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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: i-node who wrote (819606)11/28/2014 6:47:28 PM
From: combjelly  Read Replies (9) of 1586391
 
It doesn't really matter if he was portrayed as an innocent or was an actual innocent. Wilson's portrayal of him as a demon is much, much more important. This is but one of the elements that makes Wilson's testimony incredible. Yet the prosecutor let it slide.

Here is my problem. Portraying blacks, especially young black males, as animalistic with super-human strength and ability to tolerate extreme pain is straight out of the racist handbook for the past few centuries. You were raised in the South, so you know it. Wilson was clearly playing on this, consciously or not. All he missed was Brown was after our women.

And that went unchallenged, It shouldn't have, The idea of Brown "bulking up" to brave a hail of gunfire is absurd. Sounds like something out of a poorly written comic book. Wilson's description of Brown's behaviour is like he was on PCP or bath salts. But Brown had marijuana in his bloodstream. Which isn't connected with violent behaviour, unless you are a bag of Cheetos. Yeah, Cheetos have every right to be fearful of someone who smoked pot...

Wilson also pretended that he was the size of a child compared to Brown. He wasn't.Wilson is not a small man. By any stretch of imagination. True, Brown weighed more, but the difference was not as great a Wilson made it appear to be.

Now I don't fault Wilson for doing this. He wanted to avoid an indictment. I do fault the prosecutor for letting it slide. He should have known that Wilson was manipulating the grand jury. But he let Wilson do it. Obviously, he was on Wilson's side. Which isn't his job.

The fact that the prosecutor is the president of an organization that raised money for Wilson makes this even more obvious.
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