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Who is burning ‘black’ churches?
by Ben Crystal Views: 9,634

We all remember the images of that CVS Pharmacy burning in Ferguson, Missouri. Media and social media combined to broadcast the inferno into every corner of the globe. While the Ferguson race riots were predictable — Americans riot over bowl games, so you knew someone would hurl a brick through a window over Michael Brown’s suicide-by-cop — they were also a bit surreal. In the past, attempts by malcontents and their parasitic looter pals to turn cities into smoking craters have been roundly dismissed by observers and lawmakers alike. Endorsement of such destructive petulance was usually relegated to outliers, usually from the far left. When the Vietnam-era kids spat on veterans scarred by war, they’d pick up some fists-in-the-air from Hollywood actors and Woodstock-type musicians. When Los Angelenos set their own neighborhood on fire in 1992, only dingbats like Rep. Maxine Waters actually defended knocking over the Food King.

But the CVS fire was different. Ferguson was different. The usual gutter-dwellers and professionally aggrieved did their usual damage. They destroyed small businesses owned by their neighbors, set alight their own homes and property — like police cars — purchased with their own tax dollars, and stole everything that wasn’t defended by armed proprietors. But this time, there was no condemnation from the leading lights on the left. Nope, in Ferguson pinching Pringles and diapers for Junior was a cry of freedom from the perpetually wronged Black America.

The source of the disaster, a thug with a yellow sheet brimming with hijinks, got himself killed in an incredibly ill-advised assault on a police officer. For his efforts, he received a virtual state funeral, attended by no fewer than three official delegates from President Barack Obama. Obama’s trusted adviser Al Sharpton arrived to exhort the masses to vent their rage on “white privilege” by putting the arm on as much beer as they could carry. In fact, many of the soldiers in the Missouri militia of morons earned paychecks from left-wing sugar daddy George Soros. In a scene repeated in Baltimore more recently, hordes of people, driven into a feeding frenzy by hate-filled invective and vile demagoguery from the president on down, wreaked their havoc with everything short of an official presidential stamp of approval. The bad guys, nearly all merely thieves and thugs, became the heroes of the story, replaced in the villains’ role by white people.

In Baltimore, the fact that half the officers charged in the death of Freddie Gray are black was brushed aside in favor of a more loot-the-ShoeMart-friendly narrative. Once again, even Obama stuck a toe into the fray — although, being Obama, he fell on his face. After taking a ration of heat from the same people who looted the ShoeMart for suggesting the looters were more “thug” and less “activist,” Obama reversed field in time to choke out “I think it’s pretty understandable.” Once again, white people were on the business end of an accusatory narrative that had to high-step to avoid all the pesky facts in the way.

When Obama delivered the eulogy for the Rev. Clementa Pinckney, a victim of the terrorist Dylann Roof, he managed to work a few anecdotes about the actual dead guy in the coffin into a diatribe that otherwise focused mostly on so-called “gun violence” and the racism that he evidently considers endemic to America. Not only did Obama give Pinckney a supporting role in his own funeral, he relegated the alleged killer — Roof — to backup status behind guns and white people. As the nation mourned the killing of nine compatriots by an outright monster, Obama decided the funeral of the pastor of the church that endured the horror was the perfect occasion to tell white people, especially the ones who own firearms, that they should have stayed in the parking lot during the ceremony.

In recent days, a national outcry has risen — been ginned up — over a string of fires at churches across the South. According to our portside political pals, these fires are the result of a conspiracy — if not one of association, then at least one of purpose. Those who seem convinced that some pale-skinned super-racist is secretly behind them all have even resurrected the aforementioned Ferguson CVS fire to bolster their conspiracy theory. Forget the as-of-this-writing complete lack of any evidence that the fires are in any way linked by anything. One of the churches didn’t actually burn; some hay near the building caught fire. Another has already been ruled a result of an electrical malfunction. And a third was struck by lightning and the congregation is mostly white, but no matter. It can’t be lightning, or electrical shorts, or just plain already inexcusable arson; it has to be racism. It has to be white people.

When Obama and his cronies blame what they call “racism,” they’re using cellophane-thin code for “white people.” America has been torn asunder by a presidential regime and political allies bent on dividing — and ultimately defining — America along racial lines. When they talk about “white privilege,” they’re ignoring the fact that the nation elected a black man president in 2008 and then re-elected him four years later. When they link “white privilege” with “gun violence,” they’re ignoring the disturbingly high rates of “gun violence” in places run by Democrats, places in which “white privilege” and legally wielded weapons tend to be in short supply.

We have enough real villains in America. Roof is a villain. But so were John Muhammad and Lee Malvo. If any of the churches that have caught fire in the past few weeks was put to the torch, then the arsonist is a villain. But so was the guy who burned down Freddie’s Fashion Mart under Sharpton’s inspirational leadership. The politicians who openly supported slavery and Jim Crow discrimination laws were villains. But so are the politicians who openly encourage people to blame every injury — even the imaginary ones — on “white privilege.” And so are those same politicians when they not only ignore, not only excuse, but encourage vengeance for those who imagine themselves victims of “white privilege.” Repeatedly calling me a villain does nothing to make me one. Repeatedly claiming white people are collectively to blame for every sad story that unfolds involving black people is worse than simply untrue. It’s deliberately divisive, a political ploy at a time in which unity is farther off than ever. Come to think of it, it’s racist.

–Ben Crystal