The other day Martin Luther King III said
“…the color of one’s skin remains a license to profile, to arrest and to even murder…”
He’s absolutely right. To wit:
January 6, 2007: Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom are kidnapped, tortured and murdered by four black men and one black woman.
Authorities ultimately determined that Newsom and Christian had dined at a local restaurant on the night of Jan. 6. Afterward, Christian spoke briefly with her mother and told her that she and Newsom were planning to visit a friend’s house to watch a movie. Sometime after that call took place, Christian and Newsom were abducted from an apartment complex parking lot. Over the course of the next several hours, the pair was beaten, raped, tortured and murdered.
According to later court testimony by Knox County Acting Medical Examiner Dr. Darinka Mileusnic-Polchan, Newsom had been repeatedly sodomized with an object. His limbs were bound, he was gagged and blindfolded. At some point in the early morning hours of Jan. 7, 2007, Newsom was dragged outside to a set of nearby railroad tracks, where he was shot execution-style, in the back of his head, neck and back. His body was then set ablaze, Mileusnic-Polchan testified.
The medical examiner said Christian’s last few hours on earth were also horrific and unthinkable.
The young woman, he said, was tortured for several hours and sustained injuries to her mouth, anus and vagina. She had been beaten about the head with an unknown object and raped. Afterward, bleach was poured over Christian’s body and down her throat, in an apparent attempt to destroy DNA evidence. She was, an autopsy indicated, alive while the torture and degradations occurred. Christian was then hog-tied and covered with several bags before she was placed in a disposal bin, where she slowly suffocated to death, Mileusnic-Polchan testified.
June 16, 2012: Marley Lion is shot to death by two black men in Charleston, SC.
June 30: In Mableton GA Jacob Chellew is beaten by four black youths and is pushed into moving traffic and is killed.
August 22: WWII vet Delbert Belton took a bullet in the leg at Okinawa and survived. He was beaten to death with flashlights by two black youths.
August 12: David Santucci was shot to death by a trio of black youths in Memphis.
July 29: Natasha Martinez, a 17 year old white Hispanic, is stabbed 11 times by a black man wearing a hoodie.
August 11: Raymond Widstrand was walking in St. Paul MN when he was attacked by of a group of black youths and beaten severely enough to leave with brain swelling.
August 16: Christopher Lane, a college baseball player from Australia is gunned down by a black youth in Duncan, Oklahoma
March 21: 13 month old Antonio West is shot between the eyes by a black youth in Brunswick GA.
Comparisons have been drawn between these deaths and that of Trayvon Martin. The response?
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Calm down, you white people.
America’s opportunistic race-hustlers, unsatisfied by their victory in the Trayvon Martin case, won’t stop looking for reasons to rile up white people. So now the latest yapping point in our national conversation about race is the murder of Christopher Lane, the white Australian student allegedly killed for kicks by two black teenagers, with a white teenager as their accomplice in the shooting.
In the world of white victimology, this proves that there is a media conspiracy to underplay crime against whites. Where is the outrage over Christopher Lane’s killing? Where is it? The outrage? Huh? WHERE IS THE OUTRAGE?
If you are one of the angry white dummies asking this question, try a different one: What is the outrage?
Joy Reid of MSDNC said that conservative outrage over the Christopher Lane murder was “revenge for Trayvon.”
Chris Lane is absolutely getting lost in it, as is the issue of guns. I want to go back just for a second to the Trayvon Martin case, because, I think, that is what spawned the desire for revenge almost for people on the right… Just for the fact that African-Americans dared to be outraged about the case, about George Zimmerman not being arrested.
There is a sense of vengeance on the other side. And one of the things you did see, Heather [McGhee], was Trayvon Martin portrayed as a thug and a criminal. There was one person who said he was a rabid dog that needed to be put down. So, you now have in the wake of that, because for whatever reason — angry that people were upset — this need to portray almost all black men as criminal, almost inherently. And now one of the things that’s fueling that in the Chris Lane case, is you had this tweet by one of the alleged killers in which he said ‘90% of white people are nasty #hatethem.’ So now we’re off to the races.
And there is is. How dare you notice the white hatred! How dare you think that was a part of the killing!
The Duncan police chief, Danny Ford, sprang into action to dismiss concerns that the killing could be race related:
“They were bored and just wanted to see somebody die,” he told ABCNews.com.
The DA was quick to tamp down the notion that race could have played a factor:
Stephens County District Attorney Jason Hicks said there was not enough evidence collected so far in the investigation to indicate Mr Lane’s killing was motivated by race
“At this point, the evidence does not support the theory that Christopher Lane was targeted based upon his race or nationality,” Mr Hicks said in a statement.
despite the anti-white tweets by the alleged shooter:
The galactic phony know as Al Sharpton was quick to dismiss the Lane murder as anything much to be concerned about.
The civil rights leader, who was a leading voice in the protests over Trayvon Martin’s death, told viewers that police said Lane was the victim of a random act and there was no racial motive to the killing.
“I protest when I’m called in and when there’s an injustice. The three were arrested, there was nothing to protest. The system worked there, and racial? Not only did the police not say it was racial, one of the three were white,” Sharpton said.
Sharpton decried critics who have been saying his lack of outrage is hypocritical.
The above tweets prove that race is obviously a part of the Lane murder.
But let’s revisit what Sharpton said:
“The three were arrested, there was nothing to protest. The system worked there…”
So when the white boy was shot there was nothing to protest once the arrest was made because that proves the system worked.
That’s not how it went in the Trayvon Martin affair. The arrest wasn’t enough. The trial wasn’t enough. Zimmerman being found not guilty wasn’t enough. It was far from enough. Sharpton then called the verdict “a slap in the face” but “only the first round in the pursuit of justice.” He also said “I’ve said from the beginning we must pursue [this] until the end.”
What that “end” was he never made clear. What is clear is the industrial grade hypocrisy on the part of Sharpton and the rest of the race hustlers.
Sharpton exploited Trayvon Martin’s death to a nauseating degree but he wasn’t the only one. Rep. Frederica Whitfield lectured us:
“Trayvon was hunted down like a dog, shot down in the street.”
Disgusting. Christopher Lane, on the other hand, was hunted down and shot like a dog in the street.
Oprah Winfrey claimed that the Trayvon Martin and Emmett Till were the same.
Rather than calm the waters, Barack Obama said Trayon Martin could be his son and that years ago he could have been Trayvon Martin.
None of them has a word of sympathy for any relatives of the above victims.
Former NAACP leader CL Bryant had this to say:
Former NAACP leader C.L. Bryant is accusing Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton of “exploiting” the Trayvon Martin tragedy to “racially divide this country.”
“His family should be outraged at the fact that they’re using this child as the bait to inflame racial passions,” Rev. C.L. Bryant said in a Monday interview with The Daily Caller.
The conservative black pastor who was once the chapter president of the Garland, Texas NAACP called Jackson and Sharpton “race hustlers” and said they are “acting as though they are buzzards circling the carcass of this young boy.”
For the Revs. Jackson and Sharpton, for the increasingly redundant civil rights establishment, for liberal blacks and the broader American left, the poetic truth that white racism is somehow the real culprit in this tragedy is redemption itself. The reason Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson have become such disreputable figures on our cultural landscape is that they are such quick purveyors of poetic truth rather than literal truth.
The great trick of poetic truth is to pass itself off as the deep and essential truth so that hard facts that refute it must be dismissed in the name of truth. O.J. Simpson was innocent by the poetic truth that the justice system is stacked against blacks. Trayvon was a victim of racist stereotyping—though the shooter never mentioned his race until asked to do so.
There is now a long litany of racial dust-ups—from Tawana Brawley to the Duke University lacrosse players to the white Cambridge police officer who arrested Harvard professor Skip Gates a summer ago—in which the poetic truth of white racism and black victimization is invoked so that the actual truth becomes dismissible as yet more racism.
When the Cambridge cop or the Duke lacrosse players or the men accused of raping Tawana Brawley tried to defend themselves, they were already so stained by poetic truth as to never be entirely redeemed. No matter the facts—whether Trayvon Martin was his victim or his assailant—George Zimmerman will also never be entirely redeemed.
And this points to the second tragedy that Trayvon’s sad demise highlights. Before the 1960s the black American identity (though no one ever used the word) was based on our common humanity, on the idea that race was always an artificial and exploitive division between people. After the ’60s—in a society guilty for its long abuse of us—we took our historical victimization as the central theme of our group identity. We could not have made a worse mistake.
The left now attempts to use guilt to brow beat conservatives into submission.
It’s incredible that in 2013 we’re really arguing about this, but from Henry Louis Gates to Travyon Martin — when the conservative media made George Zimmerman the Real Victim of the supposed anti-white lynch mob — we should expect nothing else. And it’s equally striking, yet also not particularly surprising, that Fox and Limbaugh and the rest really don’t seem to comprehend why the Trayvon Martin case became a thing.
It’s not that difficult to understand so we’ll spell it out: It was not only that a light-skinned Zimmerman killed an unarmed black teenager — but also that police didn’t do anything about it. The killing was horribly tragic, as is Lane’s senseless murder, but if Zimmerman had actually been arrested for the shooting, the sad reality is that far fewer Americans would know his name. But that’s not what happened. Instead, police let Zimmerman go under Florida’s “stand your ground” law. It smacked of institutional, state-sponsored racial favoritism of the worst kind. It was only after public outcry that state prosecutors took over the case and pressed charges. Some could argue that Zimmerman didn’t need to be convicted for justice to be done, but he did need to stand trial.
No, Setiz-Wald, you jerk. That’s a lie. It total BS.
A whole new category of race had to be introduced to hang the proper label on Zimmerman- the White Hispanic. Who refers to Barack Obama as a “white black” or “mulatto”? Have you ever read the term “black Hispanic”? Emmett Till’s cousin called Zimmerman a “white boy.” The left wing media had to edit an audiotape to make Zimmerman look racist.
The whole thing sucked. The media’s behavior was abominable.
And they continue.
The thing is, the system did work. There was no reason to arrest Zimmerman, but public pressure resulted in an arrest. That should have ended the protests but it did not. Liberal race hustlers were not satisfied with the arrest, the trial or the verdict. It’s not about being treated fairly. It is a petulant temper tantrum demanding something more than justice- a pound of Zimmerman flesh.
Mostly, though, it’s having the issue to rally the weak minded so that certain people do not fade into obscurity and irrelevance. Trayvon Martin’s death was tragic, but the real crime was the crass and unending exploitation of his death.
DrJohn has been a health care professional for more than 30 years. In addition to clinical practice he has done extensive research and has published widely with over 70 original articles and abstracts in the peer-reviewed literature. DrJohn is well known in his field and has lectured on every continent except for Antarctica. He has been married to the same wonderful lady for over 30 years and has three kids- two sons, both of whom are attorneys and one daughter on her way into the field of education.
DrJohn was brought up with the concept that one can do well if one is prepared to work hard but nothing in life is guaranteed.
Except for liberals being foolish.