‘The Greater Good’: Heretical Facts vs. the Myth of St. Trayvon of the Blessed Hoodie

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Trayvon Martin: ‘And by this sign shall ye know me …’

Pete Da Tech Guy on how the system failed Trayvon Martin:

After all what’s the life of a single black man, the safety of individuals, the policing of schools  or doing your job compared to the greater good of appearing politically correct, getting the right stats, financing the grievance industry or electing Democrats?

Well — “How dare you?”

The Politics of Indignation practiced by Democrats requires quite a great deal of narrative management, and relies on the cowardly unwillingness of Americans to speak the blunt truth. We are offered an iconic martyr — St. Trayvon of the Blessed Hoodie — by the High Priests of the Temple Cult and if we fail to mimic their superstitious ritual, if we do not reverently genuflect before this sacred symbol of innocence  . . .

“How dare you?”

Our Moral Superiors have become so accustomed to preaching such sermons to their worshipful congregations that the slightest expression of skeptical impiety seems to shock them.

Only within their sanctuaries of belief, where none but the voices of the faithful are heard, is it possible for Edward Wyckoff Williams to expect to be taken seriously when he writes nonsense like this:

If there is no justice, there can be no peace. But in the American South it seems white folks suddenly believe that decorum and charm are a proper response to unspeakable acts of violence and unconscionable injustice.
The day before a jury delivered an acquittal in the murder trial of George Zimmerman, Seminole County Sheriff Don Eslinger and Sanford Police Chief Cecil Smith gave a national press conference to appeal for a peaceful reaction to the verdict — regardless of its outcome.
Eslinger, who is white, said, “We will not tolerate anyone who uses this verdict as an excuse to violate the law.”
The veiled threat of an aggressive police response to imaginary civil unrest belies the very logic that led to Trayvon Martin’s death to begin with. For, you see, African-Americans are never protected or served by the law enforcement apparatus — yet they are always subject to its military might.
Sanford police coyly “tolerated” the actual killing of an unarmed black child, but yet refuse to “tolerate” any anger expressed for the acquittal of his murderer.
This is the new Jim Crow realized. . . .

(It’s 1963 and Sanford, Florida, is rural Mississippi.)

President Barack Obama is not immune — as he’s become the target of incessant “white rage”: race-baiting attacks, prejudice and bias even prior to his election. The Republican Party and its neo-Confederate Tea Party wing has been committed to invalidating his political and legislative legacy as much as the Zimmerman jury invalidated the civil rights of Trayvon.

The counterfactual conflation of distinct phenomena and the deliberate misuse of grossly inappropriate historical analogies are errors of rhetoric and logic that we are not supposed to notice, much less to point out and refute. Facts and logic are unwelcome within the Temple of St. Trayvon of the Blessed Hoodie, and common sense is heresy.

Trayvon Martin, a lanky 6-foot-tall 17-year-old dopehead, is miraculously transformed into “an unarmed black child,” and the testimony and evidence indicating that Trayvon deliberately waylaid the neighborhood watch captain must be disregarded.

Similarly, we are expected not to notice how little Seminole County, Florida, resembles “the American South” that Williams invokes.

Sanford is a 30-minute drive from downtown Orlando, and 45 minutes from Daytona Beach. Seminole County has a population of more than 400,000 residents, the vast majority of whom were not born there, but are transplants from elsewhere, including retirees from up North as well as many immigrants (11.5% of the county’s population were not born in the United States). The median home value in Seminole County is $225,500 and the median household income is nearly $60,000. This prosperous suburban community, however, Edward Wyckoff Williams offers us as emblematic of “the American South” (newsreel footage of Klansmen burning crosses) as though he were discussing some backward poverty-stricken redneck crossroads town in Appalachia.

Edward Wyckoff Williams does not tell you any facts about Seminole County, nor does he mention that Sanford Police Chief Cecil Smith was hired from Elgin, Illinois. And Sheriff Eslinger — “who is white,” Williams points out — is scarcely an ignorant hillbilly:

Sheriff Eslinger has 33 years of service with the Seminole County Sheriff’s Office. His career began in 1978 as a Radio Dispatcher and he advanced through the ranks as a Patrol Deputy, Criminal Investigator, Special Operations Investigator, Watch Commander, Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) team leader, two tours with the Federal Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) as a Task Force Agent; and returning as Commander of the City/County Investigative Bureau.  At the time of his appointment, Sheriff Eslinger held the position of major, third in command of the Sheriff’s Office.
Sheriff Eslinger earned his Bachelor’s Degree in Applied Behavioral Sciences from National Louis University and is a graduate of the Federal Bureau of Investigation National Academy in Quantico, Virginia.  He also attended the Florida Department of Law Enforcement Chief Executive Institute in Tallahassee, Florida and the National Academy of Corrections – U.S. Department of Justice.

Neither of the two law enforcement officials whom Williams offers as symbolic of “unconscionable injustice” would seem to fit the profile. But the martyrdom myth of St. Trayvon of the Blessed Hoodie is crafted entirely of such shoddy fabrics, and if the reality of Seminole County doesn’t match the myth, well,  damn those pesky facts!

Democrat Rep. Luis Gutierrez wants the House Judiciary Committee to hold a hearing on the Trayvon Martin shooting, which would be an excellent idea, seeing as how the House of Representatives is one of the few major institutions in America controlled by the Republican Party.

Trayvon’s parents cry in front of the cameras, and we are supposed to ignore the fact that they got divorced when Trayvon was 4 years old, and that Trayvon’s mother kicked her son out of her house because he was so impossibly unruly. Most of all, nobody can mention that Trayvon wasn’t even from Sanford, that he was only in Sanford because (a) his father was dating a woman who lived there and (b) Trayvon had been suspended from his high school 240 miles away in Miami-Dade County.

All these facts we might ignore — for “the greater good,” as Pete says — were it not for the fact that liberal lies inspire fools to action:

Witness claims youths yelled
‘this is for Trayvon’ in beating

A half-Peruvian neighborhood watch captain in Sanford, Florida, shoots a teenage dopehead from Miami and, because Our Moral Superiors insist that this is a matter of national importance, some innocent guy in Baltimore gets beaten up by a gang of thugs?

Yeah. That makes perfect sense — it’s the New Normal.

No Justice. No Peace. No Facts. No Logic.





 

 


151 comments

  5. Good point. Four Americans, including the U.S. Ambassador and two former Navy SEALs killed in Benghazi — never mind! But a teenage dopehead from Miami makes the mistake of attacking an armed guy in Sanford, Florida, and we must drop everything to investigate this injustice!

  8. There’s a reason the prosecution didnt make a big deal about how good of a kid Trayvon Martin was.
    It wouldn’t tand up to cross-examination.
    It would be reasonable to think a good kid wouldn’t physically attack a total stranger…a self proclaimed gangsta however….

  9. Rule by “social” justice is the New Normal. They’re just trying to institutionalize it in the Judicial system the way they have in the huge Welfare State.

  11. Given all the facts surrounding the ecounter between GZ and TM and the massaging of those facts by the media and professional grievance mongers, including omission of some facts and fabrication of others, I think we can say that we have stared into the abyss of where this country is headed. Laws mean nothing. Rather, it is the identity of the individual or membership in a favored or disfavored group, whether racial, religious, political or whatever, which will determine outcomes. While six jurors in Florida stepped back from that abyss, we are nonetheless headed there. At some time in the future, we may remember this case as the last time Lady Justice was truly blind.

  12. Hence the Rage of the Left: They had been pimping this myth of the saintly Trayvon and the demonic Zimmerman, but when it came time for The Trial of the Century, neither of these mythical creatures was in evidence. Instead, we got Trayvon’s ignorant girlfriend testifying that “Creepy Ass Cracker” in not racist, and witnesses verifying that the “unarmed child” was beating the hell out of Zimmerman before the deadly shot was fired.

  13. In honor of St. Trayvon the Ventilated Stevie Wonder will boycott Florida over “stand your ground laws”. So he’s an idiot, but that lets us know what the lefts real target is, the erosion of self defense laws to make us all more manageable. But would Stevie know where he was playing anyway?

  14. You haven’t been keeping up. They have been raiding the Miracle Mile.

    So far, no one’s died.

  15. Not only that, on Piers Morgan last night, she instructed us that “nigga” is not racist and can be used to describe ANY male, regardless of race! Glad we got that cleared up! And it is “cracka,” not “cracker,” raaaaacist!

  16. If there is no justice, there can be no peace. But in the American South it seems white folks suddenly believe that decorum and charm are a proper response to unspeakable acts of violence and unconscionable injustice.

    These fools live in an alternate universe. St. Hoodie killed himself, with his asinine behavior and aggressive violence. Call me all the names you want, I will neither excuse nor allow, so much as I am able, the escalation of black racism abetted by the worst kooks to ever crawl out of the woodwork, namely, white liberals.

    Dare I say it? I will: St. Hoodie had it coming.

  17. The supposed monster, who mentored poor kids, offered to take a neighbor into his own home after her house was raided, and marched to bring justice to a homeless black man beaten by a white police chief’s son.

  18. Exactly, which is why all this nonsense about this person or that person’s “culture” is not relevant in this phase of a case. Perhaps during sentencing, but not here.

  21. Throughout the pre-trial circus, I often thought that for the Left, a bonus was the hoped for chilling of the exercise of 2nd Amendment and self-defense rights. No one wants to be placed in the position of GZ. If enough of these bogus cases are brought, more people will start leaving their guns at home in this dangerous world. At least, that’s the Left’s hope.

  22. Additionally, her little instruction seminar on Piers Morgan last night strongly suggested that she and Martin thought that Zimmerman was a gay “pervert.” Did Martin want to do a bit of gay bashing? Does that fit in with the St. Trayvon narrative?

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