More Bad News for Trayvon
By Alan
Caruba
I heard it
on ABC radio’s Geraldo Rivera show. Commenting on the Zimmerman trial and,
specifically about the lawyers representing the Martin family, a white woman
said “I would never hire a black lawyer” because she felt they ignored the
facts in the case following the acquittal.
Also on
Tuesday, when Rush Limbaugh opened his show he dwelt at length about a CNN
interview with Trayvon Martin’s friend, Rachel Jeantel, and her definition of
“creepy ass cracka”, which she explained is spelled with an “a”, not with “er”.
Thereafter, he devoted much of the first hour to defending Zimmerman and
decrying the way the media tried to lynch him.
Over at
AmericanThinker.com, Jeannie DeAngelis, after the obligatory statement that
Trayvon’s death was a tragedy, tore into him and other black youths, saying “Instead
of blaming racism for profiling a black kid…how about placing the blame at the
feet of all black youth, like Trayvon, whose behavior on other occasions causes
suspicion to be focused in the general direction of perfectly innocent black
teenage youth?”
It’s worth
noting that the gated community where George Zimmerman was a volunteer
neighborhood watch participant had been subject to a number of break-ins and
robberies. You don’t organize a neighborhood watch if there is nothing to
watch.
Then DeAngelis
put the pedal to the metal citing FBI and other authoritative sources for
statistics about black-on-black crime and for the high rate of abortion, 36%,
among blacks despite the fact that they constitute only 13% of the total
population. She wasn’t too happy with the first black President of the U.S.,
who, she said, “sheds tears over murdered children, but it’s always attached to
advancing a specific political agenda.”
Across the
blogosphere, other white commentators were shedding political correctness to
express what, in their view, reflected the largely unexpressed general views of
white people in America.
A friend
and fellow blogger put it this way: “Nothing much has
changed since (emancipation). The only thing of substance that has changed
is that now, rather than being thankful for freedom, the descendants of those
freed slaves, despise white Americans for, as I believe they see it, forcing them to feel beholden to
white America.”
"Understand: There will never be an open and honest debate in America about black and white racism. Never. Neither side can handle the truth…neither side will face the truth and neither side wants the debate.”
“White America is fed up. We long since gave up the notion that the black community wanted equality and justice. White America is now convinced that black America wants nothing less than to punish white Americans for something for which they—today’s white Americans—bear no guilt.”
"Understand: There will never be an open and honest debate in America about black and white racism. Never. Neither side can handle the truth…neither side will face the truth and neither side wants the debate.”
“White America is fed up. We long since gave up the notion that the black community wanted equality and justice. White America is now convinced that black America wants nothing less than to punish white Americans for something for which they—today’s white Americans—bear no guilt.”
I disagree
in one respect. Thanks to the Zimmerman trial and all the discussion that has
followed in its wake, Americans are debating black and white racism.
Indeed,
for many whites, the notion that blacks can be racist has come as a revelation.
Whites have been conditioned to see blacks as victims of a society in which
they are at a disadvantage because of their skin color. No doubt many blacks
share this view, but despite the horrid statistics about blacks in America,
there has been a growing middle class that has been invisible for decades, along
with a cohort of professionals in medicine, law and other fields. Ironically,
many have become law enforcement officers—police!
Black
achievers have become visible in America and, for the race hustlers like Rev.
Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, much of what they say now sounds increasingly
hollow, self-serving and false to whites. Sharpton is busy trying to drum up
more protests around the nation in the same way he inserted himself early into
the Zimmerman debate, urging criminal charges be brought.
The
ultimate achiever, of course, is the President of the United States, Barack
Hussein Obama. Never mind that he is half white. Obama has always embraced his
black half and made no excuses for it. It is worth keeping in mind that he
could not have been elected and reelected without a lot of white votes, as well
as those from the Hispanic community. He obviously had 98% of the black votes.
Most
certainly no other President could have ever said, “If I had a son he would
look like Trayvon”, thus insinuating himself into the trial even before it
began. In the wake of the verdict, he still could not urge peaceful protests
without pushing his anti-gun agenda. Trayvon got himself killed by attacking
George Zimmerman, by punching him, by pummeling his head into the concrete.
That’s what the jury concluded “so say all of us.”
Someone
should remind Attorney General Eric Holder of that.
The
question I do not hear anyone in the media asking or answering is “Who is
organizing the protests” that we’ve seen in cities around the nation? Who got
all those people to show up in the same place at the same time? One of the
groups is the Freedom Socialist Party and another is the International Action Center that describes itself as “anti-capitalist” and “anti-imperialist.” It is
just one of many whose “community organizers” are quite adept at this and which,
like the President, are acolytes of Saul Alinski, the Communist who dedicated
his book, “Rules for Radicals”, to Lucifer.
So, not
only did Trayvon get himself killed, but the trial has sparked one of the most
open and lively discussions of race in America that has occurred since Dr.
Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his famous speech; only this time, contrary to
what my fellow blogger believes, whites are saying and writing what they really think.
© Alan
Caruba, 2013
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Alan Caruba's commentaries are posted daily at "Warning Signs" and shared on dozens of news and opinion websites. His blog recently passed more than 2.7 million page views. If you love to read, visit his monthly report on new books at Bookviews. For information on his professional skills, Caruba Editorial Services is the place to go! You can find Alan Caruba on both Facebook and Twitter as well.
Alan Caruba's commentaries are posted daily at "Warning Signs" and shared on dozens of news and opinion websites. His blog recently passed more than 2.7 million page views. If you love to read, visit his monthly report on new books at Bookviews. For information on his professional skills, Caruba Editorial Services is the place to go! You can find Alan Caruba on both Facebook and Twitter as well.
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