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Obama foments racial division - President inflames emotions to mobilize black voters
washingtontimes.com ^ | March 29, 2012 | Jeffrey T. Kuhner

Posted on 03/29/2012 9:49:49 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe

Trayvon Martin has been tragically killed. The black Florida teen was shot by a neighborhood watch volunteer, George Zimmerman, in the suburb of Sanford, Fla. Instead of letting justice take its course, race-baiters are exploiting Martin’s death. They are being led by President Obama. His actions have been irresponsible, fanning the flames of racial discontent and division. ....

Martin’s death has sparked national outrage, especially among civil rights leaders and the liberal media. He has become a symbol of racist injustice - a black kid killed in a gated community with a police department supposedly turning a blind eye. The Rev. Jesse Jackson says “blacks are under attack.” Louis Farrakhan vows “retaliation.” The Rev. Al Sharpton has organized massive protests, demanding Mr. Zimmerman be arrested and sent to jail. The New Black Panthers have placed a $10,000 bounty for the shooter’s capture. They issued a poster: “Wanted Dead or Alive.” This is racialist demagoguery - pure and simple.

Yet, it was Mr. Obama who turned this tragedy into a national issue. At a recent news conference, he urged Americans to engage in “soul-searching.” Moreover, Mr. Obama said, “If I had a son, he would look like Trayvon.” The president’s aides claim he was showing compassion for the victim’s family. In reality, he poured gasoline on the racialist fires. Under pressure from the Congressional Black Caucus, Mr. Obama gave them what they wanted: He put the presidential spotlight on Martin’s death - and thereby bolstered the burgeoning protests.

Mr. Obama’s comments were shameful. No one can know what his “son would look like.” The statement was meant as a sign of race solidarity; Martin was black, and so by extension, Mr. Obama shares the victim’s racial identity.

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To: unkus
What the African-American low-end electorate fails to understand is that they too are being played as a distraction.

They are already far outnumbered by Hispanics, who in general are working and have further moved low-end blacks down the American economic totem pole.

To make it even more pointed, low-end Hispanics are also crowding the Welfare lines, which was an all-black fiefdom. The Democrat Party is simply using the black low-end masses as their street fighters and for now, paying them for bastardy and drug use with welfare subsidies. So, actually there is no need for them to wise up at the moment. They have it, in their opinion, good! God help us us all as the money runs out.

41 posted on 03/30/2012 7:28:15 AM PDT by Kenny Bunk (So, Scalia, Alito, Thomas, and Roberts can't figure out if Obama is a Natural Born Citizen?)
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To: no dems

How about this.....

Christians Unite in Prayer.

“Deliver us from Evil and Obama!”

AMEN


42 posted on 03/30/2012 7:35:06 AM PDT by hapnHal (hapnHal)
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To: unkus

I’m nervous about it too; as a taxpaying white Christian this last few years has been a disaster.

I honestly believe the race card Obama used through proxies in 2008 (so he could be packaged as “post-racial”) he himself is using now because too many blacks are publicly bemoaning the fact that they are hurting (gone are the days of that fool claiming he was going to pay her rent/buy her gas). If he can’t lock up 90% of that vote, what can he hope for in other demographics?


43 posted on 03/30/2012 1:55:50 PM PDT by kearnyirish2
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To: kearnyirish2

Good points. I hope we are pleasantly surprised in Nov.


44 posted on 03/30/2012 4:02:29 PM PDT by unkus (Silence Is Consent)
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To: unkus

Thanks; you & me both. Maybe because I’m in NJ (where Governor Christie has all of the right people upset while maintaining high approval ratings), I think the mood of this country is something Obama & Co. are very worried about, so they’ve set their attack dogs out early and their media commissars are working overtime to convince people that $4 gas is good.


45 posted on 03/30/2012 4:05:43 PM PDT by kearnyirish2
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To: Kenny Bunk

You are absolutely right.


46 posted on 03/30/2012 4:08:35 PM PDT by unkus (Silence Is Consent)
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To: kearnyirish2

(where Governor Christie has all of the right people upset while maintaining high approval ratings)...


Excellent point. They will not persuade anyone that $4.00 gas is a good thing.


47 posted on 03/30/2012 4:35:59 PM PDT by unkus (Silence Is Consent)
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