Posted on 07/18/2013 11:31:45 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
So the Zimmerman/Martin case verdict is in and America, lead on by a commercially desperate media, retreats to its predictable corners. CNN and MSNBC have their tune and FOX has its tune. Go to your own comfort zone for the twain will never meet.
Of all that has been written and spoken about the case–its origins, the investigation, the charging decisions, the politics, the media circus, the evidence, and the verdict–it cannot be stated often enough that the jury was the only entity that heard all the evidence. Not Limbaugh. Not Maddow. Not Matthews. Not O’Reilly. Not Morgan, or any other talking head. And that jury, judging by the length of its deliberations, does not seem to have been paralyzed by any reasonable doubt. In fact, from a distance and through the sketchy lens of newspaper accounts, there seemed to be considerable doubt, much of it raised by the prosecution’s own witnesses.
So wither America in 2013? White America seems to tiptoe and tremble around the fear of race riots as a response to the verdict. Black America seems to seethe at yet another injustice. Pity the nation that bears such psychological wounds.
No excuses
Last week I wrote about some of the racial history of our country. It was not a soothing or comforting commentary about white America’s deeds. But black America cannot duck responsibility forever by merely pointing to the sins and crimes of the past as a justification for the suicidal lunacy of the present.
For example, a black “leadership” that embraces and defends “black English” as a legitimate form of scholastic expression is insane. Be my guest if you want to isolate yourself in a mental ghetto, but if you want to condemn young black students to a dead-end existence, I can think of no quicker route to that dead-end than to embrace such nonsense. We live in a country and a world that expects the proper use of proper language. Why would a “leader” consign his people to a very small and rapidly shrinking corner of that world? Beyond being completely appalled by the suicidal effects of such insanity, what would Frederick Douglass think?
Or, could some black leader explain the street’s condemnation of a black person’s academic achievements as “acting white”? Save some of your rage for those who would wound a student in such a way. In fact, how about a street party for the academic achievers as a way to spread the gospel of effort and achievement? Talk about having some street cred…now that would be a story, and a party, for every young child’s eyes and ears.
Family ties
Perhaps the most glaring of all the self-inflicted wounds of black America is the missing father in too many families. President Obama has spoken of this rampant ill. He should do so more often. Political lip service is one thing, leadership is quite another. In fact, the President should publicly challenge the Congressional Black Caucus, the NAACP, and other black organizations to place this topic at the very top of an urban agenda. No baby born to a single black or white mother has very good odds in this world. Families without fathers are now a pathology that will destroy America–black and white–from within. No radical Muslim ideology, no Communist China scheme, no Russian resurgence will ever threaten America as much as the explosion in out of wedlock births threatens the stability of our society. And intact families, headed by a mother and a father, need never apologize for their relative wellbeing. Academic achievement gaps and income inequality should never be blamed on parents who fulfill their responsibilities. Rather, might we acknowledge that reckless and irresponsible behavior begets every single social pathology we decry?
It has always been beyond my comprehension that a man could father a child and then walk away from that child. I am aghast at the practice. How then to understand such behavior as a growing fashion, not necessarily exclusive to the black community, but particularly deadly to the future of that community. While it may be beyond the ability of President Obama to reverse the degradation of the black family, his place in the history books would be more secure if he sincerely tried. His voice is the most important voice and the nation’s soul needs some serious help.
Divide and Conquer.
Nicely done. Good writer.
When the ‘father’ is nothing more than a sperm donor and the welfare system is the ‘breadwinner’, what else can one expect to happen?
A lot of truth in that post, but the author did not get the message. Traditional family is out. Gayness is in. I know blacks that share his attitude about the need for a return to traditional families in the black community. They go to church and are quite conservative on a number of social issues. However, that did not stop them for voting for Obama even though his policies do not promote traditional families.
Whether voting for Obama or denouncing the verdict in the Zimmerman case, these people put race above all other considerations including the truth.
The Democrat Race Baiters and MSM purposely picked this case to hype because they knew there is no case. Meaning that people whose interest is purely about justice would side with Zimmerman while the idiotic Left would dance to whatever tune the Democrat machine is playing and blacks would be angry simply because Trayvon was black.
The whole stink mess is purely the Democrats playing at politics and they don’t care who they destroy. Just look at the mass murder of many millions of babies that get aborted. Those people have no soul and are ruled by The Devil.
This Tom Finneran?
http://blogs.wpri.com/2012/04/03/disgraced-ex-mass-speaker-tom-finneran-now-lobbyist-in-ri/
Looks that way:
GoLocal and WHJJ heard from GoLocalWorcester MINDSETTER™ and Former MA Speaker of the House Tom Finneran regarding his take on today’s election.
He highlighted why he finds the MA Senate race particularly interesting and spoke to his thoughts on the state of campaign advertising.
Very good. Especially the opening couple of paragraphs.
I disagree. He puts the conservative media and the liberal media into the same boat, which is totally absurd in this context.
The Roman empire lasted 500 years, the USA, as I grew up and lived in it, won’t make half that.
Don't confuse politicians and the MSM with White America
That should have been. The Roman empire lasted 500 years, the USA, as I grew up and lived in it, didn’t make half that.
Diana Tennis on expert panel with Greta Susteren July 18 2013
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKvhErQtyZw#at=272
The edges of the “Great Society” experiment are now crumbling. It is unstoppable and irreversible. There is no fix but for the whole diseased society to collapse and then to rebuild from scratch. It is the beginning of a second Dark Ages. If you want to know how it all ends, look at Detroit.
It is time to have a serious discussion on the merits of segregation, separate but equal? Why not? It is clear there will NEVER be peace between black and white. Why fight this any more?
The “bread and circuses” phase that preceded the collapse of the western Roman empire took 200 years. I don’t think we have this long.
Get it, he stole gifts given to his wife for her baby to give to his mistress for her baby, how sweet!
LBJ and his ilk joined with the very worst black people to cynically exploit the black people for political gain.
Government money in exchange for votes.Simple as that.
There should be no government handouts for anyone,nor governments setting the rules for private charity.Nor tax write-offs to be charitable,because that is just government choosing which charity to subsidize.
Let all be taxed at equal rates and those who give,truly give.
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