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1.The  Sound of Wet Grass: Black Racists' War on Black Women

The  Trayvon Martin-George Zimmerman case has come to trial this week and the best  thing that's been said about it is from Thomas Maguire: "I'm proud to say I live  in a country where the show trials look  more like an SNL [Saturday Night Live] skit."

You  probably won't know that if your source of information about the trial is the  mainstream media and if your lifestyle doesn't permit you to sit in front of the  TV for hours watching the trial. Instead, go to Legal Insurrection, a  blog site run by Clinical Law Professor William A. Jacobson, where a defense  counsel, Andrew Branca, has been summarizing the trial day by day with video  snippets to illustrate his points, or Talk Left where Jeralyn Merritt ,  a noted defense counsel, has been dissecting this nothingburger of a  case.

As  the Friday hearing drew to a close, Branca reported the effective end of the prosecution's misbegotten  case:

A  neighbor, John Good, who witnessed the fight between Trayvon Martin and George  Zimmerman has just devastated the State's case, testifying that he saw the fight  between the two, that Trayvon was on top punching Mixed Martial Arts style, and  that the scream must have come from Zimmerman because Zimmerman was on the  bottom and Trayvon was faced away from the  witness.

To  date, the prosecution has put on a number of witnesses who also confirm  Zimmerman's account of events. There's not one shred of evidence that supports  the prosecution's view of the case. "Taps" should have been the background music  for the key prosecution witness "Dee Dee" whose real name turns out to be Rachel  Jeantel. She was on the phone with Trayvon when the incident occurred and her  letter to Trayvon's mother purportedly  describing the events and her deposition by the Martin's attorney, Crump, form  the heart of the prosecution's case. Her testimony was conceded to be false at  several points and the remainder collapsed on cross-examination. Rick Ballard  said in the middle of her testimony that he pictured the prosecution "laying  back in a nice warm bath this evening, straight razor in hand, trying to  remember the exact location of jugular veins and carotid  arteries."

It  turns out the letter the prosecution relied on was written by someone else, and  while Jeantel signed it she cannot even read the cursive in which it was  written. The Martins' counsel choreographed her account of  the events and he misled the Court about the circumstances.

The  prosecution also was exceedingly unprofessional, while taking pretrial testimony  from her, in having her make her statement in the presence of Trayvon's mother  whom she was manipulated into "helping" by tailoring her testimony to make it  possible for the state to come up with this factually unsubstantiated murder  charge. The prosecution was forced to concede at trial that the witness lied  numerous times and if you watch her in this exchange -- just one example of her  performance -- you can see why the statements of a not very smart witness  coached and manipulated to say things that are untrue rarely survive decent  cross examination: She had said that she could hear the sound of "wet grass"  when the tussle began. She was asked to describe what wet grass sounds like and was  dumbfounded.

But  more important than her lies and incoherence was her admission  that she didn't know who threw the first punch, and if she didn't, with  what did the prosecutors hope to prove the shot wasn't fired in self-defense? As  the week ends there is not a shred of credible evidence from the state of  Florida to counter Zimmerman's self-defense assertion. Not one shred of  evidence. For this a perfectly innocent man 's life has been ruined and he and  his family impoverished. Let that sink in.

The  prosecution deserves to be tarred forever with this unjust prosecution. So  should the Department of Justice, the race baiters who promoted it to keep the  black voters stirred up in time for Obama's reelection. Recall Obama himself  saying if he had a son he'd have looked like Trayvon, and the hundreds of  marchers in hoodies carrying signs demanding this prosecution and carrying signs  with angelic pictures of Trayvon as a kid, not as he was on the night of the  murder -- a large man with a drug habit and a record of  thuggery.

No  one mentions that like Tawana Brawley and Crystal Mangnum, Rachel Jeantel was  exploited by her own people -- Crump and Sharpton and Jackson, who so tarnish  the legacy of the civil rights movement by manipulating limited black women to  lie for their own political and economic ends, despite the humiliation they  bring upon these women when the facts finally are made clear. And after  perfectly innocent people have suffered.

2.Throwing Stones and Race Hustler Justice

Jeantel's  testimony hurt the case and the race baiters' drumbeating in other ways as  well.

In  contrast to the claim that Zimmerman (ludicrously dubbed the "white Hispanic" by  the press) was motivated by race -- something even Crump has now tiptoed  away from -- the only evidence of racism is Trayvon's.

Jeantel  testified that Trayvon called Zimmerman what we so ludicrously in an age of  widespread profanity call "the n-word" and characterized him as a "creepy ass  cracker." She made it clear that both terms were regularly used in "her  culture."

At  the very same time that Paula Deen was being vilified for being a racist and her  endorsements and TV show being stripped from her, people rushed in to defend Jeantel's racism.

This  kind of double standard is not helping race relations. It engenders contempt for  those who employ it. As proof I point to the fact that Deen's latest book, not  yet on the shelves, has raced to Number 1 on Amazon. It's the public's way of  saying to the elites they are not buying this story line of innocent blacks in a  racist society. But the race hustlers and their political beneficiaries have  profited so long from this foolishness that there are substantial fears of  nationwide rioting if the lynching in Florida is cancelled -- and it surely will  because no sane jury will convict. Will the Department of Justice, which  also stirred the Trayvon pot,  now act to protect the innocent when the case fails and the riots it had a role  in take place, hurting even more innocent victims? J.  Christian Adams writes:

Right  now, hanging on the door of a federal  employee's office in the Department of Justice Voting Section is a sign  expressing racial solidarity with Trayvon Martin. What this has to do with the  Department of Justice is perhaps a mystery, but not to me.

One  might ponder why the Justice Department Civil Rights Division rushedto Florida in the first place and took sides once  the racial furnace was sufficiently stoked. When Eric Holder's old pal from D.C.  (and a Philadelphia court case), New Black Panther chieftain Malik Zulu Shabazz,  called for a 10,000 strong black-male mob to seize George  Zimmerman, we knew what was in store.

It  wasn't going to be justice.

But  Justice came to Florida anyhow, in the form of the Community Relations Service  of Eric Holder's DOJ. Instead of calming the racial tensions, the DOJ took  sides. Instead of calming the mob, the DOJ joined it -- providing training for the mob and even arranging  a police escort.

This  is justice, race-hustler style. When Malik Zulu Shabazz demands blood, Eric  Holder arrives to deliver a more moderate face to mob anger.

But  notice Holder never condemned the calls for vigilantism. Why would he? We've  learned Holder's sense of justice depends on what the parties look like. He  never has a discouraging word for certain agitators, including Malik Zulu  Shabazz.

3.  Obama and his Friends Still Playing the White Guilt  Card

To  illustrate the effect of sloppy media thinking and the double standard in  reporting you need go no further than to look at this Friday's Washington  Post, where Melinda Henneberger, who quite obviously knows nothing  about affirmative action or the Supreme Court's decision on the Voting Rights  Act, penned this sentence notably illogical, wishy-washy, and  baseless:

we're  also clicking on the Deen-athon because the "Oprah of food," as one of the  cook's 2.7 million Facebook fans callsher, is a symbol and a symptom -- a walking,  talking, crying and deep-frying reminder of how much we still need both  affirmative action and a fully functional Voting Rights Act.

At  the same time her colleague at the paper, Eugene Robinson, to whom everything is  still always Selma and whites always racist and blacks always innocent, writes  to keep the race wars alive. He accuses Deen of being stuck in the past on race while missing  the log in his own eye -- here he is on the Trayvon Martin case:

For  every black man in America, from the millionaire in the corner office to the  mechanic in the local garage, the Trayvon Martin tragedy is personal. It could have been me or one of my sons.  It could have been any of us.

How  many George Zimmermans are out there cruising the streets? How many guys with  chips on their shoulders and itchy fingers on the triggers of loaded handguns?  How many self-imagined guardians of the peace who say the words "black male"  with a sneer?

Meanwhile,  the Obamas are on a hundred-million dollar trip to Africa, with Friday's  papers featuring them looking out of the Goree Island Historical Museum in  Senegal which is likely not what it is said to be  -- an old slave transport facility. Fitting that they  should pick this pretend site to further stir racism and encourage a continuation  of the white guilt -- in most cases utterly unwarranted and in any event not  productive -- that saw Barack win two elections. Michelle  Obama's Mirror:

Only  in America

...could  a man whose African forebears sold blacks into slavery and whose American  forebears owned slaves marry a woman whose lineage includes both slaves and  slave owners.