A False Race Narrative Yields Negative Results
A False Race Narrative Yields Negative Results Just as not acknowledging the root causes of terrorism and not naming it avoids addressing and resolving it, so too it is with racial issues. The administration and recent events keep reminding us of the need for a dialogue on the subject – a dialogue we’re scolded for avoiding. So let’s have one. Here, then, is another of my installments on the subject. Eric Holder held a news conference to share the results of a Justice Dept. investigation of the Ferguson Police Dept., where the Brown shooting occurred, the police officer was acquitted, and rioting followed there & elsewhere. The chant of “hands up, don’t shoot” went national, including in Congress. Only that was based on the false narrative from few witnesses that went against all the many other witnesses, and against the forensic evidence. That didn’t matter to the race-peddlers, who perpetuated the narrative for their own purposes ...
