The Trayvon Martin Case and the Growing Racial Divide
In a Democratic National Committee video in April 2010, Obama called on “young people, African-Americans, Latinos and women . . . to stand together once again.” Shortly before the November 2010 congressional elections, Obama told an audience that Republicans “are counting on black folks staying home.” Before the Congressional Black Caucus, Obama affected the supposed accent of black America in emphasizing shared race: “Stop grumblin’. Stop cryin’. We are going to press on. We’ve got work to do.” Was “we” the black community or all of America? He appealed to Latino voters not to stay home from the 2010 elections, but instead to “punish our enemies”—and not to fall prey to the Republicans’ “cynical attempt to discourage Latinos from voting.” Conservatives, remember, wished, according to the president, to round up Latino children while eating ice cream. There is now an African Americans for Obama campaign group, and Chicago Bears coach Lovie Smith warns us that he has Obama’s back.
All this is not quite new. Obama stereotyped the Cambridge Police Department as having “acted stupidly” for detaining Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates. He allegedly complained that racial bias explains much of the Tea Party opposition to his own administration, and used the derogatory “tea-baggers” sexual slur to characterize the protests. After Rev. Wright, the clingers speech, and “typical white person,” one would have thought that Obama would have tended to avoid the question of racial tensions.
Members of the Black Caucus have talked a lot about the Trayvon Martin case, calling it an “assassination” and a “murder” and alleging that Zimmerman shot Martin down like “a dog.” This too is not new in the age of Obama. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee said debt arguments showed racial animosity toward Barack Obama. Rep. Barbara Lee accused Republicans in racist fashion of trying to deny blacks the vote. Rep. Andre Carson claimed that the Tea Party wished to lynch blacks from trees. Rep. Charles Rangel alleged that Rick Perry’s job creation in Texas was “one stage away from slavery,”
Post-racial icons like Morgan Freeman blasted opposition to Obama with “It’s a racist thing.” Whoopi Goldberg blurted out, “I’m playing the damn [race] card” over Obama’s sinking polls.
Why?
I could go on and on, but one gets the message. So why the anger at this point and not, say, in 2007, when the evil Bush was president and Obama was but a weak senator and a dubious presidential candidate? For eight years there were African-American secretaries of state. Bush, through his African AIDS initiatives, saved millions of blacks who had no access to medicine. Minorities were visible in his cabinet. No one objected to the fact that Obama garnered 96% of the black vote, or thought much about it when, in the bitter Democratic primaries, the Clintons alleged that race was used to whip up support against them. So why, then, the anger now, when things should have improved even more?
And I do not mean just African-American anger. To read comments following these stories on the Internet is to enter the world of white counter-rage at a level I have never seen. We talk of black accusations of racism, but they are earning a counter-response that is equally scary, with some irate and others wearied to the point of quietism and isolation. The lurid Drudge Report weekly posts videos of African-American teens flash mobbing or attacking and beating whites, in not so subtle reminders that in terms of violent crime blacks commit roughly 50% of the offenses, while making up only 11-13% of the population, and are 7-8 times more likely to harm whites than vice versa. Indeed, 94% of all blacks who are murdered each year die at the hands of blacks. The more Eric Holder emphasizes racial distinctions, the more he seems oblivious to the fact that he is alienating far more than he is encouraging.
What Is It All About?
Two racial narratives without much hope of a compromise seem behind these different views:
A) The current black leadership believes in the following narrative: Due to the wages of past American racism and well over a century of Southern chattel slavery, blacks have been damaged in ways still underappreciated by whites. Thus, true equal opportunity and justice will take decades more of instruction, recompense, affirmative action, and set-asides to achieve real fairness. Whites say that they are not racist, but daily they do or say things that to others seem very racist. One can be destructively racist without the overtness of Jim Crow.
When blacks employ the N-word, or a Rev. Wright uses racist language, or the Black Caucus (or Black Panther Party) employs incendiary vocabulary that would earn their white counterparts ostracism, all that is a false equivalence. One must see this apparent asymmetry as a faux-asymmetry, given the hurt in the black community that suddenly in 2012 cannot quite be held to the same standards as the inheritors and present beneficiaries of privilege. If 50% of the black community has achieved near parity in the half-century since the civil rights reforms, 50% have not, largely due to the unwillingness of the majority culture to invest the necessary resources and alter attitudes to finish the job of racial parity. Therefore continued federal reparatory action is necessary until 100% parity is achieved, to paraphrase Eric Holder. If black crime is inordinately high, it is largely because of either present racism or the legacy of racism or both, and continues on due to the general neglect of the white majority, who objects only when the violence spills into their own enclaves. As for other minorities, they have suffered from white racism and may have transcended it, but slavery was a special case and left an imprint on the American psyche that explains the sensitivity of black/white relations in ways unlike other racial and ethnic polarities.
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B) The counter-narrative is just as uncompromising. It runs I think as this: We live in a multi-racial society now, where almost every minority group has genuine claims on past exploitation, from the Holocaust to the frontier wars to the internment. But after a half-century of hyphenation and racial identity politics, and a trillion dollars spent on federal race-based programs, it is time to move beyond race and evaluate Americans on their behaviors and talents, without worry whether any particular group statistically does better than another–especially given that race itself in the 21st century is problematic with intermarriage and the waves of new immigrants. If we do not, our future is Rwanda,the Middle East, or the Balkans.
Millions of so-called whites are now adults who grew up in the age of affirmative action, and have no memory of systemic discrimination. To the degree some avoid certain schools, neighborhoods, or environments, they do so only on the basis of statistics, not profiling, that suggest a higher incidence of inner-city violence and crime. Most in this generation assume that a B+ white student in state college has none of the chances to get into law school, medical school, or graduate programs that a B- African-American student enjoys. If the black leadership were to preach a more balanced message of both monitoring race-based discrimination while addressing more vigorously endemic pathologies in the inner cities (such as illegitimacy, absentee fatherhood, drug use, crime, violence, misogyny, and anti-intellectualism), most racism would eventually disappear—as black crime rates, graduation rates, or illegitimacy rates matched those of the general public. Liberal whites and black elites profile as much as anyone (consider where they live, where they put their children in schools, and the fact that they associate with those quite distant from the inner city).
The phenomenal success of Asians, Punjabis, Armenians, Arabs, Latin Americans, and other supposedly non Anglo-Saxon groups is proof that the majority culture holds no one back on the basis of skin color. The crux for every group is culture, not skin color. Unfortunately, “racism” has become a careerist tool that leads to political and professional advantage when the charge is leveled; if there are indeed two black Americas, then the elite often uses the plight of the non-elite as arguments for its own claim to exemptions from criticism and often advantages in admissions and hiring.
Those two narrative don’t match and won’t, and so race relations have gotten only worse—as Barack Obama and Eric Holder well know. They do not seem to care or feel there is advantage to be had in the new polarity.
This excellent, timely, and accurate article is bound to produce some vitriolic responses.
Excellent article as usual by VDH.
I still feel that if “conservatism” and the Republican Party were not 95% white, then people would be less likely to see a racial motive in their ideology. It is a party clearly based on race so why wouldn’t its ideas follow.
You must be kidding!
That’s like saying you’re not going to follow your doctor’s advice because he is not of the same race as you.
That’s some delicious logic right there, son.
Even if that were morphologically correct whose fault would that be? Being 50% Italian I would be somewhat embarrassed if 93% of all Italians still believed that the World was flat. If you don’t appreciate Constitutional conservatism whose fault is that? Certainly not the fault of conservatives.
Lincoln was a Republican and so was Grant who demolished the KKK. Many southern democrats were far and away against the 1964 Civil Rights Act. It was the majority of the republican minority that enabled passage of the bill which received heavy resistance by democrats.
What has remade history is the massive educational bureaucracy that has been indoctrinating falsehoods and untruths into the minds of our youth for over four decades; of course not much differently than the majority of the media.
“To the degree some avoid certain schools, neighborhoods, or environments, they do so only on the basis of statistics, not profiling, that suggest higher incidents of inner-city violence and crime.”
Better be careful, VDH. National Review Online might stop printing your articles or fire you.
“National Review Online might stop printing your articles or fire you.”
Ha! Rich Lowry dismissed John D. and then posts about his dead cat. If his dog dies, he’ll probably let Steyn go next.
Ow!
Yes, Lowry has managed to land in the worst of all possible worlds.
National Review has taken some heavy hits the last few months thanks to their hit job on Newt Gingrich and firing John Derbyshire. They need new leadership. I suggest they jettison Rich Lowry and put Jonah Goldberg in charge.
NR calls itself conservative, but they’re not and never have been.
Ninety years ago, they would have been called Bolsheviks.
Two problems with your narrative:
1. Reporting the facts about someone is not a ‘hit job’. Newt Gingrich’s history is certainly relevant when he’s running for office.
2. Are you honestly contending that NR should have stood by a self-proclaimed racist? What would that achieve?
I dunno…commitment to the First Amendment and the principles behind it perhaps?
“I do not agree with what you have to say, but I’ll defend to the death your right to say it.”
~ Voltaire
National Review under Lowrey has really gone down in quality. He recently published an article entitled “Sharpton is right” to argue Zimmerman should have been charged. Whether you agree with his argument or not, there was no need to reference Sharpton. Not to mention the over the top reaction to Derb’s inflammatory, yet true, article. Thank goodness we still have VDH and Krauthammer.
“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
― George Orwell
The “Orwell” (actually Blair) quote is disputed. See http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Talk:George_Orwell
As a Canadian, I look at American race conflicts with great sadness. There has been so much progress, and still so much hate. America has so much to offer. Please everyone it is time to move on. Ignore the racists and race baiters. Eliminate irrational discrimination completely (both negative and positive). Stop categorizing yourselves with hyphens. Look forward and promote the American dream for everyone.
As an Australian, I agree wholeheartedly with DD.
You guys are preaching to the choir. Majority of white America is all in with your sentiments. Neil Young’s, “Southern Man” is a way overplayed myth of urban elites,Canucks and Aussies.The real struggle is an internal one amongst American blacks. The average American is bored to tears over this manufactured, never ending racialism. Try giving actual insight into the gristle violence urban, black males(15-25yo) are self destructively enamored of. The stats re black on black violence in American cities is starkly enlightening. Surely, “gun control” is the answer. Be glad your not karmically attached to these forsaken souls!
No Leagarto gun control is not the answer unless of course you meant never fire unless you use both hands. I like being able to carry a hand gun with me, policemen are much too heavy. Besides gun control laws only take guns away from the people who don’t make a career out of crime. Once guns are outlawed only outlaws will have guns!
Young’s a perfect example of a clueless lib who reads a few papers, graduates from grade school and is mister nuance when it comes to history.
As an American, I agree with DD. When you characterize groups, you’re really framing an ideology, not all of which will be based on absolute truth, to put your spin against. Take every man at his own persona. If you like them, walk with them, if they’re dangling bait, don’t take it and then get offended. Haters ‘r gonna hate, don’t give them the audience they so desperately crave, black, white, red, yellow, bronze, plaid, polka dot, etc…
When you are enslaved to pay out reparations to useless destroyers of everything they touch, all the while unable even to protest that sorry state of affairs, or mention that perhaps what they’ve been doing for 50 years isn’t working, then let’s talk.
What color skin have the people that have enslaved you?
John J, Are you South African?
I believe the 2 first replies are misinterpreting John J’s response. By “enslavement” he is referring to taxation to pay for failed welfare programs and other “Great Society” measures that have indeed made many problems worse.
This situation is different from Europe, where nearly everybody is receiving some form of government benefit, like health care. As such, a non-American commentator likely would not have the same appreciation for one of the flash points that led to America’s founding. “No Taxation Without Representation!”
My question stands, and as yet is unanswered.
Communist Red and Copperhead Blue, bilgeman. The Democrats have always been the party of slavery; replacing “plantation” with “collective” doesn’t change that basic fact.
SDN, the question isn’t one of partisanship, but one of race. You have correctly pointed out that political philosophies as opposed as Democrat Slaveholders and Soviet Marxists have both seized upon the Racial Problem as a tool to further their own agendas…but the point is that these sets of enslavers have both largely had white skin.
Thus, the Race Problem is basically a mechanism used by SOME White people to keep OTHER White people,(to say nothing of Black people), in a lower position in the societal hierarchy.
So…how do we break our chains?
We must convince Black people of that which should be manifestly obvious to them…i.e. that their “tooldom” of SOME White folks is doing them no good at all. One would think that this wouldn’t be a hard sell, what with the number of Black people being killed by OTHER Black people; the number of Black children who have so cruelly been substituted with a government subsidy check where they COULD and SHOULD have had a father; the glorification of Black prison gang inmate societal mores,(sic) and how it is flogged to Black youth as “Black culture”; and not least how they have been betrayed by those who have usurped positions as their leaders…specifically, Barack Obama ending the school vouchers program for the benefit of his teachers’ union allies and thus consigning hundreds of thousands of young Black children “that might look like he, to sub-standard educations in crumbling schools,(albeit with generously compensated faculties and administrators), while he sends HIS daughters to be educated by the good Quakers at privately-run Sidwell Friends School.
If Blacks would look at the results of decades of being tools for the narrow interests of SOME White people, and could overcome the training they have received by SOME White people’s media to view anyone but SOME White people as incurably and violently racist, they might join with the OTHER White people and overthrow those who have so callously clambered to the top of society’s pecking order over the spilled blood, tears and sweat that both Blacks and OTHER White folks have shared.
Of course, the OTHER White people have to realize what has happened to them also.
I hope that this is coming to pass, but I’m not exactly holding my breath for it…
If you guys only knew…We TRY to ignore race, only to be herded into “conference rooms” at work to be called insensitive and racist. We ignore it in talking politics with acquaintances, only to be called racist when we don’t like obama. We try to send our kids to (or work in) public schools, only to have such an atmosphere of hate around them (or us) that we have to pay extra for private schools. We try to walk through (not live in), just walk through, black areas (and increasingly, family places like state fairs) only to be beaten just for being alive. We ignore race, only to be called “cowards” and then have to pay ‘the white tax” for universities our kids can’t go to and bus systems we can’t ride. Then, to top it off, the idiots among us elect a guy who sees everything through a racial lens, who appoints an AG who openly says he will not act in discrimination cases against white people — with OUR tax money AGAIN.
Sorry — went off there. But we are a society that has been screamed at for being racist for decades, to the poisonous point that many voted for a marxist, inexperienced, liar who comes from who-knows-where, just to try to stop the name-calling. And it still doesn’t stop.
Yes. Harsh words but true.
As one who has gone through every one of the example you so poignantly stated, I can only reply, Well said!
THAT was da#m well said. Here Here.
You can’t apologize for having eyes.
I have come to the place where accusations of racism no longer intimidate me. From now on I will respond to these accusations by saying; “So you need me to be racist, Rev Jackson? OK, I’ll be your racist, if that serves your purposes. Now what’s your point?”
An excellent example. Here’s another: a couple of years ago, on the 50th anniversary fo the Voting Rights Act, it was agreed in Congress to extend, FOR ANOTHER 50 YEARS, the requirement that essentially all the States of the Old Confederacy would have to seek permission from a federal bureacracy to make changes to their voting rules, including, for example, seeking permission to relocate a polling place, even if it was just moving across the street. So you see, we have replaced institutionalized racism with institutionalized counter-racism, in voting, housing, school admissions, hiring, etc. And now that those bureaucracies are in place, extinguishing them is nearly impossble. They have a vested interest in picking at the scab. And I have heard serious scholars suggest that since slavery was practiced in North America for about 400 years (that’s black/white slavery, not white/white indentured servitude nor the intertribal slavery practiced by Native Americans), it would probably take about 400 more years to put it “right.” Let’s all meet back here in 2263 and see how that has worked out.
In a world ruled by liberal/progressive/leftist (the labels have ceased to be reliable) thinking, the answer to a government-spawned or -sanctioned problem is more government. This runs eactly counter to the principles which guided the Founders. Madison and Jefferson, by contrast, understood the snowball effect, that government begets government. They recognized that the best way to avoid the kinds of problems a government intervention creates was to keep government small and thereby limit its ability to intervene. “That government is best which governs least.”
A superior post worthy of a VDH thread!!
Tired. You’re sorry you went off. Don’t be. I told another very concerned citizen this morning, that she needs to come to VDH’s essays and the ensuing comments – to be reassured that she’s not alone.
Thank you for putting the feeling in my heart into words. Everything you say rings so true.
Thanks again, VDH. A wonderful column. As usual.
I am with KT. As a German immigrant I have never called myself German-American, my husband has never called himself Croatian-American. Yet people who have never seen the country they claim to be from call themselves blank-American. They as well as their parents and grandparents were born in the USA still hyphinate their Nationality. I will never understand that. This is why I respect Marcus Lloyd for calling himself an unhyphinated American, just as I am.
I never thought about it much until after the OJ trial.
Canada, you’ve got it worse than we do. At least we have a 1st Amendment. On your side of the line you can actually be put before a “Human Rights” Star Chamber and fined or thrown in the pokey if you say anything to offend one of YOUR approved minorities. Need I reference the MacLean’s case or Ezra Levant? You can’t even publish/broadcast/speak your minds on issues pertaining to “First Nations”, Muslims, gays, blacks, etc. anymore.
Perhaps, but only so long as the left has any kind of strong hand on the political tiller. Coming generations of conservative thinkers will help change that and the execrable concept of politically correct multiculturalism that so benefits the port-side leeches will take its rightful place on the ash heap of history.
Either that or we’ll have to kick their ass.
The human rights commissions are ridiculous, but do not even approach in scale the racial problems and group rights thinking of the US. I live in Toronto, which is regarded as one of the most culturally diverse cities in the world. We have problems but it mostly works. People can live together.
“People can live together”
As long as they’re not Francophones, of course.
Actually the French-english conflicts have mostly faded away. Conversations in Montreal might start off in French, switch to English, then back to French without anyone realizing it. It’s all pretty cool. Great city. Well worth a visit.
We had a ’100 years war’ against the French, one of the results of which was the successful revolt of the North American Colonies due to French interference on the Colonials side. The only comment you will get about that from a Englishman is that ‘It was not long enough’
Canada is a suburb. The US has plenty of nice places the size of Toronto.
DD, I also live in Toronto and we are not without our racial strife. Moslem protests are now a grim reality, so are honour killings, Asian gangs, high black crime rate. I fear that due to the decreasing white population, Toronto will become Detroit in 20 years. I am now a visible minority in my own city. Looking for a job in Toronto? Try to find an employer who does not advertise “diversity” in their website. (ie. non-white) Good luck finding service in a shop by someone who actually speaks and understands coherent English. As long as we are urged to be inclusive and tolerant of 3rd world immigration, our society will continue to sink to their level. Toronto was a great city until non-white open immigration forever changed her.
DD, what is the percentage of blacks in Toronto? May I guess that the reason you are all able to get along is because blacks are such a small percentage that they have no power of strength of numbers? Diversity does not work and will eventually cause the breakup of the US. We will split into sevaral smaller entities just like the Soviet Union did. As long as the US was fairly ethnically similar and culturally homogenous we were able to survive and prosper but since diversity has taken over the country is being destroyed from within. Blacks have, as a group, not shown the ability to co-exist with other races and this won’t change.
As a Canadian, perhaps DD is oblivious to the racialist discourse that underlies so called multiculturalism. As social policy, MC was put in place by social democrats, and took over the media and the educational system, without exception. I wrote about that here:http://clarespark.com/2010/07/04/pacifica-radio-and-the-progressive-movement/. It started in the late 1930s when the process began that flowered in 1942 when big business went over to Keynesian economics. This is the history you won’t find on the internet or in the schools either.
DD & KT,
Sadly, what the outside world ‘sees’ of America is merely our news media outlets, which–unfortunately–are made up of the ‘far left’ that prefers to paint America as a ‘racist’ country. And, news outlets do not show the everyday reality, but rather only what makes NEWS in this reality: Criminal, unusual, and irrational behavior.
In the reality that you–unfortunately–do NOT see: Most Americans are not racist, and behave quite rationally and live peacefully with every one of their neighbors (regardless of any physical differences). Of course, most Americans are law-abiding citizens, so don’t get to be on the news.
If all you see is what our news media show you, then you have quite a false impression of who Americans really are. Ya gotta come here and see what the ‘norm’ really is.
Oh how far the uniter has come! This video offers some useful perspective. One and a half minutes of truly nauseating fawning. Ms. Quinn, in October 2008, explains to us what The One’s words have done to heal the racial divide, to bring us together.
Sally Quinn tingles for Obama:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClutOJ_-Htk&list=UUctt38MRDBn0YcJsF1hWIaQ&index=58&feature=plcp
Wow, I’m being impersonated here! LOL!
Catherine, we each have our own different identity and email addresses, but but the only thing that shows up is the name “Catherine,” so when you post using MY name, it makes it appear as if *I* posted them–when I didn’t.
That can be quite confusing for others here, as you and I have differing opinions.
So, I am changing my ID on this site to “Catherine B,” to avoid this confusion in the future–and hopefully I will be allowed to edit my own posts.
Very good but… speaking of asymmetry, What’s in a name?
On the one hand: ‘so-called whites’ (as if tainted-but-not-tinted, highly suspect and in need of chromatograph/densitometer/genetic testing).
On the other hand: ‘African-Americans’ (as if by definition all pure-blooded victims of horror, ipso facto beyond reproach, no testing needed).
One sign of equality may be when the best’n'brightest pundits — like VDH — also speak of ‘so-called blacks’ with the equivalent well-balanced equal-opportunity-like highly parsed sneer they now reserve for ‘so-called’ white people. Another would be when all the Sharptons and Holders are in jail and in disgrace. Expect a long wait, or DIY.
Or really grasp the nettle and try to figure where and when the checkbook closes and enough is enough. At some point, a loser is just a loser.
Wrong. Blacks or African-Americans self identify as blacks or African-Americans. So called ‘whites’ do not, so it is appropriate to say “so called” on the one hand and just as appropriate to leave out the skeptical qualifier on the other. I find being identified as a so called ‘white’ as slightly offensive.
If I ‘self identify’ as a crusading child molester am I beyond reproach? You can declare yourself dictator and arbiter of public decency anytime you want, but the moment you claim special rights for yourself and your group, you’re fair game.
That includes smug attempts at inclusiveness and pious-sounding outreach by ‘others’.
All attempts at social engineering are suspect, especially those based a sense of self-declared entitlement. It’s hardly news that skin color is useless as a yardstick, left-liberal pablum like yours notwithstanding.
I wrote reams decades ago on the uselessness of race. But there is a group that self identifies as “black”. Call it gang colors if you wish. Perhaps I missed your point, but you seemed to be saying there is something wrong with using “so called” with “white” while using “black” without the qualifier. Well there isn’t. “Black” is a self identifying moniker. “White” isn’t. It is an identifier that blacks use as well. I don’t go around thinking of myself as a “white” man, and I strongly suspect that most other “whites” do not either. Therefore, “blacks”, while “so called whites” is entirely appropriate. This may actually have nothing to do with your original point.
However, now a different point arises. From the three sentences I wrote in my original comment, you have identified me as a spouter of “left liberal pablum”. How does this work? Anyone who says you are wrong about anything is a lefty liberal?
BTW, to make this clear to you, I would like to see the black grievers and race baiters grow up and start taking responsibility for their own fates. I would like to see a lot more black leaders like Allen West and a lot less celebration of “gangsta” culture. I am angry at the “critical race theorists” and other followers of Marxist derived bilge. If they ever do start the race war they seem to want, the idea of which I am loath to even contemplate, they will get very badly beaten for the simple reason that people who just make it up as they go along don’t have a sufficient grasp of reality to do something like win a real war. Groups like the New Black Panthers are a bunch of cowards who get their “courage” from being part of a gang. Flash mobs are groups of cowards.
I could go on, but you get the point.
What’s in a name, indeed. I remember before the presidential election Yahoo had some article analyzing Barack Obama’s signature. Unsurprisingly enough they pegged him as a uniter somehow – in his last name he puts ‘ba’ in side the O. However, if you read their article and actually paid attention to what were some techniques to analyze signatures, somehow it escaped the author, but the way Obama writes his last name also indicates that he is divisive. He makes a big circle with the O and than slashes it almost perfectly in half. So, you have an O with a b and a inside with the line of the b cutting it in half. In my opinion the chronology counts, because in the act of writing his last name he will make an O and then firstly slash it in half – afterwards is when the unity indicators are made. Maybe, there is nothing to signature analysis, but in this case I found it interesting.
Also, the last name is supposed to indicate family or heritage, while the first is personal. He has a white mother and a black father, so following the chronology could it be that he indicates a stark division, and then indicates unity on one side? His first name also has division indications. In making the B he makes it like a C and the splitting of the B comes down and points to the center, but does not touch. It may indicate a centered personality, which I’d say he is, but it also indicates that divisionist mentality, which is a part of his being, and may be a part of his psyche. And this is not to say that people with interracial parents are divisive, but that for Barack Obama it may be, and his signature suggests it.
I believe Victor used the phrase “so-called whites” in reference to the lunacy of who gets called “white”. Had someone who looked like me (blonde, blue-eyed) been the shooter and George Zimmerman been the one shot, then he’d be simply “Hispanic”. It’s only because the race-hate crowd got hold of the case that he’s suddenly “white”.
Yes, I wondered that too, though in context VDH wasn’t as clear as he usually is. Judging from the responses, including a couple of self-important examples nearby, I’d say you’re correct. I wish I knew how to deal with the lunacy, though. We’re at or very close to Lady Macbeth’s ‘sticking point’. The race baiters have got to go, one way or another. The chances of avoiding extreme violence diminish every day.
Obama 2012: From ‘Hope’ to Hypocrisy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvwBBjZo87g&feature=player_embedded
I disagree: they do not believe this. They find it politically profitable to preach it. It’s a way to leverage unearned white guilt for gain, and the key to a place inside the power elite of the Democrat Party. No other explanation fits the observable facts, or the behavior of black racialist flacksters.
exactly!
Francis, I disagree. Perhaps the manipulators such as Sharpton don’t believe it, but I think the vast majority of American blacks do. It’s some sort of psychic split that I as a white American admit I have no understanding of. I’m just stumped by paradoxes such as when some black nurses I knew who were the SWEETEST people in the world were all excited when Louis Farrakhan came to town, went to hear him speak, and then were swooning about it for days afterward. WTF is THAT all about?!
You’re right Kathy. Every black person I have met @ school or work, believes it to the very core of their being that “the White Man” owes them.
When a major case of embezzlement of government funds was discovered in Cincinnati, the reaction of one involved was “it’s our turn”.
And they wonder why I, personally, find it exceedingly difficult to trust any African-American unless I know ahead of time that the person is conservative. Peer pressure in their community requires them to think of me as their enemy. Only those with the courage to stand up and be counted as conservatives deserve our trust.
Hey, my ancestors suffered under the far crueler Turkish yoke for twice as many years as the “peculiar institution” continued in the US. After that, my remaining Serbian relatives met their end under the Nazi regime. And yes, I do regard Muslim Turks (and all believing Muslims, for that matter) as my enemies, but that’s because mainstream Islamic doctrine REQUIRES them to be my enemy. But you’ll never find me trying to extract reparations money or any other favors from the Turkish government. All I want them to do is to stay out of my face and stop persecuting Christians and Jews.
Well, the anger seems to be dissolving a little bit anyway. According to the Daily Rash, the New Black Panthers announced they’ve retracted the bounty they offered for George Zimmerman and instead are going to use the money for a trip to Disney World. http://www.thedailyrash.com/new-black-panthers-use-bounty-money-for-trip-to-disney-world
I don’t know that it’s a very good satire.
Obviously there are people with a vested interest in perpetuating the appearance of white bigotry. And they are not white.
Not white?
Are you familiar with Tim Wise? He has a book called “White like me”.
I’m familiar with Wise. His delusions and lack of brain power are fairly remarkable.
Tim Wise is Jewish and not White European or Christian. He has made a career of racial hate mongering against Whites.
Mr. Hanson:
As you live in California, you may be more aware than I am that the coming great divide may not be black-white, but Anglo-Hispanic. There are already 12 million more Hispanics than blacks in America (yes, I know some are in both), and by 2040 they will be double. They will soon be majorities in CA, NM, and probably TX is not far behind.
True, they may intermarry more than blacks, but as they become majorities in places like California, New Mexico and southern Florida, not only will that rate of intermarriage decrease, they could push the divide into an unbrdigeable one by making Spanish the primary language over English (in L.A. and Miami, it already is). At that point, they could no longer remain viable within the USA, and secession would almost certainly become necessary.
This breakup is aided by their concentration in at least some areas of the country where they could control a whole state or at least a big part of one. The African-American population may be concentrated in cities, but I don’t think any state is going to become predominantly black, and those with the highest black populations have the most conservative whites – of all states which are more than 25% black, only Maryland is liberal. The rest would push back, and push back hard – against any attempt at black dominance. If black unrest erupted into all out race war, an armed populace would decimate the rioters.
“At that point, they could no longer remain viable within the USA, and secession would almost certainly become necessary.”
Yep, too bad about all those Norwegians who spoke and wrote in Norwegian for 150 years forcing the secession of Wisconsin…
Scoff if you want, but I’m pretty sure the Norwegians didn’t have a couple of generations reconquista teachings under their belt. The nationalism of the hispanics can’t be overlooked, nor dismissed. They truly believe they are an invasion force to reconquer lands “stolen” from them. Ask them – they are militant, racist, proud and unrepentant about their invasion.
The hilarious thing is that wherever the Latinos establish a nation they’ll seek to escape it to the exact extent is actually is Latino. If we could somehow move the entirety of America’s European population to South America, my guess is that illegal immigration would magically reverse itself. Let’s not lie to ourselves where REAL diversity and success reside. There’s probably more science-fiction writers in Minneapolis than the entirety of South and Central America.
Tilpasse og overvinne!
I guess killing hundreds of Hispanics in Mexico with their Gun Running Merchant of Death “under the radar” operation not only caused them no remorse but wasn’t enough for them. Clearly to Obama and Holder a Hispanic may not be uppity enough to defend himself if attack by a Black, no matter how vicious and life threatening the attack, especially if Obama thinks he will need a very high black turnout in November to keep on his path of ripping justice and liberty apart in America. Where is the ACLU? Where are the Hispanic groups?
You call it “The Trayvon Martin Tragedy”. I call it “The George Zimmerman Tragedy” in addition to the “The George Zimmerman Lynching”.
Well said sir. I hope you started a thread with that uncommon sensible statement “The George Zimmerman Lynching”.
Sad but true
When you speak of white counter rage Profesor, I do understand. At the risk of boredom, a little background on where I come from. I am a first generation immigrant who, along with my parents, processed through Ellis Island in the late ’50′s. My parents taught me from the earliest age to judge everyone by their character, not their color. I remember their teachings in the early to mid sixties – before Dr. King immortalized the thought in his speech. After college, I spent a dozen years in the infantry, an organization heavily over-represented with minorities and an experience which reinforced my parent’s teachings. I found immediately that there were just as many good black soldiers as white. And vice versa. The only color that mattered was green. While it would be bad form to render self judgement on my effectiveness as a leader, suffice it to say that I would not fear to hear my soldiers judgements about me as their leader. We truly were brothers in arms. It is now almost 2 decades since I left the service and like all of us I’ve experienced the ensuing history – Tawana Brawley, Crown Heights, Rodney King, OJ, tourist killing epidemics in Miami, police profiling controversies, inordinately high minority crime rates and the rest. Each incident saddened me and ever so slowly chipped away at the foundations my parents had taught me. In the meantime, wanting to capitalize on my years of federal (military) service, I applied for employment with the government, applying at every level – municipal, county, state and federal. Test scores and veterans benefit points notwithstanding, I never got so much as a call back. No worries, I went on with my life, but with the nagging suspicion, based on my experiences during the application process, that the biggest impediment was my color – or more plainly, my lack of it. Not being the litigious type, I shrugged and went on with my life to pursue a private sector path, unresentful and even feeling mildly guilty about my suspicions. The fact is however, that all these experiences did have an impact on me and they finally bubbled to the top, so to speak, with the lead up to, and aftermath of the 2008 Presidential campaign. I deeply resented the inference that opposition to Obama was anything other than racism. My parents had fled communism and hatred of it – in all its forms – Progressivism, Socialism, Marxism, Totalitarianism – is bred into me, is in my DNA. And the current occupant of the White House has been steeped in it, as much as I was steeped in hostility to it. There are many reasons the American people fell for this poseur – from educational indoctrination to blatant propaganda disguised as newsgathering – but the cover for it all was the cover of racism, or more accurately, the fear of being portrayed as racist. And I am tired of it, as I suspect many are, and I am angered by it as well, because of its falseness. Only one accused falsely can know the anger that accusation causes and while it is foolhardy to think that there is no hint of racism left anywhere, it is equally foolhardy, and indeed small-minded and manipulative and vicious, to think that this country has not progressed beyond its past and to not give it any credit for having done so.
The race baiters are playing with fire and while I can’t claim to be everyman, I alone know what is in my heart and I know that my heart is hardening and starting to come to the conclusion that we may have irreconcilable differences. And I think I am not alone.
I pray for a leader, a patriot, that puts his country before his ethnicity and keeps us from continuing down the road to balkanization and tribalization – roads that lead to nothing but strife and hatred and death. I want a leader that can do something as simple as go to a Costco and look at the sea of faces there, representing every ethnicity on the planet, and see as I do, the beauty and wonder of America – the thought that we are not different tribes, but all Americans. Un-hyphenated Americans. Americans focused on what unites us, not on a mindless worship of the false idol of Diversity which does nothing but emphasize and exploit and rub raw our differences in a naked play for power.
I am really a nobody. Just one among the 300 million plus who make up this country. But I have always considered myself a reasonable and understanding sort – more than most, I like to think. But my patience is getting thin, and as small a speck as I am, I hope and pray that the professional provacateurs currently in ascendance understand that the patience of this country is not endless and understand that the limits to it are within sight.
“The race baiters are playing with fire and while I can’t claim to be everyman, I alone know what is in my heart and I know that my heart is hardening and starting to come to the conclusion that we may have irreconcilable differences. And I think I am not alone.”
No – you are not alone. I and many of my friends think along the same lines as you. We get it – how Obama is orchestrating the race baiters. But make no mistake – the race baiters won’t stop as long as it stirs up their base regardless of the warnings coming from the likes of you and me. This is just the start of something big – if the race baiters can pull it off. They couldn’t care less if there is fighting in the streets this summer and fall. In fact they are counting on it to aid in Obama’s reelection effort. Or at least enough chaos to ‘force’ him to declare martial law and call off the elections. Will he do this? We’ll know in about six months or so.
Everyone needs to remember, 20th Amendment says The Won’s term ends at noon, on the 20th of January, 2013, and that, short of re-election, there is no, repeat, no, constitutional ground on which he may serve even one day longer.
It’s for people like you that I get extra angry at the race baiting. There is a HUGE number of white people in this country that didn’t make it to our shores until the 20th century and have NO links to slavery whatsoever. Truly, excedpt for a few southern whites – whose families have probablydied out by now – there were very few white people who owned slaves 150 years ago. Yet folks like you are painted with the racist brush just like natives here who may have had ancestors who died to free slaves. This racism (black racism) is being fed and taught to generations who should have been born and grown up in a colorless society. But there is no money or power in that.
Unfortunately, the “my ancestors didn’t have anything to do with slavery” argument has already been answered by the racial theorists. It doesn’t matter if you immigrated from Norway in 2004. It doesn’t matter if your great, great grandfather was John Brown himself. The assumption is that if you’re white, you automatically have “white privilege.” That’s because our society is set up exclusively for the benefit of white people and the continued marginalization of black people. Therefore, merely being white in America makes you a de facto racist. It’s collective guilt. You can’t win the argument. You can only deny the premise.
The assumption is that if you’re white, you automatically have “white privilege.” That’s because our society is set up exclusively for the benefit of white people and the continued marginalization of black people.
I can tell you that is utter bull! No one ever gave me anything! I am 41, with a BA, yet I work a minimum wage job, because I cannot find work in my field. There is no social program to help white people find career opportunities. “White privilege” is a myth perpetrated by black people who think they own the copyright on being poor, broke, and unable to obtain any real career opportunities, even though there are socila programs out there that enable them to do so. And btw, Jewish people suffered the holocaust, as well as years of anti-Semitism. Yet, so few of them cry for “reparations.” Instead, many of them have gone on to make successes of themselves.
I am from the South and my ancestors did have slaves but I didn’t. If you have a problem with that there is nothing I can do about it. You can go to the cementary and talk to them.I get so tired of the race card that is played around me everyday. At work we all seem to be getting paid for the same job but not doing the job equally, we even sit in groups. the blacks sit at one end of the room and the whites sit at the other. It was not like this until a new black guy came to work with us. All of a sudden, our co workers forgot that we were friends. If the white group was ask to do something it was okay but if the black group was ask to do something you could see the dirty looks fly and all of a sudden our boss would be called to HR for discrimiting against one of them. I work on a government job so you would think this wouldn’t happen but it does. Our black workers called them selves “the Brothers”. A girl at work ask one of the bosses where “the brothers” were(they hide alot) and was sent home for 3 days. They could call us “crackers” and nothing happens. There are robberies and shootings all around up town and it usally involes the black communties but if we say somthing about not going in a certain neighborhood then we are profiling.Alot of my black friends don’t go to these neighborhoods either. Where is the pride they talk about? A black girl at another job I was at was talking about how her WIC was fixing to end, she was kinda upset while we were talking. I ask well what do you do after that (I thought she would say well I’m working now or I’ll buy it myself). She laughs and says you white folks will be sending me a check to take care of her. I told her I didn’t know you could get government help if you had a good job. She just laughed. I do not like to be called a racist but people like this make it hard for me not to act like one sometimes. My son is a fire fighter and had to score a lot higher then the blacks to get the job. I would be mad and think that white people didn’t think I was very smart since they had to lower the score for my race. They’re not. I also get tired of hearing that Zimmerman is white…Hes as white as Obama. yup that’s right Obama is just as white but they seem to forget that.
“And btw, Jewish people suffered the holocaust, as well as years of anti-Semitism. Yet, so few of them cry for “reparations.””
ROFL. How little you know…
“I am really a nobody. Just one among the 300 million plus who make up this country.”
I disagree. The tenor of your writing makes you more of an everyman. What you’re describing is the relentlessly gnawing understanding that you’re being played. As you describe it, this has been apparent to you for some time.
Did you disagree with former President Clinton because he was white? Do you agree with, for instance, a Shelby Steele or Thomas Sowell because they are black?
In other words, are you encouraged to discourse on ideas? Yes, you are, but only with people who value them foremost.
It has dawned on most of us that politics is no longer the “art of the possible.” Since we no longer disagree on the means to shared goals, but are in contention over what the goals should be, we are, indeed, a divided country.
Just remember that you are not a rarity. You are still the rule in this country and for that we can be grateful.
This is a beautifully written comment. I know people of ALL races (native born and immigrants too) who feel exactly the way you do. YOU ARE NOT ALONE.
You are not a nobody, LGoPs. Based on what I just read you are somebody, and something else. And you are most definitely NOT alone. Take heart, there are millions of people in this country who are at the same point as you. The racial divide created by Obama and inflamed by Holder and the poverty pimps Jackson and Sharpton can be healed, but it is going to take an uncommonly strong leader, and a very long time. And it is going to take people like you.
Green is still the color that really matters. Race baiting has been extraordinarily lucrative for Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Jeremiah Wright and company.
Breitbart was onto one way to expose the race baiters with his coverage of the Pigford settlement. His coverage emphasized how little genuine interest there was by most so called black activists in the handful of blacks farmers who had had a real grievance. Instead the rhetoric was put to the service of thousands of scam artists and their lawyers who looted the Treasury.
You are not alone sir, there a millions of us praying with you, however, the millions are also with you on the hardening heart, many of us veterans that still remember our oath, to Defend our country against all enemies, foreign and DOMESTIC.
Your conclusion and assessment are my thoughts exactly. I had no idea pre-President Obama, such a huge number and majority number of black people hate white people and hate the United States of America so much. These have truly been eye-opening years. I am less than a speck and not important, just a 30+ yrs. career, working my whole life, American saving money with her hard-working husband and paying lots of taxes. Just as I’ve come to resent tax money going to USA-hating countries, I resent my earnings and savings going to USA-hating people. Let Oprah pay for it.
I personally know and have spoken to many White men who voted for Obama, because they are apolitical and simply wanted to give a Black guy a chance. Period. Now, he has ruined it for free thinking, patriotic Black men for at least one election. The President is hollow, filled only with rhetoric and one dimensional platitudes. I’ll be shocked if Romney does not win and reunited this country.
But not from the likes of me.
I like to play my “age card” stating that at 80 years young I’ve got some perspective that others younger and not having lived and seen days of segregation in our Nations Capital, as anyone has who recalls our segregated Public Schools. I graduated from High School in ….gasp….1950, got my B.A. at a Tennessee University in 1954….I guess the last College class-year in pre-Brown/Board Of Education days.
So, I’ve witnessed astonishingly broad social opportunity gains for the Blacks, but not so much by the Blacks themselves, albeit with a simultaneous general decline in the once pretty good academic standing of the District Public Schools.
And, after the stupendous sums of money spent along with trying to legislate social change (futile), cf: The Great Society……we (?) still have a Sisyphean task remaining.
But, I question the “we” to include Whites……where is the leadership from the many, many Blacks who’ve made it in America?…leading their fellow Black Youth as active, not sidelined, role models. Don’t they owe that to “their” people? If “Acting White” is such a pejorative, as it is, then who is to lead these Black Youths out and away from their self-defeating, self-feeding “Attitude” but these obvious but seemingly passive members of their own “hood”? [..no pun intended...]
Hence, these Jacksons/Rangels/Lees seem to be ambulance chasers whose aim is to perpetuate their “Perpetual Victim’s” Industry….so they’ll be voted in office in perpetuity. It’s all very circular.
They simply must be over-ridden from authority by their own racial group. Don’t look elsewhere…..this is an advancement solely the responsibility ….by now…of the Blacks themselves. We Whites have made well meaning efforts for decades. Blacks now must look inward for self-help. White aid has been trashed. Trashed.
It’s their Culture, their “Attitude”. Whites simply cannot change Black Attitudes for the Blacks in America.
….my “But not from the likes of me.”….refers to the very first comment #1.
I was typing it when there were no others.
Charlie, #13, you and I (age 76) have seen much more than most of these people, although I expect there are other senior citizens here. Apparently most of us agree that Obama has been a huge factor in dividing us and pitting us against each other in so many ways; young vs old, rich vs poor, Black vs White, male vs female, one religion vs another, to avoid responsibility for his ill-fated actions and inactions.
I truly thought we had progressed to becoming much more understanding (both Blacks and Whites) and tolerant, in terms of our race relations. I have been wrong. If we did make any real progress over the last sixty years, we have regressed almost that much over the last three years. Trayvon Martin has the potential to be the fuse that ignites the kinds of riots we dealt with in the ’60′s and ’70′s. Only this time, they will be much more destructive.
It is a sad day for our Country, that we have allowed the media, the race baiters, including our President, to set the agenda. Nevertheless, they have done so, so now we must all deal with it as best we can. Let’s hope that does not mean more bloodshed, but I have my doubts even about that.
I agree: the day black Americans stop thinking of themselves as black Americans or making the excuse they are forced into such a thing is the day they will join the quilt of American life, which is organized around a million interests in what the world has to offer, not race.
Let’s not ignore Dr. Sowell, Dr. Williams, and Dr. R.G.Fryer. They are voices of reason. All in economics.
There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs – partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.
(Booker T. Washington, emancipated slave, My Larger Education, 1910, p. 50)
I remember reading back in the early 1970′s that the race riots of the late 1960′s could be traced to the passage of the national civil rights act in 1964. Supposedly the act was way oversold to the black community, leading to serious disappointment and anger when four or so years later — in the late 1960′s — nothing had really changed in the black inner city. Indeed things were noticeably worse due to the rapid growth of welfare and the accompanying disintegration of welfare families. We’re now coming up on four years after the election of Obama, which was almost certainly similarly oversold to the black community in an attempt to maximize turnout in 2008. Again things have not changed, indeed gotten worse with the onset of the “great recession”. So now, we can expect … ?
Excellent article Dr. Hanson, but I would add that Obama hasn’t just been divisive as president he has been extraordinarily divisive even when one gives allowance for desperation over falling poll numbers. That he would use the Trayvon Martin incident for political purposes says almost too much about his character. November can’t come soon enough.
Obama’s Secret Plan to win the 2012 election.
Dump Joe Biden and make Trayvon Martin his VP running mate. Obama will then have parts of Trayvon Martin buried in all the swing states where he can vote early and often thus providing the margin of victory.
re: 50% of the violent crime, 10% of the population. Given the tiny number of women in the statistic, it’s closer to 50% from 5%. And getting worse as their fraction of the population continues to decline as Hispanics and related grow to 30% and more.
Be interesting to see if the analysts can tease out how this is influencing the Hispanic voters. They have often had to stand their own ground in the barrio without police help. Arguably both populations look down on the other more than either has issues with those of European descent. Mr. Z. may prove to be a sympathetic figure when the entire story comes out (imagine a parade of character witnesses helped by him on his patrols). Wonder if his head wound had the shape of a can of soda/tea? Or was he taken by surprise and thrown to the pavement, hitting his head?
Unsaid in all this is mention of the those most discriminated against, economically handicapped and treated with least respect in the U.S. (historically) – the Asians. And we’re still doing it – denying them seats in our universities that they would otherwise occupy if Admission didn’t or were not able to profile.
Which will only make them stronger. And us weaker. Just deserts.
Agree with your comment, about 5% of the population creating mayhem and worse. I’d like to see community leaders of this group help these young men do something better with their lives. And have something to celebrate other than the view of never ending victimhood.
It is not even 5%. Close to 70% of blacks are in the middle class and aren’t part of these abysmal statistics. Do the math and it is about 1.5% committing these crimes.
Yes, and the ironic thing is that so many inner city black women have abortions in Planned Parenthood type clinics yet they don’t realize that Margaret Sanger hoped to control and limit the colored population in just this manner. Democrats wanted abortion in part to limit the black population and yet blacks think Democrats are on their side. Talk about delusional.
Divide, and conquer.
Years ago, when I was an undergraduate at Harvard, one of my favorite teachers, Professor David Donald, pointed out to his history students that we were living in America’s Second Reconstruction Era. Some of the obvious parallels are that after the Civil War there was a great experiment in social and electoral re-engineering of society. In the South, there were many black politicians, and, in some ways whites were kept down, especially if they had served the Confederacy’s rebellion. That era came to an end with the contested Hayes/Tilden presidential election and the ultimate withdrawal of federal occupational troops from the South. America was tired of race. America was tired of the Civil War’s aftermath. America wanted to return to a sense of normalcy.
In the 1960s, many unresolved racial and civil rights issues came bubbling and even boiling to the surface. But, again, after incredible progress in inter-racial relations, America has grown tired. Bush vs. Gore may be the analog to Hayes/Tilden. But, more significantly, the election of Obama was symbolic. His election, despite his obvious lack of experience and character, was many in white America proclaiming, “Above all, we are not racist!”
Unfortunately, seeking to proclaim it’s own virtue, America ended up with a dangerous racist divider and Marxist idealogue as our nation’s leader, one who had portrayed himself as a healer.
This year’s election and Obama’s likely defeat will once again proclaim that America wants to return to a sense of normalcy. My hope is that we can, indeed, bind our wounds and move on to a greater, united America where we look upon one another’s character rather than skin color in our daily lives.
God Bless America!
Watching the behavior of the black ‘race’ industry and the blacks who run cities like Detroit into the ground, I have been reminded of nothing so much as the worst Southern views of radical Reconstruction, which led to the bloodiest election in American history in 1876.
Many (including me) have said Obama and Holder and Wright have set race relations back 50 years, but that’s nonsense: in 1962 most of us had hope that race relations were improving and that a future where blacks and whites judged each other on behavior and character, not color, was possible.
The more I think about it, the more I think Obama and Holder and the Democrats and the race baiters have set race relations back more than 100 years, to the despair of Reconstruction.
If there is indeed significant black racial violence against whites this Summer, I think the white reaction will be slow building, but profound, and may color white views of blacks for generations in ways no one really wants. The trust that had been slowly, tentatively, building over the past 50 years or so will vanish.
With all due respect, HYC, do you really think Zero and his mindless minons will take even a percieved Zero defeat laying down? And if he indeed loses, do you think blacks and their white progs will let our nation return to normalcy?
They have gone this far, some what legally, to screw up America using the courts, sycophantic LSM, and white prog politiicans, but in a defeat, all bets are off. The white progs and black leaders will push violence like we have never seen before in America.
I have no faith that we will ever be united nation again. In fact, I think the white rage our esteemed author downplays, will explode in opposition to black violence. There will be a race war.
My goodness, Sir. A “great experiment in social and electoral reengineering” you say. My grandparents told me that their parents told them that what happened was a great cloud of vultures descended upon the South to pick clean the dead carcass of whatever of value could be found. They installed the negroes in state government to make the picking easier for them. Just as the descendants of the vultures are using the blacks today to keep themselves in power and continue the picking wherever in this land there are pickings to be had. Many of the said vultures even have degrees from Harvard, where they learn fine language with which to sugar coat what they have been doing.
You have to remember the Southern view of Reconstruction — known in historical circles as the ‘Dunning’ school, has been out of fashion these 50 years and more – historians no longer talk, as our grandparents did, of Carpetbaggers, Scalawags, and Freedmen, and I doubt anyone outside the South (and perhaps many in the South today) even know what those terms mean or that damnyankee is one word….
LOL ….I went to Texas under the presidency of the peanut farmer …could not find a job anywhere else at the time ….left PA in a 50.00 car with 70.00 in my pocket, a can of tuna fish …no can opener ….left 20 years later with a BS/Soc from Texas A&M and to the day I left more than a few of my friends referred to me as that damned yankee
Don’t leave us hanging. How did you get the tuna open? Or are you still looking for an opener?
By “the Southern view of Reconstruction” you mean no doubt, the point of view of the people who were there when it happened, to whom it happened. It is interesting to read about what a great and noble experiment Reconstruction was. It reminds me of reports we get in the news every day, from people who are not at the scene and who have every reason to make a thing appear to be different from what it is.
There’s a reason that “I’m a Ramblin’ Wreck From Georgia Tech” is to the tune of “I’m a Gool Ole’ Rebel” which has stanzas such as “I’m glad we fought agin’ her/I only wish we’d won/ And I ain’t asked no pardon/For anything I done. “Glory, Glory to Old Georgia”, the UGA fight song is to the tune of “Battle Hymn of the Republic” because Southerners knew damned well whose vineyards were trampled. To my high school days in the ’60s there we still many people who’d turn their back when “Battle Hymn” was played and we celebrated Gen. R. E. Lee’s Birthday on January 19th, not Martin Luther King day, and April 26th as Memorial Day, not May 31, the Yankees’ Decoration Day.
Memories and sentiments are still strong amongst Southerners whose roots go back to The War and Reconstruction. I went to visit my Georgia relatives back during the fight over the Georgia flag; it looked like the Provisional Army of the Confederate States was camped alongside every road in the State there were so many Confederate Battle Flags and ’56 Georgia flags on display throughout the state – except, of course, in Atlanta, the city a quarter-million Confederate soldiers died to prevent.
It’s becoming increasingly clear that the South was right all along. The warnings of ante-bellum Southerners like Calhoun have been borne out in spades. I say this as a descendant of Quakers who first came to America over three decades ago. I want to apologize for the sanctimonious naivete of my ancestors.
Harvard Yard… I’m voting for you. Buen dicho señor.
SDS Founder, Veteran Activist Tom Hayden on Participatory Democracy from Port Huron to Occupy Wall Street
http://www.democracynow.org/2012/4/13/sds_founder_veteran_activist_tom_hayden
Things are certainly changing. And we have no way to divine the future, as the internet age has no precedence. Before we could rely on the press to keep the peace by maintaining a pack of lies. (Certainly in the future, we will look back on the pre-web days as downright medieval with its unified voice emanating from anointed priests.)
So for better or worse, I see no way these irreconcilable narratives will ever be suppressed again. This is our first big racial case of the internet era. And with both sides dug in and without the usual mediator to step in and reliably chastise the usual party, this could get very interesting.
Anybody ready to divide the country yet? Not on racial lines but on ideological ones in which we amicably draw new boarders by mutual agreement and politely go our separate ways before we enter the event horizon?
Don’t forget the OJ Simpson murder trial. The white-black divide there was just as stark.
I don’t think OJ happened during the internet era.
As if the racial divide was heralded by the internet era. Anyone paying attention to the news back when OJ was acquitted saw the evidence on TV that blacks & whits were virtually polar opposites in the displays of their reactions.
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whitswhites….Immigrants from sub-Saharan Africa seem to do quite well. So the issue is not solely race.
Excellent point. I concur that African blacks are on much more solid ground here. They haven’t been exposed to the toxins of familial self-destruction, a drug culture, violence and the self-serving demagoguery of the race-baiters that now dominate our federal government. Tragic.
Actually race is the big factor, you get it wrong by not looking deeply enough into just who immigrates from sub-Saharan Africa. Immigrants do well, but refugees don’t. The critical difference is that the immigrants are taken from the best the population has to offer, people with the brains and skills needed to function and prosper in civilization. The great majority of people in black Africa are no more capable of functioning in the first world than a Neanderthal. Just consider what it would look like if the brightest this country had to offer all moved to, say Australia. The Australians would be more than impressed by their ability to assimilate.
VDH writes…..”Unfortunately, “racism” has become a careerist tool that leads to political and professional advantage when the charge is leveled; if there are indeed two black Americas, then the elite often uses the plight of the non-elite as arguments for its own claim to exemptions from criticism and often advantages in admissions and hiring.”
That is about as perfect a description of the relationship between the entrenched civil rights establishment and the “non-elite” African-American community as I have ever seen. As tragic as death of any young man is I can only conclude that if Trayvon Martin had not happened, he would have to have been invented. The old racism trope hs been losing it’s juice for years and a handy symbol was badly needed to mobilize the troops. When you talk about the dry statistics involving black-on-black crime and the disintegration of the black family all you get is a yawn. However, as Stalin pointed out, “One mans death is a tragedy – A million deaths is a statistic.”
Looking at the cold, hard facts of life concerning the “non-elites” of the African-American community don’t help the race hucksters very much. After all they share much of the responsibility for the state of “Black America.” A single and easily marketed “face” (young, hopeful and with his life in front of him) is much better and much more politically useful. If it is divisive and dishonest then who really cares? The MSM has a pleasing narrative and the civil rights establishment get to refresh the rhetorical underpinnings for their own careers.
If the Supreme Court puts an end to affirmative action, that will take a lot of the wind out of the sails of the left. A change in the legal environment may go a long way to diffusing the negative social dynamic.
From a biblical perspective, many have wondered why the Children of Israel wandered in the desert for 40 years before entering the holy land. The answer is that it takes two generations before people overcome slavery. Well, we’re two generations out, and there are still demagogues promoting the victimhood of slavery.
ENOUGH ALREADY! When is anyone in the black community going to ask what part Trayvon Martin played in all of this? Is he not responsible for his actions too?
If we in the US owed the black community something to correct past wrongs, well, we’ve been dumping money all over this wound for two generations. We want it to be over, not because we can’t afford to dump more money, but because it isn’t working any more. How many generations is it going to take?
Exactly…for years all we keep hearing is the “po people”….The Po po po people. After 50 years of giving to those with their hands perpetually outstretched…they’re still Poor! My question is…when are these so called “po people” going to do something for themselves?
Crisis as a means baby!
Obama has nothing else to run on. He has no accomplishments. No achievements. He needs a crisis.
And brother he has come up with a doozy. Charging Zimmerman with 2nd degree murder is failure as a means.
The doozy here is it is divide and conquer on afterburner.
The left knows the jig is up. Their narrative and it’s agenda is not working.
What better method to keep the obama regime in power than to have American’s do the dirty work themselves?
George Zimmerman will be acquitted in this case he might have made some mistakes and so did Trayvon Williams and the end result was death by a deadly weapon.
If you notice someone hanging around your neighborhood that you do not know and you are a watch of that neighborhood as a group and you report your suspicions to the police as these groups are instructed to do then when they ask over you cell phone which might not have the greatest clarity in the world the address and you can not get one and then be told well we will call you but do not follow the suspect only to find later that the suspect has approached you and punched you square in the nose and the force of the blow puts you on the ground and then as they are pounding your face chest and banging your head against concrete or pavement and saying that they are gonna kill you and you have a gun what do you do?
You pull your weapon and yo neutralize the situation, and in this case death was the effect. George Zimmerman was in fact standing his ground as he was in a place he should lawfully be (his own neighborhood) and Trayvon Martin a stranger to him seemed to be someone acting suspicious (at least in George Zimmerman’s mind as well as myself) merely acted in self defense and it was a lawful use of his weapon!
Sad but true justice says that when one individual attacks another for any reason that the other individual might have a means of killing you for attacking them and in this case that is what happened. There Black Panthers you still want to place a bounty (it is against the law for a non Law Enforcement agency to do so and you can still face criminal charges).
Justice will be served when George Zimmerman walks out of court acquitted of any charge, anything else is injustice and a lynching of a man for protecting his own life…now he has to go to court and protect it again, and that is wrong just because Al Sharpton or Jessee Jackson do not like the outcome!
holder didn’t “choose to not prosecute the NBPP for voter intimidation” – he THREW OUT a default judgment the Bush White House had against them! (the nbpp refused to show up in court – sounds like they knew obambi had their backs, so why bother?)
I think a lot of the anger on the black side of the divide is because they were promised “free stuff” by Obama if they elected him — to put gas in their car and to pay their mortgage. That, of course, has not happened and never will happen.
For me showing my anger on the white side, I still feel outrage that that black jury acquitted OJ Simpson simply to get one up on “da man”. Given that OJ killed two white people and got away with it, I feel like blacks can give us Mr. Martin and still owe us one more.
Something else I’m starting to wonder about is genetics and what happens when you have many many generations of a group of human beings self-selecting for ignorance and violence in their breeding … and whether the offspring of that group of people can ever be assimilated into a society that values education, peacefulness, and a work ethic.
(I’ve frequently thought to myself that we / the government should offer disaffected, uneducated Americans of all persuasions — the Occupiers, for example — a bounty to leave the country. Something alone the lines of “we’ll give you $100,000 to leave America and go to any country of your choice to start a new life for yourself with the proviso that you never, ever, can return or claim citizenship again. Africa is supposed to be nice this time of year.”)
Yep.
I’ve often wondered, if we’re so racist, why are Africans shoving each other aside to get into airplanes coming here; and if here illegally, i.e. Obama’s aunt Zeituni and uncle Onyango, they absolutely refuse to leave such a racist cesspool that Farrakhan claims America is.
I notice he won’t leave either.
Wait for another crisis, not to be wasted, to keep the bitter clingers beaten down and submissive. Hmmmm…like Trayvon apparently thought Mr. Zimmerman should have been.
Problem is, they don’t want to make new lives for themselves; they want to ruin ours, because they are motivated by bitterness and hatred.
You have NO IDEA how angry I am about the Trayvon media/legal circus. I’m especially angry about the destruction of our Constitution and the loss of our liberties that are guaranteed under that Constitution.
Gentics. As a scientist I get quite tired of hearing this. Most white people have African American DNA and most African Americans are part white. That’s what genetics tells us, based on the science.
Most, sorry dude, but I call bs on you. To say something that outrageous without even offering a bit of proof is the mark of a liar. I damn sure don’t.
“Is the country splitting apart?”
The entire World is splintering.
Europe has its Dhimmis, and America has something very similar, and they will vote for Obama.
We DO know the facts of the Zimmerman/Martin case. Martin attacked Zimmerman and Zimmerman shot Martin in self defense. Those who say we don’t know the facts are promoting a false narrative, ie. they’re lying.
An astute summation, given the complexities involved. Yes there is racism and both sides, no man or culture is immune to such things – how could they be? But for me the issue is much the same as was the case at the end of the Civil Rights era – to what extent racism is institutionalized in a culture, an over-arching interest in race, as opposed to wrong-headed individuals here and there. There is crime in America and in the world, but is America a syndicate – of course not.
The problem is as you point out, each side that is polarized over this issue, accuses the other of an unhealthy fascination with race. But there are not always two sides to a story, at least not two sides with equal merit. The simple irony of seeing a black man on TV, with a caption below his name that says, ‘Black Association of Journalists,’ who is lambasting ‘organized’ white racism, but which is in no way as organized as the man himself, is lost. It is lost because, as you point out, nearly endless mitigations and excuses are supplied to explain why black Americans are ‘forced’ to organize by race and how the racism of whites had simply gone underground and so amounts to de facto organizations of racism such as the Tea Party, the GOP. The entirety of white America is scooped up under the aegis of such self-sealing and inescapable concepts like ‘white privilege’ and ‘critical race theory,’ both designed to not address reality but to pillory every white person in America, even if they arrived from Poland yesterday.
The truth is that even during the height of Jim Crow, when whites supposedly didn’t have to talk in code or go underground, if one looks at pop culture, comics, literature, films, from say, 1930-55, they is no evidence of an over-arching interest by whites in the concept of race or racial supremacy. And yet even today, a half century on from Jim Crow, all whites are responsible for the 20% of the population that embraced slavery at the outbreak of the Civil War while no whites of the 80% who fought against slavery are given any credit for ending it.
It is this simple rearranging of facts that show the true imperative from the black community today. For whatever reason, the vast majority of black Americans live, breathe, eat and swim race and the narrative, despite all the rhetoric, is very simple: whites are bad and blacks are good. All else flows from this self-evident ‘truth’ is the black community.
The constant cry of talks about race such as Holder called for at the beginning of his term is a false one since the answer is already a foregone conclusion and it is whites: guilty. Holder is not talking about a dialogue but a confession by whites for all their evil deeds. The amount of racism that has flowed from the black community has been in monumental agreement compared to any similar response among whites. I myself would not have thought the NBA Players Assoc. capable of releasing such a deluded and racist press release over the Martin case as they did. Multiply it by 10,000 and you have your answer.
Excellent! However, I believe that white Americans do not have an “unhealthy fascination with race,” like blacks do. Non-prog white Americans are quite content to let live and let live and just get along. It is the white progs and black POS leaders who live in a racialist and racist America-where everything is race who are destroying America. And the white progs who control the information pathways and narrative push the issue to engratiate themselves to blacks and use them as the hammer to get more power.
And it will only get worse. The white progs and their black muscle cannot stop now. They will only be satisfied with the end of America. Transformation ya know.
Sadly, this administration is a collection of extremists that say one thing publicly while intentionally doing the opposite through policy and personal behavior. I believe that Attorney General Holder’s praising of “Reverend” Sharpton (a true man of God if I’ve ever seen one) is proof positive that the current occupants of the White House are racists through and through who wish to divide this country along racial lines simply to win an election in November; they know there will be enough gullible (trying not to say STUPID) white people that will believe their lies (I’m tired of playing patty cakes and saying ‘disengenuous’). My frustration is not directed at the President and his ilk, we already have them pegged for what they are, but why is there an almost complete absence of our elected ‘leaders’ willing to stand publicly and paint this picture in clear, concise, bold language for all to understand. All I hear is crickets chirping…..
“…why is there an almost complete absence of our elected ‘leaders’ willing to stand publicly and paint this picture in clear, concise, bold language for all to understand.”
They don’t want to sound “racist,” as they harbor the soft bigotry of low expectations with regard to Obama & his administration.
President Obama is Capt. Sternn (Heavy Metal) come to life….outward as charismatic, honest, courageous while actually lecherous, larcenous and a habitual liar.
This has been an exhausting topic, since I tend to land on the “versus” side, and am happy with it.
Which makes me sad, because this Martin/Zimmerman case forces one to choose a side – and in the end, there ought to be only one side.
But there’s not, and this worries and wearies me.
As always, VDH lays out the issue clearly and dispassionately.
Al Sharpton is a racist, period. MSNBC is a racist network by definition because they employ Al Sharpton. NOTHING that comes from MSNBC can ever be non-racist or “post-racial.” We need to look elsewhere for that sort of thing.
“And I do not mean just African-American anger. To read comments following these stories on the Internet is to enter the world of white counter-rage at a level I have never seen.”
Well what do you expect when black Americans (and can we stop calling them african-Americans) and their white prog brains continue to pile on us about how terrible we are and how we owe blacks. At some point, non-prog white Americans need to stand up for our race, country, history and traditions.
“We talk of black accusations of racism, but they are earning a counter-response that is equally scary, with some irate and others wearied to the point of quietism and isolation.”
You seem to take the path that blacks are not racist with this comment. Why is that? You mean that no matter how egregious black behavior and actions are against white Americans, it is NOT racism? Please explain that to the child in KS who was set on fire.
“The lurid Drudge Report weekly posts videos of African-American teens flash mobbing or attacking and beating whites, in not so subtle reminders that in terms of violent crime blacks commit roughly 50% of the offenses, while making up only 11-13% of the population, and are 7-8 times more likely to harm whites than vice versa.”
First the DR is not lurid. It has been at the forefront of doing what the LSM does not do vis a vis showing America that blacks are violent and are committing more and more acts of violence against white Americans as never before. As are finally many other sites. Do you have a problem with them exposing black racism and violence?
Perhaps VDH we have put you up on the pedestal and your aggorgance is beginning to show.
‘Aggorgance..?’ Ignorance? Arrogance? It sounds a brilliant conflation of both.
I sincerely don’t think Doctor Hanson was trying to insult Matt Drudge’s brilliant site. DrudgeReport.com is a tabloid and a tabloid, by it’s very nature, it is lurid. The Drudge Report is a blunt, brutal exercise in truth-telling and it’s my first stop on the ‘net.
And Hanson is not in denial regarding black violence. In that very paragraph, Hanson acknowledges, “…in terms of violent crime blacks commit roughly 50% of the offenses, while making up only 11-13% of the population…”
Oh way to retort by beginning your comment by attempting to discount my comment because I made a misspelling. Wow. You really get me.
So what’s your point?
How about you answering my questions?
Why So Aggorant..?
I’d read recently of Uhbama continuing his ‘jackass’ description of ‘musician’ Kanye West’s antics though our CiC listens to ‘fellow musician’ Jay-Z.
Here’s some of Jay-Z’s song titles..
2 Many H*es, 20 Bag Shorty, Ain’t No Nigg*, Bitches and Sisters, Can’t Knock the Hustle, For My Thugs, Fuc* All Nite, Is That Yo Bitc*, Jigga My Ni*ga, Jigga That Ni*ga, Money, Cash, H*es, Murdergram, etc.,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Jay-Z_songs
Yep our ‘post-melanin’ Prez.. yet again espousing his ‘intellect and his being the musical connoisseur’. Oy..
The latest issue of “Atlantic” has an article praising Kayne West and Jay-Z in the liberal tradition of excusing all and every violation of decency, good taste and the law as long as these transgressions are committed by blacks. It is customary for the “Nation” magazine to publish poorly written, barely readable attacks on Shelby Steele; it seems that no writer is too incompetent or semi-literate to be published if he or she is black. The “Nation,” too, lavishes adulation on gansta rappers, as does Terry Gross from NPR, according them the respect that would ordinarily be due to actual accomplished musicians.
In a local online chat group, during a discussion of classical musical styles, I mentioned that rap ignored harmony and melody and somebody wrote back that I must be a racist! I am amazed that the liberal mind is capable of ignoring almost anything it doesn’t want to know about.
VDH: “We talk of black accusations of racism, but they are earning a counter-response that is equally scary, with some irate and others wearied to the point of quietism and isolation.”
You say it is earned (“they are earning”), yet scary. If it is earned (“they are earning”), why would it be scary? Your thinking is uncoordinated.
Dr H, I could not reconcile that last sentence with the theme of the essay. It would seem Obama and Holder do see the advantage in the new polarity – very much so in fact to “energize their base” – the big problem for Obama in Nov will be getting his voters to the polls.
Yes, I think the US is splintering in many ways. I am not sure that failing to remove the ‘hyphens’ is the reason, but I think the black community in 2012 is contributing significantly to this process and that this Administration is racist, morally corrupt and authoritarian. Obama bludgeons with his color and his presumed moral superiority. As a Jew, I was shocked to see a man with his associations – now ever clearer – elected to be President. The fact that the majority of Jews in America continue to support him makes me ill.
I did not return to Israel because of Obama. I came because it is home for me. I grieve for what is happening to the US, though for many reasons I never want to live in it again.
Barack Obama is a demagogue. He is like Huey Long, or any of those characters. If the US does not vote in Romney in November, then a race war is quite possible – though it may happen in any case.
Judge:
I had the same problem with the last sentence. I think the answer is that VDH means his words “care or feel” as “care, or they feel”.
I’d be among the first to deprecate the mythological Tara of “Gone With the Wind;” there might have been a couple hundred similar places in the whole antebellum South. But after the Yankees gave up and left to go beat up on the Souix in 1876, The South settled into a social order little different from its antebellum past except that the landlords didn’t have a bill of sale for the people working their land.
I grew up in the ’50s among the “landed” whites of the rural South. We were in fact land poor and because far too many ancestors had actually fought for the Southern Confederacy were at best shabby gentry. We had land but not enough labor. We had a symbiotic relationship with black families, some of whose ancesters we had once had bills of sale for, who had way too much labor for their lands. We lived together easily in the fields. Segregation and white supremacy was as natural as the air you breathed; I’d have never more thought of sharing a water fountain with a black than he with me, but in the fields, we’d drink from the same dipper and the same bucket. For some years Remer was our foreman. He was blacker than the ace of spades, what people, black and white, in those days called a “blue-gum, well, you know.” He was big, burly, incredibly strong and, frankly, meaner ‘n Hell; you didn’t slack, and you didn’t cross Remer. I worked a bit in the fields with the hands; it was expected if not really necessary, and he didn’t cut me any slack either, though I never had any of the hard work. What work I had, I was expected to do and do right. My parents had to preserve all the Southern pretensions and keep me on the First Born Son pedestal, but by the time I was ten or twelve, Remer and the other blacks treated me just like anybody else so long as my parents or other authority figure whites weren’t around. During all night stints at loading a tobacco barn or unloading one to bale it up and take it to auction, I learned all about the mysteries of the black “juke joints,” and country stores where if you could reach the counter with money, you could leave with a beer. “Old Martin” was an ancient, to my young eyes, black man who lived in “Price’s Quarter” across the branch from our place. If you know the deeper meanings of all those words, you’re betraying your heritage. Nobody could take the place of my grandfather after he was killed in a logging accident on the place, but Old Martin came close in many ways and I spent a lot of time handing and holding for him as he fixed fences, sagging doors, busted gates or cattle stalls around the place. Remer’s son, Bubba, and I played in the dirt together and as we got older worked together. He helped me work on my POS BSA 2-stroke motorcycle and I ultimately gave it to him. We shot birds and rabbits together and checked the fish traps and such. You could and did live that closely back when most everything had a “Colored” or “White” sign on it.
As more or less upper class Southerners, my parents’ view of white supremacy was more akin to the feudal notion of noblesse oblige than to the repressive virulent racism of the lower class Southern white who had to compete with blacks for jobs. My mother or grandmother would have washed my mouth out with soap for saying “nigger’ to a “colored” person and scolded me for saying it at all. Which doesn’t mean they thought that blacks, no matter how close, were anything like their equal For that matter, neither did I.
As TV and the Civil Rights Movement came to The South, I began to reject my parents and their peers certitude about the way things “ought to be.” I’ll admit that in keeping with Roger Simon’s piece a few days ago, some of it was just the desire to be cool. It was clear to me that the old ways were on the losing side of history, and I didn’t want to be on the losing side. And, besides, chicks dug it. If you were from a relatively upper class upbringing, it was really, really easy to look down on the rednecks that were burning crosses and committing acts of violence. So, somewhere in there, late ’60s, I became that most un-natural of creatures, a Southern liberal.
And then I became involved in a business in downtown Atlanta in the early ’70s. After a few months of hearing my wife addressed as, “Hey, white bitch” and fending off the shoplifters, robbers, and muggers, all of whom were black, if somebody had made a special introductory offer to join the Downtown Atlanta Chapter of the Ku Klux Klan, I’d have been there! It only got worse after they elected their first black mayor and put the police department under black control. Being of sound mind, I got the Hell out.
There’s a perhaps apocryphal story about the Massa limping back from The War and meeting one of his former slaves, by then a Republican elected official in the new Reconstruction government. The “Massa” asks the former slave what he’s doing now. The former slave replies, ” Bottom rail on top now, Massa.” Somehow I think Comrades Obama and Holder know that story. And I’m starting to wonder if maybe my parents weren’t more right than I gave them credit for.
My mother or grandmother would have washed my mouth out with soap for saying “nigger’ to a “colored” person and scolded me for saying it at all.
How true! My Southern grandmother did wash my mouth out with soap when, at 5 or 6, she heard me use the word in the ‘eeny meeny miney moe’ counting rhyme with friends. Literally, took me by the ear and marched me off to take my punishment. She told me in no uncertain terms that only white trash used that word and she never wanted to hear it from me again.
“And I’m starting to wonder if maybe my parents weren’t more right than I gave them credit for.”
They probably were but for reasons they may have or have not realized. There is that phenomenon of “us versus them” that translates into a quest to be the most powerful. This is what, IMO, these black race hustlers are after…to be on top….to overpower use white folks.
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useus…Six weeks ago I wrote an article contending that Obama’s administration was the most racist in history. I spent about 500 words trying to prove my point.
It’s time to take it one step further, and state what the blowback effect will be. Fact is, it will be considerable.
On Tuesday, November 6, 2012, seventy-five percent of the white independent vote that went to Obama four years before will go Republican.
Not only will Romney swamp Obama in electoral vote count, but Romney will get more than 58% of the total vote. There will be a significant angry anti-black voter element that will turn out in droves, and be the topic of discussion on political panel shows for years to come.
In other words, I believe Obama has set race relations back a couple of decades.
This was the chance Obama’s people were taking when they decided to play the race card for all it’s worth. Among all the other racist statements he’s made and actions he’s taken, from not prosecuting the Black voter intimidating Panthers to “my son would look like Trayvon,” Obama has shot himself in the foot, mortally wounding any chances he had of reelection.
Dr. Hanson calls this “white counter rage”. It’s what the pollsters are missing totally because they don’t even want to suggest it exists. I suggest it’s Obama’s Waterloo.
From your lips to God’s ears, Rachel. For the sake of this great nation, let’s all pray that what you predict comes to pass.
What Woodsman wrote. But some of us aren’t so confident. We know there is a surfeit of people who don’t know about the criminal and derelict things that have been allowed to happen. It is astounding and depressing that so many people don’t know about ‘Fast and Furious’,not the movie, they all know about that, but the crime.
It is awfully hard for people to admit that they were wrong to do something even when graphic evidence is staring them in the face. I suspect that goes further to explain the old saw about how if you once go black you won’t go back than the usual implications. Those suburban “independent” women will unfortunately stay with Comrade Obama. The real question is what their castrati husbands will do, but I’m not optimistic. All Comrade Obama has to do is gin up a little threat of racial violence and intimidation at the polls and those voters will either stay home altogether or vote, probably absentee, for Comrade Obama so that “his people” won’t get upset and riot and steal plasma TVs because their kids are starving.
it’s an awfully quiet one, confined in number to those who didn’t vote for Farrakhan Jr. the first time around.
Until the independents who elected Farrakhan Jr. go ballistic, they’re still in the bag for our little racist bigot.
So, if black and Jewish voters don’t wise up and turn around, the bow down to the Saudi potentate guy wins.
And that’s a long shot. My rabbi went gaga on Shabbat with admiration for Obama’s remarks over Trayvon.
Precisely so. Well said as always.
Its pretty simple ….leave me the hell alone. I live in a small city in NEPA that has seen its minority population go from 0 to 10 – 15 % of the population. In a county that 40 years ago 2 – 3 murders in a year would have been a horrific crime wave I now live in a CITY in that county that not long ago had 12 murders in a year. We have running gun battles with the police, crimes as vile as murder now go unsolved because of the snitches get stitches policy in their community….drugs ….convenience stores now double as ATM machines for armed robbers. I have 2 crack houses on my block and the police tell me they know what they are and who runs them but they can do nothing. Their children as young as 7 – 8 years ago are running the streets in feral packs as late as 1 and 2 in the morning. Almost every week there is a non fatal stabbing or shooting within a block or 2 of my house. I work in some of our local schools and there are classes that have degenerated into a zoo like atmosphere. They arrive at the school at 8 A.M. for breakfast …eat lunch there and close to 200 are enrolled in the after school program where they are served dinner and are there as late as 6:30 – 7 P.M. The school sec keeps a sheet she calls the churn sheet ….last year in a school with around 700 kids we had 250 kids leave and 272 new students in 1 year with some students enrolling and re enrolling 3 and 4 times over the course of the school year. The school has been asked many times to help with welfare fraud investigations. They enroll their children sign up for benefits then return to New York or New Jersey or stay here while collecting from NY or NJ as well. I see all this and am supposed to accept it well the hell with them they want to change my attitude change their behavior I would not tolerate this sort of behavior from a family member nor would I choose to willingly seek that family member out to spend time with yet if I express reservations about the behavior of our minority populations I am somehow racist …..They can KMA
It is my opinion that we are indeed coming apart. “Travon” incidents are merely accelerating the inevitable. I was talking to a friend’s 14 year old daughter yesterday. She is white, but not prejudiced. In fact her extended family has a few mixed marriages. However, she cannot ignore what is happening in her school today. Located in small town Pennsylvania, it was formerly a nice school with low incidences of crime, etc. Unfortunately, a nearby small town has had a rapid influx of Section 8 housing and new students. Immediately, crime and violence have gone through the roof. Some of the new students patrol the corridors with bolt cutters to cut locker doors open in areas where they can block the security camera’s view, while other are more direct, taking items from right in front of the owner. It will not be long before the school’s overall performance declines to the level of the inner city. This “lesson” is not being lost on my friends formerly unprejudiced daughter.
Meanwhile, the black leadership wants the ignore all this, and blame “Whitey” for everything. I say that that is a fine recipe for disaster.
What to bet I know the city you speak of well
Aggie,
I an in SE Pa. Different cities, over 100 miles apart, but the exact same phenomenon is happening in our cities, and likely in thousands of cities and towns across the country.
Identity politics are the “laughing place” of the Democratic party. Here’s a link for any who don’t get the reference: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjFd3ekLXVI
Nice to speculate, but, it’s all about MONEY and POWER!
Undoubtedly, one of the most incisive, poignant, accurate, timely, and comprehensive articles I have read to date addressing the racial divide.
Thank you, Dr. Hanson.
Until there are RESPECTED representatives of the black community that can overwhelm the psychotic rants of “leaders” like Farrakhan, Fleger, Wright, Tyson, Waters, and Jackson-Lee, there will never be any mitigation.
Dr. Hanson; You have gone far beyond all other attempts to illustrate the opportunistic sermons of these race hustlers. This essay deserves an award.
I am going to print out this article, space the lines at 1 1/2, and mail a copy to every legislator I can get the address for.
I might even nail up copies to a few telephone poles.
These so-called “organizers” of the Black community stay rooted in 1960 pre-civil rights mentality and rhetoric as the means to stay relevant despite all the advances made during the past half century. It’s not that history should be forgotten. Far from it. But they need to replace the rhetoric with dialogue. There is little to be gained to keep fighting when the battle is over and the former foe is making concessions.
We can talk to them ’til we’re blue in the face & what good will it do? AFA they are concerned, the concessions can continue ad infinitum. As others have pointed out ISMW, this has become a money-making racket for the black race hustlers. They won’t stop until the black community tells them to stop (hell will freeze over before that ever happens).
The article and the comments are both fascinating and illuminating. As a young woman raised in a small all-white Western town, my impression of black people was formed through listening to Bill Cosby records and watching “The Bill Cosby Show” on television. I honestly thought that black people were just like me, that skin color meant nothing any more. Skin color, hair color, eye color — who cared?
Obama changed all that. When I listened to Jeremiah Wright’s ranting, as I started to research Louis Farrakhan and heard about Freddy’s Market and Al Sharpton, and when I saw the YouTube video of the Black Panthers at a polling site, I started to realize my vision of a color blind society was not only wrong, but dangerous. Now I’m in the process of getting a concealed carry permit because I have to go to downtown Denver on occasion, and gangs of blacks are roving the downtown area and targeting white folks. Finally, the saddest thing happened to me. I saw a well dressed older black man in line at the DMV and I didn’t smile at him and think of Bill Cosby.
I avoided eye contact and edged away and wondered if he attended a church like Jeremiah Wright.
Black Gang Arrested For Anti-White “Hate Crime” Spree
Colorado police have arrested 32 African-American youths who targeted White and Hispanic victims in a violent four-month-long crime spree in downtown Denver.
“The primary focus was on white males,” said Denver District Attorney Mitch Morrissey.
Reports Dave Gibson at Examiner.com:
Consider this , not only are Blacks the most corrupt most violent and most criminal portion of the US population but every Black run city tops the US violence, corruption and criminality league.
Now lets look at Africa where colonialism finished over 60 YEARS ago. So what has happened well there is not one country in Africa which is safer and more prosperous than they were under wicked Whitey. Zimbabwe has gone from being Africa’s ‘Bread Basket’ to being Africa’s ‘Basket Case’ and South Africa is a long way down the same road too. All over Africa Black on Black slavery and tribal violence is endemic. But this time there will be no Whiteys to save them.
Completely missing from this analysis is the complete lack of any persuasive evidence that race had anything to do with this incident. Otherwise, carry on…
It’s all by design. The contemptable Al Sharpton is simply a willing tool of the same crew that runs Obama.
The plan from day one has been to divide and conquer. Fanning racial anger, on all sides and in every way, is just one aspect of the multi-pronged, multi-decade effort.
And it may work.
But at some point, they are going to have to deal with the raw fact that they are a coilition of haters who hate their own allies as much as they hate the achievers who are the direct lineage of the builders of this country. And we still constitute a majority, not a passive majority, an increasingly angry majority whose ancestors put everything on the line to succeed in a dangerous new world. If they think their chest thumping is working, they really are as dumb as they seem.
It’s even worse than you describe, VDH.
The leftists that are in control of this government are on a mission to break it down completely and replace it with the “cure”. Radical leftism intends to divide this country every day, in every way…that it possibly can.
It will divide us through despicable class warfare.
It will divide us by gender.
It will divide us by ethnicity.
It will divide us by race.
It will divide us by age.
It will divide us by party affiliation.
It will divide us by religion.
It will divide us by every wedge issue it can find.
Radical leftism is paving a road to totalitarianism. It always has, it always will, it never fails. In the course of human history, NO radical leftist regime has endured except through iron-fisted totalitarianism.
Perhaps the most virulent and likely the saddest of these divisive tricks, tools and techniques of the radical left, is the shell game they play with blacks. Keeping black society in “it’s place” as permanent victim and permanent underclass is the cornerstone of leftist plantation politics.
Radical leftists need to “create” victims and villains. There is NO way that a nation of intelligent, literate people would accept totalitarianism unless it was disguised, camouflaged, hidden…as something else.
That “something else” is “liberalism”, or “progressivism” or “elite intelligentsia”. All of those descriptors are fraudulent.
Stoking the flaming embers of black victimhood, stirring up bile and resentment, holding on to a fraudulent and very racist notion that every white-skinned person who isn’t a radical leftist…hides a racist underneath, is an intentional game of despicable divisiveness played out on a chessboard of hatred, propaganda and lies.
The truth is, 98% of all white Americans alive today had zero …0%…of family history, lineage, participation, involvement, or acceptance of any form of racism. It’s a phony narrative…just like every other radical leftist narrative. Peel the onion…and only the truth cries.
The Zimmerman case has exposed just how far the propaganda and lies machine will go to invent, create, and devise out of whole cloth a phony, lying, despicable narrative about how “bad” we are as a nation of people.
Continuing to pick at 400 year old scabs until they bleed.
If a radical leftist isn’t blaming white, Judeo-Christian, patriotic, success-based, America for something, they aren’t doing their overthrow/revolutionary best for “the cause”.
Racism in America today is a pre-fabricated and largely manufactured thing. As are ALL the nonsensical “victims and villains” narratives related to gender (Mommy wars), sexual orientation (DODT, civil unions/DOMA), class warfare (fair share for “millionaires and billionaires”), border crashing (Suing Arizona), …every wedge issue is a gambit on a propaganda, lies and hate chessboard to advance the overthrow (transformation) and destruction of capitalism and the free market. (redistribution)
We are in the middle of an overthrow attempt, via disguise and camouflage.
“Racism” is simply a tool to divide us. The black community has bought into the overthrow in very large measure. They will back Obama in spectacularly high percentages. They have been brainwashed into believing the radical leftist propaganda and lies and there will be very little chance of convincing them otherwise.
We are a nation divided. Intentionally. By traitors who mean to harm us. Sedition. Treason.
And WE help them, every single day by using their invented language, accepting their invented narratives, and promoting their invented “victims and villains”, sometimes subliminally. The “mainstream” media is no such thing. They don’t represent “mainstream” American thought, they represent the propaganda and lies machinery of radical leftism.
Zimmerman is being “lynched” by the radical leftist media, because the story that a white, redneck, southern, gun-toting, racist…fits their narrative to a tee. The fact that NONE of it is true, is hardly the point of their mission.
Race-baiters and hucksters simply help fan the flames of the phony narrative. We are a nation divided…but it’s not natural and it’s not an accident of fate.
This is intent. Fight the overthrow with everything you’ve got, VDH. But, let’s fight it at the core…not boxing with the phony shadows. Phony wedge issues are THEIR game, the phony language needs to be exposed and avoided. Understanding the nucleus of these problems is the only way to effectively turn them back.
“Racism” in America is largely a tool used to divide and destroy her. It’s ugly and it’s sad and it’s a slander that will not cease until we confront the liars, slanderers, and propagandists who promote it.
Perfectly said.
Where is the leader who will bring up together? Who will make us feel good about us as a Country and individuals.
If we don’t remove the ones in this administration this year, un-measurable damage will be done to us.
It’s really terribly scary to think about it how close to the edge we are.
Excellent, cfbleachers…
Our tight fix reminds me of a scene in the 1927 silent movie, “The Beloved Rogue”, loosely based on the life of 15th century French poet, Françios Villon. In the story, King Louis XI decides that he should like to see Villon hang tomorrow. He asks Villon if there is any reason to deny the King His pleasure, for King Louis is rather superstitious, and apparently wants to make sure the poet/prophet has his say.
Villon, played by John Barrymore, thinks up a sef-dealing prophecy quick. He says something like, “It has been prophesied that the King of France will die 24 hours… after I do.” This, of course, makes King Louis stop the execution.
The point is, in an illogical world, ruled by illogical leaders… clever folk BEAT the system back, by outwitting conners.
Perhaps in the Zimmerman case, if he is convicted… and the conviction appears to be false, the Tea Party might want to channel all resources to take back Floridian justice, state and federal operations… until it becomes a land of sane good.
Sort of like what the USA did in Iraq and Afghanistan after 9/11/01. The bad guys got the message: Don’t mess with the USA, or it comes running, flying and sailing away with bad mojo medicine for mujahideens of madness.
In other words, race-baiting, riot-threatening, jury-tampering via Presidential decrees, over-charging by prosecutors, politicizing the courts, media-PC-insanity stirring up strife because of their inability to leave justice up to true justice… will result in a massive swing-back beat down by rational (i.e. hopefully, conservative) Tea Party shock & awe forces.
It’s to the point where I view Martin Luther King to be a complete failure. All he managed was to destroy the black family. The race hustlers who hijacked his legacy along with the vile Democrat Party, are the real criminals.
As far as the Civil Rights struggle? Irrelevant today. I just don’t care. It happened too long ago and it has nothing to do with what’s going on today.
MLK did not destroy the black family. LBJ’s “great society” statist welfare programs did.
Absolutely correct. But had I been LBJ, I probably would have done the same thing because the need was dire in the Black community, devastated by Jim Crow. I keenly remember the “other” voices who where called racist for their predictions of “the fruits of no labor required”. I hope they are saying I told you so.
“… because the need was dire in the Black community,…” Nice idea, but it really is only somewhat true. In the ’50s and well into the ’60s, the rates for black marriage, divorce, and illigitimacy were about the same as those of whites. Depriving blacks of civil rights and maintaining segregation gave the Soviet bloc and the Left a mighty club to use against US influence in the Third World, as did maintaining territorial status and depriving residents of full citizenship rights in many US possessions. One of the many things glossed over in the canonization of many ’60s era “civil rights” leaders is the amount of communist influence they were under. The US made a geopolitical decision that it simply must remove the race issue from its international relations, which accounts for its dispossessing itself of various conquests, relaxing its control over the nominally independent Phillipines, granting statehood to Alaska and Hawaii, and taking steps to end racial segregation in The South. There is a good argument that LBJ, a cynical Southern Democrat who had sat worshipfully at the feet of the masters of Southern cynicism, Sam Rayburn, Richard Russell, Carl Vinson, et al. basically said to the Northeast establishment clamoring for the end of Southern segregation, “y’all want ‘em, y’all can pay for ‘em,” and thus was begat The Great Society.
Yes, it’s true, white people are angry. The country fought a bloody civil war to end slavery, but then came Reconstruction and Jim Crow, which eventually led to the civil rights movement. Since then, white society has done everything it can to make up for those years, to the point now where we have elected large numbers of blacks and other minorities to positions of power, have seen many of them become vastly wealthy in business, entertainment, and sports, and at last, elected a black President of the United States. And yet, all we hear is how racist we are, how oblivious to the sufferings of non-whites, how all we want to do is turn back the clock. Whites have lost jobs and had their lives ruined due to the double standard that blacks can never be guilty of crime, or wrong about racism. I’ll bet there are very few whites (in cities, especially) who have never encountered at least one instance of black racial hostility.
Angry, yes. But mainly, just damn sick and tired of the same old bullsh##, knowing that to some people, nothing, not affirmative action, not double standards, not turning a blind eye to the pathologies endemic in inner-city communities, not even if reparations were made… none of it will ever be enough. And we aren’t only angry at black race-hustlers. We are doubly angry at their white “liberal” enablers.
The more things change, —-
There are many “blacks” who woke up in the past, who realized the absolute truth of Martin Luther King’s admonition to judge a man by his character and not his skin color.
Arthur Ashe, the ex-UCLA tennis star, decades ago nailed the essence of the “black” American culture, with its almost total emphasis on sports and denigration of academics. What’s new since then? Maybe 50% of today’s “blacks” have indeed achieved economic freedom, but when 96% of them vote for Obama—well?
Perhaps at the core of the “black” problem lies the very human being verses animal one—we are psycho-physical entities. We “have” minds AND bodies.
When “blacks” cling to their sports-dominated culture, in essence they are saying, in ACTION, that they take the physical dimension to be the key one, and that the psycho or mental one is to be looked down upon. It is no accident that a Shelby Steele, for example, or even a Barrack Obama, for hell’s sake, had a white parent.
Ah, it seems like only yesterday, when I was coming of age in the 50’s, and the whole “adult” world full of racial problems hit my consciousness. I, like a good idealist, came to the conclusion that it would sure be a good thing, a “final solution”, if ALL HUMANS were physically Polynesians.
The ONLY surefire way to forever avoid physical race conflicts is if there is just ONE “race”—the blend beyond racial distinction epitomized by the “poly” human: everybody like Tiger Woods.
By the way, serendipity put a masterpiece into my hands on Saturday—bless the free books offered by the library!
“The Man Without Qualities” by Robert Musil—I’m now reading it, and it’s just complicated enough to warrant close comparison to Proust and Joyce, but easy enough to follow. The title says it all!
How appropriate for our racialist times.
America, if she survives free, will take another hundred years, I believe, to transcend her oh-so-human physical addiction.
First let me say that South Park has it right on Canadians: I have personal knowledge of how racist the country is but the target is people of the sub-continent.
We might also think that a lot of goodwill is vanishing in the debate, and when that is gone, there can be no appeal.
Who cares about race the most, the majority on top or the minority on bottom? Yep, the question answers itself. The bitter clingers are those on the bottom, blaming everything on a projected hatred of those with different skin colors who are keeping them down. If you are Black in America and spend most of your time with people who look and speak and think exactly like you, the racist message will be unavoidable, no more avoidable than Obama listening to Rev. Wright for 20 years and having some of his hate speech make an eventual imprint on him, even though his mild personality is well suited to covering it up, but only so far.
So, my thought is that if the President self-identifies as Black, even though half of his background is from the “so-called white” part of the natioanlal “divide,” then he is going to look through the same racial glasses he shares with his wife. This attitude will necessarily influence the rest of us, even if we don’t want it to.
My point is a minority president from the left inevitably will rile up the racial issue from the left, and those of us on the right will have to, involuntarily, imbibe the noxious fumes for the full term of that presidency. Want to salve the racial wounds? Elect an egalitarian from the majority race who, as an American of several generations, does not even realize he is descended from a particular “race.” It will make things better, exactly the opposite of what the O-man promised and which all the leftist talking heads bought into without question — that a self-advertised minority from the left would be a racial-healer able to narrow the divide and bring us all closer together. I admit I did not question that narrative and I though and hoped the promised change would work.
But in retrospect my sad response to Mr. Hanson is: What did we expect?
It is estimated that approximately 330,000 white union soldiers gave their lives and tens of thousands more gave limbs, eyes, and a lifetime of healthy walking, talking,…living…as a sacrifice to a greater good.
If you can name me another people, another nation, that fought and died for such a cause, Hollywood would make a movie about them. But not America. Hollywood has nothing good to say about America.
Abolitionists were largely comprised of white, Bible-following, Constitution-loving people.
Today, Bible-following, Constitution-loving people are called filthy names by our own government.
“Bitter clingers” and “teabaggers” and every other slander imaginable.
Today, those whose lineage contains the greatest sacrifice in the history of mankind of one race toward another, are called “racist”…SOLELY based upon the color of their skin.
Forget those whose lineage has 0% connection with any form of unkindness to anyone of any other race, creed or color…these were folks who actually put their existence on the line for someone else.
The charge of “racism” based on white skin is a despicable slander. It is, in effect, the greatest acceptable act of racism in America today.
And spits on the graves of men who disprove that slander beneath their gravestones each and every day….not to mention the wives, children and grandchildren who lost them.
Thank you, cfb, for both your posts.
Accurate and eloquent.
On the black Left: never happened. They prefer to think about the 20% of Americans who fought FOR slavery and then pretend they won. That’s Black History.
cf:
Thank you. You express the feelings of many who are weary of the constant negative drumbeat that defines the narrative today.
Another way to look at it is that it’s the cyclical descent into barbarism that happens every few hundred years somewhere in the civilized world.
The barbarians always think that they have a better way and that the riches of the cultures they attempt to destroy will last forever. Since they wouldn’t be barbarians if they weren’t dumb shits, they are always wrong.
And we would be dumber than them to give in.
Nice, very nice.
Nostalgia in a portion of America frozen in the good ole, bad ole days of legitimate excuses for poverty, crime etc.
It is interesting to watch how a law can be twisted to the exact opposite effect of what it was written to accomplish when it comes to race. The Fair Housing Act was implemented to protect buyers (and renters) from discrimination by property owners and their employees. Forty four years later we see it used to shut people up about schools, neighborhoods, crime, and other legitimate questions buyers have. Realtors have been convinced they risk breaking the law when the Act actually says the buyer is entitled to this service. If a black buyer hires a real estate agent to help her buy a home in a white area, should her demand not be fulfilled? But the teaching in the real estate industry is “to do so would be against the Fair Housing Act”. Real estate agents working for the buyer have a duty to obey the Act as it is written, not the bogus version being taught.
President of the United States Barack Hussein Obama (aka Barry Soetoro) is our country’s Racist-in-Chief.
To #3 DD who said above “Ignore the racists and race baiters. Eliminate irrational discrimination completely (both negative and positive).”
If we do that, potentially innocent men such as Zimmerman will go to prison and crimes against whites will tend to go unpunished (such as the voter intimidation in Philly, but more violent crimes as well).
Heads must remain cool, but voices must be raised.
I inadvertently found a horrible blog, Angry Black Woman. I needed a bath after I read some of it. Saturated with racism. I told her. I never ever think of myself as a “White” woman. Why are you a “Black” woman? Separate is no equal.
Originally it was that Mr Zimmerman was white. Then, because he is half-hispanic, he was referred to as a white-hispanic. Doesn’t that make Barack Obama a white-african-american?
Race relations have only gotten worse. I, for one, never thought about judging anyone (no, really, I live in NYC, you grow up be tolerant of everything) but since I heard the former member of the Justice department, who was involved with the new Black Panther Party recusal making the statement that under Holder, only whites can be a racists not blacks … I said, “wait a minute” … this is wrong.
Now, I watch and hear everything and see the pattern. We are in deep trouble if this administration gets in again with no restrictions on them. DEEP TROUBLE! I wouldn’t put it pass the Obama administration to create a race riot if the numbers don’t look good as the election comes closer.
Hold onto your hat, It’s going to be a bumpy ride.. and a long one. This new victim-hood will get much worse now that there is no longer anyone to blame legitimately.
Hispanic is a culutural designation that refers to all Spanish-Speaking and Portuguese speaking people from what we call Latin America and the US Southwest. If memory serves me correctly, it was not until 1980 that the term was adopted for the US Census. White is used as a racial designation to describe people of European decent (often used interchangeably with the Caucasian). So there are White Hispanics, Black Hispanics, and Indigenouos Hispanics.
Racial categories get sticky though because Hispanic cultures are so racially mixed. I have read that technically, most Hispanics would be categorized as “Caucasian.” With that said I know Puertiricans
I would say Obama is technically of mixed race, (my daughter like the term bi-racial) but I figure he self identifies as Black or African American because if the average person were to look at him, he or she would not be able to tell that he is mixed race heritage. He is as dark as I am and both of my parents are black. Obama is darker than my little sister, maternal grandmother, maternal great grandmother, and my nieces and my nephew, all the product of two Balck parent. I have a great, great, great maternal grandfather who was a former slave owner who freed his slaves and took his former slave mistress as a “wife” after his first white wife died during child birth. Most Blacks from America whose families’ lineages can be traced back to slavery have a similar family history to my own. So I guess if you want to call Obama a White-African American, you would have to call almost all of us White-African Americans, seeing as very few of us can claim to have no white heritage.
I am rather found of the term All-American mutt to refer to myself:-). Seriously, I do not refer to myself as African American. I refer to myself as Black because it describes the American subculture I come from.
I realize that you probably did not really want a response, but I’m bored and figure what the heck.
But are you really from the “Black” subculture or is that your skin color? You see most Black people who are educated and sucessful who aren’t atheletes, entertainers, or race-hustlers/politicians are often called “Uncle Toms” or “Oreos” by other Black people. I’ve personally witnessed black people attacking other black people because they weren’t “Black enough” becaue they were educated, weren’t dressed like a thug, and spoke in a manner befitting their education. It made me sick.
That depends on if you see black subculture as the poor project urban culture. When I say black subculture, I’m referring to the foods, traditions, and language that I have I’m common with many black people with a similar background as mine. I would contend that there is more than one black sun culture. I would also contend that one can be part of more than one American subculture. I choose not to call myself African American because I am not African. But the music I grew up listening to, the church I worshipped in, and many of the traditions I oberve are African in origin as passed down to me from my ancestors. So my overall cultural identification is American. My sub cultures include Black, middle class, Tae Kwon do athlete, football fan, and Unitarian universalist. In the end, I think as long as American/ United States Citizen is my allegiance, the rest is window dressing. When I am abroad, I know I have more in common with the average white guy from Queens than I do with the black guy from the ivory coast.
Race riots, martial law, indefinitely suspended elections–all real possibilities. I’m sure we can depend on Holder to fairly sort it out. Ye gads.
Riots? Perhaps, although that would cause independents to flee the Obama ticket in droves. Martial law? Perhaps, although much lower levels of intervention probably at the state level would restore order. Suspended elections? Not a chance. If the military could stabilize Iraq for its elections you can be sure it will do so here. Further riots would be confined to a relatively small number of urban settings, it would not be general across the nation. The military is sworn to protect the constitution and they take is seriously. There will be elections in November and since they will be unable to prevent them, the left will try very hard to gin up racial discontent to energize their base without actually having riots.
war. nothing beats a good war to rally the country.
Assuming, of course, that the war is a leftist war.
No, not at all.
He’s a black, or an african-american, white.
How come?
Because a black, or an african-american, can’t be racist.
Only a white can be racist, haven’t you heard?
And he is certainly a racist.
So he’s a white.
african-americans in 2008 voted 96% in favor of a white racist for president?
I’m afraid so.
Obama = 95 – 96% depending on the source
Kerry = 88%
Vice-President Gore = 90%
Clinton in 83 = 83%
Clinton in 1992 = 82%
Carter in 86 = 86%
Carter in 76 = 85%
Looking at these numbers, it may be unfair to say the only reason 96% of all blacks voted for Obama is because he is Black. I would say Obama picked up 6 – 14% more of the black vote depending on the year you look at. Blacks tend to vote Democratic in general. Record numbers of Black made it to the polls the past election cycle, and most of them would have been disaffected voters from poorer areas who were excited to see one of their own run for president.
I admit I am a right of center liberal and I liked Edwards before I found out about his unfaithfullness to his wife. I did not get on board with Obama until the very end, and then it was only because I did not want four more years of the Clintons.
I do not have the patience to look, but I would be interested to find out how much black support Cain would have gotten. The only thing many black voters seem to dislike more than a GOP candidate is a Black GOP candidate.
Obambi looks the same colour as African Americans but that is where his connection to them stops. This is a man who was born to an alcoholic Kenyan Muslim and absent father whose heritage is as much Arab as it is African. He was then adopted by an Indonesian Muslim stepfather and schooled and raised , in his formative years, as a devout Mosque going Muslim in Indonesia. Upon return to the USA Barry Soetero, where is his name change Documentation BTW, HIDDEN along with all the other Documents of course, went to live with his rich WHITE grandparents as his mother was too busy gallivanting with her numerous Black lovers to want him. His grandparents sent him to the most exclusive expensive school they could in Hawaii. His grandfather then introduced him to Frank Mitchell, a Black homosexual Communist friend of his, who ‘mentored’ Obambi. This seeking out of Communists, Terrorists, Criminals and maybe homosexuals too, there are many rumours, has been emblematic of Obambi’s life.
So what does Obambi have in common with the average African American ghetto dwelling descendants of slaves. ABSOLUTELY NOTHING at all thats what but they still love him simply because they are RACISTS. The fawning Left Wing moonbat sycophants are of course just stupid.
While reading people speaking of this tragedy, it was amazing to read people commenting on facts that present, distortions and opinions that have no basis in reality.
If Trayvon was 17, the photo was not ofhim at the time.
The comments that a teen could not beat up an adult, while it happens all the time.
And denigration of a person that took it upon himself to try and protect his neighbors and community.
But more and more people are now responding that their is a problem with young adult males, that have been taught that they are so special, that they get o do what they want, not follow any rules and are not subject to the results of their actions.
See that in society where athletes are treated better, in arts and entertainment, where people that do the most outrageous things are more rewarded, and with the media that instead of condemning almost is giddy with praise.
Let’s take Spike lee as an example. He states that he when he sees a mixed couple he stares daggers at them, and so is that not as racist as one can get. Instead of being happy that two people have crossed past racial lines, he sees all in black and white. And he is held up as a shining example. If he hadn’t made a couple of films and a commercial with Michael Jordan, he might never be even mentioned and certainly wouldn’t be sitting court side at Knicks games, spouting his racial hatred.
The with the Trayvon shooting, did it not seem like DUKE LACROSSE, and what is going to happen when this case gets tossed. The threats of violence and race wars. Really good. So where is the media to get to the truth. Non-existant.
And on and on.
– the “Rev.”?
The reason this case is being played up is because the media got the inital story wrong. They heard a guy named Zimmerman shot an unarmed black kid and assumed a Jew killed a black boy. This kind of story would have put the Jewish community on the defensive and possibly stanched Obama’s hemorrhaging Jewish vote. Unfortunatly for the media, Zimmerman was Hispanic. So they inflated the previously ignored category of white hispanic to breath life into an otherwise common and (sadly) not headline-worthy story of hispanic on black violence.
Except in the blatant example of southern California, most of the black victims of “brown” had it coming.
The split is the division between ignorant, uninformed, immoral and easily manipulated verses aware, informed and moral. Due to self selection for total loser status the stupid side of this split does look pretty brown. Not that there aren’t a lot of white welfare cons in the mix.
When the riots happen or the race war erupts I figure the kill ration will be about 10 to 1.
Question asked: “What color skin have the people that have enslaved you?”
White. But I’m lily White too. How can that be, you ask?
My forefather escaped from Ireland just before he succumbed to the famine or the British hangman (he was a “freedom fighter,” you see). He slept in Steerage and saw the upper deck twice a day to visit the head. Ate rotted food and arrived with the clothes on his back and less than a dollar.
No affirmative action for us, just hard work and a never-ending effort to move the next generation up the ladder. My father was a high school dropout, I’m a University Professor, my daughter will be . . . (whatever she earns).
Obama has new recognition program. It is called, “A thousand points of darkness.” The first point of darkness will be awarded to Eric Holder.
As Mike pointed out, Zimmerman is Hispanic. The MSM call him “white hispanic” but he looks darker than most of the Hispanics I know. Yes, the real issue here is Hispanic/black violence. Remember, Hispanics (taken as a group, which they are not)outnumber blacks, in the US and in FLA. Mr. Obama and the liberal race baiters in the MSM are making a huge mistake in inflating this incident. It will only harm Obama and the Dems in the November election among both whites and Hispanics. Hispanics are assimilating rapidly all across the US, except in CA where the stupid liberal Dems are handing out welfare like candy to keep them on the liberal/Dem plantation.
“except in California…”
Hence why Obama chose to help Sinaloa (California) and not the Zetas (Texas) with Fast and Furious
One assumption by many in the Trayvon Martin case is that because there was an altercation first, Zimmerman must have attacked or provoked Martin. However, my son informed me that every street savvy guy knows that even if you’re only being tailed by someone, you need to confront and even attack them if they persist, as they may strike in a place to your disadvantage or find out where you live. I argued with my son, who broke his hand fighting someone in a situation like this, saying there are other ways to deal with it, and the person might be armed.
“The problem with the race establishment is not its acrimony per se…”
And you lost me there, Mr Hanson.
Since the election of the unqualified USURPER the US Blacks have gloried in what they see are their justification and rightful place . However reality tells a completely different story Blacks who are statistically and by a huge margin the most violent, criminal and corrupt part of the US population also have the lowest average IQ rating of any ethnic group and rely on Racist Affirmative Action and ‘White Guilt’ for their advancement.
I predict that when,not if, the Affirmative Action usurper is given the bums rush that they will RIOT and blood will flow on the streets as they perceive their ‘Gravy Train’ being taken away. Mark my words well.
Why is it that ALL the RACE HUSTLERS are BLACK?
“a white Germanic-sounding vigilante”
VDH – For someone who is so clear in speaking his mind, you’ve punted on this one. Although Zimmerman may be a ‘German’ name, its main distinction is that it’s Jewish. I think Mike above had it right: “the media got the initial story wrong…and assumed a Jew killed a black boy”. I say this, sadly, based on the following:
In Crown Heights, the person who died from mob violence was Jewish — easily identifiable because he was Hasidic, which means he was wearing clothing styled from 17th century Poland. The mob chant was ‘Kill the Jew’.
Freddy’s Fashion Mart in Harlem was owned by a ‘white interloper’ who was Jewish. Many innocent people died in that store after Roland J. Smith Jr shot several people and set fire to the store.
Al Sharpton is the common denominator. This and his other similar activities are well-documented. How this man has not been indicted for inciting racial violence is beyond me. Also beyond me is how this ‘Jewish’ aspect of the story has gone (almost) unmentioned in the 100+ comments and the MSM. It’s the 800 lb gorilla in the room that looks, surprisingly, like the old Al Sharpton. Oh, did I just say something that’s politically incorrect? Shame on me.
Mike – I agree. That’s what a number of us thought/feared when we first heard the name Zimmerman, and it remains almost completely unmentioned – even here by VDH.
Jackson, Sharpton, Wright, and Farrakhan are the culmination of the efforts of the Freedom Riders and Martin Luther King. Each is a distinguished holy man, reverends of their churches, who accurately preach the ideals, needs, and desires of their people. Isn’t freedom for a people to speak its mind what we wanted when we worked to free America from the KKK and Jim Crow? I’m sorry you don’t like it.
America is a racist country. Were I Hispanic I’d get the message put out by the Times and Post. Listen to all the hatred, read all the hatred whipped up against a poor Hispanic named Zimmerman. In what other country would Hispanics be so hated?
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WHY DIDN’T TRAYVON MARTIN MAKE A 911 CALL?
If Trayvon Martin felt threatened by George Zimmerman following him why didn’t he call 911 on his cell phone? If Trayvon’s girlfriend was concerned about his safety then why didn’t she phone police? Then again why didn’t the fleet footed football player who was way ahead of Zimmerman on the path leading back to Brenda Green’s house return there to tell his dad about the big bad man who was suspiciously following him? Why instead did Trayvon run somewhere else eluding Zimmerman who lost sight of him when he could have easily returned home?
Click my name for the answers to these and other vital questions on the Trayvon Martin shooting.
Good point. On the other hand, doesn’t a person who tracks another person so he can kill him in cold blood always make a 911 call so the police can know exactly what he’s up to.
Good article as far as it goes. What it misses is the primary root of the issue: See Critical Theory and Critical Race Theory. There is no attempt to get along becuase that is not the goal. The goal is to foster the feelings that the existing system is so corrupt that it must be completely torn down and rebuilt in a new Utopian world as dictated by the Marxists.
Re #84 Nicholas Sackett….
…I’d amend your comment just a bit to say,…”the goal is to foster the feelings of ‘the world owes me a livin’ “….. that the Great Society started.
The real curse of our present society is the many inflated variations of “entitlement” which we have to pay for now.
The beauty of truth is in its simplicity. A few moments after the evidence is presented It will be clear to the jury why Z got off the shot that killed Martin.
As a man well traveled, let me just say that there are no nigg3rs in Africa, and dark skinned Indians do just fine here in America.
The problem is the content of the character.
And I am at wit’s end as to what to do about it, other than to remove 60% of black children from their homes and put them in orphanages to be educated both in mind and spirit. We can start by rounding up the “feral” children running wild in the streets of the big cities, maturing into more dangerous beasts every day.
But I’d be hung for that.
“To read comments following these stories on the Internet is to enter the world of white counter-rage at a level I have never seen. ”
I’d like to offer the premise that the level of “white counter-rage” is not solely racially motivated. If the government were responding appropriately to the NBPP and to the various outbreaks of retributive black violence, white counter rage would be much lower. Indeed, if there were racially neutral consequences for their demonstrations, black outrage would be lower as well.
So there is a deep source of rage about our government’s use of such events to divide us and place us in a situation where we cannot depend on the rule of law to keep the peace. Given the actions of the executive branch are openly racist, this anger gets expressed in racial terms. However the issue is constitutional over reach and a deliberate refusal by the executive to operate as mandated by the constitution. In so doing they risk starting a race war, and those of us who see this are very angry that our country, black, hispanic, and white, has been put at risk for the administration’s political gain.
In previous situations like this the various levels of government moved to calm things down and when necessary deployed resources to either maintain or restore order. Instead we see it either sit on the sidelines or encourage more disorder. D*mn right many of us are a lot angrier than in the past.
For this reason I don’t think that race relations have been set back 20 or 50 or 100 years. Once we replace this administration with one that removes racial considerations from law enforcement, much of the tension that we see today will pass. The increased intensity is far more political than racial.
One question. How does 12% of a population “split” a country?
Lets see – 14% vs. 86%. Hmmmm maybe this should be called the IQ war. I think Whitie is getting fed up with picking up the tab and serving up extra points to the invested “inferiors”. Time is long past due for the Supreme Court to stop the racism of affirmative action. Anyone agree ?
SOMEBODY bought those two billion rounds of ammunition sold in the U.S. last year. Hunting has been on the decrease for twenty years that I know of. Most of the gun dealers I know joked happily that BO should be named “Gun Salesman of the Year” in 2009 because they couldn’t keep anything that even vaguely looked like an assault rifle on the shelves. The stocks on hand vaporized and most of what they ordered was sold even before it arrived.
I can think of at least two families, well-educated, well-off professionals, who, after BO was elected, bought pistols and rifles, lots of ammo, joined the NRA as Life Members and got CCW permits. When I asked them why, they just said, “we want to be ready because something’s coming.”
Next time you see a black-on-white crime in the news, read the comments. Anyone who thinks a race war isn’t possible is dreaming. “White guilt” is OVER. White ANGER is now much more common. In all honesty, if there were riots in major cities and a state governor called out the National Guard with orders to “shoot to kill,” I think that governor would be on the fast track to serious national political stardom.
Too many people that aren’t black are really, really tired of black misbehavior. The patience for that is gone, along with America’s design margin. I always thought hard economic times would bring a lot of racial conflict. I’m not going to be at all surprised if there are serious riots in American cities this summer that make ’65 look like child’s play.
You are terribly wrong about one thing, white guilt isn’t over by a long shot. And what’s worse it has infected as many so-called conservatives as liberals. Just look at all the Martin-supporting posts here lying about the facts and the mushy “we need to get to the bottom of the story” whines. All you supposedly conservative white-guliters are going to have to make a choice one day soon and if you don’t make the right one, well then you’re the enemy. A race war, conservative vs. liberal is going to come and to me it is past time. If there was a truly free country in the world, I would already be there. But it looks like I will have to fight to make this one free again.
Unfortunately, like Pat Buchanan and other movement conservatives before him, Hanson has selectively chosen facts. Sadly, Hanson fans the flames of division by choosing to ignore all evidence that does not fit his Zimmerman-as-victim narrative.
Trayvon Martin’s family and supporters disavowed the kind of vigilantism espoused by Tyson and the New Black Panthers – and left-wing blogs declined to back up those calls for violence.
Why doesn’t Hanson point out how white supremacists hacked the dead boy’s social networking accounts (classy), or how white supremacist group Stormfront published fake photos of Trayvon Martin designed to fit their racist stereotype of an angry black thug?
And unlike the left-leaning blogs who knew better than to throw their lot in with radical fringe groups like the New Black Panthers, conservative publications like Business Insider and right-wing blogs like Michelle Malkin’s Twitchy took up Stormfront’s bigoted cause and embarrassed themselves by publishing the photos before retracting them in embarrassment.
Nothing racist about that, of course. And not worth mentioning –- at least according to Hanson and his ilk.
the only reason people initially said Zimmerman was white was because he was listed as much on the original police report. Does Zimmerman see himself as white? Or did he tell officers that because he felt being ‘white’ would keep him out of trouble? Is that another lie Zimmerman told?
And why doesn’t Hanson mention Zimmerman’s long history of violence –- including multiple arrests for domestic violence, a restraining order, resisting arrest, assaulting a police officer, and being terminated for aggressiveness after Zimmerman went “nuts” and “snapped” on the job according to a former co-worker?
As far as Zimmerman lying about the fight – Hanson does not know whether he lied or not. We do know that multiple witnesses are on record as stating that it was not the ‘life or death struggle’ of Zimmerman’s description, and that he was not significantly hurt or injured just moments later. One witness — according to a FOX News report — said there was little movement at all during the tussle, and all the known eyewitnesses have pointed out that the entire altercation took place on the grass, showing Zimmerman’s claim that Trayvon bashed his head into the ground was a lie.
What else is Zimmerman lying about?
The woman in whose yard Trayvon died, Mary Cutcher, has said with certainty that the voice she heard screaming for help was not that of a kid’s and not of Zimmerman’s whom she saw and presumably spoke to just after the shooting. That account was backed up by the two voice experts who analyzed the 911 tapes.
Predictably, Hanson mentions none of this.
We know that Zimmerman ignored the 911 dispatcher’s instructions to leave Trayvon alone. We have heard from Trayvon’s girlfriend that the teen was scared that Zimmerman was following him and that he ran away –- even Zimmerman admits that Trayvon ran and he followed.
What Zimmerman and his apologists would like decent Americans to believe is that after being followed by a stranger with a gun for the offense of waking to his father’s home in his father’s neighborhood, Trayvon then attacked the stranger –- who outweighed him by thirty pounds –- for no reason and with intent to kill merely yards from the safety of his father’s front door.
Given Trayvon utter lack of a violent history, and given Zimmerman’s history of violence and his known lies, most Americans of every race are rightly skeptical of this scenario. That includes the original lead invesitgator at the Sanford police department — who wanted Zimmerman charged — and the team led by special prosecutor Angela Corey who finally brought charges.
The attempts to rationalize the slaughter of unarmed teenagers is not convincing American voters of anything except the American right’s victim-blaming, race-obsessed bloodlust.
Seriously?
The facts were examined the night of the event, and the police concluded that Zimmerman fired in self-defense. Your post is an example of why Affirmative Action and diversity quotas are failures, and need to be abolished, just like slavery was abolished.
Only this time, it’s freedom for the enslaved taxpayer; of every race.
No justice, no piece.
Your whole thesis is based on a false claim, DK.
You claim Hanson has a narrative.
He does not. His claim- please read his article before frothing- is, and I quote, “We don’t know what happened.”
And you do?
If you have evidence, and are not merely repeating “stuff you read on the internet”, why haven’t you brought it to the authorities?
The fact: We don’t know who attacked who. Yet. Trayvon was within his rights, walking. IF George was following, he was within his rights too. Someone escalated that to violence. We don’t know who. We don’t know who approached who. As Hansen said, “We don’t know what happened.” Real, genuine evidence is being collected and analyzed. All else is narrative.
I don’t know what happened. But I do know the NBA Player’s Association says they do, as well as virtually every mainstream black entity and person in America. That’s what I know.
To quote another website: “Zimmerman is the rare breed of criminal who calls 911 before committing his crimes.”
What an alibi, huh?
This article really captures it. I do not know what else white people can do to convince black people we don’t hate them. We recognize past transgressions. We want to do what is right to fix past transgressions. We bend over backwards to avoid offending their hyper-sensitive racial sensibilities. And then they accuse us of racism. So this article does capture the feeling of backlash. When you are going to be called racist NO MATTER what you do. By virtue of being a white American, you are by definition a racist in African American eyes. Kind of makes you feel like giving up. I am getting the feeling that African Americans simply hate white people and there is nothing that can be done to heal the racial divide. It takes two to Tango but we may be dancing by ourselves.
I think it is ashame that this day and time we are still going through tragedies such as this… when is all this killing each other going to stop?….
This country has seen enough of this racial separation…….
“A racist is someone who is winning an argument with a liberal” –Peter Brimelow
The median household income for Americans born in India is substantially higher than the median household income for Americans.
Many Americans born in India have darker skin than many African-Americans.
Many Americans born in India have dealt with bigotry in various forms, including the fact that many other Americans confuse them with fundamentalist Muslims- especially the Turban wearing Sikhs.
And they often have to overcome a language barrier.
And yet still, see the first point. They manage that without an Indian equivalent to Jesse Jackson. Amazing.
One of the side effects of achieving through whining is that it makes the success of those who achieved through effort seem even more implausible. What does an Al Sharpton tell an African American who looks at a Tamil immigrant, with much darker skin, who is experiencing much greater success? “The White Man like the Hindus more than you?”
Excellent article! I’m getting so sick and tired of the racism mafia (Jackson/Sharpton/Congressional Black Caucus/liberal media) who want to make every problem about racism when it clearly isn’t!
Jim Crow was 50 years ago. It is time for them to GET OVER IT ALREADY!!!
We are better than this. Already, we are better than this. The race-baiting industry doesn’t represent “all black Americans,” or all of any American ethnic group. And the media frenzy doesn’t represent “the American idea” about the Trayvon Martin tragedy.
The day is close at hand when a meaningful core of us will wake up to the fact that all the shrieking and howling is a chimera. What America comes down to, 24/365, is the decisions and actions of more than 300 million people, almost none of whom are in a mindless frenzy over the killing.
The legal system is having its opportunity now. I may be in a minority here, but I thought from the beginning that the incident should have been the subject of a more in-depth investigation. And that’s NOT because I have prejudged George Zimmerman’s guilt. Nor do I think the incident was inadequately investigated because Trayvon Martin was black. The gravity of what happened merited a closer look — but that’s my opinion, and there could have been a number of reasons why the local police didn’t see it that way.
Did the Florida prosecutor do right to dismiss the grand jury? Probably not. The people — the citizens of Florida — have a right to have the Is dotted and the Ts crossed on this one. But we still have the trial judge, and very possibly a jury, to go through. The state of Florida already has processes for these events, and they are being used.
Think about this: if we can’t trust our legal system, that means we can’t trust ourselves. It means our most basic idea of self-government is untenable. I reject that conclusion absolutely. I don’t think the trial judge will be stupid and political, and if that happens, I don’t think a jury will be stupid and scared, and in any case, I don’t think the appeals court will be willing to set a precedent of destructive evil, by overturning or upholding a verdict because it doesn’t happen to be politically popular. There are a lot of checks in our system, and a lot of people with conscience and compunction who are still trustworthy.
Think about this as well. We have independent media to cover the trial as it unfolds. We know that tape and information have been unconscionably doctored by the MSM — and we will know it again, every time it happens. The MSM and the public faces of race-baiting can’t keep us from knowing the truth. It will come out. We will know what the evidence is in this case.
There are so many American neighborhoods now in which all the races live side by side in amity; too many white, black, Asian, and Latino Americans live together, work together, have served in the military together, attend church together, go to school together, and marry each other for us to be deceived that the public rants of demogagogues are our “reality.” (If you want the link to a study on the rise of racially “mixed” neighborhoods in the last 40 years, I wrote about this at the Patheos website before Easter.) Our reality has already changed.
We are already better — all of us, regardless of race or ethnicity — than the reflexive demagogue-fest surrounding the Trayvon Martin case would suggest. I believe good people will continue to treat each other right in the vast reaches of the American middle class, and that more and more of us will wake up to the inherently destructive faults of victim-and-resentment politics. Far from being our downfall, this painful aftermath of the Trayvon Martin killing could well turn out to be our finest hour. The main thing that would doom it to civil catastrophe is all of us losing heart and giving in to anger and fear.
I don’t think we will.
Well said. I agree. America is bigger than this, and we will get thru this sad spectacle of incompetence at the top just as we have gotten thru other bad administrations, and just as we have weathered other much tougher times.
Its gonna get worse before it gets better, but that will separate the wheat from the chaff, as it always does.
Thanks, Fred. When the tumult and the shouting dies, I think what we’ll see is that we’re not each other’s enemies and we have a common interest in getting this right. We’re in the grievance-airing phase right now, but grievances kill us from within if we let them take over, and most people instinctively understand that. The “grievance energumen” may try to decisively subvert our equalty-before-the-law system with this case, but the people deserve better than that, and I think we’ll get it.
Reading this article and the congratulatory comments cheering how it shows that you aren’t racist, just defending yourselves from the real bigots is a sign of how the conservative movement has convinced itself that it is the victim, not the bullies.
This self-justification is nothing new, nor is the one-sided representation of the situation. Keep thinking you are being persecuted, and that the other side has no grievances. I see enough racist trolls on my local paper’s comment section that I know there is a racist based component. As long as people keep calling him Obongo or expressing faux outrage over Zimmerman being a “white Hispanic” (something they claim never to have heard of bevore, as if the ignorance wasn’t damming in itself).
By the way, for the folks saying the police conducted the investigation on that night,and found Zimmerman innocent…uh, the lead investigator wanted to arrest him. The DA blocked that, and there is reason to believe that would be due to Floirda’s backwards law that penalizes the police if they can’t disprove the claim. Now I can respect self-defense but I think the burden should be on the killer to prove it was justified.
excellent as always, VDH, but I must say one thing about the “uncompromising counter-narrative”…and that is that it has the advantage of being the truth.
You can’t expect an Ape to Think! You can’t reason with Savages! Civilization is too fine an article to lay before a Naked Ape! Pearls before Swine? I don’t think so!
The Media and the Vermin that run it are the Ruiners of All they touch! They are the Bane of Humanity and the Wreckers of Nations!
War is what they want, and they won’t stop until they get it! Give them what they want – GOOD AND HARD!
They’re asking for it! They’re begging for it! Like Hungry Dogs they salivate at the thought of it!
But, remember that the blacks are only their cannon fodder! The Evil Vampire Squid that runs the Media is the Head of the Beast! Kill the Head and the rest will be just mop-up work!
This was interesting…heads up, 91.DK:
http://spectator.org/archives/2012/04/18/stand-your-ground-america/
Excellent article. But I’m afraid the only solution is separation, or war. That others don’t see this, is concerning.
White people ARE waking up, slowly but surely, but the growing anger is kept bottled-up, hidden inside.
RE “White counter rage”…I’m a member of a white nationalist network in Southern California made up of professionals, business owners, students, and security force members, including the police. We have members serving in the Marine Corps at Camp Pendleton. We are networking and training and are prepared to act in the event of open hostilities.
Check out this link for an eye-opening look at how blacks REALLY think of White people:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Md6bbZ1L1lU
No doubt coming to a neighborhood near you.
Worst president ever. That he’d stoop to race baiting is no surprise.
The surprise is also not that the MSM and libtards didnt point out just what a shallow self-loving, other-hating creature he was at the beginning, for after all, they share the same qualities, only that more havent woken up and spoken up to admit their mistake.
PS: Carlos- piss off – you dont deserve to lick the boots of the police or Marines, much less claim their allegiance.
VDH,
Mark your calendar to 3 Oct 2012 for the George Zimmerman trial.
Florida has a speedy trial law that requires a court trial 175 days after the charges are brought by any level of state or local government.
One hundred and seventy five days after 11 Apr 2012 puts us to a nominal “no later than 3 Oct 2012″ trial date for Mr. Zimmerman.
Only the legal defense team for Mr. Zimmerman can delay that date, not the state of Florida.
Life in Florida is going to get real interesting on “Zimmerman Day”, as it will be the “October Non-Surprise”.
Great analysis. I’m just wondering if riots are gonna break out. Occupy was about the economy, but with this Trayvon thing? If Zimmerman gets released or, heck, even if Obama loses the election, it could turn pretty ugly.
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