Obama is his own favorite subject (text of today’s remarks)
But I did want to just talk a little bit about context and how people have responded to it and how people are feeling.
You know, when Trayvon Martin was first shot I said that this could have been my son. Another way of saying that is Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago. And when you think about why, in the African American community at least, there’s a lot of pain around what happened here, I think it’s important to recognize that the African American community is looking at this issue through a set of experiences and a history that doesn’t go away.
There are very few African American men in this country who haven’t had the experience of being followed when they were shopping in a department store. That includes me. There are very few African American men who haven’t had the experience of walking across the street and hearing the locks click on the doors of cars. That happens to me — at least before I was a senator. There are very few African Americans who haven’t had the experience of getting on an elevator and a woman clutching her purse nervously and holding her breath until she had a chance to get off. That happens often. […]
Now, this isn’t to say that the African American community is naïve about the fact that African American young men are disproportionately involved in the criminal justice system; that they’re disproportionately both victims and perpetrators of violence. It’s not to make excuses for that fact — although black folks do interpret the reasons for that in a historical context. They understand that some of the violence that takes place in poor black neighborhoods around the country is born out of a very violent past in this country, and that the poverty and dysfunction that we see in those communities can be traced to a very difficult history.
And so the fact that sometimes that’s unacknowledged adds to the frustration. And the fact that a lot of African American boys are painted with a broad brush and the excuse is given, well, there are these statistics out there that show that African American boys are more violent — using that as an excuse to then see sons treated differently causes pain.
In other words, when it comes to the African-American community, let’s not only indulge their feelings, warranted or not, but divert attention in a “SQUIRREL!” moment by saying blacks are incapable of moving beyond their history so SHUT UP.
But they get frustrated, I think, if they feel that there’s no context for it and that context is being denied. And that all contributes I think to a sense that if a white male teen was involved in the same kind of scenario, that, from top to bottom, both the outcome and the aftermath might have been different.
Really? Obama is not that stupid so there must be another angle outside the Feds using process to punish Zimmerman and his family …
Traditionally, these are issues of state and local government, the criminal code. And law enforcement is traditionally done at the state and local levels, not at the federal levels.
That doesn’t mean, though, that as a nation we can’t do some things that I think would be productive
Ruh-roh
Number one, precisely because law enforcement is often determined at the state and local level, I think it would be productive for the Justice Department, governors, mayors to work with law enforcement about training at the state and local levels […]
[T]hat’s one area where I think there are a lot of resources and best practices that could be brought to bear if state and local governments are receptive. And I think a lot of them would be. And let’s figure out are there ways for us to push out that kind of training. […]
I know that there’s been commentary about the fact that the “stand your ground” laws in Florida were not used as a defense in the case. On the other hand, if we’re sending a message as a society in our communities that someone who is armed potentially has the right to use those firearms even if there’s a way for them to exit from a situation, is that really going to be contributing to the kind of peace and security and order that we’d like to see?
As usual, there is a great deal more blather padding out these remarks, but Obama is trying to turn this “crisis” into yet another opportunity for the Federal government to moot state and local government and make citizens dependent on The State for their every need.
Or else.
Time to move forward to the People’s Republic of America.
choom has spoken
Maybe young blacks should quite acting like a bunch of fucking thugs and dressing like they just got out of jail. Learning to actually speak English would be key to securing gainful employment, as well. Maybe as our first (and hopefully last) affirmative action president, Barry should mention this often instead of making excuses.
“Another way of saying that is Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago.”
Would that have been when you were going to the $20K/year private prep school in Hawaii, Barry?
I hate it when this fuckstick starts acting “street”. Ritzy neighborhood in Jakarta->ritzy neighborhood in Hawaii->Columbia->Harvard. It’s the typical “thug life” biography, to be sure.
“Learning to actually speak English would be key to securing gainful employment, as well.”
Not naming your kids made-up bullshit like “Trayvon” would be a good start, too.
Funny he didn’t mention the 72 people who were shot in Chicago just over the Fourth of July weekend, many of whom were just as young, just as black, and just as thuggish as Trayvon.
Mark Levin: “Obama has been Lincoln, FDR, Ronald Reagan & now Trayvon Martin…”
Every day in the skyway, I walk past any number of young black men dressed in shirts & ties, or business casual attire, heading to or from the office or the food court. I pass a number of other black men in uniform: building security, UPS, St. Paul Police, building maintenance — each heading purposefully to his next duty (or the doughnut shop).
I also pass a number of young black men dressed as thugs, with lots of showy jewelry and brand-name accessories and really stupid tattoos and grilles, hanging around or wandering aimlessly, playing obnoxious hip-hop at full volume on their little cell phone speakers or else shouting into the phones, saying stuff like, “YO, TELL THAT NIGGA IF HE DON’ GOTS MY MONEY I GONNA BUS’ HIS MUTHAFUCKIN GRILL, YO!” or words to that effect.
If I look on one group with suspicion, and not the others, can I claim credit as merely part-racist?
Hannity Hammers NAACP: Name One Person Killed In Chicago During Zimmerman Trial
Having been a teenager myself, many moons ago, a very Aryan looking teenage girl in fact, I submit that allteens are suspect when in department stores. The reason being that they are responsible for most of the shoplifting that takes place. Of course theft officers/floor walkers are going to follow them throughout the store.
I never stole a thing and I got stopped and challenged by floor walkers at least twice before I got out of high school. Color has nothing to do with it.
Squid, when I was in grad school, I had to park my car in a very large parking structure that had no security. It was a dilemma every night after classes let out as to whether to chance the elevators or the stairs. The elevators were a trap if you had no classmates with you and the stairwells were a place for the neighborhood thugs to hang out, smoke blunts, drink and hoot at females.
I also had to remind myself that quite a few of my classmates were of the same hue as these losers in the stairwells and they were treated like traitors by those who were “keepin’ it real, yo”.
Adapted from a point made by John Nolte on Twitter:
There’s a certain irony in the Harvard-educated, multi-millionaire President complaining about racism in the country that elected him twice, especially as his black Attorney General (i.e., chief law enforcement official in the country) continues to ignore & / or sweep away racial controversy that doesn’t benefit blacks and stoke those that do (c/f New Black Panther voter intimidation; TM/GZ; etc.)
Curious. Has Obama ever been in a serious fist fight? I’ll accept that a 17 yo Obama could have been “profiled” but, I doubt he had Trayvon’s ability to stand and confront a “stalker”.
Bill Ayers is a creepy-assed cracker if there ever was one, and Obama had no problem with him.
Bill Ayers is a rapist and a murderer, too. Is it still okay to judge others by the company they keep?
*spit*
Course, Media Matters idiot sez SHUT UP
Can we hurry up and elect Hillary so we can move on to sexism as our prime motivator for dissent.
I’m so old, I remember when dissent was patriotic…
Maybe young blacks should quite acting like a bunch of fucking thugs and dressing like they just got out of jail.
When you look at all children raised in tw0-parent, married households (often churchgoing), there is no difference in outcome among the races.
People don’t realize that most of the folks in the U.S. who live below the poverty line are white, which means that most welfare recipients and welfare cheats are also white.
And most blacks don’t live below the poverty line: they’re at 17%, which is higher than the 12% in the general population.
It’s just that the poor blacks are warehoused in the inner cities, where they’re able to form gangs and—most important—they’re visible to the pukes in the MSM.
Poor whites are spread out: Appalachia, trailer parks, rural roads. This makes them less likely to form “white gangs” in the same way that city kids do, and makes them pretty much invisible to the MSM and other elites.
At this point, the problems in the inner cities are identical to the problems among poor rural whites: illegitimacy, broken families, drug use, jail time.
Which is pretty much what you find among all poor populations, regardless of the country. Ergo, “black problems” aren’t black at all: they’re the same problems that plague all of humankind.
Back in the day, racism kept all blacks down equally. When racism is strident enough to keep any black man down, it also keeps him out of the White House and the AG’s office and off the Supreme Court and out of Congress
Racism may have knocked you down, son, but it ain’t stopping you from standing back up.
I believe I’ve heard that he also engaged in some revolutionary ass-cracking back in the day as well.
Obazm’s statement, it seems to me, has a good deal more of a “repeat after me” tone to it than — overtly at least — a SHUT UP tone. But there is a positive attempt to forget who Trayvon was, and in that respect anyone seeking to rediscover the dead teen in full will face a “shut up” response, sure.
speaking of billy ayers
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I’m sorry, I can’t even read your post Darleen, because I’m in too much of a hurry to yell what the fuck does Obama know about being treated like shit because of his skin color because he’s been coddled and celebrated and tongue-bathed for his skin color his whole fucking miserable life??!
Either he made a stupid ignorant remark or a he’s a lying POS or both.
Stand Your Ground, learn the basics in less time than it took for Obama to prove he doesn’t know what he’s talking about, again.
– Doesn’t know what the fuck hes talking about would be more accurate, and the “again” is unneccesary because he never fucking did, EVAH.
– But WHY hes talking this up, WHY the gestoppo suddenly can’t think of anything they want to talk about more? Well that they know very well:
“F&F”, “Benghazi”, “New Black Panthers”, “Muslim Brotherhood – Egypt”, “IRS Targetting”, Still in Afghanistan and the Drone wars he loves, NSA “snooping and eaves dropping” on Everybody, including Unions, Media, Citizens, Bullshit anti-Constitutional Supreme court crap (see ObamaCare), Illegal oppointments during recess, Executive orders beyond belief, Refusal to enforce immigration laws…..Theres just no end in sight.
– This is the WHY Treyvon Martin is so important to Bumblefuck.
So the “Cloward-Piven scandal defense system is a failure?
Or you can spend 46 minutes listening to this after 2 minutes of Ben Jealous spouting the same junk that Obama has been doing.
So, if DoJ is not going to file federal civil rights abuse (or whatever) charges against Zimmerman, does he get his gun back now?
I saw that there are several gun shops that want to give him a new gun, as well.
And if Obama gets his way and “stand your ground” goes away then maybe he could be Jay Rodney Lewis.
“Coulda been me”
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30 years ago, Trayvon could have been me. But I wasn’t that stupid. Yeah, I was stupid. But not that stupid.
pointless- by county would show the problem. can’t have that too many demonrats involved.
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– So this is to be the “real agenda”, and talking point (narrative) for the next 3+ years to cover Bumblefucks ass and give him water wings in the flood of bad shit his administration finds itself floating in up to its bottom lip.
– Or at least until the Hildebeast starts to make her run at the WH and all the crap slides down the memory hole for Jug ears.
“Both” is the surest bet.
BBH
Stand your ground/Trayvon Martin is going to be used to keep thier base fired up thru 2014 until the elections are over. They need their base fired up to get those eeeeevil Republicans, who wrote this horrible law that killed their precious Trayvon, to go on constant defense defending stand your ground. Same crap as war on women, amnesty, etc.. Anything but the Dems record of failure.
1st oberdude then
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It’s always fun to be lectured on race by a white dude from Hawaii.
hi sarah palin:
“Thus the power structure, through the agency of those who carry out the sanctions, those anonymous components of the system, will spew the greengrocer from its mouth. The system, through its alienating presence ín people, will punish him for his rebellion. It must do so because the logic of its automatism and self-defense dictate it. The greengrocer has not committed a simple, individual offense, isolated in its own uniqueness, but something incomparably more serious. By breaking the rules of the game, he has disrupted the game as such. He has exposed it as a mere game. He has shattered the world of appearances, the fundamental pillar of the system. He has upset the power structure by tearing apart what holds it together. He has demonstrated that living a lie is living a lie. He has broken through the exalted facade of the system and exposed the real, base foundations of power. He has said that the emperor is naked. And because the emperor is in fact naked, something extremely dangerous has happened: by his action, the greengrocer has addressed the world. He has enabled everyone to peer behind the curtain. He has shown everyone that it is possible to live within the truth. Living within the lie can constitute the system only if it is universal. The principle must embrace and permeate everything. There are no terms whatsoever on which it can co-exist with living within the truth, and therefore everyone who steps out of line denies it in principle and threatens it in its entirety.”
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In this world that Obama pretends to be from there probably exists a Bizarro Don Ho singing tales of bravado about controlling a corner on the mean streets of Waik?k?.
Stupid diacritics. Waikiki.
They need their base fired up to get those eeeeevil [Republicans]
– Yes, well, they’ve run out of phones and freebees/handouts, so they have to tack even harder left, especially with the Black base who are upset, at least the Black caucus and Unions, about the immigration effect on jobs. So its a balancing act bewtween that demographic, and immigration reform to hang onto the Hispanics vote.
– If they completely drop either side they will lose the Senate. The Hispanic vote would ordinarily be predominently Conservative. The border thing is why, so far, they’re voting Dem.
– So there’s wheels within wheels, and lots of reasons for what they are doing, none of which have a damn thing to do with a dead teen, unless you believe the 72 Blacks that dies in Chicago over the 4th was just a statistic.
– By the way, as hard as it is to believe, none other than Jimmah Carter says the whole Zimmerman thing is Obama Admin agitprop for some of the reasons we’re discusiing. He supports Snowden, and says we’re a dysfunctional democracy at the point. So maybe Alzheimers made him forget his Socialist roots or something. Either way hes in danger of losing his nanystate card.
-….In other news…. Somethings going on down in Panama that we’re not being told about. The foreign press is covering it but not American media, at least so far. For atarters theres a report the Captain of the Cuban ship tryed to commit suicide.
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This isn’t about race.
Barack Hussein Obama doesn’t, ultimately, give a damn about race – the two of which he is a member or anyone else’s. The racism canard is merely a weapon to be used for what this Leftist and his fellow Totalitarians want: Power And Control.
The Left will use whatever weapon they believe works to achieve their end, which is bringing about Utopia, Heaven On Earth, the Immanentizing Of The Eschaton.
I would not doubt that Obama knows exactly what he’s doing [or, at least, Jarrett and Axelrod, do] and it has nothing to do with improving the lot of blacks in America, just as their support of Feminists have nothing to do with improving the lot of women.
Interesting commentary by Ed Driscoll on this piece in the New Republic in which the author wonders when liberals became the new Puritans. Driscoll thinks sometime around the turn of the century. I think liberals were the old Puritans, so nothing has really changed.
“There are very few African American men who haven’t had the experience of walking across the street and hearing the locks click on the doors of cars. That happens to me — at least before I was a senator.”
Meaning, I presume, ‘it didn’t happen when I started wearing a suit and tie’?
“unless you believe the 72 Blacks that dies in Chicago over the 4th was just a statistic.”
Point of order: 72 were shot. They didn’t all die. Your larger point is dead on, though.
“There are very few African American men who haven’t had the experience of walking across the street and hearing the locks click on the doors of cars. ”
Did he say it was white people locking their doors? Maybe it was Jesse Jackson.
“There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps and start thinking about robbery. Then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved.”
Hell, if I saw Obama walking by I’d lock my doors too, lest he get in and start talking.
Ditto Biden and Reid.
For Pelosi I’d burn rubber getting the hell out of Dodge.
Like no one has locked a door in presence of a white guy.
Just another unprovable negative the left relies on to advance their agenda.
so they do say “no” sometimes: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57337766/mom-denied-food-stamps-shoots-kids-kills-self/
damn Texas, typical
I must be missing something here.
The president effectively giving permission for hooliganism is supposed to convince us that we need gun control how?
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How else can the hooliganism find full expression? THINK OF THE HOOLIGANS!
It’s a thug thing and we wouldn’t understand, eh?
leigh, you know lefties prefer not to use any kind of logic that interferes with the agenda. For example, they are not really bad at math, they just prefer that 2+2=5 when convenient and sometimes 3.
Isn’t that the truth?
I read a post on neoneocon’s blog last night about the chapter in O’bama’s book wherein he throws his typical white person (otherwise known as his grandmother) under the bus for being afraid of a crazy, aggressive, black panhandler who was camped out on her way to work. Rather than concede that the bum was crazy and could hurt or kill Grandma, the grandfather was convinced that Grandma was only frightened because the panhandler was black. Not that he was big, aggressive, violent and obviously mentally ill, but that it was his blackness that scared grandma. Grandpa argued with her for hours before conceding to drive her to work instead of making her take the bus to “conquer her prejudice”. Young Barry, rather than being incensed that Granny was in danger and feeling the need to protect her from violence, tacks Left and feels “crushed” that his grandmother is obviously a bigot who holds her safety dear.
This is what we are dealing with. This mentality. From the president of the United States.
TWP Grandma, it is spelled d-i-v-o-r-c-e and you would probably get the car.
The fact that we and the left cannot agree that 2+2=4 is at the root of our problems with them. If we cannot agree on fundamentals, we cannot agree on anything else.
The root of the problem is that the left wants there to be a problem. Problems are to be exploited, not solved.
It doesn’t even get to fundamentals; they are not a coexisting network, they are a virus designed to destroy networks.
And the virus is a core set of lies surrounded, protected by a shield of other, more disposable, malleable, marketable & glib-berish lies.
When any truth appears it must be crushed totally to preserve the viral core from damage. But truths always come back, though in some venues they will seek to not acknowledge their earlier versions that the lies crushed down. Too painful to admit that they were suckers who bought those lies completely for a time. They might have to then examine themselves to see what other lies they are buying even now.
geoffb, that farcical NYT’s anti-gun editorial has implications it doesn’t bother to draw out. Take the case of the black slave of 1852, for instance. Can’t have such a being in possession of a personal firearm, since a personal firearm would bring about self-protective violence and the possibility of escape from slavery! No. Best the slave remain a slave, by the lights of the 2013 NYTs editorial board.
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It’s just a thing that NY Democrats have always had at their core.
The Party people in charge change. The names of the policies change. The rhetoric changes. But the core actions, principles, remain unchanged.
The O! agenda working well with the LIV’s.
And lo, it came to pass that I begat myself.
*thhhhhwp….
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Anybody here know CPR? Fire up the defibrillator!
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