"Segregation forever," professor says!

THURSDAY, APRIL 22, 2021

Lawrence obeys the code: Lawrence O'Donnell had just finished his opening lament.

Now that Chauvin was in the slammer, he was looking forward to future attempts to get the two rookie cops locked up. 

They were "bad cops," the cable star said. They hadn't stopped Officer Chauvin when he did what he did.

At 10:06, Lawrence threw to his first guest, Professor Glaude. The question he posed was this:

LAWRENCE (4/21/21): Professor Glaude, let me begin with you and your reactions to this day after, this night after the verdict.

What had the professor's reactions been? "Segregation forever," the Ivy Leaguer now said:

GLAUDE (continuing directly): Well, I'm still exhausted. There is a kind of general sense that the tight stomach I've lived with for the last few weeks isn't so tight. But then I'm still dealing with the images of Ma'Khia Bryant, in Columbus, Ohio, and her death. 

So, it feels as if, you know, Lawrence, there are these kind of waves, these tsunami waves that keep coming. So you know, we're still at it. There was a good verdict, but we're still dealing with the question, the central question at hand.

For the professor, the fatal shooting of Ma'Khia Bryant was one more tsunami wave. 

He didn't say what that "central question" was, nor did Lawrence ask. Instead, he asked his other guest to discuss the upcoming trial of the rookie cops.

What had Professor Glaude secretly said? In a major sense, he'd secretly said, "Segregation forever!" 

He was moving on to discussions of Ma'Khia Bryant's death. But how about Peyton Ham's death? 

For Glaude, that fatal shooting didn't compute. Lawrence just played right along.

Two points:

Professor Glaude was saying "Segregation forever," as Governor Wallace once did. One flavor of death will get his attention. Other flavors won't count.

(Also: This new death was presented as another tsunami, even if the fatal shooting may have saved someone's life.)

As for Lawrence, he had just finished licking his chops about the two first-week-on-the-job rookie cops. They hadn't stood up to Officer Chauvin, so they had to go to jail too. They had shown that they were "bad cops," Lawrence flatly said.

No sooner had Lawrence offered this thought than he played bad cop too. He didn't mention the fatal shooting of Peyton Ham either! "Segregation forever," Lawrence subtly said.

The rookie cops had literally been in their first week on the job. In various forms, Lawrence has been doing his job for roughly twenty years.

In all that time, have you ever seen Lawrence speak back to mainstream press corps messaging? Have you ever seen him contradict or challenge a "standard message" guest? 

Has he ever done that? Has he done it even once? In truth, it's never done in the upper-end press. This is known as a "code of silence," which is of course the sort of thing they say they just hate about cops.

On balance, we'll suggest that you focus on one key point. Try to get clear about this:

One flavor of death will be discussed. Other flavors will not. Those other flavors will be disappeared. Those other flavors don't count.

It was always this way in the past, especially in the professor's home state, whose governor was Governor Wallace. Now, the same rules of exclusion are embraced by Our Town's high-end press. 

Certain flavors won't even be mentioned! This is very bad journalistic practice. It produces vast misunderstandings concerning extremely basic sets of facts.

At any rate, just as it ever was! Our cable stars care about one (type of) kid. The other dead kids don't exist!


53 comments:

  1. Perhaps they weren’t “bad cops.” Perhaps being a good cop means letting your superior officer kill a non-violent, unarmed suspect who was no longer resisting without lifting a finger. I don’t know Somerby’s lingo.

    But what they most assuredly weren’t were decent human beings.

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    1. Not as descent as me. That's for sure. (I am super moral.)

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    2. I am literally sopping with decency. That's why I vote Democrat every time. We like blacks, they don't. End of story.

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    3. Of the whites, liberals are good. Much better than conservatives who are bad.

      (Except the Bernie Bros who are bad like the conservatives.)

      That's why I am liberal (not Bernie liberal or Ralph Nader liberal or any of those creeps.) Because of my:

      1) Intelligence
      2) High morals
      3) Great taste in movies and music. (How many conservative watch Two Lane Blacktop?)
      4) ... just how cool I am. And how well liked.

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    4. I thing about being liberal ... it just feels so good!!!

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    5. This has nothing to do with political ideology. It is a human judgment. George Floyd’s life was in the hands of those officers, and in no one else’s hands at that moment. Chauvin was convicted of Floyd’s death, and the others did nothing to stop it.

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    6. 4:23.
      Truth. Too many grievances to juggle to make being a conservative fun. It looks exhausting, and is probably why they can't focus on simple things like basic mathematics.

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    7. Liberals are more human than conservatives. That's why we're so well liked and admired.

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    8. I wish those rookie cops had stepped up and drug Chauvin off George Floyd. I fervently hope and wish that I would do that in such a situation. I’m old enough to be entirely unsure of that.

      It’s all such a waste that the most rational reaction is to not make it even more so by putting the heads of two rookie cops on a pole.

      Let them go be Uber drivers and landscapers and never darken the door of a police station again. Let them move on.

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    9. Anonymouse 4:11pm, the liberal male of the species has better hair too.

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    10. I care about black people SO much.

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    11. Studies show liberals wear much higher quality footwear than conservatives. Much.

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    12. Cecelia,
      Fuck 'em. Next time they'll try an honest living.

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    13. "But what they most assuredly weren’t were [sic] decent human beings."

      Judge not lest ye be judged, dear dembot.

      Are you a decent humyn being? Do you risk your life every day confronting 6'6" 223lb violent criminals in American inner city?

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    14. Anonymouse 11:13pm, and perhaps in your next life you’ll be honest.

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  2. https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/we-need-to-prepare-our-city-in-case-the-police-start-rioting

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  3. If you make police reform about unarmed black people being killed, nothing will change.
    You have to make it about white people being killed by cops. Similar to how LBJ had to focus on white poverty in Appalachia in order to fight poverty.

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  4. Bob,
    George Wallace's Speech is infamous, not famous.
    At the end of his life he visited black churches and begged people to forgive him.
    You and your (Imaginary) analysts (DinC, Cecelia, Mao) will be on your knees.
    You are as stupid as a sidewalk.

    A cop has a detainee in his car; The detainee seems to be hungry. The cop offers the detainee a peanut butter sandwich
    The detainee accepts the sandwich.
    Obviously the cop had no knowledge that the sandwich was not good for the detainee.
    The detainee would have no idea that the peanut butter would kill him.
    Do you really believe that a jury would convict a cop for murder for giving a prisoner a peanut butter sandwich?

    There is a difference between a peanut butter sandwich and a knee to your neck for 9 minutes.

    Bob,
    You are as dumb as a rock.

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    1. Actually, Somerby was making a point about how the charge of unintentional homicide was being characterized in the public.

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    2. The "good guy with a gun" is as mythical as the "good cop".

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  5. 'Now that Chauvin was in the slammer, he was looking forward to future attempts to get the two rookie cops locked up. '
    And you spent the last 4 years worshipping Donald Trump, and defending Roy Moore, Ron Johnson, Matt Gaetz and Nunes. I would say that puts him orders of magnitude above a lying Trumptard like you

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    1. What a clown you are Centrist, with your over and over and over claims that TDH "worships" Trump and these other figures, and that he is a "Trumptard" - over and over again. You might have a mental problem which could account for it. You're in the same category of obnoxious idiocy as this other frequent poster who is always referencing purported "liberal Hitlerism."

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    2. AC/MA,

      if SOmerby can claim that DOnnell or Robinson are trying to get 2 rookie cops locked up because of a statement that Donnell made or an opinion column that Robinson wrote, I can most definitely say that Somerby's 4 years of columns defending Trump, his gallant defense of Roy Moore in Oct 2017, his defense of Gaetz recently etc etc. make him a Trumptard. Sauce for the Goose.

      Somerby is no liberal, he is a Trumptard.

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  6. Mao "What's wrong with a little healthy chokey-choke?" Ji thinks people are a lot safer when cops can murder with impunity!

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  7. This is the original (false) statement from the MPD about the Floyd incident. It was based on reporting from all the officers at the scene:

    “Man Dies After Medical Incident During Police Interaction
    On Monday evening, shortly after 8:00 pm, officers from the Minneapolis Police Department responded to the 3700 block of Chicago Avenue South on a report of a forgery in progress. Officers were advised that the suspect was sitting on top of a blue car and appeared to be under the influence.
    Two officers arrived and located the suspect, a male believed to be in his 40s, in his car. He was ordered to step from his car.
    After he got out, he physically resisted officers. Officers were able to get the suspect into handcuffs and noted he appeared to be suffering medical distress. Officers called for an ambulance. He was transported to Hennepin County Medical Center by ambulance where he died a short time later. At no time were weapons of any type used by anyone involved in this incident.
    The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension has been called in to investigate this incident at the request of the Minneapolis Police Department. No officers were injured in the incident. Body worn cameras were on and activated during this incident.”
    https://patch.com/minnesota/southwestminneapolis/heres-how-police-initially-described-george-floyds-death

    It’s quoted in this article about police unions in the Bulwark, which is run by, liberals? No, Republicans like Bill Kristol:

    “The Chauvin Conviction Doesn't Fix Anything”
    https://thetriad.thebulwark.com/p/the-chauvin-conviction-doesnt-fix

    The point is made that the original report would have been the end of the story if it hadn’t been for the bystander video.

    And to repeat: All four officers signed off on the false statement.

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  8. IMO a fair trial would have convicted Chauvin, but I think the obvious threat of riots made a fair trial impossible. There's no way to directly prove this. However, the trials of the two rookies will be informative. It's obvious to me that they broke no law. If they're convicted, I will conclude that mob pressure was the reason.

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    1. We can't let the threats of police rioting keep us from seeking justice.
      Especially if our only recourse against the police is in the courts.

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  9. Let's just say we can perform basic mathematics and understand economics, and leave it at that.

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  10. “What about Peyton Ham?” Asks Somerby in an effort to convince readers that the liberal media only wants to highlight police shootings of blacks, Peyton Ham being a white 16 year old shot in a suburban driveway. So since you asked, Bob, what about Peyton Ham? An officer arrived at the scene after being called about a menacing person with a gun. By police account Ham took a shooter’s stance with an airsoft gun replica and was shot once by the officer, then brandishing a knife that he refused to drop on command was shot a second time fatally. Of course Bob offers no such details in his whataboutism narrative, because he is dishonest.

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  11. Exactly, Unamused.The media found no reason for outrage there. .

    Which makes the racially-charged brouhaha over the shooting of a girl who was within seconds of stabbing another girl even more inexplicable.

    Which was Somerby’s point.

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  12. Anonymouse 10:29pm, oh, yeah?

    Well conservatives invented miniature golf.

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  13. Cecelia - let's just say liberals are smarter and morally superior to conservatives. (Not Bernie Bros though or any of the workers party leftists types. But true liberals.)

    After all, we support blacks and are a little more in the know culturally than you hicks out there in the farm plowing the fields and working lathes or whatever it is you do out there in the sticks.

    We are from cultured cities. Need I say more?

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  14. Brave miniature golfers is a better media narrative than "brave" first responders.

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  15. I acknowledge your drift, Anonymouse 9:14am.

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  16. And we’d save a lot of trouble down the road if little kids were all been busily employed as “brave miniature gofers”

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  17. We can pay the miniature golfers with the cash we saved miniaturizing police budgets.
    Win-win.

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  18. See, liberals are wittier that conservatives too. "Miniature" golfers - "miniaturizing" police budgets. Get it? What conservative would be so sharp?

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  19. Meh.
    Chewed gum stuck on the bottom of a chair is wittier than conservatives. More human-like, too.

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  20. Exactly! They are less than human.

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  21. In the words of Dennis Green, "They are who we thought they were."

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  22. Anonymouse 10:16am, what?! I get zero credit for kids being busily employed as miniature tote and fetchers?

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  23. Anonymouse 10:16am, what?! I get zero credit for kids being busily employed as miniature tote and fetchers?

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  24. Anonymouse 10:16am, what?! I get zero credit for kids being busily employed as miniature tote and fetchers?

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  25. "I get zero credit for kids being busily employed as miniature tote and fetchers?"

    Correct. Pay with cash instead.

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