Obama silent on black attacks for Trayvon

John R. Lott:

Racism should make people pretty angry. But for that very reason charges of racism should only be leveled carefully.

George Zimmerman wasn’t motivated by race in confronting Trayvon Martin. Zimmerman, a Hispanic, was himself one-eighth black. The prosecution in his case produced no statements by Zimmerman showing any racial bias.

Alas, most people didn’t have time to follow the trial’s day-to-day testimony, and obviously didn’t know that. They got summaries presented by the mainstream media. NBC selectively edited a 9-1-1 call to make Zimmerman sound racist. President Obama pronounced the killing as racially motivated, first personalizing the case by comparing Trayvon to a hypothetical son of his, then his younger self, and then suggesting Trayvon was followed because of his race. Naturally, Jesse Jacksonclaimed the case meant “blacks are under attack.” Martin’s parents surely believed the tragedy was about race.

Now, race appears central in the recent murder of Australian Christopher Lane in Oklahoma, but the discussion seems to be about almost everything else, especially gun control.

Just days before the attack on Lane, one of his killers, James Edwards, tweetedhow he “knocked out 5 woods since [the] Zimmerman court [decision]”; “woods” apparently is a pejorative term for whites. Another tweet read: “90 percent of white ppl are nasty. # HATE THEM.” Two others: “With my niggas when it’s time to start taken life’s” and “At the end of the day it’s all about the kill.”

Unfortunately, many attacks on innocent people have taken place in revenge for Trayvon’s death. Some include:

Gainesville, Fla.: A white man was beaten by a group of black men yelling “Trayvon.”
Oak Park, Ill.: Two blacks repeatedly punched a young white man; one of the two attackers told police he beat the victim because he was upset with the Trayvon case.
Toledo, Ohio: A 78-year-old man was severely beaten by a group of black youths while they shouted “this is for Trayvon.”
Washington, D.C.: Three black men robbed and beat a white man, stealing his wallet and iPhone. One of the black men said, “This is for Trayvon Martin” as they approached the victim.
Mobile, Ala.: A white man was attacked by 20 black adults who hit him with chairs, pipes, brass knuckles, and paint cans. As the group left, two witnesses reported one assailant said, “Now that’s justice for Trayvon.”
Baltimore, Md.: A group of black youths beat a Hispanic man while saying, “This is for Trayvon.”
Chester County, Pa.: Firefighters responded to an arson started at a white-owned business with the words “Kill Zimmerman” painted in red on the front wall.

Similar revenge attacks have reportedly occurred in Memphis, Tenn.; Norfolk, Va.; and Sanford, Fla.
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Blacks in many cases reacted emotionally to the Zimmerman verdict.  They seem ignorant of the evidence in the case or selective at best.  The trail demonstrated that if Trayvon had not attacked Zimmerman, it is unlikely that Zimmerman would have shot him.  It is not just black thugs who have shown ignorance of the facts of the case.  I have heard such expressions from Oprah Winfrey to Colin Powell.  It seems to be a matter of people hearing only what they want to hear and disregarding the rest of the information.