And one of the prime drivers of this — at the behest, no doubt, of his faculty lounge President boss — is Eric Holder. Who, along with a chorus of leftwing pundits braying for blood (and an Hispanic’s will do, so long as he’s a “White Hispanic”) in order to sustain the narrative of institutionalized racial animus in the US so crucial to their worldview, openly and brazenly admitted in a speech that justice in the US can not be meted out dispassionately, but rather needs certain symbolic convictions and expedient messaging scapegoats in order to promote the Greater Good of a “social justice” impulse that leaves in its wake a number of ruined individuals-cum-statistics on the road to its Utopian egalitarianism (which, ironically, is anything but, seeking as it does to invert perceived power structures by favoring ethnic and sexual minorities at the expense of those who, by virtue of the color of their skin — or lack thereof — are to be treated as hostiles).
Speaking before Delta Sigma Theta’s Social Action luncheon in DC yesterday, our US Attorney General — in what is, as an attempt to re-invent and politicize our justice system, one of the most shocking speeches I can remember from a high-ranking government lawyer — vowed to press a federal probe in the Zimmerman case. This despite the jury (who Jesse Jackson predictably is suggesting wasn’t a fair one, containing not one marijuana-using, Lean-taking, school suspendee with a knack for collecting women’s jewelry, a group that would make up Martin’s “peers”) — and even the prosecution in the Florida trial — finding no evidence of racial motivation, along with earlier investigations by both the local police and the FBI, which reached similar conclusions.
Most egregious in Holder’s speech was his suggestion that Martin’s death was the result of a “tragic, unnecessary shooting” — a conclusion that essentially nullifies the jury’s finding, which was precisely that, as the law provides for self-defense, the shooting wasn’t “unnecessary,” given that Martin had mounted Zimmerman and was beating his head into the pavement.
Nearly as egregious was Holder’s suggestion, mirroring the President’s own, that the event in Sanford speaks to something larger about race or the nation — and calls for us to search our own souls.
Yet it is those who have looked at the facts of the case and find overwhelming evidence that race played no part in the incident — save for the ginning up of the racial angle by the media, the President, the opportunistic race hustlers, and now the DOJ in its aftermath — who should be lecturing the leftist racialist to search their souls for the answer to why they are willing to sacrifice the freedom of an individual who defended himself for the opportunity to divide the country once again along racial lines.
Holder, as he’s done before, called for a national dialogue on race. And as he’s done before, Holder suggested that it is those who reasoned from the facts in evidence about Zimmerman’s clear cut innocence who are afraid to have an open and honest discussion about race.
Well, let me tell you something, Mr Holder: as I noted the first time you laid down this challenge, I and many others would be perfectly happy to have a national discussion on race, racialism, racism, and racial politicking. Because I believe we’d be able to convince the public beyond a shadow of a doubt that the left depends upon racial Balkanization and victim identity politics for its client voter blocs.
As I said when Obama was elected — and I was being preached to about his pant crease and his post-racial, post-partisan promises — a leftist ideologue like Obama will set race relations in this country back decades. And that’s exactly what he and his DOJ and their civil rights division have been trying to do.
Six jurors refused to go along. So now Holder will look to press a federal hate crime case in which the burden of the prosecution will be to show something in Zimmerman’s heart that no one — from the FBI to the Sanford police to all those co-workers, friends, etc., who were interviewed already — has found: the suggestion that Zimmerman is an anti-black racist who was looking to go hunt down and kill a black man.
Which would mean his neighborhood watch position, the black ancestry in his family, his mix of friends, and even his CCW licensing, were all an elaborate set up to bag him a darkie while creating plausible deniability.
There is no case here. So the only reason to move forward is to keep racial politics in the forefront. And of course, keeping the rest of the many Obama scandals off the front page, even as the GOP happily accepts the misdirection as it moves forward on “comprehensive immigration reform.”
We dodge a bullet, so to speak, with the Florida verdict.
But these race-baiting ideologues never give up.
It’s who they are. It’s what they do.
I said on a different site, that we looked into the abyss of identity politics as the basis for “legal” outcomes. We may remember this case as one the last where the evidence and the law reigned supreme, without regard to the litigants’ membership in some group or another.
So now Holder will look to press a federal hate crime case in which the burden of the prosecution will be to show something in Zimmerman’s heart that no one — from the FBI to the Sanford police to all those co-workers, friends, etc., who were interviewed already — has found: the suggestion that Zimmerman is an anti-black racist who was looking to go hunt down and kill a black man. –
Per Rush, via the interview I didn’t watch last night. Trayvon thought Zimmerman was a gay guy following him for sex/etc/assault. Trayvon was a homophobe and committed a hate crime that night.
There’s a creepy “history as essentialism” lurking about in Holder’s antecedents, it seems. Strange, when the whole idea of the overarching rule of History was intended to have eliminated essentialism altogether. But then, how to be surprised, when the overarching rule of History is an absurdity to begin with.
Greetings:
I’ve never been much of a gambler, but if I had to make a bet, I’d go with US Attorney General Holder prolonging the “uncivil rights” investigation as long as possible going for a kind of Sword of Damocles effect thus extending Mr. Zimmerman’s “the process is the punishment” experience.
Mr. Holder’s version of the DoJ has had over a year and a half to investigate the incident and I’m supposed to now believe that they haven’t come to a conclusion? This isn’t the Kennedy assassination now, is it?
Doesn’t Holder have bigger fish to fry? Benghazi? The IRS? Fast and Furious?
The plight of trashy gang-banger wannabes of any color isn’t on my radar.
No, a federal prosecution is not gonna happen. First, Zimmerman just doesn’t hate black people. A cursory examination of the man shows the absurdity of that. Second, there is no stand-alone “hate crime” law…yet. There has to be an underlying crime, and then there’s a hate enhancement. Zimmerman has been found not guilty. Third, should they try this again, St. Trayvon is going to get his punk ass crucified. (I’m still drooling over the coming sanctions process for Corey, Bernie DLR, etc… Discovery is a cold ass bitch.) That won’t help the narrative. This is all posturing and it helps to keep the mob fired up. Legally speaking, Zimmerman is done being on defense. Physically speaking, all of us are just getting started. Lock and load, kids.
The Bag-Man Cometh
Well, let me tell you something, Mr Holder: as I noted the first time you laid down this challenge, I and many others would be perfectly happy to have a national discussion on race, racialism, racism, and racial politicking.
Sorry, you’re not invited to the conversation. The conversation will take place between the “right” type of intellectuals. Any divergent views will only be taken from folks who have no idea what they are talking about. It’s like the local radio show, who only allow contrary opinions from those who can barely form a coherent sentence.
What Pablo said.
What an odd way to spell “Heinrich Himmler.”
Kiss my ass, Godwin.
Those leigh (Benghazi, Fast and Furious, the IRS, etc.) are where you put your finger on the bigger fish to avoid, on account of they rot — down from the head as it’s put — and so stink to the high heavens. Makes for a precise motive though.
Which would mean his neighborhood watch position, the black ancestry in his family, his mix of friends, and even his CCW licensing, were all an elaborate set up…
If Holder were to bring further action against Zimmerman, I can only pray that such a trial will make a good forum for broadcasting all of the above. I’m dismayed at the number of my friends this week who will rail about the verdict and then express utter shock that Zimmerman’s a quarter black himself, or that his earlier go-round with the Sanford police was when he defended a homeless black guy. Couple that with the fact that this “gated community” was a picture of pretty much exactly what these friends would consider a utopia of diversity, and all the air just seems to go out of them.
“You were lied to. Manipulated to stir up anger and guilt in order to get out the vote last November. How does that make you feel about the President and his campaign? How does that make you feel about the media who do his bidding?”
This is a hoot: Akon tells black people to move back to Africa.
Ba haaa haaaa haaa. Yea, right after you do, Akon.
“Every African-American in the United States needs to move their money, family, knowledge back to Africa were you will be treated like the royalty you are.”
In the wake of Zimmerman’s ____________ the left has called for repeal of stand your ground laws and the president has called for stricter gun control.
Let’s face it, it doesn’t really matter how you fill in the blank, now does it?
I guess this house is in Africa?
Africa seems to be a kind of dream world, a place without distinction whatsoever, save that it’s lovely wherever one may land. Not a place of desert, nor a place of rain-forest, not a place of monarchy, nor a place of failed socialism, not a place of redmen, nor a place of deeply purple men, just a place of dreams. Weird, huh? That such a thing could be so perfect an obsession, and yet so perfectly unformed?
One black man tells the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.
I must be rasiss, since I have no idea who this Akon person is.
Leigh, you’re gonna have to smack dat.
(and no, I didn’t know the song, but you can google anything)
On “NCIS Los Angeles,” LL Cool J’s character told of having this idealized notion of Africa until he went there and found out the Black Lib Theo people he’d got it from were full of shit.
I don’t think Akon’s been to Africa.
Akon is from Senegal, but moved when he was 7. He’s 40.
He’s going to have to stir that pot much harder.
by “tragic, unnecessary shooting” Holder means any number of things like a young black men should never be seen as “suspicious”, should never be followed, if you do you should let him beat you senseless, and of course Zimmerman should not have been allowed to carry a gun.
Must be Dennis D’s link right here.
I still maintain that any young black man fearful of being profiled and killed should just put on a clean pair of khakis and a polo shirt. Be astounded as you partake of cultural “privileges” you believed were reserved for white guys!
And for the love of Mike, don’t tell me that I “just don’t understand their culture.” I do. It’s based on status symbols and intimidation, and there ain’t nobody in NPR tote bag land that’s going to change their comfortable world to conform with it.
Issa is on teevee announcing IRS hearings for Thursday. Key players to testify, he says.
bgbear, precisely. Self-defense is limited to certain favored groups. I guess it’s time to invest in a rainbow t-shirt of some sort which I can don quickly before the cops show up.
Who wants to dress like a creepy-ass cracker?
If racial profiling by Joe Ordinary is so frequent and pervasive, then it shouldn’t be hard to find dozens and dozens of clear-cut cases wherein the bulk of the evidence points to racial animus as the motive, means, and opportunity.
Instead, they have to find a case that fits those parameters only if you lie about it, doctor tapes, and scream RAAAAACISM at the top of your lungs.
I’m still drooling over the coming sanctions process for Corey, Bernie DLR, etc –
And who exactly is going to impose these sanctions, Mr. Diogenes?
I don’t suppose the State of Florida has the spine to turn the tables and start prosecuting the malicious beat-downs and killings of whites, blacks, and Cubans at the hands of blacks when one of the above wonders into the wrong neighborhood.
The only guy who got profiled in this case was George Zimmerman, whom Trayvon Martin profiled as a creepy ass-cracker* who needed the gay bashed right out of him.
So it’s go to take some time to figure out which officially recognized Victim Group is going to see their rights trump.
*(as per the girlfriend with the unspellable name)
Can’t prosecute what isn’t even counted as crime.
Holder of course turns this around and also prosecutes that which isn’t criminal too. King’s caprice as justice now.
The most true obsessions are the uninformed ones, Sdferr.
I personally can’t stand that, now the court case is over and there are truly uninformed vs. informed opinions, that Washington and the media are doubling down on fantasy. I hope Zimmerman makes a career out of suing them, cause I don’t see how he makes any money otherwise.
I’m just pleased as punch that I can call you all my *ni99as” now.
Per Trayvon’s girlfriend. It’s just what you call guys. Any ethnicity. It just means “male.”
We’re just as pleased to have you for our beeyotch Carin.
Or is it ho?
It’s so hard to stay current, you know?
There is no case here. So the only reason to move forward is to keep racial politics in the forefront. And of course, keeping the rest of the many Obama scandals off the front page, even as the GOP happily accepts the misdirection as it moves forward on “comprehensive immigration reform.”
And don’t forget, to the progressive, one must never miss an opportunity to climb on to the top of the highest dungheap and crow for all one’s worth, accusing whomever is the latest unfortunate to be targeted, of the most despicable crime in the leftist pantheon of thought crimes. The one crowing loudest and longest is the most ideologically pure, and thus inoculated from criticism.
Ernst, I just don’t know. Do we know anyone authentically black who can inform us on this?
The process will be punishment. The aftermath will be gravy. I want to watch O’Mara tear them apart.
I was just getting comfortable with being called “Cracker” (White Trash or just white) but now thanks to Piers Morgan’s ground breaking and illuminating interview with “Star Witness” Rachel DeeDee Jeantel I find that the word TM spoke wasn’t “Cracker” at all, but rather “Cracka”.. meaning a person that acts like a policeman or security guard.. Who knew?
Word to your mother.. This authentically black slang is so fresh even Urban Dictionary doesn’t have it yet.
Now showing on Instapundit, William Saletan performing as Emily Litella.
Not just a cop, but a rapey gay cop.
I thought white guys were called Paddy? At least they are in Balmer or used to be.
How is all this smack talk about Mexicans going down with our Hispanic brethren? I axed yesterday and no one replied.
“Every African-American in the United States needs to move their money, family, knowledge back to Africa were you will be treated like the royalty you are.”
I hope Mr Akon and his followers choose their destination with some care. Apparently royal treatment ain’t what it used to be.
Carin, the bitches versus hos thing was explained to me like this:
A bitch will have sex with anybody.
A ho will have sex with anybody but you.
Explained to me by black guys of my acquaintance about 20 years ago, so I may not be up to date.
Now see, I would have guessed that the otherway around.
So a bitch is a slut, and a ho is a bitch.
hmmm.
Weird, huh?
– Since you axed Leigh, La Raza is MIA on Zimmerman, because they’re afraid the black caucus is against the immigration thing, so quid pro quo. Besides, its getting mighty hard for a poor Progressive to know which protected group to defend, let alone a group, the Hispanics, who are deeply Conservative and only voting Left because they need a ticket across the border.
Thanks, BBH. I’m wondering now that Miz Jeantel has called Zimmerman a sex pervert, if the gheys will come out of the closet and take umbrage. Is there enough umbrage to go around?
Inquiring minds want to know.
Richard Cohen thoughtcrime doubleplusungood.
More on George Zimmerman, victim of gay-bashing.
Of course, since he’s not gay, he can’t be, you know, a victim.
poor scabby
Chicago Man Stabs, Runs Over Inflatable Union Rat & Is Now Held on $100K Bond — But That Might Not Be the Best Part of the Story
So, he loses the Authenticity Sweepstakes from both sides.
– The other shoe for La Raza is its a heavily slanted Marxo-Socialist group (Bumbkefuck would feel right at home), so its big gov and nannystate all the way, and GZ fucks with the narrative.
That’s the problem with these narratives: they’re all just a bunch of tall tales.
Do ass-crackers leave crumbs?
The process will be punishment. The aftermath will be gravy. I want to watch O’Mara tear them apart.
Who’s going to initiate the process?
– MLK’s niece is not a happy camper.
– Its a real biatch, keeping dem all down on dah plantation.
DOJ helped bogus “student group” target George Zimmerman and the Sanford police chief
glorious news comrades
DOJ Asks Civil Rights Groups, General Public for ‘Tips’ on Zimmerman
the crazy quilt is getting some of it stitches pulled.
– Here’s one they might actually be able to win.
– Another link with more details here.
that is one creepy ass looking old cracker
– Some days you just can’t get the narative right.
That’s the best picture Moms had of the kid? Eating takeout fried chicken off a paper plate in the living room?
looks like he could be Obama’s grandfather.
– Ripping the Left and the victimhood race baiters industry a new one, one honest black at a time.
Eating takeout fried chicken off a paper plate in the living room?
– Raaaaaaacist
She served it, BBH. I just took notice.
I denounce myself.
– Well at least you are consistant, which is more than you can say about an AG who thinks its coolies for BP thugs to do night stick doodey outside of a polling place, but has a problem with this.
– It must be warm and nurturing to be given immunity to hipocricy, no matter how grievious.
Re: nr-3:47 pm
So Holder is now soliciting people to make shit up that he can leak to the press?
– The train wreck continues advancing toward its destiny.
– I think the Left is going to need a bigger set of lies.
They’ll make up shiny new lies and pretend those old lies belong to someone else.
OT: Is it just me or do lefties seem to be pissed off at something, somewhere all of the time and hell-bent on doing something, no matter how stupid, about it?
sundance says:
July 16, 2013 at 6:31 pm
Where’s jello.? We need his liberal pals with techno skills to set up rapid fire spam bots to the doj addy
Holder going after “Stand Your Ground” laws. Expect lying about the laws, lying about SYG not being part of the Zimmerman trial, and lying about this case as if it was in anyway similar to the Zimmerman one.
They will not stop until everyone is broke on Gov. assistance and helpless prey to the thug gangs that are muscle for the progressives. Chicago, the model.
Sorry to be impertinent, but…
dicentra, is your work on Alinsky available? Linx I’ve tried don’t work…
“stand your ground” is new koch bros.
O’Mara has already done it, times 6. Nelson deferred it until after the trial. Trial’s over. :)
Related:
Exclusive: Fired employee to file lawsuit against Zimmerman prosecutors
How cool is that?
– Another “inconvienient story” you won’t be seeing much about in the Lame-stream media.
– New ?Ghettopotumas Imbecellus? species spotted in Florida.
O’Mara has already done it, times 6. Nelson deferred it until after the trial. Trial’s over. :)
Actually Nelson isn’t handling the case. It’s another judge I think named Sims or something. It’s due up on the docket sometime in the next 30 days.
Hi everybody!
Well if it went down as reported then lock Spooner the hell up and charge him with first degree murder of a child. I’m fine with that. In fact I support it.
IF IT WENT AS REPORTED.
Unfortunately after the Trayvon/George press bullshit we can no longer safely make that assumption. We know that the press are fucking liars now and that they feel no compunction to tell the truth about anything and will gleefully twist things, ignore things, or just pass along lies to push a narrative.
Actually we knew well before then with the Duke rape case and other incidents.
“I still maintain that any young black man fearful of being profiled and killed should just put on a clean pair of khakis and a polo shirt. Be astounded as you partake of cultural “privileges” you believed were reserved for white guys! ”
Squid, I love ya man. In a manly, non-gay way of course…
Clearly Kruidbos has some racial issues, amiright?
Be astounded as you partake of cultural “privileges” you believed were reserved for white guys!
– Well partake just as soon as you got out of intensive care from the beat down you Homies would deliver to you for dissin’ the hood with those creepy ass-cracka threads.
Pablo says July 16, 2013 at 6:05 pm
That’s awesome, Pablo. Let the games begin!
He obviously hates fat white ladies and bald white hispanic guys.
Democrats back racial profiling in some instances.
Intensive care? Pffft. No Obamacare took care of that. ER->Good luck->Home->followup ->2 rehabs IF YOU ARE LUCKY. (Hint: You aren’t.)
Now, I will use the word profile, cause I’m using my words very carefully…
(Dawg whistle, dawg whistle, but its ok. He’s an authentic Marxo-socialist Democrat)
Coverup worse than the crime.
““Every African-American in the United States needs to move their money, family, knowledge back to Africa were you will be treated like the royalty you are.””
So in Africa (presumably he means the subsaharan portion of the continent)you can swill lean, hang, buy blunts, and pound whitey all day long and nobody’s gonna take a gat to you for it? No limits and every day is #thickdickthursday?
Coverup worse than the crime.
I have it on good authority Geoff, it’s even more serious. God is involved in the crime.
I know that despair is a sin, and that Peter got a bit of guff for denying Christ three times but…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5X4N2exOsU
Nope. Still more puke in mah belly.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbiioBFkD_Q
It’s worse than the 1850s now.
They’ve cranked the dial way past 11. How much longer can the speakers hold before blowing out?
They’ve cranked the dial way past 11. How much longer can the speakers hold before blowing out?
At least until Nov. 2014.
Mr Hartmann. In case you missed the particulars, the slave was likely high, hanging around in a gated community that wasn’t his in the rain, then struck and mounted the creepy-ass cracker, who only defended himself after having first called 911, then after having his head smashed into the pavement.
I think if we wish to restore a functioning civil society, Hartmann should be forced to face those he accuses of being slave patrol — neighborhood watch Latinos and Blacks and Asians and Whites — and say that to their faces.
Me, I’d take an assault charge for being called a slave patrol member by a fucking sneering, cowardly douche.