Brown tragedy
is exploited
Dear Editor:
The day after the midterm election President Obama meets with his frequent guest and confidant Al Sharpton and I assume the purpose was not to discuss how to celebrate the historic elections of Tim Scott and Mia Love.
Is it possible they had already devised a plan to exploit the Michael Brown/Ferguson police tragedy in the event Democrats lost the Senate and their meeting was to give Sharpton the green light to proceed? For consideration and setting aside our unconditional love affair with everything Obama, the Democrats got hammered in the midterms because of the President’s unpopular policies, his dishonest and deceptive selling of the ACA and its botched roll-out, the IRS and Benghazi scandals and because African-Americans stayed home. Democrats need the African-American vote in 2016 to elect Hillary and it will be a monumental embarrassment for Obama if he is blamed for African-Americans staying home in 2016 causing the Democrats to lose the White House to another Bush.
Therefore, in order to re-energize the African-American community for 2016, a reasonable strategy for the President is to stage a two-year nationwide anti-police, anti-white privilege civil rights protest and social media extravaganza starting with Ferguson. Inciting riots and exploiting human tragedies that involve race relations and the police is what Sharpton does for a living. Sharpton doesn’t play golf, so why else would the President meet with him so often?
Bill Behan
Brentwood
Protestors hypocritical
Dear Editor:
A police officer assigned to the Oakland/Berkeley demonstrations was confronted by numerous agitators.
One young female in particular made eye contact with him and shook her finger aggressively and yelled profanities while vigorously shouting and accusing him of abusing and targeting black people.
The young woman is protesting because she feels blacks are stereotyped based upon the bad behavior of others and not for her individual character.
Kind of hypocritical isn’t it?
Gary Branson
Discovery Bay
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