Michelle Malkin » A teachable moment: Racial thuggery in St. Louis; Updated

A teachable moment: Racial thuggery in St. Louis; Updated

By Michelle Malkin • September 15, 2009 12:02 PM

This is absolutely horrifying for any parent to watch. STLToday.com reports that police say the black-on-white student beating was completely unprovoked and racially motivated. Watch as many students cheer the attack — and the bus driver is nowhere to be seen:

Gateway Pundit Jim Hoft wonders where Al Sharpton is.

I wonder where President Obama will be. He turned his friend Henry Louis Gates’s anti-police temper tantrum into a “teachable moment.” What about this truly appalling incident?

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Speaking of the Obama administration and tolerance for racial thuggery, here’s the latest on the investigation into AG Eric Holder/DOJ’s meddling in the New Black Panther Party Election Day intimidation case via Hans von Spakovsky:

The Washington Times is reporting that the Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) at the Department of Justice has opened an investigation into the dismissal of the voter-intimidation case against the New Black Panther party. Republican congressmen Lamar Smith and Frank Wolf, who have been doggedly pursuing the Civil Rights Division trying to get answers as to why this case (which had already been won by default) was dismissed, have expressed their relief that Justice is finally beginning to take this issue seriously (or at least is pretending to do so in order to shut down any objective investigations by Congress and the U.S. Civil Rights Commission).

Given the nature of the personnel who populate OPR, there is good reason to doubt that a real investigation will occur. Many of the career lawyers at OPR are as liberal and partisan as the lawyers who work in the Civil Rights Division. The report they issued in conjunction with the inspector general on supposed “political” hiring in the division was chock full of bias, inaccuracies, gross exaggerations, and deliberate misrepresentations of both facts and the law. Not only was the OPR attorney assigned to that investigation a liberal former Civil Rights Division lawyer, but the (now former) head of OPR who orchestrated this agitprop, Marshall Jarrett, was rewarded by Eric Holder when he became attorney general: Jarrett was made head of the Executive Office for United States Attorneys, a plum post that usually goes to a political appointee.

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Update: The police are backing off the racial motive claims. Given the explosive consequences of candor about such matters, this is not surprising.

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#101

On September 16th, 2009 at 10:24 am, theroc5156 said:

I bet you that Jimmy Carter wouldn’t think that this attack was racist.
#102

On September 16th, 2009 at 11:22 am, Shambhala said:

On September 16th, 2009 at 9:11 am, Ron said:
Repeat after me: racism is a white-only activity.
You can’t possibly be a racist if you’re black, brown or yellow.

Oh, what a crock of self-serving, whiny bullcrap. The only ones saying anything remotely similar are the far-left Black Panther-like groups.

You and other idiots who put stream-of-consciousness nonsense on sites like this prove Jimmy Carter may not be as dense as he seems at first.
#103

On September 16th, 2009 at 12:06 pm, gunslingerpatriot said:

Shambhala,
I have a suggestion for you and the other trolls: If Joe Wilson’s “You’re a liar” comment is racist, then provide evidence of Wilson’s racist bigotry.

I have looked at Wilson’s background, Googled him and can’t find anything that an open minded person would consider racist. Standing up for the history and traditions of the South isn’t racist, its not allowing a group of carpet baggers to rewrite their history.

There were many reasons for the Civil War, and slavery wasn’t the main issue. It was States Rights, a federal governemnt getting too big and the conflicts between the Agricultural South and the Industrial based North.
(The funny thing is that my college prof in Maryland even knew that)

Constantly yelling racism when none exists and not being challenged on it only exacerbates it. Sadly, most of MM bloggers can provide lots of evidence of Jimmy Carter’s anti-semitism (a form of religious racism) against Jews.

The unfortunate sad fact in American society is the increased racial bigotry coming into the open from liberal black America and not white or Asian.

GSP
#104

On September 16th, 2009 at 2:47 pm, FirstSkirt said:

hear, hear! gunslingerpatriot - well said!
#105

On September 17th, 2009 at 8:38 am, jangar said:

I wonder where President Obama will be. He turned his friend Henry Louis Gates’s anti-police temper tantrum into a “teachable moment.”

The only thing being taught these days is that it is the white person’s turn to be persecuted for the next 230+ years for the sins we committed towards blacks in the historical past. We’re now supposed to shut up, cower in the corner, accept the circumstances as prescribed by current policies and practices coming from not only the Oval Office, but also most every corner of the liberal wing of our society.

With Obama being the first African-American president, it was surely only to escalate and become magnified for all to see. The fruit of our labors over the past 50 years to irradicate racism and bigotry towards our fellow Americans, brothers and sisters, has been wiped clean in one election. I thank God that there remains a number of brothers and sisters of color that do not see thru the same racially tinted glasses.

MLK was 100% correct: it is a content of character issue only.
#106

On September 21st, 2009 at 2:28 pm, Bogtrotter said:

Had it occurred in Tucson AZ, school authorities could have used its new dicipline policy to expell the white student in the name of “social justice”. LoL (See the other story)
#107

On September 24th, 2009 at 4:08 pm, thetoysurgeon said:

Seems like all that we have done for Blacks was for naught. All along they have dispised and hated white people for their own self inflicted downfalls. I am not buying into victimization. Its just a cop out. Well if its a race war they want we can surely accomodate them. Seems like that’s what they are itching for.