Hey, Put a Sock In It

Last year, an incident around Boston involving a black man who was arrested for breaking into his own house quickly picked up national press coverage and our president blurted out that the white policeman who made the arrest acted stupidly, before knowledge of the details.

A couple of weeks ago, an angry mob tore though the city of Oakland, Calif., smashing windows and looting businesses in their path. The Obama administration’s Justice Department immediately launched an investigation ... into a recent racially charged jury trial there whose verdict apparently upset the rioters to a point where they felt compelled to steal other people’s property.

After two decades of waiting in vain for the federal government to enforce our immigration laws and protect its citizens, the state of Arizona recently passed legislation authorizing its own law enforcement agencies to do the job. Although the Arizona law merely mimicked the current federal law, our president labeled it as racist, admittedly before even reading the document.

This month, it was revealed that a group calling itself the New Black Panthers (as opposed to the organization of murdering thugs known simply as the Black Panthers) was indicted after the 2008 elections for voter intimidation because some of their members stood outside of voting places while holding clubs and threatening would-be voters with taunts about what would happen to white people after Obama is elected. Even though the episode was caught on film and was a slam dunk prosecution, the Obama Justice Department dismissed the charges and purportedly instructed the staff not to prosecute any racial intimidation charges involving black citizens.

A Tea Party billboard in Iowa was unveiled recently portraying Adolf Hitler, Comrade Lenin and Obama as socialists ... and was immediately pronounced as racist. In fact, the whole Tea Party movement has been declared as a racist organization although any evidence supporting that claim has failed to materialize, even with a $100,000 reward being offered to produce film of such activity.

Finally, as I write this, word is coming in about a black USDA administrator who was fired for making racist remarks in public when, in fact, she was making a speech promoting racial reconciliation. So impetuous was the Obama administration that they made the woman pull her car to the side of the road and send in her resignation over the phone.

Of course, I didn’t support Obama in the last election. But I suspect that my feelings after his election were similar to others on the losing side in that I took consolation in believing that at least we could start to put aside our racial accusations in this country and be done with the particularly disgusting spectacle of men professing to represent the Prince of Peace while they spew hate and envy like pus from a festering sore. But it seems to be getting worse.

I suppose one could arguably claim that many of our current problems are not completely of Obama’s making, but not this one. Either Obama has been crying “wolf” to distract the public from his poor job performance results, or he really is pathetically insecure in his own skin. If it’s the former, then it is what it is. But if it’s some inferiority complex banging around between those ears of his, then maybe he should start dealing with the thickness of his skin rather than the color.