Threats are the least of reasons to be wary of DeRay. He has actual blood on his hands.
The tweet of his that brought me out from lurker status was his incitement of harassment of the mayor of Minneapolis.
Where is Minneapolis' @MayorHodges? Protestors went to her house and she ain't home. And she surely ain't at the protest.
— deray mckesson (@deray) November 19, 2015Minneapolis is currently under siege because of a police officer-involved shooting of yet another "unarmed black man." If a person tries to wrest a police officer's weapon, isn't a more accurate description in order? Maybe, arm-aspiring? Arm-envious?
The report that infuriated the protesters the most, and which has not been confirmed, is that Jamar Clark was shot after he was handcuffed. Now that would be news, were it true. But it is procedure to handcuff suspects under arrest even if they have been shot.
I tweeted at DeRay that I didn't think Martin Luther King, Jr. ever tried to incite mobs to harass and intimidate. But that is how he operates.
All these protesters who show up with their figurative torches and pitchforks are the dispensation of mob justice. They are about as well informed as the toothless, enraged villagers storming Dr. Frankenstein's castle in search of the monster. To a man, DeRay included, they are all useful idiots.
And they are getting people killed. Eleven hours ago, yet another police officer was assassinated. Officer Ricardo Galvez was murdered while sitting in his patrol car. Where are the protests, candlelight vigils and tent cities erected in his name?
It's not just police officers getting killed. Baltimore protests have led to attenuated policing and an all-time high murder rate per capita, of nearly 49 per 100,000 residents. That's Venezuela-level dysfunction.
DeRay McKesson went to one of the top liberal arts colleges in the country, Bowdoin. What he majored in there is anyone's guess. My guess is African Studies. Apparently his erudition is at a high enough level to be invited to Yale University, where he lectured on the virtue of looting. His thesis?
"The mystifying ideological claim that looting is violent and non-political is one that has been carefully produced by the ruling class because it is precisely the violent maintenance of property which is both the basis and end of their power."
The violent maintenance of property. In other words, you do not have the right to defend your property with force, and therefore, you don't have the right to your property.
I'm glad that the G.O.P. doesn't have to pander to the black vote. It's less a race problem with the G.O.P. than it is a political problem for black people. They have gone all in on one party, and someone will have to rein them in eventually. So unleash them on the Democratic Party. The Democratic Convention begins July 28 in Philadelphia. Mark your calendars.
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