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Political Correctness Killed Trayvon Martin
Tue, 04/03/2012 - 1:50pm | posted by Louis DeBroux
We’ve been bombarded recently by the story of Trayvon Martin, a 17-year old black boy shot as he walked home from the store. The facts remain uncertain at this point, so I’ll not comment specifically. On the other hand, it’s been said that death and taxes are the only sure things in life, but I think we can make a compelling case for a third; namely, that race-baiting media prostitutes like the “Reverends” Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton will trip over themselves rushing to the scene of a camera…oops, I mean, crime…at least where a black victim is involved. These men and others like them make a living peddling influence on racial issues, whipping up angry crowds at rallies and marches, calling for boycotts and civil disobedience in the name of “justice”. Even Trayvon’s mother got in on the lucrative act, copyrighting her dead son’s name.
In the Martin case, we can add the likes of Barack “If I had a son he would look like Trayvon” Obama (is there ANY subject that man can’t make about him?) and black filmmaker and social agitator Spike Lee. Lee, in his anger at George Zimmerman, Trayvon’s shooter, “tweeted” Zimmerman’s home address, with the clear intent of having a mob go to Zimmerman’s home to mete out the “justice” the legal system had so far failed to provide. Except it wasn’t Zimmerman’s address, but the address of an elderly couple whose lives he now put at risk. Lee apologized only for the clerical error, but not for circumventing the justice system and trying to organize a lynch mob. It was echoes of Al Sharpton and the mythical Tawanna Brawley rape all over again. Facts have no meaning, only racial outrage.
Reason: Racism, gun violence on decline
Wed, 04/25/2012 - 2:11pm | posted by Jason Pye
As a result of the Trayvon Martin shooting, the topic of racism has, unfortunately, been given new life in American politics and culture. As the shooting became a prominent fixture in the news, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and even President Barack Obama jumped into the fray by making statements that pinned the incident as racially motivated. Others have used it to attack the Second Amendment and gun owners.
But in a video at Reason, Kennedy, a former MTV personality, is setting the record straight, noting that race relations are better, according to poll data, and incidents involving gun violence are actually on the decline:
Why You Should Support Reason: Al Sharpton Edition
Mon, 11/16/2009 - 6:04pm | posted by Jason Pye
More Liberty is Needed in the Media
Sun, 04/05/2009 - 2:13pm | posted by Michael O. Powell
Where is a person of a classically liberal inclination to go in today’s political media jungle?
The last four years have been somewhat of a storm for people like us. The unpopularity of George W. Bush tainted conservatism for at best a couple years and at worst a generation. Ron Paul only got a fraction of the Republican primary vote in 2008, not enough to bite into the doomed-to-fail John McCain. William F. Buckley died, as did Milton Friedman.
Glenn Beck, a pseudo-libertarian-inclined talk radio and cable news personality who showed promise by giving airtime to libertarian activists and having constructive dialogues with disagreeable people like Rev. Al Sharpton, has gone completely bat-sh!+ crazy in exchange for good ratings.
