Guest Post by Jim Kunstler
As the nation awaits the gruesome spectacle of the so-called debate between Trump and Clinton in an election campaign beneath the dignity of a third-world shit-hole, we are once again up to our eyeballs in manufactured racial strife led by the deliberately prevaricating New York Times. Read today’s front-page story: What We Know About the Details of the Police Shooting in Charlotte, insinuating that the police acted recklessly in the incident.
The facts in the Charlotte, NC, shooting death of Keith Lamont Scott are these: he was shot after refusing repeated loud verbal commands to drop a gun. A gun was found on the scene with his fingerprints on it, along with an ankle holster. Video recordings provide a clear audible record of these commands. Yet the Times story says: “Body and dashboard camera footage released on Saturday provided no clear evidence that Mr. Scott had a gun. In the video, Mr. Scott’s arms were at his sides and he was backing away from his vehicle when he was shot.
It happened that the various vehicles parked on the scene interfered with the all the video footage of the critical moment: dashboard cam, officer’s body cam, and the cell phone cam of Mr. Scott’s wife. But the insinuation seems to be that because the video doesn’t show a gun, perhaps there wasn’t one.
The police insist that Mr. Scott was holding a gun. Why is The New York Times bent on ambiguating this story? The officer who shot Mr. Scott was black. The Charlotte police chief is black. Does the Times mean to say that they are incompetent and reckless? Does the Times seek to reinforce a popular notion that police in general, including black police and their supervisors, are determined to oppress black Americans generally? Does the Times wish to sow even more distrust and animosity between black America and the police?
It sure seems that way. And what is The New York Times’s interest in dragging out the supposed ambiguity of the Scott case? I shall tell you why: because yielding to the obvious truth in the matter would not support the election campaign meme that Black America requires the protection of the Democratic Party against genocidal police forces across the nation.
One result so far is several nights of “protest marches” in Charlotte that led to the shooting death of another person, a black man, by another black man in the crowd, for reasons as yet unknown, plus a lot of property damage due to looting and mayhem on the part of the mob.
Why is it so important to political progressives to keep feeding the story that great numbers of black people are being unjustly murdered by police? The facts, of course, suggest that this is not true. Earlier this summer, The Washington Post could not ignore the study published by black Harvard economist Roland Fryer, Jr. How a controversial study found that police are more likely to shoot whites, not blacks. And why in the long-running issue is it such a low priority to ask the truly salient question in all of these fatal confrontations: how are the suspects actually behaving during the incidents in question?
As a blog-writer, I correspond with some interesting people. One of them is a middle-aged black man who has worked for a long time in the Baltimore black ghetto. He is one of those rare Americans these days not susceptible to pre-cooked ideas about what is actually going on in this country. He would prefer to remain anonymous for reasons that ought to be self-evident, but I want you to see his interesting theory about what is going on in the black community vis-à-vis the police shooting meme. The subject line in his email to me was “Trauma programming.”
Its a type of narcissism designed to compensate for [the] fact nobody (of any value) really wants to deal/interact with them; therefore, they gladly adopt this false narrative that “somebody is after us and wants to kill us…”
See how that raises their value by claiming somebody “wants us?”
Its like the ugly fat girls obsessed with getting raped/sexually assaulted.
Truth be told, because so many black people are not useful to each other and/or other people… they end up only a liability. Therefore, most people spend a significant amount of time trying to dodge them. (but the police can’t do this)
This increases their sense of worthlessness, which forces them to cling ever so tighter to this false narrative of “the police are after us and want to kill us…”
(nobody wants you and we wish you would just go away)
But wait,
it gets worse.
At this point, some black people decide, “try as you might, I’m NOT going to allow you to ignore me, because I’m going to act like a belligerent a-hole until I force you to deal/interact with me…”
NOW you gotta call the police.
And when the police show up, the black person says:
“see, here come the police; they are always after us because they want to kill us…”
But at the end of the day, the key is; the “Long Emergency” is generating increasing numbers of superfluous people; black people are only the most visible, vocal element of this phenomenon.
Interesting thesis, that “nobody likes me, so I will be an asshole”
We don’t know what the dead man was thinking. this is not something you can prove.
The other side of the coin is:
if you talk to someone, and they ignore you, you should understand that they are not listening, and probably planning on taking some action.
The dead man’s wife gave us some insight into his thinking because she kept yelling, “don’t you do it, Keith!”, and she told the cops “He just took his medicine!”. I think he was mentally ill, prohibited by law from having a firearm (due to prior crimes), carried a gun on his ankle and had made it known to his wife that he intended to go down shooting next time he got arrested. We’ll see, but by the time the facts come out, there will have been at least one other person killed in the riots, millions of dollars in damages and Hillary will have had her crack at using this to stoke the black vote in NC. I don’t think it’ll work this time, though, since Scott was clearly no angel.
I do like Jim Kuntsler (don’t tell him I said so)..
The New York Times has a perfect record as a perfect application for a specific use. It works impeccably as the bottom liner for a birdcage – preferably a cage containing a large verbose parrot that won’t shut up and shits all the time.
Muck
PS: Hope your Fall Garden is coming along well, Jim..
“The police insist that Mr. Scott was holding a gun. Why is The New York Times bent on ambiguating this story?” —— Kuntsler
Because …ummmmm ….. copfuks LIE???
Copfucks do indeed lie, but so does the New York Times, even more so. They are pushing a narrative here, one that I don’t believe and know to be harmful. I don’t so much believe the cops as I disbelieve the NYT and the fact that nearly every one of these dindu uprisings has turned out to be based on a bullshit story. Therefore it’s statistically probable that this one will be too.
As far as him having a gun goes…even if he didn’t, he could have just drop what he had in his hands and put them up and stopped moving. He’d be alive if he had done that, and if he really was innocent, he’d have a good chance at winning the ghetto lottery with a nice lawsuit against the cops. Instead, he chose to cop a nigtude(borrowing that) with 4 or 5 cops pointing guns at him. Bad move. If you want to make your stand against cops because you believe them to be unjust agents of a corrupt government, that’s every persons call, but there a time and a place, and standing in the middle of a circle of guns pointed at you ain’t it.
“Truth be told, because so many black people are not useful to each other and/or other people… ” ——– Kunstler
Well, shitAbrick …. Kunstler just regained a lot of Brownie points with me.
Very true but the hoodrat is also handicapped by his culture and low verbal skills. The average non negro when confronted by authority will seek to ‘explain’ their situation. They may lie, be evasive or even confess but, unless intoxicated, seldom would they seek to escalate the problem with a ‘fight or flight’ response. The hoodrat may at first lie, but their lies are not imaginative or plausible enough to work. That leaves only ‘fight or flight’ and in hoodrat society flight can be effective because your fellow hoodrats will seldom cooperate with authority figures. If facing a lengthy prison term, owing to past criminal history or the seriousness of the offense, the fight response makes perfect sense to the hoodrat.
‘superfluous people’
as the man wrote so many of us are superfluous and can be put into the ‘useless eater’ category.
as he wrote, black americans are just the most visible, but manufacture going overseas and turning to automation do make us superfluous to those who run things.
it is not necessarily evil in intent, though some are always evil, but the results are the same. no jobs, societal stability wavering, and polarization of the citizenry.
time to pray earnestly.
This is a critical point that mustn’t be overlooked.
As automation progresses, more and more people – yes, even people like US – will become unemployable. Unemployable simply because our labor won’t be worth even minimum wage, because it can be done more cheaply by machines.
I’ve always gazed with smug disgust upon the worthless unemployables. It’s going to be a hard day indeed if I’m forced to join their ranks.
As far as I can tell, no one is seriously considering what sort of society can survive such a fundamental structural change. On the other hand, it’s patently obvious that ours can’t.
Like a neglected child who acts up just so he gets some attention, even though the attention is negative.
This BLM meme about black men being cops’ intended prey has gotten pushed so hard that it’s making black people crazier. Our local celebrity shooting victim in 2015 was 24 year old Jamar Clark (shot by cops in Nov 2015). In July of 2015, he’d been arrested after a high-speed chase that ended in his crashing into a house. One of his criminal passengers was a 15 year old. Audio of that arrest (when Clark was in the back seat of the cruiser) had him asking one of the cops whether they’d killed the 15 year old. The cop incredulously answered “no!”. Jamar Clark literally thought the cops had taken the 15 year old arrestee and summarily executed him. That’s the kind of paranoia he was operating under, so when he was being arrested in November, 2015, he was like a cornered animal fighting for his life. After being taken down, he went for the cop’s gun (according to DNA released by the MN Bureau of Criminal Apprehension) and the cop’s partner shot Clark point-blank in the head.
Black Lives Matter has these young black guys so paranoid that they’re bringing about their own deaths due to their freaking the fuck out during any interaction with the cops.
Well, well, well,
ten points for JHK.
Why is the NYT fanning racial distress?
They are part of the dooms day machine.
The PTB feed the machine.
Speaking of Charlotte, here’s an address to the city council from earlier this year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44_5Z38z1M4&app=desktop
Somewhat of a prophet he is, or so it seems.
Ven they came for the Joos I vas all for it. I hate Juden….