QUOTE OF THE DAY – THE MYTHS SURROUNDING FERGUSON – AT 10:05 A.M. ET:  There is a whole narrative being built by the left about Ferguson, about how police departments "oppress" African Americans.  According to this narrative, even the black crime rate is fiction, a creation of the "oppressor" forces.

But many, including many in the black community, are having none of it.  African-American columnist Larry Elder exposes the hypocrisy by quoting the police chief of Milwaukee, Edward Flynn.  From the Washington Examiner:

Ironically, in Wisconsin just three weeks ago, Milwaukee police Chief Edward Flynn was being criticized for inappropriate and disrespectful behavior. Flynn, during a police commission meeting related to an officer-involved shooting, was on his cell phone. Didn't he appreciate the gravity of this hearing? Later, at a press conference, he was asked why he was rude.

The chief said: "Well, I was on my phone, yes. That is true. I was following developments with a 5-year-old girl sitting on her dad's lap who just got shot in the head by a drive-by shooting. If some of the people gave a good goddamn about the victimization of people in this community by crime, I'd take some of their invective more seriously.

"The greatest racial disparity in the city of Milwaukee is getting shot and killed -- hello! Eighty percent of my homicide victims -- every year -- are African-American; 80 percent of our aggravated assault victims are African-American; 80 percent of our shooting victims who survive their shooting are African-American.

"Now, they know all about the last three people who have been killed by the Milwaukee Police Department over the course of the last several years. There's not one of them that can name one of the last three homicide victims we've had in this city. ... But this community is at risk all right, and it's not because men and women in blue risk their lives protecting it. It's at risk because we have large numbers of high-capacity, quality firearms in the hands of remorseless criminals who don't care who they shoot.

"Now I'm leaving here to go to that scene. I take it personally, OK? We're going up there, and there's a bunch of cops processing a scene of a dead kid. And they're the ones that are going to be out there patrolling and stopping suspects that may have guns under the front seat. They're the ones that are gonna take risks to their lives to try to clean this thing up, all right?

"We are responsible for the things we get wrong, and we take action. We've arrested cops, we've fired cops and so on. But the fact is, the people out here, some of them -- who had the most to say -- are absolutely MIA when it comes to the true threats facing this community. It gets a little tiresome, and when you start getting yelled at for reading the updates of the kid who got shot, yeah, you take it personally, OK?"

COMMENT:  Nothing like telling it like it is.  One of the tragedies of black America is incompetent, dishonest, ambitious leadership, that feeds myths to the people to stay in power.  These "leaders" really don't care about black progress.  In fact, they despise it.  They prefer that their people be kept down, poor and misinformed, the better to have a consistent constituency. 

Even worse, are the white "allies," the loudest of whom are old reds and red allies.  They egg on the most irresponsible elements in the black community.  Why, it's a revolution.  Didn't you know?  Isn't it romantic?

And the man in the White House makes it worse with his provocative comments condemning America.

November 30,  2014