What do Jesus' face on a cracker, seeing a unicorn shape in a cloud, and race baiting all have in common? Nobody will see the same thing until someone else points it out. You know what I'm talking about.
"Hey whose face do you see on this cracker?"
"Oh...it's the Fonz!"
"It's Jesus. See...there is his beard and his crown of thorns."
"I see it now. That must be a miracle."
Same thing goes with cloud shapes and the same thing goes with most modern-day instances of media covered racism. I'm not trying to say that there is no such thing as racism; simply that the majority of what is covered by the MSM is "manufactured racism". Most Americans would look at the "police violence against blacks" cases that are currently infecting their TV screens and would see nothing wrong with the situation. This is a cop taking down a resisting criminal. I've seen hundreds of scenes just like those on the show "COPS". Where is the outrage and protest for the poor black men getting slammed into the pavement on the show? There isn't any, and shouldn't be, because these are officers doing what they have to do to end the potentially dangerous situation quickly. It's not until "Reverend" Al and his ilk go pointing out the "cloud shaped like a puppy" that people even go, "This seems a bit racist."
People need to understand that Sharpton and Jackson are only reverends in the Church of Hate and Divisiveness. They are, in fact, more racist then half of the whites they accuse. Al Sharpton has been caught, on camera even, using racial slurs and bigoted remarks such as "diamond merchants" as a reference to Jews and referring to Greek philosophers as "Greek homos". How many times did Darren Wilson use a racial slur? How about Daniel Pantaleo? I'm sure if they had ever made any comments to that effect, MSNBC would have let us know 5 times a day; every day. It boils down to people in positions of influence saying, "Don't you see how you are victims?" and the people responding with "Yes...I do now".
A colleague of mine once said, in regards to the Ferguson riots, "Sometimes people are just looking for a reason to break things and act the fool." I think this is very true. Without the incendiary remarks of a few irresponsible "activists" looking to stay relevant and create ratings, I think these incidents would have gone differently. Families and communities would have mourned, and honored the life and memory of their beloved. Instead, these men have had their deaths and memories turned into a sideshow act by those who saw Jesus on a cracker and wanted everyone else to see the same thing.
- C.J. Johnston
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