"SPARE ME, some mumbled

President Obama said in his speech, 7-19-13, speaking of black youths and their attitude toward race: " . . . they're better than we were on these issues.  And that's true every community that I've visited all across the country."

"What!  These low-down, shallow, ignorant, hypocritical snots!"  That was what the refugee from the "shootin' 'n' 'lootin' " 1960s said back to the TV.  He had watched programs on TV all that morning, hearing "black" leaders and "activists" express concern over black men committing violence and being "unjustly" sent to jails and prisons.  Now he stood tall, broad-shouldered behind a podium, his dark eyes flashing at over a thousand people.  He told them to look within themselves and ask if they believed that all people could lie, steal, rob, rape, murder -- could do wrong; would they consider themselves civilized or intelligent if they charged into stores and threw merchandise from shelves to the floor, then chose whatever they wanted and walked out with it?  Wouldn't they feel that they must have created some negative image that cause women to grip their purses and people to click the locks on their car doors when they, as black men, passed near?  Would they feel that they were better at handling issues involving blacks if t hey took a word that was used to disparage blacks, changed the "er" ending to "a," -- the sound of the word remaining the same -- and went rapping it all over the world just to make a buck?

"Wouldn't you think that you must have been blatant with your 'boosting' in stores to support your alcohol and druge addiction for a store clerk to follow you about when you entered a store?  If you were civilized wouldn't you know that you were wrong when you did 'drive-by' shootings into crowdes, killing innocent men, women, and children?  Are you so dense that you don't know that you're not going to the core of the problem when after fifty years your 'leaders' and 'activists' are calling on you for more marching and conferences to attack a justice system that they claim is rigged against black men causing violence.

" 'These black men are violent because they need jobs,' the same centuries-old crutch your 'leaders' and 'activists' spout.  Okay, what job skills do you have?  What is your education level?  Weekly we see documentary films from  prisons of black men acting like emotional children, out of  control.  Have you ever thought of looking at that mess you call black culture, that keeps you honoring sports over education . . . ."

He said these things to them that day and many left mumbling sarcastically, "Spare me, please . . . ."