Does Huntley Brinkley ring a bell? Their 1st news show was all of 15 minutes.
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Yours is about the most stupid false equivalency I’ve read in many a month. Seriously stupid.
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Of course he has a clean conscience. Rationalization will do that for you. 
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Sadly, it’s the best he can offer.
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Yes, that’s what ALL sociopaths say.
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Somebody needs to tell Wayne LaPierre’s handler that Wayne’s on the internet again!
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15 MINUTES?! But… But… But how did they cover Kim Kardashian PROPERLY? 
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Especially when the officer says he looks like a monster. This is now an operating principal in St Louis. Does anyone really have to ask why people in Ferguson are pissed off after this sham proceeding orchestrated by by McCullough?
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Michael Brown and “Not Seeing Color”
One often hears the phrase “I don’t see color” when used to reinforce one’s lack of racial prejudice. But what the utterance of this well-meaning but misguided phrase fails to take into account is its regressive premise
which holds that color, in most instances one’s black skin, is a negative that must not be acknowledged. It is so because Blackness, to the Not-Black, makes one uncomfortable, so “not seeing color” allows the Not-Black safe entry into Blackness’s potentially scary and foreboding psychological and cultural terrain. That the Not-Black is uncomfortable with Blackness visible seeks to keep it invisible at all times evident in such scenarios where the Not-Black sees Blackness congregating and proclaims loudly before venturing into Blackness if “this is the NAACP?” Or when hearing the voices of Blackness laughing (in an unguarded, unmasked moment, but that whole mask thing is another whole discussion; sorry Paul Laurence Dunbar ) inserts the authorial,”What’s this, cant’ have this. You people are having too much fun.” Or it’s the Imitation of Life moment when Lana Turner’s character “Miss Lora” character tells her maid, Annie, and ostensibly her long-time friend, that she did not know that Annie had any friends; to which Annie responds, “Miss Lora, you never asked.”
Thus Blackness rendered invisible seems to be the accepted cultural practice by which many Not-Black folk interact with those of the darker hue. “I don’t see color” uncritically declared then becomes the means by which the Not-Black avoids deep interaction and understanding of Blackness, thereby still retaining its status as “The Other.”
This inability to enable Blackness to come to the light is what gives rise to The Thought, that train of Not-Black thought that sees visible Blackness as a hulking menacing, existential threat. The Thought, when ascribed to by a Not-Black police officer, often exacerbates, misinterprets, and redefines encounters with Blackness differently from those encounters with a fellow Non-Black. So a Non-Black talking back to an officer may just be asserting his rights. Blackness doing the same may be “obstructing justice.” Cliven Bundy arming himself against perceived government injustice is seen by many as a patriot. Unarmed blackness encountering a police officer is seen as a “threat,” a “thug” “a demon.”
To keep Blackness from becoming visible, The Thought eliminates it, by any means necessary, with the more acceptable means now being through police departments. The Thought’s antidote must therefore be visible Blackness becoming an acceptable part of the American cultural, political, and educational landscape. No longer should it be acceptable to say that one does not see color. What’s needed instead is welcoming Blackness alongside the other colors which constitute America. Blackness is not the negation of Not-Black; it is instead a multi-textured, multi-layered singular entity capable of great beauty, complexity, and wonder. America must become not color-blind, but color-tolerant and once it does so it can leave behind forever the detritus of The Thought.
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Your argument fails.
I’ll leave it at this.
I killed people in Vietnam.
It was my job.
They were trying to kill me and my soldiers.
I felt threatened.
Shooting someone at a distance who is walking away from me?
Shooting them several times?
An unarmed person?
Did I feel threatened or did I feel angry/pissed off?
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Add there is is.
Great comment by the way, thanks!
From a Non-Black.
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He allowed it because he is a corrupt racist killer cop.
Wilson obviously has the intelligence of a trained snail. Who would like to lay odds that he dropped his gun in that car and started this entire incident through his incompetence?
Conscience? They don’t hire people with a conscience at the Ferguson Police Department. It would get in the way of all the graft and corruption that is imbedded in the justice system in St. Louis County’s 91 small town, speed trap communities.
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Hope all the other journalists and book publishers don’t trample each other as they try to be first to service Darren Wilson. It’s easy to “misremember” events in a self-serving manner when the other side (dead) is conveniently not there to rebut.
An officer can shoot an unarmed black man if the officer perceives the black man as being a threat And what does the threat consist of? Is it any act on the black man’s part? No, it’s not what the man did. It’s who the man is. The man’s very blackness itself is the threat. It’s the blackness which colors how the police officer perceives any engagement with black man. No matter what the black man does, it’s now considered threatening because it’s done within blackness. It’s done within a black skin. So now the black man faces an existential conundrum. How does he stop being a threat since he cannot escape his being black? He’s trapped in the skin he’s in.
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The corporate media is only following the lead of the esteemed and severely biased prosecuting attorney?
If that arrogant police union lawyer had recused himself from this case at the onset of this investigation, the violence would probably never have happened. His bull-headed attitude set the stage for all the confrontations and drama we have been seeing on the streets
For criminy sakes, McCullugh’s father was a white cop fatally shot in the line of duty by a black man. How much more biased could the criminal justice system get in this country?
At least Wilson will never be in a position again to hold a gun on someone in the line of duty. He’s obviously not physically coordinated enough or intelligent to handle one.
Like most cops, Wilson probably got the job because he was related to someone, certainly not qualified or had an aptitude for the work. Or as it now appears, he was sleeping with someone on the force who he’s had to marry when they found out she was pregnant.
This is the second time Wilson has been relieved of duty as a cop in the St. Louis area. The entire force of the neighboring Jennings, MO police department was let go when it was disbanded for being too corrupt and unprofessional.
This shooting has shown the world just how much of a trailer park reality show the Ferguson Police Department is.
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A “clean conscience” is something he apparently shares with George Zimmerman.
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Anonymous KNOWS why this psychotic freak has a clean conscience…He’s a member of the KKK!
Exactly. Their very skin color is a threat to the community. It’s the same excuse made for why slavery was necessary in this country. McCullogh and the seven whites on that grand jury would not address that evidence even when Wilson testified that he saw Brown as a demon.
Someone is lying about what happened: either Wilson or Johnson. No way was this a “simple request”- YOU escalated it when YOU should’ve known better.