What Obama's son would really look like
Posted on 03/25/2012 6:23:16 AM PDT by Kaslin
I was in the green room on the 12th floor of Fox News building in New York on Friday when I heard the soundbite the first time, "If I had a son he'd look like Trayvon..."
That simple statement had been preceded by nearly two minutes of stating deep and profound "outrage" and "seriousness" in the need to "insure" that "this matter would be investigated to the fullest."
I asked commentator Cal Thomas who was sitting on one of the sofas in the room, "How many child murders have taken place since he took office?"
Calshrugged his shoulders as if to say, "I have no idea."
"And how many press ops did the president use to comment on a single one of them before now?" I continued.
"Ah yes, but it is an election year," replied Thomas.
Admittedly the Trayvon Martin case had not soaked up a ton of my conscious awareness prior to this week's "1,000,000" er "1,000 hoodie march." But the danger this case poses--I fear--is that it makes a mockery of a good law (Stand Your Ground), serves to foist a false fear on the American people (that suddenly armed citizens will be blowing away innocent teenagers), and is an utterly disgusting display of political hypocrisy. President Obama, Rev. Al Sharpton, and whatever pool of otherwise non-productive citizens can be rallied to chant, scream, and even get a police chief to resign, but none of that makes their cause just, much less necessary.
From the beginning of the Trayvon Martin case it appears as though there is an outrage over the police response to the teen's killing. A police department--it should be pointed out--that employs numbers of African Americans in their ranks.
There is no argument here for police brutality, so Sharpton and the race hustlers must gin up outrage based on timelines, and hearsay based on evidence that may or may not be reflected in the official findings once the full story is known. That's why it's being investigated...
President Obama was right, Trayvon's death is a tragedy. All his bluster Friday in the Rose Garden, ending with the campaign pander of the century--that Trayvon would look just like "my son"--was more or less a side show. All he said, was all the police in Florida, and reasonable pundits in the press have said, "We need to investigate what happened here."
I've lost a child to death, and let me be the first to say that no one can empathize exactly with the family of Trayvon because it's hard to know how to walk a mile in their shoes. We can wish them all the best, but none of it matters when you no longer have your son's smile greeting you as he saunters through the door.
But one thing that is distinctly unhelpful to the Martin family is to claim the investigation, the findings, the evidence, or the process is rigged, prior to the answers being released from the multiple investigations that are still currently in process.
But another thought also strikes me...
Trayvon was shot on February 26. But the son of Melissa Coon was set on fire by two assailants in their late teens on his way home on March 4. The woman's son was only two blocks from his home when two assailants ran him down, doused him in gasoline, and lit him on fire.
The two assailants are thought to be classmates of the boy in the local high school.
The boy's future may hold an outlook that is rather dismal, and filled with pain. It appears he may in fact yet survive and pull through, but to what quality of life?
Everyone is questioning the motive of the shooter in the Trayvon Martin case, he had opportunity, he had access, and he was a lawful owner of a concealed carry weapon.
He also did clearly disobey the police dispatch directly, and probably on that charge alone should be in jail. But if that is the case, the investigation will show that to be the case. The shooter also may have purely shot the boy because he merely hated the color of his skin, and if so--I believe he would be eligible for the death penalty. (A sentence Rev. Al Sharpton regularly campaigns against.)
And though that is a possible theory, there is no evidence of bias or malice towards race uncovered yet.
Eight days later, in the case of the child who was burned, the victim was white, the assailants black, the media silent, and the President indifferent.
But the assailants repeatedly told the victim, "You deserve to die. You get what you deserve white boy."
Even though the victim had made it to the porch of his own home, the black youths rushed him, and burned his face in a huge fireball from the gasoline, fumes, and a pocket lighter. Will the lighter control activist groups take up this hate crime in earnest?
Unlike President Obama I actually am the father of both an African-American and a Caucasian son, if either of these crimes had been perpetrated against either of them, my outrage would've been the same--even equal.
But President Obama's selective outrage seems to follow the television cameras--and in this instance--the trail of rent-a-mobs that accompany Rev. Sharpton.
And as my new friend Cal said, "Ah yes, but it is an election year!"
Just how can it be that the “great healer” about racial issues (aka: nobama) is actually a race-baiter”? How can this be?
BUMP
It now appears as thought the kind of great racial healing Obama had in mind is the kind envisioned by Liberation Theology and Critical Race Theory wherein the dominant culture (White/Judeo-Christian/Eurocentric) was destroyed and replaced by Marxist/Socialist/Afro culture.
The other is an actual hate crime that doesn't fit the "normal reporting standard" because it's black on white and puts a perceived minority in a bad light.
Bottom line? We are on our own. Sanity and rational thought have left the building. It's all propaganda now.
Get real.. it is not election year rhetoric it is, as noted, "the trail of rent-a-mobs that accompany Rev. Sharpton."
"Take Ten!" as black radicals used to scream in the 1960s. "Revolution!" as aging Marxist-Alinsky campus spoiled brats and their bratty ideological issue demand, arguably the Establishment, today.
Obama been laudin' that martial law, president for life.. now he's got that crisis and it ain't going to be wasted.
concealed carry weapon.
He also did clearly disobey the police dispatch directly, and probably on that charge alone should be in jail. But if that is the case, the investigation will show that to be the case.
This is another of those points where I have heard various versions in the press. Dear Lord how I miss the days of Who, What, Where, Why and How much and not pieces that are filled with opinion.
No, he did not. Facts are stubborn things, even more stubborn than pinheads clinging to false opinions.
What Obama's son would really look like
A suggestion, even a more direct statement by dispatch is NOT a 'lawful order'. He disobeyed nothing. There is a 'pdf' put out by the mayor's office (?) addressing this issue & others. The media needs to get their stories straight & report FACTS, but of course, 'all's fair in politics and racism'.
"The same - even equal!" ping. I'm sure Kevin is a nice man and all that, but it's a travesty that he's a published writer in the English language some of us cherish.
(I probably shouldn't post this without checking his bio to see if he's a special minority or a cat ...)
The face(s) of Obama’s son could well have been involved in these murders:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murders_of_Channon_Christian_and_Christopher_Newsom
No order was “disobeyed” and Thought Police suck. People deserve punishment for their actions, not their thoughts.
“Meanwhile, an attorney representing the neighborhood watch captain, 28-year-old George Zimmerman, broadly defended his client and said he believes evidence will show that Florida’s “Stand Your Ground” law was properly applied.
Zimmerman has not been charged in the Feb. 26 shooting that has ignited racial tensions and raised questions about the Sanford police’s handling of the case. Martin was black, and Zimmerman’s father is white and his mother is Hispanic.
(AP) Zoe Guy, 15, of Cleveland, attends a rally demanding justice for Trayvon Martin in Freedom Plaza,...
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“Is George a racist? The answer is no, absolutely not. He’s not a racist,” attorney Craig Sonner said about his client. “The incident that transpired is not racially motivated or a hate crime in any way. It was self-defense.”
Sonner said he’s spoken with several of Zimmerman’s friends, including some who are African-American.
“They only have good things to say about him,” Sonner said.
They’re reluctant to come forward, though, because they fear that the backlash over the investigation will make them and their families targets, too, Sonner said.
Sonner declined to detail what transpired between Zimmerman and the 17-year-old Martin, but he said he believes the case falls under Florida’s stand-your-ground law, which dictates that a person has the right to stand his or her ground and “meet force with force” if attacked.
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“I believe what the evidence will show is that this case does fall under that,” Sonner said. “I believe we have a good case.”
If charges are brought against his client, Zimmerman would be willing to turn himself in to police, Sonner said. “We will follow the law,” Sonner said.
Sonner would not say where Zimmerman was.
http://www.myfoxtampabay.com/dpp/news/state/witness-martin-attacked-zimmerman-03232012
That other incident with the gasoline sounds awful
Was Zimmerman wearing anything that identified him as the neighborhood watchperson (cap, badge, vest, etc.) or did he appear to Martin to be that stranger that all parents (white, black and green) warn our children to be wary of?
I am a father of American children. No hyphens about it. Until we get rid of the hyphens, the hyphenated ones will be more equal than Americans.
Yes, call me a hyphenist, but I am honest about it. I will boldly question an Irish-American about why he isn't an plain American just as fast as an African-American. From that point on, both would get treated differently by me. This isn't a matter a prejudice, since I am judging them on the content of their character. But it is hyphenist. (very mild sarc tag)
No need to check his bio. You identified the same quote that I also commented. It is revealing, no matter what his background is.
While the Zimmerman/Martin ‘white’ on black killing is covered 24/7 on the MSM with an outpouring of rage and charges of a racial hate crime, where is the concern- where is the rage about the home invasion, torture, beating, rape and murder of the elderly white couple by a gang of feral blacks in Oklahoma just last week?
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.
(She was most likely gang raped numerous times...but we will never know for sure)
Both the husband and wife were weak, having just gotten over the flu.
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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??
Where is the 24/7 MSM coverage?
Where is the outrage?
You were making a different point with the same quote. I agree with you: everyone should be identified as Earthling first (if he is ... I have doubts about some of my children) followed by American, if appropriate.
In addition to anti-hyphenism, my post was protesting comma-splices and excessively synonymous redundancy. This writer simply can’t put together decent sentences. The current piece actually has fewer garble-iscious atrocities than most of his work.
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