 Hi, this is Mitch Mitchell. Let me start with this that Was my reaction to the Ferguson announcement last night And it's a different reaction than the one I had with the Trayvon Martin decision Last year where I was really angry and I was in that mood where I really wanted to go out and hurt somebody But of course I couldn't because one I'm too old to I was not in my own hometown Am I gonna about a time I thought about hurting someone I probably wouldn't have done it anyway In this particular instance, I think we've known for probably a few weeks that this was the decision that was coming down I mean, let's be realistic here. The governor put out the National Guard ahead of time That never happens with a grand jury This whole thing was pretty much being set up to well Equit this guy that that's all it was they didn't want to bring it to trial the prosecutor basically did everything that prosecutors never do to Try to in my opinion get this thing thrown out. That's all it is and Usually prosecutors are actually at least want something to go to trial to have some kind of thing going but you know what? I think that these people in Ferguson really are just trying to hide from this now I'm not going to talk about that specific thing Instead I'm going to talk about some aftermath stuff, which is interesting to me. You know, you know, there was this riot There's the riot going on in Ferguson and that's not a surprise because you know It happened earlier in the year and they've been writing and they were prepared for it and you expect that And it was amazing that there were people in other communities around the country who worry about writing in their town from this I said really? I mean cops in LA were worried about a riot in LA They weren't worried about rioting after those cops got off in Detroit Back in 90 was it 92 the Rodney King beating, you know, no one right it in Detroit No one right it in Baltimore. No one right it anywhere else for what happened in Los Angeles So I thought that was you know, kind of a unique thing But there was a question that someone put up Um on facebook and I thought well, this is kind of interesting and I wanted to basically go after it And her thing was I don't understand why they have to go and riot and burn down businesses in their own communities That doesn't make any sense to me And I'm gonna address that And some people aren't gonna like the answer, but I'm gonna address that, you know People don't riot just because of one thing You just don't if everything had always been good And all of a sudden one day a kid was killed People aren't gonna riot It has nothing to do with the one instance what it has to do with is a build-up of Incidences and finally one gets caught on tape and everyone says, okay, finally This is the one that's going to show everybody what's been going on. And you know what? Every time in these communities they get off They always get off That's just the way it is and let's think about this. Where else are they gonna riot? Or they're gonna go like 10 15 miles into the suburbs and riot in those communities Yeah, that's gonna work real well. You know When you're ready to riot you riot where you are you're not going anywhere else one of the stupidest things I've never heard Why are they rioting because you know, this country is pretty much proven that sometimes the only way you get any kind of Overall justice later on is by violence For all the people who love to talk about non-violent and you know, I'm not necessarily a violent guy But every time there's a riot or there's some kind of violence something changes Whether it's just a conversation about how things are going or whether the political structure changes or whatever something happens and This is what's gonna end up happening in Ferguson at some point You know, it's just amazing to me that we have this major racial divide That no one really wants to address and no one wants to talk about and no one wants to realize that it's the absolute truth But it is, you know last night the mayor of Rochester and Rochester's got a black mayor and Rochester has a real strong high black population Came out with her statement And I thought it was a pretty nice statement But all the people in the Rochester newspaper who commented were against her they all hated her and some said sure She only cares about minorities, you know, she's a black mayor And how they want to get rid of her and how they hate her and I'm thinking are you really? But the other side of it was that everyone who commented was like I'm just saying, you know We really had these these divides that were never going to get to Before this thing came out in Ferguson They did some kind of survey CNN did some kind of survey and they came out and said there's a great divide between races Based on the you know of opinion on Ferguson. I'm thinking really duh There was a great divide on the Trayvon Martin thing. There was a great divide on Rodney king There's always a great divide. There is no real justice in this in this world Let's look at new york city new york city is supposed to be you know This this mega mix of people where everyone gets along. It's not true And then juliani gets on tv the other day and says well if you weren't killing your own folks You wouldn't have white police officers in your neighborhood. I'm sorry That's the stupidest thing i've ever heard if the police are a ratio of 50 to 1 There's 50 white police officers to 1 What what the devil are you trying to say and this is new york city? What are you kidding? And for him to come out with a stupid statement like that the reverse of that statement is how many black officers kill white unarmed people Oh, jeez. I don't think there were any and then if there are any are going to get totally cleared and free and get to go anywhere else Never gonna happen in any city in america today. It's never going to happen This is not an issue of black and black crime. Let's not like muddy up the water with apples and oranges Also the kind of stuff. It's a totally different thing. This is cops killing unarmed people And there was another story the other day of a white cop who killed a 12 year old a 12 year old Who was shooting the bb gun or had a bb gun and he killed him because he you know thought it was a real gun Now You know what that one i'm not so sure about because they showed the gun and i gotta tell you the truth I don't really know anything about guns. So if i looked at the gun I might have thought it was something also and i don't know if the kid aimed at it or whatever But you know if if there's really a situation where you're not sure about your life or whatever Okay, i'm not blaming cops on that But some of these things that are happening, you know folks you're gonna get a realization The realization is going to be that you know what white people aren't always going to be in power in this country You're not always going to be the majority of this country as a matter of fact in 20 years You're not going to be the majority of this country. Hispanics are now. They don't have a great Political base. They don't have a lot of great economic base to really enforce their authority Uh, so things are pretty much there's not going to be any real change You know, so all you people who are worried about it, you know about the immigration like, uh, michelle bachman Twitter stupid self the other day saying oh, we just got five million uneducated people who are going to vote democrats It's stuff like that Where people say these things and sometimes they apologize for it And sometimes they don't that make black people think you don't care you could care less as long as you get to stay up here And stay above the fray and then later on come out with your I don't know why they do that or oh, they They shouldn't be rioting or they shouldn't be please really I don't know I just think that we're gonna see a lot more furgussets. We're gonna see them hitting closer to home And this is you know, there it is. This is just how it is As long as the populace decides that the lives of minorities don't matter to anybody This is just how it is and I hate to go on this kind of thing But you know what I was pulled over a couple of times when I was younger so And you know, you're gonna pull me over For nothing and just say oh, so why are you in this neighborhood? I'm sorry. Are you kidding? You're gonna pull me over because I'm in a neighborhood You don't have the right That's all I'm saying so You know This is just my little thing. This is totally different than the Trayvon martin thing because I think I was already prepared That this was going to be the thing Um, I will say that I wish peace on the people of furgusson In my opinion, I hope you get your political base together and elect some leaders who will represent you Since I understand the city is predominantly black elect some people who will represent you go and vote Go and vote So there I am y'all take care This is Mitch Mitchell And of course you hear the cool sound because that's my wife's cool sound. So she's sending me a text message That's a great way to end the video Y'all take care See you next time