Maybe It was Memphis?

 No, it's not the country song from Pam Tillis. It's actually a question that may be asked in this country in a few years when and if attitudes and approaches change. 

In Memphis, several policemen have been charged in the death of a young black man. He died after being apprehended and beaten by a squad of policemen working on a street crime detail.

There are those leaders in the black community and the media who believe that it is wrong to say that at this point all of the officers charged are black. They say that it detracts from the story of police violence against minorities.

Two things are needed in Memphis for the situation to calm down. First, send Ben Crump somewhere else with his racist ambulance chasing. Second, send Al "Shakedown" Sharpton back to his hole in New York. He can come back when he actually tells the truth about Tawana Brawley.

The left is screaming that it is "racism". Who could have seen that one coming? Everybody, but Biden. Everything is "racism" now. "Hanoi Jane" Fonda claimed the other day that climate change is caused by racism. 

This incident may have been caused by racism, but let's look at it objectively. The five officers involved in the beating were all black. The man beaten was black. Doesn't look like a case for racism, does it?

The police department in Memphis is majority black. The population of Memphis is majority black. That racism theory is fading fast. Why would five black policemen beat a black man? Maybe they are tired of listening to anti-police insults from young black men? Maybe they are tired of spending all of their time trying to protect citizens from the young, black, male criminal element that preys on other black people? Maybe they are tired of watching young, black men hang out dealing drugs when they should be working to support all of those illegitimate babies that they are fathering? Maybe they are tired of watching young, black men kill each other over gang disputes? Maybe they are tired of trying to change the image that young, black males give the black population at large? Maybe they are tired of trying to do the almost impossible? Most of all, maybe they have just tired of being maligned by a leftist media hellbent on destroying America. Why don't politicians back the police? There were 302 homicides in Memphis last year, who would even have noticed this one except for the police doing it?

Why are so many young, black men hanging out in the streets? Why aren't they at home? Why aren't they at work? Why aren't they raising their children? The police don't have those answers. Those answers are within the black community and their moral standards and leaders. Instead of Shakedown Sharpton, they need actual religious leaders to start reforms in the black community. The black community needs to take ownership of their future. They need to give up waiting for the government to fix their community. They need to take action and do it for themselves. The government can't and won't fix it, they just want their votes.

All of this is a result of Lyndon Johnson, his Great Society programs, and his desire to own the black vote. The Great Society handouts destroyed the family unit in the black community. It worsens every year. As long as blacks keep voting Democrat, the government keeps pumping the money in there. The problems continue unabated.

I turned on the news earlier and there were the white liberals marching to demand that the government do something about the police. Why not demand that the government do something about the high crime rate in the black community? Why weren't they here last month to help when someone was killed by a young, black thug who hasn't been arrested yet?  Why aren't liberals helping protect the black community from the blacks who are trying to destroy it? 

Why aren't blacks marching to fight crime? They are too busy hiding at home to avoid the thugs that the liberals are enabling.

Does life imitate art? There was a movie and a book in 1975 called Report to the Commissioner. In that book there was a black detective who at one point had been part of a group of black detectives who after work would go out looking for black lawbreakers and just beat the hell out of them. I think the author was James Mills if you want to find it.

So, what's the point of all of this? There is a problem in the black community that they are going to have to solve. You can give money, you can give out everything possible free, but you can't give a community self-respect. They have to do that for themselves. It is time to get started.

Last thought. Last year, sixty police officers were shot and killed in the United States. How many of those protesters in Memphis marched to honor any of them at their funerals?