Ferguson

[ZERO THEORY]

Like the movie or not, this is a good scene and it's relevant to Ferguson.

Yes, brilliant. When a criminal like Rodney King commits a crime, it's because he's a monkey and it's to be expected. By all means, an individual's lack of character should be categorized as the assumed standard if there are enough other individuals who are also criminals sharing skin color with him. It's not racist, look at the numbers! Damn monkeys.

Of course, because the numbers are not reflected the other way, there's no reason to racially categorize white people. And if you used a racial epithet for one who committed a crime, you'd be pushing it too far. How dare you.

This kind of non-sensical dreck is exactly why the Thomas Sowells and Ben Carsons are a rarity. It's hard to feel allegiance with people who are economically, Constitutionally, and politically like-minded when to them you're by default an absent minded monkey. As long as you adhere to some arbitrary standard, you're "one of the good ones". But the minute you make one slip-up, you'd better believe it's not because it's human to err, it's because you're pre-disposed by some magical African gene to do so.

It saddens me to see Black Americans resort to this kind of criminality, especially when people like my father who fled South African apartheid and Congolese civil war to make a life for himself faced far more social injustice than any smart phone carrying "poor" Ferguson resident. But man alive. I will just never understand resorting to that kind of categorical response. The middle east is a hell hole. The region is full of backstabbers and liars who will smile in your face, then run up in the hills and fire an RPG at you. But it's a regional issue. If an ethnically Persian American shoots up the mall tomorrow, I know better than to blame it in some inherent Arab "need" to commit violence.

[KestrelBike]

Yes, brilliant. When a criminal like Rodney King commits a crime, it's because he's a monkey and it's to be expected. By all means, an individual's lack of character should be categorized as the assumed standard if there are enough other individuals who are also criminals sharing skin color with him. It's not racist, look at the numbers! Damn monkeys.

Of course, because the numbers are not reflected the other way, there's no reason to racially categorize white people. And if you used a racial epithet for one who committed a crime, you'd be pushing it too far. How dare you.

This kind of non-sensical dreck is exactly why the Thomas Sowells and Ben Carsons are a rarity. It's hard to feel allegiance with people who are economically, Constitutionally, and politically like-minded when to them you're by default an absent minded monkey. As long as you adhere to some arbitrary standard, you're "one of the good ones". But the minute you make one slip-up, you'd better believe it's not because it's human to err, it's because you're pre-disposed by some magical African gene to do so.

It saddens me to see Black Americans resort to this kind of criminality, especially when people like my father who fled South African apartheid and Congolese civil war to make a life for himself faced far more social injustice than any smart phone carrying "poor" Ferguson resident. But man alive. I will just never understand resorting to that kind of categorical response. The middle east is a hell hole. The region is full of backstabbers and liars who will smile in your face, then run up in the hills and fire an RPG at you. But it's a regional issue. If an ethnically Persian American shoots up the mall tomorrow, I know better than to blame it in some inherent Arab "need" to commit violence.

Awesome. Thanks for taking the time to write this! Oh damn, can't imagine one of the false-testifiers lasting a week in the Congo/Joburg, or hell, any African nation. Also the Sowells and Carsons are under extreme scrutiny by the Left, because they've broken free from the ideology enforced on the democrat-vote-in-pocket minority communities: Born into victimhood, live under victimhood, vote out of victimhood, but don't work hard or demand an actual education and try to escape this victimhood! Wear it and be proud!