Oddly, the MSM is hardly touching this one, neither is Obama rushing to condemn it as he did with Trayvon Martin. (Virginian-Pilot) — Wave after wave of young men surged forward to take turns punching and kicking their victim. The victim’s friend, a young woman, tried to pull him back into his car. Attackers came
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Just got back from a press conference at Mobile police HQ. Before I get into that, please allow this clarification and apology. In my original blog post yesterday, while blasting Al Sharpton and other national figures for their double-standard in not engaging in advocacy for beaten white people, I also in passing asked why Mayor Sam Jones had not spoken up. In retrospect, putting Jones in the company of Sharpton et al was unfair to Jones. My beef with Jones was not based on any race-related actions or inaction on his part, nor was it based on any apparent hypocrisy on his part. Instead, it was a leadership issue: I thought this was a situation where the mayor should have been out front, verbally “laying down the law” as it were, and that he should already have made a statement. I still think so. But to mention him in the same breath as Sharpton, in the context of Sharpton’s racial double standards, was thoughtless on my part, and I apologize. I may have policy and stylistic differences with Mayor Jones, but he has very little history of anything approaching racial demagoguery. ….. Okay, ’nuff said on that. Moving on to the press conference: Forgive me if I sound cynical, but I came away far
Today’s Mobile Press-Register contains excellent reporting (on the heels of two days of great reporting by local TV station WKRG) about the racial mob beating of Matthew Owens in Mobile on Saturday night, courtesy of staff writers Brendan Kirby, Rhoda Pickett, and Robrt McClendon. They flesh out what I reported in my column this morning, which is that the victim is no prince, but instead a confirmed troublemaker. Some neighbors said they have witnessed belligerence from Owens in the past, and police reports show that he has gotten into scrapes before with others — both black and white. “He probably did as much to instigate this as anybody,” said Marsha Skipper, who lives next door. … Skipper, who is white, said she gets along with her black neighbors and has not had problems with the black children. She said it would be bad for the neighborhood to turn the incident into the opening salvo of a race war. “I don’t want to see a racial issue with this,” she said. “I don’t want to see a black-white issue out of this.” On the other hand, despite the absurd statements from the Mobile police downplaying the racial angle, the P-R showed ample evidence of just that: One of Parker’s neighbors, who asked not to be identified for fear of retaliation, said he was watching a movie with his family when he heard the confrontation. The neighbor, who is white, said several of the black residents were shouting racial slurs. He said one of the assailants shouted, “This is justice for Trayvon,” an apparent reference to the unarmed black teenager in Florida whose shooting death at the hands of a Hispanic neighborhood watch volunteer sparked a racial fury.
Scandal as usual. A top North Carolina Democratic Party official has reportedly been identified as the accused perpetrator in a sexual harassment claim made by a former staffer. Jay Parmley, North Carolina’s Democratic Party executive director, has been accused of… Excerpt from: North Carolina Democratic Party Official Charged With Sexually Harassing a Dude; Victim Paid Off
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If one were to travel back in time to tell most observers of the events on the original Good Friday that the day would be remembered as “good,” they would have thought it a sick joke and you a madman. It was wall-to-wall awful. Judaism of the first centuries was a messiah-rejecting machine. One after another, would-be redeemers of Israel would amass a following, come into conflict with the authorities, and be killed or flee. Those followers that weren’t put to the sword would scatter, and it was back to square one. And on this day almost 2,000 years ago, it looked very much like the wheel of history had ground another one under. This time Rome had seemed more reluctant than usual. Its vassal ruler, Herod Antipas, and its Judean prefect, Pilate, passed Jesus around like a hot potato. Pilate had sought to punish him and then he appealed to the mob. Yet ultimately it was Rome’s right hand who gave the kill order. This is memorialized in the creed: “He was crucified under Pontius Pilate. He suffered, died, and was buried…” That’s what Good Friday is about: suffering, death, burial — failure, really, and what we do about it. Jesus’ closest followers were betrayed, taken by surprise and scattered. Their likely leader Peter denied his association with this messiah so forcefully that any regrouping looked impossible. They had thought this man the anointed one, but his lonely, embarrassing death had proved otherwise. Crucifixion was a particularly heinous way to go: it was humiliation, torture, and slow suffocation wrapped into a neat, splintered wooden package. The condemned would be stripped down to nothing, or almost nothing, and nailed to a cross at the joints: wrists and ankles. The nails would exert constant pain and as the victim pressed on upper and then lower nails for relief, it would become more difficult and then impossible to breathe. All of this would take place in front of a taunting crowd. No wonder many today prefer to hurry past the events of Good Friday and think about Easter instead. That is a mistake, I think. For people who believe in the truth of the Gospel stories, today ought to be a day of prayer, of fasting, of scripture reading and somber reflection. Besides, those that hurry to Easter too quickly, might miss a few things. Like what? Here are a couple of lessons I’ve gleaned from Good Friday readings past: One, when the high priest Caiaphas
