Is Charlotte Our Future?

Guest Post by Patrick J. Buchanan

Celebrating the racial diversity of the Charlotte protesters last week, William Barber II, chairman of the North Carolina NAACP, proudly proclaimed, “This is what democracy looks like.”

Well, if Barber is right, so, too, was John Adams, who warned us that “democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.”

Consider what the protesters, who, exults Barber, “show us a way forward to peace and justice,” accomplished.

In the first two nights of rioting, the mob injured a dozen cops, beat white people, smashed and looted stores, blocked traffic, shut down interstate highways, got one person shot and killed, and forced the call-up of state troopers and National Guard to rescue an embattled Charlotte police force.

This was mobocracy, a criminal takeover of Charlotte’s downtown by misfits hurling racist and obscene insults and epithets not only at the cops but also at bystanders and reporters sent to cover their antics.

We have seen Charlotte before. It was a rerun of Ferguson, Baltimore and Manhattan, after mobs in those cities concluded that innocent black men had been deliberately killed by “racist white cops.”

Yet, one week later, what do we know of the precipitating event in Charlotte?

Keith Scott, 43-year-old African-American father of seven, was shot and killed not by a white cop, but by a black cop who shouted to him, along with others, almost 10 times — “Drop the gun!”

An ex-con whose convictions included assault with a deadly weapon, Scott was wearing an ankle holster and carrying a handgun.

Charlotte Police Chief Kerr Putney, also black, after viewing video from a dash-cam and a body-cam of the officers involved, recommended against filing any charges.

The chief concedes that he cannot, from the video footage, see a gun in Scott’s hands at the time he was shot.

But how is the legitimate investigation of the death of Keith Scott advanced by a mob? And if mass civil disobedience is what “democracy looks like” in 2016, why are we surprised that other nations look less and less to American democracy as their model?

Moreover, if these repeated reversions of the enraged to street action become the new normal, what do they portend for the country?

Blanket cable news coverage of the Ferguson riots split us along racial lines. But what purpose did they serve? Even Eric Holder’s Justice Department concluded that officer Darren Wilson should not be charged in the shooting death of Michael Brown, who tried to grab his gun.

A year ago, Baltimore divided the nation.

Six Baltimore cops, three of them black, were charged in an alleged “rough ride” in a police van that killed 25-year-old Freddie Gray.

This year, a black judge acquitted three of the cops in three trials, and all charges against the rest were dropped.

No evidence was produced that the cops had intended to injure Gray.

In New York, the five cops who piled on Eric Garner to subdue him never intended to injure him, said a grand jury. Well over 300 pounds, Garner suffered from obesity, diabetes, asthma and hypertension, and died, not of a police chokehold, but a heart attack.

Yes, there have been incidents when cops made mistakes and cases where cops acted criminally. In Tulsa last week, after a white cop shot and killed an unarmed black man who appeared to offer no threat, she was charged with first-degree manslaughter. Is not this, rather than marching mobs, the way to handle such incidents?

Inevitably, given the violent crime in our cities — 540 murders this year in Chicago and 3,000 shootings — white and black cops are going to be confronting white and black suspects. Inevitably, some of these collisions are going to result in police shootings and black deaths.

While most of those police decisions to shoot are going to be seen in retrospect as justified, some will not be unjustified, and some will be malicious.

The latter will be rare, but they are going to happen.

But in a nation of 320 million, if every collision between white cops and black men resulting in the death of a suspect is to be seen as legitimate grounds for mob action like Charlotte, we will never know racial peace.

Like moths to a flame, TV cameras are attracted to conflict, especially racial conflict. Networks and TV stations reward with airtime the most incendiary of racial charges. Thus, the news going out to homes and bars will continue to polarize us along racial lines.

And when the rage of one side and the disgust of the other dissipate, some new incident, between white cops and black men, will occur, and will be recorded, and rushed onto the air.

The street action in Ferguson, Baltimore and Charlotte may be what “democracy looks like” to Barber’s NAACP. But to most Americans, it looks like a formula for endless racial conflict — and a touch of fascism in the night.


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IndenturedServant

Wake the hell up Buchanan, you obtuse fuck! Read up on George Soros and his involvement/financing of this horseshit. I read last week that 70% of the protestors that were actually arrested were from out of town. If an ignorant, high school educated dumb ass like myself can see what’s going on, why cant Buchanan?

unit472
unit472

Soros couldn’t do a thing were there not fuel for him to set ablaze. The fuel here is the detritus of the welfare state. The thousands of idle hoodrats available to smash and bash and burn in cities like Charlotte and even nothing burgs like Ferguson, Mo.

Urban public schools vomit out these useless feral proto humans because the welfare state pays their moms to breed. Imagine trying to get Chinese American youths to behave like this! Bill Gates and Warren Buffet’s fortunes together couldn’t get Asian youths to smash store fronts and loot because that is not how they ‘roll’.

IndenturedServant

I see your point but Soros is pouring gasoline on a wet cardboard fuel source. He still has to bring in professional agitators. Without professional agitators being bused in to strike the match and fan the flames, I doubt that most of our inner shitty feral negros would give two shits about any of it. They’d rather be gettin’ high or making mo babies! If it was homegrown, 70% of the arrested protestors would be living locally.

Lysander The Deplorable
Lysander The Deplorable

@ Indentured Servant…Good one! You’d think that at his age, Buchanan would have enough money to take the gloves off. Is he worried about his book sales and speaking fees?

This is an example of the ball-less republican ‘opposition’ that has led us to disaster.

IndenturedServant

He’s just another bullshit artist politician and useful idiot who will be genuinely shocked when he is no longer useful to those above him……….so we’ve got that going for us. 🙂

bb

Indentured pessimistic , you are the obtuse one whatever obtuse means.How dare you be so obtuse and question Pat Buchanan who is infinitely wiser then your obtuse ass.

Pat is right . This so called democracy will burn .It only going to get worse. Prepare accordingly.

hardscrabble farmer

Every single policy and program in the United States concerning race is set up to affect each racial group in a disproportional manner. It isn’t debatable, it’s simply a fact. The reasoning, the justifications, the intent may have been 100% benevolent, but the results are 100% malevolent.

You cannot have a multi-racial society where any single race is treated with deference at the expense of another and claim to be equality based. The result will always bee friction, strife, violence and hostility. I do not believe that if someone sets something up deliberately to construct a manifestly unfair system that they intended to make one that is fair- it defies logic. This system was instituted to create a long term problem that requires management and the creators are- not coincidentally- the managers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HL45pVdsRvE

Macumazahn
Macumazahn

Exactly right. The Negroes are constantly complaining that the law is unfair (women do the same, but that’s somewhat beside the point) when in fact every single law without exception that has any racial component is set up to benefit them, at society’s expense.

Dutchman
Dutchman

The niggers create fake emergencies, in hopes of getting more free shit. That’s all there is to it.

TC
TC

Rev Barber is a constant fixture around here in Raleigh; always shuffling around, agitating over some made up bullshit. The local conservative radio personality calls him “Reverend Soul-Glo the buffet killer.”

Iska Waran
Iska Waran

With Obama as president and Holder and Lynch as AG’s, mayors, corporate CEOs, university administrators, etc. have been afraid to refuse the demands of the social justice warriors. The Justice Department has wide latitude to make a finding based on disparate impact and impose their solution. With Obama and his people gone, it could get a little better – which would be good for minorities, since continuation of these riots will only lead to letting minority neighborhoods fester, unpoliced, with predictable results, as Baltimore has shown.

susanna

I can’t understand the down votes!

Regardless, Buchanan’s take on things, when people are
bused into a city to create a riot for money, riots will occur.

Blacks are becoming feared and hated over all the violence
they create in their community sans provocation (cops shoot
a crook) and their endless demands for moar. People are sick
of it. More than many, other than Blacks, wish Blacks would just
vaporize. And people do all they can to avoid them. Ignore
them. Move as far as they can to get away from them. And
Blacks know this. Their behaviors just reinforce this in people.
It is very sad for the # of Blacks that just want to live their
Black lives and be left alone. Unfortunately, Black Lives Matter
less and less to everyday Whites. They getting are “written off.”

Soros and his ilk need to be banned (arrested) for war crimes.
But, Soros seems to run free, so that tells us the gov. is supporting
Black violence. WROL. That is our society now.

TreeFarmer
TreeFarmer

Honest question. Why would a filthy rich foreigner like George Soros spend any money promoting isolated riots in the US? It’s a tiny bit of money for him, and I don’t see how he’ll profit from it.

hardscrabble farmer

“The time to buy is when there’s blood in the streets.”

-Baron Rothschild

IndenturedServant

Do a bit of reading about Georgie and his socialist agenda.

Ottomatik
Ottomatik

There is always bank in chaos and destruction. Recently, Ukraine, Syria, Libya, Yemen, Turkey(?), Egypt, provide excellent examples. Imagine the money to be made in the chaos of the big one! Worth a few shekels for a try, eh?

Bea Lever
Bea Lever

There is no Charlotte in my future at the doomstead because everyday is white Christmas for us. That is not to say that Soros could not bus in a load to riot but something tells me that they would have little interest in looting the Amish stores. Definitely no electronics, tv’s, x-box, computers just are not part of the landscape. There are some really fine handmade soaps and salves to pick from.

Boat Guy
Boat Guy

When you have 13.3% of our population with an average IQ of 85 these are the results of even remotely believing some level of equality can be achieved . So you subsidize this group to a point where they now not only require but demand over 50% of taxpayer funded programs allegedly designed to make them equal . How is that bull shit working out so far ? It’s been 50 plus years and look at the results . Peaceful protest fine , you block a street , riot and loot commit arson , play time is over ! You get the bat the bullet and water cannon ! Act like an animal get treated like an animal !

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