{"id":2094,"date":"2013-07-24T08:45:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-24T15:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ourlibertyundergod.com\/?p=2094"},"modified":"2013-12-02T01:29:35","modified_gmt":"2013-12-02T08:29:35","slug":"its-not-about-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourlibertyundergod.com\/?p=2094","title":{"rendered":"Its Not About Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"color: #025278;\">&#8220;And Moses built an altar and called the name of it, The LORD Is My Banner,&#8221;<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <span style=\"color: #000000;\">Exodus 17:15<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">August 2, 2013<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">NOTE:<\/span> For those readers who may not be aware of the Comment and Activity Menu Section, I wrote an update Announcement yesterday regarding the new Courts Post I&#8217;m working on now.\u00a0 It is taking longer than anticipated to follow the subject through to its logical conclusion!\u00a0 If I find another subject that I believe should be addressed first, I will post it before the Courts Post.\u00a0 Thank you, <\/strong><strong><em>Itasca<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">~<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>&#8220;THIS CASE IS NOT ABOUT RACE&#8221;<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>For those who may not have heard, both the prosecution and the defense in the Zimmerman case declared the case was not about race.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Ample evidence shows that George Zimmerman, of Peruvian and &#8220;Afro Peruvian&#8221; descent on his mother&#8217;s side &#8211; self-identified as Hispanic &#8211; is not a racist!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Regardless, Barack Obama, Eric Holder, Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson are leading the charge, inciting racial unrest and violence with false cries of White racism against a Black &#8220;Child,&#8221; in the &#8220;Not Guilty&#8221; verdict, as too many people are still using the 5 or 6-year-old photo of Trayvon wearing a white hoodie.\u00a0 Trayvon Martin<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>, at 17,<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong> was nearly 6-feet-tall, a former football player, and no longer that small child of 11 or 12-years-old.\u00a0 It would be more accurate to call him a &#8220;Youth.&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Obama: Trayvon Martin could have been me.\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/p-Yt2F6m0Ts?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Stoking the fires and fanning the flames of racial unrest<br \/>\nfrom the Presidential White House<br \/>\nin the United States of America,<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Mr. Obama reminded America of his declaration at the beginning of this case that, &#8220;<span style=\"color: #800000;\">If I had a son he&#8217;d look like Trayvon,<\/span>&#8221; expanding the analogy to, Trayvon &#8220;<span style=\"color: #800000;\">could have been me 35 years ago.<\/span>&#8221;\u00a0 The psychological ploys used by Mr. Obama are blatant attempts to create the image of Zimmerman killing Obama&#8217;s son, and now, of Zimmerman having symbolically killed the youthful, drug-using Obama.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Never mind the facts of the case,<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>especially the fact that Martin laid-in-wait or circled-back to attack and assault Zimmerman who was not pursuing, nor following, him.\u00a0 Zimmerman defended his life, through the pain of his broken nose and the excruciating pain that elicited screams; penned-down by Martin straddling him and Martin&#8217;s pummeling causing his head to slam repeatedly against the concrete sidewalk, culminating with Martin saying, &#8220;<span style=\"color: #800000;\">You&#8217;re gonna die tonight,<\/span>&#8221; as he tried to grab Zimmerman&#8217;s gun.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Only then did Zimmerman grab for the gun himself and, in the pain-filled fog of nearing unconsciousness, fire to stop the assault he believed would otherwise end his life.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>I know from personal experience that when a man is slamming your head against a block wall, or in Zimmerman&#8217;s case a concrete sidewalk, because a man&#8217;s fist is exploding against your flesh, your conscious thoughts turn to one goal: <span style=\"color: #800000;\">ESCAPE<\/span>.\u00a0 As your thinking blurs and <span style=\"color: #800000;\">YOU<\/span> <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>DO<\/em> SEE STARS<\/span>, the instinct for self-preservation kicks-in, and you try to do whatever you can to <span style=\"color: #800000;\">save your life<\/span> and <span style=\"color: #800000;\">stop the pain<\/span><span style=\"color: #800000;\">!!!<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>It&#8217;s called the <span style=\"color: #800000;\">Right of Self-Defense<\/span> for a reason.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Every human being has the God-given<br \/>\nRight to defend the life He gives us.<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>All the evidence supports Zimmerman&#8217;s account and denies any speculation that Martin was defending himself.\u00a0 It is clear, he was the aggressor.\u00a0 Zimmerman acted in self-defense when he saw no alternative.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Mr. Obama obfuscates and denies the facts in the case as he presumes that his own experiences as a Black Man occurred solely because of his skin color.\u00a0 Were he open to the truth, he would realize that certain characteristics &#8211; yes, self-preservative profiling &#8211; will evoke the types of reaction he cites <span style=\"color: #800000;\">REGARDLESS OF A MAN&#8217;S SKIN COLOR.<\/span>\u00a0 And, <span style=\"color: #800000;\">regardless of the woman&#8217;s skin color,<\/span> for that matter!\u00a0 But his characterization likening Today with the &#8217;60s and before, is not accurate!<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>See the Manning video, below, for a Black pastor&#8217;s candid treatment of natural profiling of a hypothetical Black Youth Hoodie-Wearer in an elevator with a Black Woman.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>But, a lone <span style=\"color: #800000;\">woman of ANY SKIN COLOR<\/span> riding an elevator with a hooded <span style=\"color: #800000;\">man OF ANY SKIN COLOR<\/span> would have heightened apprehension until she could get off the elevator to safety!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>~<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Sometimes a news item hits me so strongly that <em>I<\/em> <em><span style=\"color: #000000;\">KNOW<\/span><\/em> it belongs on this site.\u00a0 Such is the case with Bill O&#8217;Reilly &#8211; The O&#8217;Reilly Factor &#8211; and his &#8220;Talking Points Memo&#8221; speech delivered Monday, July 22, 2013, in response to the speech Mr. Obama delivered to the White House Press Corps in the above video.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>In fact, I think it is so important, it is the reason I am interrupting preparation of my Post on the Courts to write this Post and publish the video as quickly as possible.\u00a0 I had planned to write about the Zimmerman case after completing the Courts article, but O&#8217;Reilly&#8217;s &#8220;Memo&#8221; calls for immediate attention!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>The &#8220;Memo&#8221; stands on the Bald Face<br \/>\nof Truth and Moral Principle:<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?feature=player_detailpage&#038;v=_o-8Q09XAEo&#038;t=16<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">If the video fails:<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_o-8Q09XAEo\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_o-8Q09XAEo<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>~<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><strong><span style=\"color: #025278;\">&#8220;Say&#8230;whether peace is best preserved by giving energy to the government, or information to the people.\u00a0 This last is the most certain and most legitimate engine of government.\u00a0 Educate and inform the whole mass of the people.\u00a0 Enable them to see that it is their interest to preserve peace and order, and they will preserve them.\u00a0 And it requires no very high degree of education to convince them of this.\u00a0 They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.&#8221;<\/span>\u00a0 <span style=\"color: #000000;\">Thomas Jefferson<\/span><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>~<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>As I prepared this Post, I heard another dynamic, courageous speech, by Dr. James David Manning, a NYC pastor, that stands well with O&#8217;Reilly&#8217;s.\u00a0 I also found a video interview of George Zimmerman&#8217;s brother and a speech by Glenn Beck.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Dr. Manning tells it like it is to his Congregation!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>I have not heard of this pastor before, so I don&#8217;t know what his doctrinal approach to the Scriptures is&#8230; He is apparently a Conservative Christian.\u00a0 His comments in this video are worth hearing, whatever his religious beliefs are&#8230; <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>&#8230;especially considering the unrelenting efforts of Collectivist\/Progressives Barack Obama, Eric Holder, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson and others, as they use the Zimmerman\/Martin tragedy to stoke and fan the flames of racial unrest and division in America through the year-and-a-half-long news cycle surrounding the case of Zimmerman and Martin.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9CUNUVhzFAQ&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;t=0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">To read the story, and if the video fails: <\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/stories\/2013\/07\/18\/lightning-rod-nyc-pastors-stunningly-confrontational-sermon-on-trayvon-martin-you-see-the-world-through-your-black-eyes\/\">http:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/stories\/2013\/07\/18\/lightning-rod-nyc-pastors-stunningly-confrontational-sermon-on-trayvon-martin-you-see-the-world-through-your-black-eyes\/<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>~<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>S<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>ee the following link f<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>or the video interview of George Zimmerman&#8217;s brother, Robert Jr., by Piers Morgan on CNN.\u00a0 Robert withstands Morgan&#8217;s relentless attempts to paint his brother as guilty, in spite of the jury&#8217;s verdict!\u00a0 The interview occurred on July 13, after the &#8220;Not Guilty&#8221; verdict.\u00a0 Zimmerman admirably presents the facts that led to the jury&#8217;s decision to acquit his brother based upon the evidence that he acted in self-defense.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_fruakb13h8\"><strong>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_fruakb13h8<\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>~<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The education intended by Jefferson in the above quote, was that of the principles around which he wrote our Declaration of Independence.\u00a0 Not the ideas of his contemporary, philosopher Friedrich<\/span> <a title=\"Left Center Right\" href=\"https:\/\/ourlibertyundergod.com\/?p=688\">Hegel<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">, that inspired Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, who in-turn inspired the Collectivist\/Progressives in America.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">And certainly not the lies of collectivism\/progressivism being taught in America for the last century!\u00a0 [See WHO IS Obama <a href=\"https:\/\/ourlibertyundergod.com\/?p=842\">Part 1<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/ourlibertyundergod.com\/?p=844\">Part 2<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/ourlibertyundergod.com\/?p=955\">Part 3<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/ourlibertyundergod.com\/?p=846\">Part 4<\/a>.]\u00a0 Lies that include the<\/span> <a title=\" WHO IS Obama Part 2\" href=\"https:\/\/ourlibertyundergod.com\/?p=844\">Eugenics<\/a> <span style=\"color: #000000;\">proponents who spawned Hitler&#8217;s eugenics experiments, birthed Planned Parenthood for the purpose of destroying Black Human Beings whom its founder Margaret Sanger called &#8220;<span style=\"color: #800000;\">UNDESIRABLES,<\/span>&#8221; and who have brought us to genetically modified human beings!!!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>They have been tragically and criminally successful in aborting MILLIONS of Babies, targeting Blacks, and in destroying the Black Family &#8211; turning Black Youth to murder each other by violence and with drugs.\u00a0 They have used Black Youth for decades for the collectivist\/progressive purpose of inciting them to blame Whites by skin color for their plight and to foment racial division.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>A plight caused by White and Black<br \/>\nCollectivist\/Progressive Democrats!<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Detroit, Chicago, Los Angeles<br \/>\nand New York City<br \/>\nare examples.<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>What reason could they have for deliberately ignoring the ongoing violence and death occurring in Black communities, especially in cities controlled <span style=\"color: #800000;\">FOR DECADES<\/span> by Collectivist\/Progressive Democrats?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>What reason could they have for continuing to incite Blacks &#8211; who haven&#8217;t heard, or refuse to accept, the truth in the Zimmerman\/Martin case &#8211; to demonstrate in <span style=\"color: #800000;\">100 cities,<\/span> hoping Whites are assaulted in the aftermath of the Zimmerman verdict? <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>What reason could there be for governments and the mainstream media ignoring and suppressing the increasing incidents of Black Youth Mobs attacking Whites, with impunity, in cities across the country, other than trying to foment civil war between races and wanting to avoid nationwide coverage until the sparks turn into embers followed by raging flames?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>What better way to take the Nation by surprise and by storm, than to suppress the news until the violence is overwhelming?\u00a0 To plunge our Nation into violence fueled by racial animosity and hatred!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">For a video clip and the transcript of an excellent speech by Glenn Beck, on &#8220;Who is really dividing the U.S. based on race in the aftermath of the Zimmerman verdict?&#8221;:<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.glennbeck.com\/2013\/07\/22\/who-is-really-dividing-the-u-s-based-on-race-in-the-aftermath-of-the-zimmerman-verdict\/\">http:\/\/www.glennbeck.com\/2013\/07\/22\/who-is-really-dividing-the-u-s-based-on-race-in-the-aftermath-of-the-zimmerman-verdict\/<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">As Glenn Beck reports, the racism situation is getting better &#8211; as Mr. Obama admits &#8211; but, it is not gone, yet.\u00a0 <\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">It is to our credit as a Nation and the Blessings of Almighty God, that the efforts to incite a civil war between &#8220;races&#8221; have not succeeded.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Why not?<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Because most Americans really do know that <span style=\"color: #800000;\">there is only one Human Race<\/span>, and<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">WE THE SOVEREIGN AMERICAN PEOPL<\/span><span style=\"color: #800000;\">E<br \/>\nHAVE<br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">NO DESIRE,<br \/>\nNOR INTENT,<br \/>\nTO FIGHT<br \/>\nOUR FELLOW-AMERICANS!!!<br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">NOT OVER SKIN COLOR NOR FOR ANY OTHER REASON!!!<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>The small<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>, prejudiced<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong> minority<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong> &#8211; <span style=\"color: #800000;\">regardless of skin color<\/span> &#8211; is not enough to bring us to the war the Collectivist\/Progressives want to incite.\u00a0 Praise the LORD!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Why would they want such a disaster?<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>For an excuse to impose martial law,<br \/>\nthrow a net of tyrannical<br \/>\ncontrol over the country,<br \/>\nand end the farce<br \/>\nof<br \/>\nConstitutional Governance<br \/>\nin<br \/>\nPost-Constitutional America.<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em><\/em><\/strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>~<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #025278;\"><strong>&#8220;And call upon Me in the day of distress, I will release you and you will honor Me.&#8221;\u00a0 <span style=\"color: #000000;\">Psalm 50:15, Stone Tenach<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>Itasca<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;And Moses built an altar and called the name of it, The LORD Is My Banner,&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Exodus 17:15 August 2, 2013 NOTE: For those readers who may not be aware of the Comment and Activity Menu Section, I wrote an update Announcement yesterday regarding the new Courts Post I&#8217;m working on now.\u00a0 It is taking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[25,20,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collectivism-progressivism","category-political-philosophy-and-labels","category-post-constitutional-america"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourlibertyundergod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourlibertyundergod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourlibertyundergod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourlibertyundergod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourlibertyundergod.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2094"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/ourlibertyundergod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2654,"href":"https:\/\/ourlibertyundergod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2094\/revisions\/2654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourlibertyundergod.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourlibertyundergod.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourlibertyundergod.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}