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Obama Lectures on Societal Ills, Race
Once again, our president has jumped the gun in commenting on a story
without all the facts. Barack Obama has decided that the death of
Freddie Gray is a racial issue - blaming cops and societal ills - before
the facts have been released.
Yesterday, President Obama addressed the violence and mayhem in
Baltimore. Rioters have been at it for days, burning property, looting
and committing acts of violence against police and others in protest of
the death of Freddie Gray. Gray died a week after being taken into
custody by Baltimore police. The details of his death have yet to be
released.
Yet this didn't stop Obama from rushing to judgement. This has become
par for the course for this president, and it is beginning to make my
blood boil.
The president always starts out these speeches saying the right things.
He condemns the rioters and thugs, saying that their actions are
inexcusable and illegal. But then Obama skillfully turns his time and
attention away from the rioters and proceeds to lecture us about
American values. He says that we need to do some soul searching.
But it never ends there. He then spends the majority of his time going
after police officers and their presumed conduct, without any facts yet
to support his assumptions. He's a constitutional lawyer, doesn't he
understand anything about innocent until proven guilty? Anyway, nobody,
not even the president, knows why Freddie Gray ran away on a bicycle
from two police officers at 8:30AM. We simply don't know what happened
from that point onward that led to his death.
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Rush to Judgement
All of this hasn't stopped the president from rushing to judgement.
He's now a five-time loser on issues similar to this one if you look at;
The Cambridge police "acting stupidly" story, and Trayvon Martin,
Michael Brown in Ferguson, Eric Garner in NYC and now Freddie Gray in
Baltimore.
Obama, once again, opined about the societal social ills that he
believes is one of the main reasons for deaths such as Grays. He is
instinctively drawn to the narrative. We know now why that is the case:
the influences of Frank Marshall Davis, being a disciple of Alinsky and
Reverend Wright, former ACORN organizer, friends with Bill Ayers and
Bernadine Dorn.
He seeks to spin a storyline that would lead one to conclude that every
one of these incidents is racially motivated. He goes into the deeper
aspects of racism even though we don't know yet what happened. Cops
always seems to be the bad guys when Obama tells this narrative.
Situations where cops are killed seem to be downplayed, while he
continuously elevates - without any facts - deaths of others in a way
that divides this country.
Don't get me wrong, some cops sometimes do act badly but that doesn't
automatically mean it is because of race and we should wait for details
of their actions before we decide to cast judgement. Yet this president
has a chronic tendency to take disparate situations that often don't
involve race and put a racial frame around them. It seems as though
every issue is seen through the prism of race. It's not honest or
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