Posted on 07/23/2013 5:21:54 AM PDT by Kaslin
It seems to me that almost every time President Obama talks publicly about race, he stirs things up rather than calms them down. Whether intentional or not, it's unfortunate -- and damaging.
It's difficult to express opinions on race that don't conform to the politically correct narrative, because race baiters are always lying in wait to denounce anyone who dissents from their assessment as a bigot. Indeed, many leftists who call for a national dialogue on race routinely brand conservatives as racists -- merely because they are conservative -- even when they remain silent on racially sensitive issues.
But understand this: Whether or not people publicly express contrary opinions, millions hold them, and they'll continue to, no matter how effective the liberal establishment is at intimidating them into public silence.
Let me share with you a few objectionable statements in Obama's latest trip to the podium to discuss race: his unscheduled remarks last week on the George Zimmerman case.
He said he would "let all the legal analysts and talking heads address (the legal issues in the case)," clearly implying he wouldn't inject himself into those matters, which is great, except that he did just the opposite.
He said, "I'd just ask people to consider: If Trayvon Martin was of age and armed, could he have stood his ground on that sidewalk? And do we actually think that he would have been justified in shooting Mr. Zimmerman, who had followed him in a car because he felt threatened?"
Aside from the inappropriateness of Obama's speculating about the legal issues after saying he wouldn't, his questions are gratuitously incendiary and misleading.
Under what set of facts presented to the jury -- or that we've heard elsewhere -- or under what law of any federal or state jurisdiction could Martin, had he been armed, have been justified in shooting Zimmerman?
Is the chief executive of the United States of America really suggesting that people can open fire on someone who is not attacking them or threatening them but just following them? Are neighborhood watch programs henceforth to be outlawed?
We don't even know whether Martin felt threatened -- as opposed to, say, incensed. If he had been threatened, would he have circled back to assault Zimmerman after he had removed himself from the scene (and any danger, assuming he was ever in danger)?
Obama also said, "That all contributes, I think, to a sense that if a white male teen was involved in the same kind of scenario, that, from top to bottom, both the outcome and the aftermath might have been different."
Oh? I just ask you to consider: If the races of the two gentlemen had been reversed, would any groups have organized protests to pressure state and federal authorities to pursue criminal charges against the shooter when investigators and prosecutors had concluded they had no winnable case? Would the president and attorney general of the United States have injected themselves into the case with racially charged remarks and otherwise to pressure authorities to file charges?
The answer is, "No -- it's not even conceivable."
How appropriate is it for Obama to intimate that with the exact same facts, except for the respective races of those involved, the shooter would have been convicted?
Obama doesn't and cannot possibly know that, but what's worse is that what he's suggesting -- while denying he's doing so -- is that Zimmerman was either guilty but acquitted because he is a nonblack person who shot a black person, or that if he'd been a black person, he would have been convicted even if he'd been acting lawfully in self-defense. Just, wow!
Is Obama projecting his own racial predispositions here? After all, he did say, "It's important to recognize that the African-American community is looking at this issue through a set of experiences and a history that doesn't go away."
Did people completely miss that outrageous remark? "A history that doesn't go away" or a history that he refuses to let go of? Of course history doesn't go away, but does that mean there will be no redemption and no forgiveness -- ever? Is Obama saying that certain people simply will never allow us to get past our racially tainted history and live in harmony? If not, forgive me for drawing that inference based on my own observations of the endless exploitation of the race issue by the present-day civil rights movement.
President Obama has a moral duty as president of all Americans not to pit groups against each other. He has a duty not to undermine the public's confidence in the legal system based on his own biases, especially when virtually all experts believe that the case was correctly decided.
How can anyone have heard or read the totality of Obama's speech and conclude he helped calm racial relations?
Is it too much to expect that just once, Obama would not make a situation about himself? Could he just once use his uniquely historical position to lead the nation toward colorblindness rather than effectively fan the flames of racial animosity?
We really need to come together, and you need to help us heal, not drive us apart, Mr. President.
The man stated in his book that he chose to be black.
He is doing a good job of it.
Obama just doesn’t have it in him. He isn’t a leader. He can do what he has no talent for or ability. He seems almost afraid of the job. In not trying to offend people—he does just that. I had hoped he would learn on the job—but he has not. Sad really.
Obama is a professional scab picker. He is the very antithesis of a healer.
Stupid article. BO never was in the WH to “heal” anything. Complete destruction was and still is the goal. Only rich elitists survive and that’s only if they stay on his plantation and continue to serve a purpose.
He is purely evil
Obama wasn’t speaking to all Americans....he was speaking to the Obmamatons. He has a knack of phrasing statements in a way that sounds non-partisan but are in fact designed to condemn one group (anybody who doesn’t agree with him) and to placate or incite people on his side. It’s like he makes a “non-partisan” statement then turns around and winks at his buddies or the liberal viewing audience who fully understand the con job he’s trying to pull off.
Heal from what? An Al Sharpton manufactured racial charge?
and porcupines should quit being so prickly. But it’s against their nature.
Ain’t his job, bubbie.
He here to ‘fundamentally change us’ into the dirt.
He be doin’ it pretty well, too.
0bama RESIGNATION (or REMOVAL)=INSTANT RELIEF!
He can consider THAT as ‘mission accomplished’.
It's easy to destroy (something any simpleton can do)... but it is difficult to build.
“O” has NEVER demonstrated that he could/would choose the difficult path in ANYTHING.
Lazy, stupid, malicious, corrupt...??? Maybe all the above.
This whole piece is naïve at best. That Obama or any of these political race groups want to heal anything or come together is a dangerous joke.
Madoff should help country save money.
“Help America Heal”
This expression has to be one of the stupidest, naive jackass liberal ideas ever created.
For example, in a violent riot, where people are assaulted, cars are burned, buildings are vandalized, etc., what *exactly* has taken place? A riotous mob has broken a bunch of laws in an expression of hatred and anarchy.
They do not need “healing”, they need “arrest”, literally “to stop” them from doing more rioting and to punish them for breaking the social contract and harming others.
The best way to see this is to think of an old, southern Ku Klux Klan lynching of black people, after burning down their homes. Now *there* was a place in need of “healing”.
“We just need to bring the Klansmen and black people together in a spirit of cooperation and friendship.”
See how utterly *stupid* that sounds?
“Help America Heal” by stopping those who would harm America, not by pretending their hatred and anger are legitimate.
“Bigot” is the name of choice for name-callers who like to call names without being called name-callers.
Obama Should Help America Heal
‘Healing’ is just an analogy for feeeeeelings. It infers we are so weak, as a nation, that we need ‘mothering’ for every boo boo when just the opposite is true.
Despite what the users of the word ‘healing’ use, we are a nation of some of the toughest people on earth, in principles, faith and endurance and despite the temporary assualt we undergoing now, we will remain that way.
Besides that, isn’t that 0bamaCare is for...heeling?
Obama should help America Heel.
Obama was elected twice by a slim majority who very much wanted their free omelet. At this point, he couldn’t care less about reassmbling the egg shells.
We have nothing to lose by telling the truth... that's the position race baiters have put us in - and for that I say, 'thanks'....
Speak the truth - shout it from the rooftops...
By walking behind Trayvon for a minute or two Zimmerman 'dissed' him.
Zimmerman profiled Trayvon as a thief - which he probably was... and for that - just the act of daring to think a black might be a criminal Zimmerman 'earned' a beating or even death. This is the CRIME Obama was referring to...
This is the CRIME of extreme 'chip on shoulder' that Poverty Pimps and blacks with low ethical IQ's like Sham-ton teach.
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