"lot of black people are racist too"

[DrLeftover]

CHARLES BARKLEY: Well, I agreed with the verdict. I feel sorry that young kid got killed. But they didn't have enough evidence to charge him. Something clearly went wrong that night. Clearly something went wrong. I feel bad for anybody who loses a kid, but if you looked at the case and you don't make it -- there was some racial profiling, no question about it. But something happened that changed the dynamic of that night, and I know -- that's probably not a popular opinion among most people but just looking at the evidence I agreed with the verdict.

I just feel bad because I don't like when race gets out in the media because I don't think the media has a pure heart, as I call it. There are very few people have a pure heart when it comes to race. Racism is wrong in any, shape, form -- a lot of black people are racist too. I think sometimes when people talk about racism, they say only white people are racist. There are a lot of black people who are racist. I don't like when it gets out there in the media because I don't think the media has clean hands.

With Video:
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2013/07/18/charles_barkley_on_zimmerman_trial_i_agree_with_the_verdict.html


I can't wait to see what names 'The Community' call Sir Charles for saying this.

 

[DrLeftover]

July 19, 2013.

Obama also suggested that the outcome of the case could have been different if Martin were white. "If a white male teen would have been involved in this scenario," he said, "both the outcome and the aftermath might have been different."

http://nbcpolitics.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/07/19/19563211-obama-trayvon-martin-could-have-been-me-35-years-ago

 

[DrLeftover]

Sunday, July 21, 2013

President Obama’s personal remarks Friday on his reaction to the George Zimmerman verdict have been praised by many, including the parents of Trayvon Martin, but black talk-show host Tavis Smiley says it’s too little too late.

The PBS commentator, appearing Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” was sharply critical of the president’s “weak as pre-sweetened Kool-Aid” response to a Florida jury’s decision clearing Mr. Zimmerman in the 2012 shooting death of the 17-year-old Trayvon.

“I appreciate and applaud the fact that the president did finally show up,” Mr. Smiley said. “But … he did not walk to the podium for an impromptu address to the nation. He was pushed to that podium. A week of protests outside the White House, pressure building on him inside the White House, pushed him to that podium.”

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/jul/21/tavis-smiley-obamas-race-speech-weak-kool-aid/

 

[DrLeftover]

CORNEL WEST: Yeah I wish and pray that it were forthcoming, but I don't think it's forthcoming either though brother. I think they just its just smoke and mirrors at this point and it's going to be on to the next issue as soon as they think this thing settles down. Now the good thing is it won't settle down and I think it's going to create some kind of division within our black political class because it's just too humiliating it's too embarrassing, you see it with Brother Sharpton; Sharpton probably deep down wants to be critical of the President, but he can't because he's still on the Obama plantation. Ah so he can't say a mumbling word no matter how radical he wants to act and act as it were and deep down in his soul I think he really does feel a fire, but he cannot allow that fire in any way to spill over toward the White House. Why? Because he's still too tied he's too uncritical he's too deferential he's too subservient as it were and as long as that's in place we're going to find ourselves unable to tell the fundamental truth.

video
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2013/07/22/cornel_west_al_sharpton_is_still_on_the_obama_plantation.html

 

[DrLeftover]

Sunday, Jul 28, 2013

Metropolitan police are investigating Saturday morning assault and robbery as a hate bias incident.

Police said a man, 28, from Bethesda, Md., was attacked in the 1700 block of Euclid Street, Northwest, in Adams Morgan. The victim said he was approached by three black males who kicked and punched him to the ground.

According the victim, one of the attackers yelled, “This is for Trayvon,” during the assault. The victim suffered lacerations to the face from the attack.

Police said the suspects took the man’s wallet and iPhone. The police report lists the incident as robbery force violence, hate bias incident.

http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/Police-Assault-Robbery-Investigated-as-Hate-Bias-217299901.html

 

[DrLeftover]

Friday August 2, 2013

In an interview with the Daily Beast published Friday, Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-NY) suggested Tea Partiers are the "same group" who fought for segregation during the Civil Rights movement.

“It is the same group we faced in the South with those white crackers and the dogs and the police. They didn’t care about how they looked," Rangel said.

http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/charlie-rangel-tea-party-is-same-group-of

 

[Fatal Dawn]

Race, like religion, is an extremely volatile topic. Yet there is a difference between addressing the issue of race and being racist/inflammatory. That said, I would not even compare some of the comments in this thread with the comments made by the President.

 

[DrLeftover]

Race, like religion, is an extremely volatile topic. Yet there is a difference between addressing the issue of race and being racist/inflammatory. That said, I would not even compare some of the comments in this thread with the comments made by the President.

And, if you will so notice, these are my first words in this post, everything else was said or written by certified "black leaders" or media personalities, like Mr. Smiley, who was the one that mentioned Mister Obama.

And people like that have always been 'given a pass' on saying anything racist. Which was what Mr. Barkley pointed out in his own unique way.

 

[Fatal Dawn]

Certified black leaders? Cornel West and Tavis Smiley? Let me guess, next you will say Al Sharpton is the black governor.

No offence but Barkley makes transparent criticisms on media personalities for perceived racial bias yet he himself has always been an over-opinionated, controversial media personality who has no authority to speak on anything outside basketball.

 

[DrLeftover]

Certified black leaders? Cornel West and Tavis Smiley? Let me guess, next you will say Al Sharpton is the black governor.

Again, those weren't solely my words:

The Crisis of Black Leadership: As Old Hands Like Al Sharpton Show Their Age, Who Will Take Up the Reins?

The question seemed simple enough: Who is considered a leader in the black community? Immediately, President Barack Obama and his amazing wife Michelle came to mind, followed by a slew of other notable African American figures (Cornel West, Oprah Winfrey, the regulars). However, when I was asked who is a millennial black leader – specifically someone outside of the entertainment world –– I was stumped.

http://www.policymic.com/articles/13515/the-crisis-of-black-leadership-as-old-hands-like-al-sharpton-show-their-age-who-will-take-up-the-reins

 

[DrLeftover]

08/21/2013

On the heels of news that three Oklahoma teens allegedly shot and killed an Australian jogger for sport, former Florida Republican Rep. Allen West lashed out at President Obama and the “race industry crew.”

“‘We were bored & decided to kill somebody.’ 3 black teens shoot white jogger.Who will POTUS identify w/this time?” West tweeted Tuesday afternoon with a link to a New York Post article on the matter.

“hall we hear anything from the race industry crew, Hollywood elites, or maybe Oprah Winfrey? The issue is not about proliferation of guns in America. This is about a failing black community and the fact that its young men are desensitized to violence because a gangsta culture promotes it,” West wrote on Facebook, reiterating his Twitter question. “So who will President Obama identify with in this case?”

http://dailycaller.com/2013/08/21/allen-west-on-bored-teen-murderers-who-will-president-obama-identify-with-in-this-case/