A Piece of Recent History African-Americans May Have Forgot: A Challenge to African-Americans
Ron Brown
Before I begin, I must tell you that I am not a conspiracy theorist by any stretch of the imagination (even though I still think that the whole Santa Claus thing was a evil plan that was devised by a secret society to boost the economy 
JUST KIDDING!
Anyway, the death of Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown (a Black man, for those who want me to underscore that obvious fact) has always been one of those incidents that have always had a huge cloud hanging over it. I bring this story up to make a point: The 9/11 commission concluded that Bush made a decision to go to war based on faulty intelligence from not only our intelligence services, but from Intel agencies throughout the world. In other words, he did not intentionally mislead the nation, nor was he “hell bent” to go into war. The response of much of Black America to the conclusion of this Bipartisan review: Bush is still a liar.
Now take the this whole Ron Brown situation. There is no bipartisan committee formed to investigate the crash and the facts that we know about this crash do not add up. The Black community’s response: Just accept it as fact and move on. To my knowledge, not one African-American leader even challenged the evidence.
Conclusion: The comparison that I just presented only further proves my point that the African-American community is seen as no more than a plantation of mindless, yet dedicated field hands to the Democratic party. In other words, never question massa, but always question those that massa does not like.
I have included an excerpt from a web page that I found this morning that covers the whole Ron Brown case in more detail. Read it, and you draw your own conclusions.
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Because there is evidence that suggests Ron Brown was assassinated, the first question that a reasonable and prudent person would ask is, “who would have a motive to do this?” We may begin by examining the controversy surrounding Brown at the time of his death. Ron Brown, a highly connected attorney and member of the Washington elite, was chairman of the Democratic National Committee during Clinton’s first run for the presidency. He was involved in fund raising. His expensive tastes allegedly led him to accept a bribe from Vietnam to normalize trade relations. He was under investigation by the Commerce Department Inspector General, the FDIC, the Justice Department, the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee, and the Senate Judiciary Committee. He was two weeks away from being indicted over a bribe he received from an Oklahoma corporation. Brown is reported to have said, “I am too old to go to jail. If I go down, I’ll take everyone else down with me.” Evidently, he thought he knew enough to influence those in power to save him, but that was an apparent miscalculation. (21)
The April ‘96 issued of The American Spectator featured an article entitled, “Why Ron Brown Won’t Go Down” — referring to his legal troubles. Shortly after that issue was released, Brown did go down — with his aircraft and everyone else on board. Six hours later, the independent council investigating Brown’s shady business deals and fund-raising practices quietly closed his investigation. (22)
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There were no flight data recorders on Ron Brown’s plane, a military version of the Boeing 737. “We have done everything humanly possible on the military side to ascertain whether this aircraft had flight data recorders or voice recorders on board and the answer we get … is that it was not equipped with either,” said Gen. Estes. (3) “We have not been able to ascertain why this particular aircraft was not equipped with them,” said Major Robin Chandler, an Air Force spokeswoman. (4)
All VIP aircraft based at Andrews Air Force Base are equipped with flight recorders, including the president’s Air Force One, according to the Associated Press. (5) Prior to Brown’s flight, the aircraft was used to shuttle the president’s wife and daughter, as well as other VIP’s such as the Secretary of Defense. The absence of flight recorders seems out of the ordinary for such an important aircraft.
What’s more, the media and Pentagon claim of “the storm of the decade” was sharply disputed by the widely read Aviation Week magazine, which reported light to moderate rain and a constant fourteen mph headwind at the time of the crash. In fact, five planes, one of them a small Piper, had landed at Dubrovnik airport just prior to Brown’s. None encountered any problems.
The Air Force investigation later concluded, “the weather was not a substantially contributing factor in this mishap.” (6) The prime factors were, instead, ruled to be pilot error and faulty navigation aids. Unfortunately, the airport’s maintenance chief was unavailable to assist the Air Force in determining if the navigation aids at the airport were functioning properly at the time of the crash. He committed suicide a few days later — a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the chest. (full story)
