Obama plays the race card

[reality_hammer]

Not only did Obama play the race card, he has it backwards when it comes to injustice.
We have a deficit in this country when there is Scooter Libby justice for some and Jena justice for others;
Libby, of course, was convicted of lying to investigators after they came up empty trying to find  someone in the administration who "leaked" information

Comments

[jordan179]

You are oversimplifying Jena.

He got the key point right, which was that a bunch of thugs, who had a previous record of violence, beat a young man severely and without provocation. Which part of that statement do you disagree with, and why?

[jordan179]

Now, rather than bore you by pointing out your rush to characterize some blacks as thugs ...

A group of people who have committed unprovoked acts of violence in the past and then committed another unprovoked act of violence would, indeed, meet the normal definition of "thugs." Their race isn't relevant to this characterization: their prediliction for violence is. Why do you consider their race to be relevant?

while pondering that for all I know you would not even think to characterize the unknown person(s) who hung the noose that set off events as thugs -- perhaps you see hanging nooses as harmless first amendment pranks?

I don't see hanging nooses, by themselves, to be act of violence, or even "assault" -- the definition of "assault" is a credible threat of violence. So, no, I wouldn't call those who hung the nooses "thugs," because to be a "thug" one must be violent, not merely obnoxious.The hanging of the nooses was, in any case, irrelevant to the severe assault and battery, because the victim of the attack was not, as far