Tuesday, August 27, 2013

Race relations in the era of Obama

Black lawmakers lament flaring of racial tensions under Obama  "When President Obama follows in Martin Luther King Jr.’s footsteps on Wednesday with an address at the Lincoln Memorial, he will face a nation where race remains the great divide.

"Black lawmakers say the election of the nation’s first African-America president has not been a salve for racial tensions, a view that the public has also voiced in recent polling."
Political Cartoons by Glenn Foden
Colin Powell sprinkles gasoline on racial fires of resentment  "By delegitimizing the judicial system, Powell harms the American social order.  When respect for law declines, brute force tends to become the principal alternative mode of dispute resolution.  "How far he has fallen since his years of honorable service in the United States Army. I used to respect him."

A Discussion On Race, Crime And The Inconvenient Facts  "The racial violence issue in the U.S. just won't go away. Still in the aftermath of Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman, now it erupts in Oklahoma. A troubling corollary also adheres, though not universally recognized: 
"The racial victimhood industry demonstrably cares little about the facts, for example, in cases such as Martin—Zimmerman. The ultimate legal and factual aspects, therefore, become peripheral to the larger societal issue because the race hustlers have been aggressing regardless of the still-opaque full truth.

Toure: Conservatives Linking Lane And Belton Murders To Trayvon Martin A “Vile New Tactic” 
The short version: Shorter Toure: Conservatives talking about black on white crime is racist.
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