Lex's conversation on race

There has been a call for Attorney General Eric Holder to use the death and aftermath of Trayvon Martin to lead a national conversation on race relations.  OK let’s put aside all of the petty name calling for today and have that conversation.  Here’s my stream of though on race relations.

Eric holder is exactly the wrong person to lead that discussion.  Here’s a guy who used his prosecutorial discretion to let the guilty as hell New Black Panthers walk on violating the civil rights of white voters in Philadelphia because the perps were “his people.”  Now, he wants to use the power of the federal government to pursue a man found not guilty by a jury of murdering one of “his people”.

In the aftermath of the verdict, Holder has been so desperate to throw “his people” a bone, he not only continues to purse a man his own FBI said was clean, Holder has now pulled the old bait and switch.  Holder has conflated Zimmerman’s self-defense defense with FL’s stand your ground law.  The defense never argued stand your ground at trial.  Here’s why.  Zimmerman wasn’t “standing.”  He was on his back having his head pummeled against the sidewalk.

But racial politics trump facts.  If we can’t railroad George Zimmerman, we’ll railroad the entire state of FL.  Stevie Wonder has said he will not play in any state that has a stand your ground law on the books.  Why.  It had nothing to with Trayvon’s death.  George Zimmerman had no opportunity to retreat after Trayvon broke his nose, knocking him to the ground and then mounting him and beating his head against the sidewalk.

Now, in spite of what everyone has been saying over the last day or so, haven’t we been having a national conversation on race since about 1968?  I cannot recall a time in my life when we were not talking about race.  How long has affirmative action been around?  It has been around since 1961.  How much longer will it remain?  Forever.

Black History month.  Really?  What people settle for one month of the year?

You cannot have a conversation on race when you’re called a racist for not succumbing to the bigotry of low expectations.  Rachel Jeantel is the perfect example.  She claims to have 3.0 grade average, but it is clear she cannot speak the king’s English, read or write - at least in cursive. But if you point any of that out, you are not being helpful by exposing the next to useless inner city school system – you are simply a racist.

And that is the crux of the problem with any conversation on race.  Unless you bow down to every single accusation of the likes Revs. Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Jeremiah Wright, Eric Holder and an entire army of other who make their living stirring up racial hatred, you will be labeled a racist.

And if you are foolish enough to try point out a 70% out of wedlock birth rate among blacks or the 50% drop out rate of black teens or the trend toward generational welfare support you are descended upon as if you had used the N word.

And let me ask, how in the world are you going to have a conversation on race or any other subject for that matter, with the likes of public school “educated” people like Rachel Jeantel or the Obama phone lady?  That is not to say they are stupid or anything else.  They are uneducated.  Now, I know I’m a racist for pointing out that rather undeniable fact.

And that is the problem of this entire charade about a national conversation on race.  A conversation indicates a two way street.  There cannot be a conversation when every argument from one side is met with a cry of racism.

And ask yourself this question, are Revs. Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson and Jeremiah Wright et al willing to set aside the race card during this “conversation?”  No.  They will not.  They don’t want a real conversation on race because that would be bad for the race hustling business.

The left doesn’t want a “conversation” on race.  They want you to sit down and shut up so that they can lecture, hector and bully you.  And if you have the temerity to make a point, any point, they will shout you down calling you a racist.

You are successful, you see, because of your white privilege.  In their narrow minds, Rachel Jeantel could be brain surgeon if given the opportunities white people get as a matter of fact.  To them, hard work and discipline do not factor into the equation.  It is just a matter of skin color.

And given that pathetic argument, who are the real racists?