A libertarian pipe dream, as long as we have the demorats, the republicants and the race pimps in the spotlight.
Not sure to the exact source of this, but pretty to the point and along the same subject:
Hello. Don’t recognize me? That’s OK; I understand.
My name was Antonio West. I was the 13-month old child who was shot in the face at point blank range by two black teens, who were attempting to rob my mother, who was also shot.
I think my murder and my mommy’s wounding made the news for maybe a day, and then disappeared.
A Grand Jury of my mommy’s peers from Brunswick, Georgia ruled the black teens who murdered me will not face the death penalty… too bad it was me who got the death sentence from my killers instead, because Mommy didn’t have the money they demanded.
See, my family made the mistake of being white in a 73% non-white neighborhood, but my murder wasn’t ruled a ‘hate crime’.
Oh, and President Obama didn’t take a single moment to acknowledge my murder. He couldn’t have any children who could possibly look like me - so why should he care?
I’m one of the youngest murder victims in our great Nation’s history, but the media didn’t care to cover the story of my being killed in cold blood.
There isn’t a white equivalent of Al Sharpton, because if there was he would be branded a ‘racist’. So no one’s rushing to Brunswick, Georgia to demonstrate and demand ‘justice’ for me. There’s no ‘White Panther’ party, either, to put a bounty on the lives of the two black teens who murdered me.
I have no voice, I have no representation, and unlike those who shot me in the face while I sat innocently in my stroller - I no longer have my life.
Isn’t this a great country?
So while you’re out seeking ‘justice for Trayvon’, please remember to seek ‘justice’ for me. Tell your friends about me, tell you families, get tee-shirts with my face on them, and make the world pay attention, just like you did for Trayvon.
I won’t hold my breath.
I don’t have to anymore.
Great post.
Can’t take credit for it. It’s on the Facebook page for the child that was killed so I don’t know the original source.
Touching to say the least.
I understand that. Should have said thanks for bringing it to our attention I suppose. Not on Facebook anymore or I’d add some support for the page.
This, and Moose’s post, is just a bunch of common sense. What place does THAT have in American Society anymore? :rolleyes:
Just being respectful human beings is a pipedream. PERIOD. Political ideology has nothing to do with it. All people are 2 legged animals plain and simple. Some are capable of getting along nicely with others while others are not. NEVER has there been and time nor will there EVER be a time when we are all respectful human beings.
Doesn’t help that we seem hell bent on propping up the malcontents in favor of the respectful ones.
Tip of the Iceberg I’m afraid. Here’s one of my personal favorites:
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2013/07/jesse-jackson-calls-for-un-to-investigate-america/
Jesse Jackson Calls For UN to Investigate America
Posted by Jim Hoft on Wednesday, July 17, 2013, 7:14 PM
Good grief.
Jesse Jackson called on the United Nations to investigate America following the George Zimmerman verdict.
From Jesse’s column at the Rainbow PUSH Coalition.
If Trayvon Martin were not a young black male, he would be alive today. Despite the verdict, it’s clear that George Zimmerman would never have confronted a young white man wearing a hoodie. He would, at the very least, have listened to the cops and stayed back. Trayvon Martin is dead because Zimmerman believed that “these guys always get away” and chose not to wait for the police.
Trayvon Martin’s death shatters the convenient myths that blind us to reality. That reality, as the Chicago Sun-Times editorial board wrote, is that “black men carry a special burden from the day they are born.”
Both the prosecutor and the defense claimed that the trial was not about race. But Trayvon Martin was assumed to be threatening just for walking while being young, black and male.
That is the reality that can no longer be ignored. Through the years, gruesome horrors — the murder of Emmitt Till, the shooting of Medgar Evers in his front yard — have galvanized African Americans and public action on civil rights. Trayvon Martin’s death should do the same.
What it dramatizes is what Michelle Alexander calls “the New Jim Crow.” Segregation is illegal; scurrilous racism unacceptable. But mass incarceration and a racially biased criminal justice system have served many of the same functions. Since 1970, we’ve witnessed a 600 percent increase in the number of people behind bars, overwhelmingly due to the war on drugs. Those imprisoned are disproportionately African Americans. The U.S. now imprisons a greater percentage of its black population than South Africa did at the height of apartheid…
…There are three possible reactions to this reality. African Americans can adjust to it, teaching their children how to survive against the odds. We can resent it, seething in suppressed fury until we can’t stand it anymore. Or we can resist, assert our rights to equal protection under the laws, and challenge openly the new reality.
We need a national investigation of the racial context that led to Trayvon Martin’s slaying. Congress must act. And it’s time to call on the United Nations Human Rights Commission for an in-depth investigation of whether the U.S. is upholding its obligations under international human rights laws and treaties. Trayvon Martin’s death demands much more than a jury’s verdict on George Zimmerman. It calls for us to hear the evidence and render a verdict on the racial reality that never had its day in court at the trial.
The words “savage hypocrisy” come to mind.
100% agreed. That can be rationalized in anyway with those that want to take away liberty and freedom in the name of safety, ie. gun control, etc.
Well, your “issue” is the NAACP and the Black Caucus.
If you’re not a Socialist philosophically you are not welcome to either.
I despise both but you’re wise to pay some attention to what comes out of their meetings. I typically do.
The problem is convincing other Blacks that neither of these organizations serve their best interests. The Black Caucus does nothing as far as I can tell but the NAACP seems to do more harm than good in my opinion. Of course, one must follow the money in any organization and when you do the NAACP is NOT a Black organization. - and never was. That’s documented history but many educated Blacks - like many educated Americans - don’t do much independent investigation.
I recall passing on 14 free NAACP Black Tie function tickets while in Detroit. And every year I’d give the same explanation and receive the same blank stares from my so-called “peers”.
Not that many seem to really get it here, either, so I’ll just carry on.
Later.
“One cannot awaken a man who pretends to be asleep.”
I think the larger problem is getting blacks to understand they aren’t black. Of course then we’d have to explain to everyone why race doesn’t even really exist and then everyone would be confused and it would probably start some kind of race war.
But it’s so much easier when the teams are wearing their appropriately “colored” jerseys. :rolleyes:
TXBK does not have the post count to share in GD so he forwarded me this . . .
42 Year-old NY Man Shoots, Kills 17 Year-old Child In Self Defense, and Is Acquitted
I am getting tired of hearing about 17 year-old “children”. The enlistment age in the United States Military is 17 with parental consent.
It’s like the N word…it’s ok if they call each other that but that’s their word and we can’t use it.
Great article.
My opinion, is that most blacks need to stop thinking about themselves as victims, then reinvigorate a self starting entrepreneurial spirit that Democratic policies and Entitlements have sapped from that demographic. Running your own business and calling your own shots, is empowering. It would also go a long way to get all of us to think of each other as simply human beings. I have friends from many countries and on almost every continent. I don’t think of them in terms of color, but of culture. I simply see people as good, bad, or convolutedly fucked in the head.
How to stop the race issue and regain control of government in four easy steps:
Stop talking about race, to the point of classifying it as hate speech. This alone will shut down the national level race baiters.
Hold people accountable for their actions, based on evidence or performance alone, no one gets a pass.
Get rid of political correctness.
Establish a special court and watchdog organization, specifically designed to monitor elected officials, then charge them unmercilessly with treason and violating their Oath of Office if found guilty…then send them to jail, 10 to life.
See, that was easy.
It’s actually even easier.
Remove all racial classifiers and qualifiers from every law and area of public life and start classifying people as people.
When people stop defining themselves along what has been deemed “black” they might suddenly find themselves emancipated from all kinds of bullshit.
This is a good read. Thanks to TXBK.
You know it does seem odd however that in NY he was able to justify shooting someone over theft outside his home without his life having been immanently threatened. A big no-no here in NJ.
No kidding? Last time I checked, our prison system isn’t overrun with pretty white females…And I’m quite sure the description of whoever was committing the crimes in Zimmerman’s neighborhood was not a “pretty white female”.