On Wednesday and Thursday of last week,
GlobalGrind went out of its way to advance The Lyin’ King’s vision of racial
harmony. Both pieces received over 30,000 Facebook “likes.” Both opinion pieces
established a premise, as fact, that white people can never understand the
black condition. Both pieces went out of their way to reinforce that what was
on display during Rachel Jeantel’s testimony in the George Zimmerman/Trayvon
Martin trial, was not actually what was seen and heard. What makes this worth
noting is that this is deliberate balkanization of a segment of America. It
seeks to replace justice with self-serving cant……If any segment of Americans
chooses to create a subculture, slang-uage and behaviors that intentionally
segregates them from other Americans their choice does not forgive them their
responsibility as Americans. There is still only one law in this nation;
everyone must abide by it. Attempts to fashion oneself indecipherable by the
rest of society, because of a perverted desire to preserve victimhood in
perpetuity, is a despicable ambition. It is cowardly and, above all, wrong.
Any segment of the black community that clings to prejudice
as a security blanket only reduces its own options. That ploy, straining an
ever-more-tentative stranglehold on America’s evaporating guilt, is losing its
power. As it should after a 200 year run. ….. To Read More...
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