A Perfect Symmetry
Burn, Baby, Burn
by Randy Shields / July 15th, 2013

Can’t we all just get along, whites and blacks, and agree that 
Barack Obama is a racist? Not that he hates white people like the Tea 
Partiers say — it’s black people that he can’t stand. Whether he’s 
trashing black males on Father’s Day or softening them up with body 
blows for the worldwide economic race to the bottom at a Morehouse 
College speech or indifferently presiding over the greatest destruction 
of black wealth in 100 years or simply singing a tune of betrayal of a 
longtime friendship (“Jeremiah Wright was a bullfrog– and no friend of 
mine!”), Obama is just not into you, black America. And now we have his 
statement on the Trayvon Martin verdict.
“The death of Trayvon Martin was a tragedy,” says Obama in his cliched, 
bloodless, pacifying, bullshit, don’t-give-a-fucking-damn 
truth-betraying statement. An armed racist not merely looking for 
trouble but causing it is not a tragedy — it’s an atrocity. It’s a 
crime. “I know this case has elicited strong passions.” He 
doesn’t feel these strong passions himself but he has heard tell of 
them. Figuratively, he doesn’t really know what all the shooting’s 
about. Literally, he kills innocent people like Trayvon Martin every 
week. BFD. Obama and George Zimmerman are both vigilantes — they just 
have different budgets.
“We are a nation of laws and the jury has spoken,” so STFU 
uppity black America (or what’s left of it) says the judge, jury and 
executioner who sits down every Tuesday with his crime family and 
decides who they’re going to murder next, including American citizens. 
Says the man who will let no jury speak for the people thrown into the 
hole of Gitmo for years without charge or trial. Says the man who won’t 
make restitution to these innocent men or let them go even when they are 
cleared for release. Says the man who won’t prosecute CIA torturers or 
Wall Street fraudsters. Says the man who illegally spies on the entire 
world to supposedly protect Americans — but he didn’t protect Trayvon 
Martin or any of the other black people who are gunned down every 28 
hours in America by racist police, security guards and peckerhead 
vigilantes like Zimmerman, according to the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement.
“We should ask ourselves if we’re doing all we can to widen the circle of 
compassion and understanding in our own communities.” What the fuck are you 
talking about, Obama? “Widen the circle of 
compassion”? That’s the way we animal activists talk when we’re trying 
to get speciesist bigots to treat chickens and squirrels better. These 
non-humans don’t have their laws yet, unfortunately. Human beings do 
have laws on the books which are supposed to protect us. White racists 
don’t have to “widen the circle” of their “compassion” — they have to 
abide by laws and not take them into their cold death-dealing hands. And when 
they violate those laws they should have the book thrown at them 
the way Trayvon Martin most assuredly would have had he killed 
Zimmerman.
All that this “little man” racist had to do was follow the police 
dispatcher’s directive to stop following Trayvon Martin — and Martin 
would still be alive. The majority of white gun owners I’ve known have 
always been on the edge of their seat, eagerly waiting for some black 
male to color outside the lines so they could blow his fucking head off. That’s 
the racist reality of America. But we have to pretend — with the exquisite 
guidance of this half-assed, half-black, half-baked Democrat — that America is 
a post-racial society and we’re past all of that. The world calls bullshit on 
you, Obama. The most gratifying protests of the verdict were Americans 
burning the American flag in the streets of Oakland just to make 
absolutely clear the complete break with this wretched murderous 
government and the solidarity with people in other countries who are 
also victims of it. They’re not our enemies, Obama. You and Bush and 
Nancy Pelousy and Feinstein and McCain and Lindsey Graham cracker and 
James Reinhard Heydrich Clapper — all of you are our enemies. It’s so 
perfectly symmetrical now. It’s the American government versus every 
person in the world.
“We should ask ourselves if we’re doing all we can to stem the 
tide of gun violence that claims too many lives across this country on a daily 
basis.” (See the the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement above for 
who’s causing a good bit of this violence.) This crime wasn’t about “gun 
violence.” Trayvon Martin didn’t have a gun or kill anyone. A racist 
vigilante did — and the state gave its blessing. The coward Obama won’t 
address the killing directly. Instead, his meaningless disembodied 
statement is in keeping with his tendency lately to refer to himself in 
the third person when he’s discussing his own crimes of drone murder and 
eavesdropping. Shredded scorched Muslim bodies are now just airy 
debating points. He implies that Trayvon Martin was part of some 
unfortunate unpreventable situation, as if Martin was caught in some 
random crossfire of bullets instead of being caught in hundreds of years of 
calculated racist state-sanctioned murder. Barackus Obombus Caesar 
has spoken: forget about justice, you fucking slaves.
These routine racist verdicts aren’t about the past — they’re looking ahead to 
the future, to keep giving Amerikaners permission to keep on 
firing as they become a minority in “their” country. We’re gonna go down 
bravely slaughtering unarmed people of color whether it’s in Florida or Yemen 
or New York or Afghanistan or Cincinnati or Somalia or Detroit or Pakistan or 
Oakland, right to the bitter end. And an obsfucating black 
American president will always be ready to blow the hopium of excuses 
and stasis and surrender right into our faces.
Lastly, we’ll know when the American working class starts to get 
well, whether it’s about racist violence or totalitarian surveillance: 
we won’t all go to work the next day like nothing ever happened. We may 
burn the fucking country to the ground and start over or we may do 
something else. But we won’t go to work. We will bring this ridiculous 
inequitable invasive violent criminal illegitimate shithouse to a 
standstill.
That’s it for today, Amerikkka. I’m done with ya. I got the poison of you out 
of my system for another few weeks. (Days?) See ya soon.
Randy Shields can be reached at music2hi4thehuman...@gmail.com. Read other 
articles by Randy, or visit Randy's website.

http://dissidentvoice.org/2013/07/a-perfect-symmetry/#more-49754


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