Ten years after the shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, former President Barack Obama has no excuse for the litany of lies he either told the Washington Post or that he endorsed by his participation in its perverse video rememberance.
Post writer Charles Blow set the stage by saying, with some unfortunate accuracy, “The contemporary civil rights movement unfolded directly in response to the murder of Trayvon Martin.”
Yes, this was a new phase, the Jacobin phase, the phase in which the mob discards traditions like “innocent until proven guilty” and “equal justice under the law” and dictates judicial outcomes by force of its will.
Speaking of Martin’s death, Obama expressed his outrage at “the idea that this teenager who was walking down the street could be considered so threatening that a private citizen could initiate a confrontation resulting in that teenager’s death.”
Well, Trayvon wasn’t walking down the street. He was lurking in the shadows on a rainy night in a housing development plagued with break-ins and home invasions by young men who also “looked like” Obama.
Obama knows the score. In a 2008 Father’s Day speech, he excoriated missing black fathers for having “abandoned their responsibilities, acting like boys instead of men.” He then listed the consequences of black fatherlessness:
This post originally appeared on WND News Center.