Zimmerman latest in a long line of people falsely accused of racism

Bill Clinton

The truth is George Zimmerman should not feel too bad about being falsely accused of racism for political reasons. He stands in the company of many famous people. First and foremost on the list are Bill and Hillary Clinton. Just five years ago it was the Clintons who came under a barrage of false accusations. Incredibly, so-called civil rights leaders suggested the Clintons harbored attitudes of racism.

“I am not a racist,” Clinton growled during an angry interview with ABC News in Monrovia, Liberia in 2008. The former president followed up his vehement denial with these words, "I've never made a racist comment, and I never attacked Obama personally."

Are the Clintons racist? Of course not. Who made those scurrilous charges?  The leading architects of the 2008 Obama campaign made them. Why would they do it? They simply found it useful to their political goals to make a bogus case to a willing national media that Bill and Hillary were somehow racists. For a few days back in 2008 many Obama supporters went public denouncing Bill Clinton as some sort of racist. None were ever discredited and written off as idiots. Many of these same people are now calling for George Zimmerman's head.

The standard racist accusation tactic of Obama supporters had John McCain adviser Steve Schmidt actually defending the former president five years ago. In 2008 Schmidt said this, "Say whatever you want about Bill Clinton, but it's deeply unfair to suggest his criticism of Obama was race-based."

Did John McCain get tagged with the racist label once Hillary and Bill were separated from the black vote and whipped soundly in the primaries? Of course he did. Schmidt said this of that episode, “We knew it {the racist label} was coming in our direction because they did it against a president of the United States of their own party.”

Jesse Jackson Jr. was particularly overt in his racist accusations of the Clintons. So should it come as any surprise that Jesse Jackson Sr. and Al Sharpton would also attempt to destroy Zimmerman with a racist label? Hardly.

Over the last three weeks four children have been gunned down in Chicago. On June 28, five-year-old Sterling Sims was killed in a double murder. His 31-year-old mother Chavonne Brown and Sims were both shot in their apartment. On July 1, 16-year-old Antonio Fenner was gunned down on the sidewalk. On July 3, 14-year-old Damani Henard was murdered outside of a high school. On July 9, 15-year-old Ed Cooper was shot and killed while spending time with friends at a park. These sad stories duplicate themselves all over urban America every day. In the cities with the strictest gun control laws in the nation, also cities that have been under the political control of African-American Democrats for decades, the most likely cause of death for African-American men aged 18-34 is a gunshot wound at the hands of another African-American male. Why don’t these four tragic stories listed above and the hundreds of others that occur each month grab the national headlines as the Martin-Zimmerman case did? The answer is pretty simple. There is no political gain available to race-baiting pimps or big TV ratings to be had dividing the country. Is all of America regardless of race being played for fools? You bet.