My thoughts on the funeral of Michael Brown. Yahoo/AP

Al Sharpton and the Brown family. Yahoo/AP

The funeral of Michael Brown occurred today.  Yahoo/AP. The event resembled a civil rights rally rather then a mourning event. People in attendance included Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Spike Lee and Sean Combs. The White House also sent a delegation. The funeral portrayed Brown as a college bound "gentle giant".

My Comment:

I know that a funeral is probably the wrong place to point this out but no mention of the fact that he robbed a store? An accusation of racism without any evidence whatsoever? I know the narrative is that Brown was brutally gunned down by a racist cop but that narrative lasted about a week before the questions overcame the story. And at the very least it has been proven that Brown was not an innocent young man. Far from a gentle giant, the surveillance video proves that he was capable of violence.  

So why is Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton and the rest of the black leadership pushing this case so hard? You could argue that they are being pushed by events, and to some degree this is true. The case would have never been anything other then a local issue if it wasn't for twitter. But I have a more cynical explanation. Why this case or the Trayvon Martin case? It was clear in both incidences that there was a massive amount of ambiguity in both cases and in both cases it was fairly obvious from the start that any trial would end in a acquittal. So why not pick a case where there was no ambiguity? Surly there has been at least one case where a white racist killed a black man with no ambiguity, right?  

I think the real reason they chose this case to push their agenda in a particularly cynical way. They know that a decent portion of Americans won't support the prosecution of Darren Wilson due to the fact that many people actually still care about the presumption of innocence. They also know that their supporters tend to dismiss evidence that sheds light on the "victims" in these cases. This allows leaders like Sharpton and Jackson to portray white America as racist and allow them to play the victim card. After all why else would a jury fail to convict a man in an incredibly ambiguous situation in a country where the standard is beyond a reasonable doubt? It has to be racists right? 

I'm not saying there shouldn't be an investigation. And I am not saying that there isn't still problems with race in this country. But the so called black "leadership" in this country is nothing but a bunch of cynical parasites. They depend on these kinds of ambiguous cases to paint a picture of America that, for the most part, isn't true so they can stay relevant.