"You know, if I had a father, he would look like “Shorty” Delbert Belton, and, if I had a son, he’d look like Chris Lane. Nobody’s gonna say that. Obama has not called the parents of Chris Lane. I don’t know if Obama has called anybody related to “Shorty” Delbert Belton, but these two were people killed by bored, thug-wannabe African-Americans. There still has been more outrage over a rodeo clown wearing an Obama mask than either of these two events combined. It’s this kind of thing — this cultural rot, this decay — that you can’t even address without being called a racist."
So true.
Americans at large are sickened over the senseless deaths of Chris Lane & Delbert Belton, and equally so with the hands-off approach that the liberal media's taken (lump Hollyweird in there too). We all understand such indifference stems from the double-standard brand of political correctness so infused in American media, to the point that there's little to no motivation to truly address, discuss or perhaps even solve any remaining cultural ails and ethnic divisions in our modern, equal opportunity nation. Why, when they can be used as political tools? Instead, they champion and promote the racebaiters riling up and inciting more malignancy. It's absolutely accurate to label it cultural rot and decay of our civil society.
I don't need to continue about how much further Obama, Holder, Jackson, Sharpton or the other race-hustlers exacerbated racial tensions after the Zimmerman verdict. You witnessed the results. But both directly through these latest vicious acts themselves, as well as indirectly by those who antagonize the violence, we continue to bare witness to the one-sidedness of these local issues boiling over onto the national stage.HollandSentinel: If I had a son, he would look like Christopher Lane, the 22-year-old Australian baseball player shot dead while jogging in Oklahoma.
If I had a father, he’d look like Delbert Belton, the 88-year-old World War II veteran beaten to death in Spokane, Wash.
And yes, if I had a son, he’d look like the white teenager who police say drove the getaway car in the Oklahoma killing.
These are all true statements if we identify ourselves and each other only by the color of our skin, which, increasingly seems to be the case — including our own president.
Barack Obama helped lead the way when he identified himself with Trayvon Martin, shot by George Zimmerman in the neighborhood-watch catastrophe with which all are familiar. Stepping out from his usual duties of drawing meaningless red lines in the Syrian sand, the president splashed red paint across the American landscape:
“If I had a son, he’d look like Trayvon.”
In so saying, he essentially gave permission for all to identify themselves by race with the victim or the accused. How sad as we approach the 50th anniversary of the march Martin Luther King Jr. led on Washington that even the president resorts to judging not by the content of one’s character but by the color of his skin — the antithesis of the great dream King articulated with those words.
The killings leading the news the past several days have been horrific in their apparent randomness. Were they racially motivated? Had the perps been white and the victims black, would Obama have identified with them? More to immediate concerns, did the president’s identification with Martin nourish the killing passions of these youths?King's determination goes a long way in understanding the content of character...particularly when many of our supposed leaders are lacking so today.
Hard to say with any certainty, though one of those charged in the Oklahoma shooting apparently tweeted some messages earlier this summer that unmistakenly convey racial animus toward whites. They might be dismissed as Twitter nonsense — but for the dead body.
We do know this much for certain: Had the races been reversed, the usual suspects would have had much to say. White teens beat up an elderly black veteran and leave him for dead? White teens shoot a talented black athlete visiting from another country?
Riots.
I make these observations not to further exacerbate a problem but in the hope that we can stop this craziness before things escalate. The conversation-about-race that pundits keep insisting we need to have should end where it began. Maybe in his remarks on the 50th anniversary of the greatest peaceful demonstration in history, Obama can remind Americans that if we had sons and fathers, they’d look like Christopher Lane and Delbert Belton, as well as Trayvon Martin.
Victim in chief is no role for a president.
It is and will be up to us, the Melting Pot of American Citizens, to determine if we have the clarity to see beyond the rudderless antagonists and know the truth that Dr. King prescribed.
May God Bless the eternal souls of Christopher Lane and Delbert Belton. And may the Almighty guide us in unraveling and ridding our society of the evil that not only took these innocent lives, but that motivated the culpable.
Related links: The Thug Culture That Killed Chris Lane
If Obama Still Had A Grandfather He Would Look Like Delbert Belton
James Woods leads call for justice for slain World War II vet Delbert Belton
‘Shut it down’: Charlie Daniels calls on Obama, Holder to do something about gang violence
I am Tired of Being Called a White Racist
Chris Lane and Delbert Belton: What it means for White America
A Generation of Sowing and Reaping in America
ADDENDUM: Sounds like authorities have a double-standard when it comes to these instances...
TheBlaze: Responding to reports of racist tweets found on the suspects’ social media pages, Hicks said there is no evidence to indicate that Chris Lane was murdered because he was white.Nothing to see here...move along...
DailyMail: The 88-year-old World War II veteran who was randomly beaten to death Wednesday likely died because he tried to fend off his attackers.The Chief was quick to pull back after basically blaming the victim.
Police say that enraged the teens and turned their petty theft into full-blown murder as they continued to beat him into submission with ‘big, heavy flashlights.’
‘Our information is that the individual fought back and that may have made this, you know, a worse situation,’ said Spokane Police Chief Frank Straub in a Monday press conference.
Boy, we've got some timid and confused law officials out there.
