Now The Media Demands Context When It Comes to Race — Are You Kidding Me?

Lemme get this straight: the media is talking about context. They want context!

They’ve never cared about context in the past. When a person talked like a racist there were no excuses, no context, no explanation, no recovery allowed or given. Ask any conservative who’s been wrongly accused of being a racist knows exactly what I’m talking about. The list is long. Limbaugh, Beck, Allen, O’Reilley—on and on.

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How about some context with the New Black Panthers, you media kings?

Finally, after years of knowing the video is out there of the New Black Panthers intimidating voters at polling places in Philadelphia and after weeks of seeing video of that same New Black Panther guy urging the murder of “crackers” and “cracker babies,” it’s now okay for the media to start showing the video.

They can now change the context of that video and instead of seeing it for what it is—they now put it in the context of right wing media trying to make race an issue. What the…?

They just needed something to justify changing the context. Because they think they have caught Andrew Breitbart in a racial ruse in regards to Shirley Sherrod they can now unload all their anger on Andrew.

Yes, it is anger, and it has been building for a long time.

The networks are all unloading both barrels. They even brought back George Allen and “macaca.” I guess it wasn’t enough to run him out of office in 2006, they need another excuse to run that video (talk about ignoring context!).

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The clearly false charge that Congressman John Lewis made of racial slurs being thrown at him by Tea Partiers was also brought up again. The media still paints this in the context that Lewis is accurate, but the evidence that day shows otherwise. Breitbart still has that $100,000 waiting for anybody who can prove what Lewis said is true. TV stations could use the money. Why haven’t they collected by now?

Bottom line here—Breitbart is correct: the audience reaction to what Sherrod was saying about her past. That’s the point he was making and it is a valid point.

I’m all about forgiveness. Forgive and forget and move on. That’s the message of Dr. Martin Luther King. Look at the content of people’s character, not the color of their skin. Some of us were taught that early in life, others unfortunately learn it later.

But, let me ask you this—what if George Allen runs for office again? Allen is clearly not racist, never has been and says the “macaca” statement was not racist, but he apologized right away in case anybody was offended. The media is rushing to create forgiveness for Sherrod (they did the same thing with Senator Robert Byrd and his KKK connections), but you know as well as I do that the same standard would not be applied to the Republican Allen, were he to run for office again (which I hope he does).

Barack Obama, the candidate ran on a platform of being a great “uniter.” He was going to bring us all together from the supposed division created by George W. Bush, instead we are more divided than ever. I’m thinking we have to go back 150 years to the Civil War to find a time that we have been more divided as a nation.

Obama’s Attorney General Eric Holder slams America as a “nation of cowards” when it comes to race. Obama allows Holder to ignore possible crimes against white victims because the alleged perp is black. Where’s their coverage on the whistleblower there? Context.

I could go on and on—but I will agree with Holder on this point, but I will change it just a bit. The media are cowards when it comes to race. For them to ignore these stories, and others for years, months and weeks before trying to use a fabricated scandal with Breitbart as supposed “cover” is despicable.