And the 12-year-old pictures of a pee wee football playing choir boy to build sympathy is getting a little, well, annoyingly over the top. Young Mr. Martin was visiting his father after getting suspended from school. Trayvon was 17 years old when this occurred. Seventeen.
It might make the optic more appealing, but, sorry Sharpton, I remember the Tawana Brawley fiasco, and even more recently I well remember the Duke Lacrosse players rape case fraud. Optics are not always reality.
The consistent false drumbeat cries of racism and crime have diminished actionable credibility and unfortunately cast a long shadow of doubt over what could possibly be justified outrage. Perhaps some folks consider Al Sharpton a strong advocate. But many more consider him an opportunistic flamboyant Pentecostal preacher who spends $2,000 a year for hair care at Brooklyn’s Prima Donna Beauty Salon and never met a black crime he could not turn into some form of racist inquisition. (more…)
Breitbart.com has released the first Obama College video. In the video, available here, then student Obama is advocating for Derrick Bell, a noted racial activist. The video at the Breitbart site was intentionally hidden during the 2008 campaign by another Obama advocate Professor Charles Ogletree, fearful of its radical and social underpinnings. There is another 11+ minute version available via PBS https://www-tc.pbs.org/s3/pbs.videoportal-prod.cdn/media/swf/PBSPlayer.swf
Watch Obama Speaks at Harvard Law in ’90 on PBS. See more from FRONTLINE.
Derrick Bell was a former professor at Harvard University and is seen in this video (below) delivering remarks on race at a Harvard book fair in 2002. Bell describes what he believes as “permanent embedded racism” in the United States that can never be removed.
Mr. Bell is obviously entrenched with his racial views. But what is apparently ridiculous for all of this well-educated intelligence is his constitutional incapacity to consider ideology over the color of skin.
A few quotes from Professor Bell’s 1992 book Faces at the Bottom of the Well: (more…)
Good News / Bad News….. The good news is that horrifically biased and discriminatory affirmative action rules may finally be struck down. The bad news is that this case will automatically inject race into the public discourse right before the election. As if Obama needs any more help with his race based re-election effort.
WASHINGTON — Affirmative action is heading back to the Supreme Court, and this time its prospects for survival are poorer than ever.
The Court announced on Tuesday that it has agreed to hear a challenge to the University of Texas’ affirmative action program, which is used in sorting through applications after the automatic admission of all in-state applicants who graduated in the top 10 percent of their high school class. (more…)
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. -MLK
I wonder what the media would report if Newt had a Whites for Gingrich contribution drive? Crackers for Gingrich?……. just sayin’
Note where Eric Holder chose to make his accusations. South Carolina. Coincidence?
(Politico) — Attorney General Eric Holder used Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy on the anniversary of the civil rights leader’s birthday Monday to emphasize the Obama administration’s dedication to protecting the American people from discriminatory voting practices.
“Despite our nation’s record of progress, and long tradition of extending voting rights – today, a growing number of citizens are worried about the same disparities, divisions, and problems that Dr. King fought throughout his life to address and overcome,” Holder said at an MLK Day event in Columbia, S.C. (more…)
Following the political call to arms at the church in Atlanta, the Chicago machine held a voter registration drive after the service…… Think about it? These are just the first test shots being fired…..
On the Sunday before the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, senior White House adviser Valerie Jarrett visited Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta to give a political speech, in support of her boss (Barack Obama) and congressional Democrats:
“Teachers, and firefighters, and policemen, whose jobs are now in jeopardy because Congress–well let me be specific–because the Republicans in Congress,” Jarrett told the crowd. According to the CBS affiliate in Atlanta, at this point, “Before she could finish her sentence, people in the congregation were laughing, and applauding.”
People wonder what’s in store for Summer 2012. How about the left spinning the 10th amendment to be racist….. Yep, “States Rights” = “The New Racism”. These are but the first test shots being fired…
(Politico) — The Rev. Jesse Jackson says he wants to hear the candidates at the Republican presidential debate tonight — Martin Luther King Jr. Day — discuss racial issues, which the civil rights activist says the GOP hopefuls have avoided throughout the campaign.
“I want to hear from them — do they support Dr. King and the New South movement? Do they appreciate Dr. King’s legacy?” Jackson told POLITICO. “These candidates talk about free enterprise, but do they understand that there would be no Boeing plant in South Carolina if blacks and whites couldn’t work together? That you couldn’t have CNN with a segregated Atlanta, or a Disney World in a segregated Florida?”
“I’ve not seen one of them with African-Americans in their ads or going to an African-American church,” Jackson said of the 2012 hopefuls. “It is an irony that they are having a debate on Martin Luther King Day, when all of them are running on state’s rights.” (more…)
It’s going to be THIS ugly.
……………. or worse
This picture is about two years old and quite funny. I think we used it when we were discussing the lavish vacation Michelle Obama took to Costa Del Sol during President Obama’s 49th birthday. Mrs. Obama took the kids and a host of friends and family to Spain in August 2010 and met with Spain’s King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia while there.
Most people would look at this and say the creator was mocking her lavish vacations (Spain, Vail Colorado, Hawaii, Africa, etc. ) and poking fun at her “well-toned” arms the media has a passion for discussing. But now we have entered the election cycle everything is based on the Obama deflective narrative of “racism”.
(LA Times) A baldly racist depiction of First Lady Michelle Obama that appeared Tuesday on a right-wing website is based on a 1775 portrait of Marie Antoinette by Jean-Baptiste André Gautier-Dagoty (1740–1786). The full-length painting hangs outside Paris in the Palace of Versailles. (more…)
(The Washington Times) — Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. claims Jim Crow is returning. In a recent speech, Mr. Holder said that attempts by states to pass voter identification laws will disenfranchise minorities, rolling back the clock to the evil days of segregation. He said that a growing number of minorities fear that “the same disparities, divisions and problems” now afflict America as they did in 1965 prior to the Voting Rights Act. According to the Obama administration, our democracy is being threatened by racist Republicans. Hence, the Justice Department must prevent laws requiring a photo ID to vote from being enacted.
Mr. Holder argues that voter ID laws disproportionately discriminate against poor blacks and Hispanics — citizens who cannot afford to acquire a driver’s license, passport or other form of photo identification. The latest victim is South Carolina; its voter ID law has been blocked by the Justice Department. Liberal Democrats — taking their cue from the White House — are portraying the national movement for election reform as an authoritarian assault upon civil liberties. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has even petitioned the United Nations, asking it to declare states’ voter ID laws human rights abuses. For the radical left, America has become Vladimir Putin’s Russia. (more…)