And the second reason why Obama and his Dem cronies should be lynched

Admittedly, the view from 'over here' to 'over there' is somewhat obscured and distorted although this has changed enormously for the better in the last 20-odd years as the internet has grown.  However, post-Reagan and through the Bush and Clinton years I gained the distinct impression that racial tensions in America were easing, yes, slowly, perhaps too slowly and also fitfully but nevertheless, improving.  Now, after six years under a black president it seems to me, from a distance, that America is back to the bad, old days and inter-racial tensions are rising fast.  The recent shooting dead of a black American yob by a white policeman in circumstances which still are not clear is a perfect example of why this has happened.

I should add, quickly, that it is not the incident itself which provides the example of deteriorating race relations.  Like everyone else, I am not clear on the details yet but I would take a large wager that if the yob concerned had been white then he, too, would have been shot in the same circumstances.  No, what stands out is the re-action of the Democrat party in general and the Federal government in particular.  Almost immediately following the incident those two race hucksters, Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, like a couple of characters from a Tom Wolfe novel, were on the scene, centre-stage, providing their same old equivalent of a music hall double-act - same old lines, same old lies!  Of course, prior to their entry their acolytes, so-called 'community organisers' (now where have I heard that expression before?) had been hard at it whipping up emotions. 

So far, so normal, and praise the Lord, 'The One' had managed to restrict himself from claiming, as he did after the Trayvon Martin shooting, that 'it could have been me at that age'.  Perhaps the reason for his unusual reticence was the very quick release of the video showing the 6'-4" overweight black yob picking up a scrawny little shop assistant who was objecting to his shop being robbed and hurling him into a display shelf.  Even so, after the warm-up act from 'Jackson & Sharp', in comes the main act, Eric Holder, the Attorney General, no less, and the highest legal officer in the Land of the (not so) Free.  He is Obama's pet poodle and he would not have ventured into this fester-pit without orders.  His mere presence, pictured consoling the family, will be enough to skew any chance of a neutral investigation, let alone a fair trial should it come to that.

America is a great country, a kind and generous country but, like everywhere else on this planet, it is made up of human beings and that means it can be, and often is, a dangerous and threatening country.  It is exceedingly difficult to know which sort of America you are dealing with in any situation.  I am very much obliged to Richard F. Miniter at The American Thinker who has written an excellent article based on his experience of being a small town cop and the way in which it is difficult to step outside your own experience and make an attempt to gain a rounded picture of your society.  I do urge you to read his piece!

There is no doubt in my mind that the exceedingly dangerous people with whom Obama has surrounded himself, and Holder is a prime example, are determined to seize every opportunity to ratchet up inter-racial tensions.  The reason is simple - an angry, fearful, resentful, black community will be provoked into getting off their arses and into voting.  And when they do, they will vote Democrat.  It's politics of the most despicable kind - but it works!

Comments

[Whitewall]

One of the "benefits" of the Obama years has been the complete unmasking of the American Left and with it a large segment of the Democrat party. This party is drawing on its history of Plantation Life as reality. Black people in America have been under the control of white democrats, in one form or another, for two hundred years. Or, in other words, as long as the "Democratic party" has been in existence. Blacks represented the means of economic power in 1814 and the means of electoral power in 2014. To maintain a Plantation, certain things are required--power at the top, visible overseers who owe their livelihoods to the Power, plenty of dependent and marginally educated occupants. Also needed is a very strong fence that may or may not be seen to keep those within unexposed to any "contrary" ideas from without.

This current situation in Ferguson is what the American race industry has been dreaming of. All of the players are on stage with their own scripts in hand. The chorus and band directors are in the middle of it before the full truth comes out to spoil the production. All the facts are weeks away so in the void, the race arsonists are doing improv. Fortunately, most of America is no longer with the race industry as a great deal of progress has been made in our country. But progress for some is threatening to others. That's where we are at the moment. The desperate reactionaries will in all likelihood overplay their hand. Reactionaries tend to do that.

[David Duff]

That sounds like a dismal but fair summary to me. When, I wonder, will the blacks wake up and realise they are being used? Your reference to "history of Plantation Life" ties in with Miniter's point that the bible of the Democrat Left-wing when it comes to race politics is "To Kill a Mockingbird".

[JK]

Something that *may/may not* be worthy of consideration in "why Missouri"

Polar Bear Hunting in other places sometimes referred to as, The Knockout Game made its first appearance in St Louis Missouri.

[Whitewall]

True there is still some of that novel present. Some blacks are waking up, especially in light of a black president who has done nothing for them. In fact, overall prospects for that population have diminished under Obama. This could be a turning point but the "Mockingbird" race industry will fight it "hammer and sickle".

[Hank]

David

Of course any thing said about US race relations if true in one place is false in several more, including this statement.

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It seems to me there only two groups whose thinking is absolutely dominated by race in US society.

The survivors of the KKK mentality.

Your basic far left supporter.

At least the KKK is more honest about the poison they spew.

[David Duff]

And, Hank, the KKK is now a tiny minority where-as far Left supporters actually run your government!

[David Duff]

And, Hank, the KKK is now a tiny minority where-as far Left supporters actually run your government!

[David Duff]

"fight it "hammer and sickle"."

Love it!

[jimmy glesga]

David get a grip of your thermal underwear. The yanks are right wing. Even the left are right.

[David Duff]

Jimmy, you are mistaking the avarice with which almost all American politicians are contaminated with their underlying political sympathies. Just read up on the late Saul Alinsky who is the shining light that leads most the Obama 'apparat'.