Posted on 03/29/2012 9:45:29 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
When 17-year-old Trayvon Martin was shot to death in Florida last month by a neighborhood watch group volunteer, he was packing Skittles, not heat.
The man who killed him was doing some sort of neighborhood safety patrol and started following Martin, who is black, because he “looked suspicious.”
This is ugly stuff, and although many of us can’t relate to what it feels like to be considered “suspicious” for simply walking down the street, we can certainly become outraged as human beings on behalf of anyone who dies at the hand of a killer motivated by prejudice.
The Hispanic man accused of killing Martin, George Zimmerman, claims he acted in self defense. If he did, the law will protect him from prosecution. If he didn’t, he will land in prison for the rest of his life, as well he should.
While we await the specifics, it serves no purpose to whip up a racism-fueled frenzy because whatever motivation propelled Zimmerman to kill, the serious problem of racism needs to be redressed, not stoked.
The president of the United States apparently believes otherwise.
Clearly not worried about embarrassing himself again, as when he declared that Cambridge police acted “stupidly” by arresting a black Harvard professor, Obama interrupted a relatively insignificant White House press event to answer an obviously planned-out question about Trayvon Martin with an even more obviously planned-out response about how if he had a son, “he’d look like Trayvon.”
The president prefaced his fatherly comment with an awkwardly gratuitous observation that, as the head of the executive branch of government, he had to be careful not to intrude on the discretion of law enforcement officials.
And then he intruded anyway, dumping a pile of presidential jet fuel on an already incendiary situation. This, despite his declaration at the outset of his presidency that this is “not a black America or a white America.”
Someone should have told him Al Sharpton had already landed in Florida.
And someone in the press corps should have had the guts to ask Obama why he thinks it matters that Trayvon Martin “looks like” him? Obama also “looks like” the teenage killer known as the “DC Sniper,” Lee Boyd Malvo. It’s even fair to say Obama resembles George Zimmerman, because Zimmerman’s Hispanic caramel coloring isn’t much different from Obama’s mixed-race skin tone.
Nobody cares that the president “looks like” Trayvon Martin. Someone should have told the narcissist-in-chief that the story has nothing to do with him.
What people care about is that a young man was shot dead while walking home from a candy store. It’s an especially important story if, as appears to be the case, the victim was targeted by Zimmerman because he was black, though Zimmerman denies he was motivated by racism.
In a nation where civil rights laws matter, targeting a person for violence because of who they are in society is an extra serious crime whether or not they “look like” the president.
But Obama’s race-tinged expression of special concern for Trayvon Martin suggests our president feels otherwise. He has every right to his personal feelings, but the words Obama speaks as president should not imply that certain homicide cases deserve priority based on whether the victim “looks like” one of the president’s kids.
Such comments generate O.J.-esque hostility and provokes folks to wonder why the president doesn’t care as much when other “types” of people die from targeted violence.
At least three women are killed by their husbands or boyfriends every day in this country because they are female, and five children die from abuse every day because they are children.
Presumably, the president can identify with these “types” of victims because he’s married to a woman and he has two children. He could easily talk about these victims by saying that a dead woman “could have been his wife,” and a dead boy or girl “could have been his child.”
But he never does.
Which means either the president believes all black men are more valuable than all women and children, or his expression of personal empathy for Trayvon Martin is the beginning of a refreshing new effort to exert presidential leadership in the fight against all forms of targeted violence.
We’ll find out soon enough, tomorrow, when three more women and five more children die and someone asks the president whether he wants to make a comment.
We ARE becoming outraged as human beings on our own behalf at being called prejudice with every breath!
We ARE becoming outraged as human beings on our own behalf at being told to lie down and die!
Well, at least he’s finally FUELING something.
Hahahahaha!
When Obama starts losing the liberal feminists like Wendy Murphy of Boston, to paraphrase liberal Jeffrey Toobin he really is on a train wreck or plane wreck. If it’s not the disaster of Obamacare in the Supreme Court, manipulating foreign policy around the election near an open mic, inciting radical black racists with Trayvon, or sitting by while gas prices continue to rise, this 0bama is from every angle, a wreck. Some of the liberals are starting to figure this out.
Shouldn’t that be a Joker?
It’s funny you got this from the Dedham Transcript.
I grew up in Dedham.
I hear that sort of thing a lot. I pick up articles in lots of little papers. They’ll say “I saw you had a thread from the Smallburg Bugle, are you from Smallburg?
I’ve never been racist but since Obama became dictator and 98% of blacks unconditionally support his distruction of America, I’m left believing that this ethnic group are bigots and hateful. Knowing this, I can no longer trust them or treat them as friends, they are the enemy of my country. As a group, blacks today fall into a category with liberals, homosexuals, child molesters, child killers and such.
It is not his race, but I certainly hate him!
Shouldn’t that be a Joker?
A Queen would be just as good...
This author is a curious mixed bag of common sense, sheer stupidity and plain old ignorance. She got the politics of 0bama right but her take on the Zimmerman/Martin story is a steaming pile.
You’re right.
But 'series', since Barry's coronation as King of Amerika I have noticed a drastic spike in Black Crime of all sorts. From 'flash mobs' growing to 'flash mob shoplifting', on to 'flash mob beatings' of old people. And a heck of a lot of murders, especially in Chicago.
Last weekend was bloodbath, 49 shootings with 10 Dead. One was a Nine Year Old Girl but oddly, Barry didn't call her family or say she could have been his daughter. And Jesse and Al were nowhere to be found either. Like maybe because the shooter and girl were both black and there was no political gain from their feigned outrage.
I listen to the CPD radio calls (like now) and I wouldn't be a Cop, especially in Chi, for $250K per year. The 'lid is off' and almost nobody is safe, not even Cops in uniform. It's like the blacks think they are untouchable for their acts, 'with friends in high places'.
It's gonna be a HOT summer.
(Lock and load and smoke 'em if ya got 'em)
Does anyone know if Trayvon actually had a bag of candy? Someone suggested it was slang for ecstasy.
Maybe part of Obama's thinking is that if black people are really angry over this on the eve of the election, people will vote for him out of fear of massive race riots if he is defeated for re-election. But I don't know how many people who would otherwise fear another 4 years of Obama would be induced to change their vote for that reason.
Bada bing, bada boom.
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