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		<title>UN to US: Get Zimmerman</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Sep 2013 04:15:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark Tapson]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[UN racism group’s wrongheaded priorities.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/flags.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-203636" alt="flags" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/flags.jpg" width="300" height="196" /></a>With nothing more important to do than make pompous pronouncements on an already resolved criminal case in Florida, a United Nations sub-group on racism <a href="http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=45762&amp;Cr=united+states&amp;Cr1=#.UijTQsjn_IX">called</a> on the United States government late last week to finalize the ongoing review of the case involving the controversial shooting of black Trayvon Martin by the media-designated “white Hispanic” neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman.</p>
<p>The United Nations Working Group of Experts of People of African Descent (the UN needs to put together a Working Group of Experts on Creating Group Names That Make Better Acronyms) released a statement calling upon “the US Government to examine its laws that could have discriminatory impact on African Americans, and to ensure that such laws are in full compliance with the country’s international legal obligations and relevant standards,” <a href="http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=13675&amp;LangID=E">said</a> “human rights expert” Verene Shepherd, who currently heads the group of experts (the UN News article mentions quite often that they are experts, to reassure you that as experts they are surely qualified to lecture the least racist nation in the world about how racist we are).</p>
<p>This comes after a trial in which Zimmerman was found innocent of all charges, and after a separate FBI investigation found no racism in Zimmerman’s motivation. That wasn’t enough for the experts at UNWGEPAD, who must have their hands full keeping up with trials involving people of African descent in every country around the world. Nor was it enough for Attorney General Eric Holder, who is mulling over a federal civil action against Zimmerman, and who instituted a tip line for Americans who want to act as Holder’s informants and dig up some useful dirt on Zimmerman.</p>
<p>“The Trayvon Martin case has highlighted the importance of the need to review those existing laws and policies that can have a discriminatory effect on the basis of race, as African Americans become more vulnerable to such discrimination,” pontificated Ms. Shepherd. Her statement didn’t specify which American laws and policies are discriminatory, although she may have had in mind the ‘Stand Your Ground” law that sparked so much misplaced outrage here in the States. That law had nothing to do with the Martin-Zimmerman case; it was invoked by neither the prosecution nor the defense. It’s unclear how, as an expert, Ms. Shepherd overlooked this detail.</p>
<p>“States are required to take effective measures to review governmental, national and local policies, and to amend, rescind or nullify any laws and regulations which have the effect of creating or perpetuating racial discrimination wherever it exists,” added Mutuma Ruteere, the UN’s “Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance” since November 2011 (I don’t know how he gets all that on his business card). Thanks for reminding us from your office in Switzerland of something we already know, Mr. Ruteere, but as an expert, surely you are aware that the United States has already been spectacularly effective at eliminating racial discrimination. We have a black President.</p>
<p>The Working Group is composed of five independent experts: the aforementioned expert Shepherd, Chair-Rapporteur; Ms. Monorama Biswas from Bangladesh; Ms. Mireille Fanon-Mendes-France from, unsurprisingly, France; Ms. Mirjana Najcevska from the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, and Ms. Maya Sahli from Algeria. It was established on April 25, 2002 following the World Conference against Racism held in Durban in 2001 (the same conference that was very nearly highjacked by parties determined to focus entirely on slavery reparations and labeling Zionism as racism).</p>
<p>The Group’s experts, among other activities, visit countries – often First World countries like Spain, Portugal, and Belgium, because you know, that’s where racism is most heavily concentrated, as well as the most happening nightlife – to “facilitate in-depth understanding of the situation of people of African descent” in various regions of the world and to focus on promoting “full and effective access to health, education <i>and justice</i> by people of African descent.” [Emphasis added] “Justice,” for those unfamiliar with the language of the left, means “social justice” and economic redistribution for the oppressed non-white peoples of the world – in other words, racial payback.</p>
<p>I’m no expert like the experts at UNWGEPAD, but it seems to me that if they are serious about addressing racism, xenophobia, and intolerance involving minorities and people of African descent (and by the way, aren’t we all ultimately people of African descent?), they could focus less on one shooting in the United States that has already been judged non-racist, and more on the slaughter of black Christians in Nigeria by Boko Haram, or the slaughter of Egyptian Christians at the hands of the Muslim Brotherhood, or the <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/arnold-ahlert/the-gruesome-reality-of-racist-south-africa/">savage slaughter</a> of minority white farmers by South African blacks, or the modern-day slavery being carried out in Arab countries.</p>
<p>If they insist on focusing on the plight of <i>Americans</i> of African descent, perhaps they could address the slaughter of black gun victims at the hands of other blacks in strictly gun-controlled Chicago, or the tragic epidemic of fatherless black households, or the disproportionately high rate of abortions in the black community, or the widespread problem of gangs, or the entertainment industry’s lucrative promotion of gangstas and drug dealers as black role models.</p>
<p>The “experts” at the United Nations Working Group of Experts of People of African Descent, like the UN itself, serve no real-world function. They occasionally travel somewhere on a fact-finding trip, then come back to their nice offices in Geneva or the UN and write official, bloodless reports and recommendations that are passed around in attractive folders to useless bureaucrats far removed from the brutal reality of the strong massacring the weak in distant corners of the earth. For some reason, savages committing genocide don’t bother to read those reports. The fact that UNWGEPAD took the time to lecture the United States on the urgency to finish its witch-hunt against the acquitted George Zimmerman speaks volumes about their misplaced priorities and ineffectual work.</p>
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		<title>The Racist Liberal System</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Aug 2013 04:45:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Where are the obligatory national conversations on race when the trigger-pullers are black? ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/cv.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-202010" alt="cv" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/cv.jpg" width="348" height="231" /></a>George Zimmerman was tried, convicted and sentenced in the media on the charge of Racism in the First Degree without a single piece of supporting evidence other than the bare fact of his altercation with a black man.</p>
<p>Had there been a time when Zimmerman had uttered a racial slur then NBC or the New York Times would have dug it up and presented it to readers and viewers first thing next morning. Instead the volume of opposing evidence, including Zimmerman’s advocacy on behalf of a homeless black man assaulted by police was ignored as a fact inconvenient to the racial narrative.</p>
<p>Paula Deen was tried, convicted and sentenced as the Nation’s Worst Racist (after the passing of George Wallace) for using a racial slur about a man who put a gun to her head back in 1986. Walmart stopped selling a cookbook because its author said something bad back when Sam Walton was still CEO and America and Russia were going head to head over whether Communism or Capitalism would dominate. (Communism won, but Capitalism gets to sell cheap copies of the rope it’s being hung with.)</p>
<p>The black murderers of Chris Lane, a white Australian baseball player, one of whom tweeted that he hated white people and boasted of assaulting five of them since the Zimmerman verdict and the other who used Black Nationalist signage, are not being accused of racism. That means that if they ever write a prison cookbook, Walmart will probably sell it.</p>
<p>There is roughly 100% more evidence that James Edwards, one of the teenagers charged with Lane’s murder, was racist, than that George Zimmerman was racist. But the odds that Edwards will ever be charged with a hate crime, let alone be treated as a national poster boy for bigoted violence the way that Zimmerman was are laughably infinitesimal.</p>
<p>None of the revenge assaults carried out by black perpetrators against white victims in “retaliation” for Trayvon Martin ever led to one of those obligatory national conversations on race that we have been having ever since Martin was shot during a scuffle with a Latino homeowner because that would require admitting that black racism exists.</p>
<p>A white man shooting a black man is presumed racist. A black man shooting a white man is described an indictment of society as a whole. A white man shooting a black man is put down to individual racism, but a black man shooting a white man is written off as a response to white racism. James Edwards’ sister has already begun advancing that defense.</p>
<p>These assumptions fall into place long before the trial is over or any of the facts are in. They are part of the unwritten stylebook of modern media coverage.</p>
<p>Black racism is the Bigfoot of the mainstream media. Reports of it happening in flash mobs in Chicago or Philadelphia are dismissed in the same way that Sasquatch sightings are in the Pine Barrens. It’s not that its existence can’t be documented, but that the evidence will never even receive a hearing.</p>
<p>Unlike the Zimmerman case, that is racist. A racism double standard is the very embodiment of racism.</p>
<p>There are few more damning indictments of the media’s racism than the fact that the man behind one of the worst race riots in the last generation has his own show on MSNBC.</p>
<p>If we lived in the racist America that MSNBC liberals claim we do, David Duke would have appeared with members of the Bush administration and had his own show on FOX. Instead Al Sharpton hosts Attorney General Eric Holder and has his own show on MSNBC. That simple contrast tells the whole dirty truth about the unequal treatment of black racism.</p>
<p>It’s not that liberals don’t know that black racism exists. They know it exists and they embrace it as a rallying call for social justice by warning white Americans that their “oppression” has consequences.</p>
<p>Obama’s initial response to the release of the Jeremiah “God Damn America” Wright video was to deliver a cynical speech on race invoking the ghosts of slavery and segregation, talking up Wright’s “memories of humiliation” and suggesting that the hateful preacher wasn’t wrong in his sentiments, only in failing to notice the progress that had been made since then.</p>
<p>Instead of truly disavowing Wright’s hate, Obama’s famous speech on race treated black racism as a response to white racism. That speech set the pattern for every Obama racial speech since, including his most recent remarks on Trayvon Martin.</p>
<p>Obama’s insistence on framing black racism as black anger, as a response to white bigotry rather than bigotry itself, is why the national conversation on race that he insists on having every time he takes a tumble in the polls never goes anywhere.</p>
<p>Racism, like any form of xenophobia, is unfortunately indigenous to the human character. To privilege one form of racism over another is to justify it and to dehumanize its victims as deserving of abuse.</p>
<p>If black racism is described as anger and white racism as bigotry, then white people are held responsible both for their own bigotry and for the bigotry directed at them. To liberals, this is simple social justice, but to anyone who has made a study of bigotry this is characteristic of the way that bigots fault their victims for the hate and violence that they direct at them.</p>
<p>The liberal position on black racism is racist. It is a “moderate” racism in that it deplores violent expressions of “anger,” but argues furiously and insistently for the rightness of the anger itself.</p>
<p>If bigotry is wrong, then it is wrong not only as an action, but as an idea. Every liberal, from Obama to the media apparatus surrounding him, makes an attempt at distinguishing between the legitimacy of black anger and the illegitimacy of its expression. And that dishonest distinction makes them complicit in the racist violence directed at white people and the murder of people like Chris Lane.</p>
<p>Black racism is no different than white racism. Its façade of legitimacy rooted in memories of oppression is only an excuse for a hatred that arises not from historical memories of the past, but from a common human xenophobia toward anyone different in the present.</p>
<p>If black racism really were only a historical memory or a cry against modern oppression, it would be limited in its scope to white people. It isn’t. Black racism targets Asians and Latinos as well. The black anger that Obama defends is really common bigotry dressed up in grainy civil rights photographs.</p>
<p>We don’t need to have a national conversation that justifies black racism and saddles its victims with more affirmative penalties. What we must do is send a message that it is intolerable and unacceptable.</p>
<p>The racial double standard does black men no favors. The murder of Chris Lane is not the fault of history, but of two black men and their white getaway driver, their families, and above all else, the education and entertainment figures that taught them that hating white people was their birthright.</p>
<p>To treat people of any race that way is to diminish them as human beings and to call on their worst selves.</p>
<p>When people are not held responsible for their actions, not just criminally, but socially, then the actions are perpetuated. If white murderers were not held responsible for killing black men, as liberals have insisted is the case, then the numbers for white-on-black crimes would start catching up with those for black-on-white crimes.</p>
<p>A system that can see white racism in a Rorschach inkblot, but can’t see black racism when it’s pulling the trigger is the very definition of a racist system.</p>
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		<title>Ghetto Pathologies, Personal Responsibility and Wishful Thinking</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jul 2013 04:45:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ying Ma]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The price we pay when we don't demand that people do better for themselves. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/ying2.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-198232" alt="YingMaCover-full_5x8.indd" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/ying2-632x1024.jpg" width="234" height="379" /></a>In April, two black teenagers punched a Chinese immigrant, 59-year-old Tian Sheng Yu, in the mouth in downtown Oakland, California. He fell on his head, spent the next few days in critical care, and subsequently died. In late March, five black teenagers surrounded a 57-year-old Asian woman at a light rail bus stop in San Francisco; one of them grabbed her and threw her from the platform onto the rails before beating her. In January, black teenagers kicked and beat 83-year-old Huan Chen after he got off the same bus stop. He, too, died from his injuries.</p>
<p>Some of the perpetrators demanded money before they ran off laughing. Others, however, acted for no apparent reason aside from the satisfaction of perpetrating a beating.</p>
<p>After Mr. Tian Sheng Yu was attacked and killed in Oakland, his widow appeared on television with her eyes swollen, bravely trying to speak about her loss. Justice, she told reporters in Mandarin, would prevail if what happened to her family did not ever happen to anyone else. Days after her husband’s death, Mrs. Yu visited the congregation of a large black church in Oakland and said to the members in broken English, “We are one family.”</p>
<p>Soon thereafter, President Barack Obama conveyed his and Mrs. Obama’s thoughts and prayers to Mrs. Yu, and remarked on the “incredible grace and dignity” with which she dealt with the entire situation. It was an incredible moment: America’s first black president addressing the reality and tragedy of rampant black crime and acknowledging the suffering of its victims.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, this moment did not happen. It was all wishful thinking.</p>
<p>The black-on-Asian crimes described here are real—as real as they are grotesque. They took place in 2010, and many others similar to them have followed. Obama’s praise and prayers were also delivered, but not to Mrs. Yu or the families of the other Asian victims.</p>
<p>Instead, Obama made his remarks to the family of Trayvon Martin, the unarmed black teenager in Florida who was shot and killed by neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman. The President appeared at last Friday’s White House Press Briefing to offer impromptu comments on the “not guilty” verdict rendered in Zimmerman’s criminal trial the previous weekend, and to teach the country about why black people felt angry in its aftermath.</p>
<p>Race did not surface as an issue during Zimmerman’s trial. The jury did not take race into consideration in their deliberations. The FBI conducted an investigation after the shooting last year and concluded that Zimmerman was not a racist.</p>
<p>Yet the President told the country that race was what this case was all about: Barack Obama could have been Trayvon Martin 35 years ago.</p>
<p>Yet race was a prism through which the President, self-appointed minority leaders and white liberals have adamantly refused to view crimes committed by black people against other racial groups.</p>
<p>After the incidents of black-on-Asian violence in 2010, an uncomfortable question stared everyone in the face: What role had racism played? Obama was silent. Reverends Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton staged no protests and made no comments. Most in the mainstream media looked away. Local officials and the local media in the Bay Area bent over backwards to deny or discount the issue of race. Former San Francisco Supervisor Sophie Maxwell eagerly labeled the attackers as mere thugs who targeted the “weak and vulnerable,” while San Francisco Police Chief George Gascon insisted that the attacks against Asians were mere “crimes of opportunity,” not incidents of racial targeting.</p>
<p>Never mind that certain reformed black criminals openly acknowledged and described in detail their racial profiling of potential Asian targets for robberies and other crimes. Never mind that Asians living in urban America, especially recent immigrants who speak relatively little English, regularly stand at the receiving end of racial epithets and racially inspired, senseless beatings from black teenagers.</p>
<p>The President or black civil rights leaders could have exhorted black teenagers to do better, to reject the ghetto pathologies that lead them to inflict racial hatred and violence on others. This, too, was wishful thinking.</p>
<p>They prefer to talk about the victimization of black people, their grief, their history—and all that inspires them to protest or riot over a verdict they did not like, even though it resulted from a demonstrably fair trial.</p>
<p>“There are very few African-American men in this country who haven’t had the experience of being followed when they were shopping in a department store,” President Obama explained to the country on Friday, “That includes me.”</p>
<p>There are very few African-Americans who haven’t had the experience of being victims of black crime either. As Fox News has reported, although they make up 13 percent of the population, blacks committed more than half of the murders in the United States between 1976 and 2005, and 93 percent of black murder victims are killed by other blacks. None of their deaths merited an individual impromptu session of presidential preaching by Mr. Obama.</p>
<p>“Now, this isn’t to say that the African-American community is naive about the fact that African-American young men are disproportionately involved in the criminal justice system, that they are disproportionately both victims and perpetrators of violence,” Obama acknowledged the inescapable facts of reality. “It’s not to make excuses for that fact, although black folks do interpret the reasons for that in a historical context.”</p>
<p>Yet excuses were proffered. The President, along with the Martin family, civil rights leaders and liberal pundits, has accused George Zimmerman of following and racially profiling Trayvon Martin because he was a black teenager wearing a hoodie. The neighborhood watchman’s defense&#8211;that Martin appeared suspicious as a stranger in Zimmerman’s neighborhood—fell on deaf ears.</p>
<p>More importantly, the President and his soul mates of racial victimization have refused to say one word about the violence, bravado and self-destructiveness that would lead a black teenager to break someone’s nose and beat him senseless, as Martin did with Zimmerman. Nor has the President been willing to contemplate aloud if elements of urban black culture that glorifies violent confrontations have led young Trayvon and far too many other black teenagers astray.</p>
<p>“If I see any violence, then I will remind folks that that dishonors what happened to Trayvon Martin and his family,” Obama continued in his national lecture for white people.</p>
<p>By then, violence had already broken out in Los Angeles, Oakland and elsewhere. It had already dishonored the Martin family and the country.</p>
<p>In Oakland, protestors blocked traffic on a freeway, smashed windows in downtown retail shops, slashed car tires and set a police car ablaze. One masked protester hit a waiter at a restaurant in the face with a hammer.</p>
<p>Addressing such violence would have required that the President reprimand hoodlums and thugs for their behavior. He declined to do so.</p>
<p>Yet each time that urban riots break out in the name of racial or social justice, small business owners, many of whom minorities themselves, are hurt the most. Each time, they must clean up the shattered windows, replace the damaged or looted merchandise and bear the financial cost of lost business.</p>
<p>As the <i>San Francisco Chronicle</i> reported, the owner of one retail shop in downtown Oakland wanted to know: &#8220;Do you know why there weren&#8217;t any police?&#8221;</p>
<p>She was a victim of the lawlessness that results from racial grievance. Stories like hers are inconvenient to the President and the racial grievance industry. So they ignore them.</p>
<p>In the aftermath of the Trayvon Martin tragedy, much has been said about Rachel Jeantel, Trayvon Martin’s then girlfriend. She took the witness stand during the Zimmerman trial and presented a shining example of the shameful ghetto-ization of America’s black youth: she could not speak English properly, had an extremely bad attitude and was unable to show a semblance of respect in the court of law. When one white juror subsequently revealed that she did not find Jeantel to be a credible witness, the Martin family, its lawyers and numerous others yelled racism.</p>
<p>Black civil rights leaders could have said that being black should not be synonymous with speaking English poorly and disrespecting others and yourself. White liberals, like CNN’s Piers Morgan, could have taken a pass on pandering to Rachel Jeantel. Both scenarios were wishful thinking.</p>
<p>The sad reality is that hate, self-loathing and self-destruction grow when a people have been wronged by history and when an individual believes he will be no exception. That dysfunction is exhibited when an individual feels entitled to commit racial violence against other ethnicities, such as Asian immigrants. It is exhibited when a teenager punches a stranger and beats him senseless, perhaps believing that his manhood demands it. It is exhibited when another teenager proudly flaunts her failure to speak proper English and her eagerness to disrespect the courtroom.</p>
<p>White liberals and black leaders alike do these individuals no favors when they look away from their racial hatred, excuse their proclivities for violence or delight in their bad attitudes. The President of the United States does them no favors when he shares their grief and their historical anguish but says nothing about their need to do better themselves.</p>
<p>No one can bring back Trayvon Martin. No one can bring back Mr. Tian Sheng Yu or Mr. Huan Chen either. However, law enforcement can find ways to better protect innocent minority business owners or law abiding citizens from the lawless outrage of rioters clamoring for social or racial justice. Rachel Jeantel can still learn to speak English properly. America can still look the black community in the eye, respect its historical anguish and demand more personal responsibility.</p>
<p>The President has shown himself not to be up for the task. Yet perhaps the rest of America still could be, and perhaps <i>that</i> will not just be another instance of wishful thinking.</p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jul 2013 04:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When will Obama say that a 12-year-old black girl -- shot and killed by a 19-year-old black male -- could have been his daughter? ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/kadejah-davis.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-198341" alt="kadejah-davis" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/kadejah-davis.jpg" width="300" height="438" /></a>This week’s Glazov Gang had the honor of being joined by <strong>Ying Ma</strong>, author of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Chinese-Girl-Ghetto-Ying-Ma/dp/1460970454"><em>Chinese Girl in the Ghetto</em></a>, <strong>Ann-Marie Murrell</strong>, the National Director of <a href="http://politichicks.tv/">PolitiChicks.tv</a>, and <strong>Tiffany Gabbay</strong>,  <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/tiffany-gabbay/the-eclipse-of-the-british-empire/">National Development Director</a> for the David Horowitz Freedom Center.</p>
<p>The Gang members gathered to discuss <em>Why Aren&#8217;t We All Kade’jah Davis</em>? The discussion took place in <strong>Part II</strong> <strong></strong>(beginning at the <strong>5:50 mark</strong>) and focused on why our entire society knows Trayvon Martin&#8217;s name but not the name of a 12-year-old black girl shot and killed by a 19-year-old black male. When will Obama say that she could have been his daughter?  [For more on this phenomenon, read John Perazzo&#8217;s Frontpage article, &#8220;<a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/john-perazzo/trayvon-martin-and-the-forgotten-dead/">Trayvon Martin and Forgotten Dead</a>&#8220;]</p>
<p>In <strong>Part I</strong>, the Gang focused on Ying Ma&#8217;s memoir <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Chinese-Girl-Ghetto-Ying-Ma/dp/1460970454"><em>Chinese Girl in the Ghetto</em></a>. The Gang shed light on the double standards in our society in terms of what racial violence is discussed and what type is pushed into invisibility.</p>
<p>To watch both parts of this two-part-series, see below:</p>
<p><strong>Part I:</strong></p>
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		<title>Our Race-Hack President</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jul 2013 04:21:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How Obama's rhetoric keeps America racially divided and most blacks mired in social and economic misery.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/try.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-197645" alt="try" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/try.jpg" width="284" height="189" /></a>As protests against the Zimmerman verdict spread, along with the vandalism and shopping sprees that progressives call “demonstrations,” the President last Friday made some remarks that reinforced all the race-hack rhetoric keeping this country racially divided and most blacks mired in social and economic misery.</p>
<p>Not satisfied with his remark from last year that if he had a son he’d look like Trayvon Martin––thus injecting racial animus into a case where it didn’t exist––Obama said Friday, “Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago,” and went on to cite three examples of lingering racism in America, the first two of which he says he’s experienced personally: being followed in a department store, hearing car-door-locks click as he passed by, and seeing women clutch their purses when black men enter an elevator. I’m surprised he didn’t add the other two constantly cited signs of endemic racism: being ignored by cabbies, or “driving while black,” being pulled over by a cop for no other reason than race.</p>
<p>Obama’s first statement implying he could have ended up like Trayvon Martin is preposterous. Martin’s death is an anomaly among black youths, and the odds that any black man is going to get shot to death by a white man are miniscule. Getting shot by another black man, on the other hand, is 25 times more likely, based on 2011 murder statistics. But given the privileged environments Obama grew up and has lived in, even those odds would be longer in his case. Obama’s statement exposed the big lie at the heart of racial demagoguery––that no amount of economic or social privilege can insulate a black man from the relentless racial animus of white America.</p>
<p>That’s the same point of the examples Obama cited of persistent racism. All these claims amount to anecdotal evidence, even if they’re true. But let’s consider these experiences and what they really tell us. First, if these are the only examples you can come up with to prove racism, then you are unwittingly admitting the enormous improvement in black people’s lives that has taken place over the last several decades. I’m old enough to remember when the evidence for racism comprised “Whites Only” signs on restaurants and drinking-fountains, segregated schools, a black man tied to a tree and tortured to death with a blow-torch, and black men knocked into the street and beaten for “reckless eyeballing” of a white woman. To imply that the slights Obama listed are “racist” is to drain the word of any meaning.</p>
<p>Next, Obama only glanced at the real reason for such behavior: the epidemic of crimes committed by black men. Many of those reactions are the consequence of that reality, the fruits in many cases of painful experiences. Remember when Jesse Jackson admitted that he felt relief when he discovered that the footsteps he heard behind him on a dark street belonged to white people? Is Jesse Jackson a “profiling” racist?</p>
<p>Or how about the old charge of being ignored by cab drivers? I think that meme faded because most of the big-city cab drivers aren’t white, and many are African immigrants. It’s a hard sell to argue that a Nigerian barely able to speak English has more privilege than an American black, or has somehow been conditioned into racism by whites. The more obvious answer is once you’ve been robbed and assaulted by blacks, you’re going to play it safe and not risk yet another attack, one that could leave you dead.</p>
<p>Or how about the racial profiling of drivers? Remember in the 90’s when the New Jersey state police were sanctioned by the Clinton DOJ for rampant profiling of blacks on the New Jersey turnpike? After all the race-industry bluster and media frenzy died down, a <a href="http://www.city-journal.org/html/eon_3_27_02hm.html">study</a> showed that black were being stopped at a greater rate (23%) than their proportion of the drivers (16%) because they sped and drove recklessly at a greater rate (25%). In other words, blacks were being stopped at a rate <i>less</i> than their behavior would predict.</p>
<p>But two can play the grievance game. By Obama’s logic, isn’t it legitimate for white people to list the regular affronts they have experienced from black people in order to explain their sense of grievance against blacks? The times they have been cursed and threatened on the street by black thugs, the times they have been a victim of black crime (blacks commit interracial crimes 25 times more often than whites), the times a public space was polluted by noisy, rude, vulgar, rambunctious blacks indifferent to those around them? I know, saying that many people respond to blacks in certain ways because of black crimes or other bad behavior is indulging racist myths based on vicious stereotypes. But Obama’s catalogue––the standard one usually heard from educated, affluent blacks––is gospel truth, and to doubt it is racist. Here we see the logic of race-hackery: heads I win, tails you lose. Whatever a white person says or does that deviates from the race-hack dogma is racist.</p>
<p>But we all know what’s going on––the mechanisms that drive what David Horowitz calls “black skin privilege,” the institutional and social advantages and double standards that benefit mostly the race industry. These all depend on perpetual black grievance and perpetual white guilt. Without decrying those grievances elevated into the equivalents of Jim-Crow violent racism, without exploiting the misery and dysfunction of other blacks the roots of which lie not in race but culture, those advantages have no rationale, and people would realize that most of the hacks running the race industry live better than 90% of white Americans do.</p>
<p>Just look at our president. Even as his policies have benefitted the black upper class and intelligentsia, he has failed the rest. Black unemployment was 12.7% when he took office, now it’s 14%. Most black children are still trapped in dysfunctional schools. Black rates of illegitimacy, murder, and government dependence are still astronomical. Nothing much has improved, but Obama gets a pass because he mouths the black-bourgeois rhetoric of persistent racism even he has experienced, in order to justify his own privilege and to keep black Americans hostage to the Democratic party. That sordid fact smacks much more of racism than a woman nervously clutching her purse or locking her car-doors.</p>
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		<title>Obliging Eric Holder: Toward An Honest Discussion of Race</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jul 2013 04:30:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some questions to get the conversation going.]]></description>
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<p>It isn’t just orgies of violence and destruction that the acquittal of George Zimmerman has provoked. This verdict also renewed Attorney General Eric Holder’s call for an “honest” discussion of race, a discussion that, he maintains, Americans continue to defer.</p>
<p>I am second to none in my contempt for Holder, but, in this case, he couldn’t be more correct: Americans have <i>not </i>discussed race <i>honestly.  </i>Nor will they do so as long as, ironically, <i>the Eric Holders </i>of the world continue to have their way.</p>
<p>For all his cries for a truthful dialogue on race, Holder, like the man to whom he answers and their fellow ideologues in the Racism-Industrial-Complex, is deeply invested in fortifying the pack of bald-faced lies that are American racial politics.  So, with an eye toward dismantling these lies and heeding Holder’s request for straight talk, I submit the following questions to get the conversation going.</p>
<p>Traditionally, Americans have endorsed what has been called “the one drop” rule.  According to this rule, if a person has any (black) African ancestry whatsoever, he or she is black.  Well, since George Zimmerman’s great-grandfather was black, doesn’t this mean that <i>he </i>is black? After all, had Zimmerman lived in the antebellum South, the knowledge that he had “black blood” in his veins alone would have sufficed to make him as eligible a candidate for slavery as Trayvon Martin would have been.</p>
<p>In turn, doesn’t this mean that the Zimmerman/Martin case is but another <i>black-on-black </i>shooting?</p>
<p>If so, why, of the astronomical number of instances of black-on-black violence that occur in America on a regular basis and that Holder and his ilk ignore, are they determined to make, quite literally, a <i>federal </i>case out of this one instance of such violence?  If not, if &#8212; unlike Barack Obama and Holder himself &#8212; Zimmerman somehow defies the one-drop rule, how or why does this justify treating the shooting death of Trayvon Martin far differently than the shooting deaths of the thousands of blacks who are shot dead annually by other blacks?</p>
<p>It is a twisted subculture of the black underclass that underwrites the epidemic of black violence.  Far from being condemned, it has been romanticized and/or excused (by people like Holder and Obama).  However, countless numbers of young black males like Martin imbibe a warped sense of masculinity from this ghetto ethos of which gangsta’ rap and hip hop are the most popular vehicles.  May not this have had at least some role to play in Martin’s fate—as well as that of the legions of young blacks that kill and are killed on a daily basis in this country?</p>
<p>In an honest discussion of race, isn’t it imperative that we finally express at least a fraction of the outrage over the shocking rates of black-on-<i>white </i>violence that was expressed by Holder and the like over the killing of Trayvon Martin?  It goes without saying that if whites were targeting blacks to the extent to which blacks target whites, no one—least of all Holder—would stand for it.  So why do such “anti-racists” as Holder and Obama endorse this grotesque double standard, standards that sanction the debasement of white life while confirming the suspicions of an ever growing number of whites that “anti-racism” is really just code for anti-<i>white</i>?</p>
<p>Why is black criminality and violence invariably explained away by “anti-racists” in terms of “root causes,” but when racial animus is directed, or is even, as in the case of George Zimmerman, <i>alleged</i> to have been directed <i>against </i>blacks, there is no search for any “root causes”? In the case of Zimmerman, say, his property and that of those in his lower-middle class community had been besieged by people who fit a certain profile—a profile that Trayvon Martin matched.  Is it not fair to think that had Zimmerman and his neighbors not suffered these injustices, that maybe he wouldn’t have been quite as suspicious of Martin that fateful night?</p>
<p>We use the words “racial unrest” and “race riots” in characterizing exhibitions of mayhem of the kind that are unfolding in the wake of the Zimmerman verdict.  Why?  Such terms suggest <i>a clash </i>between the race<i>s. </i>In reality, from at least the beginning of the second half of the last century to the present, so-called “<i>race</i>” riots have actually been <i>black </i>riots. When Klansmen used to spread terror throughout black communities, no one referred to these episodes as “race riots.”  Neither do we do so today when recalling those times.  So, again, why do we use this term to describe mobs of blacks who target whites?</p>
<p>There are plenty more topics that would be addressed in a genuinely honest discussion of race. These are just some questions that come immediately to mind in the aftermath of the Zimmerman verdict.</p>
<p>I won’t hold my breath waiting for those who claim to want an honest discussion of race to respond honestly to them—or respond to them at all.</p>
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		<title>The 4 Most Unhinged Responses to the Zimmerman Verdict</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jul 2013 04:38:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Left once again demonstrates its disdain for reason.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/rac.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-197253" alt="rac" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/rac-450x297.jpg" width="315" height="208" /></a>The recent George Zimmerman acquittal drew predictable responses from the race-obsessed left: death threats directed at Zimmerman, his family and the jurors; protests with signs provided by and promoting Communist organizations; violence and vandalism; and of course community organizing by race hustlers Al Sharpton and Jessie Jackson. But it also brought forth a few particularly irrational reactions. In no particular order of degree of insanity, here are four notably unhinged responses to the verdict, no doubt with more to come:</p>
<p><b>#1. “God is a white racist</b>.” <a href="http://www.religiondispatches.org/dispatches/antheabutler/7195/the_zimmerman_acquittal__america_s_racist_god/">An online editorial</a> declared that the Zimmerman verdict confirms that the Christian god not only hates blacks, but is actively walking around looking to shoot them:</p>
<blockquote><p>As a black woman in a nation that has taken too many pains to remind me that I am not a white man, and am not capable of taking care of my reproductive rights, or my voting rights, I know that this American god ain’t my god. As a matter of fact, I think he’s a white racist god with a problem. More importantly, he is carrying a gun and stalking young black men.</p></blockquote>
<p>Anthea Butler, who – and this will shock no FrontPage reader – is a professor of religion and Africana at the University of Pennsylvania, continued in that vein: “Their god is the god that wants to erase race, make everyone act ‘properly’ and respect, as the president said, ‘a nation of laws’; laws that they made to crush those they consider inferior.”</p>
<p>She’s partially right – the Christian god <i>does</i> want believers to treat people of all races equally and <i>does</i> want them to act properly and respect the law – but inexplicably, Butler considers that a bad thing. Apparently she would prefer a god that shares the left’s obsession with racial division and with mob lawlessness. She also seems confused about the fact that our laws were made not to “crush” the “inferior,” but to protect them.</p>
<p>Butler objects to “this pseudo-god of capitalisms [sic] and incarceration that threaten [sic] to take over our nation.” She goes on to claim that racism in America “has its underpinnings in Christianity and its history,” conveniently forgetting that <i>the abolition </i>of slavery and the civil rights movement have their underpinnings in Christianity and in American history. But of course, a balanced historical perspective is an undesirable quality in today’s academics, whose foremost specialty is always social justice.</p>
<p><b>#2. Boxer rejects the American flag</b>: This doesn’t refer to Barbara “Call me Senator” Boxer, but to U.S. Olympic boxer Terrell Gausha, who began wearing the American flag in the 2012 London Games but was so disgusted by Zimmerman’s acquittal that he has <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/jul/16/olympic-boxer-terrell-gausha-shuns-american-flag-a/">vowed</a> never to wear it again: “How can I wear my stars and stripes proudly in a country where they make a big deal out of Mike Vick fighting dogs, but not a young innocent black male’s life?” he asked in an interview.</p>
<p>If Gausha doesn’t think this country made a big deal out of Trayvon Martin’s death, then he’s taken one too many punches to the head. And sadly, America did not make a big <i>enough</i> deal of Vick’s sadism – not only does he make millions in the National Football League, but he even received a supportive call from President Obama, who also made a supportive statement on behalf of his honorary son Trayvon Martin, setting the stage for the racial hysteria surrounding the Zimmerman trial.</p>
<p>Gausha refuses to represent a “nation with so much racism and hatred.” In other words, he refuses to represent a nation where a jury of the accused’s peers came to a dispassionate decision based on the facts of the individual case, as opposed to one where lynchings are carried out to satisfy the progressive mob’s lust for violence.</p>
<p><b>#3. MLK in a Hoodie</b>: Just when you think that the elevation of Trayvon Martin to sainthood can’t get any further out of hand, along comes <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/mlk-s-niece-on-viral-hoodie-image---dr--martin-luther-king-jr--would-not-wear-a-hoodie--164608597.html">this photoshop</a> of Martin Luther King Jr. in a hoodie <i>a là</i> Trayvon, created by purported artist Nikkolas Smith and spread by Communist agitator <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2406">Van Jones</a> on Twitter. Like the Martin family attorney’s <a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/07/13/martin-family-attorney-trayvon-next-to-medgar-evers-and-emmett-till-as-symbols-for-equal-justice-for-all/">association</a> of Trayvon with civil rights martyrs Medgar Evers and Emmett Till, this attempt to conflate him with MLK is a sickening insult both to MLK’s memory and to everyone who courageously participated in the <i>real</i> civil rights movement.</p>
<p>An agitated Alveda King, MLK’s niece, told radio host Andrea Tantaros, “I can almost promise you Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. would not wear a hoodie.” But that’s irrelevant to leftists, who have a genius for creating false idols through iconic images (Ché t-shirts, anyone?).</p>
<p><b>#4. “Racism is our 9/11</b>.” Like academics, MSNBC contributors are easy targets because they’re so transparent about their fact-free extremism; nevertheless Michael Eric Dyson deserves mention for his terrorism analogy for racism. His <a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2013/07/15/michael_eric_dyson_you_know_how_you_felt_on_911_thats_how_we_feel_about_race.html">inarticulate rant</a> peaks with this gem: “So, you know how you felt on 9/11? Yeah, that&#8217;s how we feel when it comes to race… Not until, and unless, the number of white kids die that approximate the numbers of black and other kids who die, will America see.”</p>
<p>I guess the delusional Georgetown academic Dyson isn’t aware that over 90% of black murders are committed by other blacks, and over 80% of white murders are committed by whites. Unlike our common enemy, Muslim fundamentalists, white Americans are not waging a race war on their fellow blacks.</p>
<p>Dyson went on to encourage Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder to take action:</p>
<blockquote><p>[L]ook, the reality is you got to act now. The president, you won the second term. You’re in office. You are ensconced. Do something courageous, bold, and helpful. Not only to African American people, but to America. Because unless we do this, white Americans and others will feel that this was a justifiable verdict, this is how things happen.</p></blockquote>
<p>Actually, if Holder and Obama take further action against Zimmerman, all <i>rational</i> Americans will feel that our government is determined to blatantly subvert our legal process to get the trial result it wants in order to push its agenda of racial payback and social justice.</p>
<p>Whatever your opinion on the Zimmerman acquittal, whatever your politics, irrational responses like these serve no purpose except to heighten the hysteria, exacerbate racial tensions, and push us further down the road toward violent civil war.</p>
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		<title>Cracker and Uncle Thomas</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jul 2013 04:34:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Andrew Marcus]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The price blacks have to pay for straying from the Progressive Party Line. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/rep.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-197218" alt="rep" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/rep-450x344.jpg" width="270" height="206" /></a>I believe in giving credit where credit is due, and I&#8217;ve got to hand it to the Left &#8211; they are <i>gifted</i> moralizers.  Nobody can put on a sanctimonious soapboxing spectacle like a Progressive Leftist.  Do you believe, for whatever reason, that marriage is between one man and one woman?  Then you&#8217;re a <i>homophobe</i>.  Do you believe that men are generally taller and have larger biceps than women?  Then you&#8217;re a <i>sexist</i>.  Do you believe that people who move to America ought to come here legally and become American?  Then you&#8217;re a <i>nativist</i>.  Do you believe that 16 years of global temperature stability might mean that global warming isn&#8217;t actually happening?  Then you&#8217;re a <i>flat-earther</i>.  And, of course, if you disagree about any given issue with a Progressive, you&#8217;re a <i>racist</i>.  Yep, they have all sorts of fancy words to describe how you don&#8217;t agree with them, and they use them all &#8211; a lot.</p>
<p>But where the Left excels at preaching and condescension, they fall a bit short when it comes to self-awareness.  So convinced are they of their moral superiority that they fail to recognize their own flaws, and, dare I say, silly racism.  A famous and wise Jew once said, &#8220;Why do you see the speck that is in your brother&#8217;s eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye?&#8221;  Last week has revealed so many logs in so many eyes, you&#8217;d think the Left was planning on building a cabin &#8211; or a lodge.</p>
<p>After the Supreme Court ruled that it was no longer 1950 in the South and so southern states should not be treated as if it were, Democrat Minnesota State Rep. Ryan Winkler referred to Justice Clarence Thomas as an &#8220;Uncle Thomas,&#8221; presumably to suggest that Justice Thomas was little more than an obsequious and deferential slave, eager to please his evil White masters.  Witty!  Winkler, a Harvard graduate, later claimed that he did not understand the term to be a racist one &#8211; but, gosh, if people were offended by his choice of words, well then he sure was sorry for that.</p>
<p>During the George Zimmerman trial, we learned that Trayvon Martin referred to him as &#8220;a creepy-ass cracker&#8221; before he and the controversial White Hispanic got into a fight over Martin&#8217;s bag of Skittles.  We also learned that cracker is not a racist term.  Tamron Hall from MSNBC explained that <i>cracker</i> is certainly a pejorative, but not necessarily a racial slur &#8211; you know, like <i>jerk</i> or <i>meanie</i>.  I suppose that cracker isn&#8217;t considered a racial slur because then we might have to call it the &#8220;C-word,&#8221; and that might get confusing.</p>
<p>And then, to top it all off, Alec Baldwin had yet another low-blood-sugar-moment last week and tweeted &#8211; to the planet &#8211; that he was going to &#8220;track down&#8221; and &#8220;f**k up&#8221; some &#8220;toxic little queen&#8221; who wrote something about his wife that nobody cares about anyway.  Baldwin, predictably, has cancelled his Twitter account (again).  Capital One, predictably, has not cancelled Baldwin&#8217;s contract.  Why?  Because <i>toxic little queen</i> isn&#8217;t homophobic, <i>per se</i>, it&#8217;s just angry Baldwin-talk.  As it turns out, the only thing the Left is more gifted at than moralizing is circling the wagons when it comes to protecting one of their own from their own insane thought-crime standards.  In the meantime, Paula Deen has been scheduled for beheading by Nancy Pelosi for something she uttered during the Reagan administration.</p>
<p>Up is down.  One is Four.  Cracker is not a racist term.  Red is blue.  Day is night.  Uncle Thomas is not a racist term.  Death is hilarious.  Water is sand.  <i>Toxic little queen</i> means &#8220;I Love Gays!&#8221; Welcome to 2013, where language means whatever the heck the Left says it means because they say so and shut up or we&#8217;re sicking the IRS on you.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s all very sad.  The very idea of a &#8220;race traitor&#8221; seems so outdated &#8211; at least to people who do not view the world through the prism of race.  Among Whites (except among the goofball White Supremacist fringe), the idea of race betrayal died with Jim Crow &#8211; something last week&#8217;s Supreme Court ruling recognized.  In the world of the Progressive Left, however, <i>only</i> Blacks can be race traitors &#8211; and how, you may ask, does a Black person reveal their race betrayal?  <i>By disagreeing with the Progressive Left</i>.  You&#8217;ve got to admit, it&#8217;s a handy setup they&#8217;ve got going.  Among the Democratic base, White liberals like Ryan Winkler are in charge of telling Blacks how and what to think &#8211; and if they stray a bit from their prescribed politics, they become an Uncle Thomas.</p>
<p>Or, perhaps better, a toxic little Cracker Lover.</p>
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		<title>Race-Industry Leeches</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jul 2013 04:58:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Will the DOJ pursue its self-serving, race-baiting agenda in the Zimmerman case?]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/apr6-550x4001.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-197006" alt="apr6-550x400" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/apr6-550x4001-450x327.jpg" width="270" height="196" /></a>The trial of George Zimmerman is over, but the persecution of him by the race industry isn’t. The Department of Justice is currently combing through the case to find some pretext, no matter how specious, for charging Zimmerman with a violation of civil-rights laws. No matter that the FBI investigation has eliminated race as a factor in Zimmerman’s actions, or that the prosecutors in Florida studiously ignored race as a motive. Under Attorney General Eric Holder, the DOJ has become the Luca Brasi of the race industry, enforcing the self-serving, racialist narrative that in part propelled Holder’s boss into the White House. So don’t be surprised if the DOJ seizes the opportunity.</span></b></p>
<p>Indeed, the specter of a DOJ trial is just the latest in a series of events, from the Duke lacrosse team prosecution to Holder’s abuse of the Voting Rights Act, that demonstrate the mendacious, hypocritical racial ideology that permeates our politics and institutions. The central theme of this narrative is the endemic, eternal white racism that accounts for every dysfunction in the black community. No amount of progress, from the remarkable expansion of the black middle class to the utter discrediting of old-school racists like the Ku Klux Klan, can alter this narrative, for the simple reason that a significant number of black politicians, professors, federal and state employees, and activists gain power and money by exploiting the “racism” meme.</p>
<p>Consider the reaction to the trial from the usual race-hack subjects. Hilary Shelton, head of the NAACP Washington Bureau, said, “Those of us who are fathers, particularly of African-American boys, find it [the acquittal] shockingly frightening.” The message, he says, is “Not only can we do this, we can get away with it.”</p>
<p>Well, what should be “shockingly frightening”  is the fact that 64% of black children live in homes without a father. Huge numbers of black men are siring children they do not take responsibility for, and are getting away with it. This means that Shelton is speaking about a minority of black men when he evokes “those of us who are fathers,” a minority that no doubt comprises those blacks who are better educated and better employed than the other two-thirds. In other words, Shelton is exploiting the social and economic dysfunctions of under-educated, under-employed clients of the welfare state in order to justify the power and influence of the NAACP.</p>
<p>Then there’s the implication that whites itch to murder blacks, and when they do they can depend on a racist jury to let them off. What Shelton is ignoring, of course, is the fact that black youths are murdering each other at a “shockingly frightening” rate. The homicide rate is 28.8 per 100,000 for black youths between the age of 10 and 24, but only 2.1 per 100,000 for whites in the same cohort. Worse yet, 90% of black murder victims are killed by other blacks. A few weeks before the Zimmerman verdict, Chicago reached 200 murder victims, including some children. But in the midst of such slaughter, the race-hacks were fulminating over a “white Hispanic,” as <i>The New York Times</i> called Zimmerman, who killed a black youth while defending himself. Clearly, the race industry is concerned not with black men dying, but with exploiting selected incidents that feed the white-racism narrative.</p>
<p>All this, of course, has been pointed out over the past few months, yet Shelton still goes on record with a ridiculous narrative of homicidal racist whites murdering innocent blacks. The fact is, blacks have murdered hundreds of times more blacks than the 4743 blacks lynched between 1882-1968. In 2011, 6329 blacks were murdered. Of those murders where the race of the offender was known, 2447 of 2695 <a href="http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2011/crime-in-the-u.s.-2011/tables/expanded-homicide-data-table-6">victims</a> were killed by other blacks, suggesting that of those some 6000 murder victims, over 5000 were killed by other blacks just in one year. And by the way Mr. Shelton, in 2011, whites killed 193 blacks, while blacks killed 448 whites.</p>
<p>Equally preposterous is the whole redefinition of “racism” necessary for the race-hacks to camouflage the fact that genuine racism––the belief in the innate intellectual and moral inferiority of blacks no matter what their education or economic status––has withered to a handful of marginal cranks. Thus we get the following, from a law professor at the University of Florida: “I think you could make out the case that unconscious racism caused Mr. Zimmerman to profile” Trayvon Martin. Of course, “unconscious racism” is not a fact of science, but a pseudo-scientific confection based on two-bit Freudian assumptions of behavior no more credible than phrenology or mesmerism. No one can explain a physiological mechanism whereby actions are driven by some ghost-Klansman-in-the-machine rather than choice or instinctive reactions.</p>
<p>Like “institutional racism,” “unconscious racism” is the rhetorical perfume used to hide the fact that actual racism has little to do with the problems afflicting many blacks today. These dysfunctions are cultural, in the main a consequence of the breakdown in morality, religious faith, and restraint that was institutionalized in the 60’s, mostly by whites who could better afford it. The doctrine of “If it feels good, do it,” whether “it” is sex, drugs, laziness, or crime, is destructive enough for the middle and upper classes, but it has been devastating for the poor and lower classes. And for blacks, just at the moment when increasing economic opportunity and the Civil Rights Act had removed the legal barriers to black advancement, the culture began systematically destroying the virtues and morals––especially self-restraint, delayed gratification, and self-reliance––necessary for taking advantage of the new opportunities. That so many blacks resisted this public validation of immorality, dependence, and license is testimony to the strength of black culture and faith.</p>
<p>Finally there is the illiberal identity politics that abandoned the central morality of the Civil Rights movement––that human rights inhere in individuals, not categories––and instead institutionalized the notion that identity is predicated on groups defined by superficial physical characteristics, and by their historical victimization by the dominant white culture. This means that there is ultimately an impermeable barrier between white and black, victimizer and victim, an idea encapsulated in the popular t-shirt slogan, “It’s a black thing, you wouldn’t understand.”</p>
<p>This dubious idea was voiced by another law professor after the Zimmerman verdict, this one from the University of Miami. Noting that the six-person jury comprised 5 whites and 1 Hispanic, the professor said, “You want to have people of color on your jury because sometimes their experience with the police is something that white people don’t have.” Notice the assumptions: all black people are victims of police misbehavior, and all white people aren’t. Moreover, deciding guilt or innocence based on facts and law isn’t the key to a jury trial, but empathy for and identification with the accused or the victim, subjective emotional states that can miscarry justice as much as irrational bigotry or prejudice (See Trial, O.J. Simpson). Worse yet is the implication that all black people are victims, and all have run-ins with the racist police, so any random black person no matter his economic status or education can identity with another black person no matter how different. Of course, this idea dehumanizes individuals into cultural stereotypes, and ignores their unique complexity.</p>
<p>But all these dimensions of the race-industry narrative are very useful for black professors, activists, and politicians. Better-educated and more well-off than millions of whites, they can rationalize their privilege by leeching off the suffering and dysfunction of the black underclass, and then leverage white guilt for their own advancement. Meanwhile millions of blacks remain underemployed and uneducated, victims of crime, drugs, sexual carelessness, and the liberal racist plantation of dependency and victimhood.</p>
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		<title>American Racial Politics 101</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jul 2013 04:18:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[CliffsNotes for navigating the rocky waters of the nation's racial realities.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/al-sharpton-trayvon-martin-cropped-proto-custom_28.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-196839" alt="al-sharpton-trayvon-martin-cropped-proto-custom_28" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/al-sharpton-trayvon-martin-cropped-proto-custom_28-426x350.jpg" width="256" height="210" /></a>To order David Horowitz and John Perrazo’s pamphlet, <em>Black Skin Privilege</em>, <a href="https://secure.donationreport.com/productlist.html?key=KD25VC00LEHE">click here</a>.</strong></p>
<p>Contemporary American racial politics have got to be more complicated than any other kind of politics.  In fact, they have got to be more complicated than astrophysics and neural brain surgery.</p>
<p>Even Americans for whom their country’s racial politics have become like a first language to them still have great difficulty in mastering it.  Outsiders aspiring to achieve fluency in America’s racial politics have nearly insuperable obstacles to surmount.</p>
<p>With an eye toward making “the text” of our racial politics at least somewhat less convoluted, I offer the following “cliff notes.”</p>
<p>First things first: “racism” is the worst thing with which to charge a <i>white </i>person.  To repeat, there is no conceivable catalogue of evils in which “racism” does not rank at the top (or bottom) of the list—<i>for white people.  </i>To put this point another way, although every American, of every race, loudly and proudly repudiates “racism,” by the latter they almost always mean <i>white </i>racism.</p>
<p>This brings us to the next note.</p>
<p>There is endless hand wringing over “equality,” “fairness,” and “justice,” it is true.  And “color blindness” is extolled as the premiere virtue.  In reality, though, whites and non-whites—especially blacks—are not regarded equally in America.  All talk of “white privilege” clashes violently with the fact that non-whites, especially blacks, just simply are not judged by the same standards as their white counterparts.  And, as this one example of “racism” illustrates, the double standards are glaring.</p>
<p>Not infrequently, at least nowadays, calls on the part of racial activists and their followers for justice or equality are ideological smokescreens designed to advance their own interests and/or the interests of the groups that they represent.  Such activists, regardless of their color, shout from the rooftops for “justice” for blacks and Hispanics, say.  However, for whites, particularly those whites who have been aggrieved in some way by non-whites, they are nowhere to be found.</p>
<p>Third, though it sounds counterintuitive, race<i> </i>in America is less a matter of skin tone and more a matter of ideology.  Actually, race is as much an ideological<i> </i>concept as any.</p>
<p>There is a narrative concerning American race relations that has become the official history. As it has achieved the status of dogma, it tolerates no competitors.  According to this narrative, for all practical purposes, “racism” begins in the United State with the enslavement of African blacks.  Notwithstanding their tireless attempts to repent of the oppression to which they’ve subjected blacks throughout the centuries, whites continue to fall prey to their delusions of racial “supremacy;” they cannot do enough to make amends.</p>
<p>Now, this narrative is false not entirely for what it says as for what it neglects to say.  Blacks had been enslaving one another for eons before the first white man stepped foot on the African continent—and they resisted European efforts to end the slave trade.  Had it not been for Africans there would have been no Trans-Atlantic slave trade, for it was Africans who sold their fellow Africans to the Europeans.  And what is true of Africans is no less true of America’s aboriginals who had been enslaving one another long before whites reached the Western hemisphere.</p>
<p>Of course, there are other critical facts that the official creed omits.  Blacks enslaved blacks <i>in the antebellum South </i>and<i> </i>blacks fought for the Confederacy.  Blacks have a far higher standard of living in modern America than most people, black white, or other, have living in any other place on Earth.  From their emancipation from the bonds of slavery to the destruction of Jim Crow and everything since then—including the election and reelection of a black president—blacks’ gains in America would never have been possible had it not been for the blood, sweat, and tears of whites.</p>
<p>Today, blacks are murdered and victimized by blacks to a vastly greater extent than they are victimized by whites (or the members of any other racial group).  And the overwhelming majority of interracial crime is black-on-white—not the other way round.</p>
<p>Still, those blacks like, say, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, who resist the orthodox narrative are deemed “inauthentic”: Thomas and other blacks, you see, aren’t <i>really </i>black.</p>
<p>That race is ideological in contemporary America is as well borne out by the fact that the Hispanic-looking George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watch member in Sanford, Florida who shot to death black teenager Trayvon Martin, is treated as an honorary white man—in spite of being a mixture of black, white, and Hispanic.</p>
<p>For over 20 years, Hispanic gangbangers in Los Angeles have been conducting what the Southern Poverty Law Center describes as a “campaign” of “ethnic cleansing” in black neighborhoods. This outrage has been met with deafening silence by the national media and the racial activists.  Thus, it is difficult not to think that had Zimmerman had his mother’s Spanish surname, or had he been a gangbanger, as opposed to a community activist, we would never have heard of either him or Martin.</p>
<p>Racial politics in America is tricky business indeed.</p>
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		<title>When The Brotherhood Fell &#8212; on The Glazov Gang</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tiffany Gabbay, Dwight Schultz and Jennifer Serrano shed light on why Egyptians threw Morsi out -- and why Obama is upset about it.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/morsi-obama2.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-196411" alt="morsi-obama" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/morsi-obama2.jpg" width="280" height="163" /></a>This week’s Glazov Gang had the honor of being joined by <strong>Tiffany Gabbay</strong>,  <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/tiffany-gabbay/the-eclipse-of-the-british-empire/">National Development Director</a> for the David Horowitz Freedom Center<em><i>, </i></em><strong>Dwight Schultz<em><i>, </i></em></strong>a Hollywood actor<em></em><strong><em><i>, </i></em></strong>and <strong>Jennifer Serrano, </strong>the Newest California PolitiChick<strong>.<em><i><br />
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<p>The Gang members gathered to discuss <em>When The Brotherhood Fell</em>, analyzing why Egyptians threw Morsi out &#8212; and why Obama is upset about it.</p>
<p>The episode also shed light on <em>Zimmerman on Trial, The ObamaCare Setback, </em>and much, much more.  <em><br />
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<p>To watch both parts of this two part series, see below:</p>
<p><strong>Part I:</strong></p>
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<p><strong>Part II:</strong></p>
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		<title>Government-Approved Race Riots?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jul 2013 04:59:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Matthew Vadum]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How an administration deployed community organizers to foment racial tensions after the Trayvon Martin shooting.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/holder-sharpton.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-196532" alt="holder-sharpton" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/holder-sharpton-450x252.jpg" width="315" height="176" /></a>The Obama administration deployed government-paid community organizers to Sanford, Florida after the shooting death of Trayvon Martin last year in order to foment racial tensions, newly released government documents show.</p>
<p>The news came as the Obama administration publicly pretended to be concerned at the prospect of ugly race riots breaking out across America in the increasingly likely event that defendant George Zimmerman will be acquitted in the case. 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), a small office within the U.S. Department of Justice, sent taxpayer-funded political agitators to Sanford after 17-year-old Martin was killed Feb. 26, 2012, during a physical confrontation with community crime watch volunteer George Zimmerman. For a month and a half after Martin&#8217;s death, local police declined to press charges against Zimmerman because they believed the criminal case against him was weak.</p>
<p>DOJ documents <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/07/10/Judicial-watch-documents-DOJ"><i>provided</i></a></span> to Judicial Watch under the Freedom of Information Act show that in the weeks before Zimmerman was charged, CRS expended thousands of dollars to help organize marches in which participants exacerbated racial tensions and loudly demanded that he be prosecuted.</p>
<p>According to the documentation, CRS employees were involved in “marches, demonstrations, and rallies related to the shooting and death of an African-American teen by a neighborhood watch captain”; providing “support for protest deployment in Florida”; rendering “technical assistance to the City of Sanford, event organizers, and law enforcement agencies for the march and rally on March 31”; and providing “technical assistance, conciliation, and onsite mediation during demonstrations planned in Sanford.”</p>
<p>In April, CRS “set up a meeting between the local NAACP and elected officials that led to the temporary resignation of police chief Bill Lee according to Turner Clayton, Seminole County chapter president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People,” the document dump revealed.</p>
<p>Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton condemned the Obama administration&#8217;s meddling.</p>
<p>“These documents detail the extraordinary intervention by the Justice Department in the pressure campaign leading to the prosecution of George Zimmerman,&#8221; Fitton said. &#8220;My guess is that most Americans would rightly object to taxpayers paying government employees to help organize racially-charged demonstrations.”</p>
<p>U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder already joined the leftist lynch mob and reached his own verdict in the controversial case that, thanks to cheerleader journalism, has divided America. Holder, whose visceral contempt for conservatives is <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://spectator.org/archives/2009/01/29/holder-the-hater"><i>well documented</i></a></span>, has single-mindedly focused on turning the Department of Justice into a postmodernist racial grievance incubator.</p>
<p>Of course, in a sense this kind of government-subsidized pot-stirring is nothing new. The Left has been using taxpayer dollars to fund efforts to advance radical causes and foment revolution in the United States for a half century, as I explained in my book, <i><a href="http://tinyurl.com/vadumbook">Subversion Inc.</a></i></p>
<p>Changes in federal social policy in the mid-1960s helped to lay the groundwork for this artificial activism and the civil unrest it caused. Under the leftist-designed War on Poverty, the federal government has been handing out taxpayers’ money since 1965 to community groups in order to encourage them to agitate against the status quo. In a sense, America declared war on itself and funded Saul Alinsky-inspired pressure groups to do the fighting.</p>
<p>In the Zimmerman case, the Obama administration simply cut out the middleman by hiring community organizers directly instead of giving federal grants to left-wing activist groups to support their troublemaking.</p>
<p>This isn&#8217;t the first time President Obama has used DOJ employees as his personal Alinskyite stormtroopers. Uniformed field representatives of the CRS also <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/08/29/Is-Holder-s-DOJ-Community-Organizing-Occupy-Activists-at-the-RNC"><i>assisted</i></a></span> Occupy Wall Street and anarchist activists outside the Republican National Convention in Tampa last year.</p>
<p>At every turn of his entire political career Barack 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 election cycle last year when he volunteered, &#8220;If I had a son, he&#8217;d look like Trayvon.&#8221;</p>
<p>In the Martin case, the Left <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2012/04/02/Trayvon-Martin-Case-Repeats-2006-Playbook-for-Martin-Lee-Anderson">appears to have employed</a></span> 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>More evidence emerged yesterday that the prosecution of Zimmerman was a politically motivated witch hunt from the start.</p>
<p>After testifying in the trial Monday, former Sanford police chief Bill Lee <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2013/07/10/justice/sanford-bill-lee-exclusive/index.html">told CNN</a></span> that he was forced out of his job last year after he refused to lay charges against Zimmerman. In league with the NAACP, the Justice Department&#8217;s Community Relations Service <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2012/04/18/Spies-Muscle-Holder-Secretive-DOJ-Group-Helped-Oust-Sanford-Florida-Sheriff">helped to get Lee fired</a></span>.</p>
<p>The investigation itself was hijacked by outside forces  &#8220;in a number of ways,&#8221; Lee said.</p>
<p>Despite the absence of evidence suggesting Zimmerman&#8217;s guilt, city officials pressured Lee to arrest him, he said.</p>
<p>&#8220;It was (relayed) to me that they just wanted an arrest. They didn&#8217;t care if it got dismissed later,&#8221; he said. &#8220;You don&#8217;t do that.&#8221;</p>
<p>Investigators were painfully aware that keeping Zimmerman out of jail for 46 days after the shooting was politically unpopular, Lee explained. Their forbearance subjected them to abuse &#8220;but they performed professionally. That&#8217;s the mark of a strong police department.&#8221;</p>
<p>Lee defended the police investigation as &#8220;sound,&#8221; explaining that there was no probable cause to arrest Zimmerman at the scene or in the weeks following.</p>
<p>&#8220;The police department needed to do a job, and there was some influence &#8212; outside influence and inside influence &#8212; that forced a change in the course of the normal criminal justice process,&#8221; Lee said. &#8220;With all the influence and the protests and petitions for an arrest, you still have to uphold your oath.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;That investigation was taken away from us,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We weren&#8217;t able to complete it.&#8221;</p>
<p>Meanwhile, defense lawyers rested their case in the Zimmerman trial yesterday.</p>
<p>Zimmerman declined to take the witness stand in his own defense.</p>
<p>Sanford Chief of Police Cecil Smith <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/07/10/Homeland-DOJ-trayvon-riots">told</a></span> Breitbart News that there is “nothing out there”  suggesting that the verdict in the trial will be followed by civil unrest.</p>
<p>Sanford police have been coordinating with the Department of Homeland Security and CRS regional director Thomas Battles, Smith said.</p>
<p>If no riots break out, Obama&#8217;s community agitators may be forced to start some.</p>
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		<title>Our Articles On Trayvon Martin</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jul 2013 18:59:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Horowitz]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Get real, we are not liberals.)]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/tray1.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-196277" alt="tray" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/tray1-450x252.jpg" width="315" height="176" /></a>There has been a large backlash against the article I wrote a few days ago on Trayvon Martin (“<a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/david-horowitz/is-the-zimmerman-case-really-open-and-shut/">Is the Zimmerman Case Really Open and Shut?</a>”) and also against Arnold Ahlert’s piece in today’s Frontpage (“<a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/arnold-ahlert/framing-trayvon/">Framing Trayvon</a>”). About 95% of the comments, maybe more, have attacked the writers of the pieces and in the process disregarded the point both articles were trying to make that like Zimmerman, Trayvon has been turned into a political symbol and the person behind the mask has been lost. The adverse reaction has also served to confirm that a large segment of the conservative community is arguing not only that Zimmerman is innocent of the charge against him, with which Frontpage has no quarrel, but also that Trayvon Martin was a young black thug who deserved to die.</p>
<p>Let me begin by acknowledging that we made some mistakes in framing our pieces, and that I in particular did. Most importantly I should not have given the impression as my title and some of my statements did that I was writing about the legal case and what the verdict should be. Many of the points that were critical of my article referred to the malicious prosecution of Zimmerman and the points of the law that supported Zimmerman’s right to defend himself. These were correct, and on some of those points I stand corrected. I have no disagreement with any of them. I am not a liberal gun controller (as I have been accused of being). I just think it’s a bad idea to arm Neighborhood Watch guards who are not trained as policemen.<b> </b></p>
<p>What I was writing about – what was important in my view – was that however much Trayvon may have been responsible for the fight that resulted in his death, his portrayal in conservative quarters as a vicious thug are wrong and unjust. In fact he appears to have been a decent teenager with an ambition to go to college and become a pilot. whatever minor trouble he may have gotten into is not too difficult to understand as a child of divorce and growing up in the poisoned racial atmosphere the left has created.</p>
<p>For making this point, which was designed to stimulate some internal second thoughts among conservatives and that shouldn’t have ruffled so many feathers, I have been subjected to a rash of personal attacks. One of them by Debbie Schlussel is quite malicious, even lunatic, and replete with made up “facts” about what I have said and done. Even more puzzling is that all of the attacks seem to be oblivious of the fact that Frontpage generally and I personally have for more than a decade been on the forefront of those opposing the racial arsonists of the left and the civil rights racists whom I have described as a lynch mob with a cracker mentality.</p>
<p>Only two weeks ago I co-authored a piece with John Perazzo on Paula Deen, titled “<a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/david-horowitz-and-john-perazzo/the-progressive-lynch-mob-claims-another-victim/">The Progressive Lynch Mob Claims Another Victim</a>,” (June 26). Just a day before the piece on the Martin-Zimmerman case, Frontpage reposted <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/frontpagemag-com/the-zimmerman-trial-and-black-skin-privilege/">an excerpt</a> from the pamphlet I wrote with Perazzo this spring called “<a href="https://secure.donationreport.com/productlist.html?key=KD25VC00LEHE">Black Skin Privilege</a>” which is about the racism of the civil rights left, the free pass that black racists and black criminals get, the unreported epidemic of black crime, the racial preferences that blacks receive, and &#8212; the injustice of the attacks on George Zimmerman. I don’t believe anyone else among conservatives or commentators generally has had the temerity to use the phrase “black skin privilege” although that is an accurate description of what thirty plus years of racial intimidation by the left has achieved.</p>
<p>Given these facts I was unprepared for the heat of the attacks directed at me personally, or for the obliviousness of my conservative critics to the contributions I have made in resisting the racial assault on our country by the political left. I wrote the Trayvon article (and commissioned the Ahlert piece) because I thought it was important that conservatives <i>not</i> develop a mob mentality of their own, and second that conservatives remember that there are more than 30 million black Americans the majority of whom are not criminals and who are 95% the victims of black crimes and who need to hear the conservative message. After all, the cities where black crime is rampant and black poverty epidemic are cities like Chicago, Detroit and Washington DC, which are controlled Democrats and progressives, and have been for more than fifty years.</p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jul 2013 04:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Horowitz]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Might Travyon have been a victim of the same racially poisoned atmosphere that Zimmerman appears to be now?]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/george-zimmerman.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-196281" alt="george-zimmerman" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/george-zimmerman-450x303.jpg" width="315" height="212" /></a>Is the Zimmerman case really open and shut?</p>
<p>Many conservatives seem to think so. But are they letting leftists dictate their conclusion? Are they not guilty of the same rush to judgment that made liberals convict Zimmerman before the facts, and merely reacting to <i>that</i> injustice rather than to the actual elements of the case? Is it not possible that they are themselves victims of a toxic environment that polarizes all things racial?</p>
<p>It is a fact that many, if not most conservatives have already concluded that George Zimmerman is innocent of any crime in connection with Trayvon Martin’s death and should be acquitted if justice is to be served. Indeed, this opinion was formed long before the trial began as a reaction to the outcry of liberals that Zimmerman was guilty &#8212; and guilty of being white – and that the crime was murder, and must be punished. But just because a lynch mob has formed to condemn Zimmerman in advance of the facts, does not mean one must conclude that Zimmerman is innocent of Trayvon Martin’s death.</p>
<p>The political melodrama that surrounds, and often overwhelms the judgments in this case reflects a culture war that has been roiling in this country for decades. It is a war in which the liberal ethos of “political correctness” requires that whites are bad and blacks are victims. Right-thinking individuals are justified in rejecting this poisonous standard.  But in the interests of justice, the political melodrama should also not be allowed to obscure the reality of this trial: it is about the death of an unarmed 17-year-old, who was not a felon, who was on a neighborhood run to get Skittles, and whose life has been extinguished. Given that the young man was unarmed and that he inflicted very superficial injuries on his adversary during their scuffle, Zimmerman’s claim that he was in fear for his life has to be taken with a grain of salt, to say the least.</p>
<p>What we have learned through the process of the trial thus far is that the only surviving witness, Zimmerman, is not credible. He has lied on several revealing occasions. First about not having any money to post bail when he had $150,000 in his account. Second, about not being aware of the Stand Your Ground Law, when he had taken a class that discussed the law. Third, and most importantly, about Trayvon jumping out of the bushes to attack him &#8212; because those bushes don’t exist. So, one has to ask, did he also lie about returning to his vehicle and that only then was he attacked? Or was he still following Trayvon, provoking the alleged attack?</p>
<p>Most disturbing to me is the interview Zimmerman gave to Sean Hannity before the trial began. Sean asked him if he regretted anything he did that night. He said no. Sean rephrased the question and asked him if there was anything he did that night that he would do differently. He said no. Then Sean asked him to explain why not. He said, “it was God’s plan.”</p>
<p>I thought to myself, even if I had been jumped and beaten until I was scared for my life as Zimmerman claims, now that I knew my victim was an unarmed 17-year-old with no criminal record, angry that I had followed him, wouldn’t I have had <i>some</i> second thoughts? Wouldn’t I have felt I should have phoned 911 from my vehicle and left it at that? Wouldn’t I have wished that I had been more careful with my firearm and aimed it away from his chest? Or not carried it at all that night? Wouldn’t I have been full of remorse that I had taken a man’s life?</p>
<p>Might it not be possible that the toxicity of the racial environment also affected Zimmerman so that he saw in Trayvon an image from the melodrama and not the actual young man who was walking in front of him? Might Travyon have been a victim of the same racially poisoned atmosphere then, as Zimmerman appears to be now?</p>
<p>We’ll never know.  What really happened that night is buried with Trayvon Martin. We cannot hear both sides and split the difference or reject one and embrace the other. What we do know is that a young man  who was unarmed and guiltless of any crime is dead. And shouldn’t there be some penalty to pay for that?</p>
<p>Here is what I think as a result of these reflections. The Stand Your Ground Law should be rewritten to apply only to home invasions since then it is clear that the intruder is the aggressor and the response is self-defense. Second, Neighborhood Watch guards should not be permitted to conceal and carry. If you are carrying a weapon it changes your attitude and can well lead you into dangerous situations (such as following someone who doesn’t want to be followed) that you would otherwise avoid. And worse it can lead you to take the life of someone who whatever he did, did not deserve to die.</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jul 2013 04:37:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Andrew C. McCarthy]]></dc:creator>
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<p><strong>This article first appeared in <a href="http://pjmedia.com/">PJMedia</a>.  Andy McCarthy is the director of the Philadelphia branch of the <a href="http://www.horowitzfreedomcenter.org/">David Horowitz Freedom Center</a>.</strong></p>
<p>The state of Florida’s politically driven decision to charge George Zimmerman with murder has resulted, as some of us <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/295997/martin-case-affidavit-andrew-c-mccarthy">predicted</a> it would, in a pathetically weak case. It has taken only a few days of trial to collapse of its own weightlessness – undone, in fact, by the <i>direct</i> testimony of a <i>prosecution</i> witness, as Bryan Preston <a href="http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2013/06/28/zimmerman-prosecutors-are-having-a-very-bad-week/">relates</a> at the Tatler and Ed Morrissey <a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2013/06/28/prosecution-witness-in-zimmerman-trial-testifies-martin-on-top-in-fight/">details</a> at Hot Air.</p>
<p>Over a year ago, I <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/296005/holder-meets-sharpton-andrew-c-mccarthy/page/0/1">explained</a> why this would happen:</p>
<blockquote><p>When Trayvon Martin was first shot to death nearly two months ago [on February 26, 2012], state authorities sensibly opted not to charge George Zimmerman with murder. It wasn’t that they were looking to excuse wrongdoing. It was that the evidence was insufficient to prove <i>murder</i> beyond a reasonable doubt.</p>
<p>Plainly, there was a lack of criminal intent: There was obviously no premeditation; and, alternatively, the facts do not remotely suggest that Zimmerman acted with a “depraved mind regardless of human life” (e.g., the savage indifference of a man who fires into a crowd, heedless of the consequences). To the contrary, the known facts indicate (a) Zimmerman’s concern that Martin was acting suspiciously (the depraved do not call the police, as Zimmerman did, before shooting), and (b) a struggle in which Zimmerman may well have been severely beaten and, in any event, would have a strong basis to persuade a jury that he shot in self-defense.</p>
<p>In advancing that argument, Zimmerman would be aided by Florida’s “Stand Your Ground” law, which gives the law-abiding latitude to use guns for protection….</p></blockquote>
<p>The “Stand Your Ground” point was gravy as far as the baseless murder charge was concerned. If a prosecutor cannot prove the statutorily required intent element (<i>mens rea</i>) for murder, then the accused’s conduct cannot amount to murder, period. The accused only needs to rely on a legal defense of his conduct (such as self-defense) if the prosecution’s proof is sufficient to establish the offense (here, murder) in the first place. But “Stand Your Ground” would have been very relevant had Zimmerman been formally accused of an offense less serious than murder. Regarding that, as I <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/295997/martin-case-affidavit-andrew-c-mccarthy">observed</a> when Zimmerman was initially charged:</p>
<blockquote><p>Florida law makes causing the death of a person under the age of 18 manslaughter, provided there has been “culpable negligence.” It also criminalizes as manslaughter the “unnecessary killing” of a person in order to resist or prevent that person’s violation of law (e.g., the use of lethal force to repel a clearly non-lethal threat). Neither of these charges would [be] a slam-dunk; indeed, they’d be losers if Zimmerman shot because he was justifiably in fear of his life.</p></blockquote>
<p>Despite the palpable lack of evidence that Zimmerman had the required intent to commit murder, the state bowed to pressure from the racial grievance industry (led by Huckster-in-Chief Al Sharpton), shamefully <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/296005/holder-meets-sharpton-andrew-c-mccarthy/page/0/1">aided and abetted</a> by the most politicized, race-obsessed Justice Department in American history. Lest we forget, it was Attorney General Eric Holder’s collaboration with Sharpton and threat to trump up a federal civil rights prosecution that induced state officials in Florida to reconsider the initial decision not to charge Zimmerman.</p>
<p>It’s easy for a corrupt process to <i>produce</i> criminal charges. It is quite something else to <i>prove</i> them. To try to fill the gaping intent hole in its case, the Zimmerman prosecution has transferred the hobgoblin of racism from the headlines into the courtroom. Indeed, it did not even wait for the trial to do that; the prosecutor injected racism directly into the charging documents.</p>
<p>As I <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/295997/martin-case-affidavit-andrew-c-mccarthy">noted</a> at the time, the affidavit in “support” of the murder charge employed the explosive term “profiling” to describe Zimmerman’s suspicion of Martin. That word has no place in a charging instrument: It was transparent code to imply, in the absence of any evidence, that Zimmerman is a bigot who assumed Martin was up to no good just because he was black.</p>
<p>“Profiling” is an ambiguous term. Generally speaking, it is a perfectly appropriate, commonsense practice – a marshaling of various characteristics and behaviors typically found in kinds of criminal conduct. It is routinely used by police to avoid hassling innocent people. Like all sound police practices, it can be abused – a bad cop can invidiously home in on one characteristic (like race, religious belief, political stance) and groundlessly associate it with criminality. The latter is rare, but it is unfortunately what the racial grievance industry, echoed by the media, has conditioned the public to think of when the term “profiling” is used. It is this slanderous connotation of “profiling” that the prosecution wants people (especially juror-people) to associate with Zimmerman. Rather than as a legal term, the charging documents use “profiling” as an atmospheric – since prosecutors had neither the evidence to prove racism nor the courage to be forthright about what they were doing.</p>
<p>It would be bad enough to do this in a case where attitudes about race were pertinent – say, a prosecution for violating someone’s civil rights. But it is even more shameful to do it in a case where attitudes about race are legally irrelevant. However much the media may be fascinated by racial dynamics, racism or the lack of it should have no bearing on a prosecution for what the law calls “depraved indifference” murder (second-degree murder in Florida).</p>
<p>Apropos of that, Powerline’s John Hinderaker has had an interesting <a href="http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2013/06/who-cares-if-george-zimmerman-is-a-racist.php">exchange</a> with Legal Insurrection’s Andrew Branca. Putting aside the lack of evidence that Zimmerman is a racist, John forcefully argues that, in the context of this homicide prosecution, his purported racism is “utterly beside the point.” The crux of the case, instead, is a simple matter of whether Zimmerman’s admitted shooting of Martin was in legitimate self-defense. Mr. Branca counters that the prosecution is using racism (or at least the specter of racism) to substitute for its dearth of evidence on the required mental element – namely, that Zimmerman acted with a “depraved mind.”</p>
<p>Mr. Branca is quite right that this is what the prosecution is trying to pull. He goes off the rails, though, in suggesting that this is a viable theory. With due respect, I think his explanation of the statutory term “depraved mind” is wrong. In part, he is conflating two separate <i>mens rea</i> concepts that arise in murder cases: depravity and premeditation.</p>
<p>After correctly observing that “Murder involves premeditation to kill or, in Florida, a ‘depraved mind’,” Mr. Branca elaborates (italics are mine):</p>
<blockquote><p>In order to prove the second degree murder charge the State brought against Zimmerman they must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that he acted with a depraved mind. <i>To get to a depraved mind they need to show some kind of hatred or ill-will.</i> In most murder 2 cases <i>the people know each other and have a long history of animus, which is the source of the “depraved mind”. </i>Here Martin and Zimmerman did not know each other, so the State is forced to pursue <i>some more generalized hatred – such as racism</i>.</p></blockquote>
<p>I disagree. Generalized hatred has nothing to do with “depraved mind” murder. In such cases, we are not talking about intent driven by an attitude specifically related to the victim, triggered by long-held animus. We are talking, instead, about something almost diametrically opposite: a perverse <i>lack of regard for human life</i> – not the victim’s human life but <i>all</i> human life.</p>
<p>Explaining this concept (with reference to New York state law) in the 2012 case of <i>Gutierrez v. Smith</i>, the Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals <a href="http://www.ca2.uscourts.gov/decisions/isysquery/a49fb8a4-686d-416d-97f0-2e3dd983f279/1/doc/10-4478o_opn.pdf#xml=http://www.ca2.uscourts.gov/decisions/isysquery/a49fb8a4-686d-416d-97f0-2e3dd983f279/1/hilite/">instructs</a> (my italics):</p>
<blockquote><p>The archetypal depraved indifference murder … would resemble “shooting into a crowd, placing a time bomb in a public place, or opening the door of the lions’ cage in the zoo.”  <i>By contrast, … a one-on-one shooting or knifing (or similar killing) can almost never qualify as depraved indifference murder.</i>”</p></blockquote>
<p>Zimmerman’s killing of Martin is a one-on-one shooting. Now, to be sure, the court did not say that one-on-one killings can <i>never</i> qualify as “depraved indifference” murders. But it is exceedingly rare. When it does occur, the focus is not on the <i>subjective intent of the killer</i> but the <i>objective recklessness of the killing</i> – e.g., a mother who beats her infant to death (<a href="http://www.nycrimblog.com/nycrim/2011/02/depraved-indifference-murder-applies-to-one-on-one-killing-of-baby.html">uncommon brutality combined with a particularly vulnerable victim</a>), or perhaps a game of Russian Roulette (or “Polish roulette” as it was called in a 1989 New York case – <i>People v. Roe</i> – in which the accused loaded a gun with both real and dummy bullets, pointed the gun at the victim, and callously fired).</p>
<p>With due respect to Mr. Branca, when the murderer knows his victim and there is a long history of animus, we are usually talking about <i>premeditated murder</i>. The animus tends to prove that the decision to kill was made before the act that caused death. In Florida, that is first-degree murder, which is not charged in the Zimmerman case.</p>
<p>Depraved mind murder, to the contrary, involves a state of mind evincing no regard for human life. Far from a feeling of hatred or ill-will toward the victim, what makes the killing depraved is the perverse <i>lack of feeling</i> for the victim (i.e., there is no recognition of the victim’s humanity). Having a motive is indicative of acting with deliberation, not recklessness or indifference. In a depraved mind case, motive is superfluous because what establishes the <i>mens rea</i> is the objective barbarity of the act itself, not some fuzzy “generalized hatred” that may have been crawling around the killer’s brain.</p>
<p>It is virtually inconceivable that a situation involving self-defense on the killer’s part will fit a “depraved mind” charge. And I am not limiting myself to situations when the self-defense claim is legally convincing. I am saying that in any one-on-one scenario where self-defense is worth raising, it is nigh inconceivable that a “depraved mind” murder has occurred. To be more concrete, let’s say we are in a self-defense situation where the claim is legally insufficient: for example, the use of lethal force was not a proportionate response to the threat; or perhaps the killer provoked the altercation that eventually led to his use of lethal force. In such circumstances, we can reject the self-defense claim but still recognize that the killing was not “depraved.” The degree of inhumanity required to make a killing “depraved” is not going to be found in circumstances where a person is defending himself, even if that defense is – as a matter of law – excessive.</p>
<p>There is thus a chain of abuses that makes the Zimmerman prosecution a disgrace. There is no evidence that Zimmerman is a racist. Racism cannot be inferred from invocations of “profiling” – which tell us more about the prosecutors than about Zimmerman. The imagined “profiling” cannot be inflated into a “generalized hatred.” Even if there were a generalized hatred, it cannot substitute for proof of the required mental element of <i>depraved indifference to human life</i> – racism is a noxious attitude, but there are people who are mildly racist; no one is mildly depraved.</p>
<p>It is abundantly clear that the murder of Trayvon Martin is not a case of second-degree murder, a charge that carries a possible life sentence and a minimum of 25 years’ imprisonment (because a firearm was used). Yet, the special prosecutor brought the charge anyway. Plainly, she hoped Zimmerman would be either railroaded in a trial that substituted incitement for proof, or intimidated into pleading guilty to a lesser charge.</p>
<p>This case does not belong in a criminal court. That it has gotten this far is a sad triumph of demagoguery over due process.</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/zimmerman.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-129090" title="zimmerman" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/zimmerman.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="428" /></a>Most people have responded to Angela Corey’s decision to charge George Zimmerman with second degree murder in one of two ways: they have applauded her or they have cautioned people to wait for the trial &#8212; in which we will hear all the facts. Very few people have accused Angela Corey of filing these charges for political reasons, despite her affidavit of probable cause not demonstrating probable cause, or indicating any new evidence that her predecessor didn’t <a href="http://www.mediaite.com/tv/harvard-prof-alan-dershowitz-zimmerman-arrest-affidavit-irresponsible-and-unethical/">have</a>. Indeed nothing new has become public that would indicate significant new evidence since March 13, when the Sanford police concluded their <a href="http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/os-trayvon-martin-shooting-state-attorney-20120313,0,6200217.story">investigation</a>.</p>
<p>Prior to removing himself from the case, the District Attorney, Norm Wolfinger, disagreed with the lead investigator who wanted to bring <a href="http://m.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/trayvon-martins-family-seeks-investigation-of-state-attorneys-actions/article2388763/?service=mobile">charges</a>. Wolfinger had agreed to put the evidence before a grand jury and allow them to decide whether to bring <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/mar/20/fla-grand-jury-investigate-shooting-unarmed-black-/">charges</a>. The new prosecutor, who was appointed after public protests and major media attention, decided to forgo a grand jury and present a judge with an affidavit of probable cause. Assuming no significant new evidence has been uncovered (and we have no reason to believe it has), then either Corey is right or Wolfinger was right, but not both.</p>
<p>The major reason why one would not charge George Zimmerman with a crime is that, as Sanford police chief Bill Lee <a href="http://www.sanfordfl.gov/investigation/docs/Zimmerman_Martin_shooting.pdf">said</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>“<em>When the Sanford Police Department arrived at the scene of the incident, Mr. Zimmerman provided a statement claiming he acted in self defense which at the time was supported by physical evidence and testimony.” </em></p></blockquote>
<p><em></em>In fact one of these eyewitnesses has come forward and spoken with the <a href="http://www.myfoxtampabay.com/dpp/news/state/witness-martin-attacked-zimmerman-03232012">media</a>. He related seeing a man wearing red lying on the ground screaming for help while another man was beating him. He ran to call police, and when he looked outside again the guy on top was lying dead in the grass from a gunshot wound.</p>
<p>One of the few documents that has been released to the public (now taken down) was the partial initial police report; this document contains the statement of Officer Timothy Smith, the first person to arrive at the scene. He states that George Zimmerman had blood on his nose and back of his head, along with grass on his <a href="http://www.wagist.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Twin-Lakes-Shooting-Initial-Report.pdf">back</a>. While the media has raised a hue and cry over grainy security cam footage, we have the sworn statement of the first officer to arrive at the scene.</p>
<p>As Alan Dershowitz and others have pointed out the prosecutor&#8217;s affidavit of probable cause doesn’t contain either probable cause to charge Zimmerman with second degree murder, or any indication of new evidence. Manslaughter consists of an act which is neither reasonable nor justifiable and results in another person’s death; all murders could also be considered <a href="http://www.richardhornsby.com/crimes/homicide/manslaughter.html">manslaughters</a>. First degree murder involves deliberately killing another person as part of a preplanned plot or <a href="http://www.richardhornsby.com/crimes/homicide/first-degree-murder.html">scheme</a>. Second degree murder <a href="http://www.richardhornsby.com/crimes/homicide/second-degree-murder.html">involves</a> killing another person without premeditation, “by an act imminently dangerous to another and evincing a depraved mind showing no regard for human life.”</p>
<p>The prosecutor’s affidavit of probable cause doesn’t contain a description of anything remotely resembling that, nor do any facts available to the public point in that direction. The prosecutor claims (in the affidavit) that Zimmerman followed and confronted Martin, something happened, and Zimmerman shot <a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/89120165/Zimmerman-Probable-Cause-Document-2">Martin</a>. The sole piece of evidence she presents to back up her claim is the statement of Trayvon Martin’s mother that the voice heard in the background of a 9-11 call is Trayvon’s.</p>
<p>As Alan Dershowitz correctly pointed out, and another lawyer has told me, the right to self defense is never forfeited. As long as George Zimmerman reasonably feared death or serious injury, and lethal force was his only available escape, then he is protected under the traditional rules of self defense. And given the presence of at least one eyewitness who saw George Zimmerman pinned to the ground and screaming for help, Zimmerman has a basis for that claim. Nothing in the affidavit contradicts George’s claim to self-defense.</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="alignleft size-full wp-image-128906" title="Barack Obama, Eric Holder"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/holder-obama-3.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-128906" title="Barack Obama, Eric Holder" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/holder-obama-3.jpg" alt="" width="358" height="262" /></a>One can be forgiven for wondering what level of New Black Panther Party (NBPP) thuggery is sufficient to warrant the attention of Florida law enforcement officials or, seemingly, the most myopic U.S. attorney general to ever head the Department of Justice. On March 24th, New Black Panther Party leader Mikhail Muhammad <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/295919/new-black-panthers-unpunished-threats-john-fund?pg=1" target="_blank">offered</a> a $10,000 bounty for the “capture” of Zimmerman and publicly stated that Zimmerman “should be fearful for his life.” Fellow Panthers <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/apr/10/holders-black-panther-blind-spot/" target="_blank">distributed</a> wanted posters calling Zimmerman a “child killer” and offering that bounty “dead or alive.” And in a mind-boggling <a href="http://the-american-journal.com/chilling-audio-new-black-panther-party-threatens-bloody-race-war-conference-call/" target="_blank">rant</a> during a conference call, Michelle Williams, Chief of Staff for the Tampa, FL branch of the NBPP, told Party members to get ready for a &#8220;race war.”</p>
<p>Willams was just warming up. She got far uglier:</p>
<blockquote><p>I just wanna say to all the listeners on this phone call if you are having any doubts about getting suited, booted, and armed up for this race war we in (sic) that has never ended, let me tell ya somethin&#8217;&#8211;the things that&#8217;s about to happen to these honkies, these crackers, these pigs, these pink people, these mother-f**ker (inaudible) people, it has been <em>long overdue</em>.</p></blockquote>
<p>What constitutes a criminal action in Florida? <a href="http://www.leg.state.fl.us/statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&amp;Search_String=&amp;URL=0700-0799/0787/Sections/0787.01.html" target="_blank">Florida Code 787.01</a> makes it a felony to &#8220;Commit or facilitate commission of any felony,&#8221; or &#8220;Inflict bodily harm upon or to terrorize the victim or another person.&#8221; <a href="http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/filestores/web/statutes/fs07/CH0777/Section_0777.04.HTM" target="_blank">Florida Code 777.04</a> considers it a &#8220;criminal conspiracy&#8221; if a person &#8220;solicits another to commit an offense prohibited by law and in the course of such solicitation commands, encourages, hires, or requests another person to engage in specific conduct which would constitute such offense or an attempt to commit such offense,&#8221;  or if a person &#8220;agrees, conspires, combines, or confederates with another person or persons to commit any offense.&#8221;</p>
<p>How serious are the Panthers? On March 24th, Hashim Nzinga, 49, a high-ranking member of the party, also <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Byxd-sVhDz4" target="_blank">announced</a> on CNN that the NBPP would offer a bounty for Zimmerman, even as he noted that in this particular case, &#8220;we letting (sic) Attorney General Eric Holder&#8211;who clearly I know Obama and Eric Holder will be on our side&#8211;this case need (sic) to be a murder case, and it need (sic) to be a murder case quickly, or we gonna do what America been doin&#8217; for many, many years&#8211;a citizen (sic) arrest.&#8221; On March 27th, Nzinga himself was <a href="http://www.ajc.com/news/bond-set-for-new-1398575.html" target="_blank">arrested</a> for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, according to the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office.</p>
<p>Has Attorney General Eric Holder, as Mr. Nzinga seems to believe, chosen sides? On Monday April 9th, George Zimmerman&#8217;s family sent a <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2012/04/09/zimmerman-family-challenges-holder-on-new-black-panthers-says-no-arrests-based-solely-on-your-race/" target="_blank">letter</a> to Holder, asking the Attorney General how it&#8217;s possible that &#8220;a group of people in the United States put a bounty on someone’s head, circulate Wanted posters publicly, and still be walking the streets?” Mr. Holder has not responded, and DOJ spokeswoman Tracy Schmaler did not respond to a request for a comment on the issue by <em>The Daily Caller.</em></p>
<p>Two days later, Mr. Holder appeared at the opening of Al Sharpton&#8217;s National Action Network (NAN) convention&#8211;and heaped praise on the racial arsonist “for your partnership, your friendship, and your tireless efforts to speak out for the voiceless, to stand up for the powerless, and to shine a light on the problems we must solve, and the promises we must fulfill.” That would be the same Al Sharpton who publicly advocated for a &#8220;full blown occupation of Sanford with tents and everything over Easter weekend” as well as a <a href="http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2012/03/local-florida-naacp-leaders-reject-sharptons-call-for-escalation-of-civil-disobedience/" target="_blank">threat</a> that his is National Action Network would “move to the next level” if George Zimmerman was not arrested in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin.</p>
<p>At the conference, Holder also promised to &#8220;examine the facts and the law. If we find evidence of a potential federal criminal civil rights crime, we will take appropriate action. And, at every step, the facts and the law will guide us forward.&#8221; That promise was made with respect to George Zimmerman. The implication here is that if Zimmerman is found innocent in Florida, the DOJ will continue to pursue a case. What did Holder have to say about the NBPP and their overt threats against Mr. Zimmerman&#8217;s life? Not a word.</p>
<p>Mr. Nzinga may be correct about where the president&#8217;s sympathies lie as well. Mr. Sharpton was <a href="http://radio.foxnews.com/toddstarnes/top-stories/obama-invites-sharpton-to-wh-but-not-southern-baptist-president.html" target="_blank">invited</a> to the White House for its Easter Prayer Breakfast, despite his long and public record of fomenting racial discord and violence. And Mr. Obama also became the first president ever to <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/04/12/al-sharpton-obamas-go-to-black-leader.html" target="_blank">appear</a> at the same NAN conference attended by the Attorney General.</p>
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		<title>Trayvon Doesn&#8217;t Matter to the Left</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The real agenda.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Picture-22.gif"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-127077" title="Picture-22" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Picture-22.gif" alt="" width="375" height="245" /></a>The death of Trayvon Martin was surely a tragedy, no matter what the facts are. Nonetheless, the media coverage of and political response to the killing have been absolutely disgraceful – exploitative, cynical, and counterproductive in the extreme.</p>
<p>Let’s begin with the media. The initial narrative they seized upon was one of George Zimmerman, a “white Hispanic,” targeting Martin for wearing a hoodie, tracking him down, beginning a fight with him, and murdering him. Afterward, the narrative goes, Martin was not arrested by the police because either the police were racist, or they completely misconstrued Florida’s “stand your ground” law.</p>
<p>To make this narrative work, the media had to paint Martin as a saint, and George Zimmerman as a devil. If they had cared about accuracy, they would have realized that the character of both the supposed victim and perpetrator was irrelevant – only the events of the night in question matter. Instead, they decided to tell the American public that Zimmerman was a racist pig, while Martin was a clean-cut young man with no history of suspicious behavior.</p>
<p>So they released a picture of Martin that was several years old and emphasizing his youthful innocence rather than a more recent picture showing his gold chains and tatts. They suggested that Martin was a model student, rather than a troubled young man suspended from school for carrying an empty marijuana baggy.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, Zimmerman was portrayed as a latent member of the Ku Klux Klan, even though he was a mentor to two teenage kids of a black woman in Florida, and helped in a fundraiser for a black church.</p>
<p>So what’s the real story? According to police, Martin attacked Zimmerman by punching him and knocking him down; he then began slamming his head into the sidewalk. Witnesses corroborated this account. Zimmerman then shot Martin in the chest. Zimmerman was found with bloody lacerations to the back of his head and a swollen lip, consistent with his story.</p>
<p>Did the media do anything good by pumping it as a racial narrative without clear evidence? Of course not. But they made hay, turning a local killing into a national issue.</p>
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