The Johannes Mehserle Verdict Was A Travesty Of Justice!

The jurors in the Johannes Mehserle case reached their verdict of involuntary manslaughter in less than eight hours! Both I & Oscar Grant's uncle found that to be an amazing feat. As I have expressed before,my belief is that he should have at least been found guilty of voluntary manslaughter.

But,as the Oscar Grant family has said,they don't blame the jurors. They blame the system. And so do I. What a slap in this face is to every black person in America.This is a travesty of justice,as Rev. Keith Mohammed from the Nation of Islam so eloquently stated today! So much for a post-racial society.

The euphoria of the first black president being elected in America has faded. Now,we are faced with the cold reality that the government does not work for the average,poor citizen. Especially if your skin happens to be black.

Having a black president has not raised the black community in the eyes of America. It has only garnered black folks like Barack Obama more respect than they already had. This is a society that is solely based on both class & race. Woe to those who belong to both the wrong class & race.

Here's more from KTVU News:

"A white former transit officer was convicted of involuntary manslaughter Thursday in the shooting death of an unarmed black man on an Oakland train platform in a 2009 encounter that set off days of rioting in the city. Prosecutors had wanted Johannes Mehserle convicted of murdering 22-year-old Oscar Grant, who was shot as he lay face-down.

Grant's mother, Wanda Johnson, stared at jurors and appeared upset then later denounced the verdict outside the courthouse. "My son was murdered! He was murdered! He was murdered," she said.

Earlier in court, Mehserle was placed in handcuffs and taken away after the verdict, which included a finding that the defendant personally used a handgun. He turned to his family and mouthed, "I love you, guys."

His parents wept when the verdict was read. One woman juror wiped tears with a tissue when the panel was polled on its decision. On the east side of San Francisco Bay, police in riot gear were deployed on the streets of Oakland. A crowd near Oakland City Hall moaned and cursed when they heard the verdict. A dozen people gathered in a semicircle to pray.

"It's not real, it's not real. Where's the justice? He was killed in cold blood," said Amber Royal, 23, of Oakland. Grant family attorney John Burris said the family was "extremely disappointed" with the verdict.

"This verdict is not a true representation of what happened to Oscar Grant and what happened to him that night. This was not a voluntary manslaughter case," Burris said.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger issued a statement urging Californians to remain calm and not resort to violence. Schwarzenegger said he had informed Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums the state was well prepared to assist in maintaining order. The jury had a choice between murder and lesser charges of voluntary and involuntary manslaughter. The jury found that Mehserle didn't mean to kill Grant, but that his behavior was still so negligent that it was criminal. Involuntary manslaughter carries a sentence of two to four years.

The next hearing was set for Aug. 6. The jury included eight women and four men. None listed their race as black. Seven said they were white, three were Latino, and one was Asian-Pacific. One declined to state their race. They left the courthouse under tight security. "As we have come to notice, and we as a family has been slapped in the face by a system that has denied us a right to true justice," said Cephus Johnson, Grant's uncle. "We truly do not blame the jury, but we blame the system."(END OF EXCERPT) Read more here.

Why Is Glenn Beck Really Trying To Destroy President Obama?

If you watched the videos that preceded this post, you will see how hypocritical Glenn Beck is. He loved George Bush's dirty drawers. With President Obama, he dedicates every show that he does to trying to discredit & destroy his presidency. If he loves his country so much,what happened to that patriotism back in 2007? Even though Bush was dragging the country down,Beck was gushing over him like a young schoolgirl.

What was so great about a president that lied to the country about weapons of mass destruction? Bush led us into a false war & used a terror attack to strip Americans of their civil liberties! Remember the Patriot Act,Glenn Beck? Where was all of his talk about the Founding Fathers when Beck reported his meeting with George Bush back in 2007 ?

There is nothing objective about you, Glenn Beck! It's obvious that you are nothing more than an extreme right-wing propagandist. And you want to drag this country back to the days of the Founding Fathers.You know,the good ole' days when blacks were publicly regarded as being less than human.

Ever since we have put a black president into office,Glenn Beck has become obsessed with discussing race. All of his shows center around the Obama administration. He wants to draw a distinction between Dr. Martin Luther King & President Obama for his own nefarious purpose.

Here's more on that from TJMS:

"Roland Martin discusses the fears of America becoming a majority minority country. Thirty-years ago we would often hear that phrase. People said that it was thirty years away but now it is here. In seven states across America, minorities under the age of seven-teen out number whites.

In speaking with John Avalon, author of Wingnuts, about all the craziness with the Tea Party and people making outlandish comments came to the conclusion, we are of watching the rise of White victimhood.

All of a sudden in the Age of Obama, there are White people in this country who are freaking out by saying “Oh my God we are losing our grip on this country”.

Then there is Glenn Beck, who is now comparing himself to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Beck and others are trying to take the moral standing of the Civil Rights Movement and claim it as their own. On August 28th, the same day as the March on Washington, the same day that then Sen. Barack Obama accepted the Democratic Nomination for President, Beck is going to have a rally on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial to reclaim the Civil Rights Movement."(END OF EXCERPT) Read more here.

Beck uses Dr. M.L.K. as an example of a true unifier.The reason Beck does this is because he knows that he must elevate one black man if he is to destroy another. That way he can claim that he is not a racist who is using race to divide the country. Even though it is pretty apparent that is precisely what he is attempting to do on The Glenn Beck Show.

When he was talking about voter intimidation today,Glenn Beck told his television audience:

"We are about to repeat the mistakes of the past."

And he let them know that "this time the enemy is different." Who is the enemy? Well,its the NAACP, the Black Panther, Black Muslims, Acorn, etc... Do you see a pattern here? All of these groups are composed of minorities. He is talking to those real Americans that his friend,Sarah Palin, was addressing in her campaign speeches. Glenn Beck is sending subliminal messages.

He is trying to make the point that President Obama, Van Jones, Eric Holder, & other blacks want real "social justice" now! The underlying theme of all the shows that he has done on President Obama is reverse racism.These blacks who are in power want to use it to exact revenge on whites for past wrongs,according to Glenn Beck.Far from trying to unify this country, Glenn Beck is playing the race card to the fullest. By trying to prove how racist President Obama is, Beck has only exposed his own deep-seated racism.

Comparing the New Black Panthers "voter intimidation" case to what the KKK did to blacks is only meant to incite fear. Because there is nothing similar about those two groups. The KKK was started by oppressors who wanted to continue to oppress an entire race. The Black Panthers & other similar organizations are composed of oppressed peoples who are tired of being kept down.

Who have the New Black Panthers lynched & killed? But,more to Glenn Beck's point,where are the white voters that were supposedly intimidated by the New Black Panthers?Both Media Matters & I would like to know!

Here's more from Media Matters:

"On Glenn Beck's show today we were treated to more revisionist history (also, the sky is blue). This time, Beck attempted to equate the New Black Panther case with previous incidents of voter intimidation by the Ku Klux Klan. Beck also conveniently failed to mention that the conservative noise around the case is pretty dishonest.

The most glaring problem with this Beck comparison is that not a single person has come forward to say they were actually intimidated by the New Black Panthers at this polling place. Nobody. That's actually one of the reasons the Department Of Justice obtained an injunction against the man seen wielding a nightstick, but dropped charges against other parties in the case.

Beck compared this action to the Klan. The problem is the Ku Klux Klan has a very long and bloody history in America of not only intimidating voters, but doing so through violence:

• Klansman Edgar Ray Killen was convicted of orchestrating the 1964 murders of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner, who were attempting to register black voters in Mississippi
• The Klan assassinated Rep. James M. Hinds in 1868, along with other Republican officeholders in the reconstruction-era south
• In 1868 the Klan engaged in a campaign that killed, wounded or otherwise injured over 2000 people in Louisiana in the weeks prior to the presidential election in what was described as a campaign of "constant terror." Numerous parishes saw vote totals plunge for the Republican ticket in the presidential election as terrified black voters stayed home. For example: in St. Landry, Republicans went from carrying the parish by 678 votes to receiving no votes at all. Congress passed the Force Act of 1870 as a direct reaction to the Klan's actions.

Added to that is the history of the Klan engaging in all sorts of racial violence not directly connected to voting and voting rights. So, on one hand an incident with no complaints of intimidation, on the other hand an organization that has plagued Americans trying to exercise their constitutional right to a vote. In the mind of Glenn Beck, these are one and the same. By bending facts to fit a narrative, Beck insults those who have actually suffered from racial discrimination and violent intimidation."(END OF EXCERPT) Read more here.

I Guess Bill Clinton Thinks It's Okay To Join The KKK If It Can Help You Get Elected

Bill Clinton's remarks at Senator Robert Byrd's funeral should make those who call him "the first black president" regret that sentiment. There is nothing even remotely "black" about a white man that says "it may have been wrong" for someone to have been a member of the KKK. It is explicitly wrong to join a group of racists who lynch & kill folks.

There's no maybe about it for me. But,Bill Clinton seems to think that if "a country boy" can get elected that way,so be it. Join the KKK or any other racist organization if it can further your agenda. I find that line of reasoning to be absolutely deplorable.

And it makes me wonder if Bill Clinton only dealt with blacks so that he could get elected. Because as an Arkansan,that's what "a country boy" would do.

Here's more from Talking Points Memo:

"Former President Bill Clinton referenced the late Sen. Robert Byrd's membership in the Ku Klux Klan as a young man during his eulogy for the longtime senator this afternoon in West Virginia. Clinton was the only speaker to reference this dark chapter of Byrd's history, which has been a topic of much discussion over the years.

Many of Byrd's colleagues have said that Byrd learned from the experience and that he championed civil rights later, and took pride in endorsing Barack Obama in his bid to become the nation's first black president.

Clinton said at the memorial service that Byrd's obituaries have speculated what it meant he was in the KKK.

"I'll tell you what it means. He was a country boy from the hills and hollers of West Virginia, he was trying to get elected," Clinton said. "And maybe he did something he shouldn't have done, and he spent the rest of his life making it up. And that's what a good person does."(END OF EXCERPT) Read more here.