Content of Character

“Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago.”

Barack Hussein Obama

Ya got that right, Mr. President. He could have been.

Thirty five years ago, you were attending an exclusive prep school, and your grandparents, who were rearing you and paying for that expensive schooling, would have been actively trying to keep you out of trouble.

Now imagine this was Trayvon. This likely would have worked. And thus….Trayvon would probably not have been actively expanding his misbehaviors, and he likely would still be alive.

We need people like this in the White House to tell us of such things. I guess.

So listen up people!!!

Don’t let your teenage boys run wild in the streets! Put them all in expensive prep schools and watch them every minute, and handpick their friends so they don’t follow said friends down the path to an early death. Do like the president’s family did. Don’t do like Trayvon’s family did.

Oh, the president didn’t say that last bit? Well, maybe he should have.

Oh, and I have no problem believing that when you, Mr. President, were a teenager, from time to time folks followed you through the department store to make sure you weren’t stealing stuff. You claim that this happened solely because you have dark skin. OK. Maybe that’s how it happened.

When that lady followed me around in the drug store in my hometown when I was a teenager, it was to make sure I wasn’t stealing stuff. She followed every teenager who wandered aimlessly around that store. She had good reason, because the teenagers in our little town would have cleaned off the shelves.

All those teenagers in my little town were of the lily white variety, so the lady didn’t follow them around because of the tint of their skin. I guess those people following our president in his youth had other reasons than the lady in that drug store. He thinks so.

I therefore have no reason to spend much of my time complaining about my lot in life, while wiling away my time in the White House. Like the president does.

Apparently, 300,000,000 people in this country claim to know what happened that rainy dark night in Florida when that young man died. Put the president on that long list, for he clearly is an expert on the night’s events. Everybody knows what happened. Except they don’t.

Only two people were actually there that night. And only one of them is talking. If no one else was there, don’t ya wonder how everybody knows what happened? But boy, they act like they know, and they can’t stop talking about it. But every one of those 300,000,000 people was somewhere different, doing something other, when Zimmerman and Martin were making decisions, and perhaps making their mistakes. The president wasn’t there. The attorney general wasn’t there, either.

I wasn’t there, so I’m not going to talk of my opinion of what happened that night. I have no right to even have an opinion. What happened that night happened on the dark side of the moon as far as I am concerned.

300,000,000 other people have no right to claim anything more than an opinion of what happened that night. That would include you, Mr. President. And if they think they know what happened simply because they KNOW what happened, regardless which side they support, well maybe they should look deeper into their own prejudice and their own racism. And that would include you, Mr. President, and your lackey, Mr. Holder.

Too many people are promoting racism these days. Nobody gains by them promoting racism, except those few in public life who further their political agenda this way. Everyone else loses. So thank you very much Mr. President, for making life just a little bit harder for everyone who truly wish that we could judge folks by their character rather than their skin color. Yeah, you just pulled out that famous quote for your own use today. More’s the pity that you clearly don’t know what that quote means.