The real American tragedy

Just went to my local Walmart, and noticed the People magazine, with a picture of Trayvon Martin (an older picture than the one the news media has seen fit to show up to now) under the headline An American Tragedy. Then, over to the right, in a list of headlines for other stories in the magazine, in smaller type, is "George Zimmerman's Story."

And as I drove home from Walmart, I was listening to Rush and he was airing audio from some news show. First, on a previous day, these guys had aired a single word that Zimmerman had said on the 911 call and it was unintelligble. But they said they heard the word "coon" in that. Then yesterday apparently they enhanced the audio again and now the word sounded like "Cold" - and I certainy heard it that was as well

But why in God's name not play the whole phrase? Even if he did say "fucking" before it. I mean, please. Only adults are going to be listening to this tape, and sadly most kids after the age of about 4 use that word on a regular basis anyway! But it would've been a helluva lot easier to understand if they'd played the whole phrase.

In any event, as Rush was saying, there are now three networks that did their best to inject race into the Trayvon Martin case, and all three have been debunked.

But it is too late for George Zimmerman. People have already branded him a racist who shot a baby-faced 13 year old (yes, he was 17, but the only photo they've ever seen was of him at age 13 - unless they look at the People issue...which they might well do since its at the checkout stands of their local Walmart...

But that's the tragedy...that the race baiters are in the media and they've been doing their best to try - and convict - Zimmerman in the media.

Meantime, tonight, President Obama is hosting a showing of the 1963 film To Kill A Mockingbird, in which a black man is umjustly convicted of rape, and is shot by police when he tries to break out of prison. Interesting timing for that, isn't it? Why not show the Sidney Poitier/Tony Curtis The Defiant Ones instead, which shows black and white working together? (Although according to Spike Lee, the ending was unrealistic as the black guy in the film would never have been down and tried to rescue the white guy who was trying to run to jump on the train. But then, that's just Spike Lee's opinion.)

So Obama is showing a 50 year old film about racial injustice. And a few months ago he had brought into the White House a 50-year old piece of art by Norman Rockwell, also depicting racial injustice.

Anyone see a pattern here? The black President of the United States finds it necessary to bring in 50-year old examples of racial injustice to his White House? The fact that he, a black man, was voted into the White House is as nothing?

Although let's be clear. He probably thinks he was just voted in out of White Guilt, not because the folks who voted for him thought he deserved the post.

Don't get me wrong. Up until 1969 there was a great deal of racial injustice in this country - and ungrateful injustice at that - blacks fought in the Civil War, in WWI, and in WWII, and our thanks to them is, at least in the south, to continue racial segregation?

All those minds, all those abilities, locked out of contributing to the growth of America? And indeed, forced, by our government, to become a drag on that growth, by encouraging them to abandon their family values in order to get welfare money?

And of course things didn't change overnight once the Civil Rights act was signed, but there was transition during the 1970s and since the 1980s...advancement should have been made. But today, a vast percentage of blacks are poor and live in section 8 housing.... why? As Rush always says, every program the Democrats have tried has failed. They've forced black America to continue in the Victim role, aided by race baiters like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, until now, something as innocuous as a white neighborhood watch guy reacting in fear to a hoodie-wearing teenager, being beaten by him and shooting him in reactin - has been blown up to national proportions with Obama pointing out that "If I had a son he'd look like Trayvon" and saying not a word when the New Black Panthers put out a bounty on Zimmerman's head, "dead or alive."

That is the American tragedy.