Posted on 07/20/2013 9:56:46 AM PDT by Kaslin
As you may have already heard, the President showed up in the White House briefing room on Friday to give an impromptu address to the press corps on the current state of race relations in America and how the outcome of the George Zimmerman trial is affecting same. While supporters billed the appearance as a more generic, “healing” address in troubled times, it opened and closed with comments regarding the court case in question. We can leave for another day the issue of whether the Comforter in Chief should be diving into the results of one specific trial in Florida, but there was plenty of fodder for pundits included.
To begin with, not everything the President said was out of bounds or off the mark. There are still issues of racial tension in this nation (though the inaccurate perception that it’s vastly swinging in one direction need to be addressed) and it’s a subject which merits some work. But it’s difficult to see how this particular speech was helpful in terms of easing racial tensions given one of the glaring talking points – along with an equally glaring omission – which led off the event. (The full text of remarks can be found here.)
First of all, I want to make sure that, once again, I send my thoughts and prayers, as well as Michelle’s, to the family of Trayvon Martin, and to remark on the incredible grace and dignity with which they’ve dealt with the entire situation. I can only imagine what they’re going through, and it’s remarkable how they’ve handled it.
The second thing I want to say is to reiterate what I said on Sunday, which is there’s going to be a lot of arguments about the legal issues in the case — I’ll let all the legal analysts and talking heads address those issues. The judge conducted the trial in a professional manner. The prosecution and the defense made their arguments. The juries were properly instructed that in a case such as this reasonable doubt was relevant, and they rendered a verdict. And once the jury has spoken, that’s how our system works.
The second part of the quoted text is also worthy of note, and it’s to the President’s credit. Too many people analyzing this case completely skip over the fact that there was, in fact, a trial, and that it produced a result in accordance with the law. But to backtrack just a bit, Barack Obama’s opening paragraph still essentially shoots holes in the message.
The President isn’t just talking about a family losing a son, but with “the entire situation.” The rest of the speech goes back to the well again and again, talking about gun laws and self defense and, “what would have happened if” Trayvon Martin were white. This was about the trial, and the underlying message was simple: The Martin family was ripped off by the justice system because the system is biased and a guilty man was allowed to kill their son.
How does President Obama square that with the second paragraph of his speech? There is not one ounce of recognition of the possibility that the jury arrived at the correct verdict, that Martin was the aggressor and that Zimmerman was put in a position of feeling that he had to defend his life?
This leads us to the other glaring omission. You’ll note that in the initial expressions of sympathy and understanding, George Zimmerman’s name was not mentioned once. If my previous, far fetched idea that Zimmerman was innocent – backed up only by the flimsy excuse that a court of law found him to be so – were even possibly true, was the Zimmerman family also not feeling the sting of the long, drawn out proceedings which followed and the social stigma which will be trailing George Zimmerman for the rest of his life? Was there not a moment to spare in this “historic speech” (as Wolf Blitzer later termed it) for a few thoughts for the family of the man who was found innocent?
No, there was not. And with that in mind, what was portrayed as an important address to heal the racial divide in America could, in some part, wind up being even more divisive. Perhaps there are times when it’s best for the leader of the Federal Government to stay on the sidelines in states’ issues, including high profile trials.
0bamaDontCare about any creepy ass cracka, even one who voted for Zer0.
(thx 2 J Croce)
Would that it been soetoro, then.
The ‘great unifier’ looks more like he’s trying to stir up a race war.
Obama will succeed where Charles Manson failed. But then Charles was not a professional community organizer.
This is exactly what is on the agenda. No doubt in my mind. Don't take the bait.
Will the president also give back the stolen jewelry that he had in his backpack?
Why not? Millions of Americans are going to die, sooner are later. This Traitor wants it. He believes he will profit by it. Let's get it done before there is nothing left to build on.
Obamas BS is getting more people hurt if not killed than Zimmerman put down in self defense
Obama is guilty in this matter of inciting riots, setting race relations back 60 years. Yet the racists presstitutes and polidiots along with the profiteering professional racists like sharpton and jackson get a pass....
Time for him to go yet he’s above the very law that saw that Zimmerman was not guilty .
Doom on Obama ....
It goes to show that he should have been confronted for his primitive racial stereotyping after his comments on the Angelo Cataldi radio program in April 2008. “ my grandmother was a typical white person... inbred...” He continues to streeotype white women in the same way, has not “grown “ or been forced to grow in any way since then.
SYG, Castle Doctrine and other self defense laws have roots in the push back against Jim Crow laws. Yet today's “black leaders” line up to help the Progressives destroy all of the progress made to secure black families.
The Castle Doctrine & Stand Your Ground – The Trial of Dr. Ossian Sweet TheConservativeTreeHouse
No Guns for Negroes Part One (video 10:00)
No Guns for Negroes Part Two (video 9:45)
Equal Gun Rights (video 0:52)
The Never Again Campaign (video 0:30)
The NRA Was Created To Protect Freed Slaves From The KKK & The Democratic Party, and Everyone Else From a Tyrannical Government LiveLeaks video 3:08
According to statistics compiled by/for the Chicago Tribune there have been 62 murders of young people under 20 in Chicago this year through July 18. 43 were young black men or women and further 14 had Hispanic names. If Obama wants to address an issue, this is the issue he needs to address. The rest is posing, posturing and pandering.
Wasn’t one of the victims a 5 year old black child?
Instead of looking just like Webb Hubbell?
Wonderful short 10-minute review of the data the press DID NOT report on, in Trayvon/Zim because it clashes with their own thoughtless bigotries.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ebu6Yvzs4Ls
The Martin family will in the end NOT file a civil lawsuit because the rules of evidence are much more loose, and this important info WILL BE introduced.
When Obama made his first remarks after the Trial, saying “A” Jury reached the Verdict, not “THE” Jury, I knew he would do a follow up performance.
One think about the Mulatto Marxist, he knows how to feed the Uninformed Citizens who he laughs at behind closed doors.
Remember, the Prisoners in the Gulags cried when Stalin died. It appears the Useful Idiots are alive and well in the former “United” States of America.
It seems to me that being accused of a crime that you didn’t commit - as was Zimmerman - and being demonized in the press, and being falsely accused of being a racist, would itself be an ordeal worthy of some sympathy, but Obama offered none to Zimmerman or his family.
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