"The national narrative has already been written and the media and Hollywood are already playing up the racial angles. And the comments by President Obama will do nothing more than stoke the flames of their stories. But it seems as though the White House has a case of selective righteous indignation. There have been plenty of tragic attacks in this nation over the past few years – incidents that did not elicit a compassionate word from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. What about justice for Shaina Perry? She was one of several people beaten and robbed in Milwaukee last summer. Her attackers were laughing and making racial taunts as they beat the 22-year-old woman. According to the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel the “injured people were white; the attackers were African-American.” “They just said, ‘Oh, white girl bleeds a lot,’” Perry told the newspaper. What about justice for Melissa Coon’s 13-year-old child? Her son was walking home from school in Kansas City when two black teenagers poured gasoline on the child and set him on fire. Mrs. Coon told television station KMBC that one of the attackers told her son, “You get what you deserve, white boy.” There were no condolence letters from the White House. There were no calls for a federal investigation. What about justice for Carter Strange and his family? The 18-year-old from Columbia, SC was on his way home when he was brutally beaten by a gang of eight black teenagers. His face was so badly damaged that his own mother didn’t recognize him in the hospital. He had to undergo a number of surgeries – including brain surgery. There is no hate crime law in South Carolina – but it wouldn’t have mattered. Prosecutors told me there was “no evidence to support the crime as a hate crime. None.” They said “a hate crime would be a crime of violence motivated by bias or intimidation.” Where was President Obama calling for a national soul-searching? Where were the telephone calls to Carter’s mother and father – struggling to pay his hospital bills because he didn’t have health insurance? Why didn’t the FBI and the Justice Department open civil rights investigations? Where were Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson? Where was the moral outrage, the righteous indignation from the race-baiting hucksters who preach peace but foment hate? They were all silent. And yet, in the case of Trayvon Martin, there have been presidential edicts, marches in the streets, and threats of unrest. Why? Perhaps our elected leaders should be reminded that in this nation – people are presumed innocent until proven guilty. And I wonder – if President Obama had a son, would he look like Carter Strange? If the president had a daughter, would she look like Shaina Perry? I wonder."
Posted on: Sun, 14 Jul 2013 12:18:19 +0000
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