How to Achieve Racial Harmony

A good cartoon someone sent me:

Apparently "Justice for Trayvon" Means It's Open Season on White People

This is just one of several incidents:

MOBILE, Alabama --
Tuesday 8:35 p.m.
Mobile police tell News 5 they still hope to make an arrest in the Matthew Owens case before the end of the night.

Owens was beaten Saturday night in front of his home on Delmar Drive. Witnesses, including Owens sister, say 20 black people attacked Owens with pipes, paint cans and chairs. Owens is still in ICU at USA Medical Center. Weaving in and out of consciousness, Owens told his brother Lloyd, "Don't let me die."

Police continue to downplay the Trayvon Martin connection to the beating. But a neighbor confirms what his sister told News 5. The neighbor, too scared to go on camera, told News 5's Lauren Vargas that they heard one of the suspects say "This is justice for Trayvon" as she drove away.

Tonight, an angry mother who lives on the street told News 5's Blake Brown that the kids who live on Delmar Drive are the real victims.

Yeah, the kids are the victims. Mr. Owens went to beating on the poor kids' pipes, paint cans and chairs with his head. He should have known better.

Every situation like this can be laid right at the feet of Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, and every race pimp that's been trying to profit off the Martin case by inciting racial hatred.

UPDATE: Another "Justice for Trayvon" case.

Wiser Democrats Starting to Run From the Trayvon Martin Story

There aren't very many of them, but their numbers are growing:

Top Democrats — including President Barack Obama’s re-election team — are now keeping their distance from the Trayvon Martin uproar, as each day reveals more facts about the teen’s slaying.

“As more facts come out, it’s more confusing for folks,” Sharon Gilpin, a Democratic political consultant, told The Daily Caller.

“There was a pretty intense rush to judgment … [but] it is important to get all your facts before you cement your feet in the sidewalk,” said Gilpin, who has worked on numerous Democratic campaigns and ballot initiatives.

“As tragic as this death is, there obviously is another side to the story,” former Democratic Rep. Artur Davis told TheDC. “We would all do well to wait for the facts to emerge.”

Waiting for the facts...imagine that.

Those who have chosen to get involved haven often found themselves with troubles. Director Spike Lee tweeted the address of the shooter...except it was the wrong address and the house belonged to an elderly couple who had to flee for their own safety. Today, at the prompting of the couple's attorney, Lee apologized via phone and agreed to compensate the couple for their troubles. He didn't like the look of the lawsuit he was likely to get.

Al Sharpton is still being a complete ass over this whole thing. It's all he's got. He's now threatening to "occupy" Sanford, FL over Easter weekend and demand that Zimmerman be arrested. I think Al's hoping his career as a race pimp will rise from the dead on Easter morning. He's setting the stage for another riot which is sure to have deaths and injuries - par for the course for Sharpton.

It's time to let the investigations run their course. My guess is they'll have a very hard time getting a conviction on a criminal charge. Chances are there will be enough evidence of self-defense to cause doubts in the minds of a jury. Civil rights charges, which don't require the same burden of proof, could be the government's fallback position. We'll see.

MSNBC Must Rein in Al Sharpton or Fire Him

A person hosting a political cable news show shouldn't be appearing at political rallies:

The Daily Beast’s Howard Kurtz, who hosts CNN’s Reliable Sources media watchdog program on Sunday, doesn’t think it’s acceptable for the Rev. Al Sharpton to host a cable news program while organizing political rallies.

Sharpton hosts MSNBC’s “Politics Nation” on weekdays, and he has been at the forefront of recent racially-focused political rallies in Sanford, Fla., and around the country after the killing of 17-year-old black teenager Trayvon Martin.

Sharpton has been pushing these rallies despite the fact that all the evidence and information about Martin’s killing hasn’t yet come out. MSNBC has been silent on why the network is allowing Sharpton to organize these events.

Network spokesman Jeremy Gaines didn’t immediately respond to The Daily Caller’s request for comment on the matter.

Even so, Kurtz believes it’s time for MSNBC to crack down on Sharpton and hold him to the same standards to which Fox News has held its hosts.

“Folks, we criticized Hannity when he went to Tea Party rally & was yanked back by Fox,” Kurtz tweeted on Sunday afternoon. “MSNBC should hold Sharpton to same standard at rally.”

Sharpton fanned the flames of racial politics in Sanford on Thursday, and he’s expected to be a part of another rally in the central Florida town on Monday afternoon.

Al Sharpton is desperate to be considered relevant, and racially-oriented rallies are all he has left. If MSNBC pushed the issue I bet he'd quit the network so he could be viewed as a victim and keep running around crying racism wherever he feels it's convenient.

I'm looking forward to the day with both Sharpton and Jesse Jackson are so irrelevant nobody in the media cares what they think about anything.

Post-Racial America Headline of the Day

First this:

Witness: Martin attacked Zimmerman

Read it. A witness who has previously been unmentioned by the press corroborated Zimmerman's story and say Martin was attacking and beating Zimmerman when the shooting occurred. This witness's statements helped convince the police they did not have evidence that would justify a charge.

And this:

'BLACKS ARE UNDER ATTACK'

That statement from Jesse Jackson, and I agree. Blacks are under attack, from Jackson, Al Sharpton and the leaders of the Democrat party who are determined to cling to their power by ensuring black America remains a ward of the state.

Boy Burned in Racial Attack (But He Doesn't Look Like Obama's Son, So Never Mind)

Remember this story from just two weeks ago?

Police are investigating a race hate attack after a 13-year-old boy was doused in gasoline and set on fire. The teenager, who suffered first degree burns to his face and hands, is white and his two attackers black.

His mother, Melissa Coon, said the attackers told her son ‘This is what you deserve. You get what you deserve, white boy’.

He noticed two older boys following him and as he arrived at his home the pair threw gas on him. ‘They rushed him on the porch as he tried to get the door open,’ Mrs Coon told KMBC-TV.

‘[One of them] poured the gasoline, then flicked the Bic, and said, ‘This is what you deserve. You get what you deserve, white boy‘.

I'm currently searching the web for pictures from the rally Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson had for this boy, and for the presidential statement issued by Obama. For some reason I'm having trouble finding them.

Want To Be Outraged By a Senseless Killing? Here's One the Media Will Pretty Much Ignore

This is terribly sad.  I wonder when Al Sharpton will lead a march for these people?

An 85-year-old woman was sexually assaulted and battered to death by a home invader who also shot her 90-year-old husband in the face with a BB gun.

Nancy and Bob Strait, who had celebrated their 65th wedding anniversary in December, were discovered by their daughter at their home in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

 Both the pensioners were rushed to hospital where Mrs Strait, who was nearly blind, died from her injuries.

Mr Strait, who served in the 101st Airborne Division in World War II, suffered a broken jaw, broken ribs and severe bleeding. He is in a serious condition in hospital.

Police have arrested 20-year-old Tyrone Dale David Woodfork in connection with the case.

The Straits' distraught family today paid tribute to the pair, who grew up in poverty in rural Oklahoma during the Great Depression.

They met each other on a blind date on Thanksgiving 1946, married a month later and went on to have six children, 18 grandchildren and about 50 great and great-great grandchildren. They had recently welcomed a great-great-great grandchild.

I found this article in the UK Daily Mail. I don't see any sign of it in the US Media outside of local Oklahoma media. They're too busy joining the lynch mob in Florida.  Oh, and here's a photo of the suspect:

Nope, Al Sharpton isn't going to touch this one.

"The Help" Is An Interesting Contract In the Racism of the Early 60's and Today

I went to see the movie "The Help" yesterday and enjoyed it. It's well done, well cast, and carries a good message. Seeing the racism that was an everyday part of life in the South as late as the early 60's is kind of jarring, especially for those who didn't live it. Personally, it's hard for me to believe that was still going on during my early years, but I know it was.

What kind of jumped out at me as the movie progressed is how disingenuous people like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson are when the claim that America is still a racist country. Both of those guys, along with most members of the Black Congressional Congress, lived that racism of the 50's and 60's first hand. And yet to hear them speak today, you'd think nothing had changed since 1963.

If nothing else, it's worth watching the movie to see what racism really looked like and how far we've come in the past 40 years. When you walk out you'll never listen to anything Jackson, Sharpton, or the Black Congressional Caucus ever says again.

"Racers"

I'm a NASCAR fan, but this time the term "racers" has nothing to do with going fast and turning left.  Well, at least not the going fast part.

We've had some fringe groups called "truthers" and "birthers", and now we can add "racers" to the list.  These are the people who attempt to turn every criticism of Obama or every attempt to cut the budget into an excuse to accuse someone of racism.  The "racers" patron saints are Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, though pretty much every liberal politician or pundit has at one time or another attempted the race card.

I personally like the idea of labeling the problem children on the left this way.  It immediately dilutes their impact and marginalizes their message.   An accusation of racism used to carry a powerful stigma with it.  Not anymore. Today it's more likely a reflection on the accuser than the accused.

Obama's Education Secretary Urged Employees to Attend Sharpton's Rally

Even the urging of Education Secretary Arne Duncan couldn't make people show up for Al Sharpton's "Let's Divide America" rally:

President Obama's top education official urged government employees to attend a rally that the Rev. Al Sharpton organized to counter a larger conservative event on the Mall.

"ED staff are invited to join Secretary Arne Duncan, the Reverend Al Sharpton, and other leaders on Saturday, Aug. 28, for the 'Reclaim the Dream' rally and march," began an internal e-mail sent to more than 4,000 employees of the Department of Education on Wednesday.

Sharpton created the event after Glenn Beck announced a massive Tea Party "Restoring Honor" rally at the Lincoln Memorial, where King spoke in 1963.

The Washington Examiner learned of the e-mail from a Department of Education employee who felt uncomfortable with Duncan's request.

Although the e-mail does not violate the Hatch Act, which forbids federal employees from participating in political campaigns, Education Department workers should feel uneasy, said David Boaz, executive vice president of the libertarian Cato Institute.

"It sends a signal that activity on behalf of one side of a political debate is expected within a department. It's highly inappropriate ... even in the absence of a direct threat," Boaz said. "If we think of a Bush cabinet official sending an e-mail to civil servants asking them to attend a Glenn Beck rally, there would be a lot of outrage over that."

I'll vote for the first Republican presidential candidate to vows to eliminate the Education Department. It does nothing but suck up taxes and promote socialism.

Beck Expects 300,000, Sharpton Expects 3,000

UPDATE 8/28:  Beck got his 300,000+ and Sharpton got about 3,000.

A tale of two rallies:

“The National Park Service said Thursday that it has approved the permit for the Aug. 28 Glenn Beck/Sarah Palin rally at the Lincoln Memorial. Park Service spokesman Bill Line said the permit indicates that organizers expect 300,000 people to attend. Line said it is a fixed rally without a march. The rally will go from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. The park service is processing a permit request for a counter demonstration and rally by the Rev. Al Sharpton on the same day along Independence Avenue, south of the memorial. Line said the Sharpton rally organizers list 3,000 expected attendees on their permit request.”

Boy would I love to go to that rally at the Lincoln Memorial. That's gonna be something.

By the way, in case you hadn't heard why Rev. Al has his drawers in a wad over this, August 28th is the anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech which was held at the same location. Apparently white people aren't allowed to rally on that day at that site.

NAALCP: Tea Parties Are RACIST!

The National Association for the Advancement of Liberal Colored People is about to have their annual klan meeting convention and they're planning to pass a resolution condemning the mythical racism of the Tea Party movement:

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People will propose a resolution this week condemning racism within the tea party movement.

The resolution, scheduled for a vote as early as Tuesday by delegates attending the annual NAACP convention in Kansas City, calls upon “all people of good will to repudiate the racism of the Tea Parties, and to stand in opposition to its drive to push our country back to the pre-civil rights era.”

NAACP leaders said the resolution was necessary to make people aware of what they believe is a racist element within the tea party movement.

“I think a lot of people are not taking the tea party movement seriously, and we need to take it seriously,” said Anita Russell, head of the Kansas City chapter of the NAACP. “We need to realize it’s really not about limited government.”

Russell said she was “pretty certain” the resolution would pass.

In reality the NAACP would have a hard time today finding anything more racist than their own name. And, or course, they see no racism with the Congressional Black Caucus which expressly forbids white members.

This once respected organization has become a joke, much like the Al Sharptons and Jesse Jacksons of the civil rights world who long ago lost their moral high ground.

Political Quote of the Day

From Rev. Al Sharpton (from Gateway Pundit):

Last month Al Sharpton claimed, “Americans overwhelmingly voted for socialism when they elected Barack Obama.”
On Sunday the Democratic Leader stuck to his socialist theme. Sharpton told a congregation in Connecticut,“The dream was to make everything equal in everybody’s house”
So, can we call them socialists now?

I'll bet the Rev. Al has more cool stuff in his house than I have in mine. Can I just go over there and "equal" things up?

And as I recall the dream was that people would be judged "by the content of their character and not by the color of their skin".  Somewhere the dream was turned into a socialist nightmare.

Of Course, Arizona's Immigration Law Is Just Like Nazis

Well, Al Sharpton has now officially lost the argument:

New York activists, including the Rev. Al Sharpton, compared Arizona’s new immigration law to apartheid, Nazi Germany and the Jim Crow South – and vowed to shut it down with mass protests.

“We will bring Freedom Walkers to Arizona just like Freedom Riders went to the deep south 50 years ago,” Sharpton said yesterday.

Standing with local clergy, elected officials and a leader of the Hispanic Federation, Sharpton said he would mobilize people from across the country to march in Arizona – and get arrested, if necessary – to stop the controversial new law.

“We cannot sit by and allow people to be arbitrarily and unilaterally picked off as suspects because of the color of their skin,” Sharpton said.

Enforcing the law is now racism. Amazing.

Racial Harmony Video of the Day

Sometimes it's hard to tell the race hustlers apart. Just look at the reaction on Jesse Jackson as he's introduced on MSNBC as Al Sharpton:

Al Sharpton's Big Mistake

Possibly not his biggest, but it could turn out to be his most expensive. Rush Limbaugh mentioned Sharpton in his column today and now Sharpton is threatening to sue (h/t Dan Riehl):

From Rush Limbaugh's WSJ item:

It didn't take long before my name was selectively leaked to the media as part of the Checketts investment group. Shortly thereafter, the media elicited comments from the likes of Al Sharpton. In 1998 Mr. Sharpton was found guilty of defamation and ordered to pay $65,000 for falsely accusing a New York prosecutor of rape in the 1987 Tawana Brawley case. He also played a leading role in the 1991 Crown Heights riot (he called neighborhood Jews "diamond merchants") and 1995 Freddie's Fashion Mart riot

From Reverend Al Not So Slim Shady:

WASHINGTON (CNN)– Reverend Al Sharpton and his lawyers say they are preparing to file a defamation lawsuit against conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh for an op-ed published Saturday, which Sharpton alleges "erroneously" characterizes his (Sharpton's) role in a string of violent incidents in New York in the early 90's.

In the op-ed published in Saturday's Wall Street Journal Limbaugh writes Sharpton "played a leading role in the 1991 Crown Heights riot (he called neighborhood Jews ‘diamond merchants’) and 1995 Freddie's Fashion Mart riot."

As soon as I read that Sharpton was threatening a lawsuit the phrase "rope-a-dope" came to mind. Ann Althouse is of the same opinion:

I think Limbaugh was baiting Sharpton. Sharpton now has to talk about those old riots and the way he acted back then. If he sues, it will draw intense attention to the details of what happened, and we'll have to debate about the precise language Limbaugh used and how close to accurate it was. The question of the damage to Sharpton's reputation will be put in issue, and there will be discovery and factfinding relating to Sharpton's reputation and how much money it is worth. That's pretty risky for Sharpton, who likes to pose as an elder statesman nowadays. Meanwhile, Limbaugh, who may not want to begin any litigation, will have the opportunity to counterclaim, accusing Sharpton of defamation.

Look out, Reverend Al, it's a trap!

I can pretty much guarantee you that Limbaugh's response will be "bring it on, fat boy". Pop some popcorn and pull up a chair, it's gonna get good.

The Race-Baiters Ride Again

Once again Rush Limbaugh gives Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson a reason to live:

The Revs. Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson attacked the bid by Rush Limbaugh to buy the St. Louis Rams on Monday, saying the conservative radio host's track record on race should exclude him from owning an NFL team.

Sharpton sent a letter to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, arguing that Limbaugh has been divisive and "anti-NFL" in some of his comments.

Jackson said in a telephone interview that Limbaugh had made his wealth "appealing to the fears of whites" with an unending line of insults against blacks and other minorities.

"The National Football League has set high standards for racial justice and inclusion," Jackson said. "He should not have the privilege of owning an NFL franchise — and it is a privilege." The civil rights leader said he's had contact with numerous players and ex-players concerned about the bid.

Limbaugh shot back at Sharpton on his radio show.

"Now, this saddens me as well this disappoints me," he said. "I know Rev. Sharpton. Sharpton is better than this. He knows better than this. You know, I didn't judge Al Sharpton's fitness to be in radio when he wanted to earn an honest living for once, given his well-documented past as the author of the Tawana Brawley hoax. I believe in freedom and I also don't discriminate."

Do you want to know about Rush's real history of discrimination? James Golden, otherwise known as Rush Limbaugh's long-time producer and call screener "Bo Snerdley", is black. Golden has worked for Limbaugh for years and years and is the guy responsible to deciding who gets on the air. It's a huge responsibility for such a major show.

I've listened to Rush since probably 1991. He is not in any way a racist. If I thought he was a racist I wouldn't listen to him. He doesn't like the racial politics of people like Sharpton and Jackson and he's not afraid to blast them, but he is no racist.

He's also a huge fan of NFL football, and given that the league has a large percentage of black players, it's the height of silliness to suggest he's unfit for ownership because of racism. A racist wouldn't want anything to do with that sport, let alone have an ownership position where he's responsible for paying millions of dollars to black athletes.

Sharpton and Jackson need a reason to get their race-baiting mugs on TV. This is it.

(Rush-Rams logo from Gateway Pundit.)

The Fear of Being Called "Racist" Does More Damage These Days Than Actual Racism

There was a time when racism was a real problem in this country. Public officials (mostly Democrat) standing in doorways blocking access to black students, acts of violence against minorities, prejudice in a lot of different forms making the American dream difficult if not impossible for some of our citizens.

However, that day is passed. Acts of actual, bonafide racism are few and far between in this country. At least, racism as we used to know it. There is still racism, but it's coming from those who would cloak themselves in its mantle and declare themselves victims.

Today the fear of being called "racist" is doing more harm than actual racism.

It was the fear of being called "racist" that gave us the New Haven, CT firefighter case in which a test was thrown out because minorities didn't score well enough for liberal city officials. And it was the fear of being called "racist" that kept Republican Senators from properly attacking the credentials of Judge Sonia Sotomayor, whose own words and writings have all the hallmarks of being racist and sexist.

And now it's the fear of being called "racist" which compels the city of Cambridge, MA to turn its back on one of its finest police officers because he dared to arrest a black man who broke into a house, refused to identify himself, and created a disturbance - while screaming that he was the victim of racism, of course. The city has offered an apology, but it's the racist Harvard professor who ought to be apologizing (read the police report).

And the list goes on. The City of Los Angeles didn't dare ask for remuneration for the huge costs of police protection and city services for the Michael Jackson funeral out of fear the black community would call them "racist".

Affirmative Action programs punish achievement and reward less qualified people simple because of the color of their skin. How does that help us achieve racial harmony when one group is discriminated against in favor of another?

The "War on Poverty", which was supposed to help us atone for past racial sins, has thrown trillions of dollars at the problem and accomplished absolutely nothing...except the destruction of the black family by replacing fathers with government checks. Today more than 70% of black kids are born out of wedlock and gang members replace father figures in young people's lives.

City leaders nationwide live in fear that something that happens in their communities will bring Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson and their media hounds to town to decry whatever mysterious "racism" might have occurred. Business leaders used to fear Mike Wallace and the 60 Minutes crew. They'd gladly take Wallace over the extortion offered by Jackson and Sharpton these days.

And while all this is going on, the first black president of the U.S., the man who promised us a post-racial America, just feeds the hysteria and deepens the divide. There's nothing post-racial about Barack Obama. He is a product of his past mentors, and it's a sordid collection of twisted minds that shaped his earlier years.

Martin Luther King Jr. dreamed of a country in which people would be judged by the content of their character and not the color of their skin.

It'll never happen.

Not because racism against minorities will never go away - it's largely gone - but because there are people who make their living creating racial strife and disharmony. Complicit with them are those in positions of power, either in politics or the media, who don't have the guts to call them on it out of fear they'll be called "racist" too.

Or perhaps, because they too are benefitting from the manufactured strife.

It's a real shame. America should be better than this.

The Second Autopsy

Here's how you make sure you get the results you want:

The Jackson family has hired a private pathologist who completed a second autopsy on the performer's body today, according to sources familiar with the case.

The second autopsy came a day after an initial examination by the L.A. County coroner’s office did not immediately determine a cause of death. Officials said additional lab tests, including a toxicology screen, were required to uncover why the 50-year-old pop starwent into cardiac arrest in his rented Holmby Hills mansion Thursday.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, who visited the performer’s family Friday, said in a “Good Morning America” interview today that his relatives had a host of questions about the circumstances of his death. He indicated the key area of concern had to do with Jackson’s personal physician, Dr. Conrad Murray, who was by his side when he stopped breathing.

"When did the doctor come? What did he do? Did he inject him? If so, with what?" Jackson said. "Was he on the scene twice? Before and then reaction to? Did he use the Demerol? It's a very powerful drug. Was he injected once? Was he injected twice?"

I have a comment, but it's pretty well summed up by my buddy Dale from Texas who sent me his thoughts:

Jackson family gets private autopsy after official, county autopsy. I predict this is so they can then dispute the findings of the county coroner. Jackson most likely died of some type of drug influence, the Jackson camp will spin this thing to make him look better. Also, they may try to pin the abundance of drugs that will me found in Jackson's body on the good Doctor, so as to make MJ appear as the poor victim, rather than the broken, drug addicted, wacko (regretfully) he was...

Yep.

A couple of other interesting things are going on. Notice how fast Jesse Jackson tried to jump in front of this parade? And the news is reporting that Al Sharpton says the family wants to organize a series of memorials to take place all around the world. Why would Jesse and Al be involved in this case? There's no racial angle that I can see (both Jackson and the doctor were black). I'm guessing both are seeing a wonderful opportunity for free publicity, not to mention the possibility of raking in a fortune on the memorial to come.

I wonder if one of these days soon we'll hear that Jesse and Al got into a wrestling match in the driveway of the Jackson compound in Encino over who is going to give the featured eulogy at the memorial services.

The whole thing is sure to be a circus before it's all over.

You might want to read this article too. There's some pretty interesting background on Jackson's last few years that I haven't heard in the mainstream press.

The Somali "Voluntary Coast Guards"

How's this for a creative description - from Al Sharpton's radio show (h/t Radio Equalizer):

SHARPTON (12:08): You can call me now at 1 877 532 5797, (to say) something about the so-called pirates. They call themselves voluntary Coast Guards in Somalia, which may be more apt.

That's sort of like calling bank robbers "voluntary financial institution examiners".