[One year ago in Ferguson a white policeman killed a black criminal called Michael Brown who had just robbed a convenience store and then beat the policeman whose gun he tried to take.  In the altercation the policeman shot Brown, and the incident started the 'Hands Up, Don't Shoot!' riots and the 'Black Lives Matter' movement to protest the killing of blacks at the hands of white police (more here).  The policeman was subsequently exonerated of any wrongdoing.  But the movement has been grown by the progressives, using other more suspicious police killings of blacks, to divert the attention of those living on The Plantation from the horrendous number of murders they commit on each other – in short, to divert attention from the blatant truth that black lives really don't matter.  All this to keep Team Obama's racial warfare agenda in high gear, and the blacks solidly in the Democrat camp.  By any and all measures applied, our African-American population remains mired in what may be termed the lowest of low-information cesspools, thereby making up the most reliably compliant block of voters the Left has.  And the Democrats will do everything necessary to maintain this state of affairs.  gjr]