Obama - I Am Trayvon And I Will Make Sure This Is A Crisis

A Blog By The American Refugee

I am really ready to let this issue go. Some high profile black Americans have done what they could to ease tensions. Charles Barkly and Bill Cosby have both made statements saying that the jury got it right.

Unfortunately that are signs from Obama and his administration that are trying to use this case to further divide us and that they are determined to turn this situation into a travesty. Eric Holder has made it clear both in his speeches and statements as well as by telling Florida officials not to give Zimmerman back his gun, that he is seriously considering civil rights charges against Zimmerman.

The initial FBI investigation found no evidence of racial bias on the part of Zimmerman and Zimmerman has been acquitted of both murder and man slaughter. To put Zimmerman in jeopardy again and to try and prove that he racially profiled Martin would be to exacerbate problems caused by this case and an attempt to intimidate a jury into convicting Zimmerman. The message would be, “The first jury messed up, you guys get this right or their will be riots and no body will be safe.”

Now Obama is opening his mouth again. His opening was classic Obama. I – I – Me – My:
“I gave an initial statement after the verdict on Sunday, but watching the debate over the course of the last week, I thought it might be useful for me to expand on my thoughts a little bit.”

It wasn’t useful. Obama stepped in it again and in so doing you has thrown gas on the fire of racial tension in this country. Mr. Obama, is the most divisive president in our nation’s history and has personally set back race relations in this country. In saying that there are “few African-American men in this country who haven’t had the experience of being followed,” he insinuates that Zimmerman acted in a racist fashion, though no evidence has been found to support that.

“I think, to a sense that if a white male teen was involved in the same kind of scenario that, from top to bottom, both the outcome and the aftermath might have been different,” Obama stated.

You are right Mr. Obama, it would have been different. No charges would have been brought and race never would have been injected into this by you, the media, or disgusting race baiters like Al Sharpton. NBC news never would have edited a tape of a 911 call to make it seem like the black caller was focused on the race of the person. You never would have made a statement about the deceased looking like he could be your son.

Now Obama has doubled down on the misguided, damaging statements he made early in this case. Now that there a been a not guilty verdict, he turns up the heat on racial anger and begins the process of poisoning a jury pool in what could be a federal civil rights case. It isn’t enough for Trayvon to look like him. No Trayvon must be him.

“You know, when Trayvon Martin was first shot, I said that this could have been my son. Another way of saying that is Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago. And when you think about why, in the African- American community at least, there’s a lot of pain around what happened here, I think it’s important to recognize that the African-American community is looking at this issue through a set of experiences and a history that -- that doesn’t go away. There are very few African-American men in this country who haven’t had the experience of being followed when they were shopping in a department store. That includes me. And there are very few African-American men who haven’t had the experience of walking across the street and hearing the locks click on the doors of cars. That happens to me, at least before I was a senator. There are very few African-Americans who haven’t had the experience of getting on an elevator and a woman clutching her purse nervously and holding her breath until she had a chance to get off. That happens often.”

It is statements like this being made in the context of this case, that make low information voters, whether black or white, assume that racism had something to do with this case. It didn’t. Obama went on to make it obvious that his administration wants this to be a crisis and has no intention of letting the crisis go to waste. This is an opportunity to promote gun control legislation and try to repeal stand your ground laws. This is an opportunity to further divide Americans in ways that can benefit Democrats at the polls. This is an opportunity to talk about something other than the health care fiasco or the scandals that are swirling throughout this administration. Obama could have used this as an opportunity to teach black youth not to act like Trayvon. Don’t dress like a thug, smoke pot, get suspended from school, behave suspiciously and arrogantly. That type of message might save lives. Instead, Trayvon is being compared to civil rights heroes and black youth are being told that he did nothing wrong. What was supposed to be our first post-racial president, continues with the racialism, race baiting, and divisiveness, that has been one of the hallmarks of his administration. Obama should be ashamed.