Facts? Are you crazy? Nobody wants those pernicious, awkward, irritating, pesky, damn things that always ruin a good story! But, alas for the American media, Barack Obama, Eric Holder, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson and all those thousands of dimwitted black Americans who swallow the soft pap served up by racial agitators, there were nine 'good men and women true' in the peace and privacy of a grand jury-room who had to spend months confronting the facts of the shooting dead of Michael Wilson by policeman Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri, in order to determine if the officer had acted improperly and should therefore face charges in a court.
They had to work their way through mountains of detailed forensic evidence which might have strained the brains of a science graduate. They had to collate and compare huge numbers of witness statements that were self-contradictory, some of which were later withdrawn and some of which were obviously pure (or impure!) fantasy. Meanwhile, they had to try and clear their minds of the poisonous fog of innuendo that poured out of the American media - and which continues today even after the verdict. Thus, as just one example, Michael Brown is always and forever described as either "a black teenager" or "a black unarmed teenager". True as far as it goes and it instantly establishes an image, and in these highly politicised events, image is all. No media outlet that I have seen has described Michael Brown accurately as 'a black, 6'-5", 20-stone, violent criminal who had just used force to rob a shop-owner". No, no, you can hear sundry Leftie editors complaining, that's too much information, the dopes who read our trash can't take all that in and anyway it's the wrong image.
Happily, those nine jurors did have to face the facts and they decided quite sensibly that if such a violent behemoth charged at you with obvious malice aforethought you would have every right to use whatever means to defend yourself. Not only was Officer Wilson doing his duty he was also a brave man.
American blacks have been badly treated by American whites through their history. However, in the '60s and '70s, with an extraordinary, galvanising effort the whites, as a whole, recognised the error of their ways and aquiesced in a revolution to right the wrongs of the past. At the time I sympathised with the blacks and rejoiced at their emergence into the uplands of legal, social and political freedom. Alas, it didn't last very long because very soon the black political class demonstrated that they were as evil and corrupt as any southern plantation owner. Ever since they have leeched off the black body-politic imbibing their electorate with a festering sense of grievance and entitlement. In this they have been aided and abetted by a particularly disgusting white section of society made up of equal parts of soppy, stupid sentimentalists and ruthless, Marxist agitators who hate America. Both these deeply malign elements fester and reproduce constantly in the American media.
It is with gloomy, not to say, grim, foreboding that I view Obama's decison to throw the American gates wide open to millions of South American Hispanics. There is nothing like fighting a fire with petrol!
