In his demand for an ‘Honest Conversation about race’ President Obama didn’t want an honest conversation. He wants to set the rules of the discussion so he can badger the other side and prevent them from making any points. He wants to win the discussion and is willing to cheat to do it.
Here they go again. “They” being the outrage-machine, the institutional left. Now that the jury returned the only possible verdict based on the actual evidence in the Zimmerman case, we’re being told we need to have a “national conversation” or an “honest conversation” about race. I would actually welcome an honest discussion about race, but the truth is that’s not the conversation we’re going to have.
I have more common ground with Trayvon than Obama will ever have. And at the age of 17, I would have never confronted a man I didn’t know in a dark alley when I had gotten away and was a few yards from my home. Ever.
But we can’t have that conversation. We’re not allowed to discuss, during this “honest conversation”, the motivations of both people involved in the incident that caused the “honest conversation.” If we were, we’d be discussing the hip-hop culture and its macho bullshit. We’d be discussing broken families. We would be discussing street fighting. We would be discussing how a kid gets suspended three times from school. We’d dive into the world Trayvon Martin lived in to see what transpires during 17 years of life that would give someone the idea that jumping a guy you didn’t know was a thing you could do without serious consequences.
But we’re not having that conversation. We’re not being honest.”