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		<title>Black Skin Privilege and Ferguson</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The nation awaits the verdict in Ferguson and prepares for the vindictive retribution of the lynch mob.]]></description>
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<p><em>The nation awaits the verdict in Ferguson and prepares for the vindictive retribution of the lynch mob that has been tearing the city up for months, and thirsting for the blood of officer Darren Wilson not because he is guilty but because he is white. The chief encourager of the lynch mob is now the president of the United States, preceded by his former attorney general and his chief adviser on race relations who is also the nation’s leading racist, Al Sharpton. </em></p>
<p><em>That is the disturbing reality we face as a nation, and have been facing now for decades ever since the civil rights movement was itself transformed into a lynch mob under the leadership of Sharpton and Jesse Jackson. That is the stark truth around which there is a national silence because the racists and their mobs are largely black. </em></p>
<p><em>To focus attention on this national misery, we are reprinting part of a pamphlet we published about this travesty called “<a href="http://horowitzfreedomcenterstore.org/collections/pamplets/products/black-skin-privilege">Black Skin Privilege and the American Dream</a>,” by David Horowitz and John Perazzo.-DH</em></p>
<p>When a Neighborhood Watch guard shot Trayvon Martin in February 2012, a chorus of civil rights activists concluded that he had been killed because of his race. Michael Skolnick, the political director for hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons, spoke for the consensus in an article he titled, “White People You Will Never Look Suspicious.”</p>
<blockquote><p><em>I will never look suspicious to you. Even if I have a black hoodie, a pair of jeans and white sneakers on &#8230; I will never watch a taxicab pass me by to pick someone else up. I will never witness someone clutch their purse tightly against their body as they walk by me. I won’t have to worry about a police car following me for two miles, so they can ‘run my plates. I will never have to pay before I eat. And I certainly will never get ‘stopped and frisked.’ I will never look suspicious to you, because of one thing and one thing only. The color of my skin. I am white….<sup><strong><sup>[1]</sup></strong></sup></em></p></blockquote>
<p>Skolnick spoke for those who rushed to condemn the Watch Guard, George Zimmerman, calling him a racist and killer in advance of the evidence, and demanding his arrest. It was the pervasive theme of the outrage even though Zimmerman was of Peruvian descent and not “white.” To make the racial case, Zimmerman’s accusers labeled him a “<em>white</em> Hispanic,” and disregarded the fact that he was Latino with a great-grandfather who was black. Speaking for the many, Congressional Black Caucus member Hank Johnson claimed that Martin was “executed for WWB in a GC—Walking While Black in a Gated Community.”<sup><sup>[2]</sup></sup> It was the unmistakable implication of President Obama’s own statement on the case: “If I had a son, he would look like Trayvon.”<sup><sup>[3]</sup></sup> For the already convinced, Trayvon Martin was killed not because of anything he had done, but because he was a black man in a racist culture, and therefore racial prey.</p>
<p>As it happens, the term “white skin privilege” was first popularized in the 1970s by the SDS radicals of “Weatherman,” who were carrying on a terrorist war against “Amerikkka,” a spelling designed to stigmatize the United States as a nation of Klansmen.<sup><sup>[4]</sup></sup> Led by presidential friends, Bill Ayers and his wife Bernardine Dohrn, the Weather terrorists called on other whites to renounce their privilege and join a global race war already in progress.</p>
<p>Although their methods and style kept the Weather radicals on the political fringe, their views on race reflected those held by the broad ranks of the political left. In the following years, the concept of “white</p>
<p>Skin privilege” continued to spread until it became an article of faith among all progressives, a concept that acc-ounted for everything that was racially wrong in America beginning with its constitutional founding. As Pax Christi USA, a Catholic organization, explained: “Law in the U.S. protects white skin privilege because white male landowners created the laws to protect their rights, their culture and their wealth.”<sup><sup>[5]</sup></sup> This was the theme of <em>A People’s History of the United States</em>, the most popular book ever written on the subject, now part of university curricula across the nation.</p>
<p>Eventually, the concept of white skin privilege was embraced even by liberals who had initially resisted it as slander against a nation that had just concluded a historically unprecedented civil rights revolution. This was because the concept of white skin privilege provided an explanation for the fact that the recent Civil Rights Acts had not led to an equality of results, and that racial disparities persisted even as overt racists and institutional barriers were vanishing from public life.</p>
<p>The inconvenient triumph of American tolerance presented an existential problem for civil rights activists, whom it threatened to put out of work. “White skin privilege” offered a solution. As the Southern Poverty Law Center explained: “white skin privilege is not something that white people necessarily do, create or enjoy on purpose,” but is rather an unavoidable consequence of the “transparent preference for whiteness that saturates our society.”<sup><sup>[6]</sup></sup> In other words, even if white Americans were no longer racists, they were.</p>
<p>A parallel concept favored by progressives was “institutional racism.” This was the idea that even in the absence of actual racists, the values and standards of American institutions by their very nature discriminated against non-whites. These two sophistries made possible new battles and continued the life of campaigns that annually lured millions of dollars into the deep pockets of “anti-racist” organizations and movements, even as racists were no longer detectable in the institutions themselves.</p>
<p><em>Lynching Whites</em></p>
<p>What reality is there to the claim that white skin is privileged and black is not? Is it really the case that non-whites are the exclusive targets of racial vendettas, while whites enjoy protection from racial prejudice and collective suspicion? No sober individual could possibly think so.</p>
<p>In fact, for decades, at the hands of progressives white males have been the prime villains in the nation’s classrooms, and the principal targets of disapprobation and presumptive guilt in the general political culture as well. Not that long ago, the nation witnessed a public scandal as racially charged as the Trayvon Martin case in the public lynching of three white male students at Duke University. Like other institutions of higher learning, Duke prides itself on its racial tolerance. There are no more sacred principles on campuses generally than racial tolerance, diversity and inclusion. As everyone knows, however, but few will take the risk to observe, these principles extend to every race but whites.</p>
<p>When an anonymous individual drew a noose on the office door of an African American faculty member at Columbia University the entire university community concluded that it was an act of racism, and the institution was virtually shut down to express collective horror that such an event might occur. This all took place before there was any indication that its message was racial or that its perpetrator was not the faculty member herself – which has been a not infrequent occurrence on campuses before.</p>
<p>When three white members of the Duke lacrosse team were accused of rape by a black prostitute, on no evidence whatsoever, the campus not only did not defend the presumption of their innocence, but rushed with intemperate haste to punish them as though they had already been tried and convicted. The university expelled them, the lacrosse coach was fired, the lacrosse season terminated, their names were published and 88 members of the Duke faculty signed an open letter condemning their racist deed.<sup><sup>[7]</sup></sup></p>
<p>The cloud of suspicion and presumption of guilt that engulfed the students ruined their reputations and put their lives and careers on halt. It lasted for more than a year with no challenge from university officials or public authorities or the mainstream media. Yet it was entirely based on the false and malicious accusations of a local prostitute and drug addict, whose record of criminal behavior and absence of credibility were eagerly overlooked because she was black. While the faces of the innocent accused were plastered across the national media where they were portrayed as racists and rapists, the accuser herself was protected, and her name withheld throughout the case—even after her criminal libels were exposed.</p>
<p>The nameless accuser was a professional stripper who had been hired to entertain a fraternity party. A fellow stripper, who was also black and present at the event, denied the rape had ever taken place. One of the accused rapists proved that he was not even present when the attack was alleged to have taken place. Yet he was judged guilty all the same by the civil rights crusaders. Guilty because he was white. White skin was enough evidence to get all three students indicted by the local district attorney who was seeking votes in an election year among a constituency that was largely black and now racially inflamed (although the national press averted its eyes from this aspect of the case as well).</p>
<p>Leading the calls for punishment before trial were racial agitators Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. Jackson was first out, attempting to secure a conviction by decrying the long “history of white men and black women and rape and assault,”<sup><sup>[8]</sup></sup> as though the criminal actions of a minority implicated every person of the same gender and color. Jackson also proposed to have his organization pay all tuition costs for the faceless criminal accuser should she want to attend college.<sup><sup>[9]</sup></sup> The clear implication was that unlike her rapists whose parents (being white) could afford a Duke education, the benighted woman was denied such an opportunity by a racist society. Not to be out mau-maued, Sharpton claimed, “this case parallels Abner Louima, who was raped and sodomized in a bathroom [by a New York City police officer] like this girl has alleged she was.”<sup><sup>[10]</sup></sup> The fantasizer of this ludicrous connection was a man practiced in the art of racial libels, including the infamous (and almost identical) accusations made by his infamous client Tawana Brawley who ruined the lives of six innocent white males by making false accusations of rape against them. After six years of inflicting hell on his victims, Sharpton eventually lost a libel suit brought by one of his victims. But even being a convicted liar failed to disqualify Sharpton as a civil rights “leader” since <em>his</em> victims were only white.</p>
<p>A professor of English named Houston Baker emerged as Duke’s homegrown racial arsonist, leading a posse of Duke faculty members in a public condemnation of the accused students in an ad that appeared in the <em>Duke Chronicle</em>. Baker charged that “white male privilege” had permitted the alleged perpetrators of “this horrific, racist incident” to remain “safe under the cover of silent whiteness.”<sup><sup>[11]</sup></sup> Whiteness had given them “license to rape, maraud, deploy hate speech and feel proud of themselves in the bargain.”<sup><sup>[12]</sup></sup></p>
<p>A year later, the three lacrosse players were exonerated, and the district attorney was sacked as conclusive evidence showed that there had been no rape and they were innocent of any crime. But the mob leaders Jackson, Sharpton and Baker, never had to face consequences for their maliciously, racially motivated deeds, never were made to apologize for their racism, or concede that that’s what it was. Call that immunity <em>black</em> skin privilege.</p>
<p>The Duke travesty has left the front pages and faded in memory, along with the many other episodes of racial injustice to whites, that were never openly acknowledged as such. Not only have we have reached a national moment when innocent whites are presumed guilty on the basis of their skin color, but blacks are often presumed innocent when the evidence points to their guilt. This is true whether the crime they commit is false witness, as at Duke, or a double homicide, as in O.J. Simpson’s murder of his wife and a stranger. Simpson was defended by a “dream team” of the nation’s best lawyers and the televised trial was closely watched by the entire nation. When a mostly black jury acquitted the murderer, the overwhelming majority of Americans who had watched the trial viewed the verdict with horror. But not black America, which cheered and celebrated this miscarriage of justice as a racial “payback.” No one called <em>that</em> racism. That’s another black skin privilege.</p>
<p>In America today, blacks generally can conduct racist assaults on whites and count on “civil rights” activists and the media not to notice. In the two months following Trayvon Martin’s death, black assailants carried out at least 14 fourteen known attacks against white victims with the idea of “avenging” the fallen youth.<sup><sup>[13]</sup></sup> In East Toledo, six juveniles beat a 78-year-old white man, shouting: “This is for Trayvon &#8230; Trayvon lives, white [man]. Kill that white [man]!”<sup><sup>[14]</sup></sup> In Gainesville, five blacks shouting “Trayvon!” beat a 27-year-old white man, leaving his face permanently disfigured. In another Gainesville incident, a black crowd shouting “Trayvon!” assaulted and stomped on a white man who was trying to recover his female companion’s purse from the hands of a black thief.<sup><sup>[15]</sup></sup> In Chicago, two black teenagers beat and robbed a 19-year-old white man because, as one of the attackers explained, they were angry about Trayvon Martin.<sup><sup>[16]</sup></sup> In Baltimore, a group of blacks beat and robbed a white man, stripping him naked, then posted a video of the assault online with the caption: “me an my boys helped get justice fore trayvon.”<sup><sup>[17]</sup></sup> In Mobile, a white man named Matthew Owens was brutalized by twenty African Americans armed with brass knuckles, bricks, chairs, bats and steel pipes after he asked them to stop playing basketball in the street directly in front of his home.<sup><sup>[18]</sup></sup> As the assailants left the scene, one of them looked back at the victim, who was bleeding profusely, and shouted,: “Now that’s justice for Trayvon!”<sup><sup>[19]</sup></sup> It is unlikely that many Americans have heard of these racial attacks, because the perpetrators are protected by a media that does not want to notice that the racists are black, and their victims are white.</p>
<p>Within weeks of the Trayvon Martin shooting, a parallel killing occurred with the skin colors reversed at a Taco Bell restaurant in Phoenix, Arizona. A 22-year-old black motorist got into an altercation with Daniel Adkins, a 29-year-old, mentally disabled “white Hispanic” who was walking by. When the argument grew heated, the motorist drew a gun and killed Adkins. When police arrived at the scene, the black shooter claimed that Adkins had swung a bat or metal pipe at him, although no such items were found at the scene. Arizona, like Florida, has a “Stand Your Ground” law that allows a person to use deadly force to protect himself when faced with a life-or-death confrontation.<sup><sup>[20]</sup></sup> A protective media withheld the shooter’s name, and there was no racial mob calling for his head. Unlike George Zimmerman, the gunman was not arrested nor charged with a crime. Call that black skin privilege.</p>
<p>If you’re black and possibly guilty but a white person is involved, the media will actively volunteer to be your advocate. This was true in the Duke case, where the<em> New York Times</em> and other papers convicted the accused in advance of any legal proceeding. In the Trayvon Martin case, the media withheld details of the crime that were damaging to Trayvon in order to protect him and indict Zimmerman — that the mainly white community he had entered at night had been the target of a rash of recent break-ins and burglaries by young African-American men;<sup><sup>[21]</sup></sup> that the hoodie Trayvon wore was a uniform for burglars; and that Trayvon had been suspended from school after burglary tools were discovered on his person along with unaccounted-for jewelry.<sup><sup>[22]</sup></sup> At the same time, the press flooded the airwaves and front pages with sentimental photos of Trayvon as an innocent adolescent, while withholding others of the six-foot-two, 17-year-old who beat the smaller Zimmerman to the ground, smashing his head on the concrete and causing him to scream repeatedly for his life before he fired his gun in self-defense.</p>
<p>Looking at the Martin case, black skin privilege means you can form a lynch mob if the target is a “white” man and the press will overlook it; you can demand a judgment in advance of the facts, and can conclude his guilt in advance of a trial. You can even take “justice” into your own hands by threatening his life as the Black Panthers did, or twittering his home address like vigilante filmmaker Spike Lee and comedienne Roseanne Barr did in the hope that someone might go after him.<sup><sup>[23]</sup></sup> If this isn’t a rebirth of the cracker mentality of the segregated South, it is hard to know what would be.</p>
<p>But it is events under the national radar that take the biggest toll. Black skin privilege means the national media will fail to report an epidemic of black race riots that have targeted whites for beatings, shootings, stabbings and rapes in major American cities recently. A determined reporter, Colin Flaherty, broke ranks to document these rampages in a book titled, <em>White Girl Bleed A Lot</em>, after a statement made by one of the rioters.<sup><sup>[24]</sup></sup> As reported in Flaherty’s book, there have been hundreds of black race riots in more than fifty American cities in the last few years,<sup><sup>[25]</sup></sup> including more than a dozen each in Chicago, Miami, Philadelphia, New York, Las Vegas, Milwaukee, Kansas City and Denver. In July 2011, to cite an illustrative example, a mob of African Americans created what the local NBC affiliate called an “astonishing” amount of violence at downtown Philadelphia restaurants, hotels and bars.<sup><sup>[26]</sup></sup> Afterwards, the politically correct police chief said he feared for the safety of the <em>rioters</em>.<sup><sup>[27]</sup></sup> But after surveying the mayhem, the city’s black mayor made an unprecedented public statement. “You have damaged your own race,” he said to the culprits, and in a pointed reference to the Martin case, he added, “Take those God darn hoodies down.”<sup><sup>[28]</sup></sup></p>
<p><em>Crime Statistics</em></p>
<p>In the liberal culture, black skin privilege has created an optical illusion, persuading progressives that white-on-black attacks are commonplace events, rather than the other way around. In fact, there are five times as many black attacks on whites as the reverse. According to the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS), which relies on crime victims to identify their assailants, 320,082 whites were victims of black violence in 2010, the latest year for which statistics are available, while 62,593 blacks were victims of white violence.<sup><sup>[29]</sup></sup> But these raw statistics understate the pattern. In 2010, the white and black populations in the United States were 197 million and 38 million, respectively.<sup><sup>[30]</sup></sup> In other words, blacks committed acts of interracial violence at a rate <em>25 times higher</em> than whites (849 per 100,000 versus 32 per 100,000).<sup><sup>[31]</sup></sup></p>
<p>This pattern has been among the most consistent findings of criminal-justice research for many years and for a wide variety of crimes. Nationwide there were an estimated 67,755 black-on-white aggravated assaults in 2010, as compared to with just 1,748 white-on-black crimes of the same description. In other words, blacks committed acts of interracial aggravated assault at a rate 200 times higher than whites (181 per 100,000 population versus 0.9 per 100,000).<sup><sup>[32]</sup></sup></p>
<p>The physical threat to African Americans from whites is actually minimal compared to the epidemic of black violence against whites. The National Crime Victimization Survey reported approximately 13,000 black-on-white rapes in the United States in 2010, and 39,000 black-on-white robberies, both violent crimes against persons. By contrast, the numbers of white-on-black rapes and robberies reported in the same surveys were so infinitesimal that whites were estimated to have accounted for 0% of all rapes and robberies committed against black victims in the United States.<sup><sup>[33]</sup></sup></p>
<p>To stoke the fires of racial grievance in the face of these contrary facts, civil rights advocates pretend that the statistics lie or that merely mentioning them is an act of racism. They tell us that black criminals aren’t actually criminals; the true culprit is the white “unjust justice system” that “profiles” blacks and creates this racist illusion. “Unjust justice system” is the term favored by Los Angeles congresswoman Maxine Waters, who explains, “the color of your skin dictates whether you will be arrested or not, prosecuted harshly or less harshly, receive a stiff sentence or gain probation or entry into treatment.”<sup><sup>[34]</sup></sup> Bill Quigley, legal director of the left-wing Center for Constitutional Rights, agrees with her conclusion: “The U.S. criminal-justice system is &#8230; a race-based institution where African-Americans are directly targeted and punished in a much more aggressive way than white people.”<sup><sup>[35]</sup></sup></p>
<p>President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton also agree. At a debate during the Democratic Party primaries in 2008, Obama ignored the facts and charged that blacks and whites “are arrested at very different rates, are convicted at very different rates, [and] receive very different sentences” for “the same crime.”<sup><sup>[36]</sup></sup> Not to be outdone, Clinton denounced the “disgrace of a criminal-justice system that incarcerates so many more African Americans proportionately than whites.”<sup><sup>[37]</sup></sup> No member of the press disturbed their duet by pointing out that African Americans commit many more crimes proportionally than whites. This is black skin privilege at work, and illustrates how prevalent anti-white racist attitudes have become in the political culture.</p>
<p>Through sheer repetition and lack of corrective information, the myths of white skin privilege have made a deep imprint on the culture generally and the culture of black Americans in particular. According to a recent <em>Washington Post</em>/ABC News poll, 84% of black Americans feel that the justice system treats them unfairly.<sup><sup>[38]</sup></sup> But while it is true that blacks are arrested in numbers greater than their representation in the population, it is it is also true that they commit crimes in far greater numbers than their representation would warrant. African Americans are 12.6% of the U.S. population,<sup><sup>[39]</sup></sup> but they account for 38.9% of all violent crime arrests—including 32.5% of all rapes, 55.5% of all robberies, and 33.9% of all aggravated assaults.<sup><sup>[40]</sup></sup> Is this because they are arrested for crimes they didn’t commit? Are they only “guilty of being black”?In fact, the statistics are compiled by interviewing the victims of these violent crimes, which in the case of crimes committed by blacks are mostly black themselves. In 2010, black perpetrators were responsible for 80% of all violence against blacks (including 94% of homicides), while white perpetrators accounted for just 9% of all violence against blacks.<sup><sup>[41]</sup></sup></p>
<p>Another inconvenient fact for the promoters of the racial “injustice system” myth is that numerous high-crime cities with majority-black populations and high black arrest rates are run by African American mayors and African American police chiefs. Among them are Detroit, Jackson, Birmingham, Memphis, Flint, Savannah, Atlanta, and Washington, D.C. Cognizant of the methods that police use to fight crime and the disproportionate contribution of blacks to crime rates, the former black police chief of Los Angeles, Bernard Parks said: “It’s not the fault of the police when they stop minority males or put them in jail. It’s the fault of the minority males for committing the crime. In my mind, it is not a great revelation that if officers are looking for criminal activity, they’re going to look at the kind of people who are listed on crime reports.”<sup><sup>[42]</sup></sup> But this sensible attitude has not penetrated the leadership of the Democratic Party nor the nation’s morally degraded civil rights movement.</p>
<p><em>Affirming Racism </em></p>
<p>Crime is only one of the areas where black skin privilege fogs the nation’s brain on racial matters. Under the banner of “leveling the playing field,” the rules of the game have been systematically rigged—against whites and in favor of blacks. Speaking for the dominant culture in our universities, and for the U.S. Supreme Court’s majority, Columbia University law professor Patricia Williams, who is black, explains: “If the modern white man, innocently or not, is the inheritor of another’s due, then it must be returned.”<sup><sup>[43]</sup></sup> (Innocent or not!) Attorney General Eric Holder is of a similar mind. In February 2012, he expressed amazement over the fact that anyone could seriously think that racial preferences might be bad social policy: “The question is not when does [affirmative action] end, but when does it begin &#8230; When do people of color truly get the benefits to which they are entitled?”<sup><sup>[44]</sup></sup> Or, as the late Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall put it more candidly to his fellow justice William O. Douglas: “You [white] guys have been practicing discrimination for years. Now it’s our turn.”<sup><sup>[45]</sup></sup> The current Supreme Court majority is sympathetic to this view.</p>
<p>This collectivist view of guilt and debts that erases individuals and their accountability is now entrenched in America’s institutional framework. In the 1970s, affirmative action was successfully redefined to mean racial preferences for non-whites, and a new standard was set for admissions policies at universities across the United States. Though black students’ median SAT scores in any given year were at least 200 points lower than the median for white students,’ blacks were admitted to virtually all academically competitive schools at much higher rates.<sup><sup>[46]</sup></sup> The pattern of racial privilege for blacks persists to this day, not only in undergraduate colleges and universities, but also in professional training schools for aspiring doctors and lawyers. At the University of Michigan Medical School, for instance, the odds favoring the admission of black over white applicants with the same background and academic credentials have ranged between 21-to-1 and 38-to-1.<sup><sup>[47]</sup></sup>At the University of Nebraska College of Law in recent years, the black-over-white admission ratio was 442-to-1;<sup><sup>[48]</sup></sup> and at Arizona State University Law School, 1,115-to-1.<sup><sup>[49]</sup></sup></p>
<p>Inevitably, the racial bias does not stop with the admissions process. Once a university accepts black students, under-qualified for that school though they may be, it is imperative that they remain in school and eventually graduate, poor performance notwithstanding. This is because high minority dropout rates jeopardize not only a university’s reputation among advocates of racial preferences but also its formal accreditation. To reduce minority attrition and “level the playing field,” many professors evaluate the work of black students using a lower standard than they use for their white and Asian peers, a practice which the late sociologist David Riesman labeled “affirmative grading.”<sup><sup>[50]</sup></sup> A blunter characterization was made by a professor at one of California’s state universities, who observed: “We are just lying to these black students when we give them degrees.”<sup><sup>[51]</sup></sup> By lowering the standards for black students—without admitting that they are doing so—universities are also lying to their graduates’ future patients and clients, many of whom are likely to include large numbers of blacks themselves.</p>
<p>Because maintaining racially “diverse” student bodies is now a legal obligation, some schools have taken to providing monetary incentives to black students who meet normal standards, a privilege not offered to their white and Asian peers. At Penn State, beginning in the early 1990s, blacks were paid $580 if they were able to maintain a C average, while those with a B average or better were given twice that amount.<sup><sup>[52]</sup></sup> In 2011, Yale University announced that it would provide free tuition to black public high school graduates with a GPA of at least 3.0 and a good attendance record.<sup><sup>[53]</sup></sup> No white student with a 3.0 GPA need even apply to Yale. Monetary incentives have been implemented with younger students as well. In 2008, Harvard professor Roland Fryer spearheaded an initiative to pay underachieving black fourth-graders in New York up to $250 for improving their grades, and as much as $500 for seventh-graders.<sup><sup>[54]</sup></sup> The ugly racial condescension that goes with these reward systems (not to mention the incentives such advantages provide to students to be content with<br />
underperforming) attracts little or no notice. There are also thousands of college scholarships and fellowships earmarked exclusively for nonwhite students.<sup><sup>[55]</sup></sup> These are made available by private organizations, individual schools, publicly and privately held corporations, the federal government, and state governments.</p>
<p>These scholarships, grants and rewards are not made to students who first demonstrate that they are actually disadvantaged by race or any other factor. Many of the recipients come from quite privileged backgrounds. The benefits are granted to these students because of their race. No one would think of providing such scholarships to white students while excluding others. That would be racist. No one pays much attention to the gross injustices done to white students from all economic backgrounds, who are denied places because they “inherited” unspecified and undocumented advantages by virtue of their skin color.</p>
<p>Nor are racial privileges for blacks limited to educational institutions. Since the 1970s, most major corporations (and a host of smaller ones) have implemented wide-ranging race-specific strategies for recruiting minorities, sponsored scholarships for minority recipients, funded internship programs earmarked exclusively for nonwhite high school and college students, paid current and former employees a “reward” merely for identifying the names of potential “diversity candidates,” and given financial bonuses to managers for successfully recruiting and/or promoting a significant number of black employees.<sup><sup>[56]</sup></sup> In an effort to maintain their diversity profiles and to keep their coveted black workers from seeking greener career pastures, many companies have established minority employee organizations that sponsor mentorship and self-help programs, produce newsletters, organize fundraising activities, and provide forums in which nonwhites in the labor force can air their grievances.<sup><sup>[57]</sup></sup> And of course, all of these measures also serve to separate their workers on the basis of race.</p>
<p>Needless to say, since government is the real source of these segregated arrangements, racial privileges are ubiquitous in government hiring practices. Police and fire departments nationwide go to great lengths to recruit black applicants. Where those applicants have failed the qualifying examinations in disproportionately high numbers, departments have simply thrown out the results, lowered the standards, or created new definitions of what constitutes a passing grade. One of the most blatant manifestations of the obsession with diversity involved the Boston Fire Department. A pair of white identical twins, Philip and Paul Malone, both failed the department’s qualification test and consequently were dropped from the applicant pool. Two years later they took the test again, at a time when the department was under pressure from a court-ordered affirmative action plan to hire more minorities. In an attempt to exploit the judicial mandate, the Malones re-classified themselves as black, claiming to have recently discovered that their long-deceased great-grandmother was of African ancestry. Their exam scores this time around were 57% and 69%, respectively—far below the 82% cutoff point for white applicants, but more than sufficient for black applicants. The Boston Fire Department hired the “black” Malone twins.<sup><sup>[58]</sup></sup></p>
<p><em>Black Racism</em></p>
<p>Like the racial injustice against blacks that preceded it, the racial injustice enforced on behalf of blacks has damaged them as well as whites. It has empowered incompetence and sown resentment, and ensured that racial tensions persist nearly half a century after the Civil Rights Acts outlawed racial barriers. A 2009 Quinnipiac University poll asked respondents, “Do you think affirmative action programs that give preferences to blacks and other minorities in hiring, promotions and college admissions should be continued or … abolished?” Discriminated-against whites favored “abolished” by a margin of 64% to 27%, while the black beneficiaries, not surprisingly, favored “continued” by 78% to 14%.<sup><sup>[59]</sup></sup></p>
<p>Racial bias is now such an integral part of America’s political culture that in 2008 black skin privilege elected a president of the United States. Absent this privilege, is the career of our 44th president conceivable? What political novice, lacking notable legislative or professional achievements, having spent his entire career on the radical fringes of American politics, and having encumbered himself with an unrepentant terrorist and a racial bigot as his close political collaborators, could even think about winning a major party presidential nomination, let alone being elected? Absent black skin privilege, what candidate with such a checkered past could go virtually un-vetted by the national press, or receive a pass from his political opponent on matters that would sink the fortunes of a candidate of any other race?</p>
<p>Black skin privilege guarantees not only exemptions from intellectual and political standards that others are required to meet, but from moral standards as well. What white celebrity, having shot his brother as a juvenile, dealt cocaine as an adult, and stabbed a rival business executive with a five-inch blade could count an American president among his friends and be invited to host his political fund-raisers? But rapper Jay‑Z did exactly that during Obama’s 2012 re-election run, and both he and the president could remain confident that no one would suggest it was a problem.<sup><sup>[60]</sup></sup></p>
<p>Black skin privilege is a license not only to commit no-fault crimes, but to be openly racist without adverse consequences. White celebrity bigots, like Mel Gibson, are routinely condemned and shunned as pariahs, as they should be. It would be hard to imagine a white counterpart boasting that he had voted on the basis of skin color, characterizing non-whites as racists, and repeatedly using the word “nigger” to salt his wisdom. When this outrage was committed by black actor Samuel L. Jackson, however, nobody gave his racism a second thought. In February 2012, Jackson told <em>Ebony</em> magazine, “I voted for Barack because he was black. ’Cuz that’s why other folks vote for other people—because they look like them…. That’s American politics, pure and simple. [Obama’s] message didn’t mean [bleep] to me. When it comes down to it, [whites] wouldn’t have elected a nigger. Because, what’s a nigger? A nigger is scary. Obama ain’t scary at all&#8230;. I hope Obama gets scary in the next four years, ’cuz he ain’t gotta worry about getting re-elected.”<sup><sup>[61]</sup></sup> This ignorant and repellent outburst (whites do vote for blacks) resulted in no consequences for Jackson; he didn’t even lose his job as spokesman for Apple’s popular iPhone.<sup><sup>[62]</sup></sup></p>
<p>Racist behavior isn’t even a disqualifier for civil rights leaders if they are black. Leader of a “civil rights movement” is how the media characterized Louis Farrakhan during his Million Man March, and Wikipedia still does today. What white racist could hold a march to protest black supremacy and air the grievances of white males, and expect to receive respectable press coverage let alone attract nearly a million whites to follow him? But Louis Farrakhan did just that with blacks.<sup><sup>[63]</sup></sup> A white racist of Farrakhan’s ilk couldn’t get 5,000 sympathizers to march on Washington, let alone 500,000. That’s a black skin privilege.</p>
<p>What white spiritual leader could support the torture-murders of South African blacks, compare Israel to Nazi Germany, and still be regarded as a moral icon? A black cleric like Bishop Desmond Tutu can.<sup><sup>[64]</sup></sup> What racial arsonist and convicted liar, whose incitements led directly to the incineration of seven individuals, could be regarded by the national media as a civil rights <em>spokesman</em>, and then hired as a TV anchor by NBC?<sup><sup>[65]</sup></sup> Only a blackdemagogue like Al Sharpton. Only a black racist like Sharpton could find himself lauded by an American president (as it happens, Barack Obama) as “a voice for the voiceless and &#8230; dispossessed.”<sup><sup>[66]</sup></sup></p>
<p>Nor have bigoted advocacies and anti-Semitic slurs cut short the career of America’s other celebrated race hustler. On the contrary, Jesse Jackson’s inflammatory rhetoric and racially motivated campaigns have endeared him to Democratic presidents and made him a millionaire many times over. Despite his success as a black man in America, he lectures Americans on how white racism is “the rot of our national character.”<sup><sup>[67]</sup></sup> That defamatory charge is the source of his impressive income. By threatening major corporations with racial boycotts that he alone can prevent, Jackson has been able to extort lucrative ransoms not only for the organizations he runs but for himself and his immediate family. In one celebrated case, he called off his threatened boycott of Anheuser-Busch after the company agreed to sell his sons one of its beer distributorships at a specially reduced price, making them millionaires in the bargain. <sup><sup>[68]</sup></sup></p>
<p>Despite the baggage he carries, Jackson has been able to make two high-profile runs for the presidency and remain a national civil rights figure. During his first presidential outing, he referred to Jews as “Hymies” and New York as “Hymietown,”<sup><sup>[69]</sup></sup> indiscretions that would have ruined other politicians but only caused a hiccup in his campaign. He received 3.5 million votes during the primaries—enough to earn him a keynote speech at the 1984 Democratic convention.<sup><sup>[70]</sup></sup> His anti-Semitism resurfaced in October 2008, when he predicted that an Obama presidency would provide a welcome counterbalance to the “Zionists who have controlled American policy for decades.” <sup><sup>[71]</sup></sup></p>
<p>Black skin privilege has enabled Jackson to enjoy a career that would be denied to any non-black politician, while accumulating high-level honors along the way. He has been awarded more than forty honorary doctorates by American universities.<sup><sup>[72]</sup></sup> He was given the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Clinton, the highest award a civilian can receive,<sup><sup>[73]</sup></sup> while the U.S. Post Office put his likeness on a pictorial postal cancellation, making him only the second living person to receive such recognition.<sup><sup>[74]</sup></sup> He has used this undeserved respect, in conjunction with other black demagogues, to transform a civil rights movement that once stood for race-neutrality in the law, into a vigilante posse seeking one law for “people of color” and another for the rest of America.</p>
<p><em>Destroying the Diverse Union </em></p>
<p>Those who attempt to rationalize racial bigotry when it is bigotry on behalf of blacks usually claim that this injustice is designed to redress a historic one, correcting the results of previous discrimination. There is certainly a truth here. Even as black skin privilege has meant widespread injustice to others, it has also brought benefits to a historically discriminated-against group, although individual blacks today would be hard put to claim that racism has been an impediment to their own achievements and successes. Many beneficiaries of racial preferences may also have put the unfair advantages they received through racial preferences to good use. But perpetuating unfairness and inflicting injustice on others because of their skin color is a dangerous proposition, whatever the benefits that may accrue to some.</p>
<p>Racial privilege does more than merely damage the unlucky individuals who are its victims. When enforced by government and backed by law, it tears at the very fabric of the social order, regardless of whom it benefits. The wounds that the principle of separate-and-unequal inflicts on the community are incomparably greater than the damages incurred by individuals or the benefits that accrue to them. Building racial bias into the framework of the nation compromises the neutrality of the law that governs us all. It corrupts the standards that make a diverse community possible, and creates a racial spoils system that is the antithesis of the American dream, which was Martin Luther King’s dream as well. By corrupting the principle of neutrality, racial privilege breaks the common bond between America’s diverse communities and undermines the trust that makes the nation whole.</p>
<p>“All men are created equal” is the creed that makes a diverse nation possible. But a flaw was built into the original construction, which is open to multiple interpretations, including destructive ones. The most destructive of these is the idea that government can and should “level the playing field.” It is this idea that has given birth to the new racism. Obviously, all people are not created equal but are born with disparate abilities and characteristics. People are clearly unequal in beauty, intelligence, character, upbringing, and other vital aspects of personhood that lead directly to inequalities of celebrity, power, wealth and social standing. Because these inequalities are rooted in human nature, there can never be a level playing field. Moreover, the efforts to produce one must lead (and historically have led) to the loss of individual freedom. This is because the field can only be made equal—and then only superficially—by governmental force as an all-powerful state takes the earned fruits of one person’s labor, intelligence and talent and distributes it to those it prefers, and does so in the name of “social justice.”</p>
<p>The American Founders understood that there is an irreconcilable conflict between freedom and equality, between individual liberty and equal results. They understood that “social justice” in practice is just a rationale for the taking of one person’s achievements, and giving them to others who are favored by the party in power. What is justice to some is necessarily theft to others. It is an “injustice justice system.” In order to block such levelers, the founders created a Constitution that guaranteed property rights and instituted a system of checks and balances to frustrate their designs. The purpose of these constitutional checks, as their chief author James Madison wrote, was to thwart the “rage … for an abolition of debts, for an equal division of property, or for any other improper or wicked project.”<sup><sup>[75]</sup></sup> History has proven the wisdom of the Founders’ concern.</p>
<p>In a free society composed of unequal individuals, the drive to level the playing field is a totalitarian desire and a threat to freedom because it empowers government to confiscate the talents and earnings of some for the benefits of those it favors. The expansion of governmental power into every individual sphere whatever its justification entails a loss of freedom for all. Since the targets of the levelers are the creators of society’s wealth, an inevitable result of social justice is generalized poverty and economic decline.</p>
<p>In a free society, composed of individuals who are unequal by nature, the highest government good is neutrality in the treatment of its citizens before the law. One standard and one justice for all. This is the only equality that is not at odds with individual freedom. It is the only equality that can make a diverse community one. A nation that respects individual rights and protects individual freedom cannot be sustained if there is one standard for black and another for white; one for rich and another for poor. It can only be sustained by a single standard &#8212; one law and one justice for all.</p>
<p><strong>Notes:</strong></p>
<p><sup><sup>[1]</sup></sup> http://globalgrind.com/news/michael-skolnik-trayvon-martin-george-zimmerman-race-sanford-florida-photos-pictures</p>
<p><sup><sup>[2]</sup></sup> http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/032812-605931-left-bypasses-law-on-trayvon-martin-incident.htm</p>
<p><sup><sup>[3]</sup></sup> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAPtUfOs7Gs</p>
<p><sup><sup>[4]</sup></sup> http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6808</p>
<p><sup><sup>[5]</sup></sup> http://paxchristiusa.org/programs/brothers-and-sisters-all/anti-racism-training-for-white-activists/</p>
<p><sup><sup>[6]</sup></sup> http://www.tolerance.org/activity/racism-and-white-privilege</p>
<p><sup><sup>[7]</sup></sup> http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,265386,00.html</p>
<p><sup><sup>[8]</sup></sup> http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2006/04/is_the_duke_rape_story_unravel.html</p>
<p><sup><sup>[9]</sup></sup>http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/1091599/</p>
<p><sup><sup>[10]</sup></sup> http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,192277,00.html</p>
<p><sup><sup>[11]</sup></sup> http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2007/09/018598.php</p>
<p><sup><sup>[12]</sup></sup> http://today.duke.edu/showcase/mmedia/features/lacrosse_incident/lange_baker.html; http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/15/nyregion/15towns.html?_r=2&amp;</p>
<p><sup><sup>[13]</sup></sup> http://pjmedia.com/blog/justice-for-trayvon-15-whites-beaten-by-gangs-of-black-thugs-so-far/?singlepage=true</p>
<p><sup><sup>[14]</sup></sup> http://www.toledoblade.com/Police-Fire/2012/04/03/Man-78-recounts-assault-by-6-youths-in-E-Toledo.html.</p>
<p><sup><sup>[15]</sup></sup> http://www.gainesville.com/article/20120412/ARTICLES/120419865/1002/news?Title=-8216-Trayvon-shouted-as-group-attacks-Good-Samaritan</p>
<p><sup><sup>[16]</sup></sup> http://www.wnd.com/2012/05/wave-of-black-mobs-brutalizing-whites/; http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/04/26/suspect-attacked-white-teen-because-am-angry-about-trayvon/</p>
<p><sup><sup>[17]</sup></sup> http://www.wnd.com/2012/05/wave-of-black-mobs-brutalizing-whites/; http://www.ironicsurrealism.com/2012/04/14/baltimore-aaron-parsons-charged-in-connection-to-videotaped-assault-of-tourist-held-on-at-1-million-bond/</p>
<p><sup><sup>[18]</sup></sup> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4Oy5zEVJes; http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2134340/Thats-justice-Trayvon-Angry-mob-beats-man-telling-stop-playing-basketball—sister-claims-racist-revenge-attack-gunned-teen.html; http://www.theblaze.com/stories/justice-for-trayvon-alabama-man-in-critical-condition-after-mob-beating/; http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2012/04/mobile-man-clings-to-life-after-brutal-beating-by-black-mob-video/</p>
<p><sup><sup>[19]</sup></sup> http://www.examiner.com/article/mob-beats-man-on-his-own-front-porch-for-trayvon-press-ignores</p>
<p><sup><sup>[20]</sup></sup> http://www.chicagonewsreport.com/2012/04/daniel-adkins-killer-claims-self.html; http://nation.foxnews.com/daniel-adkins/2012/04/09/black-male-shoots-unarmed-hispanic-remains-free-media-mum</p>
<p><sup><sup>[21]</sup></sup> http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/25/us-usa-florida-shooting-zimmerman-idUSBRE83O18H20120425</p>
<p><sup><sup>[22]</sup></sup> http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/03/26/10872124-trayvon-martin-was-suspended-three-times-from-school?lite</p>
<p><sup><sup>[23]</sup></sup> http://foxnewsinsider.com/2012/03/30/celebs-speak-out-on-trayvon-martin-case-use-twitter-to-post-private-information-of-george-zimmerman-and-family/</p>
<p><sup><sup>[24]</sup></sup> http://www.creators.com/opinion/thomas-sowell/are-race-riots-news.html</p>
<p><sup><sup>[25]</sup></sup> http://whitegirlbleedalot.com/?page_id=28</p>
<p><sup><sup>[26]</sup></sup> http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/Flash_Mob_Strikes_in_Philadelphia_Philadelphia-126468293.html; http://www.wnd.com/2011/10/355449/</p>
<p><sup><sup>[27]</sup></sup> http://www.wnd.com/2011/10/355449/</p>
<p><sup><sup>[28]</sup></sup> http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2011/0815/Philadelphia-flash-mobs-black-mayor-takes-aim-at-black-community; http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/aug/8/mayor-talks-tough-to-black-teens-after-flash-mobs/?page=all</p>
<p><sup><sup>[29]</sup></sup> Table 42: Personal Crimes of Violence (2010), by The Bureau of Justice Statistics</p>
<p><sup><sup>[30]</sup></sup> http://www.census.gov/prod/cen2010/briefs/c2010br-02.pdf</p>
<p><sup><sup>[31]</sup></sup> Table 42: Personal Crimes of Violence (2010), by The Bureau of Justice Statistics</p>
<p><sup><sup>[32]</sup></sup> Table 42: Personal Crimes of Violence (2010), by The Bureau of Justice Statistics</p>
<p><sup><sup>[33]</sup></sup> Table 42: Personal Crimes of Violence (2010), by The Bureau of Justice Statistics</p>
<p><sup><sup>[34]</sup></sup> lYC&amp;q=maxine+waters#v=snippet&amp;q=maxine%20waters&amp;f=false; “Race and Crime,” <em>Investor’s Business Daily </em>(February 21, 1996).</p>
<p><sup><sup>[35]</sup></sup> http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/07/26-2</p>
<p><sup><sup>[36]</sup></sup> http://www.ontheissues.org/domestic/Barack_Obama_Crime.htm</p>
<p><sup><sup>[37]</sup></sup> http://www.city-journal.org/2008/18_2_criminal_justice_system.html</p>
<p><sup><sup>[38]</sup></sup> http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/04/racial-divisions-define-opinions-on-the-trayvon-martin-shooting/</p>
<p><sup><sup>[39]</sup></sup> http://www.census.gov/prod/cen2010/briefs/c2010br-02.pdf</p>
<p><sup><sup>[40]</sup></sup> http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/2012/tables/12s0325.pdf</p>
<p><sup><sup>[41]</sup></sup> Table 42: Personal Crimes of Violence (2010), by The Bureau of Justice Statistics; http://townhall.com/columnists/walterewilliams/2012/05/23/should_black_people_tolerate_this/page/full/</p>
<p><sup><sup>[42]</sup></sup> http://townhall.com/columnists/walterewilliams/2012/03/28/profiling/page/full/</p>
<p><sup><sup>[43]</sup></sup> http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/03/critical_race_theory_a_cult_of_anti-white_resentment.html</p>
<p><sup><sup>[44]</sup></sup> http://www.columbiaspectator.com/2012/02/24/holder-talks-financial-crime-affirmative-action-low</p>
<p><sup><sup>[45]</sup></sup><sup>45 http://books.google.com/books?id=QNV3XwST4WIC&amp;q=our+turn#v=snippet&amp;q=our%20turn&amp;f=false</sup></p>
<p><sup><sup>[46]</sup></sup> http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/_commentary-racial_prefs.htm</p>
<p><sup><sup>[47]</sup></sup> http://www.ceousa.org/attachments/article/543/UMichMed_final.pdf</p>
<p><sup><sup>[48]</sup></sup> http://www.ceousa.org/attachments/article/544/NE_LAW.pdf</p>
<p><sup><sup>[49]</sup></sup> http://www.academia.org/arizona-law-schools-discriminate/</p>
<p><sup><sup>[50]</sup></sup> http://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2002/09/04/friends_of_blacks/page/full/</p>
<p><sup><sup>[51]</sup></sup> http://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2002/09/04/friends_of_blacks/page/full/</p>
<p><sup><sup>[52]</sup></sup> Thomas DeLoughry, “At Penn State, Polarization of Campus Persists Amid Struggle to Ease Tensions,” T<em>he Chronicle of Higher Education </em>(April 26, 1989).</p>
<p><sup><sup>[53]</sup></sup> http://thegrio.com/2011/09/03/b-average-black-students-can-be-admitted-to-yale-for-free/</p>
<p><sup><sup>[54]</sup></sup> http://www.bvblackspin.com/2008/12/11/should-we-pay-kids-to-learn/; http://www.bvblackspin.com/2009/06/09/paying-poor-kids-for-good-grades-appears-to-be-working/</p>
<p><sup><sup>[55]</sup></sup> http://www.ehow.com/info_7817859_uncf-scholarships-grants.html; http://www.scholarships.com/financial-aid/college-scholarships/scholarships-by-type/minority-scholarships/african-american-scholarships/; http://www.amazon.com/Black-Students-Scholarships-Revised-Edition/dp/1568330790/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1336761925&amp;sr=8-2</p>
<p><sup><sup>[56]</sup></sup> http://www.nasrecruitment.com/docs/white_papers/Diversity-Recruitment.pdf</p>
<p><sup><sup>[57]</sup></sup> http://www.diversitycouncil.org/retaining_diverse_staff.shtml</p>
<p><sup><sup>[58]</sup></sup> Color Them Black,” <em>Time</em> (October 31, 1988), p. 19. Frederick Lynch,<em> Invisible Victims </em>(New York: Praeger Books, 1991), p. 28.</p>
<p><sup><sup>[59]</sup></sup> http://books.google.com/books/about/No_Matter_What_They_ll_Call_This_Book_Ra.html?id=oA7WhM38e9kC</p>
<p><sup><sup>[60]</sup></sup> http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/brooklyn/jay_the_gunslinger_1k7qCAFh7JiwwLVKWyCuuN; http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/beyonce_jay_host_ny_bam_ba_5wud17kNBMEiV8wim9YYJK</p>
<p><sup><sup>[61]</sup></sup> http://www.tmz.com/2012/02/11/barack-obama-samuel-l-jackson/?adid=hero2#.TzgdXiNqNWM</p>
<p><sup><sup>[62]</sup></sup> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/17/samuel-l-jackson-iphone-commercial-video_n_1430054.html</p>
<p><sup><sup>[63]</sup></sup> http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1325</p>
<p><sup><sup>[64]</sup></sup> http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2416</p>
<p><sup><sup>[65]</sup></sup> http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/PAGE-ONE-8-Killed-In-Harlem-Arson-Gunman-3018812.php</p>
<p><sup><sup>[66]</sup></sup> http://www.commentarymagazine.com/article/obamas-leftism/</p>
<p><sup><sup>[67]</sup></sup> Jesse Jackson et al., “The Continuing American Dilemma,” New Perspectives Quarterly (Summer 1991), p. 10.</p>
<p><sup><sup>[68]</sup></sup> Judicial Watch, “Jesse Jackson Exposed” (2006); http://solargeneral.com/jeffs-archive/black-civil-wrongs/jesse-shakedown-jackson-gets-beer-distributorship-for-son/; http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=93897&amp;page=1#.UKaQkWByFWM</p>
<p><sup><sup>[69]</sup></sup> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/frenzy/jackson.htm</p>
<p><sup><sup>[70]</sup></sup> http://articles.cnn.com/keyword/jesse-jackson</p>
<p><sup><sup>[71]</sup></sup>http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/item_6OMiQxyZEhxOR6i0Hdag9O;jsessionid=A0CC62E7ECDA9F32AA4387697315F036</p>
<p><sup><sup>[72]</sup></sup> http://rainbowpush.org/pages/jackson_bio</p>
<p><sup><sup>[73]</sup></sup> http://www.gale.cengage.com/free_resources/bhm/bio/jackson_j.htm</p>
<p><sup><sup>[74]</sup></sup> http://www.wkan.com/programs/keep-hope-alive-with-jesse-jackson.html</p>
<p><sup><sup>[75]</sup></sup> http://www.constitution.org/fed/federa10.htm</p>
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		<title>Eric Holder, A Legacy of Race-Based Radicalism</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Obama's body man calls it quits.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/hold.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-241853" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/hold-413x350.jpg" alt="hold" width="291" height="247" /></a>Attorney General Eric Holder is at long last relinquishing his cabinet post after nearly six unprecedented, catastrophic years of racial demagoguery and gangsterism.</p>
<p>Holder, who announced yesterday that he will leave office when a replacement is selected, will leave behind what is probably the most ugly and toxic legacy of any attorney general ever in the history of the republic.</p>
<p>Although he has all the moral authority of disbarred Duke Lacrosse prosecutor <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/Nifong%20Disbarred%20Now%20How%20About%20Some.html">Mike Nifong</a>, Holder knows he is immune to criticism because he is black and a radical leftist. He is a protected, pampered member of the ruling class and his arrogance knows no bounds. He ignores court orders and gives congressional overseers the finger.</p>
<p>Holder has transformed the U.S. Department of Justice into a racial grievance incubator, an intensive care unit for kooky, authoritarian ideas that should have died after the 1960s. The DoJ, especially its rotten, totally corrupt Civil Rights Division, is a lawyerly commune for revolutionaries who oppose the very idea of the rule of law. Critical Legal Theory and Critical Race Theory govern much of what goes on in the department.</p>
<p>It is no exaggeration to say that Holder leaves death and destruction behind after saturation-bombing the Constitution, orchestrating criminal activity in order to whip up public support for policy changes, fomenting racial tension and violence, persecuting political opponents and disfavored industries, obstructing justice, and enforcing laws arbitrarily and capriciously and in a manner calculated to benefit his friends and allies.</p>
<p>It was all too predictable. Holder was the official assigned to vet President Bill Clinton&#8217;s 176 last-minute pardons in January 2001. Among those pardoned were former Weather Underground members Susan Rosenberg and Linda Evans. He was deeply involved in Clinton&#8217;s pardons of fugitive financier Marc Rich and Puerto Rican terrorists. Holder is an archetype, a living, breathing embodiment of American political corruption.</p>
<p>&#8220;The news that Holder is going to resign should be bittersweet to anyone who cares about racial equality and the rule of law,&#8221; <a href="http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2014/09/25/goodbye-eric-and-goodridance/?singlepage=true">says</a> <em>Injustice</em> author J. Christian Adams, a lawyer who used to work at the DoJ.</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;The damage he has already done to the country leaves a turbulent wake that is ill-matched to the financial reward awaiting him at a shameless and large Washington, D.C., law firm. Our country is more polarized and more racially divided because of Eric Holder. He turned the power of the Justice Department into a racially motivated turnout machine for the Democratic Party. That was his job in this administration, and he did it well.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Holder’s time in office &#8220;represents the beginnings of a post-Constitutional era, where the chief law enforcement officer of the United States serves to dismantle legal traditions,&#8221; according to Adams.</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Holder is the first attorney general to whom law seemed to be an option, a suggestion on the way to a progressive future. Most folks, and most lawyers, who didn’t devote daily attention to him might not have noticed the ground shifting during his tenure. But shift it did, and very deliberately.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Activism, as opposed to enforcing the law, is the proper role of the nation’s chief law enforcement officer, according to Holder. “Any attorney general who is not an activist is not doing his or her job,” he pontificated earlier this year.</p>
<p>Holder is about race, race, and race. It&#8217;s what gets him up in the morning. His sick fixation on skin color is notable even in an administration jam-packed with racial obsessives and identity politics-driven Marxists. He brands those who oppose him as racists. This is usually enough to shut up most Republican lawmakers.</p>
<p>Holder has called America “essentially a nation of cowards,” because most Americans don’t share his radical left-wing multiculturalist views on race.</p>
<blockquote><p>“We, average Americans, simply do not talk enough with each other about race. It is an issue we have never been at ease with and, given our nation’s history, this is in some ways understandable…. This nation has still not come to grips with its racial past … ”</p></blockquote>
<p>So America remains a deeply racist nation, just as biased against blacks as it was in the Jim Crow era, as Holder sees it. Government-mandated racism such as affirmative action programs and other special treatment for minorities is desperately needed, in his view.</p>
<p>As attorney general, Holder refused to prosecute the New Black Panther Party members who openly brandished weapons at a Philadelphia polling station in 2008 in order to intimidate white voters. He also refused to enforce electoral integrity laws and ferociously opposes voter ID laws because he alleges they discriminate against minorities. He supports affirmative action programs, which by definition, of course, are racist because they discriminate against white Americans. He stood behind the egregious &#8220;Pigford&#8221; settlement, a vote-buying scheme that handed out government cash to black farmers whether or not they suffered discrimination at the hands of federal agriculture officials.</p>
<p>Justice isn&#8217;t blind with Holder. It has rose-colored eyeglasses.</p>
<p>Under Holder, the Department of Justice sent taxpayer-paid community organizers down to Sanford, Florida, to generate mobs to agitate against the so-called white Hispanic, George Zimmerman, since-acquitted of the murder of black juvenile delinquent Trayvon Martin. The agency has done the same thing in the case of Michael Brown, an 18-year-old black man shot dead after accosting a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri.</p>
<p>Of course, Holder is the first black U.S. attorney general, a fact he loves to repeat over and over again in speeches and media interviews, as if his race were a <em>bona fide</em> job qualification.</p>
<p>But he is also the first U.S. attorney general in memory to openly declare that he works only to protect the interests of what he calls &#8220;my people,&#8221; or those who share his skin color. White Americans with civil rights complaints are not a priority in Holder&#8217;s Justice Department.</p>
<p>Holder possesses an off-putting combination of creepy self-righteousness, cockiness, hatred of country, and racist contempt for white Americans that makes him the darling of the activist Left and the mainstream media that refuses to report on his many, many misdeeds.</p>
<p>Holder is not We The People&#8217;s lawyer. He is a talented political fixer who would be perfectly at home in Al Capone&#8217;s Chicago. He serves as a personal <em>consigliere</em>, or mob lawyer, to President Obama, the highest elected gangster in the land. And he will never double-cross the <em>capo di tutti capi</em>. He will bend and twist any statute into pretzels, torture any legal precedent into obedience, and strong-arm anyone who gets in his way.</p>
<p>Holder is the legal ringleader for today’s Democrats and their culture of corruption. After being held in criminal contempt of Congress in June 2012 –the first such citation against a sitting attorney general in American history– he is just a few steps away from being impeached in the House of Representatives and tried in the Senate for the high crimes and misdemeanors he has committed against the American people.</p>
<p>A formal impeachment resolution, H.Res. 411 accuses Holder of wrongdoing in connection with his involvement in the Fast and Furious scandal (that reportedly left hundreds of Mexicans and a U.S. border patrolman dead), refusing to enforce the Defense of Marriage Act, refusing to prosecute IRS officials who leaked confidential GOP donor tax information, and providing misleading testimony to Congress about whether he approved invasive investigative tactics against reporters like James Rosen of Fox News.</p>
<p>This morally bankrupt racketeer ought to spend the rest of his life in prison. Probably nothing will happen to him. Rumor around Washington has it that President Obama wants to put Holder on the Supreme Court.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, Holder ally and professional racial huckster Al Sharpton <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/al-sharpton-says-hes-helping-pick-the-next-attorney-general-2014-9">boasts</a> that he is playing a significant role in selecting Holder&#8217;s successor.</p>
<p>He says his so-called civil rights group, the tax-evading National Action Network, is &#8220;engaged in immediate conversations&#8221; with the Obama White House as officials consider a replacement for Holder.</p>
<p>Sharpton drooled over Holder, calling him the &#8220;best&#8221; attorney general ever on civil rights-related issues.</p>
<p>&#8220;The resignation of Attorney General Eric Holder is met with both pride and disappointment by the Civil Rights community,&#8221; said the Jew-hating man who orchestrated the Tawana Brawley rape hoax years ago.</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;We are proud that he has been the best Attorney General on Civil Rights in U.S. history and disappointed because he leaves at a critical time when we need his continued diligence most.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>The fact that racial arsonist Sharpton holds Holder in such high regard speaks volumes.</p>
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		<title>Sharpton Is Right: Racism Is Rampant</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2014 04:47:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some astounding numbers regarding interracial crime in America.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/sharpton1.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-239041" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/sharpton1-437x350.jpg" alt="The Rev. Al Sharpton-  Washington, DC" width="295" height="236" /></a>Perhaps it&#8217;s time to finally concede that Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, and their fellow civil-rights crusaders have apparently been correct all along: <em>There is indeed a whole lot of racism in America</em> that just won&#8217;t go away. It may be time to admit that Sharpton is justified in so passionately condemning the recent police “execution” of Michael Brown in Missouri—calling it a “<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/al-sharpton-on-ferguson-protests">defining moment</a>” for our country, a moment where the nation itself, with all its weighty, racist baggage, “is on <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/al-sharpton-on-ferguson-protests">trial</a>.”</p>
<p>The numbers, after all, don&#8217;t lie. During the most recent five-year period for which single-offender, interracial crime statistics are available, whites committed, on average, 65,923 assaults annually against black victims.[1] To frame it another way, 33.5 of every 100,000 whites in the U.S. assaulted a black victim at some point during each of those five years.</p>
<p>Oh, sure, the nitpickers will point out that during the same five-year period, blacks in the U.S. committed, on average, some 327,900 assaults annually against whites—meaning that about 898 of every 100,000 blacks nationwide assaulted a white victim at some point each year. In other words, statistically the average black was nearly 27 times more likely to assault a white, than vice versa—898 versus 33.5 (out of every 100,000).</p>
<p>But <em>therein</em> is the heart of the problem, though you may have missed it: The white-on-black assault rate may be low, but it isn&#8217;t absolute zero. And as our modern-day civil rights leaders dutifully teach us, anything more than zero means, ultimately, that &#8220;we still have a long way to go&#8221; before we can finally get past our country&#8217;s &#8220;troubled racial past.&#8221; Any white-on-black incident—however rare it may be—automatically becomes the exception that proves the rule. Get it?</p>
<p>We find similar bountiful evidence of white racism in other statistics as well. During the same five-year period, whites committed, on average, 2,738 robberies annually against black victims. In other words, about 1.4 out of every 100,000 whites in the U.S. robbed a black victim each year.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, 70,302 blacks annually robbed white victims—a rate of 192.4 per 100,000. Statistically the average black was 137 times more likely to rob interracially than the average white—192.4 versus 1.4 (out of every 100,000).[2]</p>
<p>Once again, we must bear in mind that any white-on-black crime total exceeding zero means that the hearts of too many whites still percolate with secret, racist longings to return to &#8220;the good-ol&#8217; days&#8221; of lynchings and Jim Crow. Make sense?</p>
<p>But if you really want your blood to boil, consider the stats on interracial sex crimes. During the same five-year period, black offenders were responsible for about 22,980 actual and threatened sexual assaults annually against white victims. By contrast, the number of white-on-black incidents of the same description were so infinitesimal that, in each of those five years, whites were estimated to have accounted for 0.0% of all sexual assaults—actual or threatened—against black victims in the United States.</p>
<p>Such a statistic, of course, runs the dangerous risk of persuading shallow thinkers to wrongly conclude that maybe America&#8217;s streets and alleyways <em>aren&#8217;t</em> filled with hordes of white racists poised to abuse black women whenever they get an opportunity. But thankfully, we have <em>deep</em> thinkers and keen-eyed social critics like Al Sharpton to shine the light of truth on white sex offenders, even where a white-dominated criminal-justice apparatus turns a blind eye.</p>
<p>Remember, for instance, how Sharpton helped us all become aware of Tawana Brawley&#8217;s brutal gang-rape at the hands of white supremacists in 1987? Oh sure, the nitpickers again will moan that the whole thing was one big lie. But don&#8217;t ever forget: The only thing that prevented young Tawana from actually being raped by a pack of Klansmen was the fact that … well, no one raped her or even attempted to. But apart from that, everything Sharpton said about the case was true.</p>
<p>We must also thank Mr. Sharpton for having alerted us all to the horrors of the “rich white boys” on the Duke University lacrosse team who gang-raped a black stripper in 2006. Sure, it turned out to be another hoax that dragged several innocent young men through a cesspool of pain and public humiliation—but hey, the noble quest for racial justice is bound to spit out a few collateral victims every now and then. No omelet can be made without breaking an egg or two.</p>
<p>Murder stats likewise bring into stark relief the white racism that continues to infest our nation. In 2012, for example, <a href="http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2012/crime-in-the-u.s.-2012/offenses-known-to-law-enforcement/expanded-homicide/expanded_homicide_data_table_1_murder_victims_by_race_and_sex_2012.xls">6,454</a> blacks in the U.S. were victims of homicide. Some <a href="http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2012/crime-in-the-u.s.-2012/offenses-known-to-law-enforcement/expanded-homicide/expanded_homicide_data_table_6_murder_race_and_sex_of_vicitm_by_race_and_sex_of_offender_2012.xls">91%</a> of those were killed by other blacks, and 9% were killed by everybody else, including whites. It&#8217;s unlikely that whites were responsible for any more than about 3% of all black deaths by homicide. But these were the most significant and troubling 3%, don&#8217;t ya know? The other 97% of victims can all rot in their graves, but these—ah, these—were the cream of the crop, just like Michael Brown.</p>
<p>In light of the numbers cited above, perhaps you can find it in your heart to be sympathetic to Al, Jesse, and similar proverbial skunks who are forever seeking out the next picnic where they can show up and spray the potato salad. They have to make the most of Ferguson, you see, because golden opportunities like that just don&#8217;t come around very often.</p>
<p><strong>FOOTNOTES:</strong></p>
<p>[1] All statistics are from <em>Criminal Victimization in the United States</em>, published annually by the Department of Justice Statistics.</p>
<p>[2] These assault and robbery statistics do not necessarily prove that black offenders are specifically targeting white victims. One reason why the multiples are so high (27:1 and 137:1) is because there are 5.4 times as many whites as blacks in the U.S. In other words, blacks, in course of their daily travels, are 5.4 times more likely to encounter whites—and thus, potential white vicims—than to encounter other blacks (and potential black victims). To correct for this difference in the respective sizes of America&#8217;s white and black populations, we must divide each of the multiples by 5.4. In the case of assaults, the 27:1 ratio becomes 5:1, meaning that the average black offender is 5 times more likely to <em>choose</em> a white victim, than a white offender is likely to choose a black victim. And in the case of robbery, the 137:1 ratio becomes 25.4:1, meaning that the average black offender is 25.4 times more likely to <em>choose</em> a white victim, than a white offender is likely to choose a black victim.</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Bu98q54CEAIeJEb.jpg-large.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-238608" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Bu98q54CEAIeJEb.jpg-large-423x350.jpg" alt="Bu98q54CEAIeJEb.jpg-large" width="274" height="227" /></a>The fatal police shooting of a young black suspect in a Midwestern town last weekend has given the Left yet another opportunity to advance its destructive, racially polarizing agenda.</p>
<p>After 18-year-old Michael Brown, a black man was killed by police in Ferguson, a mostly black community in St. Louis County, Mo., the city and region surrounding it have been under siege. Not content to wait for the wheels of the justice system to spin, some view this tragedy as a license to riot.</p>
<p>Cries of &#8220;no justice, no peace&#8221; pierce the air as demonstrators hurl Molotov cocktails at law enforcement officials. Some say the police have been responding to the protesters and rioters with excessive force and have been mean by discouraging protests. Some blacks are reportedly randomly assaulting non-blacks as collective payback for what happened to Brown.</p>
<p>Looting and property destruction are rampant. Dozens of people have been arrested. The Federal Aviation Administration ordered aircraft to fly at least 3,000 feet over Ferguson airspace after police said their helicopters were fired on from the ground.</p>
<p>Witnesses give conflicting accounts of what happened to Brown. The young man was apparently walking in the street and then stopped by police. There was a scuffle over a policeman&#8217;s gun and Brown was shot. Local police are investigating as are federal officials and civil rights bureaucrats. Brown could ultimately be found to be a would-be murderer or a murder victim himself. Time will tell.</p>
<p>The name of the police officer who shot Brown has been withheld for the time being by police who quite justifiably fear for his safety.</p>
<p>All this unrest over the death of Brown seems selective, for lack of a better term.</p>
<p>By contrast, when James Boyd, a mentally disturbed, homeless, white man was fatally shot in the back by Albuquerque, N.M. police recently, there were some protests but no riots. In some circles, white victims are apparently less valuable than black victims.</p>
<p>Regardless of what he may say publicly, all this racially motivated anger and violence is fine by President Obama, an extreme-left community organizer by profession.</p>
<p>The Left tells Americans that racist whites kill black people all the time. Blacks just can&#8217;t take it anymore and now it&#8217;s time to burn down buildings and convenience stores, the false narrative goes.</p>
<p>Obama has been instrumental in crafting this narrative. The president wants racial communities and everyone else to be at everyone else&#8217;s throat because, as the now-familiar leftist adage goes, &#8220;you never want a serious crisis to go to waste.&#8221;</p>
<p>The Obama administration has used taxpayer resources in an effort <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/matthew-vadum/government-approved-race-riots/">to generate</a> race riots. Eric Holder&#8217;s Department of Justice deployed government-paid community organizers to Sanford, Fla. after the shooting death of Trayvon Martin two years ago in order to foment racial tensions. Race riots benefit the Left, and in particular the Democratic Party, by riling up its staunchest voting bloc.</p>
<p>The Community Relations Service (CRS), an office within DoJ, sent taxpayer-funded political agitators to Sanford after 17-year-old Martin was killed during a physical confrontation with community crime watch volunteer George Zimmerman. CRS expended thousands of dollars to help organize marches in which participants exacerbated racial tensions and loudly demanded that Zimmerman, described by the media as a &#8220;white Hispanic,&#8221; be prosecuted. The pressure worked. Zimmerman was charged but later acquitted at trial.</p>
<p>Before anyone really has a good grasp of what transpired in the death of Michael Brown, the rabble-rousers of CRS may be on the ground in Ferguson right now demanding that the officer involved be railroaded and lynched.</p>
<p>Sanford wasn&#8217;t the first time President Obama used DOJ employees as his personal Alinskyite stormtroopers. Uniformed field representatives of the CRS also assisted the rape-prone activists of Occupy Wall Street and anarchist activists outside the Republican National Convention in Tampa in 2012.</p>
<p>At every turn of his entire political career Obama has been the instigator, promoter, and beneficiary of left-wing race hatred. It helped him move up the political ladder.</p>
<p>Fishing for votes, Obama injected himself and racial politics into the Zimmerman case during the last election cycle when he volunteered, “If I had a son, he’d look like Trayvon.”</p>
<p>In the Martin case, the Left employed more or less the same race-baiting messaging strategy that helped to inflame racial tensions in the aftermath of the tragic 2006 death of Martin Lee Anderson, a 14-year-old black boy. After Anderson died during mandatory physical training at a Florida boot camp for young offenders, racial-grievance mongers and politicians claimed he was killed because of the color of his skin and demanded that criminal charges be laid. A racially diverse group of eight defendants (i.e. seven camp guards and a nurse) was eventually acquitted. The jury deliberated a mere 90 minutes after the three-week manslaughter trial.</p>
<p>To no one&#8217;s surprise, the race-baiting ambulance chasers of the fabulously wealthy Southern Poverty Law Center are already making money off the mob violence in Ferguson. The George Soros-funded group that sees as a major threat the nearly-dead remnants of the Ku Klux Klan that can barely afford scissors to cut holes in their bedsheets, doesn&#8217;t need the cash. This allegedly nonprofit organization reported a staggering $291.2 million in net assets for the year ended Oct. 31, 2013. The self-styled crusaders for social justice of the SPLC also reported having bank accounts in the tax havens of Bermuda and the Cayman Islands.</p>
<p>SPLC President Richard Cohen sent out a typically dishonest mass email to supporters last night with the subject line, &#8220;How many more innocents must die?&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Our entire criminal justice system has mushroomed, in large part because certain politicians have made it a strategy to stoke fear among white people &#8212; fear about young black men,&#8221; Cohen writes. &#8220;Young men like Michael Brown &#8212; and their families &#8212; are paying the price.&#8221;</p>
<p>Setting aside for a moment the question of what Brown did or did not do that fateful night, Cohen ignores the fact that Americans in general, and not just &#8220;white people&#8221; in particular, have good reason to be afraid of young black males, unfortunately.</p>
<p>&#8220;[Y]oung black men do commit about 50% of the murders in the U.S.,&#8221; African-American John McWhorter, an English professor and linguist at Columbia University, <a href="http://ideas.time.com/2013/08/22/viewpoint-dont-ignore-race-in-christopher-lanes-murder/">noted</a> last year.</p>
<p>He continued:</p>
<blockquote><p>Hardly uncommon are cases such as the two black guys who doused a white 13-year-old with gasoline and lit him on fire, saying &#8220;You get what you deserve, white boy&#8217; (Kansas City, Mo.) or 20 black kids who beat up white Matthew Owens on his porch &#8216;for Trayvon&#8217; (Mobile, Ala.).</p>
<p>[I]t’s just fake to pretend that the association of young black men with violence comes out of thin air. Young black men murder 14 times more than young white men. If the kinds of things I just mentioned were regularly done by whites, it’d be trumpeted as justification for being scared to death of them.</p></blockquote>
<p>McWhorter, by the way, is no conservative. He describes himself as &#8220;a cranky liberal Democrat &#8230; who supports Barack Obama, reviles the War on Drugs, supports gay marriage, never voted for George Bush and writes of Black English as coherent speech &#8230; &#8221;</p>
<p>The Left must accept much of the blame for the growing epidemic of &#8220;knockout game&#8221; attacks by blacks on whites and for black violence generally. To leftists, violence committed by blacks is at best a political statement, and at worst a cry for help from the oppressed. The victims are irrelevant and if blacks get killed or captured by police in the process of committing criminal acts they are martyrs or supposed political prisoners like cop-killer Mumia abu Jamal.</p>
<p>The Left has been organizing in poor black communities for decades, not in an effort to improve anyone&#8217;s plight, but to get blacks to rise up against free enterprise and the American system.</p>
<p>These leftists have enjoyed spectacular success. Apart perhaps from crazed, drunken college sports fans, what group in society riots the most? When was the last time you heard of an Asian-American riot or a Jewish-American riot or an Italian-American riot?</p>
<p>Sociopathic radicals like Van Jones, Jesse Jackson Sr., Al Sharpton, Jeremiah Wright, Bill Ayers, Richard Cloward, and Frances Fox Piven have been agitating in inner cities for decades, doing everything they can to push blacks to violently revolt.</p>
<p>Cloward, who died in 2001, and his wife Piven objectified blacks, viewing them as cannon fodder in a fifth-column assault on America. They wanted blacks to remain miserable, docile, poor, and angry in black ghettos where left-wing community organizers could easily sacrifice their lives at will, as I wrote in my book, <a href="http://tinyurl.com/vadumbook"><i>Subversion Inc.: How Obama&#8217;s ACORN Red Shirts are Still Terrorizing and Ripping Off American Taxpayers</i></a>.</p>
<p>In a particularly odious essay titled, “The Case Against Urban Desegregation,” these apostles of depravity wrote, “If the African American is to develop the power to enter the mainstream of American life, it is separatism—not integration—that will be essential to achieve results in certain institutional arenas.” The black American would be better off “consolidating his power within the central city” in order to “have some impact on the environment of the ghetto itself.” Blacks have to “organize as a bloc.” Achieving “effective separatist power” would not be accomplished by arguing “the ghetto must be dispersed.”</p>
<p>It is no secret that radicals want blacks to hate the police because it makes it easier to fan the flames of discontent. The leftist narrative is that the police are &#8220;pigs,&#8221; the armed wing of the white capitalist class that oppresses poor blacks. Cops are legitimate targets in the radicals&#8217; war against what Sixties radicals called &#8220;AmeriKKKa.&#8221;</p>
<p>Echoing a sentiment expressed by Bolshevik barrister William Kunstler—defender of the Chicago Seven antiwar protesters, accused of crossing state lines to incite riots at the 1968 Democratic National Convention— Piven wrote separately in 1972 that growing numbers of poor blacks viewed police officers as a kind of &#8220;army of occupation in the ghetto.&#8221;</p>
<p>Piven herself argued that this perception of police-as-invaders was a wonderfully useful thing and that it should be encouraged in order to move the leftist counter-revolution forward. Left-wingers like Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), the Congressional Progressive Caucus, and President Obama&#8217;s cabinet think otherwise, regard looting not only as an honorable exercise in redistributionism but also as a legitimate form of political protest.</p>
<p>Today&#8217;s violent cop-hating demonstrators in Ferguson have an ideological lineage stretching back at least to Cloward and Piven and other race-baiting radicals.</p>
<p>Even worse, you have been subsidizing this civil unrest for the last half century. Under the leftist-designed War on Poverty, the federal government has been handing out taxpayers’ money since 1965 to so-called community groups in order to encourage them to agitate against the status quo.</p>
<p>No doubt President Obama will find a way to funnel obscene quantities of taxpayer money to his friends in the radical community before he leaves office on Jan. 20, 2017.</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/winfrey.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-211527" alt="LEE DANIELS' THE BUTLER Los Angeles Premiere, Hosted By TWC, Budweiser And FIJI Water, Purity Vodka And Stack Wines - Red Carpet" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/winfrey-327x350.jpg" width="327" height="350" /></a>1. In the year 2013, <a href="http://davidthompson.typepad.com/davidthompson/goo2013/11/dont-oppress-me-with-your-commas.html">here&#8217;s</a> what goes by the name of racism in the United States. Earlier this month, at UCLA, Professor Emeritus Val Rust was subjected to a classroom sit-in by black graduate students who charged that his correction of their grammar and spelling mistakes on dissertation proposals was a case of racially motivated “micro-aggression.” Rust made it clear that he wasn&#8217;t motivated by racism but by a belief that correcting such errors was part of his job. But what did that matter, alongside his students&#8217; feelings?</p>
<p>2. These accusations came a few months after Oprah Winfrey&#8217;s revelation, in an <em>Entertainment Tonight</em> interview, of her own recent brush with the evils of racism. When she entered a luxury boutique in Zürich and asked to look at a $38,000 handbag that was hanging on the wall, the clerk offered to show her a cheaper version. The Swiss media eventually tracked down the clerk, whose own side of the story made a convincing case that race had had nothing to do with it. But what did that matter, alongside Oprah&#8217;s feelings?</p>
<p data-tabpoints="[{&quot;id&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;point&quot;:&quot;5.925694444444444in&quot;,&quot;leader&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;align&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}]">3. More recently, Oprah claimed that President Obama has been treated with “disrespect” in “many cases because he&#8217;s African American.” She added that “it&#8217;s the kind of thing no one ever says, but everybody&#8217;s thinking it.” The truth, of course, is pretty much the exact opposite: ever since his appearance on the national scene, Obama has enjoyed an extraordinary level of unearned respect in many quarters <em>precisely</em> “because he&#8217;s African American,” and has also benefited enormously from the fact that (until recently, anyway) anyone who has dared to make any criticism of him, however well-founded, has done so knowing that a large segment of the U.S. commentariat will immediately call the critic a racist.</p>
<p data-tabpoints="[{&quot;id&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;point&quot;:&quot;5.925694444444444in&quot;,&quot;leader&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;align&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}]">4. For a long time, Oprah was a classic example of a “bargainer” – Shelby Steele&#8217;s <a title="" href="/news/articles/SB120579535818243439" target="_blank">term</a> for black Americans who “make the subliminal promise to whites not to shame them with America&#8217;s history of racism, on the condition that they will not hold the bargainer&#8217;s race against him,” and who are consequently given an opportunity to succeed on their merits. (Think Louis Armstrong or Bill Cosby.) Now Oprah (who also said the other day that America would not move beyond racism until a generation of elderly white people died off) sounds more like a “challenger” – a black American, like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, who tries to get ahead by manipulating white guilt.</p>
<p data-tabpoints="[{&quot;id&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;point&quot;:&quot;5.925694444444444in&quot;,&quot;leader&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;align&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}]">5. During his first campaign, and throughout most of his presidency, Obama himself seemed to many to be a “bargainer” (otherwise he&#8217;d never have won in the first place), but his intrusive, inappropiate remarks about the Trayvon Martin case, which chimed in perfectly with those made by Sharpton, Jackson, and company, were very much those of a “challenger.” Like Oprah, he turned the truth about the race situation in America today upside-down: to listen to him on Trayvon Martin, you&#8217;d think that America was awash in white-on-black street crime.</p>
<p>6. Which brings us to the “knockout game.” While graduate students at UCLA were whining that their prof&#8217;s spelling corrections were racially motivated micro-aggressions, black youth gangs around the U.S. were committing what I suppose may be described as racially motivated macro-aggressions: unprovoked street attacks on non-blacks, the goal of which is to render the victim unconscious with a single violent blow. The mainstream media dutifully, indeed eagerly, <a href="http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/08/09/oprah-winfrey-and-the-handbag-she-couldnt-have/">reported</a> Oprah&#8217;s handbag story, and her charge that Obama is a victim of racism; but many of them (as David Paulin <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/david-paulin/media-blackout-of-the-knockout-game/">pointed out</a> here the other day) have delicately ignored the “knockout game,” or at least ignored its racial element. When the <i>New York Times </i>finally decided to pay attention to it, the result was a <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/23/nyregion/knockout-game-a-spreading-menace-or-a-myth.html">piece</a>, published last Friday, which sought to raise doubts as to whether the “knockout game” is a real phenomenon or a new “urban myth.”</p>
<p data-tabpoints="[{&quot;id&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;point&quot;:&quot;5.925694444444444in&quot;,&quot;leader&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;align&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}]">7. For years, Bill Cosby has been giving no-nonsense talks in black communities about the importance of self-respect and self-improvement. The popularity of his talks suggests that, unlike some of our leading many journalists, professors, and entertainers, many ordinary American blacks aren&#8217;t interested in playing the racism game, but, rather, prefer frank talk about the lethal social pathologies that threaten all of us – and that have been permitted to thrive by people who are scared to speak their minds for fear of being branded racists.</p>
<p>8. America, then, needs frank talk on race. So what did the <i>New York Times </i>run last Wednesday? Why, an entire <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2013/11/20/racism-in-the-age-of-obama?hp&amp;rref=opinion">feature</a>, headlined “Racism in the Age of Obama,” in which several lawyers and professors provided answers to the query: “Are white Americans more racist than they were when Obama was elected?” To be sure, what the <i>Times </i>actually asked was this: “Have racial tensions in the U.S. changed since Obama was elected? For better or for worse?” But when the <i>Times </i>speaks of “racial tensions,” everybody knows the real topic is white racism. And so what we got was yet begun useless round of PC hogwash. The cheeriest replies were by a poli sci prof who <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2013/11/20/racism-in-the-age-of-obama/obamas-election-itself-shows-progress">said</a> that “racial tensions have changed modestly since Obama&#8217;s election, mostly for the better,” and a communications prof who <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2013/11/20/racism-in-the-age-of-obama/election-coverage-tempered-racism">said</a> white racism “declined during the 2008 and 2012 campaigns.” Another communications prof <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2013/11/20/racism-in-the-age-of-obama/definitely-not-less-racial-prejudice-since-obamas-election">argued</a> that Obama&#8217;s election hadn&#8217;t affected America&#8217;s “racial tensions,” while a guy from the Southern Poverty Law Center <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2013/11/20/racism-in-the-age-of-obama/race-relations-under-obama-are-a-backlash">asserted</a> that the election had begun “a period of backlash,” making race relations “worse than&#8230;five years ago.” A civil-rights lawyer went even further, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2013/11/20/racism-in-the-age-of-obama/bias-seems-rampant-since-obamas-election">maintaining</a> that “racial tensions&#8230;are more prevalent than ever.” (Yes, “ever.”) And a law prof <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2013/11/20/racism-in-the-age-of-obama/obama-has-become-a-code-word-for-racists">claimed</a> that whites now use the statement “I voted for Obama” as “a free pass to discriminate.”</p>
<p>9. Finally, there was another law prof, Paul Butler, who <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2013/11/20/racism-in-the-age-of-obama/the-optics-have-changed-white-supremacy-remains">pronounced</a> that “[t]he problem isn’t &#8216;race relations&#8217;; it is white supremacy – the ideology that white people are superior to people of color, and that whiteness is integral to the United States’s identity.” Butler, who is the author of a 2009 book entitled <em>Let&#8217;s Get Free: A Hip-Hop Theory of Justice</em>, recalled that on the morning after Election Day 2004, a black barista at his favorite coffee shop snapped at a black beggar: “Barack Obama is president. Get a job!” I kind of liked that. But Butler didn&#8217;t. For him, apparently, every black person who isn&#8217;t doing well is, quite simply, a victim of racial injustice – period, case closed. Obama&#8217;s big offense, Butler insisted, is that he hasn&#8217;t done more mau-mauing of the sort he engaged in during the Trayvon Martin case.</p>
<p>10. In short, the <em>Times</em> feature had nothing insightful to offer about race in America in 2013. But then, the point of such a journalistic exercise isn&#8217;t to provide insight. It&#8217;s a gesture, a genuflection toward the altar of political correctness, a way of reminding everybody that the people at the <em>Times</em> may be a lot of things, but, hey, they&#8217;re <em>not racists</em>. Still, to see such a tired, predictable feature in the <em>Times</em> at this late date <em>is</em> faintly embarrassing – a sign of just how out of touch the Gray Lady is with a society in which, I think, more and more people of every skin color are tired of hearing the word <em>racism</em> thrown around in this pointless way. Once upon a time it meant something, and packed a punch; but it&#8217;s been used so often to silence legitimate truth-telling, and employed so frequently as a wallet-opening tool by shakedown artists like Jackson and Sharpton, that it&#8217;s lost all meaning.</p>
<p>11. Why not a <em>Times</em> series about this very subject – about, that is, the way in which the concept of racism has been systematically abused, exploited, degraded? Or how about a <em>Times</em> series asking this question: has Obama&#8217;s success inspired more young black people to work hard and aim high? If not, why not? If you&#8217;re a black American and show the slightest interest in getting ahead academically and professionally, there are innumerable programs and agencies and so forth that will be eager to help you out. Why aren&#8217;t more young people taking advantage of this? And why are so many of those who <em>are</em> taking advantage of it so ready to level accusations of racism at the very people who are trying to help prepare them for life? Why not a <em>Times</em> series about all this? But no, the <em>New York Times</em>, it seems, cannot bear that much reality. Better to round up a half-dozen or so reliable lawyers and professors and get them to tread the same old safe ideological territory for the millionth time – echoing the same old tired rhetoric about white racism – than to admit that the academy&#8217;s defining down of racism to the microscopic level has radically magnified the difficulty of honestly addressing the toxic elements of today&#8217;s black subculture.</p>
<p>12. If millions of white Americans voted for Obama for president despite his meager record, and re-elected him despite his lousy first-term performance, I suspect it was at least partly because they hoped his presence in the White House might somehow help get us past all this nonsense. Instead the nonsense just got ramped up higher. Oprah, one of the richest and most beloved women on the planet, used to seem the very personification of Martin Luther King&#8217;s dream of a colorblind America; when even she can&#8217;t resist the temptation to cast herself as a victim of racism, with some anonymous store clerk playing the part of Simon Legree, it suggests that even the wildest success is not enough for her – that even she, in the end, covets the <em>frisson</em> of victimhood; that even she is vulnerable to that foul contagion.</p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Oct 2013 04:10:08 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/jayz-1.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-209144" alt="jayz-1" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/jayz-1-431x350.jpg" width="259" height="210" /></a>&#8220;World War II Vets Under Attack by Blacks.&#8221; Can you imagine such a headline in The New York Times — or anywhere else, except perhaps some in underground racist tract?</p>
<p>But for the second time in three months, an 80-plus-year-old WWII veteran was murdered by black suspects. In Washington, 88-year-old Delbert Belton, who fought and took a bullet to the leg at the Battle of Okinawa, was beaten to death by two black teen suspects. The motive? Police describe the killing as a random attack. In Mississippi, 87-year-old Lawrence E. Thornton, a WWII vet who served as a Navy fireman on a minesweeper, was beaten to death by four black suspects. The motive was robbery.</p>
<p>Even if the vets were racially targeted — and there is no evidence that they were — it would be absurd to say that white World War II vets &#8220;are under attack&#8221; by &#8220;black people&#8221; because of the bad behavior of some individuals who happen to be black. Yet this is the reasoning the Rev. Jesse Jackson applied following the black teen&#8217;s death in the George Zimmerman/Trayvon Martin case. Jackson, angry when he heard the news of Martin&#8217;s death, said, &#8220;Blacks are under attack.&#8221;</p>
<p>This brings us to the accusation of &#8220;blatant prejudice and discrimination&#8221; by the upscale department store, Barneys New York.</p>
<p>In February, plainclothes NYPD cops stopped a black woman and falsely accused her of credit card fraud after she bought a $2,500 Celine handbag. The shopper filed a &#8220;notice of claim,&#8221; announcing her intention to sue. And in April, a black shopper used a debit card to buy a $349 Ferragamo belt. He, too, was falsely accused of fraud.</p>
<p>Now things get even more interesting.</p>
<p>Rapper and hip-hop mogul Jay-Z had entered into a deal with Barneys. A Jay-Z curated, limited-edition collection of designer clothes and accessories rolls out this holiday season, with part of the proceeds going to charity.</p>
<p>A hyper left-wing organization called Color of Change put out an &#8220;open letter&#8221; appealing to Jay-Z. Another group, Change.org, set up an online petition that calls on Jay-Z to denounce Barneys&#8217; &#8220;blatant prejudice and discrimination.&#8221; Some Jay-Z fans now call him a &#8220;sell-out&#8221; and &#8220;Uncle Tom&#8221; for giving cover to a racist institution for money. Through his website, Jay-Z said that before he reacted with &#8220;emotion,&#8221; he wanted to get the &#8220;facts.&#8221;</p>
<p>Enter the Rev. Al Sharpton, who never lets &#8220;facts&#8221; get between him and a race card.</p>
<p>Sharpton, of course, shot to fame by falsely accusing a white man of raping a black teenager; was in the middle of the Crown Heights riots (&#8220;If the Jews want to get it on, tell them to pin their yarmulkes back and come over to my house&#8221;); once called the black mayor of New York an &#8220;N-word whore&#8221;; and spoke of whites moving into Harlem as &#8220;interlopers&#8221; and Jews as &#8220;diamond merchants.&#8221; He steps in to calm the waters?!</p>
<p>&#8220;Some people want to make this about Jay-Z,&#8221; Sharpton told reporters, &#8220;No, this is about Barneys first.&#8221; He demanded Barneys &#8220;bring the data&#8221; to prove that when expensive purchases are made, the store investigates white and minority shoppers equally.</p>
<p>Barneys, warned Sharpton, better gather the information quickly and not use the busy holiday season as an excuse. &#8220;We&#8217;ll march all the way down to your store,&#8221; said Sharpton. &#8220;I&#8217;ll serve turkey right on the corner.&#8221;</p>
<p>For race hustlers and the eternally aggrieved, Barneys did not unfairly treat a handful of shoppers. No, it&#8217;s an institutional problem. Anecdotes equal evidence. The election and reelection of President Barack Obama has not stopped so-called &#8220;civil rights leaders&#8221; from treating America like it&#8217;s still the back-of-the-bus &#8217;50s.</p>
<p>For those who argue racism remains a deep and persistent problem, consider this. Attorney Johnnie Cochran argued that the LAPD had it out for O.J. Simpson because, according to Cochran, Simpson broke the final taboo by marrying a blond, blue-eyed white woman. A few years ago, &#8220;Desperate Housewives&#8221; ran a sex-themed promo during Monday Night Football. It featured blond actress Nicollette Sheridan and prominent football wide-receiver Terrell Owens. Clad only in a white towel, Sheridan teased and flirted with Owens.</p>
<p>The Federal Communications Commission claimed it received 50,000 complaint letters — a tiny amount compared to total viewership. But a Freedom of Information request discovered that, in fact, the FCC received fewer than 2,000 letters, with less than 100 — or less than 5 percent of that total — saying anything about race.</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s do the numbers. Out of 17,000,000 viewers, 2,000 bothered to write. Of that, only 100 complained about the promo being racially offensive. That comes to about 5 percent of the .01 percent that wrote — or a little over .0005 percent of viewers.</p>
<p>Now the discriminated Barneys&#8217; customers have already sought legal counsel. Barneys has announced an investigation. Without waiting for the results, Barneys&#8217; CEO issued an apology. To ensure that the store keeps its &#8220;commitment to fairness and equality&#8221; and &#8220;zero tolerance for any form of discrimination,&#8221; Barneys has retained a respected &#8220;civil rights expert.&#8221;</p>
<p>Just tell us it isn&#8217;t Sharpton.</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Oct 2013 04:40:16 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>A group of conservative activists, tired of what they see as a persistent and little remarked liberal bias in the news media, are set to begin a series of boycotts aimed at advertisers who sponsor what they see as left-wing networks, outlets, and journalists.</p>
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<p>On Sunday they announced their first target, the <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/08/25/al-sharpton-s-controversial-msnbc-gig-blasted-by-critics-black-journalists.html">Rev. Al Sharpton</a>, the civil-rights leader turned MSNBC talk-show host whose <i>PoliticsNation</i> has grown in influence and audience since making its debut two years ago.</p>
<p>“Sharpton is a racial extortionist who has instigated racial animosities, violence, and division in America for the last forty years,” write the boycott’s organizers. “In better times, Sharpton would be stigmatized and condemned for the damage he has done. But today he is a primetime host on MSNBC—the charter cable news network for NBC News, and a favored outlet for the Obama administration’s spin doctors.”</p>
<p>The boycott is part of <a href="http://www.truthrevolt.org/">Truth Revolt</a>, a new project by the David Horowitz Freedom Center, a right-wing foundation that has focused on what it calls liberal bias in Hollywood and on college campuses. Truth Revolt, which says its purpose is to “unmask leftists in the media for who they are, destroy their credibility with the American public, and devastate their funding bases,” is led by Ben Shapiro, an editor-at-large for the conservative website Breitbart News and the author, most recently, of <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Bullies-Culture-Intimidation-Silences-Americans/dp/1476709998/ref=as_at?tag=thedailybeast-autotag-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;" target="_blank">Bullies: How the Left’s Culture of Fear and Intimidation Silences America</a></i><i>.</i></p>
<p><strong>To continue reading this article, <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/10/07/al-sharpton-politicsnation-advertisers-targeted-in-new-boycott.html">click here</a>.</strong></p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now it's personal.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/ds.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-206544" alt="ds" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/ds-352x350.jpg" width="246" height="245" /></a>At last!  A multi-media campaign that will take the battle to the demagogues who spin the nation’s news. This is TruthRevolt, a brainchild of Ben Shapiro, that is designed to expose the hypocrisies and mendacities of the leftwing media, and confront them with a counter-attack they won’t be able to handle.</p>
<p>Exhibit Number One&#8211;Al Sharpton.</p>
<p>Sharpton is one of the most pernicious racial demagogues of the last half-century. He is a liar who falsely accused a district attorney and five other innocent whites of raping 15-year-old Tawana Brawley in 1987 and then hounded the men, although Brawley made up the story herself. Sharpton is the man who raged against the “white interloper” who owned a store in Harlem, after which one of his followers torched the store, causing a fire that killed eight people, all of them Hispanic and black. Sharpton is the lynch mob leader who challenged Jews in Crown Heights to “pin their yarmulkes back and come over to my house”; soon after, riots broke out in Crown Heights, and an Orthodox Jew was stabbed to death by a jeering mob. Sharpton is the demagogue who helped gin up racial hatred against three innocent Duke lacrosse players, and who helped turn Trayvon Martin into a martyr and George Zimmerman into the target of race-baiting vigilantes.</p>
<p>In other words, Sharpton is a racial extortionist who has instigated racial animosities, violence, and division in America for the last forty years. In better times, Sharpton would be stigmatized and condemned for the damage he has done. But today he is a primetime host on MSNBC – the charter cable news network for NBC News, and a favored outlet for the Obama administration’s spin doctors.</p>
<p>Sharpton shapes the public narrative every day—a narrative in which whites are always guilty, and in which racist America always requires correction by the federal government. And he inspires others in the liberal media to do likewise to spread similar venom. That is why TruthRevolt was created – to expose their hypocrisy and malice, and stimulate a popular revolt against them.</p>
<p>To help us expose Sharpton and embarrass his sponsors, click here: <a href="http://www.truthrevolt.org">www.truthrevolt.org</a>.</p>
<p>Thanks to the generosity of Dr. Robert J. Shillman, the <b>David Horowitz Freedom Center</b> has launched TruthRevolt to unmask leftists in the media for who they are, use the facts of their distortions and radical political agendas to make the American public aware that they are poltical propagandists in broadcasters’ clothing, and cause their sponsors in America’s opportunity society to think twice before contributing to their destructive causes.</p>
<p>In addition to race-baiters like Sharpton, TruthRevolt will focus on high-profile network figures like George Stephanopoulos (ABC News) and David Gregory (NBC News) who never disclose their leftist commitments; cable hosts who have been granted credibility despite their<b> </b>commitment to partisan agendas, including John King (CNN), Candy Crowley (CNN), Piers Morgan (CNN), Anderson Cooper (CNN), Chris Matthews (MSNBC), Rachel Maddow (MSNBC), Joe Scarborough (MSNBC) and Mika Brzezinski (MSNBC); institutional leftist outlets like <i>The New York Times </i>and <i>The Washington Post</i>; and the most effective messengers of the left in the media, the powerful media figures at Comedy Central, including Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert.</p>
<p>But TruthRevolt will not stop there. TruthRevolt understands that all politics is local, and therefore will also confront hypocrisy and news doctoring in the local press, television and radio. Looking to stop the insidious indoctrination of the next generation, TruthRevolt will set up affiliates at colleges around the country to confront the one-party press on university campuses.</p>
<p>TruthRevolt differs from other organizations in its action orientation. It is determined not only to confront the leftwing media, but also to impact their profits.<b> </b>The far-left site Media Matters, run by self-confessed liar David Brock, has achieved enormous success by using the power of astroturfed boycotts and campaigns against conservative media figures, targeting their funders and advertisers. TruthRevolt will fight fire with fire, working to make advertisers and funders aware of the malicious propaganda they sponsor and creating pressure on them to think twice before helping to kill the goose that lays their golden eggs.</p>
<p>Advertising executives often acknowledge that their corporate clients change their advertising plans in response to the calls of a few dozen outraged citizens. TruthRevolt will take them at their word. Its goal is not only to engage in investigative journalism about the leftwing media figures who produce radical ideology masquerading as “news,” but to enlist thousands of conservatives to aggressively call on sponsors of racists like Sharpton and ask them to consider whether mainstreaming such destructive views is in the interest of the public or themselves.</p>
<p>Media Matters started with 27 writers and editors and an $8.5 million budget raised by George Soros and the Clintons. They’ve used this huge bankroll to pound conservatives. TruthRevolt does not have Soros’ millions; but it will speak in behalf of the truth. It will be lean and mean, and because it will be defending a system that produces more wealth for more people than any other, it will beat the left at its own game.</p>
<p>The TruthRevolt Editor-in-Chief is Shillman Senior Fellow Ben Shapiro. Shapiro is the <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>Bullies: How the Left’s Culture of Fear and Intimidation Silences America</i> (2012), <i>Primetime Propaganda: The True Hollywood Story of How the Left Took Over Your TV</i> (2011), and <i>Brainwashed: How Universities Indoctrinate America’s Youth</i> (2004), among other works. Shapiro is also a nationally syndicated columnist, a graduate of Harvard Law School, and the host of The Morning Answer on KRLA 870 in Los Angeles.  He is the editor-at-large of Breitbart News.</p>
<p>Glenn Beck calls Shapiro a “warrior for conservatism, against those who use fear and intimidation to stifle honest debate. I’ve never known him to back down from a fight.” Sarah Palin says that Americans should “consider Ben’s advice about how we must stand up and push back twice as hard against this bullying.” Sean Hannity says to join Ben Shapiro and “fight back!” against liberal bullying. And Michelle Malkin says Shapiro is “infused with the indomitable spirit of his friend and mentor Andrew Breitbart.” Even the liberal <i>Washington Post</i>, in the aftermath of Shapiro’s devastation of Piers Morgan on national television,<i> </i>conceded that Shapiro is a “foe of extraordinary polemical agility.”</p>
<p>Buckle up. It’s about to get personal.</p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jul 2013 04:40:47 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/pro.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-196930" alt="APTOPIX Neighborhood Watch California Protests" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/pro-450x246.jpg" width="315" height="172" /></a>Left-wing politicians and racial-grievance profiteers across America are now fanning the flames of racial discord, demanding that George Zimmerman endure a politically correct show trial at the federal level despite his acquittal.</p>
<p>Members of the professional Left can barely conceal their glee that Zimmerman was found not guilty of second-degree murder in the death of Trayvon Martin. This means they get to retain Zimmerman as a villain they can use to foment racial hatred, cause future civil disturbances, raise money through direct mail solicitations, and get out the vote for race-baiting Democrats.</p>
<p>Zimmerman was acquitted by a 6-member all-female jury late Saturday. A leader of the neighborhood watch program in crime-ridden Sanford, Fla., he encountered unarmed Trayvon Martin on Feb. 26, 2012. A physical confrontation followed in which Zimmerman, a Latino, shot Martin, a 17-year-old black youth, to death. Zimmerman claimed he needed to use deadly force to save his own life.</p>
<p>President Obama decided that the Zimmerman verdict was an opportune moment to press for gun control. &#8220;We should ask ourselves if we&#8217;re doing all we can to stem the tide of gun violence that claims too many lives across this country on a daily basis,&#8221; he said after the verdict. &#8220;We should ask ourselves, as individuals and as a society, how we can prevent future tragedies like this. As citizens, that&#8217;s a job for all of us. That&#8217;s the way to honor Trayvon Martin.&#8221;</p>
<p>Fishing for votes, Obama injected himself and racial politics into the Zimmerman case during the election cycle last year when he volunteered, &#8220;If I had a son, he&#8217;d look like Trayvon.&#8221; Now he&#8217;s pretending he had nothing to do with all the race-based antagonism that he stirred up.</p>
<p>Left-wing thought leaders across the fruited plan are doing their best to exacerbate and exploit the potentially explosive racial tensions created by Obama&#8217;s meddling and the media&#8217;s saturation coverage of the Zimmerman case.</p>
<p>Racial arsonist extraordinaire Al Sharpton, whose race-baiting rants have <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1527">gotten people killed</a>, blasted the verdict as an &#8220;atrocity&#8221; and &#8220;a slap in the face to those that believe in justice in this country.&#8221; Fellow MSNBC personality Chris Hayes simply tweeted, &#8220;Goddamit.&#8221;</p>
<p>Sharpton played a major role in turning a local crime story into a national media obsession. He is now demanding the federal government lay civil rights charges against Zimmerman.</p>
<p>Jesse Jackson Sr. said on MSNBC yesterday that Zimmerman&#8217;s acquittal amounted to a &#8220;tremendous miscarriage of justice.&#8221; He berated the jury, noting that there were no men on it. &#8220;Trayvon was a black boy &#8212; there was no man, no black on the jury,&#8221; he said, adding, &#8220;so at least the idea of a jury of your peers was a stretch all the while.&#8221;</p>
<p>Jackson is obviously no lawyer. In America the Constitution guarantees the accused, not the victim, an impartial jury. A common notion taught in civics classes is that a jury is supposed to contain the peers of the <i>accused</i>, not the victim.</p>
<p>Last year Jackson <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://twitchy.com/2012/03/26/jesse-jackson-trayvon-martin-death-is-a-moment-or-a-call-to-war/'">said</a></span> Martin&#8217;s death could be treated as a tragedy or it could spur a new movement. “How do we go from a moment to a movement that creates fundamental change?” Jackson told a church congregation. “If it’s a moment, we go home. If it’s a movement, we go to war.”</p>
<p>On CNN disgraced former Obama green jobs czar Van Jones, a self-described &#8220;rowdy black nationalist&#8221; and &#8220;communist,&#8221; wondered aloud, &#8220;Do I now have to dress my kid in a tuxedo so that he can go buy Skittles?&#8221; Incidentally, CNN has rewarded Jones&#8217;s radicalism and 9/11 trutherism by giving him a co-host spot on the upcoming revival of the show &#8220;Crossfire.&#8221;</p>
<p>Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) told &#8220;Meet the Press&#8221; Sunday that he welcomed federal prosecution of Zimmerman. &#8220;I think the Justice Department is going to take a look at this. You know, this isn&#8217;t over with and I think that&#8217;s good. That&#8217;s our system. It&#8217;s gotten better, not worse.&#8221;</p>
<p>Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-Ariz.), co-chairman of the neo-communist <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6497">Congressional Progressive Caucus</a></span>, said the verdict would inspire copycats. &#8220;You empower individual citizens to basically take the law into their own hands.&#8221;</p>
<p>Rep. Chaka Fattah (D-Pa.), also a member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, lamented that the defendant should have been convicted of something: &#8220;What the jury is saying is, &#8216;Here&#8217;s George Zimmerman back, here&#8217;s his gun back and what he did was perfectly fine. And he&#8217;s coming to a neighborhood near you.&#8221;</p>
<p>But not all public figures have been trying to excite the mob.</p>
<p>Many have been conciliatory, exhorting blacks to stop killing each other, work to improve their communities, and to stop blaming white people for problems in their communities.</p>
<p>Although many black professional athletes expressed shock and indignation at the verdict on Twitter, the micro-blogging website, some appealed for calm.</p>
<p>American basketball player Sean May, who now plays for Paris-Levallois Basket in the Euroleague, tweeted &#8220;I hope enough people have #respect for the system to let it be and not cause unneeded violence.&#8221;</p>
<p>Damien Woody, a former offensive lineman and defensive end for several NFL teams, tweeted &#8220;I don&#8217;t wish harm to no man! Revenge won&#8217;t bring back Trayvon Martin.&#8221;</p>
<p>Donte&#8217; Stallworth, a wide receiver for the Washington Redskins with a history of legal problems, tweeted &#8220;Instead of rage &amp; anger, let&#8217;s direct that emotion towards a positive movement. Like education, poverty &amp; black on black crime in the hood.&#8221; In 2009 Stallworth served 30 days in jail for DUI manslaughter after running over a pedestrian in Miami Beach, Fla. He reached a confidential financial settlement with the victim&#8217;s family.</p>
<p>But these voices calling for peace aren&#8217;t neutralizing the white-hot anger and resentment that the Left has helped to generate.</p>
<p>The rabble-rousing is working and so far violent incidents have been reported in Oakland and Los Angeles, Calif.</p>
<p>In Oakland, demonstrators set fires, smashed windows, burned the American flag, and committed vandalism. Graffiti <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/14/oakland-trayvon-martin_n_3595505.html">declared</a></span> &#8220;Kill Zimmerman&#8221; and &#8220;F*** the Police.&#8221;</p>
<p>No arrests have been reported in Oakland. This makes perfect sense. Oakland&#8217;s lunatic Democrat mayor, Jean Quan, openly supports the violent neo-communist Occupy Wall Street movement. In one infamous incident, Quan essentially <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://blog.sfgate.com/aallison/2011/10/27/occupy-oakland-mayor-quan-issues-contrite-statement-after-police-crackdown/">apologized</a></span> to Occupy Oakland activists for a police crackdown on illegal activity on public property.</p>
<p>Los Angeles police are reportedly on &#8220;full tactical alert&#8221; as they brace for more trouble.</p>
<p>Hundreds of demonstrators spilled on to Interstate 10 in South L.A., blocking traffic, KTLA-TV <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://ktla.com/2013/07/14/zimmerman-verdict-protesters-take-to-10-freeway-in-south-l-a/#ixzz2Z4t6SGDO">reports</a></span>. The report described the march that preceded the freeway occupation as &#8220;a mostly peaceful demonstration was held along Crenshaw Boulevard earlier in the afternoon,&#8221; which means that the demonstration was in fact violent.</p>
<p>We learned from the mainstream media&#8217;s coverage of the incredibly violent Occupy Wall Street movement that &#8220;mostly peaceful&#8221; is journalist-speak for &#8220;there was leftist violence but we sympathize with the cause so we&#8217;re downplaying it.&#8221;</p>
<p>According to the Hollywood Reporter, some Los Angeles protesters <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/zimmerman-verdict-protests-begin-los-584961">carried signs</a></span> saying &#8220;The whole system is racist.&#8221; Photos show that the signs were marked &#8220;PSL.org,&#8221; which stands for the Marxist-Leninist group, <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7278">Party for Socialism and Liberation</a></span>.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Sunday that a total absence of proof that Zimmerman harbored any racial animus whatsoever won&#8217;t prevent the federal agency from moving forward with its ongoing &#8220;hate crimes&#8221; investigation. The statement came even though the FBI <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2012/07/12/155918/more-evidence-released-in-trayvon.html#.UeOPSCe9KSM">already determined</a></span> a year ago that race was not a factor in the incident that led to criminal charges against Zimmerman.</p>
<p>In an interview last year with FBI agents, Chris Serino, the Sanford Police Department detective who ran the Martin investigation, <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/investigation/cop-told-fbi-zimmerman-not-a-racist-765093">said</a></span> he believed “Zimmerman’s actions were not based on Martin’s skin color.” A report indicated that Serino told the agents that Zimmerman was “overzealous&#8221; and had a &#8220;‘little hero complex,’&#8221; but was not &#8220;a racist.”</p>
<p>Bringing civil rights charges would be a ridiculous abuse of process, though probably a profit center for Democratic political consultants and media pundits. It would place the Zimmerman case in the same league as that of James Byrd Jr., a black Texas man who was cruelly murdered by white supremacists in 1998. Byrd&#8217;s vicious murder at the hands of actual racists put pressure on Congress to expand the reach of federal hate crimes legislation in 2009.</p>
<p>There have been few prosecutions and convictions under the law since it was modified. In Arkansas in 2011 Sean Popejoy and Frankie Maybee were convicted of federal hate crimes. Prosecutors say they ran a car full of Latino men off the road, causing the vehicle to crash and burn. The same year three men in New Mexico &#8212; Paul Beebe, Jesse Sanford, and William Hatch &#8212; were <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/18/2-men-plead-guilty-in-swa_n_930827.html">convicted</a></span> of federal hate crimes after they branded the arm of a mentally disabled Navajo man with a swastika.</p>
<p>In a mind-numbing, scorched-earth, race-baiting campaign that has lasted more than a year, the Left has <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://freebeacon.com/registered-dem-killed-trayvon/">tried to blame</a></span> Republican office holders, conservative activists, and right-leaning political commentators for Martin&#8217;s death. (Zimmerman himself is a registered Democrat.)</p>
<p>“[Republican politicians] reinforce and validate old stereotypes that associate the poor and welfare as criminal behavior with African-Americans and people of color, calling us lazy, undeserving recipients of public assistance. In the case of Trayvon, those festering stereotypes had lethal consequences,” said Democratic fundraiser Karen Finney.</p>
<p>This is boilerplate nonsense that affective leftists spout every day. Tedious stuff.</p>
<p>Yet the media kept repeating it.</p>
<p>As John Nolte <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2013/07/13/Media-Zimmerman-Coverage-Rap-Sheet">opined</a></span> at Breitbart News, over the past year the mainstream media amplified racial discord and turned &#8220;a local crime into a national obsession.&#8221;</p>
<p>The media &#8220;did everything in its still-potent power to not only push for the prosecution of Mr. Zimmerman (the police originally chose not to charge him) but also to gin up racial tensions where none needed to exist,&#8221; Nolte writes.</p>
<p>&#8220;It all started with the anchor of a major television network (Al Sharpton) inserting himself in the story to spread division and hate; it continued straight through to the closing days of the trial when another major news network, desperate to keep a fabricated racial narrative alive, propagated the portrayal of Zimmerman as part of a racial group that doesn&#8217;t exist &#8212; the &#8216;white Hispanic.&#8221;</p>
<p>The <i>New York Times</i> and NBC engaged in dishonest editing of things Zimmerman had said in order to make him appear to be a racist who hated African-Americans. CNN even fabricated a story, falsely accusing Zimmerman of using the racial epithet &#8220;coon.&#8221;</p>
<p>But as Reuters <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/25/us-usa-florida-shooting-zimmerman-idUSBRE83O18H20120425">previously reported</a></span>, there is nothing obviously racist about Zimmerman.</p>
<p>To the contrary, he &#8220;was raised in a racially integrated household and himself has black roots through an Afro-Peruvian great-grandfather &#8211; the father of the maternal grandmother who helped raise him.&#8221; In 2004 he went into business with a black friend, opening an insurance office. In 2010 and 2011, Zimmerman <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://dailycaller.com/2012/04/04/zimmerman-demanded-discipline-in-2010-race-related-beating-for-officers-who-investigated-martin-shooting/">publicly demanded</a></span> that two police officers who later ended up clearing him in the Martin case be disciplined for their involvement in the Dec. 4, 2010 beating of Sherman Ware, a homeless black man.</p>
<p>Martin&#8217;s family may yet file a wrongful death lawsuit in civil court against Zimmerman.</p>
<p>The outcome of the case would be far from a sure thing but the burden of proof would be much lower than the &#8220;reasonable doubt&#8221; standard used in criminal proceedings.</p>
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		<title>No Matter What… They’ll Call This Book Racist</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jun 2012 04:47:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark Tapson]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Harry Stein talks honestly about race.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/harry.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-134302" title="harry" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/harry.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="585" /></a><strong><em>Harry Stein will be speaking before the Freedom Center’s Wednesday Morning Club at the Four Seasons in Beverly Hills on June 12. </em></strong><a href="http://harrystein.eventbrite.com/"><strong><em>Click here for the details</em></strong></a><strong><em>.</em></strong></p>
<p>Less than a month after the inauguration of our <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/05/11/obama-the-most-racial-president/">post-racial president</a>, Attorney General Eric Holder declared that America was “a nation of cowards” for not having “frank conversations about the racial matters that continue to divide us.” Of course, not only does the left have a vested interest in perpetuating that racial divide, but their idea of a “frank conversation” about race is to simply shout down the right with relentless charges of racism. Hence the title of Harry Stein’s new book, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Matter-What-Theyll-Call-This-Racist/dp/1594036004/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1335047564&amp;sr=8-1"><em>No Matter What… They’ll Call This Book Racist: How Our Fear of Talking Honestly About Race Hurts Us All</em></a>.</p>
<p>Stein, a contributing editor at City Journal, is the author of novels, memoirs, and distinctively-titled satirical political commentary like his two previous books, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Accidentally-Joined-Vast-Right-Wing-Conspiracy/dp/0060936975/ref=lp_B000APA2BW_1_3?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1335047610&amp;sr=1-3"><em>How I Accidentally Joined the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy: (and Found Inner Peace)</em></a> <em>and </em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Cant-Believe-Sitting-Next-Republican/dp/159403480X/ref=lp_B000APA2BW_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1335047610&amp;sr=1-2"><em>I Can&#8217;t Believe I&#8217;m Sitting Next to a Republican: A Survival Guide for Conservatives Marooned Among the Angry, Smug, and Terminally Self-Righteous</em></a>.</p>
<p>His latest book is a fresh, honest attempt to provoke the serious thinking about race “that liberal enforcers have heretofore rendered impossible,” and thus to begin looking for solutions. The premise of the book alone is enough to cause progressive heads to explode:</p>
<blockquote><p>The idea that it is racism that has millions of underclass blacks mired generation after generation in physical and spiritual poverty  is not only false, but the greatest impediment to fundamentally altering that dreadful state of affairs… The real problem is a culture of destructive attitudes and behaviors that denies those in its grip the means of escape.</p></blockquote>
<p>Pointing out that contemporary white racism is too often an excuse, and that black Americans’ own “destructive attitudes and behaviors” might actually bear responsibility for their state of affairs, is precisely the sort of frankness about race that Eric Holder asked for but doesn’t actually want to hear, because it is Holder and his ilk who are the cowards.</p>
<p>Stein acknowledges that breaking through the left’s wall of denial and engaging them in an honest discussion about race is a daunting challenge, because</p>
<blockquote><p>so deeply embedded among Jews and blacks is the idea that liberals represent the forces of light and conservatives all-consuming darkness that… it has long since taken on the dimension of religious conviction.</p></blockquote>
<p>For decades the left has shrewdly and successfully nurtured and perpetuated this false conviction in order to maintain political power. The relationship between the black community and the Democratic Party, Stein points out,</p>
<blockquote><p>has long been reduced to a corrupt bargain, the race baiters posing as champions of social justice receiving legitimacy and consistent infusions of public money in return for assured and overwhelming black electoral majorities.</p></blockquote>
<p>The left has managed this through the constant push of its racial victimization narrative despite the fact that that narrative is outdated; thus, affirmative action policies are, as civil rights activist Ward Connerly labels them, “yesterday’s solution to yesterday’s problem”:</p>
<blockquote><p>Perpetually focused on past inequities rather than future possibilities, the victim mindset epitomized by affirmative action not only saps energy and initiative, it <em>justifies</em> the absence of energy and initiative and <em>inevitably</em> leads to inefficiency and corruption.</p></blockquote>
<p>Stein discusses how “the victim mindset” so prevalent among American blacks only took full hold in the modern era <em>after</em> the key civil rights battles had been won. And yet black students are continually fed “a relentless tale of oppressors and oppressed” until,</p>
<blockquote><p>in the grip of the victim mindset – despite overwhelmingly being beneficiaries of racial preferences and other programs guaranteeing them special consideration – they regard whatever problems they experience at school as just another manifestation of racism.</p></blockquote>
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		<title>The Left&#8217;s Disregard For Islam&#8217;s Victims &#8212; on The Glazov Gang</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2012 04:17:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jamie Glazov]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dwight Schultz, Georgette Gelbard and Tommi Trudeau mix it up on Frontpage's television show.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/ggang7.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-129503" title="ggang" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/ggang7.jpg" alt="" width="350" height="250" /></a>Dwight Schultz, Georgette Gelbard and Tommi Trudeau recently joined <em>The Glazov Gang</em> to discuss <em>The Left&#8217;s Disregard for Islam&#8217;s Victims</em>. All three parts of the episode are below. <strong>Part I</strong> deals with <em>Al Sharpton Sincerity</em>?, <strong>Part II</strong> deals with the Left and Islam and <strong>Part III</strong> focuses on the question of Obama&#8217;s &#8220;brilliance.&#8221;</p>
<p><strong>Part I:</strong></p>
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<p><strong>Part II:</strong></p>
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<p><strong>Part III:</strong><br />
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		<title>The Motives of Al Sharpton &#8212; on The Glazov Gang</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2012 04:20:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jamie Glazov]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dwight Schultz, Georgette Gelbard and Tommi Trudeau mix it up on Frontpage's television show.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/sharpton-wh-550x361.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-129342" title="sharpton-wh-550x361" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/sharpton-wh-550x361.jpg" alt="" width="275" height="305" /></a>Dwight Schultz, Georgette Gelbard and Tommi Trudeau recently joined <em>The Glazov Gang</em> to discuss <em>The Motives of Al Sharpton</em>. In the midst of the dialogue in Part I of this three-part series, Tommi Trudeau testified to the “sincerity” of Sharpton — a point of view that led to an intriguing debate between the Glazov Gang members. All three parts of the episode are below. <strong>Part I</strong> deals with Sharpton; <strong>Part II</strong> deals with the threat of Islam and <strong>Part III</strong> focuses on the question of Obama&#8217;s &#8220;brilliance.&#8221;</p>
<p><strong>Part I:</strong></p>
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<p><strong>Part II:</strong></p>
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<p><strong>Part III:</strong><br />
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		<title>The New Black Panthers&#8217; Bounty on George Zimmerman</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2012 04:54:28 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>Distilled to its essence, the original, widely accepted narrative of Trayvon Martin&#8217;s death was that of a clearly delineated battle between good and evil which went something like this: On the night of February 26<sup>th</sup> in Sanford, Florida, a racist vigilante named George Zimmerman relentlessly and unjustifiably stalked an African American “<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/21/al-sharpton-trayvon-martin-rally_n_1370301.html">child</a>,” as <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1527">Al Sharpton</a> tenderly described him, who had been minding his own business, eating “a bag of Skittles.” Zimmerman then gunned the boy down in “<a href="http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2012-03-25/news/os-trayvon-martin-jesse-jackson-oia-20120325_1_jesse-jackson-tooth-talks">cold blood</a>,” according to <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=687">Jesse Jackson</a>—simply because, like so many Americans, he instinctively viewed all black males as potential criminals. Notably, a host of <a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/sns-rt-us-usa-florida-racismbre82r0sn-20120328,0,4024180.story">major</a> media reports described the Hispanic gunman specifically as a “<a href="http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/03/27/2717397/its-not-about-the-hoodie.html">white Hispanic</a>”—a term <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/294600/playing-race-card-again-jonah-goldberg">rarely if ever</a> used prior to the Martin killing—to emphasize the familiar “oppressor-versus-victim” racial storyline that the left has grown so proficient at reciting.</p>
<p>Recently the <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7556">New Black Panther Party</a>—never known for mincing words—has weighed in on the case as well, ominously <a href="http://spectator.org/blog/2012/03/25/black-panthers-offer-bounty-on">declaring</a> that “White America,” having “failed black people” for “400 years,” will no longer be permitted to “kill black children and get away with it.” To drive the point home, the Panthers initially offered a <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/black-panther-rage-10g-capture-trayvon-killer-article-1.1050370#ixzz1qI2aVkXd">$10,000</a> bounty for the “capture” of George Zimmerman. Lest there be any ambiguity about what the Panthers meant by “capture,” the group not only demanded “an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth,” but also circulated a <a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/report-new-black-panther-party-issues-wanted-dead-or-alive-poster-for-george-zimmerman/">flyer</a> that read: “MURDERED in Cold BLOOD—Child killer of Trayvon Martin—WANTED DEAD or ALIVE.” Soon thereafter, the Panthers upped the ante to <a href="http://spectator.org/blog/2012/03/25/black-panthers-offer-bounty-on">$1 million</a>, a sum which they expected to collect in donations “from the black community [including] athletes and entertainers.”</p>
<p>The Panthers, it is worth noting, have been unpersuaded by some inconvenient facts that emerged following the announcement of their bounty, including eyewitness <a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/revealed-trayvon-martins-suspension-record-george-zimmermans-statement-to-police/">evidence</a> that Trayvon Martin actually attacked Zimmerman (rather than vice versa) and was beating the latter quite badly just prior to the shooting. Of course, not all the facts are known yet, but as far as the New Black Panthers are concerned, the collection and evaluation of evidence are merely tiresome formalities that would serve only to delay and deny “justice” for the racist killer. The Panthers&#8217; southern regional leader, Mikhail Muhammad, puts it <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/294600/playing-race-card-again-jonah-goldberg">succinctly</a>: “He [Zimmerman] should be fearful for his life. You can’t keep killing black children.” Righteous crusades against evil don&#8217;t require due process; they only require victory.</p>
<p>Anyone familiar with the New Black Panthers knows that they have long been vexed by the racism which they claim pervades “<a href="http://spectator.org/blog/2012/03/25/black-panthers-offer-bounty-on">White America</a>.” Indeed, who could forget one of the Panthers&#8217; most famous leaders, the late <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2045">Khalid Abdul Muhammad</a>, whose angst about white racism led him to express his deepest “love” for one Colin Ferguson, a black gunman who had shot some twenty white and Asian commuters (killing six of them) in a racially motivated rampage aboard a New York commuter train in 1993. Determined to stamp out white racism by any means necessary, Muhammad announced: “I honestly wanna kill the enemy&#8230;. I would be embarrassed if we couldn&#8217;t point to one Colin Ferguson that decided one day to &#8230; just kill every goddamn cracker that he saw.”</p>
<p>When Muhammad died of a brain aneurysm in 2001, he was succeeded as Panther chairman and crusader-in-chief-against-racism by his longtime protégé, <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2044">Malik Zulu Shabazz</a>. Like his mentor, Shabazz reads American history as an unpunctuated narrative of white-perpetrated oppression. He asserts, for instance, that George Washington was little more than a slave owner who “raped black women,” while “old wooden-teeth-wearin&#8217;, wig-wearin&#8217; Thomas Jefferson, [was] nothin&#8217; but a slave-master, a slave-owner, an Indian-killer.”</p>
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<p>Is anybody else out there as sick and tired as I am of lynch mob racists like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton (vide: Tawana Brawley, the Duke Lacrosse kids) who don the mantel of the “civil rights” movement to indict non-blacks in advance of the facts, and incite racial rage against them? Yet that is exactly what they – and scores of black leaders &#8212; are doing to an Hispanic individual named George Zimmerman. Along with a cast of thousands, they are holding him guilty of racism before the fact, justifying a hatred, as inflammatory as the hatred once spewed by southern crackers against blacks.</p>
<p>There is no evidence whatsoever that race was a defining factor in the tragic death of Trayvon Martin. Notwithstanding the absence of evidence, this unhappy incident is now the occasion for school shut-downs, mass marches and public death threats by enraged African Americans, displaying behaviors reminiscent of the lynch mobs that were once a scourge of their parents’ generation in a now rejected past.</p>
<p>The facts surrounding the death of Trayvon Martin have not been investigated and are still uncertain. But the lynch mob has delivered its verdict: George Zimmerman is guilty of a race crime; Trayvon Martin was killed because he was black. “Trayvon is the Emmett Till of our generation,” said one mob leader, referring to the 12-year-old who was murdered by white racists in 1955 for whistling at a white woman.</p>
<p>There is no verifiable evidence for this fact-challenged, inflammatory, claim. According to the lone eyewitness to come forward, it was Martin who attacked Zimmerman and was on top of him and beating him to a pulp when the fatal shot was fired. The fact that Zimmerman’s face was bloody when the police arrived, is an apparent corroboration of this version of the event. Is this what happened? We don’t know. But it is a claim that should get tested in a court of law. Unfortunately to a lynch mob the evidence is irrelevant, the conclusion foregone.</p>
<p>If the demonstrators were merely calling for an investigation that would be proper. But the cries for retribution, and the accusations of racism, which dominate the public demonstrations are not. And that goes for the statement of the President as well. Not willing to be separated from his racial constituency, even when they are behaving badly, Obama has lent his prestige to the insinuation that the crime was inspired by the victim’s race. Otherwise there would be no reason to mention the fact that “If I had a son, he would look like Trayvon.” Everyone who has a son should be concerned by the loss of this life. By making it racial, the president is establishing guilt without evidence, and indicting non-black America as well.</p>
<p>The display of racial outrage over this case is a national disgrace. It is a throwback to the past and a shameful repudiation of the values the civil rights movement once stood for but apparently does no longer.</p>
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<p>Is anybody else out there as sick and tired as I am of lynch mob racists like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton (vide: Tawana Brawley, the Duke Lacrosse kids) who don the mantel of the “civil rights” movement to indict non-blacks in advance of the facts, and incite racial rage against them? Yet that is exactly what they – and scores of black leaders &#8212; are doing to an Hispanic individual named George Zimmerman. Along with a cast of thousands, they are holding him guilty of racism before the fact, justifying a hatred, as inflammatory as the hatred once spewed by southern crackers against blacks.</p>
<p>There is no evidence whatsoever that race was a defining factor in the tragic death of Trayvon Martin. Notwithstanding the absence of evidence, this unhappy incident is now the occasion for school shut-downs, mass marches and public death threats by enraged African Americans, displaying behaviors reminiscent of the lynch mobs that were once a scourge of their parents’ generation in a now rejected past.</p>
<p>The facts surrounding the death of Trayvon Martin have not been investigated and are still uncertain. But the lynch mob has delivered its verdict: George Zimmerman is guilty of a race crime; Trayvon Martin was killed because he was black. “Trayvon is the Emmett Till of our generation,” said one mob leader, referring to the 12-year-old who was murdered by white racists in 1955 for whistling at a white woman.</p>
<p>There is no verifiable evidence for this fact-challenged, inflammatory, claim. According to the lone eyewitness to come forward, it was Martin who attacked Zimmerman and was on top of him and beating him to a pulp when the fatal shot was fired. The fact that Zimmerman’s face was bloody when the police arrived, is an apparent corroboration of this version of the event. Is this what happened? We don’t know. But it is a claim that should get tested in a court of law. Unfortunately to a lynch mob the evidence is irrelevant, the conclusion foregone.</p>
<p>If the demonstrators were merely calling for an investigation that would be proper. But the cries for retribution, and the accusations of racism, which dominate the public demonstrations are not. And that goes for the statement of the President as well. Not willing to be separated from his racial constituency, even when they are behaving badly, Obama has lent his prestige to the insinuation that the crime was inspired by the victim’s race. Otherwise there would be no reason to mention the fact that “If I had a son, he would look like Trayvon.” Everyone who has a son should be concerned by the loss of this life. By making it racial, the president is establishing guilt without evidence, and indicting non-black America as well.</p>
<p>The display of racial outrage over this case is a national disgrace. It is a throwback to the past and a shameful repudiation of the values the civil rights movement once stood for but apparently does no longer.</p>
<p><strong>Freedom Center pamphlets now available on Kindle: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref%3dnb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Ddigital-text&amp;field-keywords=david+horowitz&amp;rh=n:133140011%2ck:david+horowitz&amp;ajr=0#/ref=sr_st?keywords=david+horowitz&amp;qid=1316459840&amp;rh=n:133140011%2ck:david+horowitz&amp;sort=daterank" target="_blank">Click here</a>.  </strong></p>
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