Let’s be clear up front! Bernie Sanders was not responsible for the actions of the shooter who opened fire at law makers on the Capitol this yesterday. He did the right thing by voicing a strong condemnation of the shooter. The shooter alone bears responsibility for his actions. What happened yesterday was a major catastrophe, and the nation should be concerned by such events taking place in our country regardless of the political inclinations of the perpetrator, however, to ignore the political leanings of the assailant would be the same as pretending that there is not a big elephant standing in the middle of the kitchen floor. What we saw unfold yesterday may just be the first step in taking the rabid hatred for the President and conservatives in general to the next level. Make no mistake about what we are witnessing in the country,  the violence that has been on the upscale since the election of Donald Trump is linked to the absolute loathing of the President that has been encouraged in the press, and goaded by the Democratic Party. No one should be surprised by this, it is a natural consequence of the Democratic Party preaching a message of hate against anyone who disagrees with their agenda to take the country down the proven failing socialist path. Once again, it must be said that people are responsible for their own actions, and the man who committed the unspeakable act is alone responsible for his action attacking Senators and Congressmen for being Republicans. We cannot ignore though that this is one more episode in a string of many that demonstrates the depravity of the Democratic Party, and the left in general.

For as far back as we can go, the left has embraced the culture of violence. From the murdering of Presidents, to the lionizing of mass murderers like Che Guevara, and celebrities being chums with the dictator Hugo Chavez, and most recently at the Puerto Rican day parade in New York, honoring a convicted terrorist who was responsible for over a hundred bombings in the United States, and in the process killed five people. We saw it during the Baltimore riots when the Mayor declared that they must give rioters “space to destroy.” We saw it when his majesty Barrack Obama targeted the police, playing in to the narrative that the police are actively engaged in the violent targeting of black men. Even after one incident where five police officers were killed by a murderous anti-white thug who bought into the “the police are out to get us story line,”  the President of the United States showed up at the funeral service of these men and continued with his rhetoric, railing against the police. The whole Black Lives Matter movement was built on a lie that the police shot a black man who pleaded “hands up don’t shoot.” The fact that the man was a thug who attacked the police does not matter even to this day. Today Bill Ayers is an honored professor at one of the nation’s well known institutions of higher learning, though he has never apologized for his actions in the past, and he openly states that he cannot say whether he will ever take up violence as a means of resistance again. This is the American left and the Democrat Party. This has been their modus operandi for a very long time. Because the media shares their agenda, their actions have been excused and ignored over the decades, while doing everything in their power to tarnish those who do not share their vision.

When it comes to violence, the left talks a good game, they say all the right things, and they project their propensity for violence on their opponents to distract from their own violent behavior. We saw this tendency of theirs to paint their opponents with a brush that is more representative of who they are during the last elections. While it is true that Donald Trump did encourage people to get physical with agitators who showed up at  some of his rallies, and there were some minor incidents, he was roundly condemned for it by members of his own party, the media and politicians of every stripe and decent people in general. It was wrong for him to do it, but it ended quickly. On the other hand violence against Trump supporters increased, and it was near impossible to walk the street in a Make America Great Again hat without being physically attacked for it. As the violence increased, the media ignored it, and continued to blame Trump supporters even when it became clear that the violence was perpetrated against the Trump supporters. The media and the Democratic party refused to denounce the violence for the duration of the campaign with the same kind of gusto that they reserved for the few incidents that had occurred at some Trump rallies earlier in the campaign. They became vanguards of the narrative that Democrat supporters were the victims of political violence by the right, even though it was plain for anyone looking on to see that the violence was by and large coming from Democratic supporters.

For eight years the media demonized the Tea Party who conducted themselves with honor in their opposition to Barrack Obama (they even cleaned up after their rallies), but the media and Democrats harangued them nonstop nevertheless for the duration of those eight years, accusing them of all manner of evil, glowing with delight on the rare occasions when something untoward really did happen, so they could say I told you so. These same people who have set themselves up as the guardians of virtue have been silent in light of the unrelenting barrage of hate directed at Donald Trump since his election. They have cheered it on, hoping to see the downfall of the Trump Presidency. To this day none of the major players in the Democratic Party has unequivocally, and vociferously denounced the despicable behavior that has been on display by their supporters for the last few months, and it must be said again that the media has been complicit throughout the entire affair. Recently in Portland a man who harassed a Moslem woman on a bus, took the life of a man who confronted him for harassing the woman, and he wounded two other men who also confronted him stabbing them both. The media quickly jumped to blame Trump supporters. They found out that the Man was a Bernie Sanders supporter, and the story died a quick death without any further hoopla.

We have seen a spate of hoax “hate crimes” committed by people on the left since the election of Donald Trump, all in an attempt to cast a dark cloud of disgrace on them. The most high profile cases of these “hate crimes” that have been featured in the news have proven to be hoaxes, but that fact has never been addressed by the media nor the Democratic Party. In one instance, one left wing reporter alone was responsible for a number of threats to Jewish centers across the country. In another case a young Jewish man and his father was arrested for over one hundred and twenty threats to Jewish centers and synagogues. When President Trump suggested that some of the anti-Semitic “hate crimes” could be hoaxes, the Huffington Post claimed he was being the parrot of “white nationalists and far-right conspiracy theorists.” Anti-Semitism by the left is nothing new, this is another where they excel, but they also successfully manage to project that on their opponents. They have gotten away with all of these things for a very long time, and are held to a completely different standard than those on the right, and it is why they continue to feel emboldened to behave the way they do.

Ladies and gentlemen, Republicans, conservatives, those on the right in general are not innocent of wrong doing. They also have their malevolence. The big difference is that on the right, they do not embrace their mischief makers. They come out strongly and condemn violence, and inappropriate behavior. Their villains generally become outcasts. There is no mainstreaming of the behavior that we see by prominent people on the left. Go onto any website and one will find trolls of every stripe. In the Democratic Party however; many of the people who engage in unbridled hatred and vitriol are people who have a large platform in the Democratic Party. Though the right is not perfect, and the idea is not to cast them in that light; the simple truth is that the unadulterated hatred, the nastiness, the sheer vitriol, and the propensity to violence is overwhelmingly on the left. It does not even come close to what we see on the right. In the end, the scripture says that “the heart of man is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?” To see change in our country we need a remedy for the heart. Though we all need to be introspective and strive to be better people by the grace of God; we have to be honest though about where many of the problems are coming from, purely in terms of behavior.

Supporters of the Democratic Party must ask themselves, if their ideas are so superior, why does the party always have to resort to name calling, character assassination, and the demonization of decent people in order to further their cause. Why do they not stand on the strength of their message and rely on its merit? The answer is simple. It is because when held under the light of intense scrutiny, their ideas are found wanting in spite of their good intentions. If they can successfully cast their opponents as ogres whose intent is to do others harm, violence and other despicable behavior becomes justified. No one is saying that everyone on the left or in the Democratic party are bad people, but the Democratic Party is definitely the place where violence, vitriol and hysteria has a welcome home.

James Comey is a man with an axe to grind. He is one in a long line of people who do not like the President of the United States. His goal in his testimony today was to make the President look badly. It is very likely that he did accomplish that, but that in itself is no major accomplishment because many people have already succeeded in that area, and if we are to be honest; the President has on occasion managed to make himself look badly also. Mr. Comey however has not done enough to sway the Presidents followers away from him, and in fact; Comey’s actions may have served to steel the resolve of the President’s supporters. They are happy to embrace the mixed bag that is Donald Trump because while there are many things to personally despise about him, the people who voted for him, and closely follow the issues are pleased that Mr. Trump is the rare politician who at least tries to keep his word. They are happy about Judge Gorsuch being selected to serve on the Supreme Court. They see Trump taking a knife to, and slashing stifling regulations on business. They are happy about the President opening up the Keystone pipeline, the Dakota Pipeline, and withdrawing the United States from the Paris Climate agreement. When Barrack Obama was running for President the first time, he actually threatened to bankrupt the coal industry, and he followed through on his promise by imposing regulations that were so onerous, he successfully broke the back of the coal industry. President Trump promised to be “a friend of the coal industry,” and so far has kept his word in that regard and he has withdrawn funding from countries that use the money to support abortion. There are other reasons that the people look to Trump and see a man who is at least willing to put an effort in following through on his campaign promises, and that gives them hope that he will do more of what he promised.

For Mr. Comey or anyone else to have the desired effect on Trump voters, he will have to do much better that he did at his Senate appearance today. No doubt many of Mr. Trump’s detractors are pleased with Mr. Comey’s showing before the Senate committee today, but they’ll have to contain their glee because what Mr. Comey delivered was a very large triple decker (to use the words of Hillary) nothing burger. Prior to Comey’s appearance the Democrats and their allies in the media were doing somersaults in expectation of the bombshell that would finally lead to the impeachment, and fall of the Trump Presidency, instead they got nothing. We did however learn more about Mr. Comey. The man who exalts himself as the paragon of virtue and integrity informed us that he was behind leaks that were given to the New York Times a few weeks ago about his meeting with the President. Mr. Comey justified his action by stating that he wanted to prompt the appointment of a special counsel.  How noble of the gentleman. That action by Mr. Comey would be applauded by Trump’s opponents, but it should give everyone pause. With the extensive leaks that have been coming out of the White House, what else has Mr. Comey been willing to expose in his effort to get at the President? As one person pointed out, it is interesting that Mr. Comey never let the word get out that Mr. Trump was not under investigation, despite President Trump saying over and over again that Comey told him that he was not. Today we found out that Trump was right, but the bastion of uprightness, James Comey, did not see it as necessary to also reveal that. What a man of honor!

In addition to President Trump not being under investigation, the case for obstruction of justice that leftists, the Democratic party and their media sycophants were hoping to make disappeared with a poof. Of course nothing phases Rachel Maddow. She will now doubt be encouraged by everything that went on today, and continue to make her case. She is an expert at finding evidence where no one else can or does. Back in the real world the case fell apart. Mr. Comey did express that though Mr. Trump did not expressly try to get him to drop the case against Michael Flynn, he Comey took it that way. So there you go. That’s obstruction of justice for you. Something else that Mr. Comey said was that he felt he lost his job because of the Russia Collusion investigation. There is another gem for you. He “felt” that is the reason he was fired. Another big revelation today was that former Attorney General Loretta Lynch interfered in the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s email. In case anyone forgets, Hillary Clinton is the lady Comey stated had broken several laws, but because she never intended to do so “no reasonable prosecutor would would bring a case against her,” but that is a whole other story.

By the time Mr. Comey had finished testifying he had nothing concrete to offer in the investigation looking into the alleged Russia collusion. He did express how he felt, and what he “took” out of his meeting with the President. There was a lot of innuendo, but no substance, and the investigation into Russian collusion continues nevertheless. Once more it is really important to point out that the whole Russian investigation is based on nothing. There is no reason to believe that Donald Trump or anyone ever colluded with a foreign power to sabotage Hillary Clinton’s campaign. There is absolutely nothing that anyone has shown as reason to come to that conclusion, but here we are, six months into the Trump Presidency and the charade continues. It is amazing to watch, to see how this will all play out. One does not have to like Donald Trump or even agree with him, but his opponents need to seek help for the serious case of Trump Derangement syndrome that they all seem to have acquired. They really have to do better in making a case against him, because, as he has proven again today; he just may be the second coming of the Teflon Don.

Yesterday Kathy Griffin gave us a cogent lesson in, and a very clear picture of victimology 101. After pulling off one of the most offensive and outrageous stunts that the left has concocted to date, since the election of Donald Trump to the Presidency, she rushed to play the victim. This is their tried, tested and proven method of operation.  Think about it for a while! Barrack Obama was often cast as the victim of racism. It is said that he was hated by people who did not want to see a black man as President. Despite being on an eight year honeymoon with the press, late night comedians, Hollywood, academia and almost every major institution in America, he and his supporters played the victim at every turn. The say he was “the most disrespected President evvah.” He had a super majority in Congress for two years where he could have gotten anything done, he got a bigger portion of his agenda passed than any president in the last few decades. The Senate shut Republicans out of meetings and negotiations, they refused to bring over three hundred  Republican Bills to the Senate floor, they changed the rules to elect judges to the high court, and if anyone said anything slightly untoward about President Obama, that person was roundly criticized in the press and raked over the coals. Despite all of this, the most powerful man in the world basked in the role victim at every opportunity. It was never that people simply did not agree with his policies. They had to be racists.

Hillary Clinton is currently on her loser, cast the blame, I am victim tour. She blames everyone for her loss. The Russians are responsible, the New York Times coverage of her email scandal, she blames James Comey,  and Bernie Sanders. She even blamed the Democratic Party itself, casting aside the fact that they rigged the process, and cheated Bernie Sanders to get her elected. Among the chief Reasons for her loss, she blames sexism. It could not possible be her own fault or that people rejected her ideas

Lebron James the other night, despite having the police on the trail of a racist incident at his multimillion dollar mansion. Despite all of his privilege and access, despite his dominance in a league of mostly black multimillionaires, and numerous opportunities that continue to be open to him, seized the opportunity to present himself as a victim despite everything in his life that says differently. He too is victim.

We see this blame the other, poor me attitude prevalent among the left, and it is mind blowing that these people get away with it over and over again. Yesterday, it was Miss Griffin’s turn to play the victim. There is no need to discuss the act in itself that got her to that point, and all the reasons it was wrong. That has been discussed ad nausem. The horrificness of it screams out loud, and gives testimony of the abject hatred that she harbors for the President of the United States. After feigning the violent act, and apologizing a day earlier, she then went into full victim mode, while simultaneously casting herself as the brave defiant artist standing up to the bully President. That right there is the essence of leftism! The status of victim is important, and it is a major part of leftist strategy. After all if they are the persecuted, the downtrodden, the oppressed, then their actions become justified, and the implementation of policies that otherwise would not stand a chance of being enacted becomes justified.

After the appropriate response by many on the right and left, Miss Griffin called a news conference and went on to blame Trump and his family for the backlash that she was receiving for her actions. In her sick mind, it could not possibly be that people were sickened by her actions. The reason for the backlash had to be because, the Trumps, as she opined, are trying to ruin her. They want to destroy her career for mocking him since he’s been elected. She pretends to understand why people would be upset by her actions, but by the same token acts like the response to her actions are unwarranted.

What is happening to Kathy Griffin is a strange phenomenon for folks like her. This is territory to which they are unaccustomed tho treading. They are not supposed to be treated this way. They often behave in the vilest manner without any blow back. Kathy Griffin thought about making, and posting the video because she knew that those of her ilk are always held to a different standard. She thought she’d be portrayed as brave and “edgy.” Despite the response to her, observe that no journalist has asked any of the Democrats for whom she campaigns if they approve of her actions of if they denounce her. Those questions are reserved for politicians on the right when “journalists” are pulling out David Duke or some obscure racist they are attempting to attach to conservatives.

The actions and the ensuing smugness of Kathy Griffin is par for the course by the left. This is not a one off incident. We have seen this type of behavior over and over again by prominent people who support the Democrat Party. The response to this type of behavior is usually a big yawn. We need only look at the way that politicians, Hollywood and the other high profile people on the left have behaved in the last few months as proof positive that as long as a Republican/conservative is the target of ridicule, and vitriol; the hatred that we see on display is ok. Despite the response to Kathy Griffin, rest assured that she will be ok. A couple of rounds on the late night talk show circuit, and she’ll be back. She will probably raise her stature in the eyes of her admirers. To be honest the wish here is that Kathy Griffin, and her ilk would have the biggest platform possible where they can showcase exactly who they are. That way the people in turn get to see exactly who they are in return and respond appropriately.

People should really start questioning their allegiance to leftist ideology. If these ideas are so superior, why do proponents always have to rely on character assassination, insults, ridicule and vitriol as the main tools at their disposal to convince people? Why are they not secure in the strength of their ideas? It is because in the face of scrutiny, void of emotional paraphernalia, they are unable to trade in the market place of ideas.

Lebron James was recently the recipient of racial targeting at his home. Someone painted the word ni**er on his front gate, and the police are investigating the incident as a hate crime. There is no one who would receive this kind of treatment, and not be negatively affected by it, especially parents of young children. How does a parent explain these expressions of what may be unwarranted hate directed at ones family explain this to their children? It is not an easy thing to digest, but it is the reality of the world that we live in. It is an imperfect world, and bad things do happen, including racist acts. Lebron James was clearly affected by this act. In a subdued and heartfelt interview he expressed how difficult it was for him to be away from his family during this difficult time, and you got a sense that Mr. James is a really committed family man who wants to protect, and be there for his family to comfort them.

As difficult as these things are to absorb, it is important to keep the big picture in mind. Perspective is important, and it was disappointing to hear him talk about difficult it is to be a black man in America. Why does it always have to come to that? Unlike many people on the left who seem to rejoice so they could say I told you so whenever something like this happens, Lebron James appears to be genuinely disturbed by this incident, and it is difficult to believe that he is just riding the “oppressed black man” train. His view of America though has no doubt been colored by the negative brush that many who thrive in the race industry have used to paint a picture of the country.

How refreshing would it have been to hear LeBron James talk of how blessed he is to live in a country like this where he is allowed to thrive, be successful, that despite setbacks, obstacles, trials, and tribulations, America is a place where people by and large respect each other and do not behave this way. It would have been great to hear him say that the life he lives, the stature he has gained and enjoys in his profession, the respect he has garnered in his community, and the many opportunities that continue to be opened to him is more indicative of America than one racist incident directed against him and his family. It would have been pleasant to hear him say that his opinion of the country would not be swayed by the foolish actions of any one individual or group of people. Instead of pointing to the testimony of his life that speaks volumes, he pointed to the action of an individual(s) whose motive for committing the act, and whose identity we do not know as the example of what America is. It is immediately assumed that this act was committed by a white person who hates black people. Are white people the only ones who call black people the N word? Listen to one of LeBron’s friends: “It’s ignorance, that’s what it is.” “Unfortunately in 2017 people still think the way they do. I can’t say it’s surprising given what’s happened in this country the last eight months.” He went on to say “You can be a titan of industry, you can be a community leader, you can be the best at what you do, and they can cut you down to just, ‘You’re black.”

Let’s examine the latter statement first. Is someone painting the word ni**er all it takes to cut someone of Lebron James stature down size? If that is the case then I’m afraid that Mr. James has bigger deeper internal issues to worry about. Second, just as he said; “it is ignorance, he is a titan of industry, a community leader, and he is the best at what he does.” By painting such a fragile picture of Lebron, casting him as some type of victim who is immediately cut down to size by some idiot who painted the word ni**er on a gate, he is not doing his friend any favors. Are you kidding? The man is a rich, privileged, black man of influence who has access to people, places and things that most of us can only dream of. Please spear us the river. On the first statement, yes people still think that way in 2017. It is unreasonable to expect that in a country of almost four hundred million people of so many races, cultures and attitudes that we could somehow get rid of racism. It will never happen! And no one group in this country has a monopoly on racism. Last of all, when his friend talks about what has been happening in the country for the last eight months, have civil rights been rolled back? Are black people the victims of predominantly white violence? do they no longer have access to the courts? Have they lost the franchise? Can businesses no longer be sued for discrimination? are human resources departments no longer protecting the rights of black workers? do they not have access to loans if they show they have the means to pay? Have the whites only sign gone back up.  This is not to meant to minimize what happened or to Mr. James or anyone else who has experienced something similar. Perspective is important. What exactly has been happening the last eight months?

Black people in America who insist on playing this silly game, trying to cast yourself as the most oppressed people in the world, it is time to free yourselves of these chains that you have used to fetter yourselves. Emancipate yourselves from the prison of your own making. Stop seeing yourselves as victims supreme and walk as free men. Pay attention to this enlightening statement from Mr. James himself (though he did not intend for it to be enlightening in this way) when he said “It just goes to show that racism will always be a part of the world, a part of America. Hate in America, especially for African Americans, is with them every day. Even though it’s concealed most of the time, people hide their faces, say things about you. When they see you, they smile in your face. It’s alive every single day.” Observe that he said that it is concealed most of the time. In other words he has no proof, but he does not believe what he sees and experiences. So there is either one of two things going on here. Either Lebron James, and the others who think the way he does have the mind of God, and know what is in the hearts of men when it comes to racism despite what they actually experience everyday, or maybe there nothing that is being concealed, and what most black people experience every day in real terms is the true manifestation of the type of country we are. Maybe, just maybe,  the incidents like that happened to him are really the exception of the way people feel.

As Christianity rapidly spread and gained influence through much of the world, it became the major philosophical, religious and cultural ideology of its day, and that the world had ever known. Christianity, with much of its Judaeo traditions spread like wildfire, and completely changed the world, introducing people to a brand new way of life. Despite getting diluted, and corrupted with the passage of time, Christianity’s influence continued to remain strong. The true adherents of Christianity as thought by Jesus, the Apostles, and the early church have always been few, but the effect that it had on the way of life, and cultures around the world in general was immense.

There are some passages of scripture that are difficult, and are used as examples that show Christianity is oppressive and brutal. Many Christian people sometimes struggle to explain these difficulties. The truth however is that nowhere in the bible does it advocate the wanton killing of anyone by the faithful as the means of convincing the unbelieving. Though some people would vehemently dispute that, there are several issues of context, and deep doctrinal exegesis to consider in explaining these issues, but that discussion would be more appropriate for another forum. But all of this is beyond the point, and what can be unequivocally stated is that with the advent of Jesus Christ and the birth of Christianity, a brand new concept in the way people worshiped, and human relations was born. Nowhere in Jesus’ message did he ever advocate the kind of violence that we have ever seen committed in his name at any point in our history.

People point to the Crusades as examples of Christians waging war in the name of Christianity to spread the faith, but this is not correct. The Crusades were the result of a political alliance to drive back the forces of Islamic invaders, and conquerors who had waged a brutal campaign of war and plunder over hundreds of years against the people in lands across the Middle East, Northern Africa and parts of Europe. They displaced the inhabitants of the lands where they wished to spread their faith and their rule. They enslaved many in the process (especially Jews and Christians), murdered tens of millions, and treated any who refused to convert to Islam as second class citizens while brutally enforcing their rule. There was a religious dimension to the Crusades, but the Crusades were primarily a military response to turn back the Islamic marauders who were bent on conquering Europe as they continued to spread their ideology across the world. It was well over four hundred years of conquest and plunder by Islamic forces before the Crusades were marshalled as a response to combat them. The Crusades were not launched as a religious war to conquer Moslem lands and convert them to Christianity. People should remember that it is totally legitimate for nations to respond with force to powers that threaten their sovereignty. Though religious fervor was a strong motivation behind the response to Muslim invaders, it is not what inspired the Crusades four hundred years after the first incursion into other lands by the Moslem forces.

None of the atrocities that have taken place in the name of Christianity can be attributed to anything taught by Jesus or the early church, nevertheless Christianity has acknowledged that these atrocities were committed in its name, and the true followers of Christ have always confronted the demons that many have attached to their faith, and have always endeavored to live according to the precepts of the Christian Gospel. Though there are blotches in the history of Christianity, Christians always denounce the behavior of others who commit violence in their name, today and at any time in history. The true essence of the faith has changed the world for the better, like no other philosophy or worldview in all of human history, and advanced the cause of civilization (particularly in the western world) like never before. The value system at the core of Western civilization that has caused it to thrive and institute freedom as a way of life, and justice, is the direct result of the Judaeo-Christian influence on the world.

Unlike Christianity, Islam was given birth on the edge of a Sword, and its message was spread on the tip of a dagger. This statement is not meant to disparage the religion. It is simply meant to give historical context, and as a statement of accuracy. It is only because of the unprecedented rise of Western military powers, and economic might, that the conquering goals of Islamic fundamentalists were eventually quelled. As the Barbary Pirates terrorized the Mediterranean Seas for hundreds of years, demanded tribute from nations, and enslaved over a million people in the process. The new nation called the United States of America soon found itself in their cross hairs. American ships were captured routinely, and American sailors were often held for ransom. After attempting to resolve these issues diplomatically, Thomas Jefferson asked a representative from one of the Moslem nations the reason for their aggression to nations that mean them no harm. The representative replied that “all nations which had not acknowledged the Prophet (Mohammad) were sinners, whom it was the right and duty of the faithful to plunder and enslave.” This was the reason why for twelve hundred years they looted, plundered, enslaved, ravaged, waged war, terrorized the high seas, and demanded tribute in exchange for peace.

The short version of the story is that America decided that she would no longer give in to the threat, and the demands of the nations of thugs that became more emboldened with each attempt to appease them. Through the aggressive use of force and a resolute campaign to defeat the enemy, America was victorious. Today, there are no Islamic nations invading other lands and forcing people to convert or die. Many in the Islamic world are just like the rest of us. They want to live their life, and provide for their families without worrying about threats to their safety. They are not interested in conquest and the violence associated with it. They are decent people just conducting their business and going about their daily lives, but make no mistake; the Islam that was born in violence, sought to conquer the world and convert their enemies is alive and well today. It is what groups like ISIS subscribe to, it is what motivates the mullahs of Iran, groups like Al Qaeda, Boko Haram and other radical Islamic extremist groups and individuals. Pretending that it is not so will not remove the threat that is posed by these radical Islamists.

After the 911 Attacks Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza celebrated, handing out sweets to one another as they cheered the work of the 19 men who orchestrated the heinous attacks on America. The Palestinian Authority rewards the families of suicide bombers, Arab nations refuse to accept the right of Israel to exist, ethnic and religious minorities suffer at the hands of Islamic oppressors, and even moderate Muslims who do not subscribe to their version of Islam are not spared their brutality. In Saudi Arabia women live as second class citizens and do not enjoy many of the rights that men enjoy. Women are not allowed to drive, they cannot be out in public unless they are accompanied by a male relative, and if they are raped; it must be verified by at least four male witnesses for authorities to take action. The women often end up facing repercussions for being promiscuous instead of the men who violated them getting punished. Female genital mutilation is a common practice in many of these countries, and people live under a dark cloud of fear. The freedom that we enjoy in the United States, Western Countries and other democracies around the globe cannot even be imagined by the people who live in many of these Islamic countries. Many of them live lives that are a daily grind of hopelessness wrapped up in despair and fear. The value system in many of these countries is completely foreign to anything that we can imagine in the United States.

Though it may be true that many Muslims do not share the goals and vision of groups like Boko Haram, Isis, Islamic Jihad or Hamas, that does not mean that violence committed in the name of Islam is not real. There is a very real problem that must be addressed within Islam, and confronted by society or we will continue to suffer and see more and more incidents like the Manchester bombing that happened a few days ago. There needs to a powerful rebuke from within the Islamic world condemning the actions of those who commit the dreadful, evil acts that are being perpetrated against those the attackers believe deserve it because they are considered as infidels. The time for silence and appeasement is over. Muslin leaders who do not share the views of the extremists must preach it from their Mosques that violence committed in God’s name is unacceptable and demand that those who cling to the ancient barbaric traditions of the religion must stop.

There are two ways to make this problem go away. First it must be confronted in the same way that Thomas Jefferson did, with a strong resolution and action to defeat it militarily. Secondly, everyone must work to create a climate where the abhorrent behavior that is still endorsed by too many in the Muslim world becomes a repugnant, and inconceivable thought. People have to stop making excuses, and making statements aimed at appeasement after each attack by Radical Muslim extremists. After the attacks in Manchester, Katy Perry assured us that we just need to co-exist, get rid of barriers, borders and love on each other” for the problem to go away. After Muslim extremists attack little girls at concerts with nail bombs, the appropriate response is not to worry aloud about so-called “Islamophobia.” The appropriate response is to direct any anger at the ideology that promotes this primitive type of inhumanity. We are a tolerant society and most people can make the distinction between the radical elements of the religion and those Muslims who are equally appalled by such actions. The Fort Hood Terrorist, the San Bernadino Terrorists, the Orlando Gay night club shooter, the Paris attackers and the Manchester Bomber all gave signals that should have spurred authorities to action to prevent the carnage the perpetrators eventually wreaked. Many of these cases could have been stopped if people were not worried about appearing to be “Islamophobic.” After each terrorist attack, celebrities, politicians, academics and leftists in general go out of their way to denounce people who identify the problem as Islamic terrorism, and highlight it. They blame everyone  else for the acts committed by these losers, and express more outrage at the those who identify the problem than they do against the actual people who commit them.

The truth is that these people do not attack us because we are imperialists, because of poverty, lack of opportunity or any of the other reasons that have been floated as the cause of their animus toward us. The reason they attack us is simple. They are holding on to the primitive, rudimentary tenets of their religion. We need to develop a smart cogent strategy to combat this menace to civilized people everywhere. This threat cannot be appeased. It will not go away on its own. If we do not confront it head on, we will regret it beyond measure as we reap the consequences of neglecting to deal with what is a very clear and present danger.

To anyone who voted for Donald Trump, do not lose your resolve, in fact; let everything that you are seeing now serve as motivation to defeat the forces that have decided their main goal is to destroy his Presidency. This is not about hero worship. President Donald Trump is not God, in fact; he is far from perfect. He is a very fallible man. Despite his flaws though, he is proving that he has the fortitude to make the tough decisions that those who voted for him expected him to make, and he is doing it in the face of an onslaught, the likes of which we have not seen before. The media has suddenly come alive, after eight years of virtually being dead, and allowing the previous administration to say, do and get away with anything. They have once again discovered what it is to be hard hitting journalists. Essentially what the President is accused of is being a Russian mole. The accusation is that as candidate Trump, he actively worked with the Russian government to sabotage the Clinton campaign. Since Mrs. Clinton’s defeat this has been the narrative. Without any evidence, based strictly on innuendo; the narrative has caught afire and now the country is caught in the midst of the blaze. No one should be surprised by this because the left never ever gives up. Now more than ever, those who voted the President into power have to stand their ground and fight back.

Those who voted for Trump do not come from a culture of grievance. They do not live in a state of gripe. While they have been contented to live and let live, the left has over a long period of time mastered the art of stirring discontent. As they continued their relentless march over the years to remake the country into something that the framers of the constitution never imagined, conservatives have for the most part stayed on the sidelines. With the election of the radical Barrack Obama who promised to radically transform America, conservatives were forced into political action in a way that they never were before. The tea party was born in opposition to his radical agenda, and from that moment on, the mission to destroy the Tea Party was on, the battle for the soul of America entered a new phase.  As usual with the left, they had no intentions of waging the battle in the arena of ideas. Character assassination became a major element of their strategy. With a black man being elected to the highest office in the land, and the most powerful position in the world, they had the perfect foil to take out any one who opposed them. Anyone who opposed the black President’s agenda would be accused of not wanting to see a black man in office, they were called racists, wanting to take black people back to Jim Crow. The media forsook their role of holding those in power accountable and became flag bearers for the new administration. They became mindless sycophants cheering for an administration that could do no wrong in their eyes because they shared the administration’s agenda.

Fast forward eight years later, and the media has rediscovered what it is to be inquisitive. Once again, they are hard hitting journalists who speak truth to power, and hold politicians accountable. The truth is ladies and gentlemen that when these journalists talk about speaking truth to power, what they really mean is speaking truth to Republican power. The same press that is now running away with every conspiracy theory, and relentlessly pursuing all the rumors surrounding the President had no interest in pursuing the Benghazi scandal. They had no interest in the IRS scandal, and the fact that an arm of the government was targeting citizens because of their political persuasion. These people who are so fastidiously going after the President never displayed the same enthusiasm to get to the bottom of the fast and furious scandal. When Mr. Obama’s point man on his health care plan was heard calling the American people stupid, and said that they relied on that stupidity to pass health care, the media had no interest in going after the President in the same manner they are going after Mr. Trump now. They had no problem when Mr. Obama’s spokesman admitted lying to the American people about the Iranian Mullahs, in order to better sell the Iranian Nuclear Arms deal to the American people. The media was not interested in President Obama telling the outgoing Russian Prime Minister to let the incoming Prime Minister Vladimir Putin know that he would have more flexibility after the election. They are however interested in a Russian Collusion story that has absolutely no basis.

These people are shameless, in their latest efforts they have accused the President of divulging Secret information to the Russians. Fake news! Last week they were having a cow because a Russian photographer was in the white House. Now it is the James Comey memo, a memo that no one has seen, and that is supposed to lead to the President’s impeachment. References to Watergate abound because of the memo. They think they have the smoking gun they need, but what they are forgetting is that earlier this month James Comey said the following in response to Congresswoman Mazie Hirono (member house judiciary committee) asking if anyone had ever asked him to drop any investigation. He responded “not in my experience because it would be a big deal to tell the FBI to stop doing something without an appropriate purpose, often times they give us an opinion that we don’t see a case there, so you ought to stop investing resources in it, but I’m talking about something where we were told to stop an investigation for political reasons, that would be a very big deal. It has not happened in my experience.” So if you are following, he said in early May that he has never experienced anyone asking him to drop an investigation, but the memo that he supposedly has of Trump asking him to drop the investigation is from February. In addition, according to his own words, it is not unusual for the justice department to give an opinion that there is no case, and maybe they should stop investing resources. That means it is possible to suggest stopping an investigation for other reasons besides wanting to derail it. So was Comey telling truth on 3 May 2017 when he said no one has ever asked him to stop an investigation or are his surrogates telling the truth about the memo he supposedly did back in February? This is the same Mr. Comey who laid out a very long case showing how Hillary Clinton broke the law, then said that no reasonable prosecutor would bring a case against her because there was no intent to break the law.

It is important to keep in mind that this entire case is based entirely on innuendo, not any evidence that President Trump did anything untoward during the elections. Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein came out again yesterday, and said in response to a question from CNN reporter Wolf Blitzer that she has seen no evidence that the President and his campaign colluded with Russia, yet the investigation goes on. Trump Nemesis Maxine Waters admitted that they have no evidence of Russian collusion. A few days ago James Clapper, the former Director of National Intelligence, told a Senate Judiciary committee that he still has not seen any evidence of any kind of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian foreign nationals. So what is this all about ladies and gentlemen? It is quite simple, bringing down the Trump Presidency. That is all this is. These people have been talking about impeachment before Trump even took the oath of office. They are hoping that their scorched earth tactics will wear down the President and his supporters. Trump supporters cannot afford to give in to the left. This battle is for the soul of America, and we have seen with eight years of Barrack Obama what they are willing to do. At the end of the day, it is still about the Supreme Court, religious freedom, the second amendment, illegal immigration, the rule of law, preserving our institutions and maintaining our unique American culture. Don’t be cowed into silence or retreat Trump voters.

I hope you are interested in extending this conversation a bit. Like I tell always say, and will once again; it is hard to address these issues in sound bites. You got my attention when you told me that you face discrimination every day. I will never dare to tell another man what his experience is, but I do have questions about such a strong statement. When you say that you face racism every day, could you be more specific please? Tell me who is treating you with prejudice, what institutions are being racist against you. Is it on your job, do you not have a human resource department that is committed to diversity like most organizations in America? Are you being denied opportunities for advancement on your job? Has your HR department not been following the legal mandates of the civil rights act of 1964, and not enforcing the Equal Employment Opportunity provisions? Are people calling you the N word on the streets, are you being denied service at public institutions because of your color. Are you being harassed daily by the police for no reason? Are you being denied access to entitlement programs? Again, please give me specific examples of this discrimination against you. Where is it happening, who is committing these acts? Have you been denied a loan over and over again despite having excellent credit, and demonstrating that you have the means to pay it back? Have you been denied access to higher education, are there no loans, scholarships, or other programs available to you as a black man. Are people discriminating against you in housing? You see, you are not the first person I have heard say that you face discrimination every day. In order to fight discrimination we have to identify where it is coming from, who is doing it, and the manner it is being perpetrated in order to fight it. I am not talking about vague accusations, generalizations, or interpretations of racism, but detailed specifics. But here is my biggest question to you; how has this racism against you kept you from successfully living your life, how has it kept you back from achieving the goals that you set for yourself. What specifically have you had to fight and overcome because of racism in order to get what has been more easily accessible to people of a different color? Please explain. On the other issues, the question still stands. What drives your decision to vote for a candidate? What do you think the role of government is in people’s lives, what do you think the role of the Supreme court is, do you believe that the government should be using tax payer dollars to support the abortion industry, do you think that the first amendment is absolutely essential to a free society. Do you think that the way out of poverty is for the Government to take from the haves and give to the have nots?  What is your political philosophy, does your political philosophy determine how your vote, or do you go with the narratives that one party is out to hurt the poor, destroy black people, poison the water and throw old people over the cliff? Do you carefully examine each issue and then cast your vote. If you do then fine, you have the right to support the party or candidate of your choice. On the other issue, how is it possible to be so disturbed by Donald Trump’s character, and yet so vigorously support a woman whose life has been engulfed in scandal. Is it that you do not know about these scandals? Doesn’t the Russia uranium deal bother you, how about the bilking of the hundreds of millions donated to the people of Haiti through the Clinton foundation that never to this day has gotten to the people, the only beneficiaries being donors to the foundation? Does it not bother you to the same extent that numerous women have accused her of trying to harm, threaten and/or discredit them after accusing her husband of rape, sexual assault or harassment. I am not going to rehash all of the scandals surrounding her entire public life, but come on man. If after a careful, independent examination of her and Donald Trump’s career you are convinced that she is a better choice then so be it. What are the specific lies of Donald Trump that worry you so much? Do you realize that the Obama justice department conducted themselves so shamefully in one case that the judge ordered the lawyers to take ethics classes? How about the fact that one of the main architects of Obamacare was caught on a hot mike saying that they had to depend on the stupidity of the American people to pass Obamacare? Love your doctor keep your doctor, love your health plan, keep your health plan, remember that? How about another member of the administration saying with his own mouth, that while they were telling the American people they were reaching out to moderate Iranian Mullahs, there never was any moderates among the Iranian Mullahs, but they will rely on the ignorance of 27 year old ignorant journalists to sell the Iranian deal to the American people? How about the IRS targeting conservative groups, and denying them the status they needed based on their politics. Did Mr. Obama’s rhetoric not worry you because he said it in a smooth way with a velvet tongue? How about his insistence that the police are targeting black men, and then five policemen got killed, targeted execution style as an act of “revenge” for the so-called targeting of black men. Mr. Obama then showed up at these noble men’s funerals and continued his rhetoric at the service. Did fast and furious bother you? So far Donald Trump is honoring what the courts decide. Barrack Obama just did his thing in spite of the court’s decision in a few cases. So tell me what comparable has Donald Trump done so far? On the other issue, have you seen the way that the left has been unhinged since Trump’s election? I gave you examples earlier. With people like Maxine Waters, John Lewis, Chuck Schumer, Keith Ellison, Tom Perez and others leading the other side, do you seriously believe that they are not going to fall apart. Have you see their platform, have you listened to the things these people say, have you seen their behavior? I give examples all the time. Anyway, the truth is that I do not know how this thing will go because the American people have shown themselves to be resilient, and gluttons for abuse simultaneously. Only time will tell. I am not as confident as you are one way or the other. By the way, like I said before. I do not doubt that racism exists. I simply do not believe that it is the problem that so many black people and white liberals make it out to be.

President Donald Trump, magnificent troll that he is, fired James Comey, FBI director one day before entertaining the Russian Foreign Minister. How about that for Russian Collusion? The Democrats who were just one day earlier expressing their lack of confidence in Mr. Comey are now rushing to his defense and questioning the firing. Comey went from being a villainous incompetent leader who was responsible for the loss of their Presidential candidate, to being a martyr.  Whatever you may think about James Comey and the job that he did, do not be fooled into thinking for one minute that Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi are concerned about impropriety on the part of Mr. Trump and Mr. Comey’s firing. They are not. What they are doing is what they are very good at, they are staying on offense. They do not give up. These are not people who are capable of self-reflection, principle is not a premium to them. The cause above all is what matters. It is an admirable trait, but for everything that is wrong. This party has been decimated in elections at every level over the last eight years, but you will never know it by the way they behave. They press forward nevertheless.

If you want to see a Republican politician turn into a sponge all you have to do is call him a racist. It does not have to be for any particular reason. It does not have to be for something that he/she actually did. Just utter any word from the big six: racist, sexist, misogynist, homophobe, xenophobe, or islamophobe and you get them running for the hills. They will then spend all of their effort trying to prove that they are not any of those things, as they lose focus on the big picture, and begin compromising all of their principles. It is the reason no matter whether they win or lose the Democrats always seem to get their way. You have to respect the Democrats single mindedness whether you agree with them or not. But something happened in the last election, and the man who was the most unlikely candidate of them all came out of nowhere, surprised everyone, and won the race for President, and his honey badger mode is more fierce, and intense than anything the Republican Party or  the Democrats have ever seen. He fights back! He defends himself, he challenges the media, and he calls out his opponents. Liberals are accustomed to being the ones who can say or do anything without being held accountable, and they just do not know how to deal with this guy who is not intimidated by them, and does not care what the media thinks.

So again, do not be fooled for one moment. None of the people crying foul over the firing of James Comey are upset by his firing. This is just par for the course with them. This is the never say die attitude of the left, doing what they do best…stirring up discontent. Remember these are the people who are perpetually aggrieved. They have told the country that impeachment is their goal. It is no secret that their main focus for the next four years is bringing down the Trump Presidency. Now, it is legitimate to oppose the President. That is all part of politics. People have different visions for the country, and the party that is out of power always thinks that they are better suited for the job. They should oppose the President, they should challenge him. They should be putting their ideas out to the people in an effort to win them over. The big difference is that the Democrat Party is never willing to engage in the arena of ideas. Their modus operandi is to destroy people personally. That is just the way that they do things, and there is no shame in their game. That is why they could unanimously vote for Judge Gorsuch, electing him to the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in 2006, but when he got elected for the Supreme Court, unable to criticize his credentials, they attacked him personally and appealed to emotions, fear mongering and tried to portray him as a judicial bogeyman. It is the reason that Corey Booker had no reservations saying this about Jeff Sessions, referring to a piece of legislation they co-sponsored to award the congressional Gold Medal to those who participated in the 1965 Voting Rights March from Selma to Montgomery. He said “I feel blessed and honored to have partnered with Sen. Sessions in being the Senate sponsors of this important award.” Less than one year later he said, “The arc of the moral universe does not just naturally curve toward justice, we must bend it,” he continued “America needs an attorney general who is resolute and determined to bend the arc. Sen. Sessions’s record does not speak to that desire, intention or will.” Check out Harry Reid in this clip talking about illegal immigration. This was their stance on illegal immigration up until recently, until it was no longer politically expedient. These are the same people who for years spoke about taking action against Saddam Hossein for weapons of mass destruction, and defying U.N resolutions, then voted for the Iraqi war, and as soon as it was no longer popular began to desert the men and women they sent in harm’s way, then acted like they had nothing to do with the war as they attempted to sabotage the effort. This is the same Chuck Schumer who two years ago called for a refugee pause, then went on TV crying his eyes out when President Trump implemented a temporary pause to the refugee program.

So be careful ladies and gentlemen, the outcry over FBI Director Comey’s firing is another chess move for Mr. Schumer and his cohorts. It has nothing to do with their concern for the rule of law, justice or any of those noble causes. This is about keeping the pressure on President Trump. The reason for highlighting all of this other stuff is just to remind everyone who these people are. The Republican Party is not filled with saints, and they certainly have their issues, but when it comes to the politics of personal destruction, and the refusal to engage in the market place of ideas, the Democratic Party has that covered. They keep pushing forward no matter what.

Recently, in imperfect America; a few rowdy jerks at Boston’s Fenway Park yelled some racial slurs at a black ball player. Of course, the race pimps who are always looking for an opportunity to point a finger and say, see I told you so are rejoicing because they have another opportunity to show what a horrible, racist, country America is. These defenders of the down trodden rush in to the mud of racial demagoguery where they love to tread. Leftist sports casters are in tub-thumper heaven. CNN sports commentator Michael Smith self-righteously declared that the incident is not a one off type of experience. He proclaimed “if you’re an American City, you are a racist city.” Thanks Michael for the enlightenment. There are newspaper articles discussing what it means that in 2017 black people are still experiencing this type of abuse, and on and on they go. Someone has to stand up and ask the question. Are these people serious? While they impress many who buy into the whole America is racist narrative, they evoke a different set of emotions from those who are unto their game. These hucksters are perpetrators of a master con game. The reward for them is not always money, but they also get to feel good about themselves. You see many of them get to show that they are “woke” to the plight of the black man. They are honest, and courageous enough to “tell it like it is,” and the black people who buy into the nonsense get to wallow in their victimhood, as the “ugly truth” about this rotten God forsaken place rears its ugly head one more time.

To all of these charlatans who jump at every opportunity to promote this insidious agenda where they try to portray every black person as a victim, and every unfortunate incident as the norm, and themselves as the champions of the black man’s plight; those Americans who are on to your game are calling you out for the hypocrites that you are. If you are so interested in fighting racism, where were you a couple of weeks ago when a black man was running through the streets of Fresno California targeting, and killing people for no other reason than that the victims were white. You were silent a couple of years ago during the Baltimore riots when black people targeted white people for violence as a means of venting against “the system”. We did not hear you after the last elections when a white man was beaten and pulled from his car for voting for Donald Trump. Sure you said that violence is not ok, but we did not hear you protesting about the racial element of the crime with the same type of vigor that you highlight the racial element of these idiots at Fenway Park. How about when Professor Kamau Kambon of North Carolina University some years ago called for the extermination of white people, or when Drexel University Professor George Ciccarielo said over the Christmas that all he wanted for Christmas was white genocide? Many of these people are people of influence, the things that they say, and their behavior has the potential to do much more damage than some fools at a ball game. When Jesse Williams gave his hateful racist speech at the Grammy awards a year ago, you applauded him and wrote glowing articles about him. You had no interest in race relations then did you? Of course not, because all that hatred was directed at the wrong race. No political mileage to be gained there, so of course you were silent or downplayed the racial dimension of these incidents. When there was a black man in the Oval office, every criticism of him was deemed to be racist. You played the race card for eight years, day after day. Now that there is a white man in the Oval Office, none of you guardians against racism had a problem when a young black entertainer by the name of Bow Wow said to the President of the United States that “you’d better shut up before I pimp your wife.” That’s all fair game right?

No one is saying that it is not hurtful to deal with the kind of treatment that this athlete faced in Boston, but it is important to get a little perspective and move on. Anyone who denies that there is racism in America is a fool. Racism is a fact, it is impossible not to have it in a country of hundreds millions of people with so much diversity, but anyone who says that America is a racist country is a bigger fool. How has the actions of the clowns at the ball park affected the rich million dollar black player, or any other black person for that matter? What effect has it had personally on anyone’s life? Who cares what the racists at the Park or any other racist thinks? While the race industrial complex is capitalizing on this silly incident, and many black people are in a corner licking their wounds and feeling sorry for themselves, real tragedies are occurring all across the country. People are murdered, robbed, women are raped, lives destroyed because of identity theft, and a list of other ills happening. It is called life. Bad things happen, black people are not exempt. Suck it up and drive on. Regardless of what the race industry tries to push, regardless of how much they try to convince us, this is not the nineteen sixties.  The societal responses to incidents like what happened at Fenway Park are the true indicators of America as a country. The Governor, the Mayor, the Red Sox and all the people who weighed in to denounce the reprehensive behavior tells the story of America, not the idiots flinging racial epithets. It was interesting to listen to Michael Smith spit his diatribe on ESPN because he gave no examples to support his claims of how racist America is. He just made a bunch of general statements that says despite what we see with our own eyes, and experience in our own lives every day; he knows what’s in the people’s hearts, and they are all racist. In other words it’s all in his head. After years of constant race baiting, pitting people against each other, Americans must reject this foolishness. Call out racism, and all injustice wherever it shows up, but stop using these unfortunate incidents to stir discontent. Approach it from the position of wanting to make the country a better place, not as an opportunity feed grievance. Just stop it, it is tiresome!

Last week in Fresno California, a black man randomly targeted white men on the streets  to fulfill his hateful homicidal intent. After the shootings and the death of three innocent people, the media gave the story slight coverage, then quickly moved on to other things happening in the news. This was after all a black man targeting white people. Nothing to see here folks. Go on about your business. They did not think that the racial dimension of the story was worth exploring in the same way that they did when the white supremacist Dylan Roof targeted nine black people in a South Carolina church. There were no symbols of so called “black  culture” on which to blame the shooting, the same way that everyone rushed to blame the confederate flag as a symbol of white hate, and part of the reason that Roof committed his crime. Now it is very important to stress that when someone is murdered; it does not matter what the ethnic or racial makeup of the killer is. It is no comfort that someone was killed in a mugging as opposed to a racially motivated killing. There is no redeeming factor in either unfortunate circumstance. In both circumstances a heinous crime was committed! The long arm of the law should reach out to grab a hold of the perpetrators and bring them to justice in either scenario.

In a world where politics plays into every aspect of our daily lives, it becomes very important to highlight the way that the racial component of events almost always causes a different response to events. We live in a country where one political party has for decades appealed to race as a means to attain and hold on to political power. It is a simple yet brilliant strategy that has worked quite swimmingly for this political party, but with a new media landscape where people have access to more information; the nefarious workings of this political party must be exposed, and their tactics laid bare. This political party has done tremendous harm by playing the race card over and over again, to the point where a large community of citizens actually believe that there is a plot, and an effort to subjugate them. This is the reason why the race patrol was so excited beyond measure after the South Carolina shooting a few years ago by the evil Dylan Roof. In their minds, this was another piece of proof positive that white America hates the black man. The event in their mind showed once and for all, that America is a cesspool of hatred with white people steeped in it. Except ladies and gentlemen, it is not true. Despite the grand standing by politicians and the media, despite the opportunistic efforts to display Dylan Roof as a portrait of America, he quite simply is not. Dylan Roof is no more indicative of any segment of America than the Fresno shooter who targeted white people when he ran amok targeting white people is indicative of America.

To ignore the racial aspect of the crime in each case would be irresponsible, because as a society we have to be honest and confront the issues that face us, but the hysteria that followed one incident and the failure to highlight the glaring truth in the other is irresponsible, inexcusable  and just plain wrong. Why the double standard in the coverage of these two racially motivated crimes? Once again, the answer is simple. One of the incidents plays into the narrative of the race industrial complex, the other does not. The situation involving the black killer does not benefit the political party that always positions itself to gain from the exploitation of these unfortunate events. It is the exact reason also why one of the most damaging acts of arson was committed by a black man as an act of revenge against “the system” and got largely ignored by the media, and went unnoticed by most of the country. The untold damage caused by this crime turned out to be one of the biggest structural fires ever in the history of Los Angeles county, and the disruption to people’s lives would have mattered more if the perpetrator was a white man, and his hateful act was directed instead at black people. Instead it was a black man affiliated with the Black Lives Matter movement directing his hate at white people in general, and the police in particular, so it mattered little. We also did not see the type of outrage that is usually reserved for white on black hate crimes when four black teenagers tortured a young white disabled teenager in Chicago a few months ago. In that episode, one of the main concerns of the police was to stress that it was not a hate crime. The downplaying of the racial aspect of the so called knockout game is another area where we saw the double standard applied a few years ago.

In all of this, the desire here is not to portray white people as victims or black people as savages, but to show the dishonesty in the media, and to highlight how the politics of race is used as a powerful weapon in the arsenal of unscrupulous politicians and a propaganda tool by the media.  While constantly holding one group to an impossibly high standard, calling them racist for every unseemly act that they commit, they excuse and or deny all the misbehavior of people within the other group. This is how identity politics works. It is insidious, it is unjust, and it is wicked. People would do well to be aware of it, how it works, and who it is that continues to push it as part of a well thought out strategy.