In a previous (recent) case, the private parties hollering resulted in the POTUS weighing-in on the topic.
That's a remarkably strong private party, non?
That's a remarkably strong private party, non?
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I sympathise with Obama, I really do. He can either use the "bully pulpit" of the Presidency to address race issues in America, or he can pretend there are no such issues. If he does the former, the Republicans go crazy(er). If he does the latter, the Demcrats' heads explode.
So Obama, being a natural-born seeker of the middle ground, seeks a middle ground. And both wings hate him.
This may be a good thing. Eisenhower called it "equality of dissatisfaction," meaning if everybody's pissed at you, whatever you did was probably right.
I don't disagree with your points, although I will suggest that Obama's actions in the Martin case in terms of stating that 'if I had a son, he'd be just like Trayvon' was a disastrous move
Disastrous? I'd go so far as to say that'll make the top ten 'Stupidest Things A President Said' list. In no way, shape or form should any elected official ever comment upon a court case prior to the case even seeing the inside of a courtroom. At the very, very least he should be more judicious than to choose sides, even by implication due to what he said.
Oh, you mean like social-entropy, where things can only go the lowest common denominator?
How about "socially just" meaning blacks get nicer treatment?
The New Amerika is a socio/economic/legal/political system like all other prior systems that have appeared throughout history in the sense that there are winners and losers in the absence of very rapid economic expansion. Rapid economic expansion buys social peace.
In the absence of rapid economic growth the elevation of one group must perforce come at the expense of another group if all other things are equal as it were. The New Amerika will elevate blacks and others who have been oppressed. It will do so at the expense of the white working class. They are the only source of wealth necessary to satisfy the beneficiaries of the New Amerika.
Multiculturalism has made Amerika tribal. Social justice doesn't work in tribal societies.
And let's not forget this one...
Saying the Cambridge Massachusetts cop "acted stupidly" for arresting the racist Harvard professor.
A few weeks later Obama and Gates had to taste probably the most bitter beer they ever tasted...
I bet Officer Crowley's beer tasted soooo sweeeet!