Bill Whittle

If the President had a son, would he look like a kid that played “knock out”?

I got a huge kick out of the President’s words as the Trayvon Martin stuff really began to heat up.  “You know, if I had a son, he’d look like Trayvon,” is what he said, to be precise.  I got an equally huge kick out of his claim surrounding his praise and unwavering defense of an organization with such noble and humanitarian ideals as Planned Parenthood– then, he referenced his young daughters and noted that if they “made a mistake” (if they got knocked up), he would want them to have the ability to exercise their right to get an abortion  (I think he said “help”, and not that a-word).

The way in which his argument was structured alluded to that mistake occurring in his daughters’ younger years– their teens perhaps.  Not an all-around outrageous position for a parent of young girls by any means, but what made me snicker was the thought of how, by any rhyme or reason, were the President’s girls ever going to be in a position where they can be taken advantage of as youths, or “make a mistake”?  Are those kids going to have a moment of peace after their father’s eight years, or know what it is to live in this world without members of the Secret Service shadowing them?  Mr. President, please.

If he were to have a son, he wouldn’t “look” like Trayvon Martin.  He’d be dressed in something more refined and becoming of the offspring of the President of the United States.  He wouldn’t be walking through the roughest streets of DC at night after going to the convenience store for a snack.  He wouldn’t be whipping up some DC-moonshine in the Lincoln bedroom with Skittles, an Arizona, and some Robitussin.  He probably wouldn’t be talking about that, or weed, with friends via text message.  He wouldn’t be getting suspended from any schools or getting caught with stolen goods, and he certainly wouldn’t be caught being indoctrinated by our common core-driven public schools.  He probably wouldn’t have a gun, or a friend that had one– and if he did he probably wouldn’t be taking pictures with it.

You see, the only young black men that might look like a make-believe “son” of the President are the ones that could help him make gains politically, or garner support.

“What, that young black man just successfully signed up for a SILVER PLAN on healthcrash.gov?  Get’em over here, let’s put him on TV, and let me call him son!”

So why isn’t the President making any speeches and taking ownership of the young black kids that are playing this Knockout “Game”– a game that’s actually just an assault, and a crime?  It’s not like it hasn’t claimed innocent lives, you know.  Don’t these troubled youths “look” like they could be the President’s son, if he had one?  Where’s the Reverend Al Sharpton?  Is he going to challenge those same youths to throw on their baseball caps and meet him at his house for a good old throw-down?  Where’s Toure?  It’s been like three days since we last got a chance to watch a “video essay”, man!– tell us how white privilege (if you want to see some privilege, you should check out what his high school looked like) has pushed these teens into getting some kind of enjoyment out of this silly, harmless “game” that youths play.

The faces change, but the game remains the same– show a politician a victim, or an alleged one, and they become their best friend, their brother, or their dad.  Not because they can empathize with their situation, but because they can “empathize” with their skin color.  But show a politician a perpetrator, and they couldn’t be any more distant.

…but you can bet….that no one…is more upset about this Knockout trickery…than me.  Now go talk to your loved ones about health insurance this holiday! -bo

Ignorance: All the rage these days

Toure.  Melissa Harris-Perry.  Chris Matthews.  Rachel Maddow.  Even Oprah.

But a small sampling of the nation’s most prevalent race baiters.

After perusing Melissa Harris-Perry’s Twitter feed for a few moments tonight, I decided it was time to say something and come out of my short hiatus as I settle down in my new apartment.  Since the verdict was delivered in the Trayvon Martin-George Zimmerman case, the nation’s finger pointers have really come out in full force, with guns blazing.  Some do it overtly, while others are more subtle about it– all of them are racists, however.

This was expected, to an extent, but if people following MHP claim to be a part of “nerdland” in watching her (because being a nerd is “cool” now), and if Toure’s loyal fans retweet his thought-provoking and insightful “Oh.” or “???” responses to dissenting opinions because they just knoooow how smart they are, I feel it’s probably about time they gave credit where it is due when it comes to George Zimmerman.

I say the following only because in one quick browse, I saw Twitter’s merry band of racists that don’t even realize they’re racists post articles alluding to Trayvon being like Emmit Till, how Trayvon could have been President in 35 years, and how the death of Trayvon Martin can teach us about voting rights.  It’s like one, sick chain reaction after the other– you take a verdict, that everyone immediately dismisses as invalid or irrelevant for little to no reason other than “Trayvon was black”, and you use it to shoddily fuel a million other arguments tied to race.  More often than not these arguments fall so miserably short of being logical and coherent that it is almost embarrassing that people are getting paid to make them, but with a joker up one’s sleeve– a race card– you alleviate yourself from the tension of being held to a standard of decency or validity.  You negate any valid argument that can be made against you.  And why?  Because if someone argues back, they’re wrong and racist.  Or, they are fueling white privilege.  Or, they want blacks to count as 3/5 of a vote.  Or, their lifelong dream is to own slaves on a plantation and wear white hoods.

And onnnnn, and onnnnnnnnnn, and on and on.

A little over a week ago, I got into a long and heated argument with a woman on our Twitter page about TM.  Regardless of the points I made in my tweets, which were for the most part drawn from the evidence presented at trial (how crazy of me, I know), it simply didn’t matter.  To this woman, Trayvon was an innocent child– regardless of evidence that showed he was the aggressor.  When I tried to help her understand that Zimmerman confronting Trayvon wasn’t “aggression”, she was having none of it.  To her, and she literally said this, the aggression was perpetuated by Zimmerman simply getting out of his car.  I repeat, leaving your vehicle is an act of aggression now.  No wonder there is so much murder in the hood– I hear a lot of people get out of cars there!  This woman, a white girl I might add, continually noted that Trayvon “could have been her son” (like everyone does), and I pointed out that if it really could have been her son, than that probably made her a terrible parent– a point I made in one of our previous articles.  And that sent her through the roof, on a tirade about how “all kids” fight in schools, smoke weed, make hooch with codeine, skittles, and watermelon Arizona, and get suspended.  I can continue with more examples of this woman’s ignorance, but you get the point.  It doesn’t matter who people are, or what they do– the only thing that matters is their race.

And that’s racism.

But of course my points didn’t matter.  Because this woman is defending Trayvon Martin– and Trayvon, is black.  He has to be the definition of “victim” in its entirety.  There is no room, and it simply cannot be possible, that through his actions Martin brought the situation to a level that it never should have been at.  If there was evidence that Zimmerman did in fact act as the “aggressor”, the prosecution completely failed to show it.  Why is this completely ignored as if everyone that “Stands With Trayvon” somehow knows something that none of us do?  That they know something that the prosecution didn’t find necessary to point out?

Here’s why.  It’s because these people are a bunch of classless, abhorrent, race-baiting punks.  Without claims of racism, they have nothing to talk about or validate their claims.  Being black and young doesn’t render one innocent– this assumption has been made all too often in our country’s short history since the 50s and 60s (which Tawana Brawley is apparently having some trouble paying up for, I might add) and the destruction and violence (and deaths) that have occurred as a result of it are entirely ignored.  It is a pitiful and oft-used tactic to further an agenda that defies the original agendas of real leaders of the minority community– leaders that would absolutely spit upon the likes of Toure, MHP, and their white colleagues that pretend like they haven’t lived every ounce of a privileged life that they claim to be so vehemently against.

To call all of this “hypocrisy” would be an understatement.  People like Toure, MHP, and others are accessory to any and all of the violence that has occurred against white people “for Trayvon”.  Leaders of the present-day “black movement” are equally guilty, and have a rap sheet the size of Florida to boot thanks to the times they have repeated their racist, and ill-focused claims of racism in the past.

If this truly were a country of justice, of respect for the law and of a desire to form a “more perfect union”, people would be up in arms over the asinine reactions to the death of a person that in essence, was just like any other gangster’s paradise punk that found the wrong end of a pistol.  It’s not about black vs. white as much as it is about rational vs. stupid, and when someone can show me some evidence that shows how Trayvon Martin’s actions on that night were “rational”– evidence that proves George Zimmerman defending himself was irrational— I will give up on this for good.

Before you take me up on that offer though, you should note that Trayvon being unarmed is not evidence that his actions were rational.  Considering that argument on your end makes you just as stupid as Toure or Melissa Harris-Perry.