Obama: Why Does Everyone Keep Whining About a Few Burning Buildings?
April 28, 2015 by Daniel Greenfield 4 Comments (Edit)
Obama’s statement on the racist violence by his #BlackLivesMatters pals had everything, a phony condemnation followed by excuses and claims that the protests were peaceful.
The violence that happened yesterday distracted from the fact that you had seen multiple days of peaceful protests that were focused on entirely legitimate concerns of these communities in Baltimore, led by clergy and community leaders. And they were constructive and they were thoughtful, and frankly, didn’t get that much attention. And one burning building will be looped on television over and over and over again, and the thousands of demonstrators who did it the right way I think have been lost in the discussion…
Yes, please let’s ignore the rioting, looting and burning buildings and go back to blaming cops for fighting crime.
The left’s rhetoric is the same familiar note. Why keep focusing on 9/11 instead of American foreign policy? Why focus on the burning buildings instead of the great crisis of police arresting criminals.
Since Ferguson, and the task force that we put together, we have seen too many instances of what appears to be police officers interacting with individuals — primarily African American, often poor — in ways that have raised troubling questions. And it comes up, it seems like, once a week now, or once every couple of weeks. And so I think it’s pretty understandable why the leaders of civil rights organizations but, more importantly, moms and dads across the country, might start saying this is a crisis. What I’d say is this has been a slow-rolling crisis. This has been going on for a long time. This is not new, and we shouldn’t pretend that it’s new…
Ferguson was a lie. The lie fell apart. But since the Ferguson cops defied Obama and his stooges by releasing a video of Michael Brown knocking over a convenience store, he had the Ferguson police department destroyed anyway.
If you believe Obama, the crisis isn’t race riots, it’s criminals whining about being arrested. And Obama has the solution. Free the criminals.
If we are serious about solving this problem, then we’re going to not only have to help the police, we’re going to have to think about what can we do — the rest of us — to make sure that we’re providing early education to these kids; to make sure that we’re reforming our criminal justice system so it’s not just a pipeline from schools to prisons; so that we’re not rendering men in these communities unemployable because of a felony record for a nonviolent drug offense;
As I’ve already written, non-violent drug offender is code for drug dealer.
Sadly Congress is too racist to agree to as much wealth redistribution as the Looter-in-Chief wants.
… Now, I’m under no illusion that out of this Congress we’re going to get massive investments in urban communities,
But at least Holder and Lynch’s DOJ community organizers are coming to make Baltimore even worse.
So the heads of our COPS agency that helps with community policing, they’re already out in Baltimore. Our Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division is already out in Baltimore.
Don’t think you bourgeois scum can solve this with the cops either. It’s going to take a lot of wealth redistribution.
… if we think that we’re just going to send the police to do the dirty work of containing the problems that arise there without as a nation and as a society saying what can we do to change those communities…
And why are you so upset about all those burning buildings anyway?
But if we really want to solve the problem, if our society really wanted to solve the problem, we could. It’s just it would require everybody saying this is important, this is significant — and that we don’t just pay attention to these communities when a CVS burns,
