Posted on 07/21/2013 7:07:10 PM PDT by markomalley
President Obama, America’s first half-black, half-white president, went to the White House podium last week to address the nation’s most racially divisive case since Rodney King.
But he wasn’t there to calm the country. And he certainly wasn’t there to start some “conversation” on race — he doesn’t find those “particularly productive,” he said, what with all the listening. Instead, he came out unannounced to the briefing room to talk about “how people are feeling.”
Not all people, mind you, just black people — and especially, as always, himself.
“Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago,” said the half-white man raised mostly in Hawaii by two white grandparents. He ticked off a list of racist actions he said whites take whenever a black man (especially him) is nearby — locking car doors, clutching purses closer. “I don’t want to exaggerate this,” he said, exaggerating wildly as he labeled all white people racist.
The president, it turned out, had come to pick the scab off America’s healing wound. The nation had been injured, and everything was bloody: A Hispanic man shot a black teenager in a vicious street fight. No one but George Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin knows how it all started, who struck first, why a seemingly meaningless altercation ended in death.
But a jury, picked by the prosecutors and the defense, listened to three weeks of testimony. At the end of the trial, the jurors heard the legal instructions of the judge. They weighed the evidence, then applied the law. What happened that night in a Florida neighborhood was tragic, the jury decided, but it wasn’t murder.
Violence, sporadic but intense, swept through communities across the country for a week after the verdict, but was subsiding. The president, however, wanted to reopen the case.
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“accurate and fair”?
Boy, that’s relative even in a perfect world.
Domestically, I’d have to say IBD and WSJ probably have the most analytical of coverage. Christian News Sevice good, too.
For going where domestic media refuses, I’d have to give it to the UK Daily Mail and Telegraph. Canada Free Press, like FR, also takes on those subjects the alphabet networks won’t.
If we didn’t have the web, we’d need to have something akin to underground radio...
Pity. We need a regime change.
Didn’t hear that, but wouldn’t put it past one of them to say that for an easy...’mmm hmmm’ and head nod.
“..How many Secret Service Agents would take a bullet for Dear Leader?...”
You’d probably be surprised at the answer. I’d venture to say that the majority of them would.
Right or wrong, they’re professionals. They do their job regardless of their personal opinion.
And with this clown, you can be sure he probably hand-picked his own loyal SS from the pool.
He not only picked the scab, he poured rubbing alcohol into it.
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