Quick Thought: "One of the good things that has come out of this is that people are going to talk about race relations," - Granite Grok

Quick Thought: “One of the good things that has come out of this is that people are going to talk about race relations,”

Uttered by Sunny Hostin who is a CNNer. Again, from The BlogLine of the Day:

“So a Hispanic shoots a black and is acquitted by women, but it’s still white men’s fault.”

And add into the mix, Eric Holder’s line of “in things racial we have always been and continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards“.  He took a lot of heat for that last clause, calling the people that he is supposed to serve “cowards” – THAT certainly shows “nose in the air” snootiness about the ordinary citizen.  However, I ask both of them:

Since late 50’s and early 60’s, when HAVEN’T we been talking about race??

Talking about race relations has gone on almost non-stop since this nation started to work to get rid of Jim Crow.  I can’t remember a time when it wasn’t part of the national conversation in one fashion or another – and I, and many others, really do resent Holder’s comment highly and, IMHO,  think that Hostin’s says a lot about her internalized sense of racism.  For some people, it seems, that if it wasn’t for racism identity fights, they’d have no identity at all (think: Sharpton, Smiley, and Jackson).

You know, almost all Conservatives are already “with” MLK’s line of “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.”  As an engineer, I could care less what you look like – but how good is your code? Now as a political blogger, I don’t care if you are black, white, yellow, red, brown or purple with green polka-dots:  All I care about is how you think and believe with respect to the philosophy of what made this country great. Are you a good person, love your wife and provide for your kids, be nice to others, obey the laws and Constitution, and pay your taxes?  Remember, color IS only skin deep but stupid goes right to the bone.  And I believe that those that hang onto “White Privilege” as a crutch really need to get out of their own little talking group and talk to others.

For that stupidity, and all it implies and accepts as gospel, goes past skin, past bone, and right into the marrow.  DaTechGuy sums it up well:

A 1/4 black man has been acquitted of murder and we are seeing a group of powerful and influential people determined to make him pay.

A 1/4 Black man has been acquitted of murder and we are seeing a mob of people willing to publicly threaten to kill him for it.

I guess they were right, Jim Crow is back after all

And I guess they hate brown people too.

Update:  am listening to Prof. Michael Eric Dyson (academician, talking head) on “Face the Nation” – when you have folks like this, that impugn racists thoughts and racists ideas and racists motivations to everyone around him that does not share his skin color, even as he is a biographer of MLK, we’ll never get to that time of “content of their character”.

Update 2: Zimmerman’s defense lawyer was right in that the MSM helped mightily to set up Trayvon Martin as “just a kid” – every image shown of him on the Sunday talking head shows showed older pictures of him as a young child – and not as he was (a 17 year old teenager) except for once when it was denounced as a “defense’s dirty trick”).  Never knew that showing an up to date picture of someone was a dirty trick….

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