"Too often we judge other groups by their worst examples, while judging
ourselves by our best intentions." – George W. Bush speaking at the July 12
police officer memorial in Dallas.
The answer to where you go next after you've hit rock-bottom depends on
whether rock-bottom was your goal in the first place.
Either way, we've arrived. Look around. Turn on the news, if you've
allowed your last meal time enough to digest. We're here … at the bottom … and
it's not pretty. That is, unless tearing America to shreds by creating
irreparable division is your intention.
Racial division will be President Obama's legacy. But it didn't have to
be this way, given the dark-skinned Oval Office occupant who gave the impression
that his effervescent presence alone would be enough to improve race
relations.
But, you've got to at least give it the old college try — to do what's
best for America, not use your position to sow discord and stir up trouble and
division like Obama did while speaking at the slain police officer memorial
service in Dallas July 12.
"None of us is entirely innocent and this includes police departments,"
said the Great Divider, in the presence of family members, colleagues, and
friends of officers slain by an assassin who said he "wanted to kill white
people, especially white officers."
Sickening.
His speech had the potential to be his best ever — until he went
full-politics during a time meant for mourning, making a laughably false claim
that it is easier for a teenager to get a Glock than a computer or
book.
Why the gun lecture?
Obama's rush to judgment time and again concerning these incidents
suggests he filters the world through a prism that refracts a reality based on
biased perspective, not facts.
From Boston in 2009 to Dallas today, he repeatedly castigates police
prior to gathering full information about circumstances. From Poland, before
facts were gathered regarding the Minnesota and Louisiana officer-related
shootings, Obama rushed to judgment — saying the shootings were "symptomatic of
the broader challenges within our criminal justice system, the racial
disparities that appear across the system year after year ..." Had he paused,
he'd have discovered at least one of the officers was not
white.
And the disunity pot was again stirred, violence erupted not long after —
with the assassination of white police officers in Dallas. Officers were also
shot in Georgia, Missouri and Tennessee.
People concerned about racial disparity ought to read "The War on Cops"
book by Heather MacDonald. On a recent Rush Limbaugh show MacDonald
cited some interesting facts highlighting that more whites and Hispanics are
killed by cops than blacks. In fact, somewhere around 12 percent to four percent
respectively. She also said blacks are dying at a rate "six times higher than
whites and Hispanics combined … because they commit homicide at eight times the
rate higher than whites and Hispanics combined."
But no one wants to talk about that or what's happening in Obama's
hometown, Chicago. The Chicago Tribune reported on July
11 that around 2,100 people were shot in Obama's no-guns-allowed metropolis. "A
total of 43 people were shot during an 11-hour stretch Friday night into
Saturday morning" running up the grand total of 344 homicides this
year.
Doesn't it make sense that police officers would find themselves
confronting suspects and using force on occasion — in certain minority
neighborhoods where people are killing each other?
Fox News Channel's "Kelly File" hosted a diverse panel July 11 to discuss
racism, police and potential solutions which quickly morphed into a Jerry
Springer-like show when things got heated and people made outrageous statements
like the police should be abolished.
At that moment, it became quite clear to me that the best place to go
after hitting rock-bottom is to our knees. The division in America cannot be
fixed by anything less than Divine intervention. We are witnessing what happens
when a nation turns away from God and attempts to fix things on its
own
©2015 Susan Stamper Brown. Susan resides in Alaska and writes about
culture, politics and current events. Her columns are syndicated by
CagleCartoons.com. Contact her by Facebook or at
writestamper@gmail.com.
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