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What Killed Michael Brown?
Christian Toto at Just the News writes about Amazon Prime Video not streaming a new documentary by Shelby Steele titled What Killed Michael Brown? The good news is you can get it at Vimeo. It is a natural extension to Professor Steele’s White Guilt. If you’ve not read it — what’s wrong with you?
I was expecting a closer analysis to more current events in Minneapolis this year, and while there is some reflection on the death of George Floyd, I realized by the end it wasn’t necessary.
Buy it for $20 and see how quiet your friends are after you let them watch it.
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The late 60s / early 70s “Foxy Brown” typography.
I kid! But also, what the heck
I haven’t read Shelby Steele’s books, but I have occasionally read a column or two by him, and have encountered him on a podcast or two. I like what I have read or heard.
As for Who Killed Michael Brown? I purchased it from Vimeo and watched it this evening.
It was well done.
Amazon’s decision is not at all surprising. the major streaming services seem to be completely unwilling to host intelligent well-produced conservative documentaries. There is some right-leaning content on most of the services, but it tends to have low production quality, and/or be of the anti-globalist conspiracy theory variety.
It is definitely a positive that there alternate distribution channels available, but I worry that without major platform access they will be exclusively preaching to the choir. Reasonable, well produced documentaries like Steele’s, or Larry Elder’s Uncle Tom, have the potential to change minds, or at least cause people to questions their assumptions, but they need to have reach beyond their core audience to do so.
Cal,
Shelby is so right on target with this. Ferguson was the template for the mega-version. The George Floyd endless riots. An incident that had nothing to do with white racism was manipulated into an archetypical racist incident by Marxist instigator rioters. When they got away with burning down Furguson we should have known that it would come back and worse.
Michael Brown was killed by a police officer that Brown was violently attacking at the time. George Floyd had a heart attack while being held in police custody waiting for an ambulance because Floyd was severely impaired from the fentanyl overdose he had self-administered. Shelby is getting straight to the heart of the matter. In both cases, the black man was engaged in behavior that showed little regard for his own life. Shelby wants to get at why these two black men gave up hope. One succumbed to violence and one succumbed to drugs but the cause was the same. Why did they lose hope and throw their lives away?
Barack Obama, BLM/Antifa, and the entire Democratic Party aren’t the solution to this problem but the most likely candidates for the cause of this problem.
Regards,
Jim
Ditto. Bought, watched, agree. And shame on Amazon.
Amazon took it to a different level. When the pdf of the Grand Jury report on the Michael Brown shooting was made available to the public the mainstream media ignored the report. Some stories provided a link to the report, but it was never quoted.