They Could Have Been Barack Hussein Obama’s Sons

When race is in the news, the President is quick to personalize it, if personalizing makes him sound like a racial hero.  You remember that in 2009 he said that white police officer Sgt. Joseph Crowley acted “stupidly” when he confronted Obama’s black buddy, Henry Louis Gates Jr. who appeared to be breaking into a home in Cambridge, Massachusetts.   Obama’s comments included thinly disguised racial code talk, implying equivalence between the Crowley-Gates incident and the much ballyhooed anti-police “driving while black” myth that we hear ad nauseam.  And, in 2012, Barack claimed "If I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon,” referring to Trayvon Martin the alleged victim of George Zimmerman who the press called a “white Hispanic” to imply a racial hate crime.

Six months after Trayvon, in August 2012, we learn of a vicious assault against a 51 year old minority woman.  Although America has come to expect Barack Obama, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and other raceketeers to perform their customary evangelizing against the racial wrong, we have heard nothing from any of them.

On August 7, 2012, Elizabeth Hur of Eyewitness News described the anti-minority assaault:

Authorities say a family friend found the victim in the backyard, on her knees, crying and begging for her life to be spared.

When police arrived, they found her room ransacked, cabinets emptied and the victim, an Asian female with mental disabilities, beaten and robbed.

“They hit her in the face with a rock, they used rope and also sticks and a potted plant,” Lt. John O’Hanlon explained.

Police say the three suspects, described by the victim as black juveniles, ran away with the victim’s purse. Police were eventually able to identify the suspects as 7, 10 and 12-year-old boys.

Since the perpetrators were black, rather than white, this certainly could not be a racial hate crime.  Could it?

In fact, black-on-Asian attacks are a regular feature of life in the inner city.  On May 2, 2010, C.W. Nevius  http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/nevius/article/Dirty-secret-of-black-on-Asian-violence-is-out-3265760.php#ixzz23ZHY2LFS  of SF (San Francisco) Gate wrote, Dirty secret of black-on-Asian violence is out:

San Francisco's hidden truth is out. That's what community organizer Carol Mo calls the realization that Asian residents are being targeted for robberies, burglaries and intimidation by young black men.

"It is San Francisco's dirty little secret," said Mo, a former Safety Network Community organizer in the Sunset District. "It's not news to us."

Hundreds of people marched into Tuesday's Board of Supervisors meeting to express their fear, frustration and outrage. But so far the response has been disappointing, particularly from the San Francisco Police Department. It seems intent on downplaying the role of race and its impact in the community.

The recent incidents of black violence against Asians is the perfect opportunity to open a dialogue about racism. Instead, they are attempting to close the door.

City officials, including the Police Department, say these assaults are part of a larger crime picture where gangs of kids take advantage of a vulnerable group of small stature. But Mo participated in a 2008 survey by the Police Department in which about 300 strong-arm robberies were analyzed. "In 85 percent of the physical assault crimes, the victims were Asian and the perpetrators were African American," she said.

We see here Nevius complaining about the pro-black racial double speak ubiquitous in America.  Unflattering, objective facts about black youth, in this case black-on-Asian violence, are hushed-up.  Persons who try to sound the alarm are ignored, or their complaints are minimized.  When the evidence is overwhelming, the authorities water-down the issue by framing it as part of a “larger crime picture” rather than as black racism, pure and simple.

The sad truth is that black males are being reared in a subculture that turns a blind eye to outer-directed racial violence.  Moreover, while the Barack Obamas, Jesse Jacksons, and Al Sharptons of American rise up in righteous indignation whenever anyone in anyway suggests that blacks could be racists, they endlessly moan and groan about the horror, the “national tragedy,” of black-on-black crime.

Barack Obama needs to mount a country-wide campaign to ensure that his look-like sons receive proper, continuous fathering against violence. Paraphrasing Martin Luther King, Jr., I suggest that his sons must be explicitly taught that victims should not be chosen based on the color of their skin.  I bet Asian Americans agree.