Cracka Jack
08-27-2018, 04:40 PM
We already know this, but I thought the way that he describes it was worth sharing. From comments at SBPDL.
https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3890530692790573387&postID=2638427834895774944
This kind of story no longer troubles me because I no longer believe much of anything said by a negro.
I call it the Ferguson Effect. I didn't plan to doubt any statement made by a black person. It just happened two years ago when there were all these blacks on TV giving testimony about the 'Gentle Giant'. It was quite clear that they all were lying. Too be fair some of them seemed so stupid that they probably couldn't tell fact from fiction but none of their testimony was true.
After that I no longer bothered to try to figure out if a person on camera was telling the truth. If there were words coming out of a black mouth - I just presumes that they were lies. Soon it wasn't just the blacks interviewed at the scene of the crime. I found it hard to credit anything said by the black reporters, anchors or analysts on TV.
This approach saves a lot of time. I think it will spread. In ancient times slaves and serfs could not testify in court. It was assumed that their word was not to be trusted. This was true until at least the eighteenth century. Then in the nineteenth century we began to treat the words of the lower class as as trustworthy as those of the more substantial members of society. For the most part that reform has worked out well. But not for blacks. They are habitual bad witnesses.
In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries we extended all the rights and privileges we normally extend to all our non-felon citizens. In the case of blacks - that was a mistake.
Pat
August 27, 2018 at 9:26 AM
https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3890530692790573387&postID=2638427834895774944
This kind of story no longer troubles me because I no longer believe much of anything said by a negro.
I call it the Ferguson Effect. I didn't plan to doubt any statement made by a black person. It just happened two years ago when there were all these blacks on TV giving testimony about the 'Gentle Giant'. It was quite clear that they all were lying. Too be fair some of them seemed so stupid that they probably couldn't tell fact from fiction but none of their testimony was true.
After that I no longer bothered to try to figure out if a person on camera was telling the truth. If there were words coming out of a black mouth - I just presumes that they were lies. Soon it wasn't just the blacks interviewed at the scene of the crime. I found it hard to credit anything said by the black reporters, anchors or analysts on TV.
This approach saves a lot of time. I think it will spread. In ancient times slaves and serfs could not testify in court. It was assumed that their word was not to be trusted. This was true until at least the eighteenth century. Then in the nineteenth century we began to treat the words of the lower class as as trustworthy as those of the more substantial members of society. For the most part that reform has worked out well. But not for blacks. They are habitual bad witnesses.
In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries we extended all the rights and privileges we normally extend to all our non-felon citizens. In the case of blacks - that was a mistake.
Pat
August 27, 2018 at 9:26 AM