It's Black & White in Brown Shooting

The grand jury decision about the Michael Brown shooting in Ferguson, MissouriMichael Brown at 7 Eleven stealing cigars. found that officer Darren Wilson acted in self-defense as the physical, forensic and witness evidence had proven beyond a reasonable doubt there was no criminal act committed. Still, many people of color feel the judicial system has dissed them again like in the Treyvon Martin shooting jury decision. However, again the legitimate protesters were drowned out by the mob rioters as they burned, looted and destroyed the neighborhood stores and property. The true protesters complaints were lost instead in this thuggish maelstrom spinning out of control in their community. This is the end result of a residual human tragedy to this shooting chaos and lawlessness.     

Factoids:  

• Interesting parallels between Michael Brown and Treyvon Martin were: 

Both were in 7 Eleven convenience stores shown on video tapes. TreyvonTreyvon at 7 Eleven buys "drank" items.  Martin was buying a bag of Skittles candy and can of Arizona Ice Tea to mix with some Robitussin cough syrup he had to make "drank" or "lean", hood slang for cough syrup drink, to get his drugged Ecstacy-like high. Michael Brown preferred his "drank" with Hawaiian Punch and vodka. He stole a box ($49.95) of 'rellos', hood slang for cigarellos, during his strong arm robbery snatching them from the store owner's hands and leaving prior to his shooting. 

Both had been smoking marijuana prior to their killings. Coroners in bothTrayvon smokes dope.cases suggested that marijuana could play into cognitive decision making in regard to their reckless, aggressive actions. 

Both had come from broken, dysfunctional homes, no father figures or real discipline and schooled-illiterate. Michael Brown on his family he posted a message on Facebook that it was wrong “how yo own family dont wanna see you do good.”

Both were under active disciplinary actions taken against them. Treyvon was suspended from school for breaking into school hall lockers, stealing and vandalism. MichaelMichael with vodka, punch, cash & gun.
 Brown 'who was on his way to College' was arrested and charged back on Nov. 2, 2013 with Burglary, Armed criminal action and Assault with the intent to do great bodily harm all stemming from one incident. He was out on bail and scheduled for a September trial date, one month before he was killed.

• Officer Wilson tried to get out of his vehicle to talk to Brown and he slammed the door on Wilson and punched him in the face and a struggle ensued. Wilson drew his weapon in the car while being pushed down on the driver's seat and firing into Brown's hand. Brown began running off as Officer Wilson gave chase and then Brown stopped turned back charging again toward Officer Wilson as he fired again stopping Brown. 

• As Obama believes, "Never let a crisis go to waste." So, the U.S. Justice Department simultaneously is conducting two civil rights investigations: one into whether Wilson, who is white, violated Brown's black civil rights, and the other into the Police Department's overall track record with minorities. Many analysts say the federal investigation into Wilson's actions will lose steam since it is very difficult to prove that Wilson or the Department intentionally acted with black bigotry.

The American public's short attention span is now focused amid all of the media hype and political fanfare pointed at Black racial tensions and civil rights issues. Many politicians will push for recognition of their own "race bait" issues and accomplishments. Hopefully the black constituency will pay closer attention to their facts, not only to what was promised on in the past but on who has never delivered up to now, which is almost every politician with another government welfare program.

There is a growing plea for responsibility in many black communities to participate in bringing about changes in their own neighborhoods themselves with education, churches and businesses.  That voice of reason can grow since: 

• Many nearly illiterate students have been sold a "con line" by politicians to get a higher college education only to fail. Putting the emphasis instead on trade schools and vocational centers which must be brought into the mainstream jobs market sector for training these workers who will never have a college degree with no hope of ever getting one for themselves due to poor public schools. 

• Planning for future generations for the possibilities that will exist for their children if charter schools are allowed to flourish and local schools to run by themselves.

• Integrating Church faith-based education personal values into curriculums. The integration of the family core offers stability, opportunity and a firm structure to anchor their lives for a more secure future.   

The slaves were freed under the Emancipation Proclamation Act of 1863 and then 100 years later assured under the Civil Rights Act of 1963 of their Constitutional rights. It's now 2014, fifty years later that these liberties under freedom have been instituted. Isn't it time to recognize that it's over 150 years later and something is definitely wrong here? The blacks have up to now really done nothing to bring themselves up out of poverty, illiteracy, joblessness, gangs, drugs and out-of-wedlock children. Is there a pattern here, like blaming Whites for discrimination and while getting on more Federal government programs that feed this downward spiral going to nowhere? Has throwing more money at it done anything yet?

What are other races doing?--like the Vietnamese, Chinese, Indians, Japanese, Italians, Germans, English, French, Spanish, Greek, etc. who are not rioting, then where are they anyway?--Doing everything else to get ahead like getting educated, trained, jobs, married families, living life all while building their country and their own futures. Wow! What an American lifestyle concept!--And these young people are doing it right now today in all less than the last 150 years too.