Thursday, July 17, 2014

ROOT OF RACISM:  This item reflects the poisonous atmosphere in this country fostered by the race hustlers Jackson and Sharpton as well as the NAACP, Congressional Black Caucus, Eric Holder and chief hustler of all, B. Obama.  It is safe to say race relations have never been worse in this country since the 1960's and what's more the plight of the blacks has probably never been worse n the same time frame.  Generations of blacks have been alienated from the larger community by all these people and groups living high on the hog by stirring racial animosity and what's worse, getting away with it all largely because of "white guilt".  Eric Holder said we are a nation of "cowards" because we won't confront racism, or at least have a discussion about it.  Wrong.  We are a nation of cowards because we are afraid to have a discussion about racism knowing it will lead to finger pointing and accusations by the black leadership in order to push their agenda of black dependency on government programs, largess and payoffs to them that whites are repressing blacks.  Unfortunately the well of good will has been poisoned to the point there is no future in open discussions on this subject between whites and blacks.  Blacks have refused to take responsibility for the collapse of the black family unit, have shown no willingness to educate themselves and all the rest associated with a dysfunctional racial minority.  They should take a hard look at the success of Asian minorities to see how it's done.  The black race in this country, with many individual exceptions, is a failed minority with little or no prospects for the future.  Meanwhile they are causing most of the dysfunction in the larger society by constant claims of racism as an excuse for their failure.

Jesse Jackson Finally Makes A Statement About White Motorist Beating

  Brian Anderson, April 18, 2014 | 583 comments

Jesse Jackson knows racism. It’s his job. He’s so good at spotting it that he can find it where others would not. The one knock on him is not that he sees things in black and white but rather just in black. The champion of racial injustice has taken considerable flak for ignoring the horrible hate crime in Detroit where white motorist Steven Utash was beaten nearly to death a group of black thugs.

Where the races reversed in this case, Jackson surely would have condemned the attackers, but for two weeks now, he has been silent. Social media and the blogosphere have lit up calling Jackson a hypocrite. After all, a hate crime is no less abhorrent if the victim happens to be white. With his credibility on the line, Jackson finally broke his silence this week, saying in a phone interview:

It was an act of meanness and evil that must be handled. What they did was wrong. I know it was morally wrong. There’s ignorance based in knowledge. That’s why you have to pull the walls down and live together. Our climate is so racially charged… It’s a product of the sickness of culture.

Not only can’t he bring himself to call this a hate crime, he excuses the attackers from any culpability. You see, it’s not their fault they beat an innocent man into a coma because will live in a sick racist society. What an asshole.

And what’s with that line: there’s ignorance based in knowledge? What the hell does that mean? Having knowledge is the opposite of being ignorant. Does he have a dictionary app set to shuffle that just spews out random words for him to string together?

This “condemnation” gets even worse as Jackson tries to take all of the attention away from the victim and focuses on the black woman that intervened and saved Mr. Utash from the thugs. Don’t get me wrong, Deborah Hughes is a hero for stopping the attack and deserves much praise, but she’s hardly the important person in this story.

Jesse sees it differently. Never mind that white guy that got severely beaten, Jackson says he wants to reach out to Ms. Hughes and her family. In essence, he wants to make this less about a white guy being assaulted because of the color of his skin and more about a brave black woman that stood up to some criminals. What an asshole. Oh wait, I already said that.

And the reason why Jackson took so long to give this non-response to a high-profile racial attack? According to him, he was at a conference in Japan. That explains it all because there are no phones or Internet in Japan, right? He was so busy giving the Japanese crap for being too Asian that he couldn’t make a brief statement. Sounds plausible to me.

Personally, I don’t think being a media whore on matters of race should be a profession, but if that’s your job; do it right. Be consistent. Don’t be a hypocrite. Racism is racism. Hate is hate. Skin color is not a requirement for victimization.
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HERE'S A VERY INTERESTING WAY TO "GET AT" PROGRESSIVISM

SO LAST YEAR I HAD DINNER IN NEW YORK with an InstaPundit reader who’s a big donor to libertarian causes, and he asked me where he should be steering his money. Because I somehow failed to mention the obvious InstaPundit Private Jet Account,I instead suggested that he put some money into lawfare. Lefties are really good at it, but the right does much less, meaning that there’s a lot of low-hanging fruit. Groups like the Institute For Justice, FIRE, Landmark Legal, etc. do good work, but they’re vastly outnumbered by similar groups on the left. Now here’s a passage from Kurt Schlichter’s Conservative Insurgency, a sort of World War Z-style oral future history, on just that subject:

We started calling it “conservative lawfare,” and it drove the progressives nuts. What made them so vulnerable was not only the dubious legal grounds of their actions but their manifest pettiness and unfairness. You see, lawfare — as progressives themselves used to understand — was not just about winning on the merits of a particular lawsuit. It was theater — it highlighted and put in front of the public these big government actions that could not be swept under a rug. You got to court, and unless you dismiss the case following a settlement, the court has to rule one way or another. Something has to happen.
Most Americans are generally fair-minded, and they saw how essentially unfair many of these government actions were. And when the progressives doubled down — which they always did — they looked awful. It was not always a matter of winning or losing the case itself. We lost a lot of cases . . . . But what really mattered, what really helped the movement, was showing the injustice of progressivism. Lawfare let us do that . . . .
We call that “shaping the battlefield.” You look for where and when you have the edge, and then you make the enemy fight you there and then. That’s especially important for insurgents. Our conservative lawyers understood that instinctively. . . . I threw money at lawyers because we could win in court. We wanted to get the government and the progressives in court because that took away all their advantages. I was a big proponent of lawfare right from the beginning because I saw that was where we could draw blood. I funded a lot of lawyers. There was a glut of them, and I could get them cheap so I found some talented ones and created a public interest law firm. . . . It was great. No case was too big or too small. The government was constantly having to get up and publicly defend its nonsense. Win or lose, we won. . . . I used to say that conservatives had to harness the power of lawyers for good instead of evil. The left had been using the courts for generations to chip away at our Constitution; we needed to use it to rebuild our rights and our freedoms. And, along the way, to give the progressives fits.

Like I said, there’s a lot of low-hanging fruit out there, waiting to be taken advantage of. And, by the way, Schlichter sees a libertarian/conservative alliance as the key to success. I think that’s right.

Glenn Reynolds @ Instapundit