Even after the jury rendered its not guilty verdict in the Zimmerman trial, Obama, once again,
injected himself into the case, this time noting that "Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago," and launching into a lecture on race--despite the fact that a Martin family
lawyer, Trayvon's
stepmother, the Sanford
police, and an investigation
conducted by the FBI all concluded the case had nothing to do with race.
Obama made clear he would use the presidency to provide a platform for the race agitation industry
However, well before the Trayvon Martin shooting, Obama made clear he would use the presidency to provide a platform for the race agitation industry. Prior to his election in 2008, the president sought to
belittle small town "bitter clingers" who demonstrate "antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment[.]" In July 2009, when black Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. was
arrested in front of his Cambridge home after antagonizing police, Obama, despite admitting that he had not seen "all the facts," still came to the conclusion that "the Cambridge police acted stupidly." In a radio interview that aired on Univision in 2010, the president
urged his Latino supporters to "punish our enemies and reward our friends," in the upcoming election. That was the same year he made an unsubtle reference to Rosa Parks and segregation in order to
belittle Republicans. "We don't mind the Republicans joining us," the president told supporters in Rhode Island. "They can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in back."
At a January 2012 Washington fundraiser, the president made
subtle references to the idea that if he weren't reelected, minorities would be denied opportunities to pursue the American dream, while he implied Republicans would be the ones doing the denying. "The notion that we're all in this together, that we look out for one another--that's at stake in this election," he warned. "Don't take my word for it. Watch some of these [Republican] debates that have been going on up in New Hampshire." The following August in Colorado, Obama kept that meme alive,
insisting that Republicans, "want to take us back to the policies more suited to the 1950s than the 21st century."
If such a divisive attitude were limited to the president himself, maybe race relations might not have soured as much as they have. Unfortunately, many members of his administration have also been more than willing to fan the flames of racial discord. Former Green Jobs Czar Van Jones, who
referred to Republicans as "assholes," insisted that "white polluters and the white environmentalists are essentially steering poison into the people-of-color communities." Addressing the annual NAACP convention in Orlando, FL on July 17, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius
likened those who oppose ObamaCare to those who opposed civil rights legislation in the 1960s, comparing the fight against them to "the fight against lynching and the fight for desegregation." On August 14, 2012, Vice President Joe Biden
told a largely black audience in Danville, Virginia, that Republicans wanted to "put y'all back in chains." Former Assistant Attorney General and current Labor Secretary Thomas Perez viewed virtually every aspect of his former job through a racialist lens, from
prosecuting banks for lending discrimination based on dubious "disparate impact" studies, to
promoting the expansion of hate crimes prosecution, which he
insisted was a largely white-on-black problem.
Eric Holder, who runs the most racially polarized Justice Department in modern history
And then there is Eric Holder. Holder, who runs the most racially polarized Justice Department in modern history, wasted no time burnishing his racialist credentials,
telling Americans soon after he was confirmed in 2009 that "in things racial we have always been and continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards." In 2010, after being stonewalled by his own department, Christopher Coates, former voting chief for the DOJ's Civil Rights Division, testified that Holder's decision to drop an already-won voter intimidation case against the New Black Panther Party was due to "pressure" from the NAACP. Furthermore, he corroborated earlier testimony by J. Christian Adams, a former DOJ attorney, revealing that the DOJ cultivates a "hostile atmosphere" against "race-neutral enforcement" of the Voting Rights Act.
Holder also turned a blind eye when the Panthers
offered a $10,000 bounty to capture George Zimmerman "dead or alive." As for race-neutral enforcement of the the Voting Rights Act, as recently as yesterday Holder
vowed to continue insisting that states "pre-clear" with the DOJ any changes to their voting laws. This represents nothing less than a determination to defy a recent Supreme Court ruling that effectively nullified his ability to do so. Texas is his current focus, but in a speech in Philadelphia, he promised that the decision to target the Lone Star State "will not be our last." The motivation of this effort is clear: to portray red states and whites in general as abusive toward minority voters--as seeking to reinstitute "Jim Crow" through commonsense voter ID laws, as the Democratic Party propaganda goes.
This follows Holder's decision to continue pursuing the possibility of civil rights charges against George Zimmerman, without a shred of evidence for doing so, making good on a promise he first made during an appearance at racial arsonist Al Sharpton's National Action Network on April 11, 2012. After praising Sharpton "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," Holder made his intentions clear. "If we find evidence of a potential federal criminal civil rights crime, we will take appropriate action," he warned. To that end, Holder has
set up "tip lines" trolling for information he can use to prosecute Zimmerman. The "investigation" has now been ongoing for over a year.
Reason for fomenting this sort of racial animosity is transparently political
The reason for fomenting this sort of racial animosity is transparently political. Just like in 2010, and 2012, Obama is determined to agitate and mobilize voters for the 2014 election and beyond and to weaken the Republicans with racial innuendo and accusations. He has tainted Democrats by presiding over the weakest recovery on record, one which is currently losing even more steam, with growth rates being revised downward, and one of the
worst corporate revenue performances on record. The same is true of ObamaCare, which will be so damaging to Democrats that the administration unilaterally decided to postpone the employer mandate until 2015,
usurping congressional authority in the process. This is to say nothing of Democrat-led foreign policy, with Egypt and Syria in free fall; Iraq and Afghanistan on the verge of reverting back to the failed states they were; Iran pursuing nuclear weapons absent any fear whatsoever, and both China and Russia signaling their intentions to fill the leadership vacuum the president's "leading from behind" approach has produced.
Meanwhile, minority populations continue to suffer and grow disaffected under the reign of liberal policies. Majority-black Detroit is bankrupt. Chicago seethes with black-on-black gun crime,
including 62 people wounded and 12 killed during the Fourth of July holiday weekend alone. Black
unemployment is 13.7 percent, compared to 6.7 percent for the nation as a whole. The black American illegitimacy rate, one of the surest predictors of poverty, is
approaching 75 percent.
Yet, in his most recent
speech on economics, Obama addresses none of these realities, preferring to blame the lot on Republicans (who have only ever controlled the House since 2008) and
warning that if America fails to embrace his policies, "[S]ocial tensions will rise as various groups fight to hold on to what they have, or start blaming somebody else for why their position isn't improving." In the Obama era, this should be interpreted as an ultimatum.
It's going to be a long, divisive slog to the 2014 elections, and racial division continually promoted by the Obama administration is guaranteed to be an integral part of the mix. The fact that Americans view race relations as far worse than they've been in years should surely be an embarrassment for the first elected president of African descent. Odds are, however, he views it as an electoral boon for his party.
