Pat Boone challenges Obama to recognize source of ongoing violence.
Somebody has to say this … so I’ll say it.
Mr. President! For God’s sake, and America’s sake, quit so often calling crimes that involve a black person “racist”! As the president who came to office, a black man promising to bring people together, a man ideally suited for that job since you were born both black and white, you had a God-given chance to actually proclaim and demonstrate that racial divides and prejudice had greatly diminished and that our society was truly becoming colorblind.
Instead, both at home and, even more sadly, abroad, you have continued to bring up and confess America’s past record of racial prejudice and indicate we “still have issues to resolve” pertaining to race – as if your very presence as twice-elected president of the United States doesn’t proclaim loud and clear that we as a people have largely, though not completely, put to rest any image of America as an ongoing “racist” nation. We are not!
Your first comment after Trayvon Martin was killed while beating up a neighborhood watchman was that he could have been your son. Yes, if you conceive your son resenting being questioned while wandering at night between houses that had already been burglarized, and in that resentment running after the watchman who was walking away, jumping and punching him from behind, then straddling him and pounding his head against the sidewalk, and being shot by the watchman under him on the pavement.
Sir, that incident had nothing to do with “racism” – but you and Al Sharpton and your attorney general tried your best to make it so.
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