{"id":7746,"date":"2014-08-25T12:00:54","date_gmt":"2014-08-25T12:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/08\/25\/hanson-on-ferguson\/"},"modified":"2014-08-25T12:00:54","modified_gmt":"2014-08-25T12:00:54","slug":"hanson-on-ferguson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/08\/25\/hanson-on-ferguson\/","title":{"rendered":"Hanson on Ferguson"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

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The backstory of Ferguson was that out of the millions of arrests each year only about 100 African-American suspects are shot fatally by white police. And yet we were falsely and ad nauseam<\/em> told that Michael Brown was proof of an epidemic. There may well be an epidemic of blacks killing blacks, of African-Americans engaging in the knock-out game against non-blacks or flash-mobbing stores. But as far as rare interracial gun violence goes, in 2014 it is more commonly black on white. Ferguson is an anomaly that did not warrant hundreds of reporters who gladly skipped the real dramas of a world on the verge of blowing apart as it had in 1939.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Right.  Ferguson is almost entirely a media invention.  <\/span><\/p>\n

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[. . .] We are back to an O.J.\/Duke Lacrosse\/Trayvon landscape, in which larger and mostly unsolvable issues loom \u2014 and yet cannot be discussed: the one side silently seethes: \u201cPlease, do not commit 50% of the violent crime in America at rates four times your demographic, and, please, stop shooting nearly 7,000 fellow African-Americans a year, to ensure that there is less likelihood to encounter the police \u2014 in other words, restore the family, cease the violent and misogynist hero worship, and be wary of government dependence.\u201d And the other side simmers: \u201cCreate for us the economic and social conditions in which we have equal opportunity without prejudice and stop the police from inordinately harassing us.\u201d Amid that growing divide, which is now some 60 years old, all the trillions of dollars of the Great Society<\/a> [12]<\/sup>, Jesse Jackson<\/a> [13]<\/sup>, Al Sharpton<\/a> [14]<\/sup>, and an array of \u201cactivists,\u201d all the latest criminological and sociopolitical theories, and trillions of man-hours of social work have come apparently to naught.<\/span><\/p>\n

[. . .]<\/span><\/p>\n

Yet if our power brokers chose to live in the inner city, to enroll their children in public schools, and to visit local neighborhood establishments, perhaps they could marry their often loud abstract anguish with quiet concrete experience. Instead, we get the impressions that the Michael Browns and Trayvon Martins of America are the sort of fodder that the race industry elite and the white liberal grandees<\/em> devour for their own respective careerist and psychological purposes. Because of inner-city pathologies and disparities, affirmative action is now perpetual and yet largely benefits those elites who have little in common with those who commit 50% of the nation\u2019s homicides, while privileged liberals understand that if they don\u2019t transmogrify Ferguson, Missouri, into Bull Connor<\/a> [15]<\/sup> and Lester Maddox<\/a> [16]<\/sup>, then their own apartheid existence and abstract anguish are called into question.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Here: The backstory of Ferguson was that out of the millions of arrests each year only about 100 African-American suspects are shot fatally by white police. And yet we were falsely and ad nauseam told that Michael Brown was proof of an epidemic. There may well be an epidemic of blacks killing blacks, of African-Americans … Continue reading “Hanson on Ferguson”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-race"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}