The one thing that everyone knows
about Martin and Zimmerman is the thing that
matters least. Race. Based on George
Zimmerman’s history, which included
defending a black homeless man who had been
a victim of police brutality, Trayvon
Martin’s race would not have been a factor
in his calculations. But the media was not
interested in any of those things. The
liberal narrative consists of a box labeled
‘white racism’ that its activists have to
fill from time to time. George Zimmerman was
put into that box, not because of who he was
or what motivated him, but because it was
time to put someone in that box.

The
race-baiting left had to tell its
familiar story and they weren’t going to let
anything get in the way of telling that
story. They have to tell and retell that
story because it establishes their moral
authority to run our society and our lives.

The story is
black and white with no room for ambiguities
or gray areas. It’s about race as martyrdom.
It’s about white guilt. The story is already
written and the left is always looking to
stick someone’s name in the empty space
between “White racist” and “Minority
victim.” The head of Stalin’s secret police
once said, “Show me the man and I’ll find
you the crime.” The American left
reverses that equation. They already know
the crime. All they need is the man.

…It wasn’t
George Zimmerman’s freedom that they wanted
to take away. It was our freedom….

Zimmerman wasn’t being indicted as one man,
but as a representative of a group.
It didn’t matter that his appearance, his
background and his motives did not fit the
profile. He was indicted as a white racist.
And by indicting him, the media was actually
indicting the ordinary American for being
part of a racist system that murders black
youth.…

Trayvon
Martin became every black teenager
everywhere. George Zimmerman became every
white man everywhere. The simplified
portraits of both men transcended their
identities and defined them solely by the
media’s construct of their races….

The left
isn’t just out to indict George Zimmerman.
It’s out to indict all of us. It isn’t just
out to lock up George Zimmerman….

The
first goal of the Zimmerman case was to
deepen racial divisions.
That mission was undeniably
accomplished…. The Trayvon Martin
shooting was used to fuel outrage and
boost voter turnout in the black community.

Liberal
race-baiting isn’t about race in the same
way that rape isn’t about sex. It’s about
power.

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