Wednesday, March 18, 2015

Admitting his mistake is a start.

Suppose you are a middle class working American who happened to be one of the 8000 households who made their home in Ferguson MO a year ago. Life wasn't perfect, you had corrupt cops, there was abuse by them, but you had a Quick Trip, an Advance Auto Parts, and a "Main Street" that worked .. Now today your house is worth a fraction of what it was a year ago IF you could sell it. Your community is in shambles. Nothing is left. Where do you go to get your life back, at least the one that you had? OH and if you think that someone is going to come in and rebuild for you after the house was burned down, allow me to take you an a tour of the west side and the south side of Chicago.. It's still a ghost town of shamble. I remember the fires after MLK was killed. That's the result of racism.. from both camps.
From this article linked below:
I am sure Jonathan Capehart of the Washington Post felt warm and fuzzy when he posted, ” ‘Hands up, don’t shoot’ was built on a lie.”
Admitting his mistake is a start.
When will he pony up some money to help the 8,192 households in Ferguson, Missouri, recover the approximately $250 million in lost property values caused by his sloppy journalism and to be blunt, racism?
Jonathan Capehart is not alone in repeating this outrageous lie, of course, but before he pats himself on the back for finally admitting the truth, four months after the truth came out, how about some cash. This is a tort. Jonathan Capehart, Comcast (through MSNBC) and dozens of other news organizations made stacks of money by repeating a lie for months.
They should pay.
Ferguson, Missouri, was an inner suburb of St. Louis in August when the media began repeating the lie that Michael Brown, 18, was “hunted down” (to use the words of Comcast’s Al Sharpton) by a racist white cop.
Today it is a shambles.
http://donsurber.blogspot.com/…/journalistic-liars-cost-800…

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