How Responsible Is Obama for the Oklahoma Killing?

American Thinker ^ | August 23, 2013 | Jack Cashill

[Zakeet]

"Ayeee I knocked out 5 woods since Zimmerman court!" young James Edwards tweeted on July 15 in the wake of George Zimmerman's acquittal for the shooting death of Trayvon Martin. Edwards's tweets surfaced after he and two of his homies were charged with killing Australian baseball player Chris Lane in Duncan, Oklahoma, last Friday.

For the record, "woods" is short for peckerwoods, a derogatory term for white people. If Edwards, who is black, knocked out five woods as claimed, he would hardly be unique. As Colin Flaherty chillingly documents in his frequently updated book, White Girl Bleed A Lot, the "knock-out game" has become something of a recreational outlet for bored black youths.

This "game" is just one form of black-on-nonblack assaults. Although hard to quantify, they seem to have intensified after the media put a racial spin on the Martin shooting eighteen months ago. Occasionally, the attackers have made the link explicit, claiming they were "doing it for Trayvon," revenge being a more honorable motive than boredom.

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Obama did acknowledge that young men black men "are disproportionately both victims and perpetrators of violence," but he abandoned this thread prematurely. Avoiding the opportunity to shake up the debate, he pulled his ultimate punch, not in what he said, but in what he did not say.

The president let the idea stand that Martin was one of the victims of violence, but not one of the perpetrators. If Obama had called attention to the fractures in Martin's domestic life, his suppressed criminal record, his all but unseen descent into drugs and violence, and especially his reckless attack on Zimmerman, he might have lent a dollop of moral seriousness to his remarks.

But he did not.

[cld51860]

ALL of the race pimps, especially the Race Pimp in Chief, are responsible.

[RipSawyer]

That ARE not a photoshopped picture. Pie ARE round, cornbread ARE square. I ARE not happy about the current situation. Us gots too stan up four are selfs.

[TomGuy]

James Edwards, 15 Charged as adult with first degree murder	Michael Jones, 17 Driver, charged as accomplice	Chancey Luna, 16 Charged as adult  with first degree murder

[SES1066]

"Are 1 of my 13 Suns next? Justise 4 Trayvon!!

Sigh, where to begin (ignoring the butchered English)? Would it be too much to expect this 'lady' to have a single father for her apparent brood? Is she on any kind of welfare? Does she even come close to having a clue? What kind of irony would it take for her to get said clue?

[OHPatriot]

So when will homie hunting season open? What’s the bag-n-tag limit??? My father was a WWII vet and this has gone beyond words at this point.

[Girlene]

The power of the bully pulpit can have dangerous consequences.

[SES1066]

Michael Jones, 17

Now it appears that the esteemed Mr Jones is a suspect in multiple armed robberies, some with his pregnant girlfriend. Obviously another candidate for the next generation welfare roll!

[safetysign]

Looks like a race war is inevitable.