A group of rappers including the Game, Diddy and 2 Chains recorded the single 'Dont Shoot' about the police shooting of Michael Brown.
Photo Credit: Daily News

It's been a few weeks since the Department of Justice cleared officer Darren Wilson of federal civil rights charges in the August death of Michael Brown. Many witnesses, all of them black, did not see Brown holding his hands up in surrender, did not hear him say, "Don't Shoot!" After the FBI interviewed more than 200 people, and agents reviewed numerous surveillance tapes and cell phone videos which captured part of the fatal incident, they concluded that what was widely reported, that Brown's hands were raised when Wilson shot and killed him, was not, in Eric Holder's words, "supported by the facts we have found." (1)

But where are the "ooops I made a mistake" apologies by rappers, celebrities and bloggers who helped spread the media lie?

For example, blogger Thien-Kim Lam on her blog I'm Not the Nanny lamented that what happened to Michael Brown in Ferguson was a blatant injustice that occurred because of his chocolate skin.

In the comment section I responded:

It isn't lighter skin that protects your children, it's being raised to respect the law. If Michael Brown were white, robbed a store, attacked a cop, tried to get his gun, and ran full speed at the cop, he would have been just as dead, the color of his skin had nothing to do with the outcome.

It's a lie that Brown had his hands up and was shot surrendering. Black eyewitnesses substantiated the cop's story.

As for Eric Garner, google "Staten Island Cop Would Have Treated Eric Garner The Same If He Were White."

We indeed have a race problem in this country, but it's blacks who so hate whites that they're blinded to the real problems facing young blacks today. We're not going to make things better by supporting thugs who cause their own deaths.

So I waited a few weeks to see if this blogger posted a new article saying she was wrong, that the shooting had nothing to do with race and everything to do with Michael Brown being an unredeemable thug. But nothing.

MSNBC had no problem reporting that Michael Brown was unjustly gunned down. Do any of my readers recall reading a correction to their story from them?

But what about me? Do I apologize when I mis-report, or mis-speculate? Consider the following: in my 22 Jul 2011 article Oslo Blast How Many Muslims Live in Oslo, I intimated that an explosion in Oslo, Norway might be the work of Muslim terrorists, although I did write that I might be jumping to conclusions. Two days later, I admitted I was wrong, read Difference Between Christian and Muslim Extremists.

When I'm wrong, I say so.