This is a deliberate attempt to stir up racial tensions, and as a bonus go after the second amendment.
They will stretch any situation to try to make it a dividing one. This follows Rush Limbaugh’s comments recently being made out to be a war on women.
Someone sent an email asking me to sign a petition to arrest Mr. Zimmerman, I told them to let the police do their jobs since I didn’t know what happened.
If the roles were reversed would Obama get involved in it? After all, if he had a son he could very well be white after all Obama is half white.
But the shooter wasn’t white, he was Hispanic!
Obama gets personal over killing of black Florida teenager
President Barack Obama: "If I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon" - Rough Cuts
1 of 2. U.S. President Barack Obama returns to the White House in Washington March 22, 2012, after a two-day trip promoting his energy policy.
Credit: Reuters/Joshua Roberts
By Jeff Mason and Daniel Trotta
WASHINGTON/SANFORD, Florida | Fri Mar 23, 2012 7:03pm EDT
WASHINGTON/SANFORD, Florida (Reuters) - President Barack Obama weighed into the controversial killing of a black teenager in Florida in very personal terms on Friday, comparing the boy to a son he doesn't have and calling for American "soul searching" over how the incident occurred.
Seventeen-year-old Trayvon Martin, dressed in a "hoodie" sweatshirt, was shot dead a month ago in Sanford, Florida by a 28-year-old white Hispanic neighborhood watch volunteer who said he was acting in self-defense.
"If I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon," Obama said in his first comments about the shooting, acknowledging the racial element in the case.
"Obviously, this is a tragedy," Obama told reporters. "I can only imagine what these parents are going through. And when I think about this boy, I think about my own kids."
The case has rippled across the nation and prompted rallies protesting the failure of the police to arrest the shooter, George Zimmerman, and, more broadly, a pattern of racial discrimination black leaders cite in Sanford and elsewhere in the country.
The writer who coined the new racial slur "white hispanic," Daniel Trotta, ought to know better given the majority of his journalism career has been in Central America. Strangely, this appears to be the first tie ever that he's used the term.
ReplyDeleteHad Rush Limbaugh called President Obama a "white black," can you imagine the uproar? It'd put the Fluke manufactured angst to shame.
Daniel Trotta should be fired. He didn't call Martin a "black black." This is a new racism advancing out of our media - one where the hatred is directed at "white behavior" or "black attitude." Trotta is advocating hate speech like "Michelle Obama is a black black, unlike her white black husband." We must hold our media accountable for their racist actions.