A week after George Zimmermans acquittal in the fatal shooting of black teenager Trayvon Martin, the backlash continues, with nationwide protests and calls to boycott Florida. President Obama spoke some undeniable truths when he noted that the African-American communitys reaction must be seen in the context of a long, terrible history of racism. But there is another context too: that of an ideology-based, media-driven false narrative that has distorted a tragedy into a racist outrage.
This narrative has transformed Zimmerman, a man of racially mixed heritage that included white, Hispanic and black roots (a grandmother who helped raise him had an Afro-Peruvian father), into an honorary white male steeped in white privilege. It has cast him as a virulent racist even though he once had a black business partner, mentored African-American kids, lived in a neighborhood about 20 percent black, and participated in complaints about a white police lieutenants son getting away with beating a homeless black man.
This narrative has perpetuated the lie that Zimmermans history of calls to the police indicates obsessive racial paranoia. Thus, discussing the verdict on the PBS NewsHour, University of Connecticut professor and New Yorker contributor Jelani Cobb asserted that Zimmerman had called the police 46 times in previous six years, only for African-Americans, only for African-American men. Actually, only six callstwo of them about Trayvon Martinhad to do with African-American men. At least three involved complaints about whites; others were about such issues as a fire alarm going off, a reckless driver of unknown race, or an aggressive dog.
In this narrative, even Zimmermans concern for a black childa 2011 call to report a young African-American boy walking unsupervised on a busy street, on which the police record notes, compl[ainant] concerned for well-beinghas been twisted into crazed racism. Writing on the website of The New Republic, Stanford University law professor Richard Thompson Ford describes Zimmerman as an edgy basket case who called 911 about the suspicious activities of a seven year old black boy. This slander turns up in other left-of-center sources, such as ThinkProgress.org.
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The thing which is still mind-boggling to me is that every single blessed thing we were initially told through the national media about Martin/Zimmerman turned out to be wrong. Every single blessed thing, except possibly that Zimmerman was a neighborhood watch volunteer, and had a gun. Everything else was proved to be an outright lie by what came out at the trial.
So what are we left to think about this modern-day attempted lynching?
My daughter is thinking that a backlash against the professional black agitators insisting on the 'poor little innocent Trayvon, brutally murdered by an angry white racist narrative' is forming. Certainly, people like us are getting damn sick and tired of being polite about the pathologies in the 'thug-life' subculture and being called racists anyway.
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A backlash against the press who is spreading the lies and never correcting them is what is needed. Something along the lines of tar, feather and maybe even ropes for the editors who consciously make the decisions to do this.
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they are already suffering a financial backlash. A personal would be next
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The death of Martin has little if anything to do with the foundational issue. Dozens of black youth and young men are slain each week in places like Chicago, Atlanta, Houston, Birmingham, LA, etc. What is being challenged here is the foking Rule of Law! Tribal anarchy cannot survive in a nation where the Rule of Law is upheld. Fairness and equality are merely crutches or excuses for the upsetting of western culture and the desire levels of social chaos. The anarchists will not rest until America is turned into a gang and drug infested, African Congo-like blood feud.
Worst Case: Conditions are nearly right for a violent city(s) takeover. Under the current regime there will be no National Guard or 82nd Airborne retaking of the city(s), it's hospitals, energy resources, or prisons. Separatists will negotiate with the Regime in Washington for redress, payments, compensations, and new lands [off limits reservations]. New rules of law and police enforcement will approved and established. Government mandated population shifts will take place and
property ownership within the effect areas and border regions will be dissolved. Think it can't happen? Sorry, it's been happening slowly for decades.
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Exactly the reason the Mrs. and I moved to Idaho...Here in the Treasure Valley (aptly named), the vagaries - indeed vulgaries - are minimized. Cabela's was most helpful with my recent purchase and I was able to take it home the same day, with a free box of the correct size, shall we say.
[Telegraph] Little noticed, Brussels is tightening the screws on Israel. In its latest guidelines, the EU in effect restricts its economic dealings with Israel to the pre-1967 border. I say 'little noticed' because the decision has received almost no coverage in Europe; but the Israeli government was concerned enough to call an emergency cabinet meeting. As Benjamin Netanyahu sees it, the EU is seeking to prejudice the outcome of any eventual Israel-Paleostine settlement by declaring the whole of East Jerusalem and the West Bank to be outside the state. The Simon Wiesenthal Centre calls the rules, which came into effect today, 'an earthquake'.
It's a bizarre decision, even by Brussels standards. The resolution of the frontier is the key to any agreement. By blundering in, the EU risks repeating the mistake it made in Cyprus and disincentivising serious bilateral talks. No one seriously expects that a deal can be reached on the basis of an unaltered 1967 line (or rather, if you think about it, unaltered 1949 line). By putting that idea back on the table, the EU is making compromise more difficult.
I'm afraid this isn't really about peace, though. It's about the EU's natural inclination to one side of the dispute. I've remarked before on this prejudice, and the reasons for it, above all the resentment that Euro-federalists can hardly fail to have for the state which most obviously embodies the national principle.
I am not one of those commentators who refuses ever to criticise the Jewish state. Israel, like all countries, can behave shabbily. Its 2010 attack on a Turkish-flagged vessel in international waters, for example, was legally, morally and tactically wrong. At the same time, we ought to recognise that, in a dangerous neighbourhood, Israel has managed to remain a gloriously cussed and disputatious democracy.
Because it is a democracy, its government will have to sell any eventual deal to the electorate. That places constraints upon it which the EU plainly doesn't understand. Then again, given Eurocrats' attitude to democracy within their own borders, at least they're bing consistent.
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tl;dr: Even if the Israelis give them everything they want, the Paleos will walk away from the negotiations because they will never agree with the Juice on anything. And Kerry is still a chump.
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I thought a person had to have a victory first, before consideration on whether it is Pyrrhic or not.
Or is the bar so low, that a wink wink agreement to talk about things is considered spectacular victory?
This purse of cash Kerry dropped goes to fund intifada groups and their cousins and uncles, and is competition on the job market. This outside money bolsters and attracts the industry and its labor pool.
Those who think this money helps the paleos needs to understand you are spraying water on the garden and not picking the weeds.
Then there are the others who want this: building an airport - sft I've heard in a while, and it is fierce competition. Is there any doubt in the world that even if, if, a working airport was completed -at safety code- that within 5 years it will be unusable. And end up grafting/costing 2x the USA price of Murtha Airport.
As Ive written elsewhere the present crisis is one of information. Society is increasingly unable to solve its pressing problems not for lack of a solution or resources, but primarily from an unshakable determination not to face politically inconvenient facts.
Of all the many changes that the Obama administration has enacted over the last five years, the least remarked upon are the strange changes in our vocabulary. To fathom the shifting meaning of words, here is a guide to the new Obama lexicon.
Last Friday afternoon the president injected himself into the Trayvon/Zimmerman mix again by doing what he excels at, namely, increasing the racial divide, blaming the white Hispanic, condemning guns and upbraiding essentially everyone but the stoned and violent truant named, Trayvon.
Look, I dont fault Obama for stirring the Trayvon pot again. Hell, I would have if I were in his shoes. Why, you ask? Well, its pretty simple folks: it takes everyones attention off the Mama June-sized scandals hes boiling in right now, thats why. Yes, the IRS scandal is not only boiling, it's now at the doorstep of the WH.
Of course hes going to milk this cow. He doesnt want us yapping about the ubiquitous outrages hes enmeshed in; such as the IRS, NSA, DOJ, Benghazi, bankrupt Detroit or how much ObamaCare is hated and sucks. Im really surprised he didnt blow up a Sudanese aspirin factory yesterday and I guarantee hes got Axlerod and Oliver Stone in a joint effort to "fabricate" a quick war next week in order to further cover his scandal-addled backside. I hear Dustin Hoffman is slated to reprise his 1997 role in Wag the Dog. Well there was renewed talk yesterday of US involvement in Syria.
Its called diversion folks. I used to do it all the time when I was in trouble as a child. An appropriate comparison.
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