{"id":2249803,"date":"2024-05-21T18:46:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-21T22:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-solemnly-commemorate-the-sacred-birthday-of-saint-michael-brown\/"},"modified":"2024-05-21T18:49:49","modified_gmt":"2024-05-21T22:49:49","slug":"democrats-solemnly-commemorate-the-sacred-birthday-of-saint-michael-brown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-solemnly-commemorate-the-sacred-birthday-of-saint-michael-brown\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats honor the revered Saint Michael Brown&#8217;s birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdemocrats-solemnly-commemorate-the-sacred-birthday-of-saint-michael-brown%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2249803&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/crisis-declared-in-california-as-state-farm-announces-72000-policies-to-be-cut\/\" title=\"California in Crisis as State Farm Plans to Terminate 72,000 Policies\">text discusses<\/a> the extensive commemorations in honor of\u2062 individuals like Michael \u2064Brown \u200cby activists and organizations to perpetuate specific <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/us-senator-criticizes-who-for-supporting-beijings-covid-19-propaganda\/\" title=\"US Senator Criticizes WHO for Supporting Beijing\u2019s COVID-19 Propaganda\">narratives<\/a>, despite factual \u2062inconsistencies. It\u200c highlights the strategic use of statistics and commemorations to advance agendas, even when the data used is \u200dquestionable.\u200c StringComparison and\u200d manipulation are evident in promoting biased viewpoints. \u2063The\u200c article delves into the elaborate commemorations of figures \u2063such as Michael Brown by activists and\u2063 groups to uphold particular narratives,\u2063 disregarding factual inaccuracies. It\u200c underscores the calculated\u2063 utilization of statistics and\u200d ceremonies to push \u2063agendas, even with dubious data. The presence of manipulation\u2064 and biased perspectives \u200bis palpable in promoting these viewpoints.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">By now we\u2019re all painfully aware of how LGBT activists insist on having about 500 days on the calendar to celebrate themselves, from International Pronouns Day to Pride Month to the Transgender Day of Remembrance to my personal favorite, Gay Uncles Day. There\u2019s clearly something pathological about all of this. But it\u2019s also strategic at the same time. Leftists understand that to win, they have to completely flood the zone with their propaganda. They don\u2019t want anyone have any kind of reprieve from it, even for a single day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Unfortunately, as mind-numbing as this tactic is, it\u2019s also effective \u2014 which is why it was never going to stop with the gender cult. And indeed, predictably, now the BLM movement is getting in on the action. They\u2019re demanding that the death of Michael Brown \u2014 the criminal who attacked a store clerk, then charged at a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/california-sheriffs-tell-newsom-they-wont-enforce-covid-curfew\/\" title=\"California Sheriffs Tell Newsom They Won't Enforce COVID Curfew\">police officer<\/a>, punched him, and tried to take his gun \u2014 be memorialized on multiple days every single year. This was the martyr at the center of the \u201cHands up, don\u2019t shoot\u201d hoax, who kickstarted the rise of BLM.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It was less than a year ago, back in August, that I <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/the-media-is-still-lying-about-michael-brown-9-years-later-heres-why\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">discussed<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  all the different memorials for Michael Brown. Everyone from the city of St. Louis to the Biden administration decided to eulogize Brown on August 9th, which was the ninth anniversary of his death. That\u2019s the big Michael Brown Day, during which we\u2019re all supposed to pretend Michael Brown was a useful and contributing member of society. We\u2019re also supposed to pretend that a white supremacist police officer shot him in broad daylight in cold blood.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">But as of yesterday, August 9th is no longer the only Michael Brown Day on the calendar. This week we saw a renewed effort to mark the occasion of Michael Brown\u2019s birthday, which apparently falls on May 20th. The NAACP, for example, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NAACP\/status\/1792572275570495511\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">tweeted<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, \u201cMichael Brown should be celebrating his 28th birthday today. We will continue to say his name and fight for justice and accountability. Sending love to his family and friends.\u201d NAACP president Derrick Johnson posted a similar <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DerrickNAACP\/status\/1792611942554808409\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">message<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: \u201cBlack people deserve to grow old.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">These messages \u2014 as detached from reality as they are \u2014 were echoed all over social media yesterday. Veena Dubal, a professor of law at UC Irvine, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/veenadubal\/status\/1792607444075688403\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">wrote<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, \u201cRest in Power, Michael Brown. <3.\u201d This is someone who allegedly teaches the law, celebrating someone who brutally attacked a law enforcement officer.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/episode\/ep-1372-member-exclusive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WATCH: The Matt Walsh Show<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For its part, the nonprofit called \u201cRobert F. Kennedy Human Rights,\u201d led by Kerry Kennedy, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RFKHumanRights\/status\/1792556011280126245\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">tweeted<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: \u201cMichael Brown should be celebrating his 28th birthday. Today, we honor his life and legacy.\u201d As for what that \u201clife and legacy\u201d entailed, that part was left unstated, for obvious reasons.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">But congresswoman and BLM activist Cori Bush was a little more forthcoming. She uploaded this video to honor Michael Brown:<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cWe\u2019re only left with the memories of who he was,\u201d says Cori Bush. It\u2019s supposed to be a sad line, I guess, even though all it does is remind us of the fact that Michael Brown roughed up a store clerk on camera, then attacked a cop.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For several years now, Cori Bush has simply ignored those inconvenient details. She\u2019s been trying to make Brown\u2019s birthday into a national day of mourning since before she was elected to Congress. In fact, Michael Brown is one of the main reasons she\u2019s in Congress, as she\u2019ll readily <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_56fSS3AB_Q\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">admit<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. But this week\u2019s effort to promote a new Michael Brown Day was particularly embarrassing, for a few reasons.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For one thing, it\u2019s hard not to notice how carefully worded Cori Bush\u2019s statement is. She knows she has to steer clear of saying that Darren Wilson, the police officer who shot Michael Brown, actually did anything wrong. Even Barack Obama\u2019s DOJ cleared Wilson, so in all likelihood, she\u2019d get sued if she tried to do that.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As a result, Cori Bush (and her team of lawyers, we can assume) decided on the term \u201cpolice violence\u201d instead of \u201cmurder.\u201d They probably figure that the term \u201cpolice violence\u201d gives them the wiggle room they need to insinuate that Darren Wilson is a murderer, without coming out and saying that directly. After all, the act of self-defense can definitely qualify as \u201cviolent,\u201d even if it\u2019s completely justified. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">That\u2019s the level of word games and manipulation that we\u2019re seeing from BLM activists in Congress right now. They\u2019re choosing their words very carefully to elicit the reaction they want.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">But somehow that wording about \u201cpolice violence\u201d was not, in the end, the most deceptive portion of Cori Bush\u2019s video. Let\u2019s listen on:<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is one of those statistics that, when you hear it, you immediately know it\u2019s fake. You don\u2019t need to use Google, you just recognize it intuitively.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">She says that police killings of unarmed black people are directly responsible for, \u201c50 million additional days of poor mental health days per year.\u201d But she doesn\u2019t define \u201cpoor mental health days\u201d or explain how she\u2019s concluding that police shootings are causing these \u201cpoor mental health days.\u201d Or explain how we distinguish regular poor mental health days from the \u201cadditional\u201d one.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">That\u2019s because the whole point of statistics like this is to shock you with big numbers so that you don\u2019t stop to think about what they\u2019re saying \u2014 which makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. If you look into them \u2014 even for a second \u2014 you\u2019ll realize they\u2019re completely made up.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This particular statistic has been cited all over the place, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/thurgoodmarshallcenter.howard.edu\/sites\/tmcrc.howard.edu\/files\/2021-05\/A%20Growing%20Dilemma%20-%20How%20Police%20Brutality%20Affects%20Mental%20Health%20in%20the%20Black%20Communities.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">including<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  Howard University Law School. As best I can tell, it originates from a 2018 <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/journals\/lancet\/article\/PIIS0140-6736(18)31130-9\/abstract\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">article<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  in The Lancet entitled, \u201cPolice killings and their spillover effects on the mental health of black Americans: a population-based, quasi-experimental study.\u201d Right away, that title is something of a red flag. We\u2019re talking about a \u201cquasi-experimental study\u201d here, which doesn\u2019t seem nearly as definitive as Cori Bush made it sound.\u00a0 She made it sound like she had actual facts, not quasi-facts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Indeed, if you read on, you\u2019ll find that the researchers \u2014 who apparently took money from a foundation specializing in \u201chealth equity\u201d \u2014 aren\u2019t certain of their findings at all. The summary of the Lancet article reads: \u201cPolice kill more than 300 black Americans \u2014 at least a quarter of them unarmed \u2014 each year in the USA. These events might have spillover effects on the mental health of people not directly affected.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Did you catch that? \u201cThese events *might* have spillover effects on the mental health of people not directly affected.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">That\u2019s quite a hedge, and if you look at the methodology, you\u2019ll understand exactly why they\u2019re hedging. Apparently the researchers just looked at two existing data sources. First, they analyzed the U.S Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, which is just a telephone survey system that asks people if they\u2019re feeling okay. Then, the researchers looked at the dates of police shootings of unarmed black people (without regard to whether those black people, like Michael Brown, were attacking police officers when they died). And then the researchers checked to see how many people reported feeling sad within three months of a police shooting of an unarmed black person. They say they noticed a correlation where only black people seemed upset in the 1-2 months after these shootings, while white people didn\u2019t care. This is a methodology so absurd and arbitrary that if a fourth grader used it for a science fair project, he should get a failing grade. And possibly be expelled. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It\u2019s not even worth going into detail about correlation and causation because everyone understands that this data is garbage. For one thing, you\u2019d expect white liberals to be quite shaken up by the death of an unarmed black person, but that doesn\u2019t show up in the data at all. But more importantly, there\u2019s about a million other explanations for why these respondents might have been unhappy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Even these researchers concede that point, which is why they hedge their findings in the summary. This paper only serves one purpose, which is to give Democrats like Cori Bush a talking point, and a bogus justification to waste more taxpayer money. In this case, she\u2019s asking for $50 million to redistribute in the service of mental health \u201cequity,\u201d which inevitably will mean allocating resources along racial lines.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">But Cori Bush and activists like her aren\u2019t the only ones benefiting from these lies. Outfits like BET, which claims to be, \u201cwhere black culture lives,\u201d are also promoting the narrative. BET put out its own video for Michael Brown\u2019s birthday, describing him as \u201ccourageous\u201d and saying that, \u201cBlack boys should be able to grow into Black men in peace\u201d \u2014 regardless of whether they attack other people, apparently. Watch:<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As with the Cori Bush video, you\u2019ll notice that they don\u2019t want to talk about how Michael Brown actually died. It\u2019s all about how activists \u201corganized\u201d and spread their message online. It\u2019s about \u201cwhat type of person\u201d Michael Brown was, according to his mother.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">All of these activists and organizations \u2014 from the UC Irvine law professor to Cori Bush to BET \u2014 understand exactly why Michael Brown died. They know he didn\u2019t die in service of any higher purpose. He wasn\u2019t a martyr or even a footsoldier. He was a violent criminal who somehow made living in Ferguson even more dangerous than it already was.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">But all of these activists also understand that the Michael Brown hoax gave rise to the BLM era. That\u2019s a mythology they cannot revise or reject at this point \u2014\u00a0 nor would they want to revise or reject it, because it\u2019s given them so much power and influence. Therefore the perpetrators of the hoax are sticking to the script no matter what. They are simply ignoring all evidence that clearly contradicts their claims.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is what you have to do if you desperately want to build a movement around a false narrative. You can never admit that the narrative was false. You just have to keep repeating the lie, over and over again, at every opportunity. They won\u2019t stop until we\u2019re celebrating Michael Brown all 365 days of the year. They\u2019re betting that, eventually, the history books will reflect their manufactured version of what happened in Ferguson. That\u2019s clearly their goal. And unless conservatives start telling the truth about that day \u2014 until they start defending Darren Wilson anywhere near as much as the Left worships Michael Brown \u2014 then eventually, through sheer repetition, activists like Cori Bush will get exactly what they want.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re well aware of the numerous days LGBT activists celebrate, from International Pronouns Day to Pride Month, and more. 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