Colonel_Reb
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Great blog from James Edwards
http://www.thepoliticalcesspool.org/jamesedwards/
It's interesting to see the reaction to the white Dallas police officer who pulled over black NFL player Ryan Moats after he blew through a red light. He's catching all kinds of flak because after following Moats to a local hospital, he detained him even though Moats claimed his mother in law was dying and he was rushing to see her. His claim turned out to be true, and by the time Powell was done with him she'd already died. That's unfortunate, but cops hear this kind of story from blacks all the time. Somebody's always dying, or there's some other emergency, and that's the only reason they were speeding. Ask any cop, and they'll tell you. And the cop is only 25 years old, and was likely following official procedures. Can anyone get out of a traffic ticket by simply pulling into the nearest hospital and claiming they were rushing to get there? I'm pretty sure they can't, and Powell was just going by the book. Plus, if so many blacks weren't violent criminals at war with the police, they might get a little more respect from them.
But no one will defend Powell. Not even Rod Dreher, who generally makes it pretty clear that he doesn't have much use for black folks. He called Robert Powell "the worst person in the world" and demanded that he be fired. The worst person in the world? The very same week that Lovelle Mixon gunned down four police officers in Oakland? White guilt makes people say crazy things. And what did Rod Dreher have to say about Lovelle Mixon murdering four white cops in cold blood? Absolutely nothing. But when a white policeman makes the news for an interaction with a black man, Dreher is calling for his head. Does anyone believe that if Moats were white, and the officer non-white, Dreher would be demanding his job?
And even as blacks in Oakland are holding rallies calling Mixon a hero, and saying the white cops deserved it, and popular blogs like Racialicious are saying that Mixon's mass murder of cops was reasonable and understandable, Dreher says nothing. And he's not alone. Lots of other "conservative" pundits and bloggers who denounced Officer Robert Powell have also been completely silent on Lovell Mixon killing four white cops, and blacks in Oakland celebrating his deed.
http://www.thepoliticalcesspool.org/jamesedwards/
It's interesting to see the reaction to the white Dallas police officer who pulled over black NFL player Ryan Moats after he blew through a red light. He's catching all kinds of flak because after following Moats to a local hospital, he detained him even though Moats claimed his mother in law was dying and he was rushing to see her. His claim turned out to be true, and by the time Powell was done with him she'd already died. That's unfortunate, but cops hear this kind of story from blacks all the time. Somebody's always dying, or there's some other emergency, and that's the only reason they were speeding. Ask any cop, and they'll tell you. And the cop is only 25 years old, and was likely following official procedures. Can anyone get out of a traffic ticket by simply pulling into the nearest hospital and claiming they were rushing to get there? I'm pretty sure they can't, and Powell was just going by the book. Plus, if so many blacks weren't violent criminals at war with the police, they might get a little more respect from them.
But no one will defend Powell. Not even Rod Dreher, who generally makes it pretty clear that he doesn't have much use for black folks. He called Robert Powell "the worst person in the world" and demanded that he be fired. The worst person in the world? The very same week that Lovelle Mixon gunned down four police officers in Oakland? White guilt makes people say crazy things. And what did Rod Dreher have to say about Lovelle Mixon murdering four white cops in cold blood? Absolutely nothing. But when a white policeman makes the news for an interaction with a black man, Dreher is calling for his head. Does anyone believe that if Moats were white, and the officer non-white, Dreher would be demanding his job?
And even as blacks in Oakland are holding rallies calling Mixon a hero, and saying the white cops deserved it, and popular blogs like Racialicious are saying that Mixon's mass murder of cops was reasonable and understandable, Dreher says nothing. And he's not alone. Lots of other "conservative" pundits and bloggers who denounced Officer Robert Powell have also been completely silent on Lovell Mixon killing four white cops, and blacks in Oakland celebrating his deed.