Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson’s Foolish Racial Rant About Becoming Ferguson

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This could be in the 2nd Amendment forum, but I figured that it belonged here.  It's pretty good.  DUmmie lurkers, you should read the whole piece through.

Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson’s Foolish Racial Rant About Becoming Ferguson



5:16 PM 10/01/2014

Matt – Law Enforcement Officer

Yesterday, I read an opinion piece written by Kevin Johnson, the mayor of Sacramento, CA. In his article, he wrote about what he felt needed to be done to have Sacramento avoid becoming the next Ferguson, which mostly centered on his views on race and how racial disparities were somehow the fault of law enforcement. Not surprisingly, I took exception to most of his thoughts.

The following is the letter I sent him in response to his article.

Dear Mayor Johnson,

I recently read your opinion piece in the Sacramento Bee titled “Views on race: Ferguson doesn’t need to happen in Sacramento”, and I have to say, as a cop familiar with Sacramento, I was quite disappointed. In your opening paragraph you draw some correlation between yourself and Michael Brown and seem to suggest the same pile of baloney that the likes of Benjamin Crump and Al Sharpton are shoveling: that Brown was shot merely because he was a young black man. To even insinuate what happened to Brown was due to his race is overly simplistic, and completely ignores the facts that he was contacted due to his actions, and was eventually shot because of his actions, not because of his skin color.

You share two, and only two, similar traits with the former Michael Brown. Skin color and gender. For that matter, despite the fact that I am white, you share much more in common with me than you do with Brown. You wisely chose a path of education and heeded the good advice given to you by family members, obtaining a good career and spending wisely, you chose to be a responsible person, to not break the law, and to respect people, which coincidentally also includes the police. Brown’s path was one in the complete opposite direction to yours, one of drug use, joining a street gang, rapping about abusing women and drugs, and participating in criminal behavior, which as we now know included strong arm robbery and assaulting a police officer. The fact that you ignore those vast differences just to draw a comparison to you is disheartening.

I grew up in Sacramento (I no longer live there), in an extremely diverse middle class neighborhood, where nearly every other house was a family of a different ethnicity. I never treated anyone differently based on their race or religion, and in turn, I was never treated any differently by them. Growing up, and participating in some of the typical teenager stupidity, I too was stopped and detained by the Sacramento Police Department on a great number of occasions, most of which were completely justified stops. During one incident, and to draw a comparison to an event that Eric Holder likes to recount in order to elicit some sort of “racist cop conspiracy”, I too had my car illegally searched, while I stood there in a tuxedo with my prom date on the side of the road, completely embarrassed. On a number of occasions, I received very poor treatment by the officers I came into contact with, despite the fact that I always treated them with courtesy and honesty. However, I never once considered that mistreatment had anything to do with my race, gender or anything else. The officer that illegally searched my car was an Asian male, but I did not attribute his actions to some sort of racism. I chalked it up to the fact that cops are just people, and some people are just plain rude or grumpy or just plain jerks.

The rest of this is here:  http://dailycaller.com/2014/10/01/sacramento-mayor-kevin-johnsons-foolish-racial-rant-about-becoming-ferguson/

It's good.  Good for the deputy sheriff that wrote it.