A Difference

While the offices aren't quite on the same level, it is noteworthy to see how the press covered the nomination and subsequent election of Barack Obama and the insurgent recall candidacy of California governor hopeful Larry Elder.

I'm 2007 the press hammered home that Obama was the first black candidate from a major political party. Never mind that Alan Keyes ran for the Republican nomination in 1996, 2000, and 2008. Obama was a first when he accepted the nomination back in 2008. In rereading some of the coverage from that time, and especially on the day he was nominated, it was quite obvious the media was over the moon.

Humans: Divided by Race

We are more deeply divided by race than we have been in 60 years. I firmly believe we had nearly achieved MLKs dream. Then something happened along the way.

Is it really your most sincere desire to see that your grandchildren are judged, firstly, by the color of their skin or gender, and a distant second by their character? That is the path that BLM and CRT are taking us. They insist that we divide and sequester ourselves by skin tone and wedding tackle. Doing so only contributes to dividing us further and deeper apart. I don't know WHY you can't see this. 

Kenosha

 The events leading up to the shooting of Jacob Blake.

This information was released by the Kenosha Professional Police Association.

The officers were dispatched to the location due to a complaint that Mr. Blake was attempting to steal the caller's keys/vehicle.

Officers were aware of Mr. Blake's open warrant for felony sexual assault (3rd degree) before they arrived on scene. 

My Thoughts on George Floyd

George Floyd, while not on the straight and narrow, did not deserve to die. Especially in the manner in which his life was taken.

That being said, the whole "Let's burn down a bunch of inner cities" narrative and actions is just beyond stupid. The entire country saw what happened to Mr. Floyd and condemned it with no hesitation or quantifiers. We all knew Floyd was being arrested for committing a crime, but we didn't care about that. His murder was unjustifiable, plain and simple. When the riots and looting happened, all that support dried up. While his murder was completely unjustified, it should not be used as an excuse to loot, piliage, and kill like a bunch of Vikings invading Northumbria.

Retraction? Not Likely

Through my e-mail I receive "cheat sheets" from various news organizations filled with links from around the web. As you might imagine, most of them are from the conservative side of the spectrum. But in order to keep a pulse of the left side of the aisle I also receive these daily updates from a few left-leaning organizations.

One of those is the Daily Beast. Oh, they try to pass themselves off as a balanced purveyor of news tidbits, but all one has to do is read what they send and it doesn't take too long to figure their objectives and agenda.

The other day the Daily Beast provided a link to a news story at USA Today about how a woman, in Louisiana, who happened to be black, was set on fire and her car deface with "KKK" on the hood. This woman receive burns over 60% of her body. A real tragedy. It didn't take long for the race hustlers to let loose with cries of racism, targeted mostly at the Tea Party and those who beleive in limited government and would like Preisdent Obama to be a one-termer.
 

What is Going On?

NOTE: This post is going to raise some hackles. It is related to race relations, but it is not from the perspective that you are used to. And if you are a racist looking for a place to spew your hate, you have come to the wrong place. If you want to post a comment, go ahead, I will just delete it. Or better yet, I'll post it just so others can see how ignorant you are.

So, do you suppose that Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and the NAACP will speak about what has just happened in Montgomery AL? It seems that a crowd of black men beat a white man senseless, beating him so badly that he was admitted to the hospital in critical condition. After the beating ended a witness said that she heard one of the assailants say "Now that's justice for Trayvon," referring to the teenage boy shot and killed in Fla this past winter.

I doubt very seriously this is going to make the nightly news on any of the major networks nor will it see the front page of any major newspaper.

I don't know if it just me but it seems like race-relations are deteriorating at a rate that concerns me. Over the past several years there have been several cases of crimes against another race and it seems like those cases are on the rise. In recent weeks we have seen an uptick in actual and threatened black on white violence. The incident in Montgomery is just the latest, triggered, in part, by the Trayvon Martin tragedy.

None of my liberal readers will be surprised that I lay the blame for this deterioration squarely at Obama's feet. When he did not order the Justice Department to go after the Black Panthers for illegally putting a bounty the individual who is now charged with killing Trayvon, it had to have sent a signal to the more radical elements with in the black community that it was OK to target those who they felt had done them wrong. There have been other incidents during this administration that has emboldened the more radical element in the black community to strike out, sometimes with violence. Think back about the events surrounding the "beer summit" and the dismissal of voter harassment charges against the Black Panthers.

I know first hand that there is a segment of society, black, white and Latino, where there is a festering sore of racism.

Several years ago I was attending a professional development course in Shreveport, LA. There is no way one could miss the simmering tensions between blacks and whites. Twice during my six week stay I witness it first hand. And it was not white racism towards black, but the other way around.

In my first few days there I was playing in a softball game. The team I played for was made up of all Air Force members. Most of us were white, but we did have about four blacks. The team we were facing was entirely black. During the game I never even gave the make up of the teams any thought at all. That soon changed. At the conclusion of the game I headed over to the dugout of the opposing team to shake their hands, as has been customary in any softball league I have ever played in, whether it be the local "beer league" or a highly competitive traveling team. As I approached the dugout one of the players looked up at me and said "What the F**K do you want white boy?" Other players joined in with the name calling and veiled threats. I just turned around and headed back to my dugout. One of my teammates basically told me that teams that are not diverse don't shake hands.

The other incident occurred towards the tail end of my six weeks. For anyone who is a college football fan, Eddie Robinson is a name that stands among the legends of college football coaches. For nearly his entire career, Robinson coached at Grambling State University, a traditionally black school. He was bringing his Grambling State Tigers into Shreveport to play NW LA Tech. I couldn't pass up a chance to see a legend in action, especially since it looked like his career was coming to a close. So I gather up a few friends and we went. Or should I say attempted to go. When one of my friends (who was also white) and I were crossing the parking lot, the level of hatred directed towards us had me utterly baffled, and frankly, quite scared. Scared is a normally reaction when receiving threats of violence if we attempted to enter the stadium. Needless to say, I did not get a chance to see the game.

I make these points to show my readers who might not be aware, that racism runs both ways. There is no question that racism from whites towards others does exist; I acknowledge that. But it also runs in the opposite direction and to ignore it or to say it isn't possible is just the wrong attitude. But the media does not cover it to any degree. It is not part of the progressive narrative to show that a racist attitude has nothing to do with your skin color. You don't have to be white to be a racist.

I have no desire to further drive a wedge that will continue to separate us along racial lines, I'll leave that to Obama and his Justice Department. I just wanted my readers to be aware that we need to recognize that unless something is done soon, relations are going to pass a point where the damage to to great to repair. I personnally don't ever want to reach that stage.

And They Call Conservatives Racist

As many of you are aware, the left has beaten the drum about how racist and bigoted folks in the Tea Party, conservatives and Republicans are. Maybe they need to take a deeper look at their own party. The video at this link provided is a must see.

Normally I would embed the video, but the language is quite strong.

If there are any liberal or progressives readers of this blog, could you explain why folks who have a conservative leaning in their politics are routinely blanketed with the racist charge yet when one of their own goes on a tirade like this, no one calls them on the carpet.

Cain Stands Tall

According to MSNBC, Martin Bashir, and democrat strategist Karen Finney those of who are conservative and are supporting Herman Cain (or leaning that direction such as myself) are using Cain to make us feel better about our supposed racist views.

“One of the things about Herman Cain is, I think that he makes that white Republican base of the party feel okay, feel like they are not racist because they can like this guy,” Finney said. “I think he’s giving that base a free pass. And I think they like him because they think he’s a black man who knows his place. I know that’s harsh, but that’s how it sure seems to me.”

“Thank you for spelling that out,” Bashir responded. (Source: Weekly Standard)

Of course we feel good about Cain. He stands for nearly all that we stand for. He is fiscally conservative, he wants to seriously revamp an unfair tax system, he has socially conservative views, and he just also happens to me an all around nice guy (seems that way).

And I will agree that he knows his place, as he should. His place is at the front of the conservative movement, right besides the likes of Michelle Bachmann, Sarah Palin, Rep Paul Ryan, and others who are fighting to save this country for progressives like Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, and those in the Occupy Wall Street movement.

Rep West Threatens to Quit Congressional BC

Why Lt Col West joined the Black Caucus is beyond me. I think he should quit. From everything that I have read and heard, other than skin tone, he has nothing in common with any of the other members. After Rep Waters said "the Tea Party can go straight to hell" and Rep Carson said Tea Party Members want to see blacks "hanging on a tree" West has no busniess associating with these uncivil individuals.

Tucson Schools Superintendent Takes Easy Road

This dude is a coward, plain and simple. The superintendent of the Tucson Unified School District, who had planned to make the radical and anti-American Mexican-American Studies an elective rather than a required course, has caved to far-left protesters.  Here is Glenn Beck’s take on the issue.

KOLD, a local Tucson TV station, has a slightly different perspective, calling Superintendent John Pedicone’s change of position “reaching out to Ethnic Studies supporters…”

There comes a point in time when the right thing must be done and in the case of this issue, the class needs to be eliminated as a requirement for graduation. If it must be made as a requirement, then there should be equal time other "blank" Studies. Why not a African-American studies class, or a American Woman’s class, or a White American Studies class, or an American Indian studies?  Heck, each has contributed to the success of this nation. Why must there be a focus on only Mexican-Americans?

DOJ to Investigate the Seattle PD

This is not going to go well.  The Department of Justice (DOJ) is going to look into the Seattle PD’s “use of force practices, including treatment of minorities”.

Don’t misunderstand me; if a police department has a history of excessive force, especially against minorities, then investigations need to happen. But having the politically charged DOJ look into issues involving minorities is not going to go well. The racially charged issues at the DOJ are well documented here and here.

According to the article in the Seattle Times, the Seattle PD just might have some problems that need looking into.  Here is some recent history:

Sutherland Thinks We are A Racist Countty

Responding to a question about racism that is depicted the play he stars in, “That Championship Season”, Kiefer Sutherlund said, “Racism is woven into the fabric of America.” (“The View”, 21 Mar 2011). What an incredibly asinine thing to say.  Of course, most of the panel agreed with him whole-heartedly and did nothing to question his statement. To go along with his charges he provided no backup or examples, just a blanket statement.

He went on to say that the play also shows how racism is a family thing passed from father to son and grandfather to grandson. I didn’t stick around long enough to hear whether Sutherland or Joy(less) Behar went on to attack the Tea Party as examples of racism in America.

College Scholarship for White Males Only?

This is going to raise some eyebrows and temperatures. Jesse Jackson is going to pee himself.

Will the MSM Highlight this?

And the left calls us conservatives racists. Morgan Freeman for President and Mike Wallace for El Stupido.

MLK, Then and Now

Today is the day we celebrate the birth of a very brave man. A man who stood up to challenge the status quo. To end the systematical and entrenched policy of treating full citizens of the USA as second class citizens. While he was not solely responsible for bringing about changes to civil rights in the this country, he was the face and the voice of the movement.

On a day to celebrate what is good about America, CNN chose to run an article to show how bad things are by comparing today’s political rhetoric to the atmosphere prior and during the civil rights movement. In the first few sentences CNN writes:

“Casey Hayden knows something about hate. She’s seen how hateful words can cause people to demonize their political foes, grab guns and commit murder. She’s a survivor of one the most brutal episodes of the civil rights movement. Long before the January 8 shootings in Tucson, Arizona, sparked debate about the role of heated rhetoric, Hayden and other civil rights veterans worried about the nations recent political tone – and what it might wreak.”

This article really does the whole civil right movement a disservice by attempting to relate the political climate today to how things were back then. While I did not live through that period of our history, one only needs to read history to see how different the environment really is. Today, we don’t have members of one side of the debate dying at the hands of the other side of the debate. We don’t have National Guard troops having to protect the rights of the minority. We don’t have protesters being knocked down by water cannons.

Bruce Harford, a member of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, “said it’s virtually inevitable that rapid social changes in America – electing the first black President, the influx of Latino immigrants – will be accompanied by violence”