An unarmed black male is killed, a predominately black suburb erupts, and it’s eventually revealed by the Department of Justice that white police officers and judges were aggressively, obsessively milking the poor and middle-class black citizens of this suburb with fines and fees. (“In 2013, the municipal court in Ferguson—a city of 21,135 people—issued 32,975 arrest warrants for nonviolent offenses, mostly driving violations.”) As if all of this were not enough, on Sunday, March 15, Missouri lieutenant governor Peter Kinder told Fox News that Attorney General Eric Holder (a black man) incited “the mob” by exposing the facts about Ferguson’s justice system. But he did not end with that. He couldn’t help himself. You see, he does not see himself as a racist. He is a hardworking American who believes in a balanced view of things. Holder needs to see both sides of this story. There is a white cop side and a black thug side. This is how non-racists like him do it: look at the whole picture and make a sound judgement. In a mirror, Kinder can only find the very image of common sense.
And so, on Monday, March 16, he said on a news show:
There is more racism in the Justice Department than there is in anywhere I see in the St. Louis area… It is the left. It is the Eric Holder and Obama-left and their minions who are obsessed with race, while the rest of us are moving on beyond it.
And there you have it: The attorney general and the president are uppity niggers, and that is where the problem begins and ends. Without the excitement of these uppity niggers, the non-racist white officials of Ferguson could put some sense into the blacks and restore peace. Again, the finding the DOJ is so concerned about: In one year alone, in a city of 21,135 people, 32,975 arrest warrants for nonviolent offenses (mostly driving violations) were issued. What you can be certain of is that if the teenager had not been shot dead by the cop, this daily legal grinding of many nonviolent and often hardworking black women and men in middle-class Ferguson would never have reached the surface of the mainstream.
