Wednesday, November 26, 2014

HEROES OF FERGUSON

◼ The people who make this country work don’t get nearly enough credit for what they do. They’re mocked, insulted, portrayed as selfish for refusing to indulge the government’s bottomless appetite for cash, and given no real credit for how they make all of our lives better just by getting up in the morning and doing their jobs. - John Hayward/Human Events @Doc_o

Throughout the Obama years, the notion of jobs as a bounty to be distributed to deserving peons by the Ruling Class, rather than an economic transaction voluntarily offered by risk-taking business owners, has grown more prevalent, from Obama’s infamous “you didn’t build that” speech to Hillary Clinton treating the very notion of private-sector job creation as a joke nobody should bother telling her.

Now we’ve got businesses in Ferguson, Missouri looted and burned to the ground. Their owners and operators are expected to shut up and accept their fates as collateral damage from a temper tantrum. There were heroes in Ferguson on Monday night, as well as vandals and looters, and they’re not getting anywhere near the attention they deserve. Let me spotlight two of them.


The first is someone I mentioned earlier this week: bakery owner and single mom Natalie Dubose. She was photographed in tears on the night of the riots as her shop was trashed, but by the next day she was all business, taking quick breaks from restoring her property to handle media interviews. If she didn’t capture your heart already, a WNCN News profile that reveals she’s only been in business since June, after selling cakes at flea markets to raise the money to open her shop, ought to do the trick. After I first mentioned her, readers contacted me asking if there was anything they could do to help. I directed them to the GoFundMe page Dubose created to raise money for restoring her bakery, and I’m happy to learn it has been a smashing success...



Then you’ve got the woman who went toe-to-toe with looters when they showed up to trash the local Papa John’s pizzeria. She didn’t own the store; in fact, according to the UK Daily Mail, she didn’t even work there. She just stood her ground and shoved the looters away, resolute even when threatened with violence...

I hope we hear more about the heroes of Ferguson in the days to come, because I’ve had my fill of hearing about the villains.

In case anyone is wondering, I have no idea where either Natalie Dubose or the mysterious defender of Papa John’s stand on politics or the issues of the day. I don’t care. If you’re looking for someone who thinks character is defined by political stances, you’re in the wrong neighborhood. READ MORE, and COMMENT, at the link



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