Manipulating Death: The Nation’s Grievance Industry
From my perch in California, I have watched “hoodie” protest marches in Los Angeles, Oakland, and other cities around the state and the country. This has been a sideshow to the larger circus taking place in Sanford, Florida, a small suburb of Orlando where young Trayvon Martin was shot dead.
Over a month ago, the 17-year-old was killed — under questionable circumstances — by George Zimmerman, a 28-year-old man who was acting as a neighborhood watch captain in the gated community of Sanford. He had a permit to carry a handgun, the weapon that killed Martin.
Allegedly the gated Sanford community had been victimized by numerous burglaries over past months. Zimmerman thought the hoodie-wearing teenager fit the description of black youths identified as the suspects. He made a 911 call to say Martin’s actions were “suspicious.” The dispatcher told him to stop following the teenager — which Zimmerman ignored. As we know, that pursuit ended with the fatal shooting of Martin.
But why did Zimmerman shoot the teenager? Were his actions a tragic mistake, an act of self-defense, or the murderous intentions of a racist? More than one month after the killing, there are no factual revelations that definitively answer these questions.
Whatever the reasons, the grief, anguish, and anger felt by Trayvon’s parents are obviously legitimate, but at this point have become submerged by the larger agenda of what critics (like me) have labeled the “racial grievance industry.”
It was no surprise that the racial opportunists soon mobilized and descended on Florida, raising the stakes of the game. The dead teenager and his family became pawns in the agendas of Al Sharpton, Minister Louis Farrakhan, Jesse Jackson, the New Black Panther Party, and the Congressional Black Caucus, among others. George Zimmerman may soon find himself explaining his actions in court, but Zimmerman is small potatoes to the activists.
Beyond Zimmerman’s hide, the larger aim is to indict America for the killing of Trayvon Martin.
As the hyperbole mounted, the president of the National Urban League compared Martin’s death to the gruesome 1955 Mississippi lynching of another teenager, Emmett Till. Al Sharpton said Sanford could go down in history: “The Birmingham and Selma of the 21st century.” New York Times columnist Charles Blow reduced the complications of the case caused by Zimmerman’s mixed-ethnic heritage to its lowest common denominator: “Trayvon is black. Zimmerman is not.”
Not to be outdone, Jesse Jackson argued that “blacks are under attack” and “killing us is big business.” Even the usually levelheaded mayor of Philadelphia, Michael Nutter, went off the rails, calling the shooting of Trayvon an “assassination.”
Really? Is there a scintilla of evidence showing an “assassination” occurred in Florida?
These bizarre, racially inflammatory outbursts come at a time when the nation is led by a black president, there is significant black presence in the White House, and Obama’s attorney general is a black man. Some of these hackneyed claims of raw, unfettered racism would have sounded absurd and outdated even at the end of the 1970s. Yet, with a straight face, these race-hustlers — some still captives of another era — would like us to believe that George Zimmerman was acting as an agent of Jim Crow-era race policies when he shot Trayvon Martin.
The recurring claim made by an assortment of black leaders is that the lives of black youths are virtually worthless. This was the theme of a recent Time magazine article by Toure, who sets out to instruct black adults on how they should talk about the Martin killing with black youths. He starts by saying they should be told: “It’s unlikely, but possible that you could get killed today. … Or any day.”
Zimmerman cannot be a Racist. He is a registered Democrat. Please check your facts, sir!
As for Jesse Jackson, the Reverend threatened to “cut (Barack’s) nuts out.” Which is a pretty specific threat, especially coming from one black man to another.
Even the NCAAP is now questioning whether some leaders jumped the gun. The news media is being placed under the microscope over their coverage and twisting of facts.
The best thing to do now is nothing. Those on the left were ready to react to any violence against blacks. Nothing happened, everyone is just ignoring them. At worst Hispanics might be provoked into violence. Frankly we do not need a race war that might cause the death of millions.
As with so many recent incidents, the media seems to be screwing up. If this continues, we may see huge shifts as reporters and editors are forced to do news coverage rather than agenda messaging.
I don’t know, Avigdor, does the leopard change its spots? Those who work in the mass media are a confused lot with largely negative views of Amerikkka, as I demonstrated here: http://clarespark.com/2012/03/31/nell-painters-history-of-white-people/. Most journalists are guilty liberals who see our country as irredeemably racist, sexist, imperialist, ecocidal, et. They do NOT see it as being founded in an unprecedented popular revolution that created the most advanced democracy/representative republic in history, then diverted from its path by patricians in love with statism. I hope that you are right, though, and that those demagogues who have availed themselves of this matter will be increasingly marginalized.
Joe Hicks: You say: ” The dispatcher told him to stop following the teenager — which Zimmerman ignored.” That is factually untrue. When Zimmerman was told to stop pursuing Martin, he complied with that. He said, OK. Others who have listened to the tape have said that Zimmerman’s heavy breathing stops at that point, indicating he was no longer pursuing Martin.
Saved me the effort there. Also noteworthy, Zimmerman is heard saying ISMW that he lost sight of Martin soon after the dispatcher told him he didn’t need to follow him. Then that famous minute insued where no one knows exactly what happened. (One can guess though that Zimmerman was returning to his car while Martin embarked on a trip to see him & ask him what the “problem” was. We all know what allegedly happened after that.
Agreed. I heard the initial 911 call tape (played on the news). Although there have been newscasts that have edited out items of interest, I don’t know any that have added ‘evidence’. Taking race out of this, anyone that has had 17 year old male children knows that you have to have great interpretive skills when ‘communicating’ re: unpleasant topics with same.
These bizarre, racially inflammatory outbursts come at a time when the nation is led by a black president, there is significant black presence in the White House, and Obama’s attorney general is a black man.
You present this as a reason black people should accept that white racism is no longer the existential threat it once was. I submit that it’s precisely the reason, given the actions of President Obama, his Attorney General, and their liberal hangers-on, why people like Sharpton, Jackson, et al, feel safe in touting an imaginary Jim Crow-like threat against black people. They know they won’t be called to account for it by the people in charge.
I have always said that it was probably a good thing America finally elected a black president, but that it was a total tragedy that we elected Barack Obama.
In the wake of Barack Obama’s election, I wonder how long it will be before the voters trust another black candidate for POTUS.
Sadly. That was my thought as well. And the nest of Scorpions that password leadership in the community do not make for a compeling reason to elect another one
My concern is that he may be our last president, regardless.
Unfortunate but true, Black People have been their own worst enemy for as long as I can recall.
Such a shame, decent people cant escape the damage the gangsters AND the vultures do to their communities…
And the rest of us just live in fear of “them”….for either the crime they’ll bring to the neighborhood, or the P/C accusations of “racism” if we acknowledge whos commiting the Lion Share the crime.
I think this whole thing has been taken out of context. I personally don’t think Mr. Zimmerman is a racist just a overzealous self appointed neighborhood watch captain. But that’s neither here nor there, it really doesn’t matter whether he is Latino or White. What this is really about is our criminal justice system and how it profiles Black and Brown youth, arrest, and kills ethnic minorities without batting an eye. And how the system fails to act on the behalf of black and brown people.
I challenge you to go back and read the Whitehouse Tapes from the Nixon administration that are now previe to the public in the Library of Congress. Examine for yourself the racial biases, prejudices, and self agrandizement of President Nixon in his deliberate campaign aimed at the demise of ethnic minorities using his government supported policy of the “War on Drugs.” Also, take time to read what most of the major scholars (most of them White) say about the government supported policy of the “war on drugs.” They virtually all say the same thing that we have known for years that this policy has been a failure costing Americans billions. It has driven a wedge between Whites and ethnic minorities, and succeeded only at doing what President Nixon wanted which was to incarcerate millions of black and brown youth and destroy their families. It has been over 40 years now and Nixon’s policies still have an effect on ethnic minorities today. Many scholars have done study after study showing the disparities within the criminal justice system with regards to arrest and conviction rates, but Whites would rather believe that all or most black and brown people are criminals. The greatest predictor of guilt in America is race and or skin color. Check the facts for yourself, study after study show how blacks and Hispanics are arested and convicted two and three times the rate of White Americans. Mandatory sentencing laws target black and brown people and they are sentenced much harsher than Whites for the same identical crimes. America’s stubborn pride will not allow her to face the facts and do away with an obviously failed policy, but instead it continues to race full speed ahead just as it has been doing with the deficit we face. 40 years of the war on drugs has robbed many black and brown people of their self respect. How many Bill gates, Steve Jobs, CEO’s, and would-be scientist have we lost over the last 4 decades. 82% of those arrested for possession of small amounts of marijuana are people of color. Entire neighborhoods in New York, Florida, and California are targeted for drugs (lagely black and brown areas of town) and these statistics are available for you to see. Some coming from the FBI’s Uniform Crime Report and the Department of Justice. Black and brown youth are forced into the system and once there in the odds of getting a decent job are slim and none. So, then the “war on drugs” has succeeded forcing black and brown people to choose a life of crime. This has been taking place for four decades and you wonder why so many ethnic minorities are selling drugs are engaged in illegal activities. When the so called American Dream has never been offered to them, the ability to have a decent job, car, and house. Instead of including black and brown people in the “American Dream” we are constantly looking to exclude them. You need a college degree for this job (if that ethnic minority has a degree) then, oh you have to go through a background check (if the person passes the background check) oh, now we have to do a credit check. We are constantly looking for ways to exclude black and brown people from the dream. All anyone wants is a decent place to live, a decent car to drive (not a new car), food in the house, and maybe a little extra money to take a trip once a year. Is this too much to ask for in a country like America. we need to find ways to include people into the dream and not exclude them from it.
“Check the facts for yourself, study after study show how blacks and Hispanics are arested and convicted two and three times the rate of White Americans”
Might that have something to do with them commiting 10 times the amount of crime? Check the facts.
Or maybe, just stay in school….dont abuse the “smart kids” like they do here in Philly (racial assaults BY blacks UPON whites and asians is an epidemic) Education is a virtue, not something to be mocked, as THE MAJORITY of them do in the Philly school system. A black kid with GLASSES get beaten by BLACK kids for being “white”…WTF is THAT all about?
Its cultural. The majority of them are feral, with no responsible MAN in the household. Who’s responsible for that behavior? Girls putting out for young bucks who knock them up and LEAVE….Who’s responsible for THAT.
They run all hours of the night at 12-14 and everyone, EVERYONE is afraid of them. They may be young, but they will attack you in gangs of 10-20.
I no longer travel to Philly as my concealed carry permit may save my life, but I dont want to be “zimmermanned” if I need to defend myself or my family.
I made that decision several years ago after being attacked. I was able to “stand” the beating, and took many blows waiting for a weapon to appear, luckily none did. I risked my life by NOT using a firearm when (if they were white) I would have been justified and no questions would have been raised. Of course the racial aspect was prominant, “whatchoo doing here motherf*cker” and “how you like THIS whitey”
The police of course snickered at my request to treat it as a bias attack. Their attitude was “what did you expect”.
These conditions exist without a single white person within MILES influencing any of it.
If you behave like a responsible adult, you will generally be TREATED like one. If you behave like a THUG, people will respond to you like a THUG.
By moving away if they can, to a neighborhood that has the lowest possible number of that “group” prowling the streets at all hours looking for trouble.
Call it racism, but White neighborhoods are safer than Black neighborhoods, until Blacks show up and start living their way.
Nice way to back off but the truth is that George Zimmerman’s life is at stake and it is funny how there are suddenly bigger issues now that it looks like he very well may have acted in self-defense. Justice for Trayvon was not meant as a call for an academic symposium but a guilty verdict at a trial. The New Black Panthers and Spike Lee got a free hand in exploiting the situation in a dangerous irresponsible manner as well. Join this to the Duke Lacrosse case and you have the Bonfire of the Vanities come to life.
I get history and the Duke Lacrosse case turned me off of the death penalty after seeing you can’t trust prosecuters but its always funny how the Left looks for a specific result first and then tries relativism when it fails to get it.
Here’s the real question. If Zimmerman is found innocent would you quietly accept the verdict or expect a day, a week or a year of outrage? How about if Obama is kicked out of office in the next election?
First Obama is not Black he is in fact a Mulatto half Black half white. He was also born to a Muslim father adopted by a Muslim stepfather and was schooled and raised as a devout Mosque going Muslim in his ‘formative years’ in Indonesia. Upon returning to the USA he was raised by his wealthy ‘hippy’ grandparents, as his mother could not be bothered with him, they sent him to expensive prestigious private schools and he was also ‘mentored by his grandfathers friend a Black homosexual communist. He associated with and was mentored by Radical Blacks, Muslim extremists , criminals and terrorists all his life.
Obama is about as far removed from the Blacks ‘in the ‘hood’ as it is possible to be.
Nonsense! People WANTED to vote for Herman Cain until the media destroyed him. People WANT to vote for Allen West if he would only run. People still don’t care that obummer is black (half white) they care that he’s a flaming racist liberal dictator wannabee.
When you pour chli powder in the strawberry shortcake, no one will ever again ask for your kind of desert. They made the cake, let them suffer the consequences of their own actions.
I was thinking about Rev. Tawana Brawley and Rev. Je$$e Jack$on, along with dishonorable Louis Farrakhan and his legion of hate mongers. And every time anyone of these self anointed “holey” men comes on the screen and I hear them speak, I’m reminded of these verses:
There are six things the LORD hates,
seven that are detestable to him:
haughty eyes, a lying tongue,
hands that shed innocent blood,
a heart that devises wicked schemes,
feet that are quick to rush into evil,
a false witness who pours out lies
and a person who stirs up conflict in the community.
Looks like the holey men are pitching a perfect game.
Captives of another era? How about captives of an era that never was?
The Left’s black version of American history roughly goes: white people gathered up black folks in Africa with no help from Africans and no one ever did slavery but white people, who invented it. Then whites enslaved blacks in the entire United States and nobody disagreed with it. The South fought to defend slavery but the North didn’t fight to end it. Jim Crow was loved by all whites in all 48 states around the time it was enacted Federally, just the way every one loved Federal Prohibition about the same time, and even though 90% of blacks still lived in the deep south.
Black people were lynched in their hundreds every decade from the end of the Civil War to the Civil Rights era and white people punched black folks in the stomach from sea to shining sea just for fun.
Now white racism has just gone underground and there is the New Jim Crow, Racism 2.0, The New Confederacy, White Privilege and Critical Race Theory to explain why whites are still racists.
If you think this is in any way an exaggeration, I recommend you visit The Root, TheGrio, Racialicious and dozens of other ‘black culture’ hate sites, and with mainstream ads. Then read James Cone, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Tavis Smiley, Cornel West, Roland Martin, Nikki Giovanni, Angela Davis, Boyce Watkins. Michael Eric Dyson, Melissa Harris Perry and scores more including black congressmen and mayors. Don’t forget black celebrities. It’s a view in monumental agreement and ignorant to the point of insanity, like a negative version of Stormfront.
If this crowd on the Left can do anything to make the history of blacks in America look an order of magnitude worse, they do it. If there’s anything they can do to maximize black achievement or make white people look like endemic racists they do it – in fact, it is considered a given that America is a racist hell-hole in which blacks are 3/5 of a human who have to work ten times harder than a white person to succeed.
Excellent comment.
My recurring question is what can we do going forward knowing that with the white progs controlling blacks (their muscle) they will continue to destroy America? Given: there are no areas of agreement with them; they will steal the next election; they will continue to threaten and harass white Americans; there will innocent white Americans killed.
I am always amused when I read about Blacks converting to Islam the religion of their SLAVE TRADERS. Islam even has instructions in its Holy Book on ‘How to treat your SLAVE’ along with ‘How to BEAT your wife’.
Arabs were taking and Trading Slaves in Africa hundreds of year before a single ‘Whitey’ set foot there and the STILL are. It was mainly Arabs and other Blacks who captured and brought the slave to the ports to trade. In general ‘Whitey’ did not venture in the interior. Black on Black slavery existed then and that too STILL exists today. Its was the much maligned ‘Whitey’ who abolished the Slave trade and American ‘Whiteys’ even fought a war over it with hundreds of thousands of dead ‘Whiteys”. But hey the Race Hustlers never let the ‘truth ‘ get in the way of a good ‘White Guilt ‘ shakedown.
If slavery were legal in America today, all I’d need to get a slave in Mauritania is a credit card and a boat. They only abolished slavery in 1981, the last nation on Earth to do so, and made it a crime in 2007. According to CNN, as estimated 10 to 20% of the population is enslaved. Somehow it’s my fault.
It’s also why a guy named Royce, with one year of formal education made an aircraft engine that helped change a world while his dead partner sat on the chests of Brazilians and Mexicans so they couldn’t do the same.
Yeah, it’s alllllllllllll about access to institutions and not being sat on by culture’s jealous of the native genius of half the world. Ask Einstein, the master of pencil and paper while bored.
The Republicans abolished slavery when Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclimation, the Democrats brought it back with the Great Society. It brought about the economic and social slavery of black people that the Democrats lost. It destroyed poor black families by driving the men out of the home in order to recive Welfare benefits. It undermined black self esteem through handouts and Affirmative Action, all the goverment largesse is designed shackle black people to a specific socio-economic status and train them to be good slaves to the Democratic socialist political machine. Democrats have been in charge of all the major cities for decades and hundreds of billions of dollars later the cities are still rife with crime and violence. With all the money spent “fighting poverty” they could have made the residents of the ALL ghettos millionaires several times over.
The next in line for this treatment are Latinos. It’s a process they have down pat, woo them with gifts and special treatment, get them on the dole, make deals with the Jacksons & Sharptons to keep them in place so that they don’t bite the hand that feeds them. La Raza is already working with them on their wooing of the Latino population.
That’s because they could yell and jump and shake their fists all day long at “black slave trader” descendents and not get a dime.
Not so with anyone “white and guilty.” Acquiescing to their endless and unassuageable demands have only increased in size and dimension year by year; now we’re on about “fairness.”
However, I’m getting too cynical in my old age. So I won’t think negatively about the inevitable; the money drying up and they’re on their own to feed, house, and clothe themselves, I’ll just consider outrunning the fires and bullets like an extreme sport.
I have been avoiding this story as best as possible because I figured that it was just another shooting story. Then it became a ‘trial by the media’ story, which also is not extraordinary. Then it became a mobilization of the base, and then it became interesting.
….”Then it became a mobilization of the base, and then it became interesting.”
I agree.
Also, among the many unanswered questions I’ll add more and we’ll wait and see if they’re addressed:
1) While so much emphasis is being placed on “Race” here we could well ask why that area was a “gated community”, 2) why were there several burglaries [mentioned in the article], and, 3) who and what race were these burglars, and 4) who and what race were those burgled?
This might establish why there was a neighborhood “Watch” program to start with, and point out why Zimmerman was on “Watch”….all of these unmentioned details could be revealing.
All we have so far is an outdated picture of a cute young black boy who is shown to be the murdered victim. That in itself looks like a set-up aided by the media. That cute young kid is no 6’2″ 17 year old.
It’s also safe to assume that Jackson and Sharpton will be reviewing that Tawanna Brawley (sp?) fiasco in New York some years ago so to better plan their tactics.
The coverage of this whole thing just stinks, so far…and the massaging of information is just starting….. I don’t envy the assigned Judge and Jury.
You know the only people that give any credence to what Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton say are the media. They haven’t had any meaningful clout in their communities in a LONG time. But the media uses them because those two can get a small crowd of idiots to fill air time on a slow news day.
Arguably this is like David Duke making proclamations about this case and the media acting like he talks for all whites, except thankfully the media ignores that idiot. Like the Duke Lacrosse case, which anyone with a semblance of a functioning frontal lobe ignored Sharpton and Jackson, this case will be resolved in the courts and not the media, thank god..
The most disturbing thing about this case are the idiots that attempted to twitter Zimmerman’s address. Even if they got the address right, what the heck were they thinking? Do they have zero concept of liability?
– some in the press have dropped the “Reverend” as to both charlatans.
This whole affair is a repeat of summer of 1996. Remember the press blazing all summer about a rash all over the South of black church burnings? Remember Clinton and the “Civil Rights” crowd talking about how much there remained to be done to purge America of its hate for blacks? Remember the FBI got called in to investigate? Did you ever hear about the FBI conclusions? No, you didn’t because it came out several months after the November 96 presidential election. The FBI couldn’t find anything. It was a crude cynical hoax by the Democratic Party with gleeful collaboration by the MSM. Sadly at the time there was no PJ Media or Breitbart. They got away with it clean. hopefully, they won’t do it this time.
Calling them the ‘Grievance Industry’ is a major misnomer the Race Hustlers , Obama, Jackson, Sharpton, Spike Lee etc. etc, et al are pursuing a RACIST AGENDA to inflame the racist morons, the blacks and the left wing moonbats, who sycophantically believe every word they say. If they were a Grievance Industry they would apply the same effort to bring to justice all the Black on Black and Black on White murders. But they dont. Obama with his divisive policies and rhetoric has personally has put back race relations in the USA two generations. I for one will not be in the least surprised to see Inner City Race Riots any time soon and I predict with absolute certainty that when the ‘man with no History, the Document Hiding USURPER’ gets thrown out in November Black Race Riots will engulf the USA.
So who are the Racists well 95% of Blacks voted for Obama in 2008 in a blatantly Racist way and the SAME percentage will do so in 2011.
Blacks comprise 13% of the US population yet Black youths who are under 4% of the population commit 50% of the murders and 60% of the violent crime. Statistically a Black youth under 25 is more likely to die at the hands of another Black youth than by any other cause. So is profiling to extensive not at all seems to me its not extensive enough.
“Black Race Riots will engulf the USA.”
Not Really – As you say, blacks only comprise 13% of the population and they are most likely located in urban areas. Those will be the flash points – the cities. Most people don’t care about the cities – let em burn.
First, Obama is NOT Black. He’s mulatto. Though others would say, ‘bi-racial’. Whatever. The latter can also provide Zimmerman’s lineage.
As for Zimmerman’s supposed or alleged, ‘racism’ – roughly 12% of the 46 911/ non-emergency calls he’d made the last 7 1/2 years (legit considering his being a neighborhood watch person!) had mentioned or alluded to, ‘Black people’.
Years back I saw a truck sideswipe a car on a highway whereas I called 911. The dispatcher also told me to not follow after providing a description of the vehicle. However, the truck had gotten off the highway, pulled into a neighborhood and began attempting to remove the damaged fender panel from his vehicle.
I then called the programmed non-emergency number on my phone and provided the suspect’s whereabouts. He was taken into custody after a foot pursuit.
In the Zimmerman case, whether the responding officer was seconds or minutes away.. the concerned caller often times has no idea how long the cavalry will arrive or adrenaline pushes our usual lucidness to the back seat.
Again the information will be provided when all avenues are exhausted.
Mr. Zimmerman might want to take a house huning trip to Coeur d’alene, Idaho.
He also might want to turn in his democrat membership card as they clearly threw him to the dogs.
Hey, that’s rich lib country….not smart…unless he becomes one of their undocumented house boys.
Exploiting and Fearing Trayvon Martin
Commenting on the February killing of Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Florida, Stephanie Cutter, Obama’s Deputy Campaign Manager, said on MSNBC last week that President Barack Hussein Obama’s ”Republican opponents have jumped all over him because they do want to play politics with this issue.”
In apparent reference to Obama’s inappropriate intrusion in a local matter and making it personal by saying, “If I had a son, he would look like Trayvon,” Ms. Cutter went on to add that, “The President spoke from his heart on this, it was trying to empathize with some parents who had just lost a child. By any measure, this was a tragedy and we need to let the investigation take its course.” (http://bit.ly/GWEZid)
Ms. Cutter is in serious need of a reality check.
As with the 2009 incident between Cambridge cop, Sgt. Joe Crowley, and Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., when Ms. Cutter’s boss rushed to judgement and alleged Crowley acted “stupidly” without knowing any details about the confrontation, the president has again acted stupidly by intruding himself in the investigation.
Coincidentally, that intrusion occurred just eight months before a national election as Obama is trying to shore up his black and minority bases.
It is the president, his rabid supporters such as Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Louis Farrakhan, and the New Black Panther Party, and his mainstream media who have shamelessly exploited the death of Trayvon Martin.
Even if Republicans wanted to politicize Martin’s death, what political gain could be achieved by exploiting the shooting a black youth?
The only advantage that could be gained would accrue to Democrats and their media lapdogs to use the shooting to tar Republicans with a racist label and as a tool to push for tighter gun control, both of which efforts have already begun and neither of which makes much sense.
First of all, George Zimmerman is a registered Democrat and half Latino so, if blame must be assigned, blame Democrats and minorities.
Second of all, since the Democrat Party is hell-bent on gutting the Second Amendment, their focus should be on the African-American community where most gun crimes are committed and where there exists justifiable fear of black men.
In a rare excursion into honesty, Rev. Jesse Jackson said in March, 1996, “There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps and start thinking about robbery. Then look around and see somebody White and feel relieved.”
As President Barack Hussein Obama admitted in March, 2008, his white grandmother . . . (Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=20498.)
It is an election year -which means that the Dems will create friction to rouse the quadrennial “Black vote” and, not to be outdone, the GOP will, once again pretend that they give a hoot about social cons (GOD) and family values, as they selected, protected and put up the rich, socially liberal, unprincipled sperm donor for obamacare, who is raising money by dissing the Palin and Huckabee God-wing as real threats to the 30 pieces of silver Party.
It’s a certain as the robins coming north in the spring.