Zimmerman unloads righteously on Obama
By Jack Cashill On 03/25/2015 In Commentary,Opinion
BOYS IN THE HOODIES
In an unvarnished 13-minute interview with his attorney, George Zimmerman summed up his legal adventures with a clarity that has been totally lacking in the media.
Zimmerman was able to do the interview only because the Department of Justice finally cleared him of civil rights charges in the February 2012 shooting death of Trayvon Martin.
This clearance came three indefensible years after the shooting and nearly two years after a Florida state jury acquitted him of murder.
Before the shooting, it should be noted, the “white Hispanic” Zimmerman was an Obama supporter and a civil rights activist. He is certainly no longer the former. As to the latter, it is his own civil rights that he is working to protect.
When his attorney asked who it is he blamed for “the highest level of unfairness” in his case, Zimmerman replied, “By far, the president of the United States – Barack Hussein Obama.” The media bristled at the mention of Obama’s middle name.
Given the president’s authority, Zimmerman assumed he would do “his absolute [best] to not inflame racial tensions in America.” That is not what happened.
Instead, four weeks after the shooting, Obama used his bully pulpit to weigh in on behalf of Martin and his family.
As Zimmerman suggested, the appropriate step for Obama would have been to defend the Sanford Police Department and to demand an end to the media lynching of George Zimmerman.
As an African-American, Obama had more latitude to do this than a white politician would have. He chose not to. Said Obama for the ages: “But my main message is to the parents of Trayvon – if I had a son, he would look like Trayvon.”
Said Zimmerman of those remarks, “To me that was clearly a dereliction of duty pitting Americans against each other solely based on race.”
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Zimmerman was able to do the interview only because the Department of Justice finally cleared him of civil rights charges in the February 2012 shooting death of Trayvon Martin.
This clearance came three indefensible years after the shooting and nearly two years after a Florida state jury acquitted him of murder.
Before the shooting, it should be noted, the “white Hispanic” Zimmerman was an Obama supporter and a civil rights activist. He is certainly no longer the former. As to the latter, it is his own civil rights that he is working to protect.
When his attorney asked who it is he blamed for “the highest level of unfairness” in his case, Zimmerman replied, “By far, the president of the United States – Barack Hussein Obama.” The media bristled at the mention of Obama’s middle name.
Given the president’s authority, Zimmerman assumed he would do “his absolute [best] to not inflame racial tensions in America.” That is not what happened.
Instead, four weeks after the shooting, Obama used his bully pulpit to weigh in on behalf of Martin and his family.
As Zimmerman suggested, the appropriate step for Obama would have been to defend the Sanford Police Department and to demand an end to the media lynching of George Zimmerman.
As an African-American, Obama had more latitude to do this than a white politician would have. He chose not to. Said Obama for the ages: “But my main message is to the parents of Trayvon – if I had a son, he would look like Trayvon.”
Said Zimmerman of those remarks, “To me that was clearly a dereliction of duty pitting Americans against each other solely based on race.”
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