White Guilt Feeding Frenzy Over Connecticuit Mass Shooting

 The OJ Simpson verdict reaction and Omar Thornton’s killing spree reaction is a watershed moment in America’s race relations: “There is no joke anymore.”

We’ll be returning to the regular SBPDL posts tomorrow (been far too long for official entries to go unregistered), but a final thought must be uttered regarding Omar Thornton.

Though I was too young to understand the significance of the verdict at the time, the OJ Simpson verdict reaction should have supplied evidence to Pre-Obama Americans of just how divided the nation was and how no amount of conciliatory concessions could be made to make the US “one nation, indivisible” ever again (this article from NPR illustrates a discussion 10-years after the verdict shocked most of the nation and exhilarated 13 percent with a jolt of infectious joy):

Ms. LEVENSON: Right in front of the courthouse, when I walked out after the verdict, it was startling because on one side of the street, all the blacks were lined up and they were cheering for O.J., and on the other side of the street were the whites and they were just in shock. And it really made it all about race even though there were many other aspects to that case.

DEL BARCO: Levenson says the racial divide might be worse today than 10 years ago.

Ms. LEVENSON: Back at the time of O.J., it was probably about one out of every four young black Americans was a defendant in the criminal justice system. They’re saying now that the statistics now are more like one out of every three.

Now comes this article from Newsone.com, the official news source of the website Black Planet. The quoted editorial below received major exposure on that particular website and offers an opening into the true line of thinking that is pervasive in the Black community:

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2010-08-08