Here are my observations and opinions from my select news of the day.

AMERICANS UNITE: NO MORE WHITE GUIILT – Surely, you recall the stories of whites who voted Barack Hussein Obama to be our first black president in 2008. It’s undeniable.  It happened.  One person quoted as having said that he voted for Obama because “I just think it would be cool to have a black president.”

Colin Powell, who served under three Republican presidents, predicted that Obama would be a “transformational figure who could institute generational change.”  However, as Obama campaigned in 2012, Lee Cary noted in American Thinker that “The unintended consequences of the white guilt vote for Obama in ’08 is the impact it’s had on those most hurt by the president’s economic policies: poor urban blacks.”

At the end of Obama’s second term, race relations in the United States had spiraled down from the 66 percent who thought relations were “generally good,” to 32 percent in a Washington Post/ABC News poll.  Sixty-three percent of the respondents rated race relations “generally bad.”

We all know, blacks and whites, that Democrats have a record of pandering to blacks for votes.  With the cruel killing of George Floyd by four out-of-control Minneapolis police officers, their “panderometer” has zoomed upward, as the multi-city memorial services nearly matched that of those honoring the late John McCain. 

Over the past week, we have been treated to the commentary of Shelby Steele of the Hoover Institution at Stanford, a black who has written and spoken on the subject of how Democrat pandering has made blacks “victims” in their agenda.

Following Obama’s 2008 victory, Steele wrote:

“Does his victory mean that America is now officially beyond racism?  Does it finally complete the work of the civil rights movement so that racism is at last dismissible as an explanation of black difficulty?

“Can the good Revs. Jackson and Sharpton now safely retire to the seashore?

“Will the Obama victory dispel the twin stigmas that have tormented black and white Americans for so long – that blacks are inherently inferior and whites inherently racist?

“Doesn’t a black in the Oval Office put the lie to both black inferiority and white racism?  Doesn’t it imply a ‘post-racial’ America?  And shouldn’t those of us – white and black – who did not vote for Mr. Obama take pride in what his victory says about our culture even as we mourn our political loss?”

During Steele’s interviews on Fox News Channel in the past week, he made note of opportunist Rev. Al Sharpton’s appearance on the scene in Minneapolis, and his role as eulogist for Floyd services.

It was clear that Steele didn’t admire Sharpton, suggesting that the reverend wasn’t willing to talk about the real problems in the black culture.  The lack of a father in three quarters of the black households, and the number of black babies aborted every day.

I found it interesting that Sharpton so blatantly used Floyd to spread the message of his National Action Network.  He wasted no time to talk about “somebody” he saw holding up a Bible as a prop in front of a church.  It was clear to whom he was referring

Then, after saying the Floyd family would not let George be used as a prop, he told of being contacted by the family attorney, Benjamin Crump.  “Well, let me know what you want me to do,” he said to Crump, who responded, “Whatever you need to do.”  That’s all Sharpton needed as he weaved the names of Oprah Winfrey, Tyler Perry, Andrew Cuomo, Jesse Jackson, and several others into his half-hour eulogy.

Midway through his eulogy he talked about “The overwhelming majority of people marching wasn’t breaking windows … they weren’t trying to steal nothing; they were trying to get back the justice you stole from us.”

Why was Sharpton asked to give the eulogy for George?  They never met.  We know from the powerful testimony George’s brother, Philonise, gave at the Congressional hearing on policing, that he was more than capable of giving that eulogy.  But Sharpton would command the attention of the media.  Who better to attack the president?

Race relations in America have actually been quite calm, except for an occasional action by a rogue white cop, or an out of control racist, on an unarmed black man. And when that happens, Jesse Jackson and Sharpton fly in to stir things up.

However, the two black law enforcement officers who were killed by armed black men in St. Louis and Oakland were ignored by the “Rev’s.”

Jackson and Sharpton, have made civil rights an industry.  They would have you believe that they want to end racial discrimination, but in reality, their goal is to keep racial tensions high.

Democrats, with the help of the media, do their best to convince minorities that they are victims of those racist Republicans.

SPEAKING OF OPPORTUNISTS – Those miscreants, who have occupied six blocks in Seattle, causing the abandonment of the police’s East Precinct station, to establish their own little fantasyland of make believe, latched onto the George Floyd killing to make their own set of utopian demands.

Seattle’s Democrat Mayor Jenny Durkin ordered the evacuation of the precinct building, as did the mayor of Minneapolis in the heat of the rioting.  Durkin refers the city take over as one grand block party.

Unhappy over the city’s inability to provide law and order in the 15^th largest city in the U.S., President Trump intimated that he would he would do so, without specifying how he might do that.

In the meantime, a Black Lives Matter spokesman said the occupation would continue until their demands are met, including the halving of the police budget to help the black community.

NOT CRAZY ENOUGH FOR YOU? – One race car driver, Bubba Wallace, who has Black Lives Matter emblazoned on his car, pushed NASCAR to prohibit the use of the Confederate flag on autos or anywhere at racing events … NASCAR folded …at least three statues of Columbus, including one in St. Paul, were torn down … statues of other historical figures are being defaced here and abroad … television programs like COPS and Live PD are being pulled from the air … HBO is carrying a disclaimer on the showing of the 1939 movie, Gone With the Wind as racist … the left, including Nancy Pelosi, wants military bases with names of individuals once tied to the Confederacy changed … and the Danish toy maker Lego has asked retailers to remove its police, firefighter and the White House from their shelves in response to George Floyd’s killing.

It’s just the beginning folks.  Know that it is all coming from the left.

May God continue to bless the United States of America.