Sunday, October 26, 2014

Government Officials Have A Hard Time Calling Terrorism...

...for what it is when it happens but there is something else with which they have even more difficulty when it comes to calling it what it actually is and that is racism. No, of course I do not mean they have a hard time calling something racism if there is a white person accused of it, that is easy as pie for them to spout. They have a hard time calling it racism though if it is a person of color, especially a black person, who has committed an evident crime in which they were racially motivated against whites.

Take for example the recent case of the NYC police officers who were attacked by a hatchet wielding man in Jamaica, Queens this past week. The police commissioner has, without hesitation, called it terrorism and it probably was indeed terrorism yet it was evidently additionally motivated by racism (at least as to selection of the victims). Yet, for some reason that I cannot fathom (other than politics and racial arse kissing - would they do that) Commissioner Bratton and Mayor de Blasio have both failed to call it racism when the facts beg otherwise. You see, the father of the hatchet man reportedly has told the police that his son was racially motivated in that he wanted to kill white people for the injustices he believed they had committed against blacks (source). It does not get any plainer than that but authorities in New York are seemingly steadfastly refusing to label this as a crime involving or motivated by racism. What a crock of stinking hypocrisy.

All the best,
Glenn B

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