I love Andrew Malcolm, but without even reading his IBD piece, I’m going to offer an answer, since the question was posed up front.
Ready?
Because Obama, like Holder, is a cynical, polished, race-baiting huckster — the more refined version of a Sharpton or even a rhyming, buffoonish Jesse Jackson — and he’s built his entire career on calculating white guilt, the fear people have of being labeled racist (and the concomitant self-adulation they are able to bathe in should they prove to themselves and others that they are willing to support a Black man for President, even if that Black man — who is half white — has always been a socialist ideologue schooled in the strategies of Alinsky, Cloward-Piven, and lessons taken from the failed overt counterculture revolution of the early 70s, where brazen communism was resoundingly rejected by the American voter), and an ability, as an “articulate, clean” Black man, to be embraced by liberals as a kind of ostentatious token of their commitment to the downtrodden. Of which the Ivy League educated, Hawaiian-raised Choom Gang member was clearly a shining example.
Here, with the Martin case, Obama sees an opportunity to once again play on people’s desires to prove themselves racially sensitive. To engage in an easy, mob-driven “social justice action”. It’s a kind of political conspicuous consumption. And by inserting his own apocryphal experiences into the narrative of Black oppression that has, insofar as it even exists to this day, been the result, over the last 50 years, of Democrat social policies (and in the years before that, the result of Democrat party bigotry), Obama hopes to further Balkanize the country and cow us into a kind of PC-conciliation.
To which I offer this counsel: fuck him. And fuck all those like him who so desperately wish to be seen as non-racist that they are willing to scapegoat a “white Hispanic,” particularly if that means they can wear their “protest” as a badge of honor, a kind of acquittal of the institutionalized racism implicit in the hearts of white people — at least until the next time they’re commanded to grovel at the altar of racial politics and prove themselves pure of heart.
Now, I’m not sure what Mr Malcolm’s take on this was. But I’m sure we intersect on at least some of our observations.
And if we don’t, well. Whoops! My bad.
I purged myself of whatever smidgeon of “white guilt” I may have had a long, long time ago. I decided to give every human the dignity and respect they were entitled to by virtue of being human, until their own conduct demonstrated they were unworthy of that respect. It works for me just fine, thank you.
But because of its myriad benefits said racialism — should it somehow occur, Mr. Wisdom — is surely the highest calling of the Constitutional Scholar and all he and those under him survey, is it not?
He offered his “thoughts” for the same reason people tweet pictures of their food from restaurants.
Huh. I just heard on the newz that GZ rescued a traveler in an overturned truck last week. Good Samaritan George at work again.
JHoward, you thought Cargo Cults were limited to obscure islands in the South Pacific.
Obazm thoughts on Trayvon are here equivalent to asbestos in Chicago housing projects: something to make a stink about, something which by disturbing can be released into the atmosphere even, doing harm and costing money where just letting the stuff alone wouldn’t do a damned thing — only in like fashion, as with the Chicago asbestos, something to subsequently walk away from, having ginned problem up, and having accomplished only to make everything the worse. Guilty as sin, free as a bird.
George Zimmerman Emerges from Hiding, Rescues Individual from under Overturned Truck
“HUD will provide data for every neighborhood in the country, detailing the access African American, Latino, Asian, and other communities. . .
Welcome, Others!
Thirty-five years ago, George Zimmerman would have pulled Barack Obama out from under that overturned vehicle.
How do you think the President’s handlers will react when they discover people can be pulled out from under the bus, er, I mean truck?
Because, simply, a symphony must be heard.
From JHoward’s linked piece above:
According to HUD, long-term solutions include “helping people gain access to different neighborhoods and channeling investments into under-served areas.”
Unfortunately, there are potential (and possibly severe) drawbacks to living in those utopian, “underserved” multicultural urban neighborhoods.
Yeah, it’s a good thing that GZ just refuses to learn his lesson and stay in his truck….
There’s a couple of “gun bloggers” I’m gonna have to put that question to.
To ensure that “every American is able to choose to live in a community they feel proud of,” HUD has published a new fair-housing regulation intended to give people access to better neighborhoods than the ones they currently live in.
If if one of the primary reasons that Neighborhood A is better than Neighborhood B is that the B-folks, y’know, suck, well that’s just a darned shame. Equally sucky neighborhood for everybody, for the FAIRNESS!
After the survey there will then be quotas for each neighborhood enforced by leaning on the lenders and the real estate agencies so that only the “right” kind of buyers will be allowed to move into any given neighborhood.
Betcha.
me i leaning to use of Disparate impact
Actually, Malcom’s take is some kind of “Obama as feeling human” bullshit.
To think that speech was anything more than staged opportunism is laughable. The idea that any woman anywhere would cower in an elevator, worried that the whitest black man in America was going to assault her and steal her purse – IN AN ELEVATOR. Jesus Christ. Severely laughable.
Of course it would all rotate around the massive gravitational pull of the narcissist in chief. Has a bigger ego ever existed in Washington ?
The presidential thing to do and say, the kind of thing that evokes LEADERSHIP would be 1) to not say a damn word, or 2) to at least try and plead for calm.
But come on. Nobody should expect that from a race peddler like Obama. Why try and dispel the myths and half truths when you can inflame the passions of the oppressed minority whose had to deal with the click of a lock on a car as you cross the street.
Give me a fucking break already.
Fair Housing: Everyone should be able to buy a house they can afford.
How about, for starters, teaching young black children that reading books and working hard is not “acting white,” it’s “acting American.”
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