By now you’ve heard the story of Trayvon Martin. You’ve probably seen the celebrities, members of Congress and other race-baiters donning hoodies in protest… demanding “justice”. The facts are still in dispute as to what happened the night that George Zimmerman shot Trayvon Martin. Was it self-defense? We don’t know. Was it a racially-motivated crime? We don’t know. Did Martin attack Zimmerman first? We don’t know.

But we do know that the President of the United States, whose former Chief of Staff said, “You never want a serious crisis go to waste” has joined an ever-growing bandwagon of racism and hate fueled by a liberal desire to turn every news story into one about race to advance their agenda. We also know the media is willing to carry the water for this bogus meme by publishing 5-year old pictures of Martin to portray this “poor kid” as an innocent 12 year old:

…rather than the 17-year old that he actually was:

Even though the facts now coming forth, including Zimmerman being a Hispanic (though CNN blurs the line for good measure when it suits them, referring to him as a “white hispanic” - think they’d do that if he’d been the victim?), being a registered Democrat (not an evil Republican) and Martin’s school suspension for drug possession and social media presence that seems to promote gang affiliation paint a slightly different picture, the racism train has left the station and this movement of hoodie-wearing protesters thinks they’ve got a nifty campaign message to convince people to re-elect a black man… simply based on color.

So who are the racists?

Certainly not the 13-year old white boy in Kansas City who was chased down like an animal, doused with gasoline and set on fire by a couple of older black kids who shouted, “This is what you deserve. You get what you deserve, white boy.”

Nope, those were just disenfranchised kids who finally stood up against the system… or something that sounds noble like that.

And those 6 black guys that beat a white guy at Applebees that investigators say “may” have been a hate crime? Just relieving some stress, yo.

UPDATE: And there you have it, folks. THIS is what “Trayvon” means to Democrats…

Democratic National Committee member Pat Cotham promoted a “Hoodie Rally” that she said took place at Marshall Park in Charlotte, N.C. at 6 p.m. on Thursday. “Hoodie Rally at Marshall Park at 6 pm today,” Cotham tweeted. “Crowd building, people wearing shirts in honor of Trayvon Martin.”

According to Cotham’s Twitter account, “Hoodie Rally” attendees were “registering to vote” on the scene.

Given the Democrats’ history, I’m sure Trayvon will even cast a ballot or two in November as well.

UPDATE: Oops. Well there goes that nice “giant, racist white guy versus poor little black kid” narrative:

However it started, witnesses described to the 911 dispatcher what resulted: the neighborhood watch coordinator, 5-foot-9 and 170 pounds, and the visitor, 6-foot-1 and 150, wrestling on the ground.

Hardly the David vs. Goliath image the media wants you to imagine. Turns out Zimmerman was not a big, angry white guy hellbent on killing him a poor, innocent black kid. Instead, the two MEN were roughly the same size, give or take a couple of inches and about 10-20 pounds… despite the constant reports (which most media outlets are not rushing out to correct) that Zimmerman was 240-250 pounds and outweighed Martin by 100+ pounds.

If there was any doubt left about the credibility of Mainstream Media, let this be a final nail in the coffin. Rest in peace, journalistic integrity.

See how the Jeremiah Wright story was spiked by mainstream media during the 2008 election cycle.

I’d actually be more shocked by a story highlighting an Obama appointee being race-neutral in the application of their duties.

Just another day at the taxpayer-funded office for the racists.

Transcript:

“The first time I was faced with having to help a white farmer save his farm, he took a long time talking but he was trying to show me he was superior to me. I know what he was doing, but he had come to me for help. What he didn’t know while he was taking all that time trying to show me he was superior to me was, I was trying to decide just how much help I was going to give him.

I was struggling with the fact that so many black people had lost their farmland, and here I was faced with having to help a white person save their land. So I didn’t give him the full force of what I could do. I did enough,” Sherrod said. “So that when he, I assumed the Department of Agriculture had sent him to me, either that or the Georgia Department of Agriculture, and he needed to go back and report that I did try to help him.

So I took him to a white lawyer that had attended some of training that we had provided because Chapter 12 bankruptcy had just been enacted for the family farm. So I figured if I take him to one of them, that his own kind would take care of him.”

His “own kind”? Imagine if a white person used those words… especially in a politically-appointed, taxpayer-funded position.

Apparently she joked earlier in the speech about the inherent job security she has as a government employee. With enough exposure on this story, let’s see how strong that security really is.

Just more hope and change, baby.

UPDATE Apparently justice trumps job security, Shirley. Don’t let the door hit ya where the good Lord split ya.

UPDATE 2: Right on cue, liberals call the racist a “victim“. And for good measure, they follow steps 2 and 3 of their propaganda rules of engagement, including blaming FoxNews (who didn’t even mention this story until AFTER Sherrod stepped down and then claimed the racist comments were taken “out of context”. Who are you gonna believe? A racist organization built on discriminating against non-colored people and professional race-baiter Jesse Jackson…. or your lying eyes?

The Obama-assassination meme seems to be gaining popularity as a talking point on the Left. The not-so-subtle racism coming from liberals suggests that somehow Republicans are plotting an attempt on Obama’s life because, well…. Republicans are white (and angry) and he’s black. The sad thing is, this idiocy actually makes sense in their warped, simple minds.

Seems like everytime we hear something about race, it’s coming from a Democrat or the media. Race has become the biggest red herring of this decade. Despite the fact that it’s the racists on the Left who promote policies that keep minorities beholden to failing government programs, they’re the first ones to casually launch accusations of racism in lieu of responding to a point or defending a position on the merits. And the race pimps on the Left have found a cash cow in Obama. He gives them the perfect pretext to trot out all their false racial accusations, innuendos and bogus storylines.

And this point is driven home more clearly by this disgusting display of media bias.

Transcript:

“A man at a pro-health care reform rally…wore a semiautomatic assault rifle on his shoulder and a pistol on his hip….there are questions about whether this has racial overtones. Here you have a man of color in the Presidency and white people showing up with guns strapped to their waists.”

Just one little problem, there, MSNBC… The gun-toting guy is… BLACK.

But a black guy toting a gun to an Obama rally doesn’t quite fit their talking points, now does it? Now go back and watch the first video and notice the strategic camera angles they used to keep from exposing the race of the gun-toting guy. This wasn’t just a case of the hosts general accusations of racism being juxtaposed with the wrong film roll… this was a blatant attempt to create facts that didn’t exist to promote their talking points.

And if I were you, I wouldn’t hold my breath waiting for a public correction or apology.

Welcome to the Age of Obama… where brandishing weapons at polling locations on election day is perfectly acceptable… if you’re supporting the right candidate.

Justice Department political appointees overruled career lawyers and ended a civil complaint accusing three members of the New Black Panther Party for Self-Defense of wielding a nightstick and intimidating voters at a Philadelphia polling place last Election Day, according to documents and interviews.

And as a reminder of what this case was about, and what the Obama Justice Department apparently considers appropriate polling location conduct:

Here’s an affidavit from one eyewitness, who at one time was a civil rights lawyer and activist in the 1960s.

For example, I heard the shorter man make a statement directed toward a white poll observer that “you are about to be ruled by a black man, cracker.”

Honestly, I’m less worried about these militant morons playing dress-up on election day than I am about them possibly spitting in my hamburger when I come through the McDonalds drive-thru. I wonder if the short dude was Hope or Change.

In case you had any question about the direction in which Democrats wish to take America, let this be a reminder.

Key members of the Congressional Black Caucus are calling for an end to U.S. prohibition on travel to Cuba, just hours after a meeting with former Cuban president Fidel Castro in Havana.

“The fifty-year embargo just hasn’t worked,” CBC Chairwoman Barbara Lee (D-Ca.) told reporters this evening at a Capitol press conference after returning from a congressional delegation visit to Cuba. “The bottom line is that we believe its time to open dialogue with Cuba.”

Lee and others heaped praise on Castro, calling him warm and receptive during their discussion. But the lawmakers disputed Castro’s later statement that members of the congressional delegation said American society is still racist.

“It was quite a moment to behold,” Lee said, recalling her moments with Castro.

“It was almost like listening to an old friend,” said Rep. Bobby Rush (D-Il.), adding that he found Castro’s home to be modest and Castro’s wife to be particularly hospitable.

I remember a time in America when we opposed murderous dictators rather than calling them old friends. But then again, it makes sense… this was Bobby Rush, founder of the Illinois chapter of a violent racist group known for killing cops.

It’s too bad Democrats don’t put as much effort in representing their American citizen constituents as they do in coddling tyrannical despots.

Rep. Laura Richardson (D-Ca.) said Castro was receptive to President Obama’s message of turning the page in American foreign policy.

“He listened. He said the exact same thing” about turning the page “as President Obama said,” said Richardson.

That’s not surprising.

In a statement following the meeting today, Castro said that the delegation had expressed to him that a segment of American society “continues to be racist,” and is at least partly to blame for the travel restrictions.

I guess these representatives would certainly know about a “segment of American society that continues to be racist” considering their own membership in a Congressional caucus based solely on race.

Last week, the Obama campaign feigned outrage over a McCain ad which compared Obama’s celebrity status to that of Paris Hilton and Britney Spears. Obama had grown impatient of waiting for his opponent to launch racist attacks, so he breathlessly used this moment to insinuate such attacks had taken place… thereby being the first to truly inject race into the campaign.

Of course, Obama denied his comments about his race were comments about his race:

“I was in Union, Mo., which is 98 percent white — a rural, conservative [town]. and what I said was what I think everybody knows, which is that I don’t look like I came out of central casting when it comes to presidential candidates… There was nobody there who thought at all that I was trying to inject race in this.”

Nobody, perhaps, except Obama’s chief campaign strategist…

Sen. Barack Obama’s chief strategist conceded that the Democratic presidential candidate was referring to his race when he said Republicans were trying to scare voters by suggesting Obama “doesn’t look like all those other presidents on the dollar bills.”
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When pressed to explain the comment, Axelrod told “GMA” it meant, “He’s not from central casting when it comes to candidates for president of the United States. He’s new to Washington. Yes, he’s African-American.”

By the way, all this outrage manufactured by the Obama camp in response to being compared to Paris Hilton is just as lame as the candidate himself… considering the first comparison of Barack Obama to Paris Hilton came from none other than…

Barack Obama.

“Andy Warhol said we all get our 15 minutes of fame,” says Barack Obama. “I’ve already had an hour and a half. I mean, I’m so overexposed, I’m making Paris Hilton look like a recluse.”

(HT: Seton)

I guess he was just trying to scare voters. What a racist.

Jesse Jackson and I agree on one thing… we both dislike the mortgage bailout proposed by President Bush. But that’s where our agreement ends. Because instead of opposing the bailout as yet another government handout to those who refuse to take personal responsibility for their own actions, the race-pimp Jackson sees the giveaway as not big enough…

Rev. Jesse Jackson and other U.S. civil rights leaders converged on Wall Street on Monday to demand the government and the financial community step up aid to stem a home-loan foreclosure crisis.

At a rally in lower Manhattan, activists said homeowners needed more help to restructure their loans and avoid losing their houses.

“We’re standing to stop an economic tsunami,” Jackson told a crowd of more than 200 people. “Our government has an obligation, not only to borrowers but to the economy itself.”

While we’re on the subject of obligation, how about we discuss the contractual obligation of those who borrowed more than they should have? How about we take a look at those who did not take personal responsibility, like the rest of us, to borrow within their means? Why is it the government’s responsibility to now come in and help these overextended debtors get a better deal?

I agree that the President’s proposal sucks… because I don’t think he should’ve made it to begin with.

These folks played the adjustable rate mortgage game and lost. That was the risk they took when they signed the contract. It was also the risk the lenders took in advancing these folks the money without demanding more solid proof of their ability to repay. It’s the high price of education.

Jackson said the protesters want “renegotiation and restructuring [of loans] and not repossession of homes.”

Rhyming doesn’t make it work any better. How about a federal bailout for car owners too? Perhaps we can shakedown the government to help those who overextended themselves into Cadillacs when they should’ve been looking at Fords so they can keep from having their rides repossessed as well.

While normal, responsible citizens continue to make timely payments on loans they took out - forgoing other luxuries in life until they fulfill their financial obligation - the President is helping the rest ditch their responsibilities completely so they can stay in the homes they never should’ve purchased to begin with… and all the while the race peddlers are demanding a bigger handout.

If Jackson and his race peddlers want to address the issues in the black community, they should stop focusing on lenders and spend more time with borrowers. Educate the culture that values $100 basketball shoes over food for the family. Teach them that having no hidden assets is not a financially responsible way to go through life. Calling them victims and demanding government assistance everytime they fall short will only teach them to continue to rely on bailouts over personal responsibility.

As Bill Cosby said:

Cosby told his critics, “Come at me all you want.” To those who criticized him for blaming the victim by preaching personal responsibility, he said: “I know a victim when I see one. And so did Christ. And so does God know victims. And so do we all recognize victims. But some victims you can look at and say, ‘Get up.’ “

That is, unless, you can force the feds to ‘pony up’.

They can preach all they want about being the party of tolerance, but they still consider among their membership a KKK recruiter, they filibustered the Civil Rights Act and from time to time, they let their guard down and let the world see their racism in all of its glory:

Before the endorsement vote, Perry County Commissioner Albert Turner praised Obama’s qualifications, but urged the group to support Clinton.

“The question you have to put forth to yourself is that whether or not in this racist country a black man named Obama — when we are shooting at Osama — can win the presidency of the United States?” Turner said.

Turner said Clinton is the Democrat most likely to win in November “because of her husband and because of some other things, mainly because she’s white.”

When the Alabama Democratic Conference endorsed Clinton in October, leaders cited long-standing friendships with Clinton and her husband and voiced concerns about whether white voters would support a black Democrat.

Imagine the outrage if this were Republicans having such a conversation.

Which is more revealing? That Democrat officials are urging voters to cast ballots for a white candidate because she’s white, or their acknowledgement that Democrat voters probably wouldn’t vote for a black candidate because he’s black?

It’s amazing that the black vote continues to lean so heavily in favor of a party that takes them for granted and thinks so little of them.

Take, for example, John Edwards’ useless pandering comments last week:

The idea that we can keep incarcerating and keep incarcerating — pretty soon we’re not going to have a young African-American male population in America. They’re all going to be in prison or dead. One of the two.”

The message is clear: Vote for Democrats because you’re just not capable of staying out or prison or alive without our help.

And even Barack Obama played the game in July when he said:

“We have more work to do when more young black men languish in prison than attend colleges and universities across America.”

Aside from the blatant racist undertones of the comments, the even more outrageous fact is that they’re complete lies.

Are there really more black men in prison than college? Of course not.

According to 2005 Census Bureau statistics, the male African-American population of the United States aged between 18 and 24 numbered 1,896,000. According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, 106,000 African-Americans in this age group were in federal or state prisons at the end of 2005. See table 10 of this report. If you add the numbers in local jail (measured in mid-2006), you arrive at a grand total of 193,000 incarcerated young Black males, or slightly over 10 percent.

According to the same census data, 530,000 of these African-American males, or twenty eight percent, were enrolled in colleges or universities (including two-year-colleges) in 2005. That is five times the number of young black men in federal and state prisons and two and a half times the total number incarcerated. If you expanded the age group to include African-American males up to thirty or thirty five, the college attendees would still outnumber the prisoners.

But these guys have (D) beside their name, so they’re immune from the race-peddling, outrage caucus.