TURD FERGUSON

In a classic Saturday Night Live skit, Burt Reynolds, played by Norm MacDonald, insists Alex Trebek call him “Turd Ferguson” during a game of Jeopardy, because "it’s funny". Ferguson, Missouri? Not so much.

The riots were troubling but as long as there are people there will be riots. As Morgan Freeman in “The Dark Knight” says, “Some people just wanna see things burn”. Omnipotentblog’s four year-old son destroys any tower of blocks above 12 inches. His glee is a little disturbing but this destructive instinct is present in most boys. Watch any movie guy movie and count the explosions. One witness to the riots stated he saw a bunch of teenage boys running around having the time of their lives.

 What almost brought Omnipotentblog to tears wasn’t the small businesses in flames; It was a single interview. After the grand jury’s announcement of no indictment for the officer that killed Michael Brown, Fox’s Megan Kelly spoke to black radio personality Richard Fowler. St. Louis prosecutor, Robert McCulloch, had just finished laying out the evidence for 45 minutes. The physical evidence? Brown wasn’t shot in the back or while his hands were up. Brown had touched the officer’s gun, which had been fired in the car. A trail of blood led away from the officer, then back towards him. The witnesses? Most who alleged the officer murdered Brown were contradicted by the physical evidence or their own statements. Some admitted they hadn’t even seen what happened. Three black witnesses corroborated the officer’s story completely. What happened? Brown punched the officer, tried to grab his gun, ran away, then turned around and charged the officer, who shot and killed him. In a highly unusual and transparent move, all the evidence and testimony were released to the public. Omnipotentblog listened to the entire 45 minutes. It was solid, open/shut. But an outraged Fowler completely ignored the entire body of evidence and ranted about the murderous injustice of it all. Evidence be damned.

That the sheer weight of evidence can by so easily dismissed to favor a chosen narrative is utterly depressing. The truth just doesn’t matter. After the verdict came the usual clown parade, of course: Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson. Their criticisms were petty and procedural. That was predictable but when the head of the Congressional Black Caucus said on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives that this decision means cops can kill black people with “impunity”, it is a sad day for the country. 

Did activists apologize about George Zimmerman after they saw the pictures of his broken nose and busted head? No. Did they apologize to the Duke Lacrosse team after it was proven they were innocent of raping a black girl? No. Have they ever apologized for their outrage over any of the fake racism scandals, about two hundred of which are listed here? No. What they mean by justice is very different than what most of us mean. Justice, for them, is for groups. Justice is reparative, makes up for past ills. It balances the equation, redistributes wealth. Usually, justice means a person gets what they deserve. The guilty get punished. The innocent don't. But notice the left rarely uses the term “justice” alone. It is always “social” justice, “economic” justice, “racial” justice, “environmental” justice. You can be certain that when “justice” is preceded by another word, it is not justice.

 

The world is not a just place. The proof is that a man like Al Sharpton occupies such an exalted position. This is the man who gained fame when Tawana Brawley accused white men of a brutal and disgusting rape. Brawley and Sharpton later lost a defamation suit because…she made it up. Sharpton also incited riots that ended in the burning of Jewish stores and the murder of Yankel Rosenbaum after a Jew accidentally ran over a black kid. Sharpton has made many, many racist comments over the years and now it’s come out that he’s a tax cheat. His organization owes 4.5 million in taxes. But he goes to the Whitehouse to advise the president. His heart must be in the right place.

A recent caller to the Michael Medved show ranted about the evils of America. What country is better? “The one that doesn’t exist yet”. And there it is. Liberals hate conservatives because we stand in the way of utopia, the Great Society where everyone will finally come together as one people. Conservatives, filled with fear about the future, are stuck in the past. It's the visionary, smart liberals who know how to create this brave new world (Obamacare anyone?). So, the riots from Ferguson and other unfortunate incidents are because of two things. 1. So many black people really believe in the total ubiquity of white racism. It’s an easy scapegoat. The alternative of owning the sicknesses in their community like anti-intellectualism and the epidemic of absent fathers is too painful. 2. The entire political strategy of the left rests on the underclass being in a constant state of agitation, believing the group on top hates them. Blacks aren't wrong about a racist America; They're just hopelessly behind the times. It's only been a generation since the Civil Rights act but times have changed. Racism has been chased, as Mark Davis states in “The Real Lessons Of Ferguson”, into the dark, attitudinal caves where it belongs. Despite this truth, African Americans are used and manipulated in the most condescending, patronizing ways by Democratic elites to maintain power. Paranoid, you say? Read Saul Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals”. It’s one of the most cynical things you will ever read. Hillary Clinton and Obama were both disciples.

Booker T. Washington said, “There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public…these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.” After it was evident Brawley lied, Sharpton brushed it off. His partner stated, "I don't care 'bout no facts. I'm not going to pursue it legally. I'm going to pursue it politically." Sharpton stated, “We beat this, we’ll be the biggest niggers in New York”. But Sharpton is more than just a huckster. He probably does care about black people and, like many good leftists, he’s a true believer. Obama’s former chief of staff said it well: “Never let a crisis go to waste”. You see, when there’s a revolution to be had, you can’t let the facts get in the way.