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Posted on 04/02/2012 12:22:39 PM PDT by marktwain
"Blacks are under attack," said the Rev. Jesse Jackson, irresponsibly turning the Florida shooting death of an unarmed black teenager, Trayvon Martin, at the hands of Hispanic neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman into a barometer of black-white "race-relations."
President Barack Obama, three years past his inauguration as American's first black president, weighed in, too. As when he accused the Cambridge police of "acting stupidly," Obama injected race, but this time a little less directly: "If I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon."
The implication, of course, is that race undoubtedly played a role in the death of Trayvon Martin. A special prosecutor as well as a Florida grand jury will examine the case, re-interview all the witnesses and go over all the evidence. Zimmerman may well be charged with murder, and a racially motivated one at that. Or the prosecutor may find the evidence insufficient to convince a jury that Zimmerman did not act in self-defense.
No matter whether Zimmerman is charged or convicted, a tragedy occurred. But is Jesse Jackson right, that the death of Trayvon Martin suggests "blacks are under attack," presumably by racist non-blacks?
True, black men, especially young ones, stand a much greater chance of being murdered than white males. But almost all murders involve a victim and a killer of the same race. Yes, instances of black-white murder -- as, for example, when James Byrd, a black man of Jasper, Texas, was dragged to his death by three white men -- do exist. But nationally, according to the Department of Justice, 53 percent of known homicide suspects in 2010 were identified as black -- although blacks comprise only 13 percent of the population. And in murders involving a single black victim and a single offender, 90 percent of the time it is a black perpetrator who murders the black victim. Similarly, 83 percent of whites are murdered by other whites.
What happened in Sanford, Fla. -- a white person killing a black person -- is extremely infrequent, occurring in 8 percent of black homicides. In saying "blacks are under attack," Jackson paints a picture of whites targeting and hunting down black males.
Look at the 2010 stats for New York City. While blacks comprise about 25 percent of the city's population, blacks accounted for two-thirds of murder victims. For black homicide suspects arrested, 85 percent of their victims were also black.
The leading causes of death for all young men ages 15 to 29, according to a 2006 Kaiser Family Foundation study, regardless of race or ethnicity, are unintentional injury (e.g., car accident, firearm or drowning), suicide and homicide. Not for young black men. The No. 1 cause of death in this demographic is murder. The homicide death rate for young (ages 15 to 24) African American men (85 per 100,000 persons) is three times the rate for young Hispanic men (30 per 100,000 population), the population group with the next highest homicide mortality rate. The rates for young Asian and young white males are 9.8 and 5 per 100,000, respectively.
In one recent Chicago weekend, 49 people were shot, 10 fatally, including a 6-year-old black girl. Did President Obama issue a statement? Black-on-black crime, like black-on-white crime, does not fit the liberal media's narrative of the continuing problem of white racism.
How selective is the outrage about interracial crime -- when the bad guy is black?
Ken Tillery, in 2002, walked down a Jasper, Texas, road. Three men offered him a ride. But the men kidnapped Tillery, driving him to a remote location. John Perazzo of FrontPageMagazine.com describes what happened: "When the terrified Tillery jumped out of the vehicle and tried to flee, the kidnappers caught up with him, beat him and finally ran over him -- dragging him to his death beneath their car's undercarriage."
Same town, a few years after the James Byrd murder, a black-white murder in the same fashion -- by dragging a man to his death -- but no story! Why? Well, Tillery was white, and the three suspects were all black. The irony alone would, one would think, guarantee lots of coverage. But how much coverage did the case get? An online search of 557 newspapers found that 22 covered the story.
In a scene from "Menace II Society," a movie about the struggles of inner-city black youth, a tough black high school teacher advises two black male students: "Being a black man in American isn't easy. The hunt is on -- and you're the prey." We hear a police siren in the background as the teacher gives his admonition -- just in case the identity of the hunter is unclear. But reality tells a very different story, one that even Jesse Jackson once acknowledged.
In 1994, in an unguarded moment while discussing urban crime, Jackson told an interviewer he's relieved when the footsteps on the street behind him belong to white -- rather than black -- feet.
For every (1)black attacked by a white person.....
are 100 whites attacked by black people..
The American black culture is poisonous.. in its root..
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“So is Jesee a liar or is he insane?”
Yes.
JJerkson is sooooo dumb...
that he makes the Cretin-in-Chief seem smart.
the bottom line is that if Zimmerman did NOT have a gun we would have one neighborhood watch captain dead instead of one budding young thug
And I would have given anything to see the look on his face when big tough kid realized he picked on the wrong (armed) man
Ole Jessie JackA$$ is at it again. He seems to be profiling but his profile is wrong. His and Odumbo’s people are doing a great job of attacking themselves and old evil whitey is just on the fringes of the slaughter.
Go for it Jessie as you are doing nothing but proving to anyone with a brain that your followers fit the stereotype perfectly and prove that the book the Bell Curve is 100% correct.
Credit to: Baldowl @ SBPDL
I always liked watching him in moral court, but I think the way to get Jesse Jackson to shut up, is ask to him where he gets his money. I think I remember he was on a shake down mission in California, and one business man asked him that question, and, from what I heard, he did not get shook down by Jackson.
The 90 year old war veteran husband was beaten and his jaw broken. He was shot in the face numerous times with a BB gun and sent to the hospital in critical condition.
The 85 year old partially blind wife was RAPED and then BEATEN TO DEATH.
Can you just imagine the pain, the humiliation, the horror that dear old lady experienced being gang raped by that pack of feral animals?
(the autopsy states she was raped. Don’t think all of these animals didn’t all participate)
And can you imagine the pain, the horror of that dear old husband having to witness this?
There’s a lot more involved here than a home invasion and robbery.
WHERE ARE THE CHARGES OF A RACIAL HATE CRIME??
90 year old husband’s jaw broken and shot in face with a BB gun numerous times?
85 wife year old semi blind wife RAPED and BEATEN to death??
Why does it take a foreign press to enlighten America as to this henious crime?
Where is the outrage?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2117695/Brutal-home-invasion-Oklahoma-couple-ends-65-year-romance-meeting-blind-date.html
Exactly. Even in this case, Zimmerman is a registered democrat. This is an internal conflict for the left to resolve amongst themselves.
Conservatives should not be drawn into this fray.
"No Jesse. All Trayvon proves is that the black culture is sick, twisted and totally self-defeating of any instinctive desire to learn, grow, and become self-sustaining and independent.
It’s a sickening group-mentality of victimhood, violence and avoidance of responsibility at all turns. And YOU, Jesse jackson, are guilty of the worst types of crimes against the black culture - exploiting and encouraging the further development of the most sickening aspects in order to personally enrich and aggrandize yourself. Shame on you."
I do not know if the Post of The Day is still active so just in case here you go: 
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Obama could truthfully say “If I had a son, he would act like Trayvon”. Live like a thug, die like a thug.
I would like to see Obama,Holder and the thug element of the negro portion of our population emigrate to Africa and start their own country based on their own value system. It would be a toss-up of whether they would starve to death or kill each other off first.
I would like to see Obama,Holder and the thug element of the negro portion of our population emigrate to Africa and start their own country based on their own value system. It would be a toss-up of whether they would starve to death or kill each other off first.
I would like to see Obama,Holder and the non-productive thug element of the negro portion of our population emigrate to Africa and start their own country based on their own value system. It would be a toss-up of whether they would starve to death or kill each other off first.
The Trayvons of the world need to know this: live like a thug, die like a thug, with a hole in your chest cryin’ for your momma.
Thems peoples wood run back to America , wuns dey met real Africans. Dey wood hab deh BMw’s tooked, children kidnapped and houses looted.
You know? Dey still eats peoples there.
I had a black friend who told me he was glad his fore fathers were such shitty athletes , cuzz he could have been trapped in Africa. For him? Slaving was a good thing.
That's a very good article but I want to correct one thing. As of now it doesn't look like there is going to be a grand jury. The state attorney assigned to review the case by the Gov. of FL has said she will decide it without one.
Tough-minded prosecutor in spotlight on Trayvon Martin case“I always lean towards moving forward without needing the grand jury in a case like this,” Angela Corey, the state attorney assigned to the case by Gov. Rick Scott, told The Herald/Times. “I foresee us being able to make a decision, and move on it on our own.”
She can move on it without a grand jury and she can also dismiss it and that should be the end of it as far as the state of Florida is concerned.
Wow! ABC not only whitened his pic they squeezed it sideways to make his face look more angular. The Lynch Mob Media has no shame at all. Saved!
Thank you so very kindly.
Even two of our most liberal friends bought a shotgun and asked us to take them out to our gun club. The two of them had so much fun that they joined a gun club closer to their own home. The record sales of firearms in the last few years makes me wonder if we are not getting close to a time when people are going to be more likely to fight back.
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