When Barack Obama ran for the presidency five years ago, pundits on both the left and right reassured the country that the election of America\u2019s \u201cfirst black president\u201d promised to issue forth a new era of interracial harmony.<\/p>\n
Some of us, however, knew all too well that this was the kind of stuff that only fools and liars could peddle.\u00a0 In fact, we predicted that, far from inaugurating a \u201cPost-Racial\u201d America, cries of \u201cracism\u201d were sure to increase <\/i>if Obama seized the White House. Unfortunately, in retrospect, we appear to have been prescient.<\/p>\n
We knew, first of all, that there is indeed such a thing as the Racism-Industrial-Complex (RIC) that is every bit as massive as any other industry.\u00a0 Ideologically, professionally, and even emotionally, RIC agents are deeply invested in sustaining their narrative of endemic \u201cwhite racism\u201d and perpetual \u201cblack suffering.\u201d\u00a0 The election of a black man to the most visible and potent office on the planet threatens that narrative.<\/p>\n
Thus, the cries of \u201cracism\u201d would have to become both more frequent and more extravagant if RIC was to continue to flourish.<\/p>\n
Secondly, we also knew that, given his background, racial unity would be the last thing on Obama\u2019s mind.\u00a0 Quite the contrary: Obama\u2019s lifelong preoccupation with achieving racial \u201cauthenticity\u201d and his passion for \u201ccommunity organizing\u201d foretold a presidency that would be accompanied by endless crises\u2014including and especially racial <\/i>crises.<\/p>\n
The acquittal of George Zimmerman in the shooting death of black 17 year-old Trayvon Martin is the latest such crisis that Obama is exploiting for all that it is worth.<\/p>\n
Far from using his influence to affect some measure of calm, last Friday, following a week of mayhem in which roving mobs of blacks disrupted cities, destroyed property, and randomly subjected innocent whites and others to violence, the President decided to exacerbate <\/i>this situation.<\/p>\n
It is crucial, Obama maintained, that we\u2014i.e. white folks\u2014understand why blacks share \u201ca sense that if a white male teen was involved in the same kind of scenario\u201d as was Trayvon Martin on the night that he was shot dead by George Zimmerman, \u201cfrom top to bottom, both the outcome and the aftermath might have been different.\u201d<\/p>\n
Blacks suffer \u201cpain\u201d over the Zimmerman verdict because they are \u201clooking at this issue through a set of experiences and a history that doesn\u2019t go away.\u201d\u00a0 But this past is very much alive in the present, according to Obama, for to this day, black men continue to fall prey to the sinister machinations of wicked white racial profilers. \u00a0Moreover, even Obama himself <\/i>isn\u2019t safe from this virulent white \u201cracism.\u201d<\/p>\n
Most black men, including Obama, have \u201chad the experience of being followed while shopping in a department store.\u201d Most black men, including Obama, share \u201cthe experience of walking across the street and hearing the locks click on the doors of cars.\u201d\u00a0 Most black men, including Obama, have \u201chad the experience of getting on an elevator\u201d and seeing \u201ca woman clutching her purse nervously and holding her breath until she had a chance to get off.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ironically, immediately upon lamenting the ugliness of this racial profiling, Obama unwittingly acknowledges its reasonableness, for he assures us that blacks have no delusions concerning \u201cthe disproportionately\u201d high rates of black criminality and the fact that \u201cthey\u2019re disproportionately both perpetrators and victims of violence.\u201d\u00a0 Yet even this, he is quick to observe, \u201cis born out of a very violent past in this country [.]\u201d<\/p>\n
In other words, while blacks do indeed act more violently than others, this too is because of the oppressive \u201cracist\u201d treatment to which whites have traditionally subjected them.<\/p>\n
To the intimidation and wanton cruelty in which the anti-Zimmerman forces have engaged in the aftermath of Zimmerman\u2019s acquittal, Obama spoke not a word except to caution them against \u201cdishonoring\u201d the memory of Trayvon Martin.<\/p>\n
So, why did Obama insert himself in this case in the first place?\u00a0 Why has he chosen to fan the flames of an already combustible situation and all but justify even the violence that has been done to innocent person and property?<\/p>\n
Answer: Obama is first and always a \u201ccommunity organizer\u201d\u2014a community agitator.\u00a0 <\/i><\/p>\n
As the Godfather of community agitating, Saul Alinksy, wrote, the agitator should always seek to \u201ccause confusion, fear,\u201d \u201cto agitate to the point of conflict,\u201d and \u201cstir up dissatisfaction and discontent.\u201d\u00a0 The agitator \u201cbegins his \u2018trouble making\u2019 by stirring up these angers, frustrations, and resentments, and highlighting specific issues or grievances that heighten controversy.\u201d He also \u201cdramatizes the injustices [.]\u201d<\/p>\n
The agitator has but one objective: the construction of a \u201cmass power base of what he calls the army.\u201d<\/p>\n
Obama most definitely does not want interracial harmony in America. \u00a0He never did.\u00a0 He wants\u2014he needs\u2014mutual antagonism between the races.\u00a0 It is in his interest, as well as that of his party, for the members of his black base to be ruled by an \u201cus versus them\u201d mentality when it comes to race relations.<\/p>\n
This is why Obama has fueled the persecution of George Zimmerman and the Brown Shirt tactics of the black mobs that have taken to the streets courtesy of the inspiration of the Jesse Jacksons, Al Sharptons, Eric Holders, and, yes, Obamas of the world.<\/p>\n
And this is why, politically, the acquittal of Zimmerman was a win for Obama.<\/p>\n
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