Living while Black in "the land of the free and the home of the brave"...{SMDH}

Yes, Family -- "This IS America"...

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More crocodile tears and and a huge dose of hypocrisy...

I've been sitting on my feelings about the Changeling's second statement on the Trayvon Martin case for a minute.  But after reading and listening to all the ooey-gooey, "My Black president really cares" madness in the media and on the web,  I thought I'd chime in with Maxine, expressing my deepest, most innermost thoughts on his words (just so my head won't explode over his manipulative propaganda masquerading as empathetic concern):

As I read piece, after piece about his "iconic"blather, I could feel the bile slowly rising in my throat. Why in the world would anybody get all dewy-eyed, believing his alleged, "impromptu" comments about Trayvon (and yes, I believe it was as "impromptu" as him breathing), when only a few days before the verdict, he endorses the king of racial profiling for head of Homeland Security??!!  In The Atlantic's, Prominent Democrats Are Now Comfortable With Racial and Ethnic Profiling he states:

On Wednesday, President Obama assured a Univision reporter that Ray Kelly, New York City's police commissioner, would make a fine leader for the Department of Homeland Security.

"Well, Ray Kelly has obviously done an extraordinary job in New York and the federal government partners a lot with New York, because obviously our concerns about terrorism oftentimes are focused on big city targets," he said. "And I think Ray Kelly is one of the best there is. So he's been an outstanding leader in New York...But you know, we're going to have a bunch of strong candidates. Mr. Kelly might be very happy where he is. But if he's not I'd want to know about it. 'Cause you know, obviously he'd be very well qualified for the job."

(Do watch the Chris Hayes video further down the piece at the link above -- it is insightful, to say the least.)

During a spirited conversation over on Abagond's, "Obama: “Trayvon Martin could have been me”,  commenter, "GoldFire" posted a link to a clip from, "The Hunted and the Hated: An Inside Look at the NYPD's Stop-and-Frisk Policy" below:



"You look suspicious," is what one of the cops said to this young man (among other lewd, crude threats) -- exactly the same thing George Zimmerman said about Trayvon Martin.  The Changeling, however, thinks the man behind the implementation of these tactics, "is one of the best there is."  Tell me how this isn't talking out of both sides of his mouth??!! 

As I said over at Abagond's, "The Changeling is a manipulative hypocrite who says one thing and does exactly the opposite when it comes to us — yet many Black folk support him, talking about he’s some kind of “symbol.”  There’s just something real Stockholm Syndrome-like (or PTSD, Post-Traumatic Slavery Disorder-like if you prefer) about that."  There are so many folk just swooning over what he had to say, yet few (including his liberal, Democratic colleagues and talking heads) are challenging him on Ray Kelly's corrupt police department policies which violate the civil rights of an overwhelming number of citizens each and every day with Stop & Frisk.

If you check out the NycResistance channel on YouTube, you'll see a large sampling of what I mean.  According to its owner, he's been documenting Kelly's, NYPD atrocities for years -- the plethora of videos is daunting!  I've got nothing but respect for this brother, who cares enough about Black and Latino youth, to make sure their abuse is a matter of public record -- would that the MSM was similarly inspired.

Salon's, Listen now: Obama ad from 2000 rails against racial profiling -- is illustrative.  In it, there's a radio ad (no doubt crafted by the King-makers for the Black community), in which then, Sen. Barack Obama speaks out forcefully against racial profiling -- what a difference a "selection" makes, right?

"GoldFire" also posted an interview with Cornell West that bears re-posting (I see Asa's posted it as well over at AfroSpear):



As I commented there -- "Bro. West is on-point, but I know the Changeling’s supporters will keep on crowing about him still being mad about not getting tickets to the damned inauguration — as if what he’s saying has no validity at all. {smdh}"

Family, we've got so-o-o-o much work to do -- and none of it has to do with holding up this puppet, who's used Trayvon Martin's death, and worse, his parents, to bolster his "Black bona fides."  Rise up against the Ray Kelly nomination and confirmation.  And if we fail -- learn something.

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