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:
#1: “God is a white
racist.” An
online editorial declared that the Zimmerman verdict confirms that the
Christian god not only hates blacks, but is actively walking around looking to
shoot them:
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.
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.”
She’s partially right
– the Christian god does want
believers to treat people of all races equally and does 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.
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 the abolition 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.
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 enough
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.
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.
#3. MLK in a Hoodie:
Just when you think that the elevation of Trayvon Martin to sainthood can’t get
any further out of hand, along comes this
photoshop of Martin Luther King Jr. in a hoodie a là Trayvon, created by purported artist Nikkolas Smith and spread
by Communist agitator Van
Jones on Twitter. Like the Martin family attorney’s association
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 real civil rights movement.
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 the left, who have a genius for creating
false idols through iconic images (Ché t-shirts, anyone?).
#4. “Racism is our
9/11.” 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 inarticulate
rant peaks with this gem: “So, you know how you felt on 9/11? Yeah, that'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.”
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.
Dyson went on to encourage Obama and Attorney General Eric
Holder to take action:
[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.
Actually, if Holder and Obama take further action against
Zimmerman, all rational 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.
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.
(This article originally appeared here on FrontPage Mag, 7/18/13)
