Obama Tries To Focus Public On Racist Cops

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Obama Tries To Focus Public On Racist Cops

Posted By Neil Munro On 11:09 PM 11/30/2014 In | No Comments


President Barack Obama’s first move in December will be to focus the nation’s attention on complaints about racist cops in African-American communities.

The move may be part of an effort to grab the political initiative after the Democrats’ massive losses in the Nov. 4 election, and also to keep the public’s attention away from his unpopular Nov. 21 announcement that he will provide 4 million illegal immigrants with work permits and taxpayer-funded aid programs.

Progressives, Democrats and media outlets stepped up their complaints about law enforcement in African-American neighborhoods after a grand jury decided Nov. 24 to not charge police officer Darren Wilson with any crime following his shooting of a black man in August in Ferguson, Mo.

The shooting — and the grand jury’s decision — prompted riots and was cited frequently by Democratic activists during the 2014 midterm campaign.

To grab the public’s attention for December, the White House announced Nov. 30 that Obama has a Dec. 1 morning meeting with cabinet members to talk about federal programs that supply equipment to local police forces.

He’ll also meet with “national civil rights leaders” in the Oval Office, and then meet with a large group of police, elected officials and “community and faith leaders” in a nearby auditorium.

 
They will “discuss how communities and law enforcement can work together to build trust to strengthen neighborhoods across the country,” according to a White House statement.

He’s also sending Attorney General Eric Holder to give a speech in an African-American church in Atlanta.

The new focus on allegedly racist cops comes after Obama announced he would alter immigration enforcement that would allow millions of illegal immigrants, many of whom compete for low-wage jobs against blue-collar African-Americans, to stay in the United States. He will also grant work-permits to 4 million and boost the inflow of guest-workers into the country.

Each year, the country accepts 1 million immigrants and 650,000 guest-workers for jobs outside agriculture. Four million Americans turn 18 each year.

Currently, only 55.2 percent of African-American adults have jobs, down from 57.9 percent in July 2008. In contrast, 60.2 percent of white adults have jobs, down from 63.5 in July 2008.

The percentage of African-Americans with jobs is expected to drop down to 59.8 percent in 2022, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

A September poll by the GOP caucus in the Senate showed that only 19 percent of African-Americans strongly supported Obama’s immigration policies. The same poll showed that 33 percent of African-Americans would be “much more likely” to support a GOP Senate candidate who says that “immigration policy needs to serve the interests of the nation as a whole, not a few billionaire CEOs and immigration activists lobbying for open borders.”

Under pressure from base voters, GOP legislators will meet Tuesday, Dec. 2 to decide if they will defund Obama’s amnesty.

Obama outlined his new focus on racist cops Nov. 25.

“In many communities of color [people] have a sense that our laws are not always being enforced uniformly or fairly,” Obama told supporters in Chicago.

“That may not be true everywhere, and it’s certainly not true for the vast majority of law enforcement officials, but that’s an impression that folks have and it’s not just made up,” said the nation’s chief law enforcement official.

“It’s rooted in realities that have existed in this country for a long time,” said Obama, who began his political career as a “community organizer” in Chicago.

In his speech, Obama said he’s asking Holder to manage the new focus.

“I’ve instructed Attorney General Eric Holder not just to investigate what happened in Ferguson, but also identify specific steps we can take together to set up a series of regional meetings focused on building trust in our communities,” he said.

Obama also sketched out possible White House regulations, including a possible new effort to ensure that only a small proportion of white police officials are hired in African-American districts.

“We know that when we have a police force that is representative of the communities it’s serving that makes a difference,” the president stated.

“There are specific things we can do, and the key now is for us to lift up the best practices and work, city by city, state by state, county by county, all across this country, because the problem is not just a Ferguson problem, it is an American problem,” he said.

“We’ve got to make sure that we are actually bringing about change.”

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[Fishrrman]

[[ President Barack Obama’s first move in December will be to focus the nation’s attention on complaints about racist cops in African-American communities. ]]

The more I hear about Obama and his toadies yellin' "racis'!", the more I'm coming to believe that so-called "racial" behavior of whites (and Asians) regarding blacks is in most cases just common sense...

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[[ “It’s rooted in realities that have existed in this country for a long time,” said Obama, who began his political career as a “community organizer” in Chicago. ]]

The "reality" -is- "racial" -- as exemplified by the concept of "racial realism", an awareness that many whites have had for a long time, and which I sense even more whites (from those who up until recently would have twisted themselves into knots if someone had called them "racis'") are moving towards.

To the Euro-American, it's "racial realism".
To the black, it's "racism".
Increasingly, this is the same thing, but viewed from different sides of "the racial prism". Reality flows into the prism, which splits it into varying "tones" which are viewed from the Euro-American facet as "white truth" and from the black facet as "black truth".

I doubt we are ever going to see anything resembling "racial harmony" in America. If anything, race relations in the last few decades seem to be on a downhill slide, as "black America" devolves back towards behavior that is little-removed from that of the jungle.

"Equality" -- at least the concept of same as penned by Jefferson in the Declaration -- may have been a noble concept, but it has limited application when applied to the real world. We are seeing the limits of such notions today.

It's nearly as misguided a statement as the words spoken by Red Ted Kennedy at Robert Kennedy's funeral some 44 years ago: "Some men see things as they are, and say 'why'? I dream things that never were, and say, 'why not?'"

Remember, Jefferson was one of the first...... democrats.

The events in Ferguson and elsewhere of late serve as a reminder to us when weighed against the notions of Jefferson and Kennedy:

Reality is what it is. It is not what we believe it to be...

[rangerrebew]

I'd rather he focus on racist politicians - such has Holder or himself.

[andy58-in-nh]

Obama does nothing with more obvious relish than to rub salt into America's open wounds.
 
And whenever we seem to most desperately need a national healer, he can be counted on instead to inflame and aggravate. 
 
Obama is the poison in our national well, the virus in our body politic.
 
Until he is gone, our nation's health will be compromised.

[GourmetDan]

This is why you need to have black cops policing black neighborhoods.

The ultimate affirmative-action hires...

[aligncare]

Speaking of wells .... Obama poisoned the well of goodwill for politicians of color. I'm ashamed to say it, but it will probably be a long time before white Americans ever vote again for another black president. Obama was never going to be the post-racial president. If anything, race relations have worsened since he assumed office.