Posted on 07/15/2010 5:56:39 PM PDT by kindred
Truth is trampled in the street and judgment is turned around backward. Nothing inflames people to anger like perceived or real injustice. Throw in the tinder of a deteriorating economy in which millions of people are losing their homes, and raging unemployment, and the situation can become extremely ignitable.
This was the firebox that the city of Oakland found itself in last Thursday. Around 2:30 p.m., word leaked that the verdict in the Johannes Mehserle murder trial would be read at 4 p.m.the news set off a mass exodus of residents that was just short of resembling a panic, reported the San Francisco Chronicle.
Community organizers and other activists had been out in full forceagitating and instigating. We are outraged, said the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
Residents knew what was coming.
According to reports, downtown streets were flooded with people trying to get out of the city center. Trains were jammed, and the interstates filled up. At the Federal Building, loudspeakers warned workers to head for home. Companies sent out internal e-mails advising the same.
Some businesses had already taken the precaution of boarding up windows. The sign on one store read: Do not destroy. Black owned. Black owned. Fortunately for the owners, it was spared.
After the jury verdict was readconvicting white police officer Johannes Mehserle of involuntary manslaughter and not second-degree murdersporadic rioting broke out, just as predicted, and despite pleas from the black victims family for people to maintain calm. By the evening hours, police lost control of the angry protesters. Barricades were breached, and a mob of around 200 sought justice by looting jewelry and clothing stores, damaging property, setting fires and spray painting messages on buildings. Early reports said that up to 100 people were arrested.
It was clear that many non-white people feel that the justice system is racially biased against themthat black people cannot get justicethat the law does not protect them.
This is a view that President Obama became intimately familiar with from his time as a community organizer in Chicago. And it seems like he is trying to fix it. He began with nominating Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court. Judge Sotomayor controversially believes that when determining what a crime is, and the penalty for it, a judge should take into consideration the race and cultural background of the offender. She became famous for her remark: I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasnt lived that life.
Unfortunately, President Obamas fix will only make matters worse.
Following the Mehserle verdict, the U.S. Justice Department, under Attorney General Eric Holder, says it will review the case to see if it can find a way to prosecute Johannes Mehserle under federal jurisdiction for civil rights violations. Holder is Americas first black attorney general, and was also appointed by President Obama. Holders decision to investigate the case normally might not have drawn much scrutiny, except for the fact that he, like President Obama, has been very vocal about Americas racial problems.
In a speech commemorating Black History Month, he said America was a nation of cowards when it came to race problemsand that essentially the majority of Americans were mild racists. I think we have an obligation. We have to continue the fight of all the people who I mentioned in my speech [non-whites] to really kind of ultimately get this nation to the place where I think it can and should be.
Holders Justice Department is currently under scrutiny for another high-profile race-based caseand for its apparent belief/policy that racism is almost exclusively a white peoples problem.
Last week, Justice Department whistle-blower J. Christian Adams leveled accusations that Obama officials, including Holder, believe civil rights law should not be enforced in a race-neutral manner and should never be enforced against blacks or other national minorities.
As one example, Adams cited a Justice Department decision to drop a case against the black supremacist hate group, the New Black Panther Party. This is the group whose leader believes if you want freedom, you gonna have to kill some crackers. You gonna have to kill some of their babies. For our international readers not up to speed on racial slurs, crackers is a euphemism for white people.
In the case in question, New Black Panther Party members were videotaped intimidating voters during the 2008 U.S. presidential election. One member dressed in military garb waved a metal rod around while shouting profanities and racial slurs at white voters, causing some to leave.
When career Justice Department prosecutors brought the case to court, the New Black Panther Party didnt even show up to contest the charges, and the judge found in favor of the prosecution. The next step was determining penalties and sentencingbut a high-ranking Justice Department official arbitrarily ordered the case be dropped. In exchange, the Justice Department got a promise that the New Black Panther Party member in question would not bring a weapon to a voting station until 2012.
Just prior to the election, the Philadelphia chapter New Black Panther leader told the Philadelphia Daily News: Im about the total destruction of white people. Im about the total liberation of black people. I hate white people. I hate my enemy . The only thing the cracker understands is violence. The only thing the cracker understands is gunpowder. You got to take violence to violence.
If what whistle-blower Adams says is true, lawlessness runs rampant throughout the Justice Departmentand the hierarchy refuses to use the law to protect all races against racismeven when racism is blatant. The unofficialand possibly now the officialpolicy is to only pursue cases in which the victims are minorities. The Obama administration instructs government attorneys to ignore cases that involve black defendants and white victims, Adams told a Senate panel. It is reverse racism at its highest.
Most recently, Eric Holder began floating the possibility of leveling a racial profiling suit against Arizona.
Even some black leaders have spoken out against the Justice Departments new racism-based policy. Jesse Lee Peterson, founder and president of bond Action, notes that any racism is wrong. It wasnt good when it happened to black people in the past way back when, and its not good to happen to white Americans today, he says. I just hope white Americans really wake up and realize that they are under attack because of their color.
It seems that theres a double standard; theres reverse racism going on, says Bishop Harry Jackson, senior pastor of Hope Christian Church.
Peterson says the actions of Eric Holder and Barack Obama are only empowering the New Black Panther Party and others like it.
Unfortunately, America doesnt know the way to peace. There is no wisdom. Americas leaders are groping around like blind men in the dark.
But the reality is that the sun is out and getting hotter, Americas leaders are playing games with magnifying glasses, and society is sitting on a pile of dried leaves and twigs. Under these conditions, combustion is inevitable.
You cannot heal differences between people or races by treating people differently under the law. The law must be the same for all, otherwise it promotes hard feelings, a sense of injusticeand ultimately conflict. If America is not careful, it may soon have white-empowerment groups becoming mainstream too. What do you think that would do to race relations?
The answer to Americas race problems is lawGods law.
The Bible talks about a time when justice would leave the land. In Isaiah 59, God warns that because people have forgotten Him and His commands, judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.
Judgment is backward. Truth is trampled. And there is no equity. Sound like America today?
The way of peace they know not, says God. And there is no judgment in their goings: they have made them crooked paths: whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace.
God is not a respecter of persons. Anciently, He commanded Israel that all Israelites were to be equal under the law. The law was not to respect certain individuals or groups more than others. Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honour the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour (Leviticus 19:15).
In Zechariah 7:9-10, God says, Execute true judgment, and shew mercy and compassions every man to his brother: And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger [or foreigner], nor the poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart.
As long as America refuses to recognize and uphold Gods laws as outlined in the Bible, there will be no peace between the races. In fact, the book of Ezekiel prophesies that Americas actions are leading the nation toward a full-blown race war (Ezekiel: The End-Time Prophet, Chapter 4).
Injustice inevitably leads to conflict. When it is racially motivated, it leads to race war.
Yet a merciful God gives America the answers to its racial problems: Just uphold His law.
Pied Piper of Hamelin
There’s no such thing as “reverse racisim”. Racism is racism. Period.
I believe that to use the term “reverse racism’ implies that racism is the pervue of whites. What the New Black Panthers stand for is racism. What the Obama Administration is doing is the application of racism.
“Racism”, “ethnocentrism”, etc. are actually basic human traits - humans are “tribal”. Civilization and religious teaching has gone a long way in modifying this hateful human behavior. We, as a nation, have made tremendous progress over the last 40 years in trying to create a truly “color blind” society.
Unfortunately, I see race relations deteriorating. The non-whites see the Obama Administration as “pay-back” time. By their actions, the Administration is bending over backwards to grant favors, send money, forgive wrongs, etc. to the Black community.
“2 wrongs do not make a right” - I see bad times coming.
So you think the rioters were white?
No they weren’t, your post suggests they were
I didn’t suggest it I said it. In the videos I saw most of the perps were white.
and this has just what to do with the communist black panthers???
This guy describes what is going on quite well
It's gotta be stopped somehow.
Obama is a thug as are those that work for him.
And now he has aligned himself with the vicious violent racism of the New Black Panther party and their hatred for whites, and their desire to kill all of them.
Obama, Holder et al are racist of the first order.
None of this parsing as "reverse racism," it's out and out racism period!
That would be a very bad move.
Did you ever watch a Fellini movie?
The way to stop rioters is to bust a cap in them.
No matter what color they are.
Rioting is BS.
Thanks
I don't own a TV,, how could I? who is Fellini???? a communist???
(You can actually look this up!)
Heh, heh, heh. I've gone Galt.
You want me to look for random videos I saw played on Fox News? I’ll see what I can find.
So have I,, except I still work and turn the cash into died beans and rice for the coming socialist depression.
They better be very quiet if the crap ever hits the fan.
I’ve substituted Fish Heads for the beans.
Scripture teaches the Antichrist to be a political, religious, individual, who is opposed to God and God's Christ and God's church.
He's a muzzie, and a democrat thus he is against all of God's teachings.
He leaves the impression amongst those who support him that motivation is love, concern for humanity, concern for the earth, and pity for the oppressed. But as we all know what really drives him is hatred. Hatred of white people, hatred of this country and all the good that it stands for.
The Devil uses a “dragon” who speaks crafty, lying words. His speeches will be heard by millions who will hang on his persuasive rhetoric. The content as well as the form of his speech will attract. Like most false prophets, he will even be sincere and passionate. But he is a liar. He adds dashes of truth to the mix, so that his lie tastes like truth. He will use all the right catchwords, using the language of the church, even throwing in a Bible text or two. But he is the ultimate Liar, and will deceive many.
He will use every tool available: school teachers, politicians, news broadcasters, artists, musicians, scientists and doctors, lawyers and businessmen. All will be pressed into the service of Antichrist to deceive men.
0bama IS the Antichrist
You have got to be kidding.. .....radio is yesterday,, until Obama kills the nation, then there will be nothing but radio and starvation.
So these two elephants are in a bathtub.....
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