Posted by
JDComments on Thursday, November 30, 2006 2:15:58 PM
The recent shooting in NYC of a black man has evoked the usual outcries, but none have been more strident and threatening than that of Charles Barron, who is profiled in an
article on Discoverthenetworks.org. A former Black Panther and a black nationalist, among the highlights of his career is the removal of George Washington's picture from a government office because "he was a slave owner", and he has called Jefferson a "slaveowning pedophile". You should read the piece to get a good feel for some of the extremists who have turned the Democratic party into what it is today - bizarre!
In regard to this particular incident, Barron is out in full force decrying the killing of a black man [who rode his car into a police officer who was trying to get him to stop according to reports I have seen] and threatening that his black constituents have had enough and implying violence was imminent. In the past he has disparaged the white power structure and announced their time has basically passed. Being an ex-New Yorker, I have heard it all before, though I admit this guy seems a little over the top.
However, what I find interesting is that the officers doing the shootings were two blacks and one hispanic, not exactly what I would call the "white power structure". But maybe in Barron's eyes, once you become a cop you become white, similar to the arguments I have seen made that Black Republicans are not really black. Who says Liberals close their eyes to reality?
I have to note that I was watching O'Reilly talk to Al Sharpton about this issue, and even old Al was smart enough to downplay the racial angle and instead emphasize "police brutality' regardless of the color of the officers. After reading about Barron, Sharpton almost looks moderate. Maybe that's the plan, sort of like the recent articles I have seen saying that Pelosi is a moderate compared to some of her constituents. I guess Dems can never be taken at face value, but only in comparison to even more radical leftists. Perhaps Howard Dean secretly came up with the strategy "It could always be worse!".
What I think makes this whole affair interesting is the very fact that Barron is cynically fanning the flames of racism where there is no indication that bigotry was a factor, and that is shameful. But more importantly, it is also indicative of the strategy of many black leaders who fear the demise of racism and the concomitant victim mentality it causes , because they know that once they lose that bogeyman, they will finally have to lead in a substantive way , instead of just yelling "racism" and encouraging mob justice. As Juan Williams, John McWhorter, Thomas Sowell, Shelby Steele and many others have acknowledged, the time of victimhood is over, and now the Black community needs real leaders at their forefront to help them truly engage American Society and benefit from all it offers. However, people like Barron show that the present, so-called leaders are not going to go quietly into the night. Until they do, their poor followers are fated to second class status as they are led by third class demagogues.