Obama Exposes Institutional Racism--on the Left and in the Media

[Stephanie]

you were warned before you elected this hateful little man to be President...you poo poo anyone who brought up the church he and his radical hateful wife attended for 20 years, a Black liberation church with the racist Rev. Wright....now look where he has dragged our country down to where everything is about RACE....you all who voted for him should be ashamed

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by Dr. Timothy Daughtry 21 Jul 2013, 6:55 AM PDT 33 post a comment


Obama’s recent comments on the George Zimmerman verdict expose once and for all the radical worldview that lies beneath the Obama agenda. In speculating that the Zimmerman verdict might have been different if Trayvon Martin had been white, Obama revealed the inner world of a man steeped in the cultural Marxist theories that have for decades shaped the thinking of leftists, from professors in elite universities to community organizers in the streets. And his comments highlight the struggle between two world views that is at the root of the current political tension in America.

For Americans who see the world through a Judeo-Christian worldview, it is the content of one’s character and not the color of one’s skin that matters. For the political mainstream, it would not have mattered if Martin had been white or if Zimmerman had been black. When the question is self-defense, we are at a loss to make sense of it when the left raises issues of race that we see as irrelevant.

But the political theorists who shaped the thinking of the American left long ago rejected the Judeo-Christian worldview and its emphasis on personal responsibility and the value of the individual over the collective. The cultural Marxists of the Frankfurt School in Europe, and later in America’s northeastern universities, developed Critical Theory--the relentless criticism of every cultural institution of free societies--as a tool for undermining the Judeo-Christian barriers to the Marxist agenda. Formal religion, the traditional family, and even national borders have all come under attack from the left as vestiges of an outmoded way of thinking about the world. The Judeo-Christian goal of a color-blind society has not been spared in the assault.

In Critical Race Theory, racism is so embedded in America’s cultural institutions, including our legal system, that minorities can never get a fair shake, even if individual Americans are consciously well-intentioned on matters of race. In order to overcome this deeply embedded--and largely unconscious--institutional racism, it is necessary, according to the theory, for those in power to use a different set of standards in dealing with minorities.

Thus, through the lens of Critical Race Theory, Eric Holder is justified both in detecting the subtle outline of racism in laws that merely require proof of identity for voting, and also in failing to see it when members of the New Black Panther Party wield nightsticks outside of a Philadelphia voting place. What mainstream Americans call “reverse discrimination” is not, in the left’s worldview, a failure to see the unfairness in cases of differential treatment; it is an insistence on the part of the left that differential treatment is not unfair.

According to this view, Holder would be justified in pursuing Zimmerman on civil rights charges because, by definition, Zimmerman’s acquittal would have been tainted by institutional racism. And in speculating that the outcome might have been different if Trayvon Martin had been white, Obama was no doubt opening the political door for such an action.

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Obama Exposes Institutional Racism--on the Left and in the Media

 

[The T]

you were warned before you elected this hateful little man to be President...you poo poo anyone who brought up the church he and his radical hateful wife attended for 20 years, a Black liberation church with the racist Rev. Wright....now look where he has dragged our country down to where everything is about RACE....you all who voted for him should be ashamed

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by Dr. Timothy Daughtry 21 Jul 2013, 6:55 AM PDT 33 post a comment


Obama’s recent comments on the George Zimmerman verdict expose once and for all the radical worldview that lies beneath the Obama agenda. In speculating that the Zimmerman verdict might have been different if Trayvon Martin had been white, Obama revealed the inner world of a man steeped in the cultural Marxist theories that have for decades shaped the thinking of leftists, from professors in elite universities to community organizers in the streets. And his comments highlight the struggle between two world views that is at the root of the current political tension in America.

For Americans who see the world through a Judeo-Christian worldview, it is the content of one’s character and not the color of one’s skin that matters. For the political mainstream, it would not have mattered if Martin had been white or if Zimmerman had been black. When the question is self-defense, we are at a loss to make sense of it when the left raises issues of race that we see as irrelevant.

But the political theorists who shaped the thinking of the American left long ago rejected the Judeo-Christian worldview and its emphasis on personal responsibility and the value of the individual over the collective. The cultural Marxists of the Frankfurt School in Europe, and later in America’s northeastern universities, developed Critical Theory--the relentless criticism of every cultural institution of free societies--as a tool for undermining the Judeo-Christian barriers to the Marxist agenda. Formal religion, the traditional family, and even national borders have all come under attack from the left as vestiges of an outmoded way of thinking about the world. The Judeo-Christian goal of a color-blind society has not been spared in the assault.

In Critical Race Theory, racism is so embedded in America’s cultural institutions, including our legal system, that minorities can never get a fair shake, even if individual Americans are consciously well-intentioned on matters of race. In order to overcome this deeply embedded--and largely unconscious--institutional racism, it is necessary, according to the theory, for those in power to use a different set of standards in dealing with minorities.

Thus, through the lens of Critical Race Theory, Eric Holder is justified both in detecting the subtle outline of racism in laws that merely require proof of identity for voting, and also in failing to see it when members of the New Black Panther Party wield nightsticks outside of a Philadelphia voting place. What mainstream Americans call “reverse discrimination” is not, in the left’s worldview, a failure to see the unfairness in cases of differential treatment; it is an insistence on the part of the left that differential treatment is not unfair.

According to this view, Holder would be justified in pursuing Zimmerman on civil rights charges because, by definition, Zimmerman’s acquittal would have been tainted by institutional racism. And in speculating that the outcome might have been different if Trayvon Martin had been white, Obama was no doubt opening the political door for such an action.

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Obama Exposes Institutional Racism--on the Left and in the Media

Obama, Holder, Jackson, Sharpton the NAALCP and the other usual suspects are flushing MLK's vision down the toilet aren't they? (Regarding character and his vision from his 'I have A Dream Speech').

Culture is a mess!

Good article.

Thanks for sharing.

~T

 

[Stephanie]

another view on this and it's from the left...we see there are still some that are sane and don't follow the leaders of the race baiting Obama, Holder, Sharpton, Jackson and the horrible DISHONESTdispicable media (an example they continued to use a picture of Martin when he WAS 12 year old...
links in article at site

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Obama Addresses George Zimmerman Verdict

By Jeralyn, Section Crime in the News
Posted on Fri Jul 19, 2013 at 0353 PM EST



Here's the transcript of President Obama's remarks on the George Zimmerman verdict today.

Here's what I agree with:


The judge conducted the trial in a professional manner. The prosecution and the defense made their arguments. The juries were properly instructed that in a case such as this reasonable doubt was relevant, and they rendered a verdict. And once the jury has spoken, that's how our system works.

The rest of his remarks, on the topic of race, would be welcome following an incident involving racial profiling by police. In case he hasn't noticed, the practice is rampant in New York City. They do not fit in the context of this case. [More...]

He has now gone from Trayvon Martin could have been his son to Trayvon Martin could have been him 35 years ago.

The most objectionable part of his comments: Not once did he express any empathy for George Zimmerman, the man who was acquitted who spent the past 16 months under the cloud of criminal charges, and who continues to have a target on his back.

Obama said if Martin had been white the result would probably have been different. Not once did he acknowledge that if Trayvon Martin had not attacked George Zimmerman, the outcome might have been different.

As a former Constitutional law professor, I would expect our President to acknowledge that the purpose of a criminal trial is not to send messages to the American public. It is merely to test the Government's evidence: Did the state prove guilt and disprove self-defense beyond a reasonable doubt.

By the President comparing himself to Martin 35 years ago, is he saying he would have responded as Martin did, and physically attacked someone for following him? I hope not because our laws do not allow such conduct. It is not illegal for a private citizen to follow someone. It is illegal to physically assault another person who has not threatened him with the imminent use of force.

I am very disappointed that the President has chosen to endorse those who have turned a case of assault and self-defense into a referendum on race and civil rights. And that he is using it to support those with an agenda of restricting gun rights.

The President, like so many others, refuses to acknowledge that George Zimmerman had no avenue of retreat from the beating Martin was inflicting on him. Zimmerman would have prevailed on self-defense without a stand your ground law. The only additional element a stand your ground law adds to traditional self-defense is the elimination of a duty to retreat if one is available.

Florida Gov. Rick Scott says there will be no change to Florida's Stand Your Ground law. I hope he's right. The law does not need to be changed. People have a right to defend themselves from attacks like the one Martin initiated against Zimmerman. They should not have to wait until the next blow, which could be a fatal one.

Trayvon Martin was not an unarmed teen just walking home with Skittles. The evidence at trial showed he had enough time to go home and did not. Instead, he chose to confront and physically attack Zimmerman. He may have started his walk home from 7-11 as an innocent unarmed teen with a bag of Skittles, but along the way he used his hands and the cement as weapons.

The jury's verdict is the best evidence that not a single one of them believed Martin was the one screaming for help. Angela Corey said this week the state has never denied Trayvon Martin hit George Zimmerman. The state argued Zimmerman's injuries weren't serious enough to warrant shooting Martin. There was expert testimony at trial that Zimmerman had no other means to escape the danger he perceived he was in, and that his perception of that danger was reasonable. The jury sided with the defense.

The state tried to cast Zimmerman as the aggressor who provoked the fight, and the judge correctly ruled the jury would not be so instructed. There was no evidence to support that Zimmerman provoked Martin's use of force against him. There was no evidence that Zimmerman tried to physically restrain Martin.


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Obama Addresses George Zimmerman Verdict - TalkLeft: The Politics Of Crime

 

[francoHFW]

OP- Jeebus what a pile of shytte lol...from the great minds of the Pub propaganda Machine