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Originally Posted by Fly Rod
200 killed in Chicago this year....OOPS! ....correction 201 since typing this.
Where is the outrage....where is Al Sharpton....Jesse Jackson????
Jesse Jackson once said..."if he had two white men following him, he would feel safe."...  |
Or where is Eric Holder and the DOJ, or where is President Obama? Shouldn't they be pressing the full force of the Federal Government to bring justice to the victims?
At least Jesse Jackson's and Al Sharpton's mission is against RACIAL violence . . . at least white on black. Not so much, or at all, against black on white violence which is statistically higher. So there is no reason for them to be outraged about blacks killing blacks.
The Trayvon Martin case, however, involves race . . . the preferred white on black even though Zimmerman is Hispanic--white Hispanic. (Does that make Obama a white black?)
But Obama and Holder aren't limited to pursuing only white on black violence. So why only get on their high horse about the Martin/Zimmerman case and not the Chicago stuff? Well, as far as Mr. Obama making comments, he said he wanted to add "context" to the "national discussion." Umm . . . didn't he help to kickstart the discussion to a national level in the first place? Oh well, I suppose he can certainly add context to something he started such as that Martin ". . . could have been my son." I guess those boys killed in Chicago wouldn't fit that possibility. Different context. Martin ". . . could have been me 35 years ago." Again the Chicago boys presumably could not have been him 35 years ago. Different context. And, after all, in the Martin/Zimmerman case ". . . why, in the African American community, there's a lot of pain" is because that "community is looking at this issue through a set of experiences that doesn't go away." Apparently he is not referring to slavery or lynching and various discriminations of that and lesser sorts since those HAVE gone away, but "experience of being followed . . . hearing car locks click when they cross the street . . a woman clutching her purse nervously and holding her breath until she has a chance to get off [the elevator]." It is experiences such as these that cause the pain in the African American community that requires the Federal Government, it's DOJ and it's President to become involved in Martin/Zimmerman affair . . . and, VOILA, why not to be as concerned with the Chicago killings which do not evoke that "set of experiences that doesn't go away."
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