When George Zimmerman (a Hispanic) shot Trayvon Martin
(black) while Trayvon was sitting on top of Zimmerman and beating him up, the
usual highly vocal self-appointed civil rights activists like the Rev Al
Sharpton and Rev Jesse Jackson inundated the media with claims that this was
another racist crime. And when a jury
found Zimmerman innocent of murder, we had to hear days of ranting by such
black activists that this was yet another case of white America being racist.
But when three older (black) kids in Florida viciously beat
up a (white) 6th grader on a school bus on July 9, we heard not a
peep from these gentlemen. Not even when the media contacted them for comment.
And when three (black) kids gunned down a random (white) Australian
jogger in Oklahoma on August, simply because they were bored, all we got from Rev
Jackson was a comment about how senseless it was – not a word about why black
boys picked a white target.
Nor has President Obama, who spoke so eloquently about the
Trayvon Martin case, found it expedient to say a word about these cases.
It is pretty clear that there is racism in America, and some of the worst of it is to be found among the current
crop of black civil rights activists.
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