The look on Anderson Cooper\u2019s face was taut, anguished, stricken \u2013 as though he had just learned that his boyfriend had had an affair with his mother.\u00a0 Actually, it was worse than that.\u00a0 The prosecution in the Trayvon Martin case had just finished another bad day.\u00a0 This spurious tale of white racism, actually involving a Hispanic shooter, was unraveling like a cheap sweater.\u00a0 Nevertheless the liberal media doggedly followed the trial to its predictable conclusion. \u00a0MSNBC\u2019s website has 375 mentions of Trayvon Martin.<\/p>\n
By contrast, Antiq Hennis gets only six MSNBC mentions.\u00a0 Antiq who?\u00a0 He is the sixteen-month old toddler who was gunned down in his stroller while being pushed across a Brooklyn Street.\u00a0 The intended victim was his father Anthony, a 21-year-old with a long rap sheet and alleged gang associations. Anthony refuses to help the cops nail his son\u2019s killer; street etiquette demands silence at NYPD interviews.<\/p>\n
Both incidents were tragedies (as is the shooting of a three-year-old on a Chicago playground last night).\u00a0 But to racial aristocrats like Anderson Cooper and the MSNBC crowd, Antiq\u2019s murder merits little notice because it is black on black violence, like 93% of black homicides in America. You can\u2019t spin that into a paternalistic tale of white racism and black victimhood.\u00a0 Racial aristocrats have little interest in addressing the social pathologies implicated in the killing of Antiq Hennis. They would rather strike a pose than solve a problem. They are on a narcissistic quest for progressive authenticity and moral superiority.\u00a0 Fifty years of failed liberal social policies in the inner city do not phase them; it\u2019s the thought that counts, not the results.\u00a0 That\u2019s why they favor failing public schools over charter schools that empower inner city parents.<\/p>\n
Trayvon and the \u201cKatrina Effect\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n Conservatives are starting to handle the racial aristocrats more effectively.\u00a0 Back in the fall of 2005, when Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, a city with an incompetent black Democratic mayor, located in a state with a clueless white Democratic governor, ALL<\/b> the blame for the Katrina debacle was heaped on President George W. Bush.\u00a0 He deserved some of the blame, not all of it.\u00a0 But Republicans stood silent while liberals managed to spin Katrina into a case of white racist neglect, while incompetent Democratic officials were let off the hook.<\/p>\n It was different in the Trayvon Martin case.\u00a0 Conservatives demanded to know why this muddled case of self defense gone awry deserved to become a cause c\u00e9l\u00e8bre while the liberal media ignored the far more important problem of black on black violence.\u00a0 Good question.<\/p>\n Confront Liberalism\u2019s Failures<\/strong><\/p>\n Conservatives should confront racial aristocrats, black and white, and hold them accountable for their egregious failures.\u00a0 Consider the Sunday talk shows, where smug liberals regularly sneer at supposedly racist conservatives.\u00a0 More than once on Meet the Press<\/b> David Gregory has reminded viewers that Colin Powell \u00a0perceives a \u201cdark vein of intolerance\u201d in the Republican Party.\u00a0 Well, if David Gregory, Colin Powell, George Stephanopolous, Cokie Roberts,\u00a0 Donna Brazile, Candy Crowley, and Bob Schieffer are so \u201ctolerant\u201d and enlightened, why does Washington DC\u2014despite all the Federal dollars pouring into its economy\u2014have terrible schools and the eighth highest murder rate in the nation?\u00a0 Baltimore, at the northern end of the Federal Wealth Belt (it is just a one hour drive from DC), has the second highest murder rate, after Detroit.\u00a0 With \u201ctolerance\u201d like that, who needs racism?<\/p>\n Republicans should constantly remind Americans how Obamanomics and liberalism have failed the inner cities, virtually all of which are controlled by Democrats.\u00a0 The black unemployment rate is now 13.7%; at a similar point in G.W. Bush\u2019s second term it was only 9.0%.\u00a0 Median black household income was 9% lower in 2012 than 2004. The percentage of blacks below the poverty line was 27.1% in 2012 versus 24.7% in 2004.\u00a0 Black conservatives such as Senator Tim Scott, former Congressman Allen West, Dr. Benjamin Carson, and Congressional candidate Mia Love are particularly persuasive in making the case against racial aristocrats.\u00a0 They deserve strong support.<\/p>\n Copyright 2013 Thomas Doerflinger.\u00a0 All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The look on Anderson Cooper\u2019s face was taut, anguished, stricken \u2013 as though he had just learned that his boyfriend had had an affair with his mother.\u00a0 Actually, it was worse than that.\u00a0 The prosecution in the Trayvon Martin case … Continue reading