Racist Obama policies discriminate against Blacks.

Blacks falling behind under ObamaCare

Maybe government programs aren't the answer?

What our elite leftist moral superiors are saying about looting...

...because a history of unjust laws needs to be remedied by unjust lawlessness.

//White people deploy the idea of looting in a way that implies people of color are greedy and lazy, but it is just the opposite: looting is a hard-won and dangerous act with potentially terrible consequences, and looters are only stealing from the rich owners’ profit margins. Those owners, meanwhile, especially if they own a chain like QuikTrip, steal forty hours every week from thousands of employees who in return get the privilege of not dying for another seven days.

 And the further assumption that the looter isn’t sharing her loot is just as racist and ideological. We know that poor communities and communities of color practice more mutual aid and support than do wealthy white communities—partially because they have to. The person looting might be someone who has to hustle everyday to get by, someone who, by grabbing something of value, can afford to spend the rest of the week “non-violently” protesting. They might be feeding their family, or older people in their community who barely survive on Social Security and can’t work (or loot) themselves. They might just be expropriating what they would otherwise buy—liquor, for example—but it still represents a material way that riots and protests help the community: by providing a way for people to solve some of the immediate problems of poverty and by creating a space for people to freely reproduce their lives rather than doing so through wage labor.

Modern American police forces evolved out of fugitive slave patrols, working to literally keep property from escaping its owners. The history of the police in America is the history of black people being violently prevented from threatening white people’s property rights. When, in the midst of an anti-police protest movement, people loot, they aren’t acting non-politically, they aren’t distracting from the issue of police violence and domination, nor are they fanning the flames of an always-already racist media discourse. Instead, they are getting straight to the heart of the problem of the police, property, and white supremacy.

Solidarity with all Ferguson rebels! Justice for Mike Brown!//

Seems like there's an awful lot of racism in Obama's post-racial America.

Another white guy assaulted by "minority youths" for being white.

Three teenagers accused of beating and robbing a disabled Army veteran on an Ohio bus while shouting racial slurs have been arrested.

Police apprehended Kenneth Matthews, Ronald Reid Williams and an unnamed 16-year-old girl who allegedly filmed last Friday's daytime attack on her cellphone, as they tried to flee.

The trio were among up to eight teenagers who allegedly mobbed Matthew Robinson on the RTA Healthline in Cleveland.

When the college student got off the bus near 6th Street and Euclid Avenue, the group allegedly followed him before stealing his belongings while yelling, 'Knock that white boy out!' Bystanders in the Public Square refused to help him.

'What they were saying was, ‘Knock that boy out!’ ‘White boy.’ ‘Cracker'. They were saying, ‘Knock that white boy out',' a visibly shaken Matthews told 19 Action News.

'The whole time I'm just thinking, pretty much protect myself and don't let anybody in behind you. No-one stepped in to help, so I thought it was a shame.

'No-one should have to deal with that kind of racism or ridicule.

'I think there should be jail time for assaults. Who's to say that your mother or sister couldn't be on the bus, and the same thing could happen to them.'

The adventures of the Post-Racial President.

Obama calls Rubio "boy."

So, does everyone get to do that now or is it still racism?

Or is it just okay when Obama calls a Republican "boy"?

Also, is this now within the rules of the "new civility" or outside of it, except when a Democrat does it?

The rules are very confusing.

Trayvon Martin/George Zimmerman - the mainstream media has become an advocate in the public discussion.

I think that what disturbs people who didn't have any particular axe to grind is the sense that the media was ginning up a lynch mob against George Zimmerman. This sense was supported by weird narrative hooks such as calling Zimmerman a "white Hispanic" - according to Steven Saylor, the word should be "mestizo," but that's never going to fly.

It seems that claim after claim made by the media in setting up the typical "racist outrage scenario" was getting batted away - Zimmerman has black friends, he's not white, he lives in a mixed race community, he was subjected to a beating, Trayvon Martin may have had an association with burglary, etc.

This morning it seemed that the media has gone from reporting the news to explicit advocacy in the interest of putting Zimmerman - who is presumed innocent - behind bars. ABC showed a video that it claimed demonstrated that Zimmerman had not been assaulted. The problem, according to the Daily Caller,is that the video shows what may actually be a laceration or scar:

“A police surveillance video taken the night that Trayvon Martin was shot dead shows no blood or bruises on George Zimmerman,” ABC News reporter Matt Gutman wrote, noting that Zimmerman told police “he shot Martin after he was punched in the nose, knocked down and had his head slammed into the ground.”

ABC News reported that Zimmerman appears uninjured in the video. But a still image from the video indicates what appears to be a vertical laceration or scar several inches long.

The other thing is that we've seen this kind of rush to judgment based on narratives of racism play out badly in the past:

In this country of 300,000,000+, it shouldn't be too hard for the national media to come up with actual news stories to illustrate its favorite themes of White Racism, the Invalidity of Stereotypes, and so forth. And yet, when the prestige press decides to go all in on a story to Push the Narrative, like Duke Lacrosse case or Jena Six, they usually seem to wind up with another travesty, playing Walter Sobchak with poor Donnie's ashes at the end of The Big Lebowski (video).

The Trayvon Martin story was supposed to demonstrate how white people invidiously stereotype young black males and get away with murder because they are white. First, though, it turned out that George Zimmerman wasn't what most people are told to think of as white.

Perhaps, with a Black President and all, people are thinking that things were supposed to be more, well, post-racial.