What It's Really About

George Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin

As we wait for the jury to deliver its verdict in the trial of George Zimmerman, I think that I speak for a number of folks when I say that I've grown weary of the endless publicity surrounding this case. I just simply don't want to hear about it anymore.

And I suspect that if it hadn't been for the White House, we probably never would've heard about George Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin.

That's because I strongly believe that someone in the White House needed a campaign issue last year to deflect from Barack Obama's dismal first term in the White House. It was terrible. No previous president in American history had ever been reelected after such a woeful performance. 

That's why the Obama Administration desperately needed something to distract voters from the reality of Obama's disastrous first term and redirect their attention toward a ginned-up incident.

And--shazam!--along came the Zimmerman-Martin affair. Actually, I believe the White House went looking for such an affair and found it down in Sanford, Florida last year when Zimmerman, a neighborhood watchman, shot Martin to death during an altercation that took place on Feb. 26.

The incident didn't become national news until about a month after it occurred when the Justice Department, at the behest of Attorney General Eric Holder, decided to investigate the shooting. 

Once the incident became known outside of Florida, it exploded like a nuclear bomb. Zimmerman, the son of a white father and Hispanic mother, was redefined as a "White Hispanic" racist who was accused of hunting down Martin and murdering him in cold blood. Despite murky evidence and few eye-witnesses, Zimmerman was essentially convicted by the media, Hollywood elites and leftist groups that masquerade as civil rights organizations.

How did this incident play into Obama's campaign strategy? Because it attempted to portray America as a racist nation dominated by bigots such as Zimmerman who want to return the nation to the Jim Crow era. 

According to this narrative, the people who wanted to defeat Obama at the ballot box last November were racists. And in order to support that thesis, the White House desperately needed something to back that up.

Keep in mind that Barack Obama received 43 percent of the white vote in the 2008 presidential election. So the narrative that America was a racist nation that didn't want a black man in the White House was a false narrative manufactured by the Obama Administration and spiced up with the Zimmerman-Martin affair.

Who in the White House made the decision to exploit the Zimmerman-Martin altercation for political purposes? We don't know and probably never will. It certainly couldn't have been Obama because he's not smart enough to think of something like that. It may have been Holder. Or it could have been Obama's former senior adviser David Axelrod, a sleazebag who's made a career out of destroying the reputations of political opponents.

Whoever made that decision will have blood on his or her hands should Zimmerman be acquitted. Because if that happens, riots might break out across the nation that could result in property damage, personal injuries and even the loss of life. Hopefully, cooler heads will prevail no matter what the outcome of the trial is.

And instead of heeding the incendiary rhetoric of phony Christian ministers--such as the Rev. Al Sharpton--who love to provoke trouble, we should heed the words of the apostle Paul who said this: "Therefore, as God's chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. Bear with each other and forgive whatever grievances you may have against one another. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity." (Colossians 3:12-14)