Time’s Joe Klein wrote a rather shocking piece titled “Beyond a Simple Solution for Ferguson.” I knew it would not be long before an attempt to humanize Darren Wilson, the white police officer that executed an unarmed black man, Michael Brown, would be attempted. That this attempt would come from "liberal" Joe Klein is rather shocking.
It is evident that Ferguson Police Chief Thomas Jackson knew what he was doing by releasing an unrelated shoplifting incident by Michael Brown. It was the segue that would be used to dehumanize Michael Brown as cause was given for his execution. In other words, he had it coming.Joe Klein said the following:
At first, it seemed a perfect metaphor for 400 years of oppression: a white police officer shoots an unarmed black teenager multiple times. He is shot with his hands up, it is reported, at least once in the back. The young man is a “gentle giant” with no adult criminal record. He seems guilty of nothing more than walking while black, albeit down the middle of the street. … Then more facts emerge, and other eyewitnesses allegedly describe a more aggressive Michael Brown-–more like the fellow in the video. An autopsy, requested by Brown’s parents, shows six bullet wounds; the kill shot is into the top of the victim’s head–which raises another possibility, that the officer, Darren Wilson, fired in self-defense.
Joe Klein is not relying on new emerging facts. He is relying on a reinterpretation of facts. Melissa Harris-Perry provides the perfect deconstruction of his poorly written and researched piece. Jesse Williams has also provided the proper narrative here and here.
Sadly, Joe Klein's piece likely laid the foundation necessary to acquit Darren Wilson of guilt in the minds of many. Can he not see what he has done with the pen? He has provided prejudice an out.
I think we have come full circle, we had the town criers we relied on for news, then the pony express, then the telegraph, then the phone and radio and TV and now the world wide web and what are we doing relying on our local town criers to give us the 411, but whose 411 in most cases theirs and to add to the ball of confusion we have different sides that spin in their favor some more honest and accurate than others who tailor their town crying to fit any previous or future misleading information they may chose to broadcast leaving us as uninformed and under informed as we were back when they tied a rock to a pterodactyl's leg and sent it off to spread the world.
I also think that some like MSNBC who seem to cater to both sides of the street come off more confusing to viewers than informative others like Fox well there is no confusion we know exactly where they are coming from. my point we need to revamp the way we are being in or under informed that liability is on those who get rich doing it.
then to further our already befuddle understand of the news we get republicans demonizing those who do try to bring the truth like Mrs. Perry, they don't like truth in political news when they are based on misleading it's followers. so they call them grade school names that make them look worse than who they are trying to demean, idiots.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/05/06/1297266/-NY-GOP-Candidate-Calls-Melissa-Harris-Perry-a-Damned-Dirty-Ape
