I haven’t commented on the Baltimore, Freddie Gray, incident because I don’t know any more of the incident than has been reported and I know almost nothing about the city and its police department.
I do know that with the filing of formal charges yesterday, the officers involved — whose “race” was never mentioned in any coverage — were revealed as three whites and three blacks.
Which kind of puts a kink in the race-mongering of “Hands up, don’t shoot” fake-but-accurate meme.
Never fear, though, privileged white Leftists are never wrong …
And there is no debate that tragically, black police officers often absorb the attitudes of their colleagues @JuddLegum @jtlarsen
— Joan Walsh (@joanwalsh) May 2, 2015
In Joan’s rush to keep “race” front and center in the Gray incident, she dismisses any criminal culpability of the black officers. Not only were they only “following orders” but they were brainwashed by the evil whites in the department.
Although, since Stephanie Rawlings Blake has been mayor of Baltimore for four years and Anthony Batts has been police commissioner since 2012 … exactly who is setting the tone for the agency and why would they wait until now to call in the DOJ?
Who are the Evil Whites who control them?
Yes, Joan wants the Right People to know she is down with the struggle against The White Man … probably writing from a cozy penthouse maintained by service people “of color” in a particularly “white” neighborhood.
this hooch might could be an adult-onset retard
there’s a documentary about this on netflix
Let us not forget that the last Republican mayor of Baltimore left office in 1966, and the current makeup of the City Council is entirely Democrat. The highest ranking Republican in the city is the clerk of the circuit court of Baltimore, who is 81, and just entered onto his fifth term. (No sway on policy from his position, either executive or legislative, and not much even in the judicial branch.) He has been a Republican for all of five months, having switched from being a lifelong Democrat (since 1956) last December.
And the makeup of the Baltimore PD is roughly 43% black. (I refuse to use African-American, since none of them were actually born in Africa, and in fact, Charlize Theron is more African-American than anyone living in Baltimore.)
If the goalposts won’t move
The Left disapproves.
Joan must have read Uncle Tom’s Police Dept.
” . . . absorb the attitudes . . . ”
Is that the same way W. E. B. DuBois became a Marxist, I wonder?
I love the part where she says ” there is no debate…”
Would Joan Walsh (or any other pencil necked leftists) really like to drop the debate gloves, cus I’d be happy to oblige.