I have been looking for actual assemblies of protest over the Zimmerman verdict. Yes I see the amplified coverage on MSNBC and CNN. I read about it in the USA today. But in truth, we seem to be at a point when discussion and disagreement in love is trumping the hype driven by the race hustlers.
There are few sidling up with Sharpton and JJ. 2000 in NYC, 400 in LA, 300 in Miami. The media pornography has failed to arouse the protests they seemed to hope for. This was a rough time and it is worth noting that the things I know are wrong are not the ones being focused upon: High incarcerations rates and longer sentences, violence in the community ignored by police, unfair justice for crimes in court if you are black, high arrest rates in inane circumstance (ie driving while black) and segregation is still a fact of life in America. Those are the things that the talking heads are NOT addressing.
I have a sense that people of maturity are becoming aware of the lies and manipulations from racists on both ends of the spectrum are leading us nowhere. I certainly hope so, because what we have been going through is a form of national nervous breakdown, taking us rapidly backwards on race relations, something that has improved consistently in our country over the last fifty years.
What we do not need now is a “national conversation on race.” That’s like taking a scab that’s slowly healing and, just when it’s about to whither away, scratching it as hard as possible until the wound comes back.
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A little history on the scab scratcher. The video runs better with the "HD" turned off.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/06/03/al-sharpton-s-long-bill-of-goods-from-tawana-brawley-to-primetime.html
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