For weeks, the mainstream media and the social media lynch mob have been all over the shooting of Trayvon Martin with accusations of racism. The narrative was that Trayvon Martin was the victim of a racial bias in America that saw blacks disproportionately victimized by whites. That narrative has been unraveling as more details are released by law enforcement.
Personally, I don’t know if racism played a role in the Trayvon Martin shooting. It might have, it might not. I don’t know and neither does anyone else. What we do know is that there has been an incredible rush to judgment and hypocrisy by those who would seek to capitalize on tragedies like this.
Throughout this ugly circus, the mainstream media and hypocrites like Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson and even celebrities like Spike Lee, President Obama and Oprah Winfrey willfully ignored the reality that racism is a two way street that affects us all.
The simple truth is that the black community doesn't have a monopoly on being victimized by race and hate crimes. In fact, whites are up to seven times more likely to be victimized by blacks than blacks are by whites according to Justice Department statistics.
The simple truth is that the black community doesn't have a monopoly on being victimized by race and hate crimes. In fact, whites are up to seven times more likely to be victimized by blacks than blacks are by whites according to Justice Department statistics.
That doesn’t excuse those who commit these terrible crimes nor does it justify turning a blind eye to blacks who are victimized by hate crimes committed by people of other races. No person in our societies should have to live in fear because of their race, culture, religion or economic circumstance. Our societies should be better than that for everyone but they aren’t and they aren’t because those who hold positions of leadership and privilege are typically at the head of the lynch mob.
Rather than uniting us, they trip over each other in their desperate attempt to prove to the world that they are in touch with the heart of the current issue. They aren’t! Oprah Winfrey was infuriated by the shooting of Trayon Martin. Where is she now that a white man is fighting for his life in hospital, another victim of interracial crime? Where are Spike Lee, Shepherd Smith, President Obama and L.Z. Granderson who were so quick to jump on the racism bandwagon after the shooting of Trayvon Martin?
They are silent.
Instead of presenting racism as a black only problem, the President should have been appealing to all Americans to remain calm and united and allow law enforcement to do its job. Spike Lee and Oprah Winfrey should have used their considerable reach to help people come together rather than pointing fingers and fanning the flames of hatred.
As for the likes of Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, well….we would all be better off if they just packed up their tents and went home.
But the biggest hypocrites in all of this are the mainstream media.
Where are they now as a 50 year old white man lies in a coma fighting for his life after the savage beating he took from 2 black teenagers. Oh, they’ve reported it but there isn’t the feeding frenzy on this story that the Trayvon Martin story continues to receive.
You won’t see satellite trucks outside the hospital or interviews with white community leaders about the problem of racism in America. It doesn't fit the narrative they manufactured and have been feeding the world for the past four weeks.
They barely remember the beating of a Latino man in California last week by a gang of black teenagers or the 13 year old boy who was doused in gasoline and set on fire by 2 black teens in Kansas City. Those stories came and went faster than a Black Friday shopping spree and with about as much depth.
They barely remember the beating of a Latino man in California last week by a gang of black teenagers or the 13 year old boy who was doused in gasoline and set on fire by 2 black teens in Kansas City. Those stories came and went faster than a Black Friday shopping spree and with about as much depth.
Racism is a problem and not only in America. It is a hateful, destructive cancer that undermines the value of our societies and it is aided by the politically correct opportunism of those who refuse to look at racism for what it really is and how it really exists.
People, not blacks or whites or Asians or Latinos; people are being victimized by hatred because of their race and that is the real issue. It shouldn’t matter what your race is when you are a victim of a hate crime or which race the perpetrator belonged to. What should matter is that all racially based hate crimes should be equally condemned, equally fought and equally important to all of us.
Anything less, as we have seen today in the different manner in which two interracial crimes are being reported, is nothing less than its own form of racism!
It is selective racism and it is hypocrisy. by those who were so quick to label the Trayvon Martin shooting as the primary problem of race hate crimes in America. The silence of these people now is deafening!
It is selective racism and it is hypocrisy. by those who were so quick to label the Trayvon Martin shooting as the primary problem of race hate crimes in America. The silence of these people now is deafening!
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