be lauded for this action. While the police aren’t perfect by and large they are our only hope
to keep us safe – all of us.
