Good article although I take issue with:
"the responsibility for the Florida shooting lies with the individual who pulled the trigger".
Well what if he was attacked Juan?
Also "minstrel-show images of black youth" I thought was an absolutely brilliant line. That's exactly what it is.
Good start on Juan’s part. Now, where’s the outrage about the scourge of black on white crimes?
Concept credit: freeper Vanilla Swirl
The rest of the observation would be, "And what about all of the white violent crime victims, and the fact that the astronomical percentage of interracial crime is black on white?"
No, that would be a little too much reality for Juan.
Yoda??
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(Couldn’t resist...)
Juan Williams picture is in the dictionary under “half wit ignorant lying racist azzhole”.
BTW here is the 911 audio if anyone wants to hear it.
Screaming - then the gunshot- then no screaming.
Hey Juan! How about just where is the outrage over all black committed crime?
I get so sick of “Black on Black” crime, like they want the blacks to stop killing each other and go kill others?
I don’t want any crime.
Well, I see this as Juan having the same inside-the-Beltway mindset as many ostensible conservatives who have said the same thing. So I don't know what his motivation is here - I'm inclined to think he shares the same distaste for self-defense concepts as many of his establishment brethern, as opposed to his taking a racial viewpoint like Sharpton. Because the rest of the article is spot-on.
And what will happen in response to this column? Why, the race pimps will once again call out Juan as an Uncle Tom. Even as a point Juan didn't make - that Trayvon had already eagerly started to embrace the thug mindset, as his pics and tweets indicate - completely vindicates the points Juan makes here.
If they were struggling over possession of the gun then it is entirely possible that Martin actually pulled the trigger.
By remaining silent, the people protesting this shooting accept the fact that Blacks kill more Blacks than any other race. Black drug use is ok because it’s a part of their culture. Same ok goes for unwed Black mothers and the Black Men that father those children.
Juan Williams asks the salient question, "...where's the outrage over the daily scourge of black-on-black crime?" but only because he believes that it will make his path to "white-on-black" crime less difficult. There is nothing genuine about this man. His ideology is planted solidly on the left and, as far as race goes, he too is a race baiter, but a race baiter who's a bit more nimble at concealing his intent.
Except that recent poor Asian immigrants had to send their kids to the same schools - and those kids largely went on to college.
It ain't the schools, it is the anti-educational attitude of thug culture. Any black kid who tries to do well is accused of being an Oreo or of acting white.
But 'acting white' is how you get ahead in life in this country.
Juan’s the man.
The shooter may have been justified, but he is still responsible for pulling the trigger. It didn’t pull itself.
We have seen from photos and tweets that Trayvon had started to embrace the thug mindset. He could have rejected it. He didn't.
So he was on the path to the very lifestyle choices that give whites (and many blacks, as the Jesse Jackson quote clearly indicates) good reason to be fearful of an unknown black walking down a sidewalk with a thuggish demeanor.
So I don't see unfair weight on Trayvon. I have known blacks who act and dress like the middle-class professionals they are and they still draw attention from the cops for simply being out in public. I have seen it myself happen to them. And it sucks. But those are the men who are truly bearing the unfair weight of the likes of those like Trayvon who embrace the thug culture - and worse, those who act it out at the expense of society in general.
If a-holes like Al Sharpton spent more time promoting what Juan Williams and Bill Cosby are saying to blacks, and less time condemning those men, maybe, just maybe, Trayvon would have had a mentoring influence to do well in school and stay away from bad influences. Instead, any such man often suffers attacks from other blacks for acting white. The die for this situation has been cast by decades of so-called black leaders refusing to accept a collective responsibility for the sad state of urban blacks, and instead continuing to blame white America for those failures.
My response if buying more ammunition today at Academy.
When Zero loses badly in November, there will be riots in the streets saying “racism”.
I will welcome them showing up at my door or at my business.
Sorry Juan, the media mission is to institute marxism, keep 0bama in power and dehumanize Conservatives. Why not
call them out on it?
Martin’s picture is on the cover of a weekly mag - Time/Newsweek - one of those. A cute little twelve year old - what a travesty!
Where is the march against the drug dealers who prey on young black people? Where is the march against bad schools, with their 50% dropout rate for black teenaged boys? Those failed schools are certainly guilty of creating the shameful 40% unemployment rate for black teens.
How about marching against the cable television shows constantly offering minstrel-show images of black youth as rappers and comedians who don't value education, dismiss the importance of marriage, and celebrate killing people, drug money and jailhouse fashionthe pants falling down because the jail guard has taken away the belt, the shoes untied because the warden removed the shoe laces, and accessories such as the drug dealer's pit bull.
Juan Williams is one of the responsible grown-ups in the black community. It's men like him that will pull this mess back from the brink - if it can be done. Hats off to him - nice that someone 'gets it'.